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I just started my Farsi course here, goarmy. Badgers, I'm pretty sure we're in the same class, because I'm typing this up on my brand new macbook, courtesy of the Army. Who's your section leader?
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Godmachine posted:DLI is the only place I've seen the Air Force be treated worse than the Army. I second this. People hate on airmen nonstop here. This marine in my class just brings it up every chance he seems to get, though he does sit next to an airman and a slow, good cop/bad cop kind of relationship is starting to bloom. I'm waiting for China to invade and they have to put their differences aside and fight the invaders off together.
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Dec 5, 2012 06:19
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I feel bad for you Airforcees. Here in the Army we get beat up and yelled at for like 2 months during phase 4, then they leave us alone forever. I keep hearing that everyone has training this Friday or something like that, my sergeant told me that after Thursday he'll see us Tuesday morning.
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Jan 16, 2013 17:53
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Deathy McDeath posted:I know it's not an Arab language, but Persian sounds nice My teacher explained that by telling us that Spoken Farsi has been designed through many years of laziness to be extremely fluid.
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Feb 10, 2013 06:28
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Silvance posted:I'm heading here in September with the Army. How exactly do they determine what language I get anyway? I can never seem to get a straight answer from my recruiters, as I'm their first ever 35P from our lovely little region in Alabama. Of course, that could just be recruiters being recruiters. As faddypaddy said, it all depends on what your score was and what the Army needs to fill at the time/whatever they can throw you into. I think like 15 of the 35 soldiers I came with from my basic found out they didn't even have class seats so they had to wait a bit or get a language switch. But honestly, your recruiters are not being shifty on you, when you get to basic your drill sgts are probably going to be the same way about 35Ps, as in, won't know much at all about it.
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Apr 19, 2013 23:58
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 Update from DLI Airman Badgers is a shitbag
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Apr 24, 2013 20:55
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TheUnhorse posted:Hey to whoever was asking how the Army chooses languages; it's completely arbitrarily and 99% likely based on what classes need bodies that your DLAB can fill. Also, DLABs mean nothing in class (no one will know) and most linguists suck dick at the job. Yeah, I'm just here because infantry was full. My recruiter lied to me!!! How bad is it once you get out of Goodfellow? I'm kind of tired of having everyone constantly tell us we'll all be shining stars with money pouring on us once we get language qualified.
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Apr 26, 2013 02:54
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TheUnhorse posted:Linguist has better prospects than infantry for sure, but it just depends. After Goodfellow, it really depends on where you go... What language? Persian Farsi. And we had this teacher come into our class from the Student Learning Center who bragged that he picked up "passing DLPTs" as a hobby where he'd just commit to memory certain words from a language, then take the DLPT for it and get a passing grade. He said he'd taken the test so many times he can just guess through them based on the questions.
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Apr 26, 2013 21:48
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My friend just got pulled from Farsi Class and was given a choice of staying in the Army or leaving. She choose to stay and they gave her 35Q, Crypto network warfare specialist. All the Airforce people who got pulled with her are being kicked out, the navy guy is getting undezed status, and she got ultra secret computer hacker. I thought it was funny.
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May 12, 2013 04:08
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TheUnhorse posted:The jokes on her, that course is loving hard as hell. Harder than DLI could ever be. Hope she didn't drop out of Farsi because she didn't know how to study... Yeah, she's nervous about it, kind of pissed because of how hard it is and how long, but with her case it really was a lack of ability why she failed out. I saw her at study hall every night putting in extra hours to try and pass but just didn't click. And after she got her slot she was approached by two sergeants from our platoon who pretty much cried about not getting that job and how they were told the slots were on a "two year waiting list".
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May 12, 2013 05:07
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Got to avoid doing that whole Memorial Day thing because I was on "immersion" to Fort Ord.  On the negative side, God drat Memorial day weekend safety brief.
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May 25, 2013 20:06
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TheUnhorse posted:Ugh I forgot all about those immersions. They sucked Our immersion coordinator by the end of it just kind of gave it and began bullshitting with the sergeants at the smoke pit in English. On a plus note, one guy told the entire class and teaching team that he lived on Cock Island after mis-pronouncing a proper name. Today in the defac I over heard a boot marine calling a bunch of Navy people POGs. I just wish I knew what they did in those extra 4 weeks that makes Marines so retarded some times.
