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GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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How did these kids get TS and how did they even make it to their 18th birthday? I have been convinced there is a secret furry population here and well this not only proves it but it seems it is a goon or channer.





I hope this visitor is signing in to my building :swoon:



Now this is what I think of when I hear about cruising for cougars!!

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GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Hagetaka posted:

Anyone who draws colon-awesomeface-colon on an official military document should provide photographic proof of their handiwork for awesome prizes

I don't know if any visitors log here can be called an official military document really. My last building seemed to have a resident named batman who was getting nightly visits by robin :gay: mostly it was a way to see who was screwing who while bored on watch.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Are you talking about the old lady that feeds all the stray cats on base? If so then ya she is still here. How does she even get on?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Oh I forgot I had this jewel, posted in the mens head in our main Navy barracks.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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The author of that D&D flyer is an interesting guy. He went UA for a week because his "spirit adviser" told him to get out of the military. He refuses to believe dragons are loving fictional creatures. The strangest thing, he slipped through the cracks and was never put in a duty section, so he picked one and went every single week and complained every time when his name wasn't called.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Ya we have a bunch of wiccans including "the white witch" who changed his own name and wears vampire fangs. He has gotten in trouble for wearing his pagan necklace in uniform. Also he says "per se" a lot.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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I love Indiana Jones he is always ready for adventure.

Ya those sailors that popped hot? One of them still hangs out on base and is engaged to a female sailor that pissed clean by a miracle, despite knowing she hosed one of his buddies while he was on restriction.

What is the story on that wiccan Marine guy? I heard he is in some sort of wizard training and must "experience wartime" to continue on to the next level of training. Is he training with this guy?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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There is a statue here overlooking the ocean of an eagle. It has been said for decades that if anyone leaves the DLI a virgin then that statue will take flight. Before I joined I used to hear stories about barracks whores and loose women in A school but drat... In my class everyone but the married people and myself has slept with someone else in our class. It is a literal loving train wreck. There is a girl who was sleeping with two of the guys in the class alternating nights, while she was dating one of their best friends. The best friend is now engaged to the other girl in that class. That particular female cheated on her prior fiance with the same guy that her current fiance's ex-girlfriend cheated on him with. Confused yet?

GetHardHero fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jun 26, 2010

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Homo de los Muertos posted:

Been listening to Master Chief's speeches, eh, seaman?

I heard about that eagle long before his last history lesson.

Ya then there are the kids that took the language in high school or college yet still fail or get rolled. I know someone with a BA in Arabic, she got rolled. This place crushes people.

I don't even want to talk about how out of shape everyone here is.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Lets not turn this thread into an enlisted/officer debate please. This is a sperg story station. I have seen officers get preferential treatment as much as I have seen junior enlisted here. I have also seen people get loving annihilated for petty poo poo. I don't know why you see guys lose their language over homework counselings or looking at facebook while some people get frat charges dropped or get restriction for drunk on duty but keep their language.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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In regards to Os getting preferential treatment at the DLI what it really boils down to is the MLI (military language instructor). The MLI is the liaison between the teachers and your unit. He also handles the roll packages and refers you to your unit for an academic review board. In most cases the MLI is an NCO usually E5 or E6. It seems in certain cases the MLI doesn't feel as comfortable putting a roll or drop package in for an officer as opposed to some kid E2 who is fresh out of boot. I know in my class our MLI calls us children, does the whole "I am training you, I am above you, you will listen to me and respect my rank" bit. He out ranks us and despite there being an E6 in our class he still has positional authority and flexes it. I am cool with it this is the military after all. However our sister class has an Army Captain in it and their class is run very different. They do self study and are spared from his speeches and threats. Now is it because the Captain goes to bat for them or is it because the Marines in my class act like they are 15?

hammeredspace posted:

You can weasel out an associate's degree in the language you studied, if that's your thing. If the computer course I took back in college wasn't obsolete I could have just handed them a transcript and got one stamped out in front of me.

