|
Viva Miriya posted:TELL ME HOW YOU KNOW! 
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 03:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 17:33 |
|
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 04:18
|
|
|
So how bad does it suck to mob out of Ft Bliss? I've heard rumors it's worse than NTC... I didn't think anything could suck that bad.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 04:47
|
|
|
Mr_Ruckus posted:So how bad does it suck to mob out of Ft Bliss? I've heard rumors it's worse than NTC... I didn't think anything could suck that bad. I didn't think it was that bad.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 04:58
|
|
|
Soulex posted:I did Anaconda and they don’t call it mortaritaville for nothin. yeah poo poo was like 5 times a day there for the 2 weeks i stayed there
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 05:37
|
|
|
I used to visit Balad pretty regularly my third tour. I always laughed at people's reactions to the mortar fire. Every time I visited, we'd get H&I fire, but it never did anything but annoy. My buddy was flying out of there for R&R and his flight was delayed for over a week- and they required him to be in full PPE for like 5 days everytime he was outdoors.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 07:43
|
|
|
A lot of the time it was like that, but there’s also times where it wasn’t. That usually meant a week of full PPE and all that. I had a few close calls but it was never a constant threat. It was scary if it was close though.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 08:22
|
|
|
Mr_Ruckus posted:So how bad does it suck to mob out of Ft Bliss? I've heard rumors it's worse than NTC... I didn't think anything could suck that bad. Are you mobbing as a unit or through CRC as an individual? CRC owned and was easy/painless to mob/demob through.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 15:48
|
|
|
Mr_Ruckus posted:So how bad does it suck to mob out of Ft Bliss? I've heard rumors it's worse than NTC... I didn't think anything could suck that bad. I mob'd out of Ft. Bliss back in 2006, but from what I remember it wasn't bad at all. All in all, I have no good relevant information for you.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 17:44
|
|
|
bulletsponge13 posted:I used to visit Balad pretty regularly my third tour. I always laughed at people's reactions to the mortar fire. Every time I visited, we'd get H&I fire, but it never did anything but annoy. There were a bunch of casualties from IDF at Ghazni. I had three soldiers wounded, one contractor killed, and another seriously hosed up by it. Another poor bastard on the night shift at the TOC was sleeping when a recoilless round hit his room and gave him a TBI so severe he had to be MEDEVAC'd to Germany. The ANA compound took a couple of hits too and had a few people wounded as well, plus a bunch of poo poo on the base got hosed up, including a couple of vehicles. Ironically enough, one round took off the side of the CRAM tower but didn't damage the actual system. They also shot some WP rounds at us, although those didn't do much other than confuse everyone waiting for the detonation.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 18:58
|
|
|
psydude posted:There were a bunch of casualties from IDF at Ghazni. I had three soldiers wounded, one contractor killed, and another seriously hosed up by it. Another poor bastard on the night shift at the TOC was sleeping when a recoilless round hit his room and gave him a TBI so severe he had to be MEDEVAC'd to Germany. The ANA compound took a couple of hits too and had a few people wounded as well, plus a bunch of poo poo on the base got hosed up, including a couple of vehicles. Ironically enough, one round took off the side of the CRAM tower but didn't damage the actual system. Yeah, I'm not sure what's funny about IDF but there were a handful of people killed on my fob during my last deployment.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 19:25
|
|
|
At KAF all the IDF ever did was be close enough to trip the alarms, but almost never land anywhere threatening (one did land in the poo-pond one day  ). At my fob before that, though...sweet zombie jesus. Our brigade TOC got bracketed by some lucky rear end in a top hat that was 2-3 rounds away from a perfect bullseye (if he could've kept up the pattern and walked it in), and some other lucky bastard eyeballed a recoiless rifle shot into landing right next to my buddy's office. 2 other shots landed on-base too, one annihilated one of the gators used to cart around construction supplies and the other was only notable for the divot it left in the road.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 19:31
|
|
|
spacetoaster posted:Yeah, I'm not sure what's funny about IDF but there were a handful of people killed on my fob during my last deployment. Because some people did stuff like kicking down doors or walking the same route forever and get used to reacting to contact. “Normal for me is normal for everyone! Quit being pussies!”
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 19:33
|
|
|
Icon Of Sin posted:one annihilated one of the gators You gowd damned SONS OF BITCHES!!!