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May 31, 2013 04:56
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Entire Army just lost all alcohol, weekend passes, have curfews at 9pm, and have to have battle buddy's everywhere they go. I'm pretty sure this is about to hit most Military Training posts soon as well due to pressure from the President. And that was how the Mucky Duck went out of business. Androies fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Jun 4, 2013 01:47
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GreenMeat posted:How does this policy affect married soldiers living in quarters/off post? So help you God if an E7 catches you in the grocery store buying food by yourself. My friend was told he couldn't walk his son around the neighborhood by himself, in fear of...stuff. If its an emergency, you can call your platoon sergeant and ask permission to leave your house after 9...
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Jun 6, 2013 03:56
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Update: My friend who was dropped from DLI and went to 35Q school has just been dropped from there as well. When it rains it pours I suppose. My class break was sick in case y'all were wondering.
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Jun 26, 2013 02:58
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Internet Wizard posted:I'm always seeing horror stories from Air Force people about life at DLI, but I was wondering, how does that compare to what it's like for a Marine going through there? You need a liberty buddy with you when you leave post I'm pretty sure, so I hope you like threesomes.
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Jun 29, 2013 05:26
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popejackson posted:My classmates aren't bad people but goddamn can I not focus in class. There's just so much noise and disruption. Non-stop retarded questions and banter going on. Holy gently caress. Seriously thinking about asking to change sections. At least then I can have some peace and quiet before I rock out. If you feel like something is seriously holding you back bring it up immediately because this is not the kind of place where you ignore it, because you'll fail out and those retards will go on to get 3/3/2s. Edit: Also, gently caress Farsi and gently caress the Army.
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Aug 22, 2013 02:17
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Forgot to mention one of the Army's finest left DLI the other week after being on casual status for an amazing 8 months after being pulled from class with a LOE for falling asleep constantly. I think it was only week 13 at that point. He had these little raptor hands he'd just stalk around post with, always in uniform because he'd lost his CAC/Dog Tags/Door Key so many times he was on permanent phase 5 status. He says he left with $10k in his bank account, TS clearance, and an honorable discharge, but I don't know how believable that is. One of the more notable stories is that he borrowed somebody's computer for a CQ shift, then forgot to clear the history after giving it back. Apparently he had a bit of an animal milk fetish, and there was furry erotica, because, of course.
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Aug 24, 2013 07:54
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Badgers posted:That guy was weird as gently caress. I always wondered what was wrong with his hands. He's got a replacement now thankfully, this one guy who does pushups with his elbows bent the opposite way like he's something from a horror movie. And I guess the guy who got pulled out of class with an LOE in week 46 for Edit: Also, how's that sweet civ life? Everything I ever hoped for and more?
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Aug 24, 2013 21:57
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Update straight from DLI Army can drink again. Time to see how long we last until it gets taken away again, looking at you, guy who turned to me after the briefing and said "I'm gonna get so loving shitfaced tonight I'm gonna wake up in my vomit." Edit: gently caress Farsi still
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Sep 7, 2013 04:04
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I like to think of it as the 18x program for people with college degrees. Only, instead of "hey, if you don't make Special Forces you still get to be infantry with airborne training" it's "you can't learn this language so here's cook and you don't get any money and also I hate you." Edit: Also, you're fat now.
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Sep 16, 2013 02:01
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ryan_woody posted:It may be stressful, but don't turn to prescriptions. My buddy took some Adderall the night before the test to help with his all-nighter. He passed with flying colors, but popped hot on the piss-test the day after. He spent a year on casual duty in Monterey (lol) and eventually got chaptered out with a dishonorable. Don't be that guy. God I wish I could have seen the look on his face the next day when he got picked for that piss test formation.
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Sep 24, 2013 02:52
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I don't know about the rest of you jerks, but apparently the Army is moving its "fun sports" day from the 11, which we have off due to Columbus Day, to the 18th, the next Friday, which is a normal day, thus taking us out of class for the day. The reason being that it's easier to file paperwork to get soldiers out of class than to get them to come in on their day off. Man, I know the Army says its mission here is for you to learn your language, but a lot of the time I feel like the commanders just sit at their desks pissed that we have this whole "language" thing to do instead of "Army Stuff."
