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USAA has been great for ten years here. Except home loans. They're universally loathed and I didn't know about it until after starting the mortgage process. Everything was a loving nightmare. I spent two weeks trying to explain to a loan officer that I don't work for my payroll company please contact my actual employer with those questions. Edit: they also wanted a letter from my employer stating I'd be coming back to the same job with the same pay, i just sent them a pamphlet about USERRA. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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Ok never mind the fact that I am reaching shin levels right now but I just burst out loving laughing because of this song. It made me think of all the idiots still in the army. https://youtu.be/FQNaGzUA4-0 The lyrics were "You should see my gun, it's such a pretty one. I can shoot the paper target! I can shoot the paper target!" Except he loving screams shooting the paper target. Reminds me of goddamn idiot hardcore pog types. he also apparently doesn't know who fast Freddy is.
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psydude posted:Their commission on trades is kind of steep, too. What does everyone recommend for normal trading? I don't care about day trading, I hold long enough that I don't need fancy trading features. I'm moving to Fidelity.
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Nov 13, 2016 12:42
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Wasabi the J posted:USAA has been great for ten years here. Mortgage originators are desperate enough that you can usually shop around to get a good deal. I talked mine down from all of the extra fees and only had to pay the VA funding fee in the end.
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Nov 13, 2016 16:45
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Just found out someone I deployed with died this morning in a suicide bomber attack on Bagram.
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Nov 13, 2016 21:45
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Soulex posted:Just found out someone I deployed with died this morning in a suicide bomber attack on Bagram. At a loving post-Veteran's Day fun run. I hope someone gets shitcanned for that.
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Nov 13, 2016 22:13
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We killed Bin Laden why the gently caress are we still in Afghanistan?
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Nov 13, 2016 22:20
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Mr. Nice! posted:We killed Bin Laden why the gently caress are we still in Afghanistan? ANA refuses to sign the hand receipt for SHITSHOW, 1 EA.
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Nov 13, 2016 22:27
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Obstacle2 posted:At a loving post-Veteran's Day fun run. I hope someone gets shitcanned for that. Actually it'll be an OER bullet for ensuring memorial fun run executed one week later
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Nov 13, 2016 22:39
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-demonstrated ability to make tough decisions by setting maximum possible number of subordinates up for success at posthumous promotion boards by planning mandatory Veterans Day run -improved morale by expediently filing paperwork for 100% unit awarding of the combat action badge -successfully revised the COIN manual by demonstrating effectiveness of counterintuitive, anti-common sense techniques such as forcing unarmored troops to conduct movements in the open on a date so predictably chosen that enemy forces' ability to forecast our planning is significantly disrupted
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Nov 13, 2016 22:48
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The enemy, of course, being enlisted personnel. Imagine Obama being briefed on that. "Yes, sir, a fun run. In Afghanistan."
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Nov 13, 2016 22:53
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fun run? sounds like a blast
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Nov 14, 2016 01:19
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Obstacle2 posted:At a loving post-Veteran's Day fun run. I hope someone gets shitcanned for that. He was one of the contractors but he was a retired full bird so, possibly backlash. Also I always knew a fun run would result in death. loving called it 7 years ago.
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Nov 14, 2016 02:21
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maffew buildings posted:Actually it'll be an OER bullet for ensuring memorial fun run executed one week later I loving am angry that you are legit right about this.
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Nov 14, 2016 02:21
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Moral of the story: gently caress you if you're still in
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Nov 14, 2016 02:37
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I think when people are loving dying at stupid as gently caress bullshit "fun runs" in a warzone it's time to call it good and leave. Afghanis aren't ever going to sort their poo poo out and nobody would care anyway because 90% of the general public forgot the war in Afghanistan is even still going on.
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Nov 15, 2016 09:43
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we got mortared during a 10k fun run on speicher in 2005 then i got yelled at for taking cover in the bunker instead of continuing to run
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Nov 15, 2016 15:23
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when i got to KAF i was going into the dfac and the mortar alarm went off and i was the only one who took cover because like a moron i forgot they do weekly tests of the alarm system or whatever. thanks thats my mortar story
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Nov 15, 2016 15:37
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We got mortared on a regular enough basis I guess, once every few weeks for a few times in a 48 hour period. Countermortar guys would always hoot and holler about getting some but IIRC it was always either QRF or a nearby patrol that would nab them. We were also on a COP so no formations ever.
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Nov 15, 2016 15:47
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I thought it was a peacetime army now I'm so confused.
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I wonder if the line of duty investigation will see if they were wearing their reflective PT belts.
