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Just a reminder to you all: the army is America's greatest team ever. We together are united as one unit to accomplish a mission or task. Hooah
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gently caress you suck my dick I'm ouuuuuuuuuuutttttttttt
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The Rat posted:ouuuuuuuuuuutttttttttt Til the war with China and/or Russia. Then we'll all be in a ditch together. 
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Jul 28, 2017 05:11
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The Rat posted:gently caress you suck my dick I'm ouuuuuuuuuuutttttttttt
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The Rat posted:gently caress you suck my dick I'm ouuuuuuuuuuutttttttttt
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Jul 28, 2017 05:20
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I can't wait to have a goon platoon in a ditch together somewhere in Ukraina/Alaska/Hindu Kush freezing to death, Army Threading it in real time, in full MOPP.
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Jul 28, 2017 05:51
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Vahakyla posted:I can't wait to have a goon platoon in a ditch together somewhere in Ukraina/Alaska/Hindu Kush freezing to death, Army Threading it in real time, in full MOPP. Those two things do not belong together. Even JSLIST is no joke, old ghetto MOPP4 with full kit on top is going to make you sweat like a chaplain in the middle of a 40-man shower bay. poo poo could give somebody heat stroke in a snowstorm.
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MOPP4 was the closest I will ever get to the feeling of wearing a spacesuit.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:MOPP4 was the closest I will ever get to the feeling of wearing a spacesuit. I've got distinct memories of MOPP4 that were probably the closest I've ever been to dying. Middle of the Korean summer, 90F+ and 100% humidity, MOPP'd the gently caress out with full kit and my truck bag on, sitting in the back of a buttoned-up (turned off) FLA. For over an hour. "Oh, hey, we forgot you were in there. Yeah they told us like half an hour ago to stand down for the chemical exercise and let the Koreans handle it." My MOPP suit was soaking wet, uniform top and bottoms were wet completely through, my boots looked like I'd thrown them into a bucket and forgotten them for a day, and I poured probably 2-3 inches of the foulest gray stinking sweat water out of my MOPP boots. It took 3 full 1L NS bags and a 3L CamelBak to get me to piss. gently caress that poo poo forever.
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Jul 28, 2017 06:25
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One of the nice things about being a scout is that it's highly unlikely to have any kind of CBRN weapons used on you, I've never had to wear my JSLIST. The infantry got gassed constantly during our last field problem though
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Jul 28, 2017 08:17
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The Status of Forces Agreement in Italy is probably 99% italian written. I am in USPS office, dealing with a clerk who doesn't speak english. Yesterday I helped a on-post Fireman who works for DoD, who doesn't speak english at all. And these are hardly the exceptions, lmao italians are winning this one so bad. I'm all for it though, I hear these jobs are super sought after here. They also take italian and american holidays, and keep a "recovery day" after a holiday. Vahakyla fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Jul 28, 2017 08:50
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Vahakyla posted:. Every now and again the spirit that made these people build the Roman Empire shines through
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I was gonna be a social worker until I discovered it would be a vow of poverty. It sure the hell is. I'm glad I don't have any bills, or actual aspirations to do anything.
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I considered a career as a teacher, even started my first semester of GI bill with that as a possible goal. Things have gotten a lot worse since I went to school, so I guess the "drown government in a bathtub" model of politics is working because holy Jesus gently caress why would anybody do that job any more?
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Jul 28, 2017 18:59
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bird food bathtub posted:I considered a career as a teacher, even started my first semester of GI bill with that as a possible goal. My aunt's wife is a teacher. A long conversation with her is why I did not go into teaching when I got out.
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Jul 28, 2017 19:11
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tastefully arranged labia posted:MOPP4 was the closest I will ever get to the feeling of wearing a spacesuit. The way to feel what it's like inside a microwave burrito
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Vahakyla posted:The Status of Forces Agreement in Italy is probably 99% italian written. During our Kosovo deployment we started off with a German general as the NATO commander. Briefings were weekly, in English (Because NATO countries usually speak English as their second language) and uaully took about an hour, two if something dumb happened. Then he rotated out and was replaced with an Italian general. All briefings were now in Italian with the Italians handling the translations of the slide deck (which were google translate quality), and often to three hours plus. He also called an engineer unit back out to a work site they finished before time because he wanted a photo Op. We're used to Army Dumb, but the Italians have that poo poo to a whole new level.
