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"I was only following orders." - Vasudus, 2018
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Dec 2, 2018 04:28
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 hope they make nooses made out of hundred dollar bills then
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Dec 2, 2018 04:32
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“In my experience, invading Syria works better if you do it on purpose.”
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Dec 2, 2018 04:33
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Instead of spending an entire day on a safety stand-down on average once every month because somebody hosed up, why don't we just have a half day of safety once every two weeks? This will improve Soldiers' ability to retain the reams of information because it will be presented more frequently and we won't have to use as much time for each instance! Better yet, let's just halve it again and make it two hours every week! To further improve retention, we can do it as the last item before COB on Friday! Safety abounds prior to the weekend!
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Dec 2, 2018 04:53
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Mandatory training should be a 6 hour block twice a year for everything including resiliance, and that's it. The guard wastes incredible amounts of time with loving sharp and EO briefs.
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Dec 2, 2018 05:03
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Seeing as how Active duty spends weeks doing pre change of command and change of command inventories, makes me wonder how the guard does it. Or does anything for that matter.
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Dec 2, 2018 05:24
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Like regular army, but shittier. You could probably disappear some major poo poo by just relabeling everything. No one knows what the gently caress descriptions or NSNs are actually indicating except for the most major subcomponents. The line item descriptions are always incomplete. Supply is 1 guy. We have 1 weekend to do it Thankfully, commanders seem to have a gentleman's agreement that something's probably missing, but that the big pieces are there and that it's gonna suck for the guy eventually caught holding the bag.
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Dec 2, 2018 05:38
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For reserve unit inactivations they pay a specialist, a pfc a e5 and a e8 to sit around and count boxes for weeks on end, filling out cards in triplicate, repackage said items and drive them to exotic Ft McCoy WI or Ft Lost in the Woods MO. Eat my rear end w a rusty spork 88th ARCOM and gently caress you 801st CSH and your med lab support units
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Dec 2, 2018 05:38
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I when I started my med board, my guard unit didnt want to risk me getting hurt further, so they assigned me to a desk to answer phones. The desk had no phone. It had a laptop that no one was allowed to use. I wasn't allowed to have books or my phone out. I did this for a handful of drills, before I told my section leader I wouldn't do it any longer. He pushed me up the chain, and my CO made me go get a Medic to say that I couldn't do it for medical reasons. Which of course, they wouldn't do. I knew my CO when he was a Cadet, so I pulled him aside privately. "All you are doing is wasting money. You are wasting unit funds to pay me to do nothing, and if anything, you are making my mental health issues worse. Don't be a dickbag." He signed off then. He wasn't a bad dude, just shouldn't have been in the Army. He did jump in front a car during his PT test because he knew he failed, and that would invalidate the test. The car was only going like 5-10, and barely touched him. I can respect a dude who remembers his shaming roots.
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Dec 2, 2018 06:35
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bulletsponge13 posted:He did jump in front a car during his PT test because he knew he failed, and that would invalidate the test. The car was only going like 5-10, and barely touched him. I can respect a dude who remembers his shaming roots. 
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Dec 2, 2018 08:26
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jumping in front of a car to get out of an APFT. 
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Dec 2, 2018 20:08
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dude just did what we all wanted to do at some point high five
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Dec 2, 2018 20:24
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Vasudus posted:bad news friends So you're working on that new APFT?
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Dec 2, 2018 20:25
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DoktorLoken posted:jumping in front of a car to get out of an APFT. no lack of heart there
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Dec 2, 2018 20:40
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DoktorLoken posted:jumping in front of a car to get out of an APFT.
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Dec 2, 2018 20:51
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Funnily enough another cadet and I actually got tapped by a car during a ROTC PT test. They literally only let their foot of the break from a stop, no acceleration. I guess I should have just sat on the curb instead of being a stupid cadet and kept running. I didn’t know that was an option.
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Dec 2, 2018 22:20
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I would have done it. I also was told to sit and do nothing and strove strive to look busy. Fun fact, CSGO looks like staying busy.
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Dec 2, 2018 22:33
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That unit was kinda fun for a bit. I knew the CO when he was a Cadet, the XO when he was an E4 before OCS, and no one listened to the 1SG because he was a god drat sex offender. I know it was the Guard, but the amount of blatant public insubordination ruled. E- convicted sex offender, not the typical 'raping E3's' sex offender.
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Dec 3, 2018 15:25
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How the hell was he still in as a convicted sex offender, let alone a 1SG? Was this some lovely Reserve/Guard thing where you wound up with a temporary E-6/E-7 1SG or something?
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Dec 3, 2018 17:54
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You got high enough up friends you're drat near invincible. We had some dude come over from ranger batt and got a felony domestic violence conviction and couldn't touch a gun anymore, but he knew someone and there he was at battalion, an E8 who could never handle a weapon again.
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Dec 3, 2018 18:37
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Anyone making plans for Wednesday? I wonder how much it will cost.
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Dec 3, 2018 19:02
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not caring here posted:You got high enough up friends you're drat near invincible. That's utterly crazy. We had an NCO whose wife filed a bogus domestic abuse charge against him and that was enough for him to never be able to touch a weapon. Because of that he had to be chaptered out.
