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FrozenVent posted:Chickenhawks has a story about a Huey going down in Vietnam, and when the army declared it lost the inventory of gear on the helicopter amounted to something like fifteen or twenty tons. Chickenhawks is a hell of a novel. It's one of the top tier Vietnam-era memoirs.
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Nystral posted:Why would his chain be in the firing line? After all it was the MPs that hosed up and he had already done a stint in Korean prison I thought. Yeah, it would be pretty crazy for the military to punish some people with no control or direct responsibility for an incident, just because they happened to share a nominal organizational relationship and senior leadership needed to make a visible show of "doing something about it". 
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Tunicate posted:Are there any tactical milsims that model military stupidity, like by having percentile rolls for equipped gear to just vanish? I've only seen a couple minutes of somebody streaming it, but supposedly Finnish Army Simulator is close.
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Nystral posted:Why would his chain be in the firing line? After all it was the MPs that hosed up and he had already done a stint in Korean prison I thought. It’s the army. Things which are in no way your responsibility and possibly even out of your sight/control will end your career, because Wingnut Ninja posted:senior leadership needed to make a visible show of "doing something about it". Was their response logical/appropriate? The answer is almost always NO, but this hasn’t stopped anyone since the continental army of 1776 (at least in the US).
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Aug 16, 2023 09:29
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But does anybody really care? He didn't have access to sensitive information or equipment, there isn't a huge/expensive operation ongoing to get him back, nothing got hosed up by his absence...
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Aug 16, 2023 09:54
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The Lone Badger posted:But does anybody really care? He didn't have access to sensitive information or equipment, there isn't a huge/expensive operation ongoing to get him back, nothing got hosed up by his absence... It hit the news cycle, and that matters more than almost anything else.
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Aug 16, 2023 11:22
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CrazySalamander posted:That crazy guy in NK might still be alive. NK officially acknowledged that he crossed the border. State Media said today that he wants to stay in NK due to "inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination" in the US Army, and that he was "disillusioned at the unequal American society" he's a lifer now i guess
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Aug 16, 2023 12:49
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My nephew got branded as a poo poo soldier for whistleblowing on the racist treatment some of his fellow soldiers were receiving. It might be that the army has a problem!
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Aug 16, 2023 14:07
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I'm sure we can take North Korea at their word. They seem trustworthy. I can't believe Trump hasn't tried to campaign with "I would call my friend, Kim, and have him released like that". I mean not really surprised, but fake shocked.
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Aug 16, 2023 14:21
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bulletsponge13 posted:I'm sure we can take North Korea at their word. They seem trustworthy. I'm not taking North Korea's word on whether or not the sun is going to rise tomorrow. I'm just saying that statement, from anecdotal experience, may not be complete bullshit.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I'm sure we can take North Korea at their word. They seem trustworthy.
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Aug 16, 2023 14:45
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Dude’s gonna come back with pink hair and a nose ring.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:11
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Dude's not coming back.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:24
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Not in one piece, anyway.
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He's North Korea's problem now. I wonder if he'll gently caress up so much there that he kicks booted out of NK.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Dude's not coming back. But life is one big question when you're staring at the clock The answer's always waiting at the DMZ 40 steps to freedom, so I'll take that walk And I know that Oh, I'm not going back Oh, not going back
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mllaneza posted:Chickenhawks is a hell of a novel. It's one of the top tier Vietnam-era memoirs. Robert Mason's life story is a something else.
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Jimmy Smuts posted:He's North Korea's problem now. I wonder if he'll gently caress up so much there that he kicks booted out of NK. Can almost guarantee this is what happens. I mean, "inhuman maltreatment" is common every day enlisted life. You don't join the military expecting "three square, healthy meals a day" or "rooms where the insulation isn't a mix of black mold and asbestos"
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Aug 17, 2023 03:29
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SerthVarnee posted:Goon consensus ended up somewhere between "get the commander down there ASAP if you think he can be trusted not to throw you under the bus", "get a shovel and a truck and then bury them all in the desert" and "get the commander, then get two shovels and a truck and help the commander bury that poo poo in the desert".
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They got a hold of their commander and the intel guys to tell them about the undocumented crypto plus other stuff. Had a lot of visitors within 10 minutes who took it all away. Commander thanked him for reaching out and not be a complete loving idiot. Goon consensus shifted to recommending he start buying lottery tickets since he seemed to be on a roll.