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Jul 28, 2017 20:24
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gently caress I don't want to sign back in from leave, the next 3 months are going to suck balls
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Jul 28, 2017 20:32
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AWOL is always an option. Always.
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Soulex posted:The way to feel what it's like inside a microwave burrito I mean like it's the closest thing to having a second skin.I know it's really  but to me it felt like what Psycho Mantis said- you're really in your own little world in the suit.
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Jul 28, 2017 20:55
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Driving tanks and having to have your gas gear on was great. Oh yeah, let me put my gear on, hahahaha whatever I ain't getting that poo poo out of the bustle rack. Then you muffle your mic with your hand when you talk. Suck it crunchies, I'm turning the air con on, I almost broke a sweat.
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Jul 28, 2017 21:00
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I once saw a Bradley crew get caught doing that by their brigade commander and csm and oh boy they did not have fun.
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mlmp08 posted:I once saw a Bradley crew get caught doing that by their brigade commander and csm and oh boy they did not have fun. Do tell
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My stryker is one of the two in my platoon of six strykers that has consistently working heat and AC. With the heat and AC, tons of space to sleep/pack poo poo since scout strykers only have 6 dudes in them, strykers are a pretty sweet vehicle to use
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My BDE/BN was out in the field and I was evaluating a unit on the extreme edge of our training area, one gravel road over from the next training area. Some OCs came over from that training area to essentially say that while they wouldn't assume we'd be stupid and cross training areas, definitely for sure don't do it for the next couple of hours, as they were about to go to full MOPP and actually move Bradleys, Strykers, etc., while doing it, so they will in all likelihood be apt to totally crush us if we're sending a HMMWV back on some supply run or cutting across terrain to save time. These training areas were notorious for people not bothering to put in recon requests and just loving about in a HMMWV or POV and almost getting smashed by tactical vehicles in the past. The unit I was supposed to be evaluating was having maintenance issues, so my driver, NCO, and I were hanging out in some shade and half-rear end watching rooster tails and such as the unit across the way moved about. Eventually, a Bradley rolls up pretty close, maybe 100-150 hundred meters on the other side of the road and appears to be pulling security. Eventually, they pop the top and we see a guy smoke a cigarette while sticking out of the hatch, and someone gets out to take a piss, then they get back in and button up. About half an hour later, the BDE CDR and CSM, themselves in MOPP 4, roll right up to the edge of our site and start to yell at a couple of our soldiers for not being in MOPP, then realize they're wearing a different patch, apologize, and move across the road to the Bradley. As if timed for a movie, the bradley hatch pops, and a guy sticks up out of it and tosses what looked like maybe a couple empty water bottles and MRE trash out into the desert right in front of the BDE CDR/CSM. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but we could sure as poo poo hear a lot of yelling as the crew piled out in various states of MOPP and alternately got locked up by one then dropped by the other and screamed at for a long time. Meanwhile, here come vehicles with various levels of leadership between these poor sumbitches and the bde cmd team to alternate between getting yelled at themselves and yelling at the Bradley crew. This went on for I don't know how long, because eventually my unit fixed its poo poo and we had to go do our jobs. But it was a while. Some of our NCOs on site were blatantly just passing binoculars around and laughing their asses off as the crowd of angry people and vehicles grew. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Situational awareness, HOOAH.
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So....Fort Meade. Anyone been there, know anything about living in the area? I might be taking a filthy civvie contractor job there, but i have no idea what the area is like. Never got stationed there.
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Oh my are you living there? It's small. There's a Dave and busters like right outside post, lots of bad traffic, Baltimore is cool but you literally have to be careful where you go if you are white.
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bird food bathtub posted:So....Fort Meade. Anyone been there, know anything about living in the area? I might be taking a filthy civvie contractor job there, but i have no idea what the area is like. Never got stationed there. Visit the DC and Baltimore threads in LAN for more detailed information. I think everything in the area are the dingleberries around the poorly-wiped rear end in a top hat that is DC but some people like the area.
