Vasudus posted:

issues with my knees from jumping up/down on concrete

issues with my neck, shoulders and upper back from wearing body armor and being hunched over in a vehicle

i have a permanent dent on my ears from wearing BCGs that were ever so slightly too tight for my head

think that's all my wear and tear injuries

Pesticide20 posted:

No tinnitus?

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

did any of y'all ever get scabs on your tailbone from sit ups? I used to get them after hardcore PT or a pt test, just a big old friction scab that hurt like a mother fucker

now that I'm out I'm just like lol what was that all about

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

that 1sg sounds like a real piece of poo poo I mean APFT is absolutely #1 priority, gently caress peoples LIVES and poo poo

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Drill is next weekend and i want to kill myself

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Just an APFT and a new commander that's actually a medical officer that had to go to command school for six months and who is also a gigantic emasculating dyke with a "may I see you manager" bob haircut, who also has a hard-on for finally "getting the chance to make us like a real army unit."

Kill me.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Just an APFT and a new commander that's actually a medical officer that had to go to command school for six months and who is also a gigantic emasculating dyke with a "may I see you manager" bob haircut, who also has a hard-on for finally "getting the chance to make us like a real army unit."

Kill me.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

She wants to make a guard unit do litter carries for PT. Like, not sometimes or as a supplement, but like 100%.

Half of the unit is HQ and support anyway.

ASAPI posted:

We have any lucky souls in 82nd here?

The facebooks are blowing up with drama about them right now.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

did they get caught making gay porn....again???

ASAPI posted:

Not that good.

Just allegedly causing a troop to miscarry and have a bunch of broke dicks fresh off the operating table going to JRTC.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

oh thats just another day in the Army

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

oh thats just another day in the Army

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“These people already don't give gently caress about me.”

Any real leader who reads these words should immediately be struck cold, because if they come from someone in your formation, you know there’s a big problem.

That quote came to us today from a Falcon Brigade soldier who was injured during the jump in to JRTC. He reached out with his story – how he woke to find himself in a hospital with no clothes, no idea what was happening, and no leaders or Soldiers to support him.

We wanted to tell his story, but couldn’t think of a way to do it without compromising him and his identity. His response? “gently caress it, just tell the story. Use your judgement. These people already don't give gently caress about me.”

This Soldier’s feelings toward his unit and his leadership aren’t unique. Since posting our story this morning, we’ve received dozens of messages reinforcing the same theme. There are stories of troops packed into a bus, days after surgery, and injured soldiers in full leg immobilizers stacked into seats for an 18+ hour bus ride.

Most disturbing of all are the reports of a pregnant paratrooper suffering a miscarriage on the bus enroute to Louisiana.

Even more maddeningly, the unit callously disregards the health and welfare of its Soldiers, and is expecting those same soldiers to give their all during this JRTC rotation, but doesn't hold its senior leaders to the same standard. Junior enlisted paratroopers with hip injuries are sent to jump in, while one of the battalion operations sergeants major with a similar injury was not sent. One broke his hip on the jump in, and he, along with others hurt on the insertion, will have to stay at Fort Polk.

The paratroopers with profiles aren't the ones complaining. They know the deal. They're concerned about those with exigent circumstances - the Soldiers whose situations were unique and completely disregarded for the simple sake of making numbers.

We hope Col. Pat Work and Command Sgt. Maj. Mitchell Rucker are seeing this. We hope you understand what your Soldiers are feeling and the impressions they have right now. This may not be your intent.

If it is, you should be ashamed.

If it isn’t, you need to make sure your subordinate commanders and NCO leaders get the right message and fix this before it’s too late.

You’ll know it’s too late when you start hearing a phrase around the formations, in the COFs, and near the staff duty desks.

It’ll sound something like this - “These people already don't give gently caress about me.”

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If you're a Falcon, LISTEN UP! Judge here to give you a legal brief.

1. They can't use what you say against you if they don't read you your rights. No one who reads you your rights is your friend. If someone reads you your rights YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP AND ASK FOR A LAWYER. Say nothing.

2. Don't turn your phone or electronic devices over unless you are ordered to do so. If you do, put a pin lock on it. You do not give the pin over to anyone. Even if you are ordered to do so.

3. If anyone takes your poo poo, you file a written request to your company commander. YOU MUST DO IT IN WRITING. If your commander does nothing, then ask to see a lawyer and file an Article 138 complaint.

4. NO ONE CAN ORDER YOU TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH. Period. Don't buy it if anyone says "fess up or you all take a poly." They cannot order you to take one. Ever.

5. Again, because I see enough of you in my office who don't get this part, no one who reads you your rights is your friend. They read you your rights and ask you questions, you ask for a lawyer AND YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH. Who cares if they yell at you for not giving a statement? Like the guy who taught me everything I know says, you've got more rear end than they can chew.

This has been your Falcon Legal Brief with Judge.

Wasabi the J posted:

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