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not caring here posted:I'm sure I've heard that Google fi works in Kuwait. No idea if it works in your particular area though. When I was there T-Mobile did with their free international roaming.
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You just might be the oldest Gipper. Seriously. And I’m old for this place. Your loving ancient though.
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Sep 27, 2018 08:26
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A Bad Poster posted:There are plenty of lunatics out there who just want to kill people without facing any repercussions. Knew plenty of them during my time, I steered clear of all of them. And that little boys name was... ...Chris Kyle.
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Sep 27, 2018 12:25
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:You just might be the oldest Gipper. I think you're right.
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Sep 27, 2018 13:52
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drat, I was still making GBS threads my pants in 1985. Tell us stories of the Cold War military.
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Sep 27, 2018 14:12
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Defleshed and Joat are the oldest otherwise, I think, and defleshed hasn't posted in ~3 years last I looked.
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Sep 27, 2018 14:31
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Whatever happened to Greenmeat? That dude was old as gently caress too, cool guy though.
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Sep 27, 2018 14:34
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DoktorLoken posted:Whatever happened to Greenmeat? That dude was old as gently caress too, cool guy though. Retired and is living on a farm away from the rough and tumble life of the army and the internet.
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Sep 27, 2018 14:41
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also torgeux
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Sep 27, 2018 14:53
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You got me by 3 years. Did Navy boot in Orlando in 88. The drat base is even gone now. Oh well, back to lurking.
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Sep 27, 2018 16:47
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Meydey posted:You got me by 3 years. Did Navy boot in Orlando in 88. The drat base is even gone now. How does one just lurk and not want to roll around in the poop?
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Sep 27, 2018 17:32
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LingcodKilla posted:How does one just lurk and not want to roll around in the poop? A powerful argument for joining the United States military, for sure. Also, a good thread title.
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Sep 27, 2018 18:32
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I did 10 in the 82nd too.
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Sep 27, 2018 18:43
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Lots of people itt admitting to making bad decisions when they were younger
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Sep 27, 2018 19:23
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I was 29 when I enlisted. Stupidly is not solely a foible of youth, friend.
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Sep 27, 2018 21:08
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I'm 30 and contemplating a commission. It's barely a rung up on the stupid ladder, but still. I've learned nothing from this forum.
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LingcodKilla posted:How does one just lurk and not want to roll around in the poop? My urge to stupid has been tainted by 26 years of non-mil life. Oh wait 25 years, totally blocked the wasted year of active reserves. At least now I get a free burger once a year at Red Robin. Back then no one gave two shits you were in.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I was 29 when I enlisted. Stupidly is not solely a foible of youth, friend. Lol 37.
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Sep 27, 2018 21:29
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LingcodKilla posted:Lol 37. In a row?!
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McNally posted:In a row?! Try not to suck any dicks in the parking lot!
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LingcodKilla posted:Lol 37. Hell yeah  There's a certain amount of satisfaction in being already done due to age with some master jack powertripping all over you. Also a lot of alcoholism. But mostly knowing that, like, this loving idiot can't fire you no matter how much he dislikes you. Those years I spent civvie-side, wondering if today was the day I would lose my only income because some 23 y/o fuckstain decided I wasn't sucking his dick hard enough, they prepared me for the sheer amount of assfucking the military would heap upon me because I dared to be on a mandatory course. The military is dumb, but it's nowhere near as bad as working casual/part-time at Michaels.
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Sep 27, 2018 22:19
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That says more about how lovely things are in general than about the army being bad.
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I was 21 when I enlisted, so I was still in the truly stupid phase.
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DoktorLoken posted:drat, I was still making GBS threads my pants in 1985. Tell us stories of the Cold War military. I went in in 88 and sadly, while the technology may have changed, the stupidity is the same. September 1988 is when I went to MEPS and the OP of this thread could pretty much have been written then. Cells phones weren't a thing and smoking weed, etc. was a little more under the table but the only real difference was we hadn't been in a major conflict in over a decade, the Soviets were the boogeymen, and no one really stressed over them because we all just figured there was no way the grunts were going in, we'd all just nuke one another. 3 years later things changed pretty dramatically. Cold War Army was weird.
