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Naked Bear posted:Holy poo poo, this is a thing. 
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Mustang posted:So pumped to work 12 days straight for the second time in a month leading up to a 30 day field problem. The first time I was told I would get "comped on the backend". Complete bullshit, I didn't get comped poo poo. So year sure I'm going to believe you when you say I'm going to get comped this time too. One of these days I wanna mail you a bottle of Johnnie Walker blue as a thank you. You don't know me but witnessing your visceral suffering has killed all the idealogical bullshit that was in me not less than a year ago. Thanks LT.
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I look back at 18 year old me and wonder what kind of crack I was smoking at the time.
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When I was 18, in high school, 2003, and about to ship for basic in a few months, I was seriously worried that the war would be over before I could deploy and get some. In retrospect, this is so beyond laughable.
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This thread has dissuaded me from ever signing on
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Awesome, you’ve passed the test. Here’s your paperwork to commission now that you demonstrated that you can adjust your mission based on intelligence.
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I don't think I've ever seen someone in the military actually 'get comped on the backend' except for more green weenie fuckin'. I'm sure it's probably happened to someone at some point, likely accidentally.
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Whenever I saw a comp day I always got confirmation at the end of the previous day and then turned my phone off as soon as I got out the gate. Can't call me back in if you can't call me. Otherwise you'd get called up at 4 in the morning to get some more of that army dickin'.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Awesome, you’ve passed the test. Here’s your paperwork to commission now that you demonstrated that you can adjust your mission based on intelligence.
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Sometimes i dream of getting summadatgruntshit. Then Mustang brings me back to earth.
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The Rat posted:When I was 18, in high school, 2003, and about to ship for basic in a few months, I was seriously worried that the war would be over before I could deploy and get some. Hey, hello me.
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It's hilarious that someone at corps came up with this awesome plan that got dropped on top of us (my bn) that required resourcing 3 miles of C wire within 3 days. loving genius. And a god drat BUS?!?!?! Those things are like loving unicorns. And ice is simply impossible to acquire despite the DFAC, shopette and local grocery stores being stocked full of ice because reasons.
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Jul 31, 2018 02:38
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Who cares, see you at 9 am tomorrow chief
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Jul 31, 2018 02:48
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You're not always going to be able to get ice in Afghanistan, lieuuuutenant. As for the wire , figure it out, make it happen. Consider it a learning opportunity 
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Jul 31, 2018 02:50
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Mustang's gonna somehow get the bus, but the unit won't have any licensed bus drivers.
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Mustang posted:It's hilarious that someone at corps came up with this awesome plan that got dropped on top of us (my bn) that required resourcing 3 miles of C wire within 3 days.
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mods changed my name posted:You're not always going to be able to get ice in Afghanistan, lieuuuutenant. As for the wire , figure it out, make it happen. Consider it a learning opportunity fuckin train as you fight, one time they shut down road traffic into Bagram and the DFACs ran out of ice cream because the refrigerated trucks couldn't get through and it's times like that you'll really come to appreciate all the harsh, realistic training you went through hooah
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Mustang posted:It's hilarious that someone at corps came up with this awesome plan that got dropped on top of us (my bn) that required resourcing 3 miles of C wire within 3 days. Imagine that except with all sections. Thats what working at Corps is like.
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Now I never worked at a Corps level command but I've worked at a Brigade shop before and I can tell you it definitely gets easier the higher up you go in my experience. Annoying and obnoxiously petty and terrible? Absolutely. Last minute retarded taskings, not nearly as much, that turd has picked up a lot of loving debris on its way down the hill by the time it hits company level and its taken its time getting there too edit: suffice it to say I can say with PAO thats some completely other poo poo too so I'll give you that, ya'll dealing with so many different other organizations on your own, dnfos and all that and probably AFN and all that so yeah
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Jul 31, 2018 05:06
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Well today's my ETS date so smdftb, I need to get high as gently caress immediately.
