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Kavak posted:What makes boots wear backpacks? In all my time at college I have never once felt the urge to wear my backpack unless I was taking my laptop and books to class.  Vengarr posted:Every day, like clockwork, 10 or so ROTC guys would come into the student center and make for the Wendy's. Then they'd all stand at attention while in line like they were headed for a firing squad or something. Close enough to whisper sweet nothings into the ear of the guy in front of them. Once they had their food, they would march out. Your college's ROTC was apparently the short-bus of ROTC.
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Oct 5, 2014 02:09
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Reverand maynard posted:the sad thing is nothing compares to just a good pair of hiking boots
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Oct 30, 2014 02:38
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Cojawfee posted:Edit: I guess I'll add in that he's only in the air force because he got a CDC waiver after failing two or three times. lol what's his AFSC
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Dec 1, 2014 04:32
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Dr. Jamming posted:army friend of mine Dr. Jamming posted:According to him, she was actually pretty hot So she's got most of her teeth, is just slightly overweight, and only has a couple stretch-marks from the 2 kids that have popped out of her so far.
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Jan 11, 2015 02:40
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Wait, the Army has a driver's badge? So it's like a weapons qual badge except for being able to operate motor vehicle? For some reason this is hilarious to me
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Jan 12, 2015 04:58
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Someone post the picture of Petraeus testifying in front of Congress looking like a Banana Republic/DPRK general.
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Jan 12, 2015 05:14
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Like I said in the Current Events thread, lol if you think Petraeus is going down for this. DOJ is way too busy prosecuting whistleblowers to waste their time on someone connected whose sole motivation for leaking classified was profit and getting his dick wet.
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Jan 12, 2015 06:57
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My deployed AFCM includes an oblique reference to the time I almost got someone (and possibly myself) killed by loving around with a generator at KAF. A mx Capt and an airfield management Lt are probably not the people you want troubleshooting why a hangar door isn't getting juice from a portable generator (that would be the same portable generator I drove across the runway to get it to the hangar in the first place...in a vehicle I wasn't qualified to drive, with no qualification to be towing anything, on an airfield I wasn't technically qualified to drive on at the time). I am really disappointed though that they couldn't work in a "MWR" (i.e. beer burgers and tits) related bullet to one of my OPRs and/or dec from when I worked Red Flag.
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Feb 9, 2015 00:23
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Nah, by the time I was there the poo ponds were basically all but gone (they finally dismantled them last year I'm pretty sure). Now the burn pits the Afghan AF dudes were running outside the wire just upwind of Losano/CBS were a different story.
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Feb 9, 2015 02:48
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Zeris posted:I have 4 years on you and no cavities either, what do you need besides 2x cleanings per year? give me a hug That's probably what he was getting at. Which raises questions as to why the military only provides for you to go once a year.
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Feb 10, 2015 04:53
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Feb 23, 2015 03:10
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Zeris posted:My mom put my SAT score on a cake and took a picture of me holding it lol based on your family, you apparently made the correct life decision by enlisting
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Feb 23, 2015 07:43
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Casimir Radon posted:Smoke Crack Nah Smoke Crack just failed to deliver on some patches or whatever, m0t literally posted classified OPLAN specifics and poo poo \/ poo poo totally forgot about that disregard what I said \/ iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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Mar 14, 2015 06:13
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Lazy Reservist posted:I know he's pre GiP, but GI Joe Dirtbag was the worst. He apparently lived literally just down the road from where I grew up, same county and maybe even the same town technically
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Mar 14, 2015 06:52
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I'm seriously considering turning down becoming a civilian for joining the Reserves or the Guard gently caress
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Mar 19, 2015 04:16
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Professor Bling posted:yup, def living up to that username lol post of the week at least Godholio posted:Bradley Morris' first suggestion for me was to work for an elevator company in NYC for 70k. I'm down
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Mar 19, 2015 05:15
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Booblord Zagats posted:I'm so glad he didnt get elected, but the chick that won the next election is a retired AF Colonel so Im sure its just as awful for us lol McBlinky? LunarShadow posted:Literaly only a double action revolver on an empty cylinder. Which I assume it was not. AF SP's in the '80s its actually entirely possible that they were rolling with S&W Combat Masterpieces (M15s). Still dumb though (and apparently it was a DA/SA semi-auto so yeah super dumb)
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Mar 21, 2015 08:05
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Ronwayne posted:Wasn't the Italian-Austrian front even more horrific because both sides were that dumb? Yes. Insert Churchill quote here about how "well we had the Italians last time it's only fair you've got them this time" and multiply by the Austro-Hungarian factor of sheer incompetence. bitcoin bastard posted:blackadder season 4 was actually a documentary lol LCL-Dead posted:People that were so desperate that they had sex in Porta shitters after baking in 120 degree direct sunlight all day amuse me. double lol
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Apr 4, 2015 06:46
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jesus christ this entire page every time I want to kick myself for joining the military I think about it for a second and remember that at least I had enough sense to join the make-believe military branch as an officer.