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Biggest tabletop coalition exercise is about to kick off in Korea. A TSgt comes to Korea as an exercise augmentee. Hops on off the plane, drops his poo poo, goes out drankin. Comes back, tanked, to his bunk in tent city, then proceeds to piss all over the sleeping LT in the cot next to his. SF (security forces) get called and haul him away. He's on the next plane out. Didn't even make it a day. We've all heard the stories, but by God it actually happened. We'll probably be looking at GO-1 coming back. Oh, this guy must be a gently caress up right? Prior Temporary First Sergeant Line number for Master Sergeant Selected for OCS. Soju is a hell of a thing.
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Aug 17, 2023 09:06
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I hope we get some kind of follow up. It can go from courts martial to mopped under the cot.
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Gorilla Radio posted:Can almost guarantee this is what happens. In North Korea your three squares a day are partially black mold and asbestos
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Scratch Monkey posted:In North Korea your three squares a day are partially black mold and asbestos So it's an Army installation?
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I mean, if South Korea is as racist as I hear it is, I could absolutely believe that what got this guy in trouble with South Korean Police initially is some form of "Living while Black", and then he got thrown under the bus by his leadership.
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nullscan posted:Biggest tabletop coalition exercise is about to kick off in Korea. Similar story in Grafenwoehr. During an observer controller rotation there was a guy who came into the sleeping tent drunk and pissed all over another OC. This is probably the third or fourth piss story in this thread, it just keeps happening!
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Fivemarks posted:I mean, if South Korea is as racist as I hear it is, I could absolutely believe that what got this guy in trouble with South Korean Police initially is some form of "Living while Black", and then he got thrown under the bus by his leadership. I think the context clues of dude running across the DMZ and creating an international incident suggests that he probably had a direct hand in this entire mess that extended beyond just existing, but I guess you never know...
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Punished Ape posted:Similar story in Grafenwoehr. During an observer controller rotation there was a guy who came into the sleeping tent drunk and pissed all over another OC. This is probably the third or fourth piss story in this thread, it just keeps happening! Woke up on the ship, in home port, to the sound of someone squealing in pain and loud thumps. Rolled out of my bunk, look over to the other side of the berthing to see a very wet first class beating the absolute poo poo out of a new (like, first week onboard) DC fireman. Said fireman was taken out drinking with his shop at someone's house, since he was barely 19. He came back to the ship, got lost trying to find the head and came into our berthing and proceeded to piss all over the guy. He was still peeing while he was getting rocked. Dude was admin separated a week later. Similar: on deployment, pierside in Turkey. One of our new firemen came back absolutely shithoused, woke up needing to puke, rolls out of his rack and immediately starts projectile vomiting. Covers his mouth with his hand, and directs the stream straight onto a 2nd class in the middle rack. He woke up, realized dude was way bigger than him, so grabbed someone's boot off the floor and brained him with it. No one reported it so no issues.
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iwentdoodie posted:He woke up, realized dude was way bigger than him, so grabbed someone's boot off the floor and brained him with it. No one reported it so no issues. That's admiral material
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SerthVarnee posted:The poor guy who took over the armory without going through everything in there first? Yesssss. It took me an eternity of rereading a ton of the previous idiot thread (which was absolutely worth it though), but look what I found: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3519705&pagenumber=92&perpage=40&highlight=armorer#post440224408 Edit: story ended up being more tame than I remembered it, but it certainly still got a lot of interesting reactions in the thread. SerthVarnee fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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SerthVarnee posted:Yesssss. It took me an eternity of rereading a ton of the previous idiot thread (which was absolutely worth it though), but look what I found: Go a couple pages and that dunk on 50FA is pretty great.
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The reddit relationships drama thread on SA found a secondhand Army idiot.quote:I was completely, blindsided- what do I do? & can I go home? And the top rated comment: quote:Not A Lawyer, but a former (married w dependent child) enlisted soldier in a unit with a lot of lovely spouses.
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Let him or her know that [RANK LASTNAME FIRSTNAME] in Whatever Company, Whatever Platoon is your husband and is preventing you from going back to the home you share with him.
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Cythereal posted:The reddit relationships drama thread on SA found a secondhand Army idiot. That is going to make for a fun weekend.
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Did 50FA go through every single thread on SA and sanitize their entire posting history?
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What was the dunk?
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Probably just tired of the "YOUR STORIES ARE FAAAAAKE" brigade following him around to literally every thread he posted in to go HEY EVERYBODY, HIS STORIES ARE FAKE! Nobody gives a rats rear end, sorry your stories are so boring
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his stories were like sea stories. this ones a no shitter shipmate was still a good read
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ded posted:his stories were like sea stories. He used a little artistic license to make them really good but there wasn't even anything out of the ordinary in them once you stripped that out and it was pretty obvious.
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