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Dec 3, 2018 19:04
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hey psst this is a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrvMHY-jX_E
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Dec 3, 2018 23:37
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It's pretty cringey, but have you seen the Navy's uniform for the game? It's loving laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/10/navy-unveils-spectacular-uniforms-inspired-by-bill-the-goat-for-army-game
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Dec 4, 2018 00:51
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Carteret posted:It's pretty cringey, but have you seen the Navy's uniform for the game? I can't believe we spend tax dollars on this.
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Dec 4, 2018 02:05
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I knew they loved goats, but man, that's just taking it to a whole new level.
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Dec 4, 2018 02:10
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DoktorLoken posted:I can't believe we spend tax dollars on this. Navy actually has enough support to require very few tax dollars, comparatively. Something like 1-2% of the football budget comes from tax dollars? It's much more at USAFA. Not sure about West Point.
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Dec 4, 2018 02:26
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mods changed my name posted:we had a weekend parking lot guard that lasted about 4 days before jag shut it down. because someone parked in the hhc commanders spot during non duty hours and officers are huge loving babies when their ego is at stake This unironically makes me proud to be JAG. DasNeonLicht posted:Unusual request here — my dad served in the 3rd Armored Division in Desert Storm, and my brother and I bought him an inscribed paver at the recently dedicated 3AD memorial at Fort Benning. I had been trying to get a photo of it to show my dad from the 3AD Association guy who was coordinating the project, but he's been unresponsive. gently caress, I left Benning 3 days before you posted this. FWIW I saw the 3AD monument the day before it opened and it looked great.
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Dec 4, 2018 03:25
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for a photo of the paver I had dedicated for him. If this is at possible and anyone is willing to do this, please PM me, and I'll send further details.
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Naked Bear posted:hey the intro is pretty cool but good god does it look so corny when the football player runs out of the trenches. they'd have been better off if they showed the soldiers running out of the trenches and then did a cut to the football players running on the field.
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Dec 4, 2018 09:03
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Carteret posted:It's pretty cringey, but have you seen the Navy's uniform for the game? I don't see the balls.
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Dec 4, 2018 13:29
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Cat Army
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Ashmole posted:the intro is pretty cool but good god does it look so corny when the football player runs out of the trenches. they'd have been better off if they showed the soldiers running out of the trenches and then did a cut to the football players running on the field. re: decent "over the top" scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doOeeFWB1EU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM eat poo poo academy PAO football isn't trench warfare
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Dec 4, 2018 16:15
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DoktorLoken posted:How the hell was he still in as a convicted sex offender, let alone a 1SG? Was this some lovely Reserve/Guard thing where you wound up with a temporary E-6/E-7 1SG or something? I \/ not caring here posted:You got high enough up friends you're drat near invincible. He had bad friends in good places. The Guard let the civilians handle it, and tried to pretend it didn't happen. I never understood why- lowet enlisted were openly insubordinate. The only people who listened were E6(a portion) and higher. This created the interesting moment of a PSG telling an E4 to do something because, "Top put it out". "I'm not going to do it just because some kid fucker told me to." "Please? Do it because I'm asking." I actually felt bad for my section leader. In all their infinite wisdom, they put nearly every bitter and broke Infantry guy into the same HQ section, which is a recipe for insuborsinate stupidity. They guys who weren't broken grunts were always shocked when we would refuse to do stupid poo poo.
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Dec 4, 2018 17:40
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So it turns out you can make it through about a third of PSYOP Selection before you get psyche dropped for having the sadbrains  It was a pretty fun course while I was in it though. Camp MacKall is a gently caress.
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Dec 4, 2018 18:49
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Why does PSYOP need a selection course anyway?
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Dec 4, 2018 21:06
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DoktorLoken posted:Why does PSYOP need a selection course anyway? It’s a SOCOM thing
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Dec 4, 2018 21:10
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It really didn’t seem like that tough of a course, but yeah there’s ARSOF stuff to do with it. Same for the Civil Affairs dudes
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Dec 4, 2018 22:11
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EBB posted:re: decent "over the top" scenes In a high school history class, I remember reading an archived film review of Gallipoli from when it debuted in threatres in Australia. The critic said after that scene, when the lights came on, the entire audience just sat there in silence with  on their faces.
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Dec 4, 2018 23:26
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we had a PV2 who got sent to Iraq with a felony conviction and he was my driver for a week as a fresh in country E-4. He was such a weird loving dude. I was on bitch detail pulling ECP guard with a bunch of Ugandans and he'd pick me up and would tell me all about all the times he had walked in on his wife banging black dudes and getting into fights with them. He'd end up getting angry and driving erratic so by day 2 I would drive myself and put him in the back seats. Then 12 hours later he'd pick me up and I'd drive myself back. That was a weird, weird week for me..
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Dec 4, 2018 23:59
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I've been separated for 17 years(21 if you don't count the Guard, and you shouldn't), and I still eat faster than everyone I know. The Army fucks you up for life. Edit:. Jesus, there are people who have enlisted and retired in the time I've been out. I'm an old gently caress now. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Dec 5, 2018 |
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Dec 5, 2018 01:58
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I've been out since Jan of 98
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Dec 5, 2018 02:45
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