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Orange Someone posted:Means they don't have to carry them for the remainder of the exercise  They can't even sling their weapons on their backs like other lazy soldiers? What nationalities are these people that it's acceptable for them to purposely lose a weapon and just be "My bad, let me pay for a replacement."?
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quote:LT manages to drop a DAGR under a 7-ton and forget about it It's a sensitive item. You don't lose stuff like that.
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Dec 24, 2012 03:54
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LEGIT WAR CRIMINAL posted:ANCD. Or that newer touchscreen one that I forget the name of. SKL.
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Dec 24, 2012 05:20
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My take (like several others here) is he lost possession of it and it was only found after it was destroyed.
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Dec 24, 2012 21:07
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Confiscating his laptop for playing Excel games? Lol.
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Dec 25, 2012 01:32
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Lol, this makes me fear ever going anywhere that isn't a MI company. Although I'd drive the poo poo out of a tank if I could.
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Dec 25, 2012 04:57
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I've gotta hear the bus story.
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Dec 26, 2012 03:43
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Heh, he was the commander of the USAICOE (Army Intelligence Center) a few years ago. I remember seeing his picture at Fort Huachuca.
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Dec 26, 2012 17:50
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What about cars with daytime running lights that you can't turn off? 
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Dec 26, 2012 19:16
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quote:Ranges are their own special place of idiocy because people can kill you on them. My company ran a M9 range for the brigade this Summer and I had to yell at some Major a few times because he nearly pointed his loaded pistol sideways while loading/unloading. Good job almost flagging like 10 other people with a loaded weapon. Also the staggering number of people who couldn't operate them before they got to the range scared me when I was rodding people on. Half the Army probably has personally owned handguns, I guess these must've been the half that doesn't. On the tripping with grenades thing, I did that when we threw them in BCT since they were making us sprint from the bunkers to the pit. Almost fell over when I snagged my foot on the little wall in the front of the throwing position. Heh.
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Dec 27, 2012 01:42
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You drank hand sanitizer? That might be worse than knowing someone used it as lube. Someone I went to AIT with claimed to drink floor stripper to get drunk in basic. It sounds outrageous but this person was a legit major alcoholic so I wouldn't doubt it. On the subject of food we were allowed to eat candy from MREs however the other 3 platoons in my company had theirs confiscated by their respective DS. They watched us eat it every time we got MREs. 
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Dec 27, 2012 22:48
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quote:There was 3rd-award Private Buckmaster. The day he gets off restriction for some underage drinking and stupid bullshit (I think it involved pointing a used AT-4 at passing cars), he and this other drunken loving idiot terminal private get plastered and drive off base to do donuts in the Blockbuster parking lot. They end up running from the cops and wrecking. While Pvt. Idiot is in the passenger seat unconscious, Buckmaster crawled out of the wreckage and started jerking off. That's how the cops found him, it was in the police report. Someone mentioned putting stories in the Dick Art coffee table book; this story has to go in the book.
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Jan 1, 2013 03:42
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Heh. How many rounds does it take to get a 249 to cook rounds off? Like I'm imagining multiple belts here.
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Jan 6, 2013 07:55
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brains posted:there is a soldier in my class who was in the gulf war. he is legit like 50 years old. he is a corporal. how does this happen. Maybe he had a long break in service.
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Jan 25, 2013 21:42
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TheUnhorse posted:I love it even more when there's a drill sergeant badge on that e-2. That's definitely a   moment. I can only imagine the hilarity of a former DS getting out and then coming back in as an E4 for whatever reason and having to redo BCT due to a break in service. I'm sure it's happened.
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TheUnhorse posted:so my understanding is that if you have a 3 year break in service you HAVE to go back to BCT. What happens to all those e-5s and e-6s that come back with their rank? do they just hang out as specialists until they're done or what? For active duty it is. It's not for the Guard/Reserve. Probably because old prior service dudes would probably be like gently caress this if they had to do BCT or OSUT at 40 to reenlist into the RC.
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Jan 28, 2013 02:43
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IDR posted:Says a Soldier... A single BCT has a fuckload of expensive equipment. The Army's enormous budget has to go somewhere. Even here in the Guard, I can think of several individual vehicles worth over a million each, not to mention individual equipment. I mean it's not F-22 dollars but I wouldn't be surprised if a brigade as a whole had over a billion dollars worth of stuff.
