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I had a Squad Leader who hated cadence, and hated any formation run larger than squad. We had also had a mission in Iraq where we had to sit outside a mosque every Friday for about a month to see if they were spreading anti-American rhetoric over the loud speaker. (BN originally sent us with a translator who refuse to translate any of it because they were Shia, like he was. We then had to record them to cassette and return the tapes to BN.) Seriously a stupid loving mission. So, we get back and are having a BN run. The BC gets up next to my company, and calls out my squad leader to call cadence. Going to the Mosque Where all the people pray Sit outside Listen to what they say He was immediately told to get back in formation and never called cadence on a formation run the rest of the time I was there. Another run, the BC called out a TL from my platoon, who literally got out beside the formation and called "Left" every third left. That was it. We had a big rear end white outlaw MC looking dude who I loved when he called cadence, because he sounded like an old slave spiritual singer while running. He was awesome at it, and made horrible things sound pretty, so he got away with 'Napalm sticks to kids'.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Going to the Mosque Thanks for this, I couldn't recall what the nice version of the mosque version was. Here's my cadence story of when poo poo got real: There'd already been some grumbling about a handful of NCOs who would use the term "ragheads" in cadences and how this was pretty hosed up. Notably, we had a couiple Muslim soldiers/NCOs/officers in the formation, some of whom wore more traditional garb when not on duty. Finally a black NCO went out there and sand about going to the market where all the negros shop. He caught some serious hell for it, but we never sang about ragheads again.
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Nov 4, 2017 15:34
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this one time in basic
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I don't know where else to put it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKi3NwLFkX4
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Nov 4, 2017 16:40
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The Marines heard you guys were bitching about the Army, so they stepped up their game in suck-factor: http://taskandpurpose.com/hundreds-...m_medium=social It must be wild to enlist in a force that, by design, refuses reenlistment to 85% of its forces.
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mlmp08 posted:The Marines heard you guys were bitching about the Army, so they stepped up their game in suck-factor: 300 out of 5,500 people getting the shits in basic? How the gently caress is that news? Getting sick and feeling like rear end is practically in the fine print when you sign.
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Nov 4, 2017 18:16
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Well, e.coli is a bit different than normal barracks sickness
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Nov 4, 2017 18:21
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Barracks crud is the sniffles at best, flu at the worst. You can kinda deal with it. Having the shits that bad is a show stopper.
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Nov 4, 2017 18:26
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When I went to basic everyone got dysentery and they were thankful
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bird food bathtub posted:300 out of 5,500 people getting the shits in basic? How the gently caress is that news? Getting sick and feeling like rear end is practically in the fine print when you sign. Please change your account name to SNCO.
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Nov 4, 2017 18:29
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Yeah when 10 of them had to be hospitalized off base that's not exactly a case of the green apple splatters. And then of course they still don't know what caused it, which is the worst thing.
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Not saying they should be thankful for getting sick or to embrace the suck. Just can't think of anyone who didn't get the shits in basic when they weren't stopped up like a cork from MREs. If it is especially serious in some way I don't understand I'll accept that.
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Nov 4, 2017 18:56
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Well, 6% of your unit having E. coli is kind of a big deal.
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They just have no heart
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I LOVE COCK SALAD posted:They just have no heart Because they pooped it out.
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If they were yelling “please don’t NJP me!” as they pooped themselves, they would be really close to making it into the marine thread op.
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I love DnC and cadence and poo poo but I know how much everyone hates it so I keep that poo poo to myself. Also very few people know the killing baby seals cadence, so it takes a minute to get called out of leading it.
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A IS FOR ARMY ARMY ARMY ARMY I IS FOR ARMY ARMY ARMY ARMY R IS FOR ARMY ARMY ARMY ARMY Only cadence I ever called during a run. gently caress that dumb poo poo.
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Wasabi the J posted:I love DnC and cadence and poo poo 
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if i had platinum that poo poo would be reported
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Rhyming words is fun to do I like rhyming, how about you? Orange ... (run in silence for next several miles)
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Loved* Sorry I grew up on old war movies and a cool Korean war Grandpa. I used to think it was really fun to see a parade and I was in marching band. Not so much fun now, and I don't like seeing it done bad having a bad time. E:Syringe
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First NTC box over. Its unimaginable. Ive seen attack ships on fire near the shoulder of Orion. Ive seen more Tanks broke down at aruba gate than i thought possible. Ive seen four m1 packs being pulled and worked on at the same time by one m88 crew. Packs cooking off while towing struck Tanks, flames shooting out of the bitch plate seams. Crazy UCMP cooks shoot anything and everything, never failing to open up on a OC driving by. our Vehicle slant was at best ~55 %, BATTALION level, and apparently ours was the best in brigade. And all this without leaving UCMP for ten days Because my tank was and is a sad wreck. US Army never fails to amaze.
