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Naked Bear posted:Gonna have to disagree here simply because the stetson is at least functional. Agreed, I never wear my stetson but I'd wear my stetson over the beret anytime. If your beret isn't green it isn't worth wearing. Really the only good headgear in the Army is the patrol cap and the beanie.
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Boonie hat best hat.
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psydude posted:Boonie hat best hat.
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I'm a fan of the OR thermal cap that was designed to be worn under your helmet which they would never actually let you wear under your helmet.
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I wore my boonie until they wouldn't let us. Then I just wore a patrol cap when I was on any COP that wasn't ours.
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I wear my old woodland boonie cap when I'm in the mountains. Shade for my head, plus it makes everyone I come across assume that I'm up there to go fishing.
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I remember getting my bags and wearing my PC in the garrison beret days and having some dumb gently caress E7 with no goddamn combat patch screaming at me for wearing it in garrison. Our CG instructed it for reverse srp. I literally got off the loving bus and was in the barracks though. Im so glad Im out.
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Soulex posted:Im so glad Im out. 
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Vasudus posted:I wore my boonie until they wouldn't let us. Then I just wore a patrol cap when I was on any COP that wasn't ours. The boonie cap was great for trolling SNCOs because they all universally hated it, but it was specifically mandated by our brigade to protect people from the sun. "Sorry top, brigade's tired of Joes showing up to the aid station with turbo cancer sunburn."
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Why the gently caress do army people care so much about fashion? In five years as a merchant marine officer, the only time I berated someone for their attire (PPE excluded) was the time my AB showed up on watch with his balls hanging out of his daisy dukes. The balls were saggy and hairy and the daisy dukes had dancing teddy bears on the rear end.
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Soulex posted:
Hey that reminds me, time to clean up my google contacts  
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Queen Combat posted:Hey that reminds me, time to clean up my google contacts So drat glad I retired before cell phones were a thing.
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I know we had work/life balance chat before, but let me say this: The mentality of having to work 24 hr ops before you are in the field because your boss has no impulse control is loving stupid and needs to die. And if I hear 'just knock out the high priority stuff' from people who treat every tasking as a life-death situation then I'm going to slap someone with a stapler. I know that the old saying 'this isn't the Army I joined' is a cliché, but holy poo poo is it right.
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not caring here posted:My tank was a second from putting a 120mm sabot into a bradley full of scouts when a brand new butter bar came tearing rear end out into a tank live fire gunnery. Gunner had already had him lazed but thankfully realized what the gently caress he was and threw the gun up and screamed out cease fire. jesus
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I'm changing my phone number when I get out, there's really no other option.J.A.B.C. posted:I know we had work/life balance chat before, but let me say this: I wish Army leaders would stop lying and saying that family is important - it isn't anymore. Family got tossed to the side a long time ago in order to sustain readiness. The new norm is soldiers missing three Thanksgivings in a row because of deployments and CTC rotations.
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Triggs posted:I'm changing my phone number when I get out, there's really no other option. I really want to see a study that documents the relationship between the sustained readiness model, morale, and retention because it is such a short sighted concept that is driven entirely by "stats" and colors on trackers. I just finished watching "The Wire" and the phrase "juking the stats" has come into my daily vocabulary.
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J.A.B.C. posted:'this isn't the Army I joined' 
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good news friends my new job starting next week is focused almost entirely on readiness bad news friends i'm going to find a quantitative way to more efficiently grind you into dust
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Pffft, I'm out so I don't give a gently caress
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N O T H I N G I S B E Y O N D M Y R E A C H
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New idea to improve retention: repeal Art. 114 of the UCMJ.
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Vasudus posted:N O T H I N G Legalize weed in uniform then mr pentagon dude.
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Viva Miriya posted:Legalize weed in uniform then mr pentagon dude. The Army would still find a way to ruin it
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EBB posted:The Army would still find a way to ruin it "Pringles and Doritos will cease being sold at the Class Six, effective immediately. The USO's 'Dave Supports the Troops' concert series is similarly cancelled. All weed must be smoked in designated smoking areas. All cellophane wrappers are banned from post."
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EBB posted:The Army would still find a way to ruin it Yup, you'd only be able to buy it at the Class VI with approval from your chain of command, after watching the Army produced version of "Reefer Madness". Plus you'd have to wear a road guard vest and submit to weekly bong inspections.
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Vasudus posted:i'm gonna make financial health a thing they track If its anything like how the military checks on basic English literacy I look forward to ponzi schemes becoming mandatory as part of military fiscal literacy.
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Vasudus posted:i'm gonna make financial health a thing they track This is amazing. Please let there be a Army Financial Fitness Test that can hold up promotion and awards if you suck at it.
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I think giving the army more reason to pry into your personal life sounds like a great idea!
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Hey private you went yellow on your FINPROS so we're going to be helping you pawn your poo poo this weekend so we can all go on block leave.
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Vasudus posted:i'm gonna make financial health a thing they track Cool cool, so another loving bubble on another loving spreadsheet; another mandatory video that Joe's will have to watch on some broken Army website; a certificate that doesn't interface with any of the dozens of "centralized" training trackers; will need to be updated every 90 days or minutes, whichever is less convenient; and gives commands and personnel more access to the personal financial records of Joes and Janes, especially the lower enlisted (this will never ever be abused by an
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No approved leave unless you have >$1500 in your savings account.
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Triggs posted:I'm changing my phone number when I get out, there's really no other option. You bet your rear end family is important when the FRG wants your SO on the e-mail roster. Or when they hold a unit sale full of kitsch their bored housewives made.  
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Wasabi the J posted:Cool cool, so another loving bubble on another loving spreadsheet; another mandatory video that Joe's will have to watch on some broken Army website; a certificate that doesn't interface with any of the dozens of "centralized" training trackers; will need to be updated every 90 days or minutes, whichever is less convenient; and gives commands and personnel more access to the personal financial records of Joes and Janes, especially the lower enlisted (this will never ever be abused by an settle down beavis it won't be anything like that
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Vasudus posted:settle down beavis In intent sure, but in effect, I think Wasabi is on point.
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Give it to counter intel who wont give the slightest poo poo about who it is as it'll all just be numbers belonging to people they don't know. For reals though I think just some faceless number thumping for financial health could potentially be a great idea, because holy poo poo like I want some 19 year old dickhead corporal making life and death decision for me when he's just dropping every cent on juicy girls (again). Or someone is so in debt that they have no option but to steal. Or someone living so high on the hog that they are probably selling drugs, or guns, or whatever on the side. Or someone spending thousands on military special a month, or stockpiling guns and ammo but somehow doing it while living in the barracks. gently caress, you could even give preferential duty stations to those with good credit scores, or at the very least people who don't have a history of bad decisions. Giving it to some fuckin' barely literate idiot NCO in your unit he is probably the worst fuckin' offender, however, is just no bueno.
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