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Mustang posted:I don't know why a butter bar would give a single poo poo about anything anyone else is doing. Even now if I saw some random dude running around butt naked screaming about how much he hates the army I would just be like "well, that's odd" and continue walking to my office. The CSM and 1SG's can worry about that poo poo. Well see there's your problem. If you see someone like that, the first thing you do is ask if they have been to suicide awareness mandatory training. I also had those last two officer/nco types for like my last 4 years of the Army and I'm stupid hosed up becUse of it. Like bad.
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But my unit is nothing like that. CO is chill, 1SG is chill, my LT is cool who tells funny stories and let's us go home early. Alm these stories just sound like they come from a different Army, so now I am worried that my unit is a unicorn and that one day I meet the green weenie with a loving fury. Or maybe it's 173rd that is chill. No one here cares about me walking home on PT hours. Or weekend briefing being at 1130.
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Vahakyla posted:But my unit is nothing like that. CO is chill, 1SG is chill, my LT is cool who tells funny stories and let's us go home early. Alm these stories just sound like they come from a different Army, so now I am worried that my unit is a unicorn and that one day I meet the green weenie with a loving fury. Or maybe it's 173rd that is chill. No one here cares about me walking home on PT hours. Or weekend briefing being at 1130. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHABABABABABAHABHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Soulex posted:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHABABABABABAHABHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Vahakyla posted:But my unit is nothing like that. CO is chill, 1SG is chill, my LT is cool who tells funny stories and let's us go home early. Alm these stories just sound like they come from a different Army, so now I am worried that my unit is a unicorn and that one day I meet the green weenie with a loving fury. Or maybe it's 173rd that is chill. No one here cares about me walking home on PT hours. Or weekend briefing being at 1130. Oh, you sweet, naive child. Have you not noticed how 99% of this thread is people saying how the Army/their leadership has hosed them? You will outlast your 1SG and commander by years in the unit. One day you'll be forced to practice a change of command or change of responsibility for 5 hours, then they'll pass a flag to each other and the new person will look at what their predecessor did, say "gently caress all of that" and change everything because they can. It's almost always a change for the worse, because they don't realize that the reason for doing things the old way is because it's a good way to do it, but they want to leave their mark on the unit. Or they look at it like it's prison and they walk in the door just trying to stir poo poo up to say "don't gently caress with me." There are also politics between the higher ups that you aren't even aware of, and eventually they will start to gently caress with you too. Your commander may see the way that another guy does something that doesn't make any sense and wastes time and energy, but would make a good bullet point on an OER or random PowerPoint and decide that if they want to get a leg up on their promotion eligibility, they'll have to do something more impressive and more stupid. Here's an example. On some monthly PowerPoint, there was a red box for flu immunizations. So they rounded everyone up and had them go to the medical center to get flu shots so the red box could be green. The medical center then says three things: 1. You have to go to your unit medics before coming here to confirm that you need that shot 2. Flu shots are given on a basis of who needs them most, and healthy soldiers are at the bottom of that list 3. The flu shots for this year aren't even finalized yet so what you're asking for literally doesn't exist, come back in November. This is unacceptable to the people in charge and they spend 45 minutes arguing with the civilians how their soldiers HAVE TO have these shots today, right now. Even though they are doing the process wrong to get shots that don't exist that aren't really necessary. This is a pretty minor stupid thing that happened. Major things end up eating entire days of your life. Have you ever questioned why divorce rates/alcoholism/suicide is so common in this line of work?
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Oh buddy the flushot! I got that three times last year because they kept misplacing all the goddamn paperwork.
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Vahakyla posted:now I am worried that my unit is a unicorn and that one day I meet the green weenie with a loving fury. The weenie will get ya some how, that's unavoidable. But yea you're one of the lucky ones. That was my experience in the 173rd. A ton of 3-4 day weekends, traveled all over Europe. I did my 3 years and got the gently caress out. I couldn't imagine spending my time in stateside, gently caress that.
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Having good leaders doesn't mean you won't get hosed with either, there's only so much they can do. I like everyone I work with but we still get tons of stupid poo poo coming down from higher that has us work long hours pretty much all year
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Regardless of branch or job there is always going to be a day when you're stuck for periods of time doing unnecessary, stupid things because someone somewhere in the chain didn't stop and go "actually this is a bad idea, let's not tank morale and waste a shitload of manpower for no reason", and they aren't capable of that thought and follow on action because they're in the service and in turn inherently a loving moron Enjoy it while it lasts Fin-Bro
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Aug 6, 2017 19:25
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Finally de mobing Killeen is...nice?
