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Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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We are going to run to and from the locker room for pt, this will apparently show the instructors how motivated we are guys!!! Also 15 minute formation where cadets bitch and whine about stupid crap because that's important!! We need to be a team!!

poo poo I'm posting in the army thread

I feel like I'm in basic again :emo:

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Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Soulex posted:

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.

I spent years with that unit. It was never better, and it was almost impressive how many different ways they found to be pants-on-head stupid across most levels of leadership. Reminder that 3-21 was Danny Chen's unit when they hazed him to the point of suicide. Probably explains my animosity towards the army in general fairly well, imo.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Oh yeah. I loving HATED them. Especially them being like "oh poo poo, we forgot to account for you food wise" and I went down to an MRE a day for a week.

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

Soulex posted:

Oh yeah. I loving HATED them. Especially them being like "oh poo poo, we forgot to account for you food wise" and I went down to an MRE a day for a week.

war is hell

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
PAO, huh?

quote:

From: postmaster@mail.goarmy.com [postmaster@mail.goarmy.com]
Sent: Monday, June 05 (approximately)
To: (blah blah) (US)
Subject: Submit your Video by 30 June

SSG [mailmerge],

This is your chance to be part of the Army’s next national
marketing campaign and give our nation a better understanding and
value of the important work you contribute.

Help us tell the Army story by submitting video clips of who you
are and what you do. They may be used on TV commercials, social
media channels or on goarmy.com.

++ WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
========================================
Share videos of your day-to-day life, either at your job or with
your family and friends. Show us what you do for work and what
you do for fun. Tell America how your contributions have a
positive impact on the Army and the world. Please submit your
videos by 30 June 2017.

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
That sounds way, way too moto.

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

Looking forward to the intel sperg version which is a video of a guy crossing some turnstiles before being tackled by security guards and the video cuts out abruptly.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

redneck nazgul posted:

Looking forward to the intel sperg version which is a video of a guy crossing some turnstiles before being tackled by security guards and the video cuts out abruptly.

Intel Sperg version goes to home with smoking hot roommate, doesn't question their excitement to talk about Joe's day at work.

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

Bell_ posted:

PAO, huh?

I can help tell the Army story.

I know the Armiest of stories.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

McNally posted:

I can help tell the Army story.

I know the Armiest of stories.

This is our motto actually.

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

McNally posted:

I can help tell the Army story.

I know the Armiest of stories.

I will throw money at getting you good enough camera equipment to talk about your Army story.

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
:same:

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
I can be pretty vindictive at times and if I were you McNally I would be on a John Wick revenge plot to watch it all burn down.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

redneck nazgul posted:

I will throw money at getting you good enough camera equipment to talk about your Army story.

The equipment isn't the issue. It's the knowing how. You can make documentaries on your cellphone now.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


I spent time in audio/video editing in college.



So if you want to do something, Im cheap. Just need food and a place to crash while filming.




Because I really want to have my name all over that when someone at the Pentagon sits down to watch it.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Genocide Tendency posted:

I spent time in audio/video editing in college.



So if you want to do something, Im cheap. Just need food and a place to crash while filming.




Because I really want to have my name all over that when someone at the Pentagon sits down to watch it.

Same here; I have some experience with writing and direction too, not that it lacks any impact already.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
goon_projects don't work. Reach out to Wakaliwood.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Hey now I got everyone their polonium shirts.

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
And the dick books, twice.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
I just want Wakaliwood and GiP to become intertwined

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

mlmp08 posted:

I just want Wakaliwood and GiP to become intertwined

Someone do up a screenplay of Caro and send it to them with $500.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

redneck nazgul posted:

Someone do up a screenplay of Caro and send it to them with $500.

CARO ACTION FILM!!!

WONNN AND TWOOOOOOOO

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


mlmp08 posted:

goon_projects don't work. Reach out to Wakaliwood.

Shut up PFC Killjoy.


This is a great idea and getting better.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

I was AFN for a few years so I have experience. Kinda busy to do it ATM though.

Poppyseed Poundcake
Feb 23, 2007
Mods change my name to Garrison Culinary Uniform

tyler
Jun 2, 2014

Mr. Nice! posted:

Hey now I got everyone their polonium shirts.

That shirt got me a date because some chick got the reference.

Vahakyla
May 3, 2013
Italy is awesome, Army is awesome, Airborne is awesome. Everything is just loving awesome.


Besides morning PT. That blows.

I wish someone would've told me that I can do command sponsorship in States already, because now it'll be couple months to get my wife here. Otherwise, Army owns.

manchego
Feb 16, 2007

MEANWHILE,
nah the army sucks and you have objectively bad judgement

but i'm fine with that because i'm out and that's awesome.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



We're going to have a storm of downward spirals here sooner or later.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Icon Of Sin posted:

We're going to have a storm of downward spirals here sooner or later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS27-xIHO04&t=54s

don't die, Vahakyla.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
I thought the army was pretty cool until I had the realization that everything we were doing was loving pointless. Had that realization about six months after joining.

The most fun I had in the army was probably air assault school. That's not a testament to air assault school, it's a testament to how lovely the army is.

RichieHimself
May 27, 2004

No way dude, she looks like Gargamel.
I thought the army was the coolest for about a year until they took me off the line and sent me to S3 because I was the last new guy we got and someone had to get hosed. The army likes to give you the illusion that you have some control over your life, but it can move you away from your buds to another unit, keep you in past your contract, and screw you over in general whenever it feels like it.

Genocide Tendency
Dec 24, 2009

I get mental health care from the medical equivalent of Skillcraft.


Wait.. What were the plutonium shirts?

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

Genocide Tendency posted:

Wait.. What were the plutonium shirts?

Polonium.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/alexander-litvinenko-inquiry-friend-murdered-7219420

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Just wait until you watch an airborne video with "Jump" playing in the background for the 100,0000000th loving time.

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Just wait until the E2 that packed your chute while high as gently caress on spice and 2 hours sleep for the week turns you into a lawn dart.

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



I couldn't find the article about the riggers intentionally cutting the chutes' rigging :(

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

Icon Of Sin posted:

I couldn't find the article about the riggers intentionally cutting the chutes' rigging :(

Wait, what?

And to hyped up Finnish dude- it's all fun when you get there. Then you blow out your legs somehow, or get sick of the timeline slipping left making you have a 0200 weapons draw for a 1300 jump.

Oh, you sweet summer child. How your life will change after a few months.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

I didn't get truly jaded until after my first deployment. Your first duty station is like your first girlfriend. Most of the time you are gonna try to replace her but you'll get something worse somehow because remember it's not where you are, it's who you are with. You'll try to get back together and even if you go back, it won't be the same. It'll miss hat magic that was in the air. You'll hate not having that magic.

You'll start hating.

You'll start hating everything. People especially. You'll find yourself wanting to push people out of the way or punch them in the face for wasting your time. This is normal. For Army.

Enjoy your time now. I remember when I was moto too. I think I moto'd out quickly because of people being cunts.

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Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008




I may have misremembered, or it may have happened more than once. A marine once did exactly that, 'because he was angry' :catstare:

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/07/nation/na-parachute7

I thought there was one about an army e6 doing something similar and getting caught/court-martialed over it, but I can't find it.

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