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Apr 10, 2015 04:47
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:those dudes own Nostalgia4Infinity posted:They were changing in the break/locker room and it looked hahahahaha I loving hate maintainers Also I'll kill myself if I ever get orders to 18th MXG (Actually I'll just separate but still I want nothing to do with that shitshow ever)
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Apr 13, 2015 04:26
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Bolow posted:being a maintainer is actually pretty cool as an enlisted dude, i would've legit stayed in if i could have done my job and not dealt with the goddamn stupidity that comes with the military I actually really love the concept of maintenance and if everyone in AF mx thought like me I'd probably stay in until they kicked me out But holy gently caress AF maintainers (especially E-7 and up) can be a bunch of try-hard retards and there is no way in hell I'd stay on AD to become a SQ/CC or higher (Guard is a different story)
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Apr 13, 2015 05:45
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Lazy Reservist posted:This actually caused a down day during OSW. One, you old if you talking about OSW Two, things haven't changed. We almost lost a plane (okay, a Pred so an RC plane) because we had shore power problems and someone had forgotten to make sure the back-up generator for the GCS had fuel. Oh, and if we're talking about unqualified personnel wiring generators let me tell you about the time I almost electrocuted a Lt because Army CE wouldn't do their jobs so it was left to a mx Capt and an air field management Lt to figure out how to hook up a MEP-806 to a LAMS door-raising motor. Hilarity (and fortunately not death) ensued.
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Apr 15, 2015 06:57
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Wasabi the J posted:I hook up poo poo to generators all the time, but it always frightened me how little training we get on the proper use of them; that and how cavalier people are with 10-40 kW of electricity. Then there was the time one of our AGE guys was monkeying around with the control panel for the 'Nam era MEP-12s that provided our "shore power," which he very quickly stopped when he realized that the control panel shack was less a "control panel" and more a "power distribution facility" (it had a shitload of live wires in it). Or the time that we were helping CE tear down our ramp after we moved and went to move one of the PSPs with a forklift...we got a little bit of resistance so we stopped and took a closer look. Turns out that it was still connected to buried (live) high voltage lines. Really everything to go with power on our old ramp was a complete shitshow and it's amazing none of us died considering how much we got tagged to be the ones screwing around with it even though we had zero for training when it came to electrical power anything. The Slithery D posted:FOB Warrior (Kirkuk) circa 2008-09 got lots of indirect, multiple rockets per attack, 2-5 times a week. They rarely killed Americans, but the loving TCNs were shrapnel magnets. The Army and Air Force reactions were very different when the alarms went off. Some F-16 maintainers at KAF were out at EOR (end of runway...area where you do final checks on the plane and pull arming pins before they taxi to the runway) with two of their planes when a 107 hits a couple hundred meters away. They hit the deck and a couple of seconds later the second one hits close enough to pepper the side of one of the F-16s with shrapnel right where they'd been standing. Lucky dudes. Of course on the flip side of that we'd have people get yelled at by AF leadership for not taking cover in a (hardened) DFAC. Whenever it'd happen I'd look around to see if there was anyone in an AF uniform that outranked me (O-3)...if not I'd just keep eating. There was one morning where the Taliban changed up their routine and popped off a couple rockets at breakfast. The Supreme guys haul rear end to the bunker and we're all just standing there in line going "son of a bitch I don't want to have dry cereal for breakfast" when some Army SPC gets behind the counter and starts making omelets and poo poo. The Supreme guys were pretty pro at making omelets and scrambles but that Specialist knew what he was doing. Same AF leadership had a policy that post rocket attack you had to run from the building you were in (that presumably didn't get blown up) outside to a bunker...so you run from the non-blown up completely safe building you are in outside to where there could be UXO or any other kind of post-attack hazard. AF leadership was/is pretty stupid.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:27
