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Smiling Jack posted:Why the gently caress would you mail your passport If you don't live near a consulate, or the visa issuing authority is inside the country you want to go to, you need to mail the passport to them to have the visa inserted. This is pretty standard, I had to leave my passport at the Chinese consulate for a few days when I got my visa.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:If you don't live near a consulate, or the visa issuing authority is inside the country you want to go to, you need to mail the passport to them to have the visa inserted. This is pretty standard, I had to leave my passport at the Chinese consulate for a few days when I got my visa. I had to overnight mine to a visa processing service in DC for this. FedEx is pretty reliable, the processing service the company wanted me to use was poo poo.
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Smiling Jack posted:Why the gently caress would you mail your passport Yeah, I mean unless you had another one.
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Aug 25, 2017 16:29
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jfc that sounds dumb
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It seemed like a bad idea from the second I read it in the reporting instructions but again it was written in larger font and red ink instead of black to mail it. I even emailed my sponser and he said he did it no problem. Turns out that was a lie. When he found out mine was missing he said that yeah it was dumb to have that in the reporting instructions and that he remembers telling me he mailed his but misrembered doing that and he had actually hand carried it. I think they took it out of the reporting instructions after losing 100% of the passports sent to them for at least some period of time. Edit: I also didn't mail it myself the readiness office did and I thought they would use some military mail system to do it instead of just completely loving up. Best part was when they tried to say in a group email my sponsor made this requirement up and that it wasn't in the reporting instructions and then I just replied all with the reporting instructions and I got left off any further group emails from the readiness office. Cenen fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Aug 25, 2017 |
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I do not miss the behavior of constant lying, covering up, and making up rules with zero consequences that the military breeds seemingly on purpose.
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not caring here posted:I do not miss the behavior of constant lying, covering up, and making up rules with zero consequences that the military breeds seemingly on purpose. This here is the root of a lot of my mental ptsd. I had my last leader literally say " I hate getting yelled at, I'd do anything to not get in trouble, even sell you all out" I also had a habitual liar who would make up lies on the spot and believe them. The decent people who performed well by actions always got spit on and chewed up. Because of something is hosed up and you say something, you're a part of the problem. Edit: clarification he said that in a safety brief before a 4 day weekend.
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Re: good people getting hosed. I've told this before probably: Guys wife was like eight months pregnant and had been having complications. We were going to the field. No phones allowed. I was his team leader. He asked me if he could bring his phone to check on his wife. I said no, but I would be bringing mine and he could use it anytime. That way I get busted for having a phone. I had this idea that as a TL, it was part of your job to shield your dudes from trouble, even if they were doing something worth getting in trouble over. Handle things at the lowest level possible. End of the night he asks me if he can call. I give him my phone and tell him to go to the woodline like he is pissing and do his thing. He comes back 10 minutes later and tells me his wife is bleeding from the crotch and needs to go to the ER. We go to the PSG. I tell the PSG that the dude needs to get to his wife and baby. First thing he says to me: "why do you have your phone?" Zero regard for the emergency at hand. Long story short, I got a counseling statement, dude went home and took his wife to the ER but had to be back with the first truck the next morning at 5am. We also had a huge baby boom after deployment. Dudes getting their wives knocked up left and right, including two of my soldiers. When it came near the due date as well as after, I would cut them loose every day and whatever work that needed to be done that they would usually do (cleaning, for example) I would do it, that way they could spend time with their families. I always believed that since I can't pay my dudes more money, I can pay them in time. Got a counseling statement for that and they moved the two guys with kids to another squad and stuck me with barracks rats.
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:good people getting hosed. Literally what my first 1sg said to me as I got sent out to the field for some bullshit support detail. Again.
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As a team leader I would gently caress your life up if you hosed up, but I made a conscious effort to make sure my dudes had what they needed to be mentally healthy and taken care of. Which is not how you team leader 
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There's effectively no difference between butterbars and SNCOs in terms of incredibly retarded orders you should ignore or get around somehow
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I always protected my soldiers until I had someone literally throw me under the bus as I was standing at parade rest taking responsibility for the whole thing, and then he comes in with "oh yeah, I DID..." and everyone just stares at him. Like it stopped being about me for a second and they were like "are you goddamn stupid? He is letting you walk and you're making GBS threads on him right now, don't forget YOU are the one who was the one who was originally at fault. I was acting on orders. My orders were superseded. Edit: I chewed him out in front of my bosses because they both knew that poo poo was some bullshit and he was gonna get it.
