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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:I think we're OK Whoever was in that tank is not Ok tho. I always got the impression that tank olympics Were exactly this- stunts for the sake of stunts rather than any competition on ones ability to use a tank
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Valtonen posted:Whoever was in that tank is not Ok tho. You and I know from experience that any tank driving that's cool to watch isn't fun for the guys in the turret.
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Getting a HMMWV unstuck from 4 feet of mud is basically an Army passtime.
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The Northeastern part of Yakima training center is fun as hell to VC a stryker through. Tons of trails through rolling hills. Strykers are actually pretty fun to VC anywhere, except for when it's cold as balls outside and raining or snowing. Or it's really dry and you get plastered with dust. It can be kind of sketchy at night though when you can't see poo poo.
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The more I learn about Russian ground combat tactics, the less worried I am.
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Mustang posted:The Northeastern part of Yakima training center is fun as hell to VC a stryker through. Tons of trails through rolling hills. Being a VC for a Stryker in a winter gunnery (late March-ish, I think?) in AK was one of my least-favorite army experiences.
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Naked Bear posted:On the other, jumping a Stryker is rad as hell. Best part of training right here. That road to leschi town had some sweet jumps next to it. Also lol 
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Why would we bother getting ready for war when we have a few forever wars going on right now?
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bird food bathtub posted:Why would we bother getting ready for war when we have a few forever wars going on right now? The whole country is quietly forgetting about the GWOT. It didn't end with a bang, it's just petering out because you can't have a decisive victory against an ideology.
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I wonder what descriptor we will wage war on next. I hope it's disappointment so we don't have to feel so bad about having served
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We're probably due for another conventional excursion into Latin-America
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Venezuela could do with some regime change.
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Argentina doesn't have stop signs. I think we should do some COIN down there to spruce up their infrastructure.
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I'll contact Whitefish Energy immediately.
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Iraq and Afghanistan are now treated like NTC with shittier MILES gear.
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How does someone make it to become a commander and then think blaming a junior enlisted supply clerk on why his COMMAND supply discipline program sucks. He's been in the Army twice as long as me and somehow has no idea how property works. He has a 2LT fresh out of BOLCs understanding of property.
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He probably led a headquarters platoon and then went straight to staff at brigade or division, skipping XO time. That's probably the only way you can make it to O3 without constantly being beaten over the head with property books.
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Jun 4, 2018 21:24
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~because the army doesn't award competence and only morons stay in~
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One of my dudes finished up a video for a unit on JBLM about a month ago. They kicked it back today insisting we make a change: we can't use one of the pictures because a door gunner in a helicopter isn't wearing gloves. gently caress you, army E: He's just gonna turn his hand green, mission accomplished 
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and that captain was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMzRwwo1PZg
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:You and I know from experience that any tank driving that's cool to watch isn't fun for the guys in the turret. Not sure what the specific driving incident was at the time, but your post made me remember one of my TCs yelling, "NEVER. loving. DO. THAT. AGAIN!" over the platoon net. I wish I could solve problems like that in civilian life sometimes.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:Not sure what the specific driving incident was at the time, but your post made me remember one of my TCs yelling, "NEVER. loving. DO. THAT. AGAIN!" over the platoon net. I wish I could solve problems like that in civilian life sometimes. I've told this story a million times but I'll tell it once more. In my BOLC crew I had this guy named Harvey. Harvey was a former preacher and his goal was the be a chaplain, but for some reason he was tanking in the middle of that. He was a kind, generous guy who never swore and drank moderately. Harvey was a big dude, tall but still kind of fat. The kind of dimensions that don't fit well in a tank. Well anyways one training mission it's Harvey's turn to gun while I TC and my buddy Phil (who drives crazy) is steering. The sun is juuuuuuuust coming up over Kentucky and I see that we're about to hit some mud that had hardened to the consistency of concrete while going about 20-30 mph. The evaluator and I kind of look at each other and brace just in time for us to hit full speed. Over the net I hear Harvey let out the most godforsaken string of curses over. His head was too big to use the gun sight with the face pad on, so he had smashed his forehead right into the sight. Poor guy ended up with stitches in his forehead.