Take the CLEP get the degree, I doubt it is too late.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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ElHuevoGrande posted:

You're in luck! When I was there (2005-2007) I asked "Why do the O's get hookups?" and I actually got a straight answer.

O's who aren't FAOs go to DLI for billet specific language requirements. requirements that are often times much less stringent than those for enlisted linguists. Given that the officers tend to be sent rather begrudgingly to language training, (due to cost) the emphasis is on getting them finished and doing their next job, rather than proficient by DLI standards. So when the military leadership is presented with a choice of whether to pull an officer who sucks at the language, or push him through with tutoring, they tend to come down strongly on one side.

Why do the civ teachers cut O's slack? Most of these people come from rather authoritarian cultures, and are no poo poo impressed by the shiny bars. They're human beings, and suceptible to things like that.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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I should be asleep, I want to be dead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_e37gbhtAw

Also Hitler takes the DLPT V
http://vimeo.com/11187137

GetHardHero fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jun 28, 2010

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Changed my mind about sharing that one, in case it was true.

The guy who posted the flier for D&D has a habit of talking about his games as if they were real and without prefacing what he is talking about. He will walk up to you and just launch right into it. I remember one time he came up to me and said, "So there are these bugs and my guys have to fight them and they kidnap villagers and they have little helpers that bring them water. I am a visual person and do you know what locust wings sound like? Thats all I can hear in my head right now"

I almost had a hernia from holding in my laughter.

GetHardHero fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jun 30, 2010

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Oh god that retarded gay petty officer. He "came out" in restriction, I don't think it surprised anyone. He got that DUI on base because he went to the same loving gate over and over again asking how to get off base.

Qing do you graduate on the 29th?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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I always hated numbers drills so very very very much. I feel bad for anyone in the history of the world whose job has been to listen to a numbers station all day.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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This place just keeps on giving. I just went to the smoke pit outside my building and overheard a guy on the phone talk about how he was walking around town and noticed in a house window an old guy watching porn. Now a normal person would probably laugh and keep walking, or be a little sick and keep walking. Hell a normal person wouldn't be looking in other people's windows. This guy however hid in the guys bushes and watched the old man watch porn for 15-20 minutes.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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If I saw someone wearing a happy cat shirt I would avoid them like they were wearing a shirt made out of plague infested rats.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Milkhaver1984 posted:

Wow, I just realized I know who you are now.

Really? Please tell me you are not the porno watcher.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Milkhaver1984 posted:

haha, no. I've seen you in the smoke pit outside of class

I don't know if I am who you think I am. I rarely smoke and I am an Arabic linguist in the Navy also I am about 3 weeks from graduating.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Thus is the pain of hopes and dreams.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Milkhaver1984 posted:

You know what I do when I'm feeling glum?
I read the Monterey Area OKCupid male ads from the military members (especially the AF) Holy lol.

Oh god, why haven't I thought of that? Just out of curiosity what branch are you? I really doubt I know anyone in this thread except for Hobo

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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hammeredspace posted:

You feelin' lucky or able or doomed?

All three. Lucky to get this far, able to pass and doomed to be up to my ears in sperg the rest of my career.


Hobo de los Muertos posted:

I'm really surprised you haven't told any stories about me yet, actually.

What like how you look like Rick Moranis and during deck clean up you used to wander around cursing under your breath? I honestly thought you had either tourrettes or were going to come in one day, go psycho and give basketball ghost some company.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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hammeredspace posted:

gently caress THIS GUY he followed me no matter what dorm I slept in

I swear he followed me to the NPS one time too :tinfoil:

Are you talking about the late night squeaking sounds that echo down the halls like basketball shoes on an indoor court?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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He is a corpsman silly.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Milkhaver1984 posted:

btw, is that marine-gave-a-raccoon-nyquill-and-then-shaved-it-after-it-passed-out Story true? I heard it today, and while I was incredulous, a part of me (a big part) really wants to put my faith in its veracity.