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Also, during the drawdown, a lot of staff positions got slashed in favor of trigger puller positions. That might not sound bad because of the dumb staff officer/nco idea fairys, but a small staff means they're perpetually in "oh poo poo, react!" mode meaning shorter suspenses and last minute taskings.
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Flikken posted:Spacetoaster I have some MP specific questions and you do not appear to have PM's available. It has to do with looking up an old MPR. Hmmm. Can you be very basic about what you are looking for? Also, what do you mean by MPR? Miltiary Police Regiment, Military Police Record, Military Pimp Recording, etc?
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Military Public Radio
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Finally de mobing Pros of North fort Hood: the chocolate chip raspberry ice cream is on point. Negs: enjoy your eight days of demobbing. Took 45 of two days just to clear finances.
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spacetoaster posted:Hmmm. Can you be very basic about what you are looking for? The 3975. I was the one that wrote it and the victim in the incident reached out to me about getting copies for a claim that he is trying to file. I would have wrote it in Jan/Feb 2008 or so in a camp that we apparently closed in 2014.
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Flikken posted:The 3975. Oh wow. There might be a chance that it's archived either physically, or electronically. I do not know where the records would be kept or who would have access to the database. I would start the journey to finding that person (who knows about records/files/archives) by calling the good people here: http://www.benning.army.mil/garrison/des/PoliceReport.html They might not be able to help you find exactly what you're looking for, but they would know more about how these things are kept (if at all). Also you might try: http://www.cid.army.mil/crc.html
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spacetoaster posted:Oh wow. There might be a chance that it's archived either physically, or electronically. Thanks for the help. I wasn't sure how much would still exist considering that a new unit rotated into that camp every 9 months or so and I think the Air Force even took over PMO operations at one point before we closed down the camp.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Finally de mobing compared to kuwait anything stateside is nice
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Cyks posted:Pros of North fort Hood: the chocolate chip raspberry ice cream is on point. They got us home in 2.5 days. 95% home before Thanksgiving. poo poo was a Christmas miracle.
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26 days to terminal. gently caress me, I think there's a light at the end of this tunnel.
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Suntan Boy posted:26 days to terminal. Now is the perfect time to get drunk on duty and pop hot for coke
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Honestly arifjan wasn't bad until April when it started getting really loving hot. They have a lot of amenities there and I spent 100% of my off time wearing black socks and UA sliders and never shaving. Mission > day off > mission > day off in perpetuity tho Oh yeah have some custom deployment memes I made about 2 months into country after we still hadn't had a single day where we weren't working 12 hours      
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after I passed out a bunch of these to various folks, mysteriously leadership saw a few and we got a day off E4 mafia 🤔 Clean air, indoor plumbing, and grass is super nice though. Hoping to clear by the end of the week.
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Yeah that'd totally work
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I can just imagine a nervous private whipping this out and stammering like Kif from Futurama and the woman getting the lady equivalent of going instantly flaccid.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Honestly arifjan wasn't bad until April when it started getting really loving hot. They have a lot of amenities there and I spent 100% of my off time wearing black socks and UA sliders and never shaving. Mission > day off > mission > day off in perpetuity tho More loving image macros please
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Hell yeah
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:More loving image macros please I think they're called emojis now
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Honestly arifjan wasn't bad until April when it started getting really loving hot. They have a lot of amenities there and I spent 100% of my off time wearing black socks and UA sliders and never shaving. Mission > day off > mission > day off in perpetuity tho this is the pogest post
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Zeris posted:I think they're called emojis now *cough* memes. Me mes.
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There is nothing shameful about asking for consent before sex. That's how we have to do things now.
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gently caress off. Consent goes both ways and if your dick keeps you from going "I think this person is shady," and walking away you are a loving moron.
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Just walked off from morning Pt and formation with the platoon cuz LT was too hungover. Am in my barracks room. Amount of people taking names or blocking exit or caring about it: loving 0. Army owns.
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Enjoy your honeymoon.
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The Rat posted:I can just imagine a nervous private whipping this out and stammering like Kif from Futurama and the woman getting the lady equivalent of going instantly flaccid. Soulex posted:*cough* memes. Me mes. 
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I unironically pronounced it like that because I didn't know better.
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