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TBeats posted:Maybe it's because I was infantry, but finding someone I served with that is suitable to teach kids isn't realistic. Yeah, I've got some buddies that came up in the infantry that have.......stories.  Anyway I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now and will be back in college next year for a degree in early childhood education. Does anyone here know what's better to use: Post 9/11 GI Bill or the VA vocational rehabilitation?
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Period chair: One day in Iraq, the CPT jumps up and yells for no one to sit in her chair. She leaves and so make a big deal of making it over here to sit in it. Right when I look down to sit, I stop. In the middle of her seat is a smudge of blood. Still wet. I gather attention to it by shouting and everyone is disgusted. She was pretty much the ranking member so we ignored it the best we could. For 8 months, until a major threw it outside and told her to make it to the dumpster. She would also smoke cigarettes during her break in between events during the PT test. She wasn't suitable for Army, much less teaching children.
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Soulex posted:Period chair: Yeah. That's what I thought. I had a Maj who collected piss bottles once. Like, wall to wall. He would also shave his entire body (openly and publicly) and lift weights 3 times a day. He's a COL now.
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Aug 9, 2017 16:26
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I was trying to make a joke about going to Korea for those who are already out.
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Aug 9, 2017 17:27
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spacetoaster posted:Yeah. That's what I thought. 
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Aug 9, 2017 18:23
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I walked into a G-1's office once and saw his name written on a dry erase board. I asked the G-1 what it was for (some important job with a promotion), and then I told him about the guy. The G-1 turned around, wiped the guys name off the board, and that was that.  There absolutely is a good ol' boys club and sometimes it really does work for the best.
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Aug 9, 2017 18:48
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spacetoaster posted:t Wait.. Stop.. You need to explain this. Did he actually break out a razor in public and start shaving his arm? Or did he just shave his body hair and tell everyone he did? I really shouldn't have to ask this. But lets not kid ourselves. We have all seen enough to make this a legitimate question.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Wait.. During deployment, he would stand outside, in the officer living area, in his underwear, and shave his body. We had private bathrooms and showers.
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Aug 9, 2017 21:22
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Makes me think of fruity rudy
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Mr. Nice! posted:Makes me think of fruity rudy There's sooo much more about this guy that was/is off kilter. He would watch porn in his office. He would sleep at his desk. He kept a piss bottle in his office even though there was a bathroom. He was universally disliked. BUT 300 ON THE APFT!! HOOAHH!!! TOP BLOCK THAT GUY
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spacetoaster posted:During deployment, he would stand outside, in the officer living area, in his underwear, and shave his body.
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Aug 9, 2017 22:18
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sorry yall i dont want my tax dollars going to people like that 
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Aug 9, 2017 22:36
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A major I worked under was a smart guy, got a ton of poo poo done by sheer force of will, and also scared the living poo poo out of everyone, threatened physical violence, engaged in dangerous physical punishment, and was a real rear end in a top hat to anyone he decided he disliked on day one. I got lucky in that the first time he saw me lead something, it went well. (I didn't slouch and worked hard on that event, but he also seemed to credit success or failure 100% to officers and not at all to NCOs or lower enlisted). I was not surprised to hear he got CSL selected for BN command and then was soon after relieved of command for toxic leadership.
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Aug 9, 2017 22:45
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A guy shaved another guy's rear end in a top hat when I was in basic training. Not rear end cheeks. The hole.
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Aug 9, 2017 22:49
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TBeats posted:A guy shaved another guy's rear end in a top hat when I was in basic training. You talk in third person, very odd.
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gently caress I can't wait to get out. I don't know how anyone can do this stupid poo poo for 20 years. My life has pretty much been the Army for all of 2017 so far. Can't keep up with a gym routine because I'm often at work super late, and because I'm at work late I often don't make dinner myself and eat fast food on post. I mean I guess I could still do those things afterward but I like to get at least a little bit of sleep. Whenever I hear some colonel, general or csm talking about taking care of the troops I just think they're completely full of poo poo
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Aug 10, 2017 01:33
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They'll be like "hey get all this poo poo done now and you'll get a couple weeks of down time afterward" only they end up dumping some more bullshit on you to do instead. Just endlessly chasing the downtime carrot and never catching it
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Aug 10, 2017 01:36
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It's like Vahakyla is the Ghost of Christmas Past, Mustang is the Present, and the rest of us are Future.
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Aug 10, 2017 01:37
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Army officer life hack: Make your food at home. Put it in a cooler.
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Mustang posted:gently caress I can't wait to get out. I don't know how anyone can do this stupid poo poo for 20 years. My life has pretty much been the Army for all of 2017 so far. Hello, future field grade officer 
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Aug 10, 2017 01:38
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55% of LTs make it to major. That's counting those KIA, WIA, medically separated, those kicked out for indiscipline, and those who choose to leave or are forcibly separated. Most LTs saying they're outta here are liars. I wish I knew the code for the  jaw falls off emoticon.