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Nov 15, 2016 15:50
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What do you think is the first thing they circle on the investigation photos?
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maffew buildings posted:What do you think is the first thing they circle on the investigation photos? probably will run facial recognition software on people who either had long hair, didn't shave, or were falling back in order to process UCMJ
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Nov 15, 2016 16:10
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someone already looking in to seeing what sort of benefits can be denied due to death on a voluntary run
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Nov 15, 2016 16:12
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Proud Christian Mom posted:someone already looking in to seeing what sort of benefits can be denied due to death on a voluntary run lack of heart is a preexisting condition they didn't disclose at meps, counts as fraudulent enlistment
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Proud Christian Mom posted:someone already looking in to seeing what sort of benefits can be denied due to death on a voluntary run 'voluntary'
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Nov 15, 2016 16:31
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Man we got mortared a few times a week at Balad. Sometimes it was far enough away that you didn't hear anything but he god voice but sometimes it was close enough to hear it come in.
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Nov 15, 2016 19:12
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Soulex posted:Man we got mortared a few times a week at Balad. Sometimes it was far enough away that you didn't hear anything but he god voice but sometimes it was close enough to hear it come in. poo poo, it was daily the first time I was at Shank. We still did the 173d Brigade run despite that.
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Soulex posted:Man we got mortared a few times a week at Balad. Sometimes it was far enough away that you didn't hear anything but he god voice but sometimes it was close enough to hear it come in. i stayed in balad for a couple weeks for medical training and we got mortared daily. kinda hard to care when it's PT uniforms on base and a 24 hour px, pizza hut, burger king, movie theater and two swimming pools. at speicher we were mortared probably a couple times a month and we were 100% full battle rattle w/ pro mask strapped to you outside of your LSA, thanks to the rainbow warriors of 42nd inf running it
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The FOB I was on only got mortared once while we were there. Lobbing IDF at a cav troop backed by aviation in the middle of a wiiide open valley is A Bad Idea.
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Nov 15, 2016 21:08
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BAF got rocketed fairly regularly. Ghazni got mortared/rocketed/recoiless'd 2-3 times a day if not more. It was enough to kill a few people and wound a few more over the time I was there.
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Nov 15, 2016 21:25
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KAF got mortared a few times while I was there. FOB Wilson or whatever it's called now got mortared every now and then. RPGs were the method of choice at our COP. Since there was a river going through Zhari there was a lot of stuff to give cover so we rarely ever found who was firing off IDF from what I remember.
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Nov 15, 2016 21:55
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Kalsu was rocket city. You would think that they would run out of rockets eventually.
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I was in a dumb COP at the bottom of a pretty steep valley, so ridgelines to shoot down into the COP in every direction. Just the absolute lowest ground because Army or whatever. Anyway a cool thing they did was set up rockets on time delay up in the hills and a day later or whatever they'd cook off and slam into the base or nearby or whatever. We only ever figured this out because we had a snowstorm / freeze out of nowhere and my buddy tripped on patrol and rolled down a hill and as he was climbing out of the snow realized he was wrapped up in some wires, which caused everyone to collectively poo poo themselves. We called EOD out and they uncovered the whole thing and anyway it was kind of funny that were dumping $Texas amounts of ordnance at the mountains every time we got hit when in reality the dudes that did it were probably long gone.
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In Iraq they would presight our COP and mark the spot with something, then drive over it with a hilux and Fire the mortars from the back. Long gone.
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Pretty safe to assume that every loving inch of Iraq and Afghanistan is presighted. gently caress you can probably buy some Jihadhi GPS program now
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Oh yeah they did the mortar in the Hilux thing too and I'm a little sketchy on the details but I guess it happened enough that someone cleared an Apache to blow up the truck but it was the wrong truck and instead of mortars it was filled with doctors? I was at a different COP when this went down but it didn't do much for our ~Afghan partnerships~
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ASAPI posted:Kalsu was rocket city. You would think that they would run out of rockets eventually. for real though
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We got mortared semi-regularly, but the only hit they ever got just ended up killing a handful of ANA.
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TBeats posted:KAF got mortared a few times while I was there. FOB Wilson or whatever it's called now got mortared every now and then. RPGs were the method of choice at our COP. As soon as I got off the plane in Afghanistan we got rocketed at KAF. It was a fairly normal occurrence until they quit for the winter, then they picked up where they left off in march or so. We had 5 in a day at one point, and every now and again the radar would fail to acquire the incoming rockets so we'd get the British rocket-lady announcing a rocket attack after a series of explosions 
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