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Casimir Radon posted:Saw a guy in the DFAC wearing ranger panties. Sleeve tattoos on both his legs, one of Freddy Krueger, the other of Leatherface. I think he was SF of some sort so there's dorks everywhere. Only sf wears ranger panties as outerwear in public
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I want to believe that means Power Ranger panties.
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Fat Twitter Man posted:Only sf wears ranger panties as outerwear in public I guess I'm SF now :bigtran:
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:I guess I'm SF now :bigtran: UwU
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LostCosmonaut posted:I need some advice (not for me, but for a friend on another forum); I started reading this thread at work from page 1 like a month ago and lol here I am already in the idiot thread about a year ahead of schedule, lol (also lol at helichoppers being less maintenance intensive) Finishing up on my A&P from a part 147 school in about a month, going to go to another school with a helicopter maintenance specialization course for my bachelor's, then probably gonna do a double idiot combo and join the army, and finish it off with a triple idiot combo and cry in here about how much the army sucks. Shooting for pilot instead of maintainer now, so maybe that doesn't suck but more likely I'm a quadruple idiot Just try to stop me please A general question as long as I'm in this thread, I've heard stuff from vets I've known in person about recruiters being able to a) lie b) not lie c) ignore your contract even if it's signed or whatever d) etc e) all of the above, I'm sure b) isn't true but I really want c) to not be true, do you have to sign your name in blood or something? Also please tell me if I'm being a naive idiot about absolutely everything
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:I started reading this thread at work from page 1 like a month ago and lol here I am already in the idiot thread about a year ahead of schedule, lol (also lol at helichoppers being less maintenance intensive) All I know about recruitment I learned from The Forever War, but my guess is that even if you signed up for MOS 1, once you put on the uniform, they can just order you to switch over to MOS 2, so it means absolutely jack poo poo.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:All I know about recruitment I learned from The Forever War, but my guess is that even if you signed up for MOS 1, once you put on the uniform, they can just order you to switch over to MOS 2, so it means absolutely jack poo poo. I've read through a decent amount of this thread so I should know better, but I still reserve some hope that worst case someone sees A&P, most of the way to student pilot, and a bachelor's in diddling helicopters, and decides the best benefit to the military is to at least have me as maintainer if not pilot. But then again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej1nfv3z1iE
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Recruiters don't have poo poo to do with your contract other than getting you to and from MEPs where those guidance counselors will do your contract, which won't be messed with by them unless you gently caress up or it becomes invalidated for some reason (security clearance poo poo or you hurt yourself/get fat waiting to ship) and you'd have to sign a new contract. if anyone fucks with it, it's the big army, it's not recruiter/meps jobs to know when the Army would say, decide to reorganize the entire organizational structure and now we have too many tankers. generally then they won't force to to pick that new job, its just that you can't stay in your old job anymore if you decide to reenlist edit: as far as recruiters lying, like literally everything else, it depends on the individual edit2: in my office I don't recall hearing any blatant lies or anything like that. Really the thing is a lot of people hear what they want to hear, and they are probably dumb with limited understanding of stuff because guess what, only morons enlist mods changed my name fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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mods change my name posted:only morons enlist mods change thread title tia
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I don’t recall any recruiter down right lying but there was certainly some omissions of data and “I’m sorry I don’t think I heard you correctly”. With other kids though. I was a goddamn saint.
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My recruiter paid off a ticket I got so I could enlist.
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So what I'm hearing is that this is a Cinderella deal and I need to get a ticket and look for the recruiter that will pay it for me? I'll offer some content about military dudes idioting in the civilian world if people want. Kind of generic probably but content I guess E: Also my uncle getting hosed by the army at every turn EvenWorseOpinions fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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I got two great uncles who enlisted at the same time for Korea. One retired a E8 and the other finished his contract getting promoted to E4 three times! Guess which one is the alcoholic! (Both!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osCPYPywnU
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It's a machine gun turret. Nothing terribly fancy unless it was one of the CROWS systems.