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 19:50
|
|
|
ITT we talk about how hardcore being on the FOB is.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 20:50
|
|
|
Nostalgia4Murder posted:ITT we talk about how hardcore being on the FOB is. Pretty sure rockets and mortars are MOS agnostic.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:12
|
|
|
Nostalgia4Murder posted:ITT we talk about how hardcore being on the FOB is. Funnily enough, there was a female contractor on my last deployment who wrote this article for her old university’s paper about how tough life on the FOB was. She listed a bunch of OPSEC reasons why it was difficult and ended up getting fired. It was my easiest deployment and the only time it had any remote danger was when we were hit by an earthquake.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:21
|
|
|
stand on top of the mortar shelter and watch them walk the rounds in, don't be a bitch
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:23
|
|
|
I always figured the transportation guys were the most badass. I remember them running convoys non stop all over Iraq and rolling into the fob with bulletholes in everything. Just to unload, and head back out again.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:29
|
|
|
All of my peers who went transpo got out ASAP and generally saw more contact than the guys who went infantry. One of them lost a lot of guys and now has a job where he can sit or hike/patrol very alone in the middle of nowhere for days on end.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:31
|
|
|
A woman I dated when I was a freshman in HS found me on Facebook a few years ago and added me. In looking at her profile, I found out she joined the Army fresh out of HS and deployed to Baghdad from late 2003-early 2004 as a postal operations specialist. This apparently involved daily runs on Route Irish. Apparently she got PTSD to hell and back and hosed up her life royally for a number of years, but it seems like she’s been doing much better for the last eight years or so.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:39
|
|
|
Maybe I'm broken, but I spent my first tour in camps that would later be called COPs. We got mortared and the camp was less than 500m square, so being on a base the size of Balad and having dude's around me freak the gently caress out that two 60mm dropping over a kilometer away was funny.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 21:46
|
|
|
poo poo, during the invasion we ripped on a guy for panicking when the worlds worst sniper missed him on a daily basis and a section chief yelled at him to "go dig a hole motherfucker". It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen at that point.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 22:03
|
|
|
bulletsponge13 posted:Maybe I'm broken, but I spent my first tour in camps that would later be called COPs. We got mortared and the camp was less than 500m square, so being on a base the size of Balad and having dude's around me freak the gently caress out that two 60mm dropping over a kilometer away was funny. It wasn’t like that for most of everyone, just the newer guys. I think after a few weeks of hearing the god voice I just kinda went ‘meh,’ until one got close. That one made me wise enough to get close to cover but not panic unless I heard it hit near me. Closest one didn’t even have a god voice, just smashed near the DFAC and confused the gently caress out of me. poo poo I thought my first CRAM test was a skirmish breaking out. loving 2 in the morning. 3-4 people like me out there in IBA and rifle until some dude tells us to go back to bed on his way back from the portashitters. I understand though. I was constantly yelling and screaming about being forced to go on 5k bullshit runs because I didn’t understand how you could agree to mass a large amount of people in one area with a lot of noise and fanfare. In a conflict area known for getting mortared. But heaven forbid you go to the PX without your rifle. Balad was garrison in a war zone. It was bullshit for all types of reasons.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 22:07
|
|
|
bulletsponge13 posted:Maybe I'm broken, but I spent my first tour in camps that would later be called COPs. We got mortared and the camp was less than 500m square, so being on a base the size of Balad and having dude's around me freak the gently caress out that two 60mm dropping over a kilometer away was funny. Yeah, I'm not making GBS threads on you for finding it funny. I was on my second tour when we got mortared. I'm an old, but it was everyone else in the motorpool's first tour. I jumped in the nearest armor and shut the hatch, everyone else laid down in the gravel while poo poo dropped all around us. I thought that was kind of funny (nobody go hurt that day).
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 22:20
|
|
|
spacetoaster posted:I thought that was kind of funny (nobody go hurt that day). That was the key for us. If nobody got hurt, we could immediately get to mocking them for having lovely aim and wasting a rocket. I never heard of anyone dying in/before the time I started working at Role 3 on KAF (Jan-Apr 2012), so there was plenty of mockery to go around.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 22:28
|
|
|
getting hit by a mortar builds character it worked for me
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 22:32
|
|
|
My favorite IDF story involves laundry. The assistant S4 assigned to retrograde the FOB had just finished inventorying 50 or so washers and dryers that were housed in an empty building. He almost had them off the property book when a rocket punched through the roof of the building and destroyed almost everything inside. In a moment of peak army, they made him go back through and figure out which ones were a complete loss and which ones still worked. psydude fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Feb 26, 2018 |
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 23:18
|
|
|
psydude posted:My favorite IDF story involves laundry. The assistant S4 assigned to retrograde the FOB had just finished inventorying 50 or so washers and dryers that were housed in an empty building. He almost had them off the property book when a rocket punched through the roof of the building and destroyed everything inside. War is hell
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 23:20
|
|
|
Mustang posted:War is hell I look forward to stories from when you become the S4 
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2018 23:23
|
|
|
I enjoyed when a round hit the morgue. One soldier remained dead.
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 00:09
|
|
Icon Of Sin posted:At KAF all the IDF ever did was be close enough to trip the alarms, but almost never land anywhere threatening (one did land in the poo-pond one day our alpha company had to get their shitters replaced because of IDF. that much i know 100% is true. rumor has it someone was in one of the shitters and got poo poo all over himself.
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 00:13
|
|
|
psydude posted:I basically have nothing to do with the Army, let alone the federal government, now aside from paying taxes and receiving VA benefits and every time I think back on how ridiculous the Army is it boggles my mind. THis. And the average person thinks its a well oiled machine. Its literally the worst ran shitshow in the world. I miss my poo poo show though out here, a lot 
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 01:09
|
|
|
On my tour through KAF (about Mar 2011 through Jan 2012) there was allegedly a woman who was pasted by a rocket in one of the transient tent areas. Still didn't make it less threatening to know it was like lighting striking you. The only time I ever got scared was when one rocked the windows of Liberty DFAC (which was the closest and shittiest DFAC).
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 01:25
|
|
|
you know what sucks? an unexpected howitzer going off on the same small fob as you.
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 01:27
|
|
|
boop the snoot posted:you know what sucks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Zj2wdX0tc
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 01:42
|
|
|
Reminds me of a particularly special turd of an LTC from 2ID in Korea. His idiot rear end decided to get his driver to pull up right next to tanks on the firing line. Tank closest to him fired, and immediately him and his driver stumble out of the HMMWV and stagger off to safety. HMMWV had all but one window busted, and I don't know if the doors closest were dented before, but they sure were afterwards. I can only imagine what the gently caress was going on inside that blackhawk.
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 01:52
|
|
|
If you fly into artillery you're gonna have a bad time 
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 01:54
|
|
|
Oh my God indeed
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 03:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 17:33 |
|
|
DoktorLoken posted:Are you mobbing as a unit or through CRC as an individual? CRC owned and was easy/painless to mob/demob through. As a unit. Apparently we're spending the whole time out in the field from what I've heard.
|
|
#
?
Feb 27, 2018 03:23
|
|