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I lurk because it basically made my career. 3 months of waiting for duty station after AIT and 18 months after missing deployment after surgery until ETS, hanging with the disabled and criminal. loving 7 days of 1ID running the flag up and down the sgt. maj's dick boner (flagpole)
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Hello GiP. I'm getting out officially on Monday after 5.5 years active duty army. I lurk around because I never really did anything noteworthy over that time and don't think I have much to add to the conversation. I came in as a SPC (I know, I'm retarded but you have to pay off those student loans somehow  ) and went out as a SPC. Never deployed, only one duty station, never went to any schools except BLC (with less then a year remaining because that made sense), and have never seen a motor pool or did any training in the field since Basic. Hell, when I got out I didn't even qualify for almost two years. I like browsing this forum because it has lots of good information, I get a kick out of a bunch of the threads, and it's interesting to me to compare what everyone's dumb military adventure was like. 
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Jun 11, 2017 12:34
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You are the pinnacle of GiP Army posters
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Jun 11, 2017 16:13
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That's peak Army Gipper right there. Let me officially invite you to stop lurking and start posting. And are you gonna  the day you get out or what?
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Jun 11, 2017 16:30
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You did Army correctly.
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Jun 11, 2017 16:33
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tastefully arranged labia posted:You did Army correctly.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:20
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5.5 years as an E4? Jesus, how far up the E4 mafia chain did you climb? Did you get to bang Don Specialists' wife?
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Ha, no for me unfortunately, I'm becoming a scumbag contractor and they tend to frown upon showing up to a SCIF stoned. Pretty much I used the army as a jumping off point for a career, got a bunch of training (which I never used but still collected that sweet, sweet FLPB pay for) and a ton of experience that I could never have gotten on my own. It sucked balls while I was in, but in a "this is loving stupid just let me do my job" way. Compared to some of the stories y'all have told it was a cake walk. I had a mission essential shift job that got me out of every stt and training. I did pt on my own for almost the entire time I was out of AIT. I was able to swing BAH and BAS as a single E4 and get out of the barracks and have my own apartment. The only board I went to was my promo board, got a "go" and then the army went "lol we don't need your language anymore get hosed" so I never had to be concerned with promoting, as I was going to do one tour anyway. All the other stupid Soldier of the X boards I just said no to or had the mission excuse. I like to think I achieved a level of sham nirvana during my career.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:27
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good work.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:28
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CurbStomp posted:Ha, no I hate you but it's coming from a place of jealousy.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:33
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TBeats posted:I hate you but it's coming from a place of jealousy.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:35
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 My brother shammed his way through four years of active and a year NG. It was probably for the better that he never deployed, but he spent a few years in Korea (we had new years together at Humphreys). If he had a plan to use it as a stepping stone like you, I'd respect him more for his shamming ability.
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Jun 11, 2017 20:59
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Considering what most bachelor's degrees in non-STEM fields are worth these days, enlisting for a cush intel gig with DLI and/or TS is actually a pretty smart.
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Jun 11, 2017 22:50
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Yeah. If you have experience, certifications, a degree, and a clearance, then 6 figure income in a variety of locations is easily achievable.
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Zeris posted:Considering what most bachelor's degrees in non-STEM fields are worth these days, enlisting for a cush intel gig with DLI and/or TS is actually a pretty smart. Very true. Only other enlisted jobs I can think of that are useful elsewhere are medical; combat medics get an easily-transferable professional certification, for example. I don't know if radiology or the others have the same upside. I mean, EMTs get paid trash, but at least it's a job.
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Nah it's dumb as poo poo tbh. You're developing an insanely narrow set of skills and relying on a volatile relationship between whatever company happens to the own the contract you're working on and hope the govt doesn't change it's mind about contracting that out. I wouldn't hire most contractors I've met to do whatever they're being paid for, let alone ask them to do something else entirely. When the bottom falls out most of them wind up being shift supervisors at Walmart. And STEM degrees are specialized as hell and there are comparatively few programs. No one goes into education thinking they're going to be millionaires. But folks with business degrees don't do too bad, for example. And not all of their peers are sweaty weeabo nerds
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Re:above I may or may not know what I'm talking about (I don't) but I do know being involved with the government in any way is lame
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Most of the business degrees (business admin, accounting, etc) need a masters to really get anything out of them imo
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There's always the risk of your contract being cancelled, but at least it's a way to stay employed and keep the resume built up. At a minimum it keeps your clearance active. I can be optimistic again, I'm a civilian today. Feels good man.
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Zeris posted:Considering what most bachelor's degrees in non-STEM fields are worth these days, enlisting for a cush intel gig with DLI and/or TS is actually a pretty smart. thats the plan. ive been lurking while i wait to go to boot camp, enlisted to do network security in navy (CTN) which seems like a pretty sweet gig. i head to boot the end of the month
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Jun 13, 2017 04:50
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CTN is a field that they were actually talking about starting people at E7 a while back to match civilian pay better. If he actually makes it through school and all its one of the fastest advancing rates and the work has very little navy bullshit to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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Mr. Nice! posted:CTN is a field that they were actually talking about starting people at E7 a while back to match civilian pay better. If he actually makes it through school and all its one of the fastest advancing rates and the work has very little navy bullshit to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Counterpoint: he enlisted
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Counterpoint: he enlisted
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tastefully arranged labia posted:Counterpoint: he enlisted
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Mr. Nice! posted:CTN is a field that they were actually talking about starting people at E7 a while back to match civilian pay better. If he actually makes it through school and all its one of the fastest advancing rates and the work has very little navy bullshit to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Also, that plan will never actually be implemented. They'll continue to contract poo poo out to the most inefficient organization they can find at the lowest bid, which will completely crush any dedicated individual's motivation and efforts to provide actual customer service. Navy IT is as impotent as r/incel.
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I lurk because the current events thread in here is topical and funny without being full of hysterical over the top outrage of the day LITERALLY SHAKING crap or DnD internet communist crap. I also like dogs, the Cold War, sick booms and explosions, AIRPOWER, and buttes.
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[quote="SeismicTriangle" SeismicTriangle posted:i enlisted lol
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I'm still lurking here, though I've posted in the dead AF thread once every few years. My ADSC is up in august and I want to hit that sweet sweet separation button.
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Jun 21, 2017 01:47
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I post rarely enough to GiP I probably qualify.
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I work on a Russian billionaires private yacht and am not even military. It's me, I'm the spy.
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https://open.spotify.com/track/71DiuXGizHqLPTdzCY6ND6 oh ohh mama, those shoes look good on you
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No.
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Two Finger posted:I work on a Russian billionaires private yacht and am not even military. It's me, I'm the spy. spill the goods ffs. how's the chow at least?
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Jul 1, 2017 17:32
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"chow" is about as bad as military time, high speed.
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TBeats posted:"chow" is about as bad as military time, high speed. weird. guess they have money. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Water777 posted:weird. guess they have money. I'm going to kill this guy
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Hey guys. I'm having a rough night. One thing I wasn't totally honest about was I worked very high level Counter terror for three and a half years straight. I never deployed or did anything personally but I was a part of hunter killer missions from the high level. I have really tough nights sometimes. Some nights I just want to scream from my back deck. Sorry I know I'm a pussy and was a strat level Bitch but the nightmares about drone strikes are starting to get too real. I feel like a mad pussy cause I never got trigger time but drat it's starting to effect my everyday life.
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