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ok now i need to ask my buddy who is still in and recruiting if he has a dogtag machine. WEEDLORD BONERHITLER
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Mike-o posted:ok now i need to ask my buddy who is still in and recruiting if he has a dogtag machine. I think most recruiting companies have one, so if not his office one of the others has it, they pass them around. I used 1800nametapes for just about everything finally I get my first paycheck for them 
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Aug 13, 2016 01:59
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i dont think i could pull off a convincing enough con to get tags made at a recruiting station ten years i've been out and there's still mannerisms that mil people can see a mile away
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Aug 13, 2016 02:00
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dont ask because its a big pain in the rear end to set up they're horrible pieces of poo poo, but we'd make them for anybody that asked, lots of old dudes would want them and poo poo and I'm not going to say no, because I'd rather do dogtags than cold calls or whatever
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Aug 13, 2016 02:03
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i keep saying that i should get another pair made so i dont lose these, considering i've worn them virtually every day for nearly 14 years also because it has my ssn on it
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My coworker was making dog tags for the company, and I told him that I don't care that the paper says Roman Catholic, put nihilist on mine. He put Catholic, and spelled my name wrong.
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Aug 13, 2016 02:33
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its a good thing you dont care about anything
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Took me three months to notice. I never wear the things anyway. Don't even know where they are.
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I'm jealous of you guys that had cool CO's that had senses of humor, my experience was so miserable we had reps from brigade come to do sensing sessions all the time to find out why everyone was so sad/depressed constantly 
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Aug 13, 2016 03:42
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A Bad Poster posted:Took me three months to notice. I never wear the things anyway. Don't even know where they are. Did this until an open ranks inspection on a Monday morning. Ended up having to clean out the cobble stone streets around the motor pool with a phillips screwdriver. 
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Aug 13, 2016 03:45
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Ive just told people for like 5 years that I forgot them at home. No one cares enough to call me on it.
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Aug 13, 2016 03:50
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I saw some dude whip em out at a bar by ft Riley and this chick was all about it. I kinda thought "man there's no way that would work" but what do I know
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mlmp08 posted:Ive just told people for like 5 years that I forgot them at home. No one cares enough to call me on it. you would be catching a lot of poo poo for doing that in my unit at campbell. if you lived in the barracks you would be doing lunges all the way to your room to get them. when i was in afghanistan i had them tied to my belt loop with 550 cord and tucked into my back pocket and i got in trouble for not wearing them around my neck until i showed them that i was almost to the point of having blood drawn wearing them under my plates.
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TBeats posted:you would be catching a lot of poo poo for doing that in my unit at campbell. Never enlist.
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Even in BCT and OCS no one ever checked to see if I had my dog tags. I stopped wearing them like 3 days into OCS but I''ve had them attached to my belt loop and tucked in my back pocket since I commissioned. I really must have joined my unit at the perfect time. Good BDE and SQDN commander, I like everyone I work with/for and I know and like all the CPTs about to take command. So whoever ends up being my commander while I'm a PL I will have already worked with before. The few people I actually dislike are about to leave the unit and don't really have any impact on me to begin with.
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Mustang posted:Even in BCT and OCS no one ever checked to see if I had my dog tags. I stopped wearing them like 3 days into OCS but I''ve had them attached to my belt loop and tucked in my back pocket since I commissioned. Oh god all this buildup will be so rewarding. Holy poo poo I can't wait for everything to come crashing down around you.
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I'm assuming it will be sometime next summer when all the leadership changes out
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that's exactly when it will happen
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an officer is having a  good time
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Justin Tyme posted:I'm jealous of you guys that had cool CO's that had senses of humor, my experience was so miserable we had reps from brigade come to do sensing sessions all the time to find out why everyone was so sad/depressed constantly FOR NINE YEARS THIS
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Mustang posted:I'm assuming it will be sometime next summer when all the leadership changes out You know the speech in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas where he is talking about acid and that he is noticing all these signs and then all of a sudden ZANG! He's talking to lizards looking for golf shoes? Like that except those lizards are officers and you're looking for golf shoes
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If it makes you guys feel better my cool co was preferred by a douchebag and followed by a douchebag.
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So, 2BDE at Lewis is bad, but not the worst is what I'm getting. At least that's what I'm hoping.
