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drat, they got one batch through but then decided to go for broke. You'd think getting away with one batch of booger sugar and not getting caught would make most people think twice about pushing their luck.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:drat, they got one batch through but then decided to go for broke. You'd think getting away with one batch of booger sugar and not getting caught would make most people think twice about pushing their luck. 22lbs for 10k. Lordy how much did they sell it for to the distributor? Greedy greedy
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Jan 5, 2019 18:52
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The only time I’ve never had US customs come up and at least take forms from us was when we flew back from Colombia. Dude didn’t even get out of his truck. Though when we left Colombia they (Colombian Air Force) did make us line all of our bags out on the ramp and ran the dogs up and down the line a few times looking for stuff. One of my sensor operators either had a false hit or was really good at hiding drugs because they tore through his stuff looking for something in vain.
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Jan 5, 2019 20:59
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Wait, what? They paid a dollar a gram? Yikes, there's my end of life palliative care plan right there.
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Wonder Free posted:The only time I’ve never had US customs come up and at least take forms from us was when we flew back from Colombia. Dude didn’t even get out of his truck. The only time we never got bent over by Customs was when we came back through Bangor. Customs at Tinker AFB was notoriously lovely. The best one was when ~100 of us were on a C17 after an 11 hour flight, and we were kept on the plane for over an hour after parking. Everyone's families were across the street (the base let us park right at the edge of the ramp, as close as possible). Then we got to deplane, and the walked us all into a hangar. Where we stood around for another 3 hours or so. Of course they never found anything. Out of all my run-ins with those fucks, the only thing I ever saw them find was a loving Kinder Egg.
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Jan 5, 2019 21:11
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Godholio posted:The only time we never got bent over by Customs was when we came back through Bangor. Customs at Tinker AFB was notoriously lovely. The best one was when ~100 of us were on a C17 after an 11 hour flight, and we were kept on the plane for over an hour after parking. Everyone's families were across the street (the base let us park right at the edge of the ramp, as close as possible). Then we got to deplane, and the walked us all into a hangar. Where we stood around for another 3 hours or so. It's good to be a MP Company while another MP Company is doing customs inspections. Goes pretty smooth
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Jan 5, 2019 21:14
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Yeah but you're still an MP. In the Army.
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Jan 5, 2019 21:15
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DoktorLoken posted:Yeah but you're still an MP. In the Army. That is my personal shame.
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Casimir Radon posted:Doesn't seem like AF recruiting would be that hard. Kids are getting kicked out of their parents' houses all the time for being losers. My dad did it. Was legit good at it. Would go hang out at the school in the hood and talk to the teachers, try to find kids with good grades with shity life prospects that could use help for college and offer them a way out. Brought them over for BBQ and poo poo on the weekends. Was always extremely honest with them about there career fields. Basically if your not a piece of poo poo and willing go to places where people could use some social mobility in there life and be willing to do something other than sit in your office recruiting isnt hard.
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Jan 5, 2019 22:59
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I miss the shared misery of the Army but I definitely do not miss the loving Army. I'm the idiot. I miss being 21 in great loving shape and being a jackass for money.
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Jan 5, 2019 23:13
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I thought that was the CIA’s job.
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Jan 5, 2019 23:20
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Wasabi the J posted:I miss the shared misery of the Army but I definitely do not miss the loving Army.
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Jan 5, 2019 23:25
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the high points are really high but the lows are often and typically bottom out
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Jan 5, 2019 23:34
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:the high points are really high But enough about Columbia 
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Jan 5, 2019 23:35
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:the high points are really high but the lows are often and typically bottom out I read it on here a while back. For some people, joining is the best decision they can make. For other, getting out is the best decision.
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Jan 5, 2019 23:42
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As Nero Danced posted:I read it on here a while back. For some people, joining is the best decision they can make. For other, getting out is the best decision. I think both those things can be true at the same time
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Jan 5, 2019 23:46
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As Nero Danced posted:I read it on here a while back. For some people, joining is the best decision they can make. For other, getting out is the best decision. Joining can very much be beneficial. But at some point you have to do what is best for you which usually means getting out. The people who wind up staying often tend towards institutionalized, miserable, or both.
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Jan 6, 2019 00:05
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canyoneer posted:I think both those things can be true at the same time My top 3 moments are joining, getting an F-15 ride, and getting out.
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Jan 6, 2019 00:23
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I’ve had a blast in the reserves.
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Jan 6, 2019 00:36
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LingcodKilla posted:I’ve had a blast in the reserves. You are an anomaly
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Jan 6, 2019 00:39
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LingcodKilla posted:I’ve had a blast in the reserves. Yeah but you're America's 17th line of defense
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Jan 6, 2019 00:44
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Yeah but you're America's 17th line of defense  I’ll never not get enough out of this image.
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Jan 6, 2019 00:46
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Godholio posted:My top 3 moments are joining, shooting a Carl Gustav and a bunch of other rad poo poo with an ODA, and getting out. Fixed for me.
