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SwampDonkey
Oct 13, 2006

by Smythe

(and can't post for 4 years!)

That would be exciting for all involved, surely.

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not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
That story doesn't surprise me at all as 25th ID (I think) made a pregnant soldier do fireman carries until she miscarried.

And if you think my description may be an exaggeration look it up. It's worse.

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?
I, for one, have a hard time believing that the United States Army does not treat its soldiers and their dependents with the utmost care and respect.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
If the army wanted you to have a baby they would issue you one :colbert:

(And they do when they give you a leadership position.)

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

https://www.armywtfmoments.com/2017/05/31/when-you-care-more-about-numbers-on-paper-than-welfare-people-die/

So the dude is upset that the pregnant lady got in a car wreck and was taken to the hospital in a vehicle other than an ambulance?

Like, waiting 30 minutes for an ambulance is better than just getting in another vehicle and getting there sooner? Also, ambulances aren't magic.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
On JBLM if you use the obstacle course you have to have a military vehicle for CASEVAC instead of using one of the POVs you drove there in

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Mustang posted:

On JBLM if you use the obstacle course you have to have a military vehicle for CASEVAC instead of using one of the POVs you drove there in

That's pretty much the standard everywhere I've been. Of course, CASEVAC and ambulance aren't the same thing.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Mustang posted:

On JBLM if you use the obstacle course you have to have a military vehicle for CASEVAC instead of using one of the POVs you drove there in

The article said "government vehicle" was used to transport her.

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

:dukedog:
Army logic: well she's not pregnant anymore, so she can go to the hospital on the back of an LMTV.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

What I want to know is was she wearing a reflective belt. :colbert:

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

spacetoaster posted:

What I want to know is was she wearing a reflective belt. :colbert:

Was the baby wearing proper PPE as well?

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
:3:

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
I moved this thread to D&D and it got moved back. Epic fail

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
Even D&D doesn't want to touch the poop. :ohdear:

Retrowave Joe
Jul 20, 2001

General: *spends 15 minutes talking about how he wants to know the real, no-bs reason why something is the way it is on USR*

Some moron Colonel: "can we get boilerplate comments for this?"

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Woof Blitzer posted:

I moved this thread to D&D and it got moved back. Epic fail

They's afeared of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-yySxecVAg

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

I wanna punch that commander in the goddamn face

baquerd
Jul 2, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Old school Ranger training:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE_9JS5qaas&t=62s

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
And here I thought the army couldn't get more gay... but it's gotten less gay than before? Honestly shocked.

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
army...gay?

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
Heh, Shafter.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



not caring here posted:

And here I thought the army couldn't get more gay... but it's gotten less gay than before? Honestly shocked.

It went overboard with the lust for cock and took a break for a bit. It'll be back to jackhammering assholes shortly though.

Triggs
Nov 23, 2005

Tango Down!
10 days from a BDE CPX and we still don't have an OPORD, S3 is great!

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Triggs posted:

10 days from a BDE CPX and we still don't have an OPORD, S3 is great!

The most staff post I've seen here in a looooooong time

tyler
Jun 2, 2014

Pog

iKon
Oct 4, 2000

CAN'T TEST
WON'T TEST

Triggs posted:

10 days from a BDE CPX and we still don't have an OPORD, S3 is great!

Stay in too long and you'll become what you hate.

CHICKEN SHOES
Oct 4, 2002
Slippery Tilde
here is your opord

Paragraph 1 and only

stand around, jerk off and do reactive nonsensical poo poo sent down from higher because the army is gay and retarded, and whatever is in that opord will be ignored by the very people who published it

zharmad
Feb 9, 2010

So apparently there was only 1 miscarriage from a Soldier who wasn't deployed to the field:

http://www.kalb.com/content/news/3-10-BCT-Commander-responds-to-allegations-of-soldier-miscarriages-at-JRTC-425788654.html

Bulky Bartokomous
Nov 3, 2006

In Mypos, only the strong survive.

zharmad posted:

So apparently there was only 1 miscarriage from a Soldier who wasn't deployed to the field:

http://www.kalb.com/content/news/3-10-BCT-Commander-responds-to-allegations-of-soldier-miscarriages-at-JRTC-425788654.html

Hold on, does this mean an angry post on wtfarmy moments was not 100% factually accurate? Why I never!

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
Imagine all the insane rumors and whatnot you hear regularly in the military. Now multiply that by Facebook.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Saddest part of all? It was entirely believable. Also,

quote:

We should look to the American Soldier as our nation's vanguard of Integrity.

