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God bless these valiant heroes for their service  I'd put one of those "Support are Troops" things on my car if there was a way of clarifying that I was specifically referring to these guys Uncle Enzo fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Feb 5, 2016 |
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Derek "Maestro" O'Malley didn't get busted too hard for the video. Last year he made full bird and got a job at the Pentagon, Senior Military Evaluator for Air Warfare Programs. He'd been an F-35 pilot before that when he was LTC at Nellis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qveowV-brb8 Couldn't figure out who "Freq" Casey is/was, though.
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Feb 8, 2016 03:15
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Godholio posted:I'm curious if any of them are even still in. They're not really the team players the AF seems to like. Bear in mind that they did this thing in like.....2004. IIRC people got paperwork over it but it wasn't to the degree that the AF would loving murder people if they did something like this today. As you can see, one of the two dudes is now an O-6 (I'm pretty sure the other one got out.) fake edit: hahahahaha holy loving poo poo, apparently O'Malley is a Mormon. Wouldn't have guessed that one.
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J.theYellow posted:Derek "Maestro" O'Malley didn't get busted too hard for the video. Last year he made full bird and got a job at the Pentagon, Senior Military Evaluator for Air Warfare Programs. He'd been an F-35 pilot before that when he was LTC at Nellis. that nerd been drinking the flavoraid hard
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:that nerd been drinking the flavoraid hard
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Feb 8, 2016 03:59
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If there's one thing they're good at, it's doubling down on ridiculous bullshit.
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Feb 8, 2016 04:01
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I never met a Mormon that was a dick to guys under his command. They were always decent guys.
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Reverand maynard posted:I never met a Mormon that was a dick to guys under his command. They were always decent guys. And they're champions of gay chicken ime
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Feb 8, 2016 04:48
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Ideally, Mormon doctrine focuses more on the part of the New Testament when Jesus said "stop sperging over those dumb rules you got punished with and just don't be dicks to each other" than the "feel bad about every sin that's been done even if somebody else did it" that the Catholics do, and whatever fire and brimstone nonsense from the Old Testament that some of the less pleasant Protestant groups do.
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Most of the Mormon officers I knew were some of the biggest pranksters. For some reason they got a kick out of pulling jokes on SNCOs. There was one guy who spent every other day complaining to our flight commander that there was too much cussing in the office.
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Godholio posted:If there's one thing they're good at, it's doubling down on ridiculous bullshit. And judicious use of medicated powder in their magic pantaloons.
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Feb 8, 2016 05:32
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J.theYellow posted:And judicious use of medicated powder in their magic pantaloons. Well it is like a breath mint for yo' nutsack.
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Feb 8, 2016 06:20
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It's a golden breath mint for your balls, but is it a godly breath mint for your balls?
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Internet Wizard posted:Ideally, Mormon doctrine focuses more on the part of the New Testament when Jesus said "stop sperging over those dumb rules you got punished with and just don't be dicks to each other" than the "feel bad about every sin that's been done even if somebody else did it" that the Catholics do, and whatever fire and brimstone nonsense from the Old Testament that some of the less pleasant Protestant groups do. Mostly they focus on their own "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." The one where he's in the Americas converting the natives and helping them domesticate animals that didn't exist in the Americas at the time. And the idea that they don't harp on personal guilt and shame each other is absolutely laughable. Didn't check all the boxes as a teenager to get promoted to the next level of priest? Get ready to be called out in front of everyone every week for the next few months until you cave and do it or give up on going to heaven forever. Oh, you don't feel like signing away two years of your life as a missionary to Buttfuckistan? Tsk tsk. It'll be worse for you here until that two years is up or you stop going to church completely. Godholio fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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dont they get their own universe to be god over when they die or some batshittery like that too?
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I married a nonpracticing Mormon who'd stopped going to church not because of any ideological reasons but simply because she couldn't stand going to a lovely social club every Sunday where all everyone did was passive-aggressively browbeat each other and gossip. They seem like nice enough people to outsiders but like hell I'd ever want to join that culture. My former coworker, on the other hand actually got excommunicated by his bishop. Largely because he got caught blasting the bishop's daughter. Godholio posted:It'll be worse for you here until that two years is up or you stop going to church completely. Don't forget that if you do leave they're going to send folks around to check up on you and try to get you to come back for years. And it can take a lawsuit in order for the LDS church to finally drop you off the 'inactive' rolls so folks will stop harassing you. Wild T fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Feb 8, 2016 07:43
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There used to be a stretch of I-15 running through the south portion of the SLC metro (Sandy-ish) that was "adopted" by a group named something like "The Ex-Mormons Club."
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Memento posted:Well it is like a breath mint for yo' nutsack. I used that medicated foot powder on my balls. You do not want
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Feb 8, 2016 09:39
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i had a mormon for a boss once. he was the most passive aggressive motherfucker ever
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I took the ASVAB blind without really knowing what the components of it were or how it was scored. My recruiter drove me to the testing center the evening after I had worked a full day and afterwards we were booked at a vacant hotel to be bused the next day to our physical. My roommate at the hotel scored an 11 on the ASVAB. I didn't know at the time that this basically meant he was either borderline mentally retarded or he had skipped half the exams intentionally. He told me he wanted to be one of the guys with the "glow sticks" directing jets to take off on an aircraft carrier. That night while I was trying to get some sleep he stayed up and roamed the hotel trying to find some of the "hot chicks" (our fellow enlistees) to party with. This might not count because I don't think they would recruit someone who scored so low but maybe he tried again and got in eventually. When I told my recruiter about him the next day she laughed so hard she almost had to pull over the car.