Do you think any marine has the patience to sit down and shave a raccoon?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Spice has to be the lamest poo poo ever. I can't even imagine spending a year and a half learning a language only to get kicked out for smoking fake weed.

edit:whoops sorry tables

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GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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QingLaiXiguaba posted:

There's really no excuse, and the only people I've seen get caught smoking it got caught by being completely stupid, not because they were picked up in a random piss test or anything like that.

What I don't get is how these guys get to this point. Did anybody sign up for the military without knowing that there was going to be a mountain of restrictions on behavior that the average citizen isn't subject to?

Then again, the vast majority of underage drinking, smoking spice, assorted NJP'able offenses I've seen are from Marines who haven't started their class yet, so maybe it's just a bad case of idle hands.

Some are just poo poo bags like the spice girls who just keep getting in trouble. You graduating the 29th?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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The spice girls are indeed some marine dudes getting the boot for spice.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Slippery posted:

Spice is testable, but you know what? Don't take my word for it, just go do it every day!

(Why would I lie to you, I mean I don't have anything to gain or lose by your doing spice. Even my own guys, if they all wanna do spice the boss will kick them out, it's not like I'm gonna get demoted if everyone I know does spice...)

Slippery we are all aware of your one man war on spice. Shooting up head shops, petitioning local and federal governments to ban the stuff. Blowing up cigarette boats from Cuba smuggling the poo poo in. Tokan doesn't know, he doesn't know about what spice did to your brother man...

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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There is no night life here unless you like kareoke and gay hand jobs or sex with ugly army chicks (milkhaver1984 being the exception ;) ) and this is a sperg story thread not a spice thread if you ladies want to talk about spice make a spice thread.

GetHardHero fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jul 18, 2010

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Well took my final DLPT today. Either way I will be done with this place, hopefully I passed and can leave here a winner.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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It was Arabic and it was the five. I still haven't gotten the results, we used to be able to check them ourselves but some airman blew it by checking his DLPT score from the computer he just used to take it. Ya they stopped doing the second chance Spanish thing a long time ago. There was some guy here that went through Arabic, failed (On purpose he said) then took Farsi and then got out due to PTSD. He had never been anywhere but DLI. Last I heard he got hired by some company in South America making a lot of money. He was the biggest douche ever and used to get drunk and act like a tough guy until some cabbie threatened to kill him for not paying a fare.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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QingLaiXiguaba posted:

Just passed my Chinese DLPT. 2+ 2+ 1+. I still hold I got screwed on the OPI, but I'm done. Next stop, Goodfellow.

Congratulations!! I got the exact same scores and have the same feeling on the OPI.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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The OPI is graded by people and is based on their professional opinion. Professional as it may be it is still an opinion and is influence by a lot. If anything below passing or above a 2 is given then a third tester has to come in and review the tape. Also at least with Arabic there are cultural influences as well. So pretty much everyone gets a 1+ or if they blow it out of the water they might get a 2. I am happy with my 1+ and happy I never have to take an OPI again.

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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SixtySix posted:

The nightlife in San Angelo is awesome if you appreciate midnight chow hall runs

The chow hall is open that late?

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Today was my graduation and Tomorrow I leave this place. I couldn't even go to the post office to ship my stuff without being hit with sperg. The postal worker guy made me and my buddy guess theme songs from movies that he had on his laptop before he would ship my boxes. I just hope Fort Gordon is better!

GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Whenever I knew I bombed a speaking test I would beg the teacher for speaking practice before class or during lunch and work with them for a few weeks and they would turn my grade in as a B. Arabic teachers would always just make a decision on what kind of student you are and then give you that grade for everything. I could turn in a paper that was complete crap and one that I spent forever on and they would always just get a B.

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GetHardHero
Apr 16, 2007

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Oh man the DLI is the sperg capital of the world but I am starting to think that Fort Gordon is some sort of sperg nexus. It is like the sperg kids have grown up and now it is sperged out adults. Who am I kidding, these people never grow up but now it is kid brains in adult situations.

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