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I somehow got roped into agreeing to participate in a Bn boots and utes run tomorrow morning. 45 minutes blocked off to run the pft course is somehow supposed to be motivating. I am sure the run will be mostly in silence since I refuse to run listening to the same goddamn "C-130 rolling down the strip" over and over.
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Obama Africanus posted:You do it to yourself, you do. There are only so many times I can fight the stupidity of our hq and win. So it's necessary to let them win symbolic victories sometimes so I still have ammo to fight the really stupid poo poo they come up with. We just finished an exercise and no one was in the field. So there wasn't any real reason we couldn't go on their silly little run. It was dumb though and now my knees hurt.
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Apr 3, 2014 23:58
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cult_hero posted:Anyone have any experience with MCAS Iwakuni? I'm going TDY over there for a few months, what do people suggest I do during downtime? Take the train from Iwakuni to Hiroshima and walk around lost as gently caress downtown. Go hang out at the Kintai Bridge and Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintai_Bridge . Check out kayaks at Outdoor Recreation and go bass fishing in ponds up in the mountains (bring coolers of beer). Kill monkeys for farmers for money. Eat at CoCo Ichibanya, The Chicken Shack, That Korean BBQ joint that is to the left of four corners, or Ganesh (Indian place in downtown Iwakuni). Take a trip to whatever the gently caress they named that island with all the deer on it. Go skiing in the indoor ski slopes in Hiroshima. Or get hosed up in the barracks and hate life.
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friend of the family DEATH TURBO posted:get this shirt but with a mushroom cloud instead of a heart first Real Talk: Don't go to Hiroshima on August 6th...ever.
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cult_hero posted:Awesome thanks all. But what's up with killing monkeys? please be real Japanese farmers used to pay 5000 yen (like 50 bucks or so in those day's exchange rate) for monkey heads because they kept loving up their crops. A group of enterprising young Marines would purchase those fishing nets with lead weights around them. With said nets and machetes they'd run around trying to ensnare and kill monkeys around the farmer's property. As you can imagine capturing a monkey in a net is not an easy task and there were only a handful ever killed but boredom and the prospect of beer drinking money had young debewl dawgs looking like idiots trying.
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overdesigned posted:Found this in another forum: Thank this man for defending your freedoms.
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So this thread got pretty weird...
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Apr 16, 2014 01:58
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So apparently the initial investigation into the gate guard shooting at Lejeune said it was the result of a negligent discharge. Anyone else hear anything about this?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Hekk why aren't you recruiting It was a mandatory B-billet for me. The screening team came and told me I had to go do it or I couldn't re enlist. I was 8 years in by that point and didn't want to throw almost a decade of service away. I did 3 years and came back out to the fleet in 2009. Hekk fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Apr 23, 2014 |
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:tell me about the quotas gunny I lie and tell my wife my nightmares are from OIF 1. Really they are from recruiting.
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Apr 23, 2014 03:53
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:hahaha did you ever have to force a fatty into a sauna to make weight before going to the meps center gunny? I bet your post sounded more clever in your head, you know, before you posted it.
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Casimir Radon posted:There also wasn't a wide variety of safe streaming options available. Let's just run crybabies off the internet so I don't have to go back to queuing up 15 second porn clips to jack off to. I used to put pages from the Fredrick's of Hollywood and J.C. Penney catalogs into one gallon ziplock bags so I could take them into the shower with me without ruining the paper.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:lmbo now im thinking about the window lickers that worked in the chow hall sodomizing recruits with cucumbers Don't they still make recruits work the chow hall or send them to the rifle range to make targets for a week?
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Apr 30, 2014 01:43
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Booblord Zagats posted:I made targets, but my platoon never got brought in to do mess duty for some (wonderful) reason When I went through I got snagged to work the chow hall on the rifle range for a week. The hours were terrible but I used to steal cheesecakes from the freezer and hide in the women's bathroom and jerk off.
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Godholio posted:no please more boot camp chat thanx As if the lovely boot camp stories were somehow taking away from the rest of the awesome convos going on in this cesspool of a thread.