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Wasabi the J posted:It's a machine gun turret. Nothing terribly fancy unless it was one of the CROWS systems. I'm like 99% sure that's exactly what it was.
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Yeah that's a CROWS turret with the cover on.
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We had a guy who left the RWS (complete with .50 cal) in the upright position after a stryker gunnery, and he he did something similar (if not a bit more dramatic). He drove into the little building where range control installed/uninstalled whatever it was they put in the strykers during a gunnery, and the barrel caught on something and peeled the entire RWS off of the vehicle. This was the same guy that made E5 like 3 times, and E6 twice (I think).
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McNally posted:I'm like 99% sure that's exactly what it was. Yeah whoops. Is the CROWS really ~secret~?
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Wasabi the J posted:Yeah whoops. Is the CROWS really ~secret~? I don't think so.
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When they were installing crows on tanks they we're talking about how you need a secret clearance to operate it, but everyone's like "you fuckin' dummy this combat arms like 3 people have a clearance in the whole company and they are probably under investigation". As it turns out even if it was true no one gives a poo poo.
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Dude probably thought it was secret because it had a cover on it. Nothing about the crows is secret.
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hey whaddya know poo poo rusts and we like to throw a tarp on it as the one smart thing we do today
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CROWS are hardly secret? They're in use by half of NATO, the Protectors are made by Kongsberg, a Norwegian company. They just closed a $ ~1.5bn deal with Saudi Arabia, heh.
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Icon Of Sin posted:We had a guy who left the RWS (complete with .50 cal) in the upright position after a stryker gunnery, and he he did something similar (if not a bit more dramatic). He drove into the little building where range control installed/uninstalled whatever it was they put in the strykers during a gunnery, and the barrel caught on something and peeled the entire RWS off of the vehicle. This was the same guy that made E5 like 3 times, and E6 twice (I think). Those things can be surprisingly durable at times though. Saved the life of one of my dudes when his stryker rolled off an embankment. Stryker rolled completely upside down, propped up by the RWS. He was hanging outside the VC hatch and would have been crushed without it. Though if you fart in the general direction of an RWS it will probably cause a few faults. Makes me wonder how the things do in combat and get shot at.
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lmbo at recruiters don’t lie, I literally saw a recruiter forge a mother’s signature on a 17-year old poolee’s paperwork back in 07 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I said it varies, lol, I saw some shady poo poo. Usmc recruiter next to us was forging high school diplomas lol.
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Yeah actually I was probably just being defensive, gently caress recruiters
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Every recruiter lies. “Have you ever smoke marijuana?”
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"can you give me two more weeks to pass the test to say no?" "Here do this CVS one and see if you'll pass at MEPS."
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*Narrator Voice* It did not.
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Going back to the book suggestions, you can always go down the cognitive psych/behavioral economics rabbit hole for managerial decision making. Dan Ariely's Predictibly Irrational is a good start. Talks about all the unique ways our brains are lovely at examining reality.
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The Machine gun being secret or not is not the point of that video
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My idiot nephew got permanent DQed by the army because they found out he’s diabetic at meps. He’s a skinny twiggy fucker so this caught all of us by surprise. It really sucks for him because his escape valve from the rural shithole he lives in just vaporized but at least he’s not going combat arms!
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Mr. Nice! posted:My idiot nephew got permanent DQed by the army because they found out he’s diabetic at meps. He’s a skinny twiggy fucker so this caught all of us by surprise. It really sucks for him because his escape valve from the rural shithole he lives in just vaporized but at least he’s not going combat arms!
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Casimir Radon posted:Wandering around the desert getting shot at is still probably better than living in Whitetrashistan. Yeah I never was against him enlisting somewhere, but I wanted him to at least get a decent gig. I still want to find him a way out, but I don't really know anything off the top of my head that'll save him. As it is he'll probably hang around his deadbeat dad and their wannabe biker gang (they claim they're a kinfolk chapter) until he knocks some fat girl up then he'll end up in some dead end manual labor job to support her.
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Godholio posted:Buy him a tapout shirt and subdued flag hat. Like he needs more.
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