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Jan 6, 2019 01:23
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LingcodKilla posted:I’ve had a blast in the reserves. I've said it before, but you need to not reenlist as Navy karma is gonna backlash you bigtime
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Jan 6, 2019 01:27
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My dad was telling us stories about grandpa tonight and apparently grandpa got drafted for Korea but great grandpa goes to the draft board without telling him and gets him out of it by saying he needs his son to work the farm. Grandpa gets pissed and says have no right to do that I want to serve my country blah blah blah and volunteers for the Marines. Becomes a Seabee and volunteers to be sent to Korea with his buddy despite his master sergeant telling them that people are dying over there. Goes to Korea and if they don't have a crane they have to use a makeshift tripod of beams to move stuff around. They're building some poo poo and some lieutenant tells them to use the tripod. Grandpa goes "but we have a crane right there" and the lieutenant then orders him to use the tripod and leaves. Grandpa says gently caress this and uses the crane but the lieutenant comes back too soon and catches him and busts him down from sergeant to corporal. So apparently my grandpa was a "hang all nobles" type of guy for the rest of his life. He died when I was in college but I talked to him very little about his time in unfortunately. I'm not sure if he's the idiot in the story or the lieutenant. Or both.
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Jan 6, 2019 02:23
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The LT was the idiot hands down
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Jan 6, 2019 02:24
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EBB posted:The LT was the idiot hands down
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Jan 6, 2019 02:28
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I had the same thing happen to me when I was a cadet; the bosun wanted to use the provision hoist (aft) to load a truck load of paint, then have us haul it down to the main deck then up the main deck to the paint locker in the focstle. The paint locker’s door was within spitting distance of the #1 cargo crane’s swing circle. I actually took it up with the first mate and we did end up moving the truck and using the cargo crane, but I think I got a reputation with the crew as a lazy rear end in a top hat of a cadet. My back still works though.
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Jan 6, 2019 02:40
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EBB posted:The LT was the idiot hands down How often is that not true ?
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Jan 6, 2019 05:41
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Remember; work smarter, not harder does not apply in the military ever.
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Jan 6, 2019 05:58
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MA-Horus posted:Remember; work smarter, not harder does not apply in the military ever. No officer has ever been promoted for finishing early or under budget.
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Jan 6, 2019 06:06
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mllaneza posted:How often is that not true ? Well some of them die
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Jan 6, 2019 06:24
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Thump! posted:Well some of them die 
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Jan 6, 2019 10:43
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DoktorLoken posted:The people who wind up staying often tend towards institutionalized, miserable, or both. Rude, I'm right here man. Although being able to sneak out 8+ years consecutively in Korea has made it easier to deal with. Almost to retirement and shamming as a contractor here!
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FrozenVent posted:I had the same thing happen to me when I was a cadet; the bosun wanted to use the provision hoist (aft) to load a truck load of paint, then have us haul it down to the main deck then up the main deck to the paint locker in the focstle. Working smarter not harder is definitely rewarded in the merchant marine though, because if you have even the tiniest claim to "being caught up on work" you can take essentially endless coffee breaks
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Yesterday while trying to find football I stumbled on extreme right wing talk radio and kept it on for a couple minutes. They were going on about what Tromp has done like opening Alaska to drilling and ending regulation. I then tried to figure out how Joe Republican who will never directly benefit from this in a meaningful way would think it is a good thing. I couldn't figure out any logic in it just mushy chaos brain. So, I'm the idiot here
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maffew buildings posted:Yesterday while trying to find football I stumbled on extreme right wing talk radio and kept it on for a couple minutes. They were going on about what Tromp has done like opening Alaska to drilling and ending regulation. I then tried to figure out how Joe Republican who will never directly benefit from this in a meaningful way would think it is a good thing. I couldn't figure out any logic in it just mushy chaos brain. So, I'm the idiot here "My team winning other team losing rargh!" That's probably about it.
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A dude once told me a story from his days in the Army during the Korean War. He somehow had some assignment that he was being loaned out to another unit to do, and got himself administratively in limbo for a couple weeks, which he spent goofing off in town. During those two weeks, each unit thought he was doing work for the other one. Living the dream
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Jan 7, 2019 17:49
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Absurd Alhazred posted:No officer has ever been promoted for finishing early or under budget. well they have but that was back in WW2
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canyoneer posted:A dude once told me a story from his days in the Army during the Korean War. He somehow had some assignment that he was being loaned out to another unit to do, and got himself administratively in limbo for a couple weeks, which he spent goofing off in town. During those two weeks, each unit thought he was doing work for the other one. You could pull similar things for short periods of time as a company XO. People in the motor pool would assume I was up in the company office, people in the company office would assume I was in the motor pool, etc. It was useful when some kind of useless formation/meeting was coming up--I could head off to the RMA to update manifests or something and avoid it. There was always some relatively valid excuse to be somewhere else.
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