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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Man that is some concentrated fart huffing.

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A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:
I was pissed when I found out that AF enlisted get BAH at E4, but I guess there's always some bullshit to go along with it.

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
What do they need BAH for when they already have luxury barracks and five star DFACs?

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



5 star and DFAC shouldn't be in the same sentence.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Naked Bear posted:

Seconding Crocodile Lounge. It's far and away my favorite bar in NYC just for the fact that I get pizza with each and every beer.

i got shitfaced there on my honeymoon, can confirm

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
I'm the dumbass army guy in an AF dfac carrying my tray away looking for the rollers to slide it down

Arc Light
Sep 26, 2013



Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

is this different than like, well, in the army you have a few several month schools as you go up the ranks. Basically one for each. Do you have that stuff and then also a fake associates on top of that? LMAO get hosed with that poo poo.

You get some credits for technical-oriented schools, like intel or communications or whatever.

But you also need to take actual classes. Most of them can be accomplished with a CLEP or DANTES exam instead. In order for me to get my bullshit Air Force degree (in Electronic Systems Technology!!) I would need to take a speech class and a math class and I think two more.

Most airmen take advantage of our taxpayer-funded Tuition Assistance program and enroll in one of the on-base hosted colleges - American Military University (ughhh) or Univerity of Maryland University College (ughhhhhhhh) in order to get the necessary credits. The courses are of course designed for total mouth-breathers to pass, and cost exactly as much as the TA program will pay.

It's a huge scam. The Air Force likes to brag about how highly educated its enlisted force is and how highly utilized its college tuition assistance program is. The TA program is only used because it's a de facto requirement. If an E-6 wants to promote, he drat well better have a fake degree. And what better way to get one than at AMU or UMMMUMUMUC? The cost? Don't worry about it. That's someone else's money, anyway. Might as well be free. Hey, now watch this commercial about fraud, waste, and abuse on AFN.

Also, if you're enlisted and you already have a bachelor's? Better get the Air Force associate's anyway. Gotta prove your loyalty to big blue.

Everyone acts like we're the smartest branch, but goddamn the Air Force is pants on head retarded.

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
Army had exactly all that same poo poo but FFS not an Army Community College or whatever. Wasn't exactly mandatory either but yeah that all sounds pretty dumb as gently caress if it's mandatory or so strongly encouraged that it may as well be mandatory, hence the original question.

Worst part about the ARmy system everyone went to for profits (endorsed by retired CSMs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

edit: LMAO I didn't catch the line about if you already had a degree. That's beyond hosed up

lite_sleepr
Jun 3, 2003

Arc Light posted:

The Museum of Natural History is a great one for adults and kids both, if your sister's kids are still willing to set foot in a museum.

If/when you get the chance, combine the NYC pizza experience with beer. The Crocodile Lounge on 14th Street is a bar/pizzeria that serves a free pizza with every drink.

The no-poo poo prettiest place you'll ever eat in Manhattan is the Battery Gardens, a restaurant at the very southern tip of Manhattan, in Battery Park. It's kind of touristy, but you'll never get a better view of the Statue of Liberty without actually taking the ferry.


Yeah, my unit had a couple TSgts retire without it.

That's my plan. A CCAF isn't worth the paper it's printed on. I'm a Tech now, and even with the new boards I've got 11 years to make Master without a CCAF.

Edit: and the AF is the only branch where that would matter. The others don't have their own bullshit enlisted-only fake degree. They also wouldn't possibly care if their enlisted got degrees in their free time. I deployed with the Army a couple years back and my Captain and Master Sergeant looked at me like I'd grown a second head when I explained that enlisted need to get an Air Force degree to promote to E-8. When an enlisted soldier gets an associate's degree for career advancement, it's generally so he can become a warrant officer.

I rest my case.

That means they DIDN'T HAVE 4 YEAR DEGREES right?

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

lite_sleepr posted:

Hey internet dads, did you guys know anyone in the AF or whatever branch you were in, to have been in 15 years and not even have their CCAF?

