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Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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McNally posted:

I heard this story from my old PL. Not sure if it's true but it's a drat good story nonetheless and I think it belongs here.

So my PL was prior-enlisted and went to OCS. Among the cadre he saw there was this grizzled old E5 so he thinks "oh, hey, they got Guard guys here too." Come to find out that he was not, in fact, an old Guard E5, but rather an Active Duty E5 who had been busted from E9 for probably the most over the top stupid Army story I've ever heard.

Story goes that the dude used to be a battalion CSM. One evening a couple of his joes show up to the barracks beat up from a fight they had with some dudes in another battalion. That doesn't sit right with this CSM. So he orders every swinging dick in the barracks to form up in the parking lot as they are and to make sure they bring whatever baseball bats or mop handles or whathaveyou they have on hand. Forms up his battalion, marches them to the barracks where the dudes who allegedly beat up his joes lived and announced to the building via bullhorn that the offending motherfuckers had thirty seconds to surrender themselves before he ordered his battalion to take the barracks.

I'm certain that the reason there was no response was because everybody inside was confused as hell. But true to his word, when the offending motherfuckers failed to surrender themselves, he ordered his battalion to take the barracks.

Apparently you're not allowed to do that and, so the story goes, he was busted from E9 to E5.

Is the story true? Probably not. But drat if the mental image of a very confused battalion rushing into another battalion's barracks at the order of their CSM isn't a good one.

I want this to be true solely because the thought of the actual words "offending motherfuckers" being shouted through a bullhorn has me in goddamn stitches

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Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
It kind of is. There are documentaries dedicated solely to how goddamn close we came to exploding each other.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Don't forget one of the goons in the thread figured out where this Child-Deathtrap was and called the loving police on them. Nothing came of it other than the officer milling around for a bit because "We got a call about something out here :confused:", leaving, and then OP edited all his posts.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
How does that make you an idiot? You're no more likely to get the numbers than they are, so why waste twenty bucks?

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Fart Sandwiches posted:

If you're in a situation where 20 dollars is a lot of money then you're probably still enlisted

Oh I'm not enlisted, couldn't join if I wanted to. I'm 100% deaf in both ears, the US military doesn't want toys that are already broken. I just like reading stories about what goes on there. Fair point about the 20, though

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Depends; are we talking chihuahuas, danes, huskies, what

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Booblord Zagats posted:

Does she eat gross poo poo now just to gently caress with you guys? Because that's exactly what I would do to make lemonade with that

Surströmming :getin:

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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That's a 'chicken or the egg' question, right there.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
What's an ARCOM or an AAM?

VVV Got it. Guessing there's a non-zero chance that this particular mixup was intentional by someone annoyed that McNally took them to task for dragging their feet on the paperwork?

Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jan 21, 2016

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
One would argue that being a badass enough warrior to survive into old age in the first place would get you to qualify.

The average life-expectancy in those days was not much past 30, a quick and dirty googling tells me.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I did say I didn't exactly look very hard

E: I do stand by my statement about being a good enough warrior that you survived that stage of your life should count, though.

Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Feb 22, 2016

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I have half a mind to get that 'zaurg, get a divorce' gif turned into 'McNally, get a lawyer'.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I just wanted a gif project to do :shrug:

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
So my takeaway here is that Max was a Marine. C/D?

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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I'm not sure if your av makes this information better or worse.

For real though, this guy is a terrible human being and I am mildly ashamed with my country for not nailing him to the wall.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
but muh freedums! :bahgawd:

Zeris posted:

I don't care how this makes the war on terror harder to fight somehow,
Please tell me people haven't tried to defend their hosed up porn by claiming this. Let me keep one last shred of faith in humanity.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
If Fallout has taught me anything it's that potatoes do even better in a radioactive wasteland than they do in a clean one. Do it, prevent any more potato famines, be the hero of (what's left of) Ireland.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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If you're not allowed to put anything in the pockets, why even loving have them

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
The F-35 is a dumpster fire entirely (okay, only mostly) because of the Marines' retarded demand that it have VTOL; without that, it would simply be a bad plane. That's all the reason I, a civilian, need to make fun of them.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
His spelling is pretty good, at least! :shobon:

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Probably not a Marine then, so you should be fine

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Trust the man with the bleeding skull-face

he knows whats what

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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No gently caress you I want to live

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
This all sounds vaguely familiar.
So basically the military is Old/New GBS?

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Deep Impact didn't have Michael Clarke Duncan riding a hog being chased by police, which automatically makes it inferior.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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I've found him and shown him your post history. We're both very disappointed in you.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Not everyone here has magnifying glasses, though

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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If he made contact with the ground, technically he did crash :v:

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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I'm getting the impression the military is full of terrible people!

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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We're talking about awesome shows now, please try to keep up

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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poo poo all over the COs office. Live the dream.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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My money is on military shower stall with a car battery.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Him John, Big tree!

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Do not break the masquerade, you fools!

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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How the gently caress do you fail to notice a goddamn cargo ship about to t-bone your ship

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
What the gently caress? Once is coincidence, twice in two months?

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Did he deserve it? Trick question, he's a CO, of course he did

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

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Whole lot of defensive high functioning alcoholics itt

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Oh I'm not poking fun at you for being alcoholics, I understand that part, I'm poking fun at being so defensive about it :v:

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Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
Lowtax's still getting money from somewhere.

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