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Someone, sometime, somewhere has to have been so desperate to avoid a bus license that they've deliberately destroyed the transmission a la the Truman Show and still been passed because the unit that sent them needed it.
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My unit is pretty great about licensing. According to my license, I’m qualified to drive every model of Stryker in existence, every Humvee, and am pintle trailer qualified. I have never driven a Stryker, it’s been at least 5 or 6 years since I drove a humvee and I’ve never done a course for it, and lol just lol at doing any of that with a trailer.
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We did cross training on brads and tanks in the desert and somehow, by reasons I can never understand because I was the loving operations/training guy, it showed up on people's licenses right around when I left. The scout unit we trained with had to have done it and never told us. I don't even remotely understand how spending a few days dicking around with a tank somehow makes you qualified for them. The entire point of doing it in the first place was because we outnumbered the scouts 2-1 and they wanted us trained on their poo poo so our guys could move their vehicles when we were using them as gates.
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At tank school we all got in a line and they gave everybody licenses for the entire M1 family. This was before I had driven a tank at the school.
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EBB posted:Don't get a bus license. Never, ever get a bus license. This.
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lol if you still have a .mil driver license.
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My flight for PSYOP Selection was set to leave tonight (after getting pushed back from September due to Hurricane Florence) and the flights were all cancelled this morning.
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Is the whole readiness training model what's driving this need for tons of meetings? When I first got to my unit 3 years ago there was only the BN training meeting once a week, staff sync once a week, command and staff every other week. I spend about 10 hours a week in meetings now, and only one of those hours is useful for me, the BDE S4 sync. The other meetings my sole purpose is so answer any S4 specific questions. Which is rare. I'd love to see some kind of efficiency report on how many man hours are wasted by the Army.
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I don't think that will happen as long as the Feres doctrine is a thing. It might lead to the people who make those decisions being held accountable for their actions and we can't have that happen. They earned their benefits. benefits only available if staff level or higher, since no one else is actually a person to these shitfucks
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Nov 27, 2018 18:12
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Mustang posted:Is the whole readiness training model what's driving this need for tons of meetings? Wait until you find out about private sector management. I go to so many hour long meeting where my job is to say “the ship sails on X date. I need all cargo aboard by Y.”
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Nov 27, 2018 18:15
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if you didn't have all these meetings people might figure out how little these people do
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Nov 27, 2018 18:37
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By the end of my contract I was spending no less than half the work day either smoking or playing games on my phone on the toilet and nobody even noticed. Or, at least they never mentioned it. If you ran the military efficiently then all the work that needs to get done for the week would get done in a day, and then people would start wondering what our tax dollars are going towards. Then the budget goes down. Nobody wants that. Now let's go sweep the motor pool until a reasonable time to go home for the day.
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Nov 27, 2018 18:45
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Bullshit. I train to standard, not time.  Fight me.
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I work to time, not standard 
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Vasudus posted:I work to time, not standard Virgin private: Leaving work at COB Chad specialist: Leaving for lunch and not coming back.
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chad specialist gets called back at 1320 because the platoon sergeant might have info to put out in a release formation at 1730 that could have easily been a 5 word text
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mods changed my name posted:chad specialist gets called back at 1320 because the platoon sergeant might have info to put out in a release formation at 1730 that could have easily been a 5 word text Look at this virgin private with his cell phone.
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lol if you don't rate being issued a phone (that you just can't stop forgetting at work gosh dang it)
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:The III Corps CSM went hard in 2012 at Fort Hood: as the flag went up each morning, MPs rolled out to every gate and put up barriers for all the outbound lanes. Any car leaving post between 6:30 and 7:30 was redirected to a holding lot, where ID cards were taken. They had courtesy patrols cruising off-post PT locations for people in uniform, which was HIGHLY ILLEGAL/IMMORAL. Also the PXs had courtesy patrols during all working hours. Wanna use the elevator at the soldier service center? Better have a written profile on hand. Wow. It's been 33 years and Hood still sucks.
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Being near III Corps was by far the worst loving part of Fort Hood. We used to do "First Team Time Training" or whatever on Thursdays. You came in at 0700 and did ranges/ruckmarches and poo poo. It was right before a 4 day so we wore our Stetsons at a formation and the III Corps CSM came by and chewed everyone out because it wasn't a Friday.
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Nov 29, 2018 17:00
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I can't blame him from trying to save you all from yourselves in those dorky hats
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those dorky hats were hella expensive too* *assuming you paid full price like a sucker and didn't get a knockoff down the street for 20 bucks
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One thing I like about being a non-cav mos (and not being anywhere near cav people), but getting my gold spurs in 03, is that nobody knows what i'm actually supposed to wear. So I just bought an awesome looking black stetson and some really cool replica brass spurs.
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I don't actually wear the stuff. It just hangs on a wall. That's probably still bad though.
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definitely not as bad as wearing them for no drat reason
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mods changed my name posted:definitely not as bad as wearing them for no drat reason What about in the bedroom?
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I had both the spurs (a spur ride is the absolute stupidest thing) but I gave both of them along with my stetson to my roommate when I left. I think my ~spur certificates~ are in my box of army poo poo somewhere.
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Yeah, I would never have done a spur ride. But shooting some dudes while some cav guys were with us? Sure, I'll do that.
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spacetoaster posted:What about in the bedroom? That's a more respectable reason than wearing them in any official capacity. A lot of people like being degraded in private, doing it in public is too much for my puritan self.
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Being a forced reclass to a big dumb scout I told them straight up I don't know what the deal with the weird hat and spurs is but if you want me to wear it, you're going to have to issue it, and I'm not doing basic 2.0 to get them. They were super mad but not as mad as the day I said "what the gently caress is fiddler's green?" The only piece of flair I bought like that were tanker boots but they were super comfortable.
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My favorite thing the Cav ever did beaides try to kill me/get me killed, is practice roping a saw horse with a plywood head. They got very, VERY angry that my whole squad stood there mocking them and laughing. Some dude tries to pull rank on my squad leader, who looked him dead in the eye and said, "gently caress off, you aren't in my food chain". Those dudes literally sent the PSG to yell at strangers for laughing at them for roping a stationary wooden bull.
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I'd wear a Stetson before I ever wore tanker boots. Not that I ever could anyone, I don't know poo poo about tanks. I don't wear any of my CAV stuff. I guess I'm an awful Armor officer.
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Tanker boots are comfortable, functional and don't look stupid. A stetson looks stupid in every environment possible, worse than the dumb beret.
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tanker boots really lost a lot of their fashion appeal in the switch from leather to suede imo
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The funniest Cav units are guard Cav units.
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Vasudus posted:A stetson looks stupid in every environment possible, worse than the dumb beret.
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psydude posted:The funniest Cav units are guard Cav units. I was attached to a natty guard cav unit for my IRR deployment and I was loving pumped when they stuck us IRR dudes in the TOC. I have never been more scared in training than I was doing live fire lanes and shoot houses with those clowns.
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bulletsponge13 posted:My favorite thing the Cav ever did beaides try to kill me/get me killed, My tank was a second from putting a 120mm sabot into a bradley full of scouts when a brand new butter bar came tearing rear end out into a tank live fire gunnery. Gunner had already had him lazed but thankfully realized what the gently caress he was and threw the gun up and screamed out cease fire. Scouts must've heard about it because later when I was a scout on they tried to kill me with their bad driving.
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