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I did CQ at Keesler a few times and found it to be hellishly boring. I couldn’t imagine doing it every day for months while waiting to be gotten rid of. There was some idiot who got there a few months after me who I’d been hearing stories about for months from newly arrived pipeliners. So many people had stories about Amn Littlejohn who just kept getting recycled in basic training. Then he got to Keesler and kept loving up there, probably on purpose. He did manage to speed run his end of term CQ duty though. He punched some other doofus who was getting kicked out in the back of the head and actually got locked up. Don’t know what happened to him after that. Edit: One morning when we were forming up before class we had horizontal rain. Guess who didn’t have their rain jacket like they were supposed to? So the whole squadron had to take their jackets off and get completely soaked. This was back in the days of twill ABUs too, and those fuckers took forever to dry. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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GD_American posted:
Which CIA?
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Sep 1, 2021 19:41
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The guys who didn’t make it through basic training were on Sand Hill for a long rear end time before getting out and they were always doing poo poo details. And one of the things I think of in hindsight is that they just got to experience the real army without the need for basic training.
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Sep 1, 2021 19:44
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Had a guy uh “fall in love” with a local girl at Cory Station. She was like 6 months pregnant with another mans (in prison for armed robbery) kid. He couldn’t bear to go to his first duty station so he intentionally failed a piss test by smoking weed on the quarter deck.
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Sep 1, 2021 20:18
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That reminds me of poor guys on Sill who signed up to go to the 75th waiting like 3-4 months in the lovely rear end barracks to go to Bragg.
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Sep 1, 2021 20:36
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Woof Blitzer posted:That reminds me of poor guys on Sill who signed up to go to the 75th waiting like 3-4 months in the lovely rear end barracks to go to Bragg. At least I was already on Bragg when I did that.
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Sep 1, 2021 21:06
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When I was at reception one of the guys I shared a barracks room with was sent home for fraudulent enlistment. Turned out he was too young and somehow made it that far before things caught up with him. I went through basic about a year after the army switched over to ACUs. Then one day I saw a dude in another company marching in formation but sticking out like a sore thumb because he was in BDUs. Dude kept getting hurt so he’d been in basic for a year.
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Sep 1, 2021 21:41
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I came in a few months after they started issuing ABUs. So students wearing BDUs were either people who’d been seriously delayed, or people who bought them because they were more comfortable. While I hated the ABU I wasn’t about to pay money for BDUs, iron them, and shine boots.
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Sep 1, 2021 22:56
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McNally posted:
I was that dude in the Navy, except it was when they were phasing out the dungarees (bell bottom blue jeans). Dammit if those weren't some of the most comfortable pants I ever owned and they made my rear end look great. Come to think of it, that may have been a design feature....
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Sep 2, 2021 01:34
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cult_hero posted:I was that dude in the Navy, except it was when they were phasing out the dungarees (bell bottom blue jeans). Dammit if those weren't some of the most comfortable pants I ever owned and they made my rear end look great. They were great yea but drat they faded so fast.
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Sep 2, 2021 02:14
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McNally posted:Dude kept getting hurt so he’d been in basic for a year. I didn't know what a split option was until I enlisted. I went to BCT in the summer at Ft Jackson, with a platoon full of 17 year old high school juniors doing Basic before their senior year of high school. I had no clue that was a thing, until I had to deal (at 26) with a bunch of horned-up 17 year old boys and girls. We did combatives Week 9, about 4 days before graduation. One of the split ops got his arm broken. Turns out they have a drop-dead date where they MUST go home, to be able to start school So he wasn't allowed to recycle. He had to go home. And spend an entire year of high school knowing that he had to start over in Basic Training, day one, as soon as he graduated high school Post script to that- a few minutes after we saw them walk him off the field with his arm dangling, they restarted the event. I was paired up with another guy in his mid-20s named Quintanilla. We both looked at each other and agreed that we didn't want to spend any more time in Jackson, and we weren't heroes The DS made fun of us for basically play-fighting. gently caress them.
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Sep 2, 2021 02:43
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Wrr posted:
Around 2010? Dude named Jones? Owned a yellow BMW? Wouldn't surprise me if there were more than of those bastards though. I was glad to get out as fast as possible without being washed back. Any time spent in Keesler was too long
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Sep 2, 2021 03:38
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Crab Dad posted:Had a guy uh “fall in love” with a local girl at Cory Station. She was like 6 months pregnant with another mans (in prison for armed robbery) kid. He couldn’t bear to go to his first duty station so he intentionally failed a piss test by smoking weed on the quarter deck. I wonder how it worked out
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Sep 2, 2021 04:48
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I was in OSUT in 02, Bayonet March (30 miler to graduate) a kid stepped into a slight depression on a paved road. Shattered some little bone in his foot. Not allowed to recycle, med separate. I don't know if he ever came back, but he would have to Day 1, because he didn't graduate.