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Soulex posted:Oh my are you living there? Probably living pretty close if I get the job. So the area right outside is a typical only-exists-because-of-the-base town? My reference would be Killeen for Hood or Sierra Vista for Huachuca. Is the drive into base the normal 45 minutes to cross the street crap? And what about Maryland's gun laws?
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bird food bathtub posted:Probably living pretty close if I get the job. So the area right outside is a typical only-exists-because-of-the-base town? My reference would be Killeen for Hood or Sierra Vista for Huachuca. The area immediately outside Ft. Meade is a weird mix of "only-exists-because-of-the-base town" and "built-up suburb/minor urban area." I lived in an apartment about 10-15 minutes from Fort Meade and was paying $1300 a month for a one bedroom apartment in a complex built in the 1960s. With rush hour traffic, I think the commute to Fort Meade, to include getting on base, pushed it to about 20-30 minutes. Maryland's gun laws are poo poo.
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Genocide Tendency posted:My aunt's wife is a teacher. It's all about what state/school system you're at. I've got a friend teaching elementary at a rich private school in Hawaii. Weekends, Holidays, and Summers off + full medical + retirement.
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McNally posted:The area immediately outside Ft. Meade is a weird mix of "only-exists-because-of-the-base town" and "built-up suburb/minor urban area." I lived in an apartment about 10-15 minutes from Fort Meade and was paying $1300 a month for a one bedroom apartment in a complex built in the 1960s. With rush hour traffic, I think the commute to Fort Meade, to include getting on base, pushed it to about 20-30 minutes. As long as we're not talking Sierra "only one meth lab explosion this week? doing good!' Vista I'm OK with living there. Sucks about the gun laws. That's probably going to be a pain in the rear end.
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not caring here posted:Driving tanks and having to have your gas gear on was great. Oh yeah, let me put my gear on, hahahaha whatever I ain't getting that poo poo out of the bustle rack. Then you muffle your mic with your hand when you talk. This is beautiful in a very unique way.
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not caring here posted:Driving tanks and having to have your gas gear on was great. Oh yeah, let me put my gear on, hahahaha whatever I ain't getting that poo poo out of the bustle rack. Then you muffle your mic with your hand when you talk. There came a point where when supporting subordinate evals but not undergoing eval myself, I not only didn't mask up when there were gas threats and instead just muffled the mic with my hand, but eventually just spoke completely in the clear. gently caress it, I'm not even being evaluated, and it's a favor to them that they can hear me more clearly. The only dude I ever ran into who cared walked across the site in MOPP 0 to half-rear end yell at me about it, at which point I said at least I was in a shelter with ostensible CBRN protection whereas he just walked across the site in the open. He told me that if he wasn't so tired he'd yell at me, then went back to do more slides and poo poo.
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bird food bathtub posted:So....Fort Meade. Anyone been there, know anything about living in the area? I might be taking a filthy civvie contractor job there, but i have no idea what the area is like. Never got stationed there. I just spent 3 years at Meade. Meade is essentially the middle point where the urban sprawl from Baltimore meets the urban sprawl from DC. It breaks 100* in the middle of May, traffic is god awful, and the cost of living is insane. PM me if you have any specific questions, but I took a civilian IT job instead of a clearance intel job just to get out of the DC metro.
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So how are NCO's fresh off the trail as PSGs? I'm hoping my new one doesn't have a stick up his rear end about all sorts of dumb drill sergeant poo poo because that's going to get annoying, fast
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Mustang posted:So how are NCO's fresh off the trail as PSGs? I'm hoping my new one doesn't have a stick up his rear end about all sorts of dumb drill sergeant poo poo because that's going to get annoying, fast This should be good 
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One of our platoons got one of those a few months before we deployed. He was the loving awful and no poo poo treated his platoon like they were in basic, NCOs and all. The poo poo like dropping the whole platoon went away over time, but he still treated them like poo poo in general. Take all of this with a big grain of salt; he was a dickhead regardless of whether he or not he thought he was still wearing that hat.
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If that's the way mine is going to be then mom and dad are going to hate each other My hair is just barely within regs, I always have my hands in my pockets and I pretty regularly make fun of how dumb the Army can be
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