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psydude posted:Enjoy doing dismounted patrols or riding around in MRAPs. You'll be a several thousand miles from the nearest Stryker. Most of our training is dismount focussed anyway, I'm way more comfortable dismounted which I think is pretty weird for 19 series but whatever. Wasabi the J posted:No one cares about your sleeves, sir. I care, just because I want to actually do what I've been training to do the past few years. I'm sure it's loving dumb but I don't think any combat arms soldier can help wanting to have at least one deployment. I think I do pretty good taking care of my platoon, my NCO's and soldiers have my back and it's definitely the most fun job I've ever had. Not at all looking forward to no longer being a PL. I lucked out too in that all the trouble soldiers are in my sister platoon, though since my platoon is about to almost double in size that's going to change I think.
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Pesticide20 posted:Probably due to agreements with the host nations or some poo poo It turns out Soldiers, Sailors and Marines get self destructive and rapey if they're locked on a lovely base in a foreign country because the last time they had liberty someone hosed up so no going off base for months at a time and "I just don't understand why the men are so pent up and angry all the time, I better treat them worse..." mentality of poo poo leadership that passes problems off instead of fixing them, because fixing a problem means admitting that exists and admitting the existence of a problem can lead to a bad NCOER/OER, PRO/CON bullet point. Relief, the short answer is relief. Relief for the poor fucks stuck there and the locals trying not to murder them because the circle of suck is perpetual motion machine of stupidity and misery.
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Not giving a poo poo about my OER is pretty liberating and somehow resulted in a loving amazing OER. Other LTs stress out about all sorts of poo poo and make their dudes do unnecessary work for no reason because of it. I'm not making a career of the army so as long as I don't murder or rape anyone or get a DUI or piss hot I'm not too concerned about much.
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TBeats posted:Btw gently caress the army hooah
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Rotating to Korea sounds so hosed up. I was there from Dec 06-07 and nobody was rotating in then. It was just PCS to 2ID to waste a year of your Army career being useless while everything resource-wise went to Iraq, which was in full swing then. We knew we were a speedbump and that when we could barely get 3/4 of our battery mechanically capable (i.e. not broken) of deploying to the field that we had little to offer in a real fight. And AIP was going strong then, the Avoid Iraq Program to extend your PCS to 2 or 3 years for extra monthly pay and a greatly reduced chance of getting blown up in Ramadi. Anyway, Korea was the most catch-22 of my 6 years of Army times.
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Mustang posted:I'm hoping it's Afghanistan or something but only because I'm a slick sleeve combat arms retard Are you the reason for those goddamn memos?
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The only case where Korea is not a waste of a year is the homo erotica that is Aviation. New pilots fly their asses off, get lost and land on school soccer fields with clockwork regularity. It's used as a train up for actual war zones. It's also the national guard of the active army in terms of equipment, most of our poo poo was 1970s vintage complete with vaccum tube testers for ancient radars. Having units rotate in instead of people is dumb as gently caress, I'm not glad of much but I'm glad I missed that.
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Mustang posted:I'm hoping it's Afghanistan or something but only because I'm a slick sleeve combat arms retard I'm hoping they completely crush your spirit soon. Hint: it has not happened yet.
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Mustang posted:I'm hoping it's Afghanistan or something but only because I'm a slick sleeve combat arms retard I hope it's Kuwait so you get extreme heat and isolation w/no patch.
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TBeats posted:Btw gently caress Korea hooah PBeats posted:Btw gently caress the army hooah SwampDonkey fucked around with this message at 11:02 on May 20, 2017 |
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This is your yearly reminder that Europe Army is best Army. Excuse me while I go brunch. Speaking of Kuwait I know a cat who joined the VFW after his nine month stint in Kuwait. Wears the uniform and the hat and everything. I can't even talk poo poo about him because at least he volunteers, I just showed up to hear old dudes talk about killing krauts and stealing their women.
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:I just showed up to hear old dudes talk about killing krauts and stealing their women. This is the real reason to join the VFW. We are about 10 years away from losing the last of them too... 
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Genocide Tendency posted:This is the real reason to join the VFW. They really were the greatest generation. One thing I'm going to regret for the rest of my life is never having the chance to talk to my grandad about his time in the army. He was a Normandy vet, jumped in with the 82nd. I can only imagine his stories.
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I have a bunch of notes from my grandfather telling me stories of bombing runs over Europe that I am going to use to write a book.