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Sep 2, 2021 05:04
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GD_American posted:It was the Army that had breached the contract, too. He was a CIA graduate that enlisted as a cook, and they couldn't fulfill his assignment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOlJ4KFuNA
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Sep 2, 2021 05:34
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bulletsponge13 posted:I was in OSUT in 02, Bayonet March (30 miler to graduate) a kid stepped into a slight depression on a paved road. See, poo poo like that kills me. Plenty of IET privates get through missing training events; to my mind, if you've passed the final APFT and qualified at the range, someone getting busted up in week 9 should move onto AIT (or the equivalent OSUT, just ship to the next unit on profile or sit in a med company then go to their first assignment).
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Sep 2, 2021 05:42
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Hotel Kpro posted:Around 2010? Dude named Jones? Owned a yellow BMW? Was that the 338th? Because I was there around the same time, and feel like that sounds familiar. Granted, I seem to remember multiple cases of comm airmen getting busted for CP either at Keesler or later at Shaw. When I was at USAF OTS five years ago, they had combatives on the curriculum (but we didn’t even shoot the rifle, go figure). We also had to take a PT assessment the first week we got there, and then a final legit test towards the end that was a graduation requirement. If you failed that, or were injured and unable to test, you would not commission, but would be allowed to come back when you healed. Surprisingly, a lot of people still got really into the combatives, even though getting hurt meant a ticket home. Cue me and another guard guy who had a UPT slot after OTS constantly teaming up and doing the most half-assed attempts at fighting out there.
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Sep 2, 2021 11:20
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I'm not sure what normal class attrition is, but my OSUT lost at least 4 to medical drops. (1 broken neck from a cargo net fall. 1 broken foot. 1 to shrapnel from a failed safety check during SAW fam fire, 1 other guy whom I recall getting hurt around the same time as the confidence course.
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Sep 2, 2021 12:20
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Icon Of Sin posted:I had a soldier get bounced out in less than a week once, because he’d managed to piss off his entire chain of command (and the garrison commander on top of that). There's gotta be a story there...
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Sep 2, 2021 13:42
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Itchy_Grundle posted:There's gotta be a story there... I wrote it out in one of the old Idiots threads. The pieces I remember: Stole his roommates iPod Tried to piss in his roommates closet because he was that hammered Went to army rehab Got thrown out of army rehab Picked up a field grade article 15 for trashing a hotel room on post (this had the garrison CSM calling me directly to say “hey what the gently caress?”) -this may have happened before rehab, I seem to remember him telling me “once your 45 days start, they don’t stop counting even if you go to rehab” and thinking that he had somehow beat the system and all of us at the same time Went back to extra duty upon his return, and I think it was our Bn CSM? that found him doing something stupid/loving around, and actually told him “go back to the barracks, you’re done here” (I don’t remember exactly what it was). His chapter paperwork started on a Monday or Tuesday, and dude was out of the army by that next Friday. Garrison leadership was pissed at him (and were buddies with the brigade command team), company and Bn level were tired of dealing with him. It all went very quick despite his pleas to the chaplain (who he told we weren’t allowing him to go to the DFAC) and JAG (who probably spent a minute or two looking over whatever he had brought, and probably just said “yes, they can do that, best of luck”).
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Hotel Kpro posted:Around 2010? Dude named Jones? Owned a yellow BMW? pkells posted:Was that the 338th? Because I was there around the same time, and feel like that sounds familiar. Granted, I seem to remember multiple cases of comm airmen getting busted for CP either at Keesler or later at Shaw. Ya, it was the 338th. I was there starting from late 2009 to mid 2010 and I want to say his last name was something like "Faygen" or "Faegen"? Fun thing, I was trying to hunt down some information for one of my systems and ended up speaking with a systems manager who used to be one of my school house teachers! Introduced myself on the phone and he was like "Wait, [First Name] [Last Name]? Former enlisted? Went to school in 2009". Very tense moment for me as I assume no one has positive memories of me from those days (that may be paranoia, however)
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Grip it and rip it posted:I wonder how it worked out That’s what Facebook is for! They got married and divorced within a year he he’s paying child support. I ended up blocking his feed because it was too depressing.
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Sep 2, 2021 14:33
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Crab Dad posted:
I did this with Facebook as a whole  you’re supposed to be insufferable about not having a FB account. its like being vegan.
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Sep 2, 2021 14:55
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boop the snoot posted:I did this with Facebook as a whole It’s not healthy for most stuff. However I posted a picture of my family and new kittens yesterday. That felt nice.
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Sep 2, 2021 14:57
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pkells posted:Was that the 338th? Because I was there around the same time, and feel like that sounds familiar. Granted, I seem to remember multiple cases of comm airmen getting busted for CP either at Keesler or later at Shaw.  WTF they added combatives? We shot the M9, that was it. Certainly no actual fighting.