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mlmp08 posted:55% of LTs make it to major. That's counting those KIA, WIA, medically separated, those kicked out for indiscipline, and those who choose to leave or are forcibly separated.
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mlmp08 posted:55% of LTs make it to major. That's counting those KIA, WIA, medically separated, those kicked out for indiscipline, and those who choose to leave or are forcibly separated.  Hover your mouse over smilies to get the bbcode for them.
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All except one of my LT buds from my unit are now out of the Army. Some are now CPTs that will spend like 6 months as CPTs before ETSing. I have a easier time listing LTs getting out here than I do staying in. My BDE supposedly has the lowest junior officer retention rate in the Army which I think makes sense since the Seattle area is awesome. All of them that are out or getting out are staying here except for one. It would be easier to justify staying in if we lived in a lovely area like Texas or something.
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Mustang posted:They'll be like "hey get all this poo poo done now and you'll get a couple weeks of down time afterward" only they end up dumping some more bullshit on you to do instead. Just endlessly chasing the downtime carrot and never catching it I see you've had a real life introduction to the phrase, "competence is punished". There's a reason it exists.
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mlmp08 posted:55% of LTs make it to major. That's counting those KIA, WIA, medically separated, those kicked out for indiscipline, and those who choose to leave or are forcibly separated. Oh yah all those LTs dying out there 
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bird food bathtub posted:I see you've had a real life introduction to the phrase, "competence is punished". There's a reason it exists. This is 100% of the reason I stopped giving a gently caress and decided to slack off as much as possible under every opportunity.
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milk milk lemonade posted:Oh yah all those LTs dying out there (disclosure: not in my branch!) back when I entered serivce, 2LT, SPC, PFC, and 1LT were about the 4 most killed people in the army, per capita. Mustang posted:All except one of my LT buds from my unit are now out of the Army. Some are now CPTs that will spend like 6 months as CPTs before ETSing.  But then after I was like "gently caress, I'll do 2 more years maybe" I ran into all the guys who were "getting out in six months." I'm not telling you to stay in. I am saying that if you're serious, be fuckin' serious or you'll float to the top and stay in without even meaning to.
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Mustang posted:All except one of my LT buds from my unit are now out of the Army. Some are now CPTs that will spend like 6 months as CPTs before ETSing. SMDFTB got out of your sister brigade (if it's the one I'm thinking about) as a 1LT and life is loving great
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Diarrhea Elemental posted:It's like Vahakyla is the Ghost of Christmas Past, Mustang is the Present, and the rest of us are Future. To be fair the Army today is pretty different than it was when the wars were in full swing. He'll probably have a blast in Italy and do a couple of exercises in Eastern Europe and be done.
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:To be fair the Army today is pretty different than it was when the wars were in full swing. He'll probably have a blast in Italy and do a couple of exercises in Eastern Europe and be done. Hey, don't ruin us ruining this for him.
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So, I just had to spend a couple of days in Augusta. That place sucks. It's not as bad as St. Robert, Fayetteville, or Killeen, but it's still pretty awful.
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psydude posted:So, I just had to spend a couple of days in Augusta. That place sucks. It's not as bad as St. Robert, Fayetteville, or Killeen, but it's still pretty awful. I feel your pain. Try being stationed at FT Gordon. God that place sucks.
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do we have anyone here who is stationed in korea? hopefully camp casey. i need to know how much you hate life right now so that i can have a hearty chuckle. or if anyone knows anyone there, ask them how much they hate life and pass it on.
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TBeats posted:do we have anyone here who is stationed in korea? hopefully camp casey. I was just going through my list of buddies still in the army trying to find out if anyone is in Korea so I could do the same
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I actually wouldn't be surprised if they were on full lockdown including no personal internet/phone
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Right now, somewhere just south of the DMZ, there is a pissed off infantryman in his hole staring up at the sky, whispering "what the gently caress" as the countdown to stand-to begins.
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Hahahaha god drat I’m glad I never went to Korea. Should have stayed in Germany though instead of PCSing to JBLM.
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Mike-o posted:Hahahaha god drat I’m glad I never went to Korea. Should have stayed in Germany though instead of PCSing to JBLM. Would rather be at JBLM than basically anywhere else CONUS, except maybe Belvoir, Myer, Meade, or the Pentagon, but those don't count. Germany is the only place I've ever been where all of the people in the Army are happy, though. It was weird. e: I had to deal with a bunch of Army people this week. I was there in an official capacity for my job, so obviously I wasn't making GBS threads on Armydom, but it still surprises me how many people legitimately enjoy being in the Army. Like, it beats the hell out of working fast food, but if you're a CW4 working at Cyber Command with an OSCP why wouldn't you get out? psydude fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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ASAPI posted:I feel your pain. Try being stationed at FT Gordon. God that place sucks. I didn't mind the base or area when I was there for BOLC. Was nice compared to the Camp Shelby / Hattiesburg I normally get to experience.
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