I never got mine, it's useless.

FIDEL CASHFLOW
Oct 13, 2009
One of my friends rolled their CCAF in IT into an IT bachelors and now they're working on their masters so I feel like it can be useful it you get lucky

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


The state 4 year I'm finishing at now demanded my CCAF transcript before they'd let me enroll because it counted as a previous institution. Never mind that anything that was worthwhile already got accepted by the community college I went to.

Also the speech requirement is gone as of January. Take Comp I & II and you're good.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

Army had exactly all that same poo poo but FFS not an Army Community College or whatever. Wasn't exactly mandatory either but yeah that all sounds pretty dumb as gently caress if it's mandatory or so strongly encouraged that it may as well be mandatory, hence the original question.

Worst part about the ARmy system everyone went to for profits (endorsed by retired CSMs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

edit: LMAO I didn't catch the line about if you already had a degree. That's beyond hosed up

CCAF is in addition to regular PME: Airman Leadership School, NCO Academy, etc. Also separate from tech schools for your actual career field. It's a no-poo poo associates degree from a school nobody gives a poo poo about, with questionable value for transferring to real schools. Most people can get a few credits out of it, at least.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Who names their daughter Reagan...

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer

LingcodKilla posted:

Who names their daughter Reagan...

No clue but whenever I hear the name Reagan as a girl's name I think of one of the first pornos I can remember watching on the internet, where this skinny brunette chick gets railed out in the back of a van, like pre-bangbus days or something.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Yeah, I've only ever seen it in porn.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Mike-o posted:

No clue but whenever I hear the name Reagan as a girl's name I think of one of the first pornos I can remember watching on the internet, where this skinny brunette chick gets railed out in the back of a van, like pre-bangbus days or something.

My new tenant fits that description.

tyler
Jun 2, 2014

LingcodKilla posted:

Who names their daughter Reagan...

My ex had a friend named Reagan. We hated each other with a loving passion.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Some people don't want their kids to succeed, so they name them poo poo like Harley or Bambi.


Stupid snow and wind. Glad I didn't bury my cold weather gear in the bottom of a bag, but I didn't want to see that poo poo again until October. Wonder if I can make it in to work, but they've closed some roads already. Might be a "stay home get stoned" day.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
I knew a Reagan who had massive hooters and she could gently caress like her life depended on it

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
I got suspicious of a CCAF degree when like 3 of my 70-ish credits from Michigan State University transferred over 🤔

lite_sleepr
Jun 3, 2003
I guess the 42 ABW/CC at Maxwell is a Buckeyes fan.

RichieHimself
May 27, 2004

No way dude, she looks like Gargamel.
The Army has/had eArmyU that was supposedly linked to accredited schools, but I never looked into it. My roommate signed up because they would give you a free laptop to do your courses and that dude went AWOL after pissing hot for coke a couple months later.

He climbed out of his window in the middle of the night and just disappeared. I was expecting him to bail so it wasn't a shock, but I was surprised that he left his door open and unlocked. I grabbed the laptop, a poncho liner, and some other swag before our squad leader came in and ratfucked the rest. That guy was grabbing brown t-shirts and poo poo, I was like bro that's not how you loot an AWOL.

Come to think of it that roommate was the 3rd AWOL dude I looted. First was a kid in basic during holdover, I helped him figure out how to get down to the PX and catch the shuttle to the airport and then I snatched his suitcase/garment bag thing for class As and a stash of Maxim magazines. Second guy was sort of a friend, but a total shitbag, I grabbed another poncho liner and some home theater gear because that turd owed me $400 for bailing him out of jail.

I still have one of the poncho liners I took from someone, my dogs chill on it now.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
A guy from my platoon went awol. I was in charge of guarding his gear that needed to be turned in. I let people loot the gently caress out of it. Plus a bunch of his personal belongings that he left behind.

