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Mustang posted:Just got my phone back, my Platoon and company did really good but BN and BDE were pretty bad. did any of your companies lose an entire humvee? because that's my barometer for "pretty bad"
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Didn't see a PLR related to your rotation. Success!
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Vahakyla posted:Most of my BCT acquintances think BCT was the highlift of their life and Drill Sergeants were "father figures". Most of us hit our one year mark, so they got their nostalgia goggles on Facebook And I hate them. Some people had such hosed up upbringings that drills are like father figures. Let's be grateful if we came up better than that, and also lament what that signifies for how hosed up our nation is
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A commander got fired and his 1LT XO ran his company for the rest of the rotation
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Mustang posted:Just got my phone back, my Platoon and company did really good but BN and BDE were pretty bad. Aka the same aar comment everyone has had for the last 37 years
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Mustang posted:A commander got fired and his 1LT XO ran his company for the rest of the rotation 
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Mustang posted:A commander got fired and his 1LT XO ran his company for the rest of the rotation I want to know this story (so I don't get fired)
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Ashmole posted:Aka the same aar comment everyone has had for the last 37 years Oh man this is so good.
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Mustang posted:A commander got fired and his 1LT XO ran his company for the rest of the rotation Yeah gonna need the the deetz on this one Ashmole posted:Aka the same aar comment everyone has had for the last 37 years Also this. Positives: "We dun good"
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I'd rather be that captain than the guy who had a Stryker fall on top of him. Or the guy who got sandwiched between a LMTV and HMMT trailer.
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Pretty sure that commander and the guy that had a Stryker fall on him were in the same company, I watched the medevac for that one, unless someone else got crushed too
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Sep 23, 2017 02:39
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It's this unit, and it's NTC, so anything is possible!
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My last Ntc rotation, during hour 7 of a 12 hour toc jump, after having half the convoy die in a minefield that we already reconned, in 105 degree weather, and breaking the TMSS I said to myself "maybe we kinda suck at this"
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Pretty bad is when you fail JRTC so hard your brigade's Afghanistan rotation gets canceled and given to mine.
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A Bad Poster posted:I'd rather be that captain than the guy who had a Stryker fall on top of him. Or the guy who got sandwiched between a LMTV and HMMT trailer. Had this happen in Afghanistan. Fortunately, the idiot who got hurt didn't neglect leg day and his femur was spared solely by the grace of his leg muscles. He had massive clotting and had to be MEDEVACed to Germany.
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Ashmole posted:My last Ntc rotation, during hour 7 of a 12 hour toc jump, after having half the convoy die in a minefield that we already reconned, in 105 degree weather, and breaking the TMSS I said to myself "maybe we kinda suck at this" The entire Army kinda sucks at everything. But, somehow, every other military on Earth sucks so much more, so it all works out.
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Pesticide20 posted:Pretty bad is when you fail JRTC so hard your brigade's Afghanistan rotation gets canceled and given to mine. Are you in 2/4?
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psydude posted:Had this happen in Afghanistan. Fortunately, the idiot who got hurt didn't neglect leg day and his femur was spared solely by the grace of his leg muscles. He had massive clotting and had to be MEDEVACed to Germany. Yeah, this dude doesn't have a pelvis anymore.
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Yep, that is the same company as the fired CO, talking to his PSG it's apparently not as bad as people thought it was
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Loden Taylor posted:The entire Army kinda sucks at everything. You meant to say "But somehow no other Army gets anywhere close as much money" right?
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Ashmole posted:Are you in 2/4? No. When I was in 1st Brigade at the 82nd, 2nd Brigade failed JRTC really badly. A bunch of command teams got fired or broken up and NCOs were sent throughout the division because it was such a mess. Then the deployment they were slotted for got assigned to 1st Brigade and I got to see FOB Shank a second time before playing mall cop at Gamberi. I also managed to gently caress up my shoulder, get sent home early, get surgery, and then get a med board so small miracles I guess.
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Lol that's right. You guys ended up going there twice in what, like 2 years?
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is JRTC not a thing anymore? i only ever see Mustang and anyone else talking about going to NTC.