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mods changed my name posted:Now I never worked at a Corps level command but I've worked at a Brigade shop before and I can tell you it definitely gets easier the higher up you go in my experience. Annoying and obnoxiously petty and terrible? Absolutely. Last minute retarded taskings, not nearly as much, that turd has picked up a lot of loving debris on its way down the hill by the time it hits company level and its taken its time getting there too PAO was wild. You had to tell people "no" all the time. For instance. When Corps was set to receive those troops coming back from that Ebola place, I had to film a Broll package for news. The footage was desolate and for good reason. The troops werent set to come back for another week. Our PAO OIC at I Corps wanted us to get soldiers to populate the place even though it was going to be a quarentine zone. It took me and his SGM going "not a good idea" for them to listen. Even as the OIC was mentioning it I was shaking my head intensely. I had to battle I Corps, 5th MPAD, and hospital PAO after I planned for months to do a shoot only to have red tape pulled and accomplished nothing. Ended up shooting offsite because hospital PAO basically reneged on their end of the bargain. At AFN, you have garrison command over you as well as AFN, AFN HQ, DMA, and then the Army. My boss told CSM of USAEUR to eat a dick when they tried to make changes and restructure narrative on a video I made. DINFOS is an intense school though. A third of my class washed out at AIT in the first few weeks. Or told straight away "nope. You have an accent." Because your job is subjective, literally everyone thinks they can do it better. "Aw poo poo I can edit some video together and talk a bit." Ill put it like this. Good idea fairies have to go somewhere. They get promoted into those jobs. I Corps level PAO was cool and lovely. Cool that it took me TDY places but lovely that there was so much bureaucratic red tape. My NCOIC was a 7 in 7 and tried to give me an article 15 for some poo poo that was his fault and when I proved jt, he still blamed me. Noone respects you because you arent an E7 or a Captain. You are some low pleb E5 with no soldiers and gently caress you Im gonna treat you all like privates and not adults who have obviously shown enough responsibility to be promoted at least once. Drama is rampant brcause people get loving bored of sitting around doing nothing. So you make busy work and now all E6 and below are setting up drash once a month for accountability. Or at AFN, you could overwork your staff while you loudly play Butthole Surfers in your office with the door closed and then walk aroind pegging people with nerf footballs calling them names. Goddamn arsonist of social skills and then complain when there is noone to take part in your fun and psychotic little games around the office like hallway kickball. The standards he loving got from HQ, our requirements, was 2 stories per station a week. He had us at that per person. I had to make 2 loving products and do a radio show for 4 hours which is emotionally loving draining as hell. We also had to do 2 live radio remotes a month. Sometimes they were really loving cool like at the Edelweiss. I went there at least 10 times while I was in Germany and never loving paid. Other times was at poo poo like a PX opening. You know how you make a PX opening entertaining for 3 or 4 hours? You loving don't. You dread the goddamn 3 hour drive there, act excited and make fun of the commander giving a long winded goddamn speech about the integrity of loving nothing and play Katy Perry until its time to drive back to base where you do so in silence because everyone loving hates each other. I had two people over me yell at or insult my wife and was punished when I complained to higher about it. I had bad leadership, Im sure the grass is greener over there. Next to the weenie. Soulex fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jul 31, 2018 |
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mlmp08 posted:Mustang's gonna somehow get the bus, but the unit won't have any licensed bus drivers. I've had this happen so many loving times it's the only outcome here besides him failing to get the bus.
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Gotta love when you double and tripple check where in the field certain elements are going to be to make sure the shitters get to the right spot and they go and change their location the day they actually go into the field and then get all butt hurt that there's no shitters for them and I can't just teleport shitters instantaneously.
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Gotta love when you're out and you can take pleasure in the suffering of someone else
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Gotta love when you're out and you can take pleasure in the suffering of someone else
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I’m still in and I know I can always take comfort that no matter how bad my day is going, Mustang’s is worse.
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Shankel Magnus posted:I’m still out and I know I can always take comfort that no matter how bad my day is going, Mustang’s is worse.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Gotta love when you're out and you can take pleasure in the suffering of someone else The Germans have a word for that. Schadenhorny.
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McNally posted:The Germans have a word for that. Schadenfreude? 🤔
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DoktorLoken posted:Schadenfreude? 🤔 No, there's a lot more pleasure being undertaken here.
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McNally posted:No, there's a lot more pleasure being undertaken here. 
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Hey anybody have a good site where one can purchase those new nike sf boots for less than $150? I thought I saw a site but I feel like I could get them for a lot cheaper. It’s time to trash all my acu poo poo.
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I always bought stuff off college ROTC students coming back from LCAC or whatever the gently caress you guys call OCS.
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Our BN CSM came to visit us. Every time I see him do anything I get more assured BN CSMs could just be replaced by taking a random drunk hobo, putting him/her into uniform and told that he/she is the most important enlisted person in the battalion and let loose. Even more so If the selected drunk hobo has any sort of untreated mental challenge.
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Valtonen posted:Our BN CSM came to visit us. Every time I see him do anything I get more assured BN CSMs could just be replaced by taking a random drunk hobo, putting him/her into uniform and told that he/she is the most important enlisted person in the battalion and let loose. Even more so If the selected drunk hobo has any sort of untreated mental challenge. My last CSM would undermine his 1SGs after talking to a junior NCO once. We nearly got drug through the mud because a girl used my 1SG’s (also a woman) open door policy about getting harassed by her NCOIC. The 1SG made a deal with one of the companies to switch her down to being a PAC clerk and bringing their male PAC clerk back to the S1. The NCOIC used the open door policy with the CSM, and even knowing the situation he backed the S1 NCOIC who was doing the harassing. It took like 4 conversations in one day and me having to remind him how stupid it was to even think her being good at her job, and the experience the S1 would lose somehow outweighed her being sexually harassed. Luckily the BC wasn’t an idiot so he backed me as a commander. Said NCOIC later was kicked out because he broke both EO and Sharp in one outing harassing a black woman from the companies about her sweet N-word pussy juices in front of 5 other people. He was still flagged and being investigated over the aforementioned incident at the time.
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:I always bought stuff off college ROTC students coming back from LCAC or whatever the gently caress you guys call OCS. this is my favorite post in the thread right now
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