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Sep 28, 2013 02:33
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After getting a 3/3/2 all I can say is this: gently caress Persian Farsi.
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Nov 16, 2013 08:49
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Remember when you first posted on here asking about Marine life? I wasn't lying when I said I hope you like threesomes.
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Jan 17, 2014 06:46
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"Originally I wanted to be a cav scout or artillery or something cool, but my recruiter told me to do this instead because I tested well, honestly I wish I didn't listen to him, this is mad boring." The amount of times I hear this from Army people is pretty depressing. You're getting paid to literally learn a language, holy poo poo.
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Jan 30, 2014 05:29
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Professor Bling posted:doubt it would go much farther than the Duck under its own power.
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Feb 18, 2014 09:32
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popejackson posted:Figured I should ask the Army folks in here: Anyone have information on submitting an airborne school packet as 35p? Like how long it takes to process and what the requirements are? What language are you? This is going to be your biggest factor at play here, aka, if you don't know French, Arabic or Indonesian (I think) it's going to be a lot harder.
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Mar 15, 2014 19:43
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popejackson posted:Thanks for the advice. I am studying Arabic btw.
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Mar 17, 2014 00:43
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There's no reason not to get the degree, get the degree. I'd say it's BS you Pashto linguists get a chance to go to Germany while us Farsi rot here in the states, but one of the guys in my class is going to Wiesbaden, apparently all he did was call branch or some poo poo. I keep telling everyone here in Texas that my going to Ft. Campbell is gonna be great compared to their intel sperg bases, but deep down I know I'm gonna be painting rocks and pulling weeds with $800 in FLPB every month.
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Aug 3, 2014 07:37
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Analogical posted:Macbook? the gently caress They actually cost the same/less than those lovely thinkpads the Army used to issue at DLI, and they're 100 times better. The IPADs I can't say much about, mine was pretty much a paperweight/gaming platform.
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Nov 18, 2014 04:44
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Another year, another 3/3 I have no idea how I got. If you fail the Farsi DLPT you're just bad at guessing.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:34
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Analogical posted:You're not in Disgusta are you? Of course not, my language skills are being put to the test at beautiful Fort Campbell. At least there's a fuckton of Farsi and Dari linguists in my section so we can talk poo poo about everyone else.
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Nov 22, 2014 17:00
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Deathy McDeath posted:It would be more like از پشت من کیرم بخوری Don't forget your ra, you loving peasant. Also lol for anyone struggling to get a 2+/2+ only to come to a tactical unit where language means nothing and getting support for your language is near impossible because you need to learn how to use X piece of equipment or do Y bullshit "real" Army training, or just go to the field this week, that week, and every other week forever.
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Apr 9, 2015 04:59
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Friar Zucchini posted:Tell that from the guy from my class whose 3/3 sent him to a special forces unit.
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Apr 11, 2015 01:39
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http://www.ksbw.com/news/monterey-defense-language-institute-student-reported-missing/32557236 Perfect mix of Army BS and DLI sperginess. "Commanders said it would take about 2 months before she could get treatment." ArmyMedicine.txt
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Apr 25, 2015 22:36
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MegaJoe89 posted:I'm calling BS. If my time at DLI taught me anything she ran away because she got tired of weirdos creeping on her, or got knocked up by one of those weirdos. "fasting for 40 days in the Forrest" is code word for "going to Mexican back room abortion clinic to get this embarrassment out of me" If you haven't realized the military hates money by now there is no hope for you. My buddy I went to Goodfellow with who is in the Florida National Guard is literally on TDY to Germany for his language refresher course.
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Apr 26, 2015 05:47
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Guess I should have specified, my buddy is a Farsi linguist. Yes, they flew him to Germany to study Farsi.
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Apr 26, 2015 22:08
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son gay. so what posted:Any updates on this? http://www.montereyherald.com/general-news/20150429/missing-woman-25-found-wandering-in-big-sur Apparently somebody recognized her while hiking around Big Sur.
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Watchlist for being a total loving loser.
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Sep 11, 2015 04:51
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