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Vasudus posted:We would run to the arms room and get the 50s and poo poo too, we just never got ammo. when I went there it was just a warehouse full of mattresses. The weird thing about our little stockpile is I think myself and the supply sgt were the only ones to know about it and there was never a formal briefing on what we'd actually do in case of emergency. I figured they'd just make me drive the bongo like they always did
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so are we about to go to war with N korea again? like he's getting a bit too crazy it seems even for normal N. Korea type shenanigans.
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Aug 18, 2016 01:31
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MurderBot posted:so are we about to go to war with N korea again? like he's getting a bit too crazy it seems even for normal N. Korea type shenanigans. nah there's no money in it
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Aug 18, 2016 01:33
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imagine the hysteria when Samsung & LG products arent readily available to american consumers
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We're installing THAAD in SK at some point in the near future, that's going to make the big fat baby really mad when he launches his little kid missiles over Japan and we shoot them down.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:imagine the hysteria when Samsung & LG products arent readily available to american consumers Apple would probably love that
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McNally posted:Apple would probably love that not until we finally listen to mccarthur and nuke the fuckers and turn china into the worlds largest parking lot  :stupidwhitetrash:oh and I say china because I think thats where apple factories are but I could be wrong
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Blackberry would make a comeback. 
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I don't think anything will help Blackberry make a comeback.
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Blackberries are made in China anyway.
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spacetoaster posted:What Lannister said. Physical Security. Can confirm that if there is an alarm issue, you're going to be posting guards as well. One thing that Uncle Sam actually gives a flying gently caress about is weapon security and accountability.
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MurderBot posted:I don't think anything will help Palm make a comeback.
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Its odd to me to think that you wouldn't store ammo with arms, but then again I only really dealt with ships and you don't have much of a choice there.
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usually armorers are really loving depressed/weird/sketchy enough that it's honestly probably for the best.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Its odd to me to think that you wouldn't store ammo with arms, but then again I only really dealt with ships and you don't have much of a choice there. maybe its a dept of the navy thing.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:usually armorers are really loving depressed/weird/sketchy enough that it's honestly probably for the best. Think armorers are bad, try COMSEC custodians 
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:maybe its a dept of the navy thing. Well, rooms that can handle explodey things are very similar to rooms that are designed to keep people from stealing things. Both types of room are heavy, so on a ship, you'd want to minimize the number of them. Ergo ipso facto cum laude, combining guns with ammo. Also, is armorer a real MOS anymore? Unit wants to send me to some sort of chuckefuck 80 hr "armorer's course" since they discovered we don't have an armorer, but we have a line for one. I was like "lol gently caress no."
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Geirskogul posted:Well, rooms that can handle explodey things are very similar to rooms that are designed to keep people from stealing things. Both types of room are heavy, so on a ship, you'd want to minimize the number of them. Ergo ipso facto cum laude, combining guns with ammo. Well, there's ammo in a lot of places besides the armory on a ship. Its not the main magazine for any type of ammo, but there is always some in there because there are armed watchstanders pretty much all the time in port and some of the time underway.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:usually armorers are really loving depressed/weird/sketchy enough that it's honestly probably for the best. As someone who was an armorer for 1.5 years, this is correct. Geirskogul posted:Also, is armorer a real MOS anymore? Unit wants to send me to some sort of chuckefuck 80 hr "armorer's course" since they discovered we don't have an armorer, but we have a line for one. I was like "lol gently caress no." Nope, not an MOS at all. The course counts for promotion points, but otherwise its only purpose is to slot you as an armorer on the MTOE.
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marines still have armorers. they dont really do much but lose weapons cards and miscount serialized gear.
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Guy I was going to school with was an Armorer in the Navy. He ended up getting deployed to Afghanistan with an Army unit, working depot level repairs. You couldn't pay me enough to be one.
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Vasudus posted:Guy I was going to school with was an Armorer in the Navy. He ended up getting deployed to Afghanistan with an Army unit, working depot level repairs. There's the green weenie, then there's getting tag-teamed by both the green one and the blue one (or whatever the navy calls it when they get hosed 7 ways from sunday)
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:Europe Army = the only way to Army. We need to make the Cold War great again. Best 3 tours I did out of my whole 20 years.