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Vahakyla posted:I was dropped from a 250ft tower today at FT Benning and the landing was loving terrible. I hit my head, did somersaults, got dragged and had risers wrap around my neck. This is an Extremely Lame post that is either reeking of sarcasm or desperation and I can't tell which
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Seriously. It's like a geode of poo poo. You start on the outer layer as a random 11b, and you look at the guys with airborne wings and think "man, that's so cool". Then one day you reenlist with airborne in your contract, and you spend three weeks at Fort Benning half running around a track before possibly getting killed by some staff sergeant who got that assignment because he is either really unlucky or really likes Georgia. After that you get sent to the 82nd where you will be destroyed by 75 years of historical bullshit and senior NCOs and officers just trying to get promoted, the 173rd where you'll have to deal with a unit that thinks that the cold war is still going on, or 4/25 which for all intents and purposes doesn't even exist. Regardless, you'll find yourself in the same position as someone in a leg unit: overworked, tasked to double poo poo that either should have been done 3 weeks ago or doesn't need to be done for another 3 weeks but you'll have to stay until 1900 to finish, but with the added bonus that in between 6 months and 20 years every single joint in your legs, hips, back, and if you're unlucky your arms, will have become what a doctor describes as "somewhere between a fine paste and a slap bracelet".
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https://youtu.be/sQ6QX-OsWUc
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I met a guy recently who was very excited about his airborne assignment. He's a pharmacy tech. I didn't even know that was a thing.
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The army has an airborne everything. If you remember Skippy's Things I am no longer allowed to do in the Army, the guy behind it was in psy ops with an airborne patch. Isn't Airborne meaningless beyond bar bullshiting and trolling for questionable rear end? Or was that something us in the Air Force cooked up to level the field?
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Genocide Tendency posted:The army has an airborne everything. Yes. Airborne is pretty much useless except for niche roles filled by special operations.
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Airborne has no reason to exist outside of SOF
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~In theory~ an airborne division requires every single one of its members to be airborne qualified, that means cooks, clerks, butt cleaners. Everything. So you get odd slots open for airborne in just about every mos. Actually picking up and dropping an entire division of people and equipment is something that will never happen outside of Clancy land. So yes, it's a pretty useless. Air assault however is something that is far more handy.
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Don't forget you get to call yourself a "paratrooper" and try to pretend that you didn't just sit a 2 week school that any retard can pass.
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i knew a dude in basic who was going in to be a clerk and had airborne on his contract
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I mean yeah, it makes an army kind of sense, that specific thing is something that had just never occurred to me before then. Now I kind of wish I'd been an airborne laundry guy, just so my section's motto could be "three sheets to the wind"
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The best loving commo guys in the military are all in a little known joint airborne unit. The JCU. Where the militaries commo nerds found their balls. And goddamn are they good at what they do, which is all things communications.
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No seriously though those guys own. It's next to impossible to retain the guys with all the certs and training they get. I don't know any dude from the JCU that didn't hit civilian life running, on easy street.
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Sling load is pretty useful. We slung in/slung out a lot of poo poo in Afghanistan. There was also a program run by the Army (some crazy QM O4 and a couple of contractors) where they resurrected some Vietname-era DHC-4's to do low-altitude resupply by dropping poo poo on pallets using old parachutes or tarps pretending to be parachutes. Occasionally they'd land on our drone runway as well. e: Here's a quick writeup on it. Probably a fun as poo poo contract job. psydude fucked around with this message at 21:35 on May 20, 2017 |
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We got fuelers, , mechanics, clerks, x-ray techs, veterinary assistants, veterinarians, JAGs, clothing specialists, all kinds of cool MOSes and branches.
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Vahakyla posted:We got fuelers, , mechanics, clerks, x-ray techs, veterinary assistants, veterinarians, JAGs, clothing specialists, all kinds of cool MOSes and branches. JFC Jesus Fried Chicken
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I'm just lolling at the idea of airborne x-ray techs.
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Joke's on me, I got accused of being airborne when they took my MRIs.
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DoktorLoken posted:I'm just lolling at the idea of airborne x-ray techs. They can x-ray their own spinal injury. You know, assuming they can move.
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I was happy being airborne. Of course, that could have been the dozens of concussions from jumping.
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It's amazing how the army manages to gently caress up something that you can do for 90 dollars in an afternoon with very little chance of any injury at all.
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not caring here posted:It's amazing how the army manages to gently caress up something that you can do for 90 dollars in an afternoon with very little chance of any injury at all. This applies to so many things that I can't really tell what you're specifically referring to.
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not caring here posted:It's amazing how the army manages to gently caress up something that you can do for 90 dollars in an afternoon with very little chance of any injury at all. I get that the army can make seemingly neato things suck, but this comparison is totally stupid.
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