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I hear Vahakyla had a good couple of weeks, though. edit: Also not to go full  but probably keep operational readiness ratings in general terms.
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Sounds like we're in great shape to invade North Korea!
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Oh and we jackknifed a m1a2 towing another by going down steep slope. BDE safety said we need breaker tank when towing. "no more towbars because neighbor BN stole ours during rail unload" was apparently irrelevant argument.
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Valtonen posted:Oh and we jackknifed a m1a2 towing another by going down steep slope. BDE safety said we need breaker tank when towing. "no more towbars because neighbor BN stole ours during rail unload" was apparently irrelevant argument. Not gonna lie, it sounds like BDE safety is correct here.
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mlmp08 posted:Not gonna lie, it sounds like BDE safety is correct here. Oh yes, by the TM you always have a break tank when towing one tank with another. In reality when your platoon has 2 tanks down and the 88 is already towing another 88 that broke down and you have 2 tow bars total.... Ive never seen anyone use one
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Are you another 19A? If so kind of weird how many of us are in GIP, definitely have to be the most numerous officer MOS
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Who me? No, 19K, tanked with Leo 2a4s for FDF '07-08 and started playing with m1a2s for this circus graduating february
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Your Battle Buddy posted:if i had platinum that poo poo would be reported I got you
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Spacetoaster, how's the teaching thing working out for you so far? Substitute teaching, then going to get your certification after you clear? It's an area I've started to look into, myself.
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Aranan posted:Spacetoaster, how's the teaching thing working out for you so far? Substitute teaching, then going to get your certification after you clear? It's an area I've started to look into, myself. I've been doing it off and on, as "real" work permits for a couple weeks now. It's really great so far. I wrote this earlier: spacetoaster posted:
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Are you looking at doing elementary? High school? Any subject preferences? I'm toying with the idea of doing high school math/science. I've always liked those subjects, the hours are pretty sweet, and it'd be kind of nice to do something that actually has a positive impact on people for once. edit: Ah-ha, you snuck some info in there. Gotchya.
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Aranan posted:Are you looking at doing elementary? High school? Any subject preferences? I'm toying with the idea of doing high school math/science. I've always liked those subjects, the hours are pretty sweet, and it'd be kind of nice to do something that actually has a positive impact on people for once. I've worked with high school kids and that's cool, but I feel like the coolest job is the little kids. I like working with 6 year olds because I've been in the Army 21 years and it's nice to have an intelligent conversation for once.
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spacetoaster posted:I like working with 6 year olds because I've been in the Army 21 years and it's nice to have an intelligent conversation for once. 
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spacetoaster posted:I like working with 6 year olds because I've been in the Army 21 years and it's nice to have an intelligent conversation for once. Too long for a thread title?
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spacetoaster posted:I've worked with high school kids and that's cool, but I feel like the coolest job is the little kids. Well, you joke but paradigm shift is loving hilarious when kids just ask questions like “Why do we do this?” Or “why are you naked at 4 AM holding a long sword and a ketchup bottle?” Plus they flat out so hilarious things. My 3 1/2 y/o son called my wife a “loving bitch” the other day. I never use that word cause my wife hates it. He wasn’t even mad, he said “Thanks you loving bitch!” When she changed his diaper. This boy also went trick or treating for the first time. I got to go and he loved it. It was adorable watching him run around trick or treating. We get home and take his candy away, mainly to check for homemade stuff (not for drugs because who the gently caress gives drugs away, but Makowski made me scared) and my wife said that Santa took them away and that if he was good, Santa would bring candy in the morning. This dude runs over to the fire place and screams into it “Santa! You cheated me!” What the gently caress? How’d you learn that phrase dude? He’s awesome.
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Vengarr posted:Too long for a thread title? Unfortunately.
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I LOVE COCK SALAD posted:I got you Goddamn it. Reports are the loving worst and I don’t like having to respond to them in the mod forum. Just know I hate the reporter way more than the reportee 99.9% of the time.
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