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I'm pretty sure Mustang's post-war Army Joyride is an FBI psyop plot to further marginalize and push us into extremism, thereby generating sufficient blackmail to force us all into a Counter-Trump suicide squad (should he win) or pro-military regime (should coup happen)
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J.A.B.C. posted:I got one of these some time ago, and ended up taking a red pen to it. It was a good exercise, but the SFC at the time didn't really appreciate it and wanted to smoke me for 'scribbling' on his perfect, precious counseling statement. I just have this poo poo printed out around my desk. It's pretty goddamn short and says fairly clearly, "Just write like a human being." DA Pam 600-67 Effective Writing for Army Leaders
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mlmp08 posted:Never enlist. Only way I would enlist again is to go 18x and if I don't make it I'm going awol. And even that has a 0% possibility.
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NTT posted:an officer is having a
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He's not in S3 yet, it'll come.
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this is probably the most serious post I will make in this here Army thread. Mustang, enjoy your life dude. Seriously. If you don't enjoy getting the green weenie, then you are on the same path as everyone else. Eventually, your life will crash and burn. It is inevitable. Enjoy the good times, because they will not last unless you enjoy taking the green weenie. I do not know how to train for taking the green weenie. I never was able to enjoy it. But people have found a way. Maybe you should hang out with those people to see what kind of lube they use, or what kind of dirt they might have on their commander. But even that won't last, because commanders come and commanders go, so whatever dirt you have will be out dated in a few years, and you will be back to being bent over. but basically lmao fygm
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Being an officer isn't that bad I imagine. Get paid a good amount of money. Number of people who can actively poo poo on you is a lot lower. Lots of work for sure. I've been out for four and a half years and I'm putting in way more hours then when I was enlisted so I wouldn't necessarily mind it personally. I guess the difference is I love my job. If you're really into inventories and managing a bunch of people maybe it can be fun 
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Fudge posted:Being an officer isn't that bad I imagine. Get paid a good amount of money. Number of people who can actively poo poo on you is a lot lower. I don't think the day to day of being officer would be bad at all, its all the other off duty commander call poo poo that would kill it for me
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Day to day isn't bad at all, though it's entirely dependent on your bosses. I've had good luck with 3 Bde commanders in a row and 2 BN cdrs in a row. Prior to that my BN Cdr was so rough that the CG was personally calling him to tell him to chill out and I only got a cool job because I submitted my full packet to get out, so the BDE Cdr gave me a baller job to keep me around. That said, being signed for an ungodly amount of equipment, more than triple my peers, is terrifying especially because I know for a fact that it would be physically impossible for my NCOs to do all the inventories properly even if they never slept and never went home and did inventory updates and organization the second they got off regular work. 90% of officers would have a much better life if, instead of calling their boss to report a problem/incident immediately (or never reporting it), they instead took like ten loving minutes to develop a solution to brief as they report said problem/incident. E: oh and as an officer no matter what your profile says, you will run or you may as well pursue a med board by any means available. I look forward to going from chronically in pain to crippled in ten years. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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Triggs posted:He's not in S3 yet, it'll come. That's actually exactly where I am right now. I even started my job in the middle of Red Cycle. I thought it sucked the first 2 days but I realized that as long as I'm not the cog in the machine that caused a task not to be executed then it's not my rear end on the line. I wouldn't necessarily say I enjoy the Army or that I plan on making a career of it but at the same time I don't wake up every morning dreading going to work.
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Mustang posted:That's actually exactly where I am right now. I even started my job in the middle of Red Cycle. I thought it sucked the first 2 days but I realized that as long as I'm not the cog in the machine that caused a task not to be executed then it's not my rear end on the line. prepare for the worst, hope for a little bit better than that and it'll be a lot better for you.
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mlmp08 posted:E: oh and as an officer no matter what your profile says, you will run or you may as well pursue a med board by any means available. I look forward to going from chronically in pain to crippled in ten years. Speaking of, I found out today they kicked my IRR packet back. At this point I might as well just hang in there the remaining 9 months until I can get out. I hadn't bothered dropping a permanent profile packet for my back, but I guess now would be a good time.
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I don't know why you guys are so mad. I just got back from Europe and i woke up every morning laughing because I was actually being paid to pretty much party with our "international partners" every day. And this is my last year in the Army.
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Retardog posted:I still have the ones I got when I got to my first unit. They say my religion is Pirate. Retired in '98. Still have the ones I was issued in Basic Training in a drawer somewhere.
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I have one of my basic issued one's in a shadow box. My parents have the second one.
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psydude posted:Speaking of, I found out today they kicked my IRR packet back. At this point I might as well just hang in there the remaining 9 months until I can get out. I hadn't bothered dropping a permanent profile packet for my back, but I guess now would be a good time. Do it dude, it'll make getting yours easier once you get out and have to jump through the VA gauntlet.
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