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I remember being on the 100 series ranges in 29 while the gunner was giving some class on hand grenade use in the assault or something. Unit had been in the field for a few days and a couple of idiots got caught smoking weed the night prior. Rather than send them back, they just took their weapons and planned on dealing with it when everyone left the field. So it's hot as gently caress and there isn't shade. Everyone is doing the whole sit kneel bend semi school circle thing. They are making the dudes caught blazing stay near the front of the school circle. One of the kids grabs the rifle the guy next to him was leaning on and racks the bolt far enough back to put a round in the chamber. Before anyone could really react he puts that round through the bottom of his jaw out the top of his head. This dude was very obviously dead but we had to clear an LZ and send the casevac request up. After the bird took off we had to stand around in the hot rear end sun all day while CID came out and asked us all stupid rear end questions. Also we never got to throw grenades at bunkers which was the only part of the day I was looking forward to.
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Reverand maynard posted:This osprey comes in to deliver this package and since the lz is outside our little base we send a squad out as security. They land, shove this box out then take off. When the dust clears that loving box is gone, and there is this old afghan man just pointing in a direction. Fucker got launched by the rotor wash. What was in it? Snacks for EOD, a huge box full of protein milk, doritos and whatever else they wanted it and it was now littered all over the canal this bitch got launched into. Yeah rotor wash is no joke. I've been knocked flat on my face from a CASEVAC aircraft coming in too low. I thought one of my buddies was throwing me down or something but it was just the wind from the rotors.
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May 5, 2014 20:36
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Christoff posted:Fast roping out of them blows (no pun intended) Someone got a rifle jammed up his rear end. Muzzle down next time devil doc.
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May 7, 2014 22:53
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:instead of crying about them here to some random dudes who dont give a gently caress, why dont you kill the people who hurt your feelings post pictures on here and then kill yourself?
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May 9, 2014 05:53
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Snowdens Secret posted:The M16 is kind of awkward to shoot lefty, anyway. My rifle double fed and put the forward assist through my front lip while I was in boot camp. Outside of that, I've never had any issues with firing M16s or M4s as a lefty. 240s and SAWs are the real pain in the rear end.
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May 16, 2014 06:25
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Now I feel lovely for being a grey belt all these years.
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May 19, 2014 05:21
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That doesn't even make sense...
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May 19, 2014 05:33
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 My belly hangs out far enough that I don't even see it most the time. Hekk fucked around with this message at 05:59 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 05:56
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:nice edit guns I bought a mac and don't know how the gently caress to copy and paste urls...
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May 19, 2014 06:03
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I have no idea wtf a 5809 is but I'd take being stationed in 29 Palms any day of the week over Cherry Point. Stay in Yucca Valley and in less than thirty minutes you can either be at work or back in civilization. In less than 2 hours you can be in the second largest city in the US. Also, Vegas, San Diego, etc. The only thing Cherry Point has going for it is being relatively close to some decent beaches but Lejeune is even closer and they are filled with dependents and North Carolinans.
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I bought a boat and went fishing in the intercostal waterways. Also Raleigh was pretty cool. Actually coastal North Carolina wasn't too bad, it was just the stupid loving base and all it's inhabitants that made the place miserable.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:must be cool to do that with your fat SNCO paycheck you welfare bitch It was three grand....and yes, the paychecks get better. Also I prefer the term "benefit".
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The funniest thing about Lake Bandini is that right across the street they built a water park play area for small kids. It's got sprinklers and poo poo kids climb on that spray water everywhere. And people take their kids to play right across the street from an open lake of completely raw sewage. The whole base stinks in the summer...I can't imagine voluntarily being that close to the place.
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Christoff posted:Booze on base is always a rip off IMO It's the whole 21st Century Sailor Initiative bullshit the brought up prices on booze and tobacco to the average price in town. It used to be a lot cheaper than anywhere outside the base.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:The beer factory is OIF 1.0 lore. I can confirm raiding liquor stores in Baghdad was a very real thing.
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Daspied posted:It really sucks knowing I was dumb enough to sign a 5 year contract. If only I signed a 4 year - I would be a free man right now! But hey, who dosn't love UDP's to Japananistan... Uhh Japan's pretty loving cool. Unless you mean Okinawa because that's like a bad Karate Kid spoof with their lovely scooter gangs and stuff.
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We used to get Australians out here with us for six months at a time in an exchange program. They were all pretty chill dudes who spent most their time figuring out how to get drunk in as little time as possible. We still have a few Dutch Marines here but they aren't near as fun.
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