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:I've told this story a million times but I'll tell it once more. In my BOLC crew I had this guy named Harvey. Harvey was a former preacher and his goal was the be a chaplain, but for some reason he was tanking in the middle of that. He was a kind, generous guy who never swore and drank moderately. Harvey was a big dude, tall but still kind of fat. The kind of dimensions that don't fit well in a tank. Well anyways one training mission it's Harvey's turn to gun while I TC and my buddy Phil (who drives crazy) is steering. The sun is juuuuuuuust coming up over Kentucky and I see that we're about to hit some mud that had hardened to the consistency of concrete while going about 20-30 mph. The evaluator and I kind of look at each other and brace just in time for us to hit full speed. Over the net I hear Harvey let out the most godforsaken string of curses over. His head was too big to use the gun sight with the face pad on, so he had smashed his forehead right into the sight. Poor guy ended up with stitches in his forehead. Ouch. I'll never forget seeing one of my buddies at the PX and he had no upper front teeth. He had hit them, and broke them all off, on the metal edge of the hatch (the hole part you stick your head out of, not the lid). To this day I cringe thinking about that happening. *edit* He told me the hatch had fallen, hit his helmeted head, and smashed his teeth into the ledge.
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Slim Pickens posted:One of my dudes finished up a video for a unit on JBLM about a month ago. They kicked it back today insisting we make a change: we can't use one of the pictures because a door gunner in a helicopter isn't wearing gloves. Sounds like some bullshit I had with USAEUR about making this series about going through WLC. That order was coming down the pipe (no NCO or E-4P without it) and I worked with the one in Graf for days and hours. Made 3 videos that got their message across (WLC isn't scary, here's how to prepare) and it got cut because soldiers didn't have their PTs tucked in underneath their winter pts while also doing that dumb stretchy bullshit. They wanted me to basically redo the whole thing and I just gave up and my boss tossed the job away to someone else.
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Soulex posted:Sounds like some bullshit I had with USAEUR about making this series about going through WLC. That order was coming down the pipe (no NCO or E-4P without it) and I worked with the one in Graf for days and hours. Made 3 videos that got their message across (WLC isn't scary, here's how to prepare) and it got cut because soldiers didn't have their PTs tucked in underneath their winter pts while also doing that dumb stretchy bullshit. They wanted me to basically redo the whole thing and I just gave up and my boss tossed the job away to someone else. And they just grab soldiers off the street to sit/stand in front of a greenscreen and read poo poo off for safety videos.
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The following is now obsolete (unless your commander is dumb): POV inspections. MSAF 360 Transgender training: Declared complete across the army, don't have to do new sessions anymore. Substance abuse training: No longer unit requirement, case by case only. Now, to see how many scaredy cat commanders still require this stuff as CYA.
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With most american states having no vehicle inspections of any kind, I was actually kind of okay with the POV inspection thing. South Carolina's roads are full of 2000 pounds rust missiles with no proper way to control or slow them down, and soldiers shouldn't be driving those.
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mlmp08 posted:The following is now obsolete (unless your commander is dumb): All of them.
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Vahakyla posted:With most american states having no vehicle inspections of any kind, I was actually kind of okay with the POV inspection thing. South Carolina's roads are full of 2000 pounds rust missiles with no proper way to control or slow them down, and soldiers shouldn't be driving those. State inspections don't really fix that.
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South Carolina roads shouldn't be the responsibility of some dumbass NCO either
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Posting to check my posts.
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TRIPS requirement going away is nice.
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Vahakyla posted:TRIPS requirement going away is nice. I had to do one because I’m too high rank to have a squad leader, so the computer checkbox has to serve as the substitute. Seriously. The alternative was to go bother a more senior officer and provide written proof that he/she had counseled me.
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Another alternative is to get out of the army
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boop the snoot posted:Another alternative is to get out of the army One way or the other 
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mlmp08 posted:One way or the other 20 years or med board. My back hurts.
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