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Lazy Reservist posted:Most of the Mormon officers I knew were some of the biggest pranksters. For some reason they got a kick out of pulling jokes on SNCOs. The Book of Mormon is one huge prank, so it makes sense.
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Feb 8, 2016 10:26
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Jerkops posted:My roommate at the hotel scored an 11 on the ASVAB. I didn't know at the time that this basically meant he was either borderline mentally retarded or he had skipped half the exams intentionally. He told me he wanted to be one of the guys with the "glow sticks" directing jets to take off on an aircraft carrier. That night while I was trying to get some sleep he stayed up and roamed the hotel trying to find some of the "hot chicks" (our fellow enlistees) to party with. You better show respect to your future CSM.
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Godholio posted:Mostly they focus on their own "Another Testament of Jesus Christ." The one where he's in the Americas converting the natives and helping them domesticate animals that didn't exist in the Americas at the time. Notice the "ideally" part. And yeah people getting super weird about somebody not going on a mission the moment they turn 19 was basically the last straw in making me stop going to church. And then years later I enlisted. Coincidence?
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Jerkops posted:He told me he wanted to be one of the guys with the "glow sticks" directing jets to take off on an aircraft carrier. ABHs have it pretty cake IMO. They barely carry any chains!
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Feb 8, 2016 14:59
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Good story from This American Life about a surreal series of safety shows they used to do at Ft Bragg in the 80s and 90s. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/549/amateur-hour?act=1#play
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gently caress you I'm not watching another safety brief
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Feb 8, 2016 15:51
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Zeris posted:gently caress you I'm not watching another safety brief
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Wild T posted:I married a nonpracticing Mormon who'd stopped going to church not because of any ideological reasons but simply because she couldn't stand going to a lovely social club every Sunday where all everyone did was passive-aggressively browbeat each other and gossip. They seem like nice enough people to outsiders but like hell I'd ever want to join that culture. As an aside, every Mormon male is a "priest." A "bishop" is what every other denomination would call a "minster" or "pastor."
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Feb 8, 2016 17:15
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So what do you call the boys? "fair game"
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Zeris posted:gently caress you I'm not watching another safety brief
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Stultus Maximus posted:As an aside, every Mormon male is a "retard." A "bishop" is what every other denomination would call a "retard in chief".
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Feb 8, 2016 18:51
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Mods rename me to "Retard in Chief"
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Scratch Monkey posted:Good story from This American Life about a surreal series of safety shows they used to do at Ft Bragg in the 80s and 90s. I was at Bragg from 91-93 and don't remember these rear end-clowns.
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The funniest part of Mormon culture is that it's like a combination of a religion, a ponzi scheme and the FRG. They won't just let you show up on Sunday, sing a few songs, eat a piece of bread and go home. In order to be a 'good' member who's allowed into their temple and get into Superheaven you need to be donating at least 10% of your check (and they will schedule interviews to go over your income with you if they think you're skimping, and interrogate you about your masturbation habits while you're there), and be volunteering in one of the millions of little sub-functions they have around their ward. They have a hilariously bulletproof excuse if they want you to spend hours of your life working on some lovely church project, too, where they just say that they "went home and prayed about it" and your name came down directly from the mouth of God. It's no wonder Mormons thrive in the military; the stuff we consider unnecessary bullshit is ingrained into everyday life for them. The funniest one I've seen is the 'Singles Ward' where they basically shove all the unmarried 18+ Mormons into a room and attempt to get them to marry one another because if you're 20 years old and haven't married and started pumping out those babies you're wrong.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:48
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So it's Scientology with tax-exempt status
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:So it's Scientology with tax-exempt status Scientology is tax exempt.
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So it's Scientology.
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Wild T posted:The funniest part of Mormon culture is that it's like a combination of a religion, a ponzi scheme and the FRG. They won't just let you show up on Sunday, sing a few songs, eat a piece of bread and go home. In order to be a 'good' member who's allowed into their temple and get into Superheaven you need to be donating at least 10% of your check (and they will schedule interviews to go over your income with you if they think you're skimping, and interrogate you about your masturbation habits while you're there), and be volunteering in one of the millions of little sub-functions they have around their ward. They have a hilariously bulletproof excuse if they want you to spend hours of your life working on some lovely church project, too, where they just say that they "went home and prayed about it" and your name came down directly from the mouth of God. It's no wonder Mormons thrive in the military; the stuff we consider unnecessary bullshit is ingrained into everyday life for them. Lots of mormon chicks are hot and I bet they are into butt stuff.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Lots of mormon chicks are hot and I bet they are into butt stuff. in my experience yes and yes
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:in my experience yes and yes How nostalgic are you for Mormon butts? Added flavor: The two year mission isnt entirely paid for by the tithe. You gotta dip into some of your own family cash to get to where you need to serve the lord.
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