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I think I mentioned this before, but COMKAF (KAF Installation Commander, USAF one-star) ordered a no-notice health inspection of the boardwalk restaurants. Unlike the DFACs, which were (in theory) regularly inspected by US/NATO mil/gov contract oversight folks, the boardwalk restaurants were completely on their own with no oversight whatsoever. Among the many, many, many violations that they found were rat feces in multiple food storage areas (including on the food itself) as well as a whole bunch of them turning off their food storage refrigerators/freezers at night to save power. This was in the summer where even at night its still 90 loving degrees outside. Even after these findings were published to the KAF population at large and after they shut down the entire boardwalk for a couple of weeks....people still ate at all the restaurants, including the ones that had violations (which was basically all of them except for the smoothie place, the kabob/pizza place, and the coffee/donut shop that used to be Tim Horton's.) Seems appropriate for the idiot thread. And yeah, there was a whole bunch of great graffiti all over KAF (also a plethora of dicks). We had a gigantic Grim Reaper on an A-Wall with some Latin that said "Everyone lives, but not everyone deserves to." We stenciled a little Hellfire onto the wall whenever one of our planes expended a missile. That wall has been up and running since 2012....so there's a whole shitload of missiles.
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Apr 20, 2015 03:25
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LCL-Dead posted:Police your own stuff? lol yeah I was gonna say the withdrawal to Pusan basically provides the object lesson for what happens to equipment accountability in the US military when it gets its poo poo kicked in Exhibit B would be the insane amount of poo poo that was demo'd in place or just straight up left behind during the last days in Vietnam/SEA.
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Apr 28, 2015 04:23
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Casimir Radon posted:Some idiot from maintenance got drunk at COMBAT HAMMER and sexually assaulted someone. Casimir Radon posted:Another guy almost missed the flight home because he was passed out drunk in a Denny's toilet. That's more the poo poo I'd expect from a trip to the Redneck Riviera for Combat Archer, not a TDY to scenic Ogden for Hammer. Well I mean someone from mx sexually assaulting someone is pretty much a given for any trip I guess.
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May 17, 2015 23:02
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Casimir Radon posted:They can't go anywhere without something dumb happening. See: Guy wakes up in a ditch with no pants on. That's just good clean fun Also Mike-o posted:Next time tell the reserve idiots to suck dicks.
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May 19, 2015 06:00
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This is a story that belongs in this thread. tl;dr - Airborne SGT comes back from Afghanistan wounded, on the way to meet his fiance and parents get surprised at his hometown airport by the media, the VFW, and the American Legion for a "heroes welcome." Turns out said SGT isn't a SGT, he's a SPC, he's never been to jump school, he wasn't wounded, and he has a wife back at his home station (not the "fiance"). loving lol e: story is 5 years old, don't care, still hilarious iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 07:14 on May 22, 2015 |
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May 22, 2015 07:03
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Small minority of academy officers in my experience. Vast majority of them are even more cynical and jaded than the average Lt as a result of the 4 years they spent being waterboarded with blue kool-aid
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Jun 14, 2015 01:10
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:That's retarded. In a group full of college grads, how do you avoid having a conversation about college for a year? Godholio posted:How much time do you spend talking about high school? Specifically, YOUR high school. By name. How often do you tap your class ring on the table to show off? Yup. Assuming you're in a job more than a year or two removed from graduation, no one really talks about college in idle conversation. I can't remember the last time I made mention of "college" or my university in conversation with people at work. Hence Godholio's point...if they make a point of bringing it up right away, they're a tool. If it happens to come up in conversation several months down the road when you're randomly bullshitting about "crazy college stories" or whatever, that's a different story.