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psydude posted:Lol that's right. You guys ended up going there twice in what, like 2 years? Yeah, although I got lucky with my rotations because I was there in 2012 with the 173d and again in 2014 with the 82nd
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It's still a thing. JRTC is mainly for IBCT where as NTC is better suited for HBCT and SBCT. I did a JRTC UW rotation with 3rd SFG right before I went to Afghanistan last year. It still sucks and the only highlight was watching people slip and fall into the vast amounts of wild horse poo poo everywhere during the couple days in rained.
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The best part of JRTC is committing fratricide on FOB Tillman
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JRTC was the worst army experience I had. This opinion changes based on my mood though.
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I'm getting ready for my second Ntc rotation in less than 6 months. I just got back from PDSS/LTP (I also went to the field for like 4 days immediately after lmao) and all of the civilians were like "lol you were just here". They kept stretching how long we were gone "4 months ago" "5 months ago" and I was like bitch, it's only been 40 days since I left gently caress you. Our OCs were also like "uh, well you guys kind of know the deal so do you have any questions?'
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oh yeah i just remembered it's the end of the FY ahahahahah
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gently caress being UMO, get here first and leave last
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Mustang posted:gently caress being UMO, get here first and leave last Hahahahaha, UMO suuuucks. I did all of the UMO training and air load planning courses and was 100% certified, but then on the tactical systems, I was primary crew and passed evals first, so about 60 days before everything shipped overseas and the BN deployed, the new LT got hit with UMO duty instead. I dodged a helluva bullet. Our commander basically made anyone who couldn't certify in a timely manner the "everything else" LT running hazmat, UMO, all ranges, etc.
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I just inherited all the additional duties of my predecessor. I'm only just barely certified for UMO, from the 2 day JBLM course so I'm not even certified for UMO outside of JBLM units.
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Mustang posted:I just inherited all the additional duties of my predecessor. I'm only just barely certified for UMO, from the 2 day JBLM course so I'm not even certified for UMO outside of JBLM units. When I was a new LT, my commander just sent me to virtually every single additional duty slot for the 2 months I had before I took over a platoon. Then I turned out to be the guy good at shooting missiles at missiles, became the primary unit trainer, and the outgoing commander didn't really bother to swap out the additional duties. New incoming commander was like "wtf, why is my best tactician and battery trainer assigned the majority of additional duties?" and passed them out to everyone else save one or two that made logical sense (comsec OIC, wooo...), certifications be damned. It actually worked out really well for the unit, and of course also for me personally.
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Mustang posted:gently caress being UMO, get here first and leave last Try being S4. I was first in and last out for torch and trail. I was there for 43 loving days
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Ashmole posted:Try being S4. I was first in and last out for torch and trail. I was there for 43 loving days I knew an S4 1LT non-S4 by MOS guy who was both. As we were flying strat air out for deployment, I found him outside with no cover, chainsmoking and talking at a wall.
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Loden Taylor posted:The entire Army kinda sucks at everything. Even on maintenance for the really expensive things. Just read this the other day: http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/2017/09/21/fort-campbell-army-apache-guardian-helicopter-crash/637941001/ This is why I'm neurotic during preflight. The terrifying bit is that the main rotor separated from the aircraft. Those guys were literally helpless to do anything.
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mlmp08 posted:I knew an S4 1LT non-S4 by MOS guy who was both. As we were flying strat air out for deployment, I found him outside with no cover, chainsmoking and talking at a wall. I essentially had to do both and I'm an armor guy. They were pretty much just like "you got all the deployment and rsoi stuff. Welp see ya later"
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NTC doesn't make sense for SBCTs because you can't fight strykers like bradleys and Abrams, which is how the OC teams want you to fight. An SBCT isn't an IBCT but I think it has more in common with them than they do ABCTs. JRTC seems like it would be better suited for strykers than NTC.
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Mustang, if you say so, I'll use whatever ounces of influence I have (none) to send Stryker crews to the swamps of Louisiana. Also you've just unwittingly described why the army is desperately looking at ways to up-gun Strykers.
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