:laffo:

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?
Army wtf is sticking to their guns.

quote:

Col. Brian Sullivan, commander of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, refuted reports from USAWTFM and other outlets claiming a soldier suffered a miscarriage this month after going to the Joint Readiness Training Center, one of the Army’s premiere training facilities, also located at Fort Polk.

Reading his statement, on the surface it looks like we got it wrong on this specific point. There’s a wider point that we need to address, however.

...

While the unit provided this statement and a previous one issued by the brigade’s higher headquarters at Fort Drum, NY, they did not address the broader issue facing the brigade – and the rest of the Army, frankly – the need to bring at least 80% of assigned soldiers in the unit to achieve Army readiness requirements.

...

One of those soldiers who, by virtue of his medical restrictions, should not have gone to the field was a private USAWTFM is not identifying. This soldier, according to multiple sources with firsthand knowledge, had a behavioral health profile recommending he not have a weapon.

The 710th Brigade Engineer Battalion (BEB) brought him in spite of this profile – and after a minor early-morning vehicle accident, he allegedly removed the blank firing adapter from the weapon he was not supposed to have and shot himself in the head with a blank round. The soldier was treated on the scene and suffered from first and second-degree burns. He was later admitted to an inpatient facility in Alexandria, LA. We’ll have more to come on this battalion in the next week, so stay tuned.

"We got the details wrong, but we're still right!"

https://www.armywtfmoments.com/2017/06/02/fort-polk-theres-smoke-theres-fire/

Mr_Ruckus
Jul 8, 2008

I made it through the maneuver portion of this NTC rotation without even being issued ammo. I think I'm doing this right.

all apologies
May 13, 2008

woah

Genocide Tendency posted:

If I can get my finances sorted out quickly, I'm going to Washington state.

gently caress Brevard.

Yeah its alright I must live where its nice. But Yeah im heading out west anyways was just curious.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Mr_Ruckus posted:

I made it through the maneuver portion of this NTC rotation without even being issued ammo. I think I'm doing this right.

I made it through NTC without being issued a weapon or MOPP gear. :smug:

Bell_
Sep 3, 2006

Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us
OC or Admin Driver?

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
I found the key to being issued a weapon and ammo for bullshit purposes is to never actually chamber a round. Throw the mag in with rounds, don't cycle the bolt.

Proceed to find some place to nap.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Bell_ posted:

OC or Admin Driver?

Nope. Public Affairs OIC/NCOIC for 1-25 SBCT when they only brought 2 specialists for the entire brigade that were PAO. Including nobles.

I got an impact ARCOM out of it and had like 2-3 OC's basically saving my rear end when I told LTC's and COL "no, we can't do that because..." and had my seat on the TOC removed because some people just can't handle low ranks telling them no.

Edit: I should mention that I was there originally to supplement their mission. Help with video coverage etc. They essentially hosed off and had me and my buddy not been there, it would have just been those two specialists.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Soulex posted:

Nope. Public Affairs OIC/NCOIC for 1-25 SBCT when they only brought 2 specialists for the entire brigade that were PAO. Including nobles.

I got an impact ARCOM out of it and had like 2-3 OC's basically saving my rear end when I told LTC's and COL "no, we can't do that because..." and had my seat on the TOC removed because some people just can't handle low ranks telling them no.

Edit: I should mention that I was there originally to supplement their mission. Help with video coverage etc. They essentially hosed off and had me and my buddy not been there, it would have just been those two specialists.

Never change, arctic wolves :911:

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Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Icon Of Sin posted:

Never change, arctic wolves :911:

I told them specifically that 1) Printing off posters of a pack of wolves taking down a horse with the captions "Mustangs should take caution, Arctic Wolves seen in area". I get it, cool and funny but no. And 2) no my guys won't do it (one of the specialists caved and did it) and 3) the MAJ OC I'm reporting to also said this was a bad idea.

Then we had CPT MindBullets. He got that nickname as we went out to a Press Conference (the COs only) and he was talking with this dude or whatever and everyone is pulling guard while the OC's chat with the CO about why he needs to be more engaged with PAO type stuff (he flat out called me a liar just for being public affairs in a BUB or whatever they are called) except me because I don't have a weapon. So I got to sit in the Humvee. Anyways ol' CPT mindbullets was actually talking to OPFOR journalist and the next morning it showed the CPT with his Class A's on (obviously taken from Facebook or something) superimposed on people dying in the streets with his full name and the caption "My words are more powerful than bullets." Obviously this was taken out of context but it was hilarious either way.

We had a legit incident where someone did a fire mission and had impact 50m from friendliest because the LT was some k off.

And I didn't get to shower and barely slept/ate/just had a kid/just came back from TDY.

gently caress that whole experience.

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