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Jun 14, 2015 09:19
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Godholio posted:Isn't sodomy still on the books? Short version no. Longer version yes technically (Article 125) but due to some court cases in the military system subsequent to the SCOTUS's striking down consensual sodomy laws in Lawrence there's basically a three part test that has to be met in order to successfully prosecute under 125, It either needs to be: - Forcible - Non-forcible but otherwise non-consensual (unconscious victim, underage victim, etc) - Consensual but prejudicial to good order and discipline (i.e. frat, within the same chain of command, and/or adultery) Outside of that precedent has established that it isn't an option to prosecute. Really it just comes to down to how the other statutes are worded. For example, Article 134 specifically refers to "sexual intercourse," which could be argued legally doesn't constitute sodomy...so you could potentially argue that getting a blowjob from someone not your wife wouldn't constitute a violation of 134, but in that instance they could potentially still get you under 125. Removing it completely wouldn't be impossible, they'd just need to modify the wording in several of the other Articles. Incidentally the last time they made a push to get rid of 125 (2012), the religious right started howling about how this would be legalizing bestiality (since it technically falls under the same statute), so we couldn't give gays a symbolic victory because it would mean all the troops would be having sex with animals. Everyone loving each other in the rear end now that DADT is gone is bad enough, but animals?!?!? That's just a bridge too far good sir.
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Jun 29, 2015 05:26
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Of course he's a TACP. I knew even before clicking the link he was either a cop, mx, EOD, or some form of battlefield airman.
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Jul 15, 2015 23:43
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Lazy Reservist posted:Well, there was GI Joe Dirtbag, but he was perma'd before GiP became a permanent forum. he was just a regular criminal, not a war criminal
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Dec 5, 2015 07:28
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Godholio posted:Not exactly a lost gun story (and I know I've posted it before) but I knew a captain who, during an argument with a SNCO set his M9 on the table between them and said something to the effect of "Well I'm an officer." Is that your "and then the crazy officer pulled a gun on the SNCO" story or is there another one? Because I feel like you've got another one but maybe I'm mashing Godholio's Wild and Wacky AWACS Adventures together
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Dec 8, 2015 05:31
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Zeris posted:I don't know, when you win the lottery lots of weird poo poo happens and people start trying to blackmail you and stuff. It's weird. There are lots of ~internet stories~ about it, so big grain of salt. But you have to take up the equivalent of witness protection because people start messing with your life for a little taste. A lot of that probably has to do with the type of people who typically win the lottery...by and large on the lower end of the socio-economic ladder, so when they come into a bunch of money there's the fact that their entire goddamned extended family down to third cousins comes out of the woodwork as well as the fact that they typically make an easier mark for con men since they tend to be less educated.
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Jan 10, 2016 20:20
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SumYungGui posted:So many people think I'm bullshitting them when I say Catch 22 was a written documentary, not a work of fiction. Let me tell you about the time we put almost $2B (with a B) worth of aircraft parked on the ramp right next to each other at KAF for like 12 hours so a bunch of people could bunch together in close formation to take pictures This was less than a month after a 107mm fragged a couple of F-16s at EOR, causing damage that put them out of commission for over a week but hey, the Col thought it was a good idea and the one-star agreed!
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Jan 23, 2016 08:52
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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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Feb 8, 2016 03:52
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The Slithery D posted:Going for a drink with your troops isn't fraternization, though. Repeatedly going for a drink with only some of your troops preferentially is. Justin Tyme posted:I can get fraternization being a problem in mixed units He's speaking of frat in the context of "I'm combat arms, I only view females as a hole to stick my dick in therefore if I'm in a unit with womens I will inevitably try to have sex with them, especially if I go out to a bar with them (and it will probably involve some form of coercion and/or force)" e: and before anyone gets up in arms, I fully understand what he's getting at is an actual real problem....but it's an actual real problem only because the men in question are knuckle dragging idiots. I've been in multiple "mixed" (i.e. - how the rest of the world operates, with womens and big scary minorities and everything) units and shockingly all those units have largely had no problems interacting with "them" on a social level (to include drinking functions outside of work), because we're not knuckle dragging idiots. iyaayas01 fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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Soulex posted:Shut up ammo. that should given even more credence to what I'm saying, if even we can figure out how to deal with women-types then there's really no excuse for anyone else 
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