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I enlisted in November, 1994 and at the time it looked like we may not even have a Navy in a few years. Cold War was over, Gulf War was over, BRAC was closing bases left and right. I got a ribbon for sitting off the coast of Bosnia listening to the radio for two months in 1996 and I thought that might be the last opportunity for a generation to earn anything remotely combat-related.
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Sep 28, 2018 13:43
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I enlisted in 2005 and literally ended up in Guantanamo Bay, 0/100 would not get rear end in a top hat/balls looked at by old man again
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Sep 28, 2018 13:47
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Navy is the only branch that really needs to exist.
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Sep 28, 2018 14:02
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Mr. Nice! posted:Navy is the only branch that really needs to exist. same but space force, orbital drops will solve everything
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Sep 28, 2018 14:08
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I signed papers in May of 2001 for the sweet college money
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Sep 28, 2018 14:25
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I was so gung ho I enlisted early, in 11th grade, and turned down the GI bill in boot. Making nuke decisions even before nuke school.
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Meydey posted:I was so gung ho I enlisted early, in 11th grade, and turned down the GI bill in boot. Making nuke decisions even before nuke school. Ladies and gentlemen....the winner.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:08
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Mr. Nice! posted:Navy is the only branch that really needs to exist. I largely agree. The Marines should be much smaller and most of the Army manpower should be in the Reserve/ARNG.
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Sep 28, 2018 16:09
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Meydey posted:I was so gung ho I enlisted early, in 11th grade, and turned down the GI bill in boot. Making nuke decisions even before nuke school. new thread title imo
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If it helps, I was the first to drop out of Nuke A school, kept e-3, and got transfered to OS A school in Dam Neck. poo poo they made me the class leader because I was e-3, over a bunch of e-1s.
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DoktorLoken posted:I largely agree. The Marines should be much smaller and most of the Army manpower should be in the Reserve/ARNG. medical reserves/ng 100% makes sense. 50% of our company were in school or currently working a medical job irl. paramedics, nursing students, PA students, hospital techs, etc. all that experience was brought in, and once signed off by a doc is allowed to do whatever they’re qualified for, in a well-run environment. plus they teach it to other people idk maybe im making too much of it, but one of our paramedic soldiers pointed that out after our deployment and it was a eureka moment for me
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Also engineering (skilled trades, engineers, etc.), signal, maybe MI, etc. can probably get more experienced people from their civilian careers than a bunch of junior enlisted with expensive AITs that sweep rocks on the active side.
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DoktorLoken posted:Also engineering (skilled trades, engineers, etc.), signal, maybe MI, etc. can probably get more experienced people from their civilian careers than a bunch of junior enlisted with expensive AITs that sweep rocks on the active side. I fondly remember sweeping the two lane road on post in the desert of Arizona during my AIT. I have no idea what it cost the government (I've heard a wide range of figures) for that year of training, but I'm sure it was money well spent.
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How the hell do you decline GI Bill in boot camp?? Does this mean no education money? Also, 11th grade-were you 17 or 18?
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There was like a hundred dollar a month contribution or something to get the actual GI Bill or something? Maybe something to do with post 9/11 gi bill, details are a little fuzzy. But when I went through there was a bunch of retards that said paying 100 dollars a month to get a poo poo pile of money later is for fuckin' idiots and queers and why would you ever do that. I literally get twice what I paid into it over 12 months, every drat month, AND school paid for but what do I know I'm just some idiot queer.
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not caring here posted:There was like a hundred dollar a month contribution or something to get the actual GI Bill or something? Maybe something to do with post 9/11 gi bill, details are a little fuzzy. But when I went through there was a bunch of retards that said paying 100 dollars a month to get a poo poo pile of money later is for fuckin' idiots and queers and why would you ever do that. That was the MGIB, you had to pay into it back in the days before Bin Laden gave us our education benefits
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