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Larry Parrish posted:There's effectively no difference between butterbars and SNCOs in terms of incredibly retarded orders you should ignore or get around somehow SNCOs are worse; they should know better. An O-1 fresh out of ROTC or OTS or 4 years of Academy indoctrination only knows "leadership" from lectures and playing pretend with his peers. I have a lot less tolerance for a retarded E-7 than I do for a young, dumb E-3 or O-1 (i.e., all E-3s and O-1s). Btw, the real idiots are any active duty who don't get their free annual National Parks pass. It might be the best benefit I've ever gotten. Also, Canada is giving out free passes to their parks for their 150th anniversary; there's still a window of decent weather to make use of that to go see Banff or Jasper.
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Soulex posted:I always protected my soldiers until I had someone literally throw me under the bus as I was standing at parade rest taking responsibility for the whole thing, did you get medsepped after the bus ran you over?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:did you get medsepped after the bus ran you over? gently caress bad goddamn use of literally. I am sorry.
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Derek Dominoe posted:SNCOs are worse; they should know better. An O-1 fresh out of ROTC or OTS or 4 years of Academy indoctrination only knows "leadership" from lectures and playing pretend with his peers. lol who is active duty and has time to travel to national parks?
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Hey, you know that if you're on active duty you can get a free unlimited pass to the motor pool??
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 Yeah I remember that one time on AD where I could take a whole week off.
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Godholio posted:
How?
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Derek Dominoe posted:Btw, the real idiots are any active duty who don't get their free annual National Parks pass. It might be the best benefit I've ever gotten. Also, Canada is giving out free passes to their parks for their 150th anniversary; there's still a window of decent weather to make use of that to go see Banff or Jasper. Anyone who's at JBLM PM me about getting a National Parks pass, particularly if you've got soldiers who need them. Stultus Maximus posted:lol who is active duty and has time to travel to national parks? It covers any federal recreational land, so you can go boating at Army Corps lakes or walk around wildlife refuges or get into Forest Service fee areas. Everyone is within an hour or two's drive of somewhere they can use it.
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One of the few not idiotic things I did was get this card for free. It expired last year but it got me into Zion and the Grand Canyon for free. Went to more state parks and stuff this year.
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Cenen posted:One of the few not idiotic things I did was get this card for free. We hit as many as we could during our PCS and are within driving distance of several at our current base. Zion alone was worth it. Godholio posted:
Even the pit of despair known as Tinker has several within a few hours. 
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:gently caress VileRat and I talked about who was going to take which leg of the Benghazi TDY. He joked he was going to get the both of us killed. E: For clarity TCD fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Aug 26, 2017 |
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TCD posted:VileRat and I talked about the Benghazi TDY. I miss VileRat 
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Derek Dominoe posted:
My kid lived two states away. Like I was going to vacation locally, even if the opportunity ever arose.
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Godholio posted:My kid lived two states away. Like I was going to vacation locally, even if the opportunity ever arose. Godholio posted:
Embrace your AF-free happy place, amigo. Everyone who isn't Godholio go enjoy nature's beauty for free. For Godholio:  Go climb Angel's Landing in Zion. Long hike, but worth it unless you hate heights.
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Oh yeah, I see my kid every few weeks. He spent a week here earlier this month. Life is way the gently caress better.
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Derek Dominoe posted:Embrace your AF-free happy place, amigo. Goddamn the Mormons named that place appropriately, I need to take a road trip there someday.
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As Nero Danced posted:Goddamn the Mormons named that place appropriately, I need to take a road trip there someday. Yeah I've been to quite a few national parks and Zion is probably the prettiest one that I've seen.
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I've only been to Zion once for a day trip in the early spring but it was nice. Snow wasn't ice packed and hardly anyone was in the park. I'd argue that Yosemite or Desolation wilderness is cooler though. Mostly because I'm from near those places
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Yosemite seems like a really cool place. My real goal is to camp in the redwood forest. Right next to a big fucker. I don't want t climb it or do something stupid. I just want to be surrounded by a massive natural force and be in awe. That being said, if anyone has not seen the Grand Canyon in person, you are doing yourself a disservice. A massive disservice
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Redwoods are overrated because trust me the cedar duff and the bark fibers getting into your everything gets old fast
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Larry Parrish posted:Redwoods are overrated because trust me the cedar duff and the bark fibers getting into your everything gets old fast It's a little true. But go and see them and Yosemite. It's truly marvelous to see nature that perfect.
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If you don't rub it all over your junk and taint I don't think this will be an issue.
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Joshua Tree National Park is really loving awesome.
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Wildlife safari at the San Diego zoo is the best
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milk milk lemonade posted:Wildlife safari at the San Diego zoo is the best Been meaning to go. Been moving and it's been super loving rough because we really want to go and have he annual pass but just don't have time. And yeah, just wanna go once to see it. Not live there.
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