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Geirskogul posted:Well, rooms that can handle explodey things are very similar to rooms that are designed to keep people from stealing things. Both types of room are heavy, so on a ship, you'd want to minimize the number of them. Ergo ipso facto cum laude, combining guns with ammo. don't do it because you'll never leave the arms room ever again if you take that course and don't completely gently caress it up. Like forever the rest of your time at that duty station at least
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That's not necessarily a bad thing depending on whatever dumb poo poo your unit does. I mean it sucks but things can definitely suck worse.
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think of courses in the army like college. will the course give you a specific trade that others in your unit don't have (armorer, master gunner, etc etc)? don't do it!!! although most of the armorers i saw would just disappear all day and if they were in the arms room they were usually sleeping. being an armorer on deployment seemed like it sucked. but if you get offered to take the DLAB doooo iiiiitttt
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not caring here posted:That's not necessarily a bad thing depending on whatever dumb poo poo your unit does. if you like what you're doing already DONT DO IT if you hate what youre doing and want more hours then DO IT i'm just basing this on one of my soldiers who got tagged with it. I legit fell bad for the dude because they were always loving with him but what can you do when it's some big loving inspection that they put off until the last second because of "training" or whatever
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when my platoon sergeant found out i can type at a halfway decent speed with decent english and not too many typos i basically became the platoon secretary. seriously, think really long and hard about any special skills you have/could acquire that your comrades don't have. sometimes being set apart from the pack sucks.
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driving a manual will gently caress you if you ever go oconus maybe
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TBeats posted:when my platoon sergeant found out i can type at a halfway decent speed with decent english and not too many typos i basically became the platoon secretary. unless its loving combatives, dudes that got into my one unit were so idolized by the command and basically got like free reign to hang out in the gym all day "practicing" for the post combatives tournament lol god drat combatives or whatever they called it is dumb as gently caress
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Syrian Lannister posted:One thing that Uncle Sam actually gives a flying gently caress about is anything that makes them look retarded in the media, but can actually be directly prevented 
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I was level 2 certified at some point. Or whatever the gently caress the next one up is. Which basically was just a week spent at brigade getting beat up a whole bunch. I never taught a class.
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TBeats posted:when my platoon sergeant found out i can type at a halfway decent speed with decent english and not too many typos i basically became the platoon secretary. Sometimes it's good. Just try and think about how your skill can get you special treatment. For example: I speak/read/write russian. I use that to get over to Europe whenever anybody is going and it makes me seem smarter than I really am among other senior officers. Hillary Clintons Thong posted:driving a manual will gently caress you if you ever go oconus maybe Who the gently caress can't drive a manual transmission? I had one E-3 with me that couldn't do it. Guess who we made do it all the time. (we needed a DD)
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I never had to drive a manual in my life. There were a few opportunities to, but none of them involved the military. I am okay with this shortcoming.
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Vasudus posted:I never had to drive a manual in my life. There were a few opportunities to, but none of them involved the military. You want to be a DD? *edit* Yeah manual can be kinda intimidating but it's one of those things that once you've got the hang of it you like it better than automatic. Or at least I do.
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I made the mistake of admitting I could drive manual in Bagram. Don't be me.
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The opportunity has literally never really presented itself. Nothing in the military was manual, I've always driven automatics for civ cars.
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New automatics (post 2007 for pleb cars, post 2001 for bougeoise cars) are more efficient than the best manual driver in nearly all circumstances, unless it's an econobox (with appropriate cheap slushbox) or you drive like a shitheel. That said, being able to drive stick is a life skill that will most likely come up at some point, and opens up the used car market for you if you're like me and cheap as gently caress. It's a smart skill to have. Which means any enlisted with that skill are like enlisted with a degree: you apparently know something about life, so why the gently caress are you in the army? There's other services.
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Vasudus posted:The opportunity has literally never really presented itself. Nothing in the military was manual, I've always driven automatics for civ cars. its ok buddy  I think it falls of the realm of nice to know rather than need to know
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SumYungGui posted:I made the mistake of admitting I could drive manual in Bagram. Same with me on KAF. Driving a bus with a manual transmission and the driver's seat on the right side (pedals still arranged like normal though) was one of the most awkward feelings I've ever had.
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