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Sep 2, 2021 22:45
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Wrr posted:as I assume no one has positive memories of me from those days (that may be paranoia, however) I dunno, I still get a little nostalgic about drinking on the beach and passing out in a cigarette smoke filled shared hotel room at the Jubilee Inn on the beach with 3-4 buddies and then walking along the beach, slightly hungover the next morning.
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Wrr posted:Ya, it was the 338th. I was there starting from late 2009 to mid 2010 and I want to say his last name was something like "Faygen" or "Faegen"? Must've been multiple people, cause I was 332nd. Early 2010 to mid 2010. Although it's entirely possible he was comm/RF/ATC whatever else. We were the overflow squadron and had all 4 other squadrons rooming with us
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I have to admit, it's kind of funny every time someone is like "oh my god, I've heard of that idiot, it's such a uniquely hosed up story it must be [person]" only to inevitably be told "no, someone else did that too". So, anybody else ever heard of a guy getting two DUI's in one night before?
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I have to admit, it's kind of funny every time someone is like "oh my god, I've heard of that idiot, it's such a uniquely hosed up story it must be [person]" only to inevitably be told "no, someone else did that too". lmao what? The closest I've seen that happen was a guy in the hospital who got arrested for a DUI and was brought into the hospital due to being way too hosed up, thus per police protocol he gets to dry out in our e.d, he gets cited for DUI. Guy's a pro drinker and wakes up about 3 hours later, clinically sober enough that he can ambulate and called his significant other to pick him up from the hospital. Guy's still drunk but discharagble. His BAC was like .390 so even if he had a perfectly functional liver it's assumed he was probably still around a .150... She arrives, we walked him out and went back into the E.D where about 15 seconds later, right as I sit down in the chair the admissions clerk in a fluster was like "he just yanked her out of the drivers seat and drove off!!" I'm like holy gently caress call the cops maybe?" he didn't come back so no clue if they caught him a second time.
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Guy tries to drive on to base with a blatantly smashed up car. Gets pulled aside and checked, is completely shitfaced. Car is taken to an impound lot, guy is arrested and taken to the base police station. Duty officer from the guy's command comes and picks him up and takes him to his barracks to sleep it off. Instead of sleeping it off, guy calls a friend to give him a ride to the impound lot. For some reason they give him his car back, which he tries to drive back on to base via a different gate. Gets stopped again, is found to still be drunk, arrested again. I was somewhat sympathetic because there were a lot of failures by multiple parties involved in the process, but holy poo poo was that a case study in bad decision making.
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A person who is somewhat functional at loving point 39 is probably better at .1-.15 than they are at .00. Less shaky at least.
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Sep 3, 2021 03:15
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I have doubts that many people who can sort of function at that level ever manage to clean up their act.
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GD_American posted:When I went to Basic Training... Talk more about the cia part because whattttttt
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I’m guessing CIA isn’t Central Intelligence Agency in a his case, and probably Culinary Institute of America.
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Casimir Radon posted:I’m guessing CIA isn’t Central Intelligence Agency in a his case, and probably Culinary Institute of America. Thats what they want you to think 
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Wingnut Ninja posted:
Not two DUIs, but had a guy get two hit and runs which resulted in a DUI. Hit a car out in town, somehow got back on base, smashed another car in the parking lot, then got on the ship and went to sleep like nothing happened. MAs came and drug his rear end off the ship and ended up getting bounced for missing ships movement. Also had a guy get popped after walking onto base with no ID, took off running when MA told him to stop, then hid in a bush until he thought he was clear, went and got hammered at the bowling alley, got spotted by patrol car. When they turned the lights on he attacked the car. He had been off restriction for ~3 weeks, from his previous incident of...attacking a patrol car.
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TheWeedNumber posted:Talk more about the cia part because whattttttt https://www.ciachef.edu/
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Casimir Radon posted:I’m guessing CIA isn’t Central Intelligence Agency in a his case, and probably Culinary Institute of America. Or they're still working on ways to assassinate Castro.
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iwentdoodie posted:Not two DUIs, but had a guy get two hit and runs which resulted in a DUI. Hit a car out in town, somehow got back on base, smashed another car in the parking lot, then got on the ship and went to sleep like nothing happened. I just imagine the cops getting out and watching him attack the car. *bang, crash, shatter* "... So. Uh, what the gently caress are you doing?!" "I can't get locked up, man." "That isn't a good way to do that." "Fuuuuucccckkk!" Also, check you PMs. I've been remiss.
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I just read that the qanon shaman guy will plead guilty and when I read his wiki entry I saw that he was briefly in the navy but got kicked out for refusing to take the anthrax vaccination
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