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Admiral Bosch posted:I had a buddy of mine get hospitalized on Bastion with a concussion after an IED strike. While he was laid up in bed, still concussed, our platoon sergeant(who never went on convoys with us, for the record. Not once.) went to see him so he could NJP him for losing his NVGs during said IED strike. Lost a stripe for it. But he got a PH! WTF? I know they're a sensitive item and all but one would think getting blown up would be a sufficient explanation for their loss. Maybe I'm naive about the military justice system but that seems like a case where you should turn down NJP and ask for a court martial or at least file an IG complaint. We did some room clearing in some little MOUT site at Fort Jackson's uber hardcore BCT for an hour or two. I think the Army has some bigger problems if it ever came down to support units being asked to do room clearing. But I get the point of exposing everyone to basic infantry stuff just to know what it is although I would fully expect to die if ever tasked with it. Since basic the most I've done with weapons is qualify. I'm confident in my ability to operate and accurately fire my weapon and that's probably it. Flying_Crab fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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Feb 7, 2013 22:50
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Scuba man is awesome.
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Feb 16, 2013 01:28
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At least it wasn't the red cable.
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Mar 9, 2013 05:12
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Firing a Carl Gustav or other RR must give you a huge boner. Confirm/deny.
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Mar 20, 2013 23:20
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HATE CURES TRANNYS posted:Worst part about grenades was running a range using them. Run from one side of the course to the other! Now back! Again! OK throw the dummy grenades! We forgot to tell you to keep your pins! Oh our bad we counted wrong! Wait in line for six years to throw live ones! Ahhhh! Heh, last Summer we threw live ones which was much less lame than doing it in BCT. I think I was on that range for maybe 30 minutes if you don't include the lame practice grenade qualification course beforehand. Even if the boom is underwhelming, as a lovely thrower it's fairly terrifying. I really want to see a CG or other RR shot in person. I can only imagine how they compare to live AT4s.
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Mar 21, 2013 04:18
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more like retarded thrower left the thumb clip on.
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Mar 23, 2013 04:47
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What.
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Mar 30, 2013 18:08
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I want this story to be true so badly.
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Apr 8, 2013 18:28
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Or dudes jumping on a pressure plate they just buried to see if it works
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Apr 8, 2013 19:19
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say there is no way you could get any significant portion of a Bofors round in a 203. I mean look at the length even if the diameter is the same. Maybe if it were a M320 or similar GL where the barrel swings open to the side...
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Apr 11, 2013 02:44
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Pretty glad my job almost exclusively gets to work in one of these guys. I just need to figure out how to justify sleeping under a table or something instead of outside. DRASH tents are cool as hell, heat and air conditioning. Wonder how many hundreds of thousands they cost though.
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May 23, 2013 01:19
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Yeah they're all modular including the lights, power distribution, etc. The bigger tent sections come on a trailer (obviously the ones with the ducts coming off of them) that has an on board generator as well as the heat/AC unit. Normally we don't use the built in generators though, instead using dedicated 15k or whatever units as you can see in the picture. Really neat stuff I think.
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May 23, 2013 01:25
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ded posted:I remember because my recruiter hosed it up and made it a 70 instead of 88 like it was supposed to be. Which I didn't find out till I got out. 91 and a 127 GT  It's not that spergy unless you're remembering all of your line scores.
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Jan 4, 2014 03:37
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thehumandignity posted:How would one have access to a camera, the internet, civilian clothes, or a "barrack room" in any week of basic training? I went through BCT in 2011 and we were given our phones for 5-15 minutes 2-3 times during BCT instead of using pay phones.
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Jan 4, 2014 19:01
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I'd love to get my eyes lasered except they correct to 20/12 with glasses as of my last vision exam a few weeks ago. It seems like it might be irritating to only get 20/20 or something with PRK or LASIK even though I guess it's probably likely I'd have 20/15 or better.
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Feb 6, 2014 01:19
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How often do runaway guns even happen? I mean obviously it can happen on an open bolt weapon, but that's kinda terrifying.
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May 24, 2014 16:12
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Why wouldn't you just get a hotel. 
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Jun 5, 2014 22:15
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Does actually having a GTC and paying your balance on time actually affect your credit score in a positive way beyond getting dinged for non-payment?
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Jun 6, 2014 16:51
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 Were these filled with some ancient Russian ordinance left over from the 80s or something?
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Jul 21, 2014 20:11
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:pvt lynch saw more combat than veins at the very least 
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Jul 22, 2014 01:40
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chemosh6969 posted:We were cleaning the shop one day and an airman was told to throw a pile of stuff away. Next to the pile was a STU-III with the key. He thought was fine to throw out.
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Sep 7, 2014 20:08
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Didn't more pictures come out a few years later showing them with kids? Or is my brain just giving me false memories today.
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Screw hipsters, I've had my Timbuk2 messenger bag for 10 years. Indestructible and it doesn't scream "I'm a tool" like wearing an assault pack usually does.
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