In a funny twist of fate he's become one of my closest friends and might be moving in with me next month.

boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Mar 24, 2017

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


The one thing CCAF might be good for is if you intend to stay in the guard or reserve for a while and they're boarding for stripes or jobs. If you're smart you'll have done enough college to complete it anyway, and then it's just $20 to send them a transcript and never think about it again.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I went AWOL for a week and it all got swept under the rug because nobody wanted to touch why I was on so many powerful narcotics and psychoactives and not in a hospital.

It was a crazy week. Jokes on me though, I came back and accepted their "no big deal!" attitude and then they had me doing electro shock therapy! I came out of that like McMurphy did in one flew over the cuckoos nest.

I didn't retire for two more years almost at that point.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Had a mechanic in my squad go awol. He legitimately had a string of poo poo luck and the unit wasn't helping in the slightest. Single father, mother ran off and he had custody, grandparents were shitbags all around. So he went awol because he couldn't get the unit to leave him behind from field ops since there was no one there to take care of his kid.

I didn't loot his poo poo. Felt bad for the guy. Helped him fix his truck a week before he went awol. Still would have done it if I knew he was going awol with it. He was going anyhow. Hope he's doing alright now.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

RichieHimself posted:

The Army has/had eArmyU that was supposedly linked to accredited schools, but I never looked into it. My roommate signed up because they would give you a free laptop to do your courses and that dude went AWOL after pissing hot for coke a couple months later.

He climbed out of his window in the middle of the night and just disappeared. I was expecting him to bail so it wasn't a shock, but I was surprised that he left his door open and unlocked. I grabbed the laptop, a poncho liner, and some other swag before our squad leader came in and ratfucked the rest. That guy was grabbing brown t-shirts and poo poo, I was like bro that's not how you loot an AWOL.

Come to think of it that roommate was the 3rd AWOL dude I looted. First was a kid in basic during holdover, I helped him figure out how to get down to the PX and catch the shuttle to the airport and then I snatched his suitcase/garment bag thing for class As and a stash of Maxim magazines. Second guy was sort of a friend, but a total shitbag, I grabbed another poncho liner and some home theater gear because that turd owed me $400 for bailing him out of jail.

I still have one of the poncho liners I took from someone, my dogs chill on it now.

I loving love this. Especially the bold part.

Edit: My ex-stepfather's middle son joined the Navy for some reason. I guess he made it through training and was assigned to a ship in San Diego, then went AWOL. He went home but not to his parents. Instead, he contacted his recruiter, which is for some reason extremely common. The recruiter had been alerted, and gave him the lowdown: turn yourself in by XX:00 on Day Y or you'll be reclassified a deserter. He was within a half hour or so of the deadline and turned himself in back at his base. While being escorted through his ship to the brig or wherever, he somehow got ahold of several ipods that did not belong to him. His entire family is trash. I feel bad for the younger kid, he was smarter than the rest combined but has probably been driven into the same garbage life as the rest of them.

Godholio fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Mar 24, 2017

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

God drat NY Strip steaks 6.99 a pound value pack

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Smiling Jack posted:

God drat NY Strip steaks 6.99 a pound value pack

Time to get the slow-cooker out!

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.

LingcodKilla posted:

Time to get the slow-cooker out!

Sous vide you loving heathen

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

LingcodKilla posted:

Time to get the slow-cooker out!

Slow cooking strip steaks what the gently caress is wrong with you

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Slow cooking strip steaks what the gently caress is wrong with you

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
i slow cook flank steak for my tacos

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


I'm not impressed with NY strip.

I grill rib eye and everything else can go in the pot as far as I care. It''s all taco meat.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
I buy whatever looks reasonably fresh and not outrageously priced. I have a whopping two places to shop at, and one of them is Walmart (so I only have one option, really).

lite_sleepr
Jun 3, 2003
$253 federal refund.

Whoopee.

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
my sister is named Reagan :(

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

my sister is named Reagan :(

Yeah, she said that at the start of the casting interview.

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CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
I mean she was strung out for awhile so

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