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EBB
Feb 15, 2005



LISTEN UP WARRIORS:

JUST BECAUSE WE'RE NOT IN A COMBAT ZONE ANYMORE DOESN'T MEAN WE WILL GIVE UP ON PROFESSIONAL MILITARY STANDARDS!


We will train hard, keep our battalion area clean, and enforce the grooming standard BOTH ON AND OFF DUTY!

Justin Tyme posted:



BY ORDER OF THE: BRIGADE CSM


I better not see any more of that damned Elvis hair or unkempt moos-tasches anywhere. And if you don't look like me off duty:



Then you are WRONG, hua?

Fall out and get the damned work party back to area beautification. SHARP training from 1700-1900 tonight, any swinging dick who tries to sham out for "time with his family" is getting an article 15.

EBB fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Aug 9, 2014

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UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

And if you don't look like me off duty:



Then you are WRONG, hua?

But what if I don't want to be black?

Anansi The Spider
Jan 30, 2014

loved basic so much I decided to stay
SHARP, the army equivalent of calling 911 as a 6 year old because your brother yelled at you.


Except now you're marked as a sex offender and can't be near your children anymore.

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Anansi The Spider posted:

SHARP, the army equivalent of calling 911 as a 6 year old because your brother yelled at you.


Except now you're marked as a sex offender and can't be near your children anymore.

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20120425/NEWS/204250314/Criminal-hazing-Raped-by-his-fellow-soldiers

EBB
Feb 15, 2005


Please don't quote him, it triggers me.

Anansi The Spider
Jan 30, 2014

loved basic so much I decided to stay

That's pretty loving gay.


"I was raped. I want to be discharged just to feel safe again," the first specialist said. "I need to be around people I trust. How can I feel safe with [a noncommissioned officer] when I was sexually assaulted by them?"


lmao

"I want to come back as an officer and hopefully make a difference," he said. "Justice wasn't done. I don't want them getting away with this."



In the video clips, the officer is duct-taped to a pole as several soldiers watch. He is shirtless, wearing only his Army Combat Uniform pants. Soldiers take turns pouring water on him, as well as packets of flavored drink mix. At the end of one segment of video, one of the soldiers grabs at the officer's pants near the groin, and the officer is seen pulling a handful of an unidentifiable substance from inside his pants. Wright and the other victims interviewed by Army Times said the officer in the video is a captain who was subjected to the same anal penetration that they were.

Well, I mean on the bright side the gap between officer and enlisted is getting thinner.

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/07/31/3311768/army-vip-culture-led-to-parachute.html

Some fat LTC died and ruined our officer privilege. This is worse than the fat LTC who ruined canned air for us in the aughts, I think. I don't know, I never jumped.

Why do GOs need steerable SPECIAL OPs parachutes? Don't their staff carry their 500lb bag of coins.

quantumfoam
Dec 25, 2003

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Please don't quote him, it triggers me.

this is where you and moker/shim team up to doxx his rear end, and shut him up forever.

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

would you care to show the platoon where on the crazy ivan your drill sergeants touched you?

it's ok, this is maybe a non-judgemental place for you to be.

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Zeris posted:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/07/31/3311768/army-vip-culture-led-to-parachute.html

Some fat LTC died and ruined our officer privilege. This is worse than the fat LTC who ruined canned air for us in the aughts, I think. I don't know, I never jumped.

Why do GOs need steerable SPECIAL OPs parachutes? Don't their staff carry their 500lb bag of coins.

They're just round chutes with holes and flaps cut and sewn into them, they're not HALO aerofoils. Presumably it's because staff/command needs to be able to reliably not land in trees and way out on the opposite end of the DZ unlike Joe Grenadier.

That double standard always pissed me off, sustained airborne training is always conducted and as gay as it is it's a pretty big safety thing that these fucks always think they can skip because they've done it a million times and think it isn't a big deal. I can't imagine the jumpmaster on that plane got away scott-free since they would have to had known they were jumping MC-6s if they JMPI'd them and they should have known the minimum altitude and what altitude the plane was going to drop at- it's all stuff that gets briefed to everyone.

Justin Tyme fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Aug 1, 2014

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris
You know the real answer is that they get to play with the new hotness and not look like some loving schlub like everyone under their command.

I mean it's literally stated in that article, but I can't ever recall command and staff at brigade or higher lacking sweet new toys to diddle themselves with while PFC Crusty in COP Nowhere is using the butt of his M-16 to pound in tent stakes.

quote:

Wright was the fifth man to leave the plane. Witnesses said the aircraft might have hit some turbulence, and that Wright might have made a weak exit.

He hit the edge of the door and began an uncontrollable somersault. His leg caught the rig, and the parachute would not open correctly. Parachute lines became tangled as he spun in the air.

His peers on the ground and in the air watching the accident unfold shouted to him, “Reserve! Reserve! Reserve!” urging him to pull the cord for his second chute.

He pulled the line for the reserve chute just 40 feet above ground. It was too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjUtTC3e0Y

Fucitol fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Aug 1, 2014

gleep gloop
Aug 16, 2005

GROSS SHIT

Zeris posted:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/07/31/3311768/army-vip-culture-led-to-parachute.html

Some fat LTC died and ruined our officer privilege. This is worse than the fat LTC who ruined canned air for us in the aughts, I think. I don't know, I never jumped.

Why do GOs need steerable SPECIAL OPs parachutes? Don't their staff carry their 500lb bag of coins.

quote:

In addition, the 11th Quartermaster Company received enough soldiers to reach nearly full strength.

lmfao

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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Why don't they just convert airborne into MFF or something drat

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

why don't they get rid of airborne

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

why don't they get rid of airborne

Boners left over from WW2

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

why don't they get rid of air assault

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

Forget crazy red dawn scenarios where russia invades the US with airliners. Say there was another classic scenario of one superpower expecting a d-day type invasion from another superpower at some unknown time in the near future not involving nuclear weapons. What percentage of C-130s would realistically get past attack aircraft and anti-air assets to drop troops? And I mean just the drop, not counting the clusterfuck that reorganizing on the ground would be.

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!
Probably wouldn't even be attempted until after a shitton of SEAD went down. They'd get wiped out.

Anansi The Spider
Jan 30, 2014

loved basic so much I decided to stay
I hate track based PT Tests, go from a 12:30 to a 13:30

The Rat
Aug 29, 2004

You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

mambo italiano
Apr 4, 2009

Stupid article posted:

The News Tribune that Lt. Gen. Anderson appointed a lieutenant colonel to make sure that each change is adopted — an unusual step.

“This was the first time I have seen this done in over 15 years of reviewing these types of investigations,” Lacey wrote.


US ARMY: changes and accountability only when someone important dies.

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

Aranan
May 21, 2007

Release the Kraken

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

why don't they get rid of army

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Anansi The Spider posted:

I hate track based PT Tests, go from a 12:30 to a 13:30

Hello can we see your pt card please

Defleshed
Nov 18, 2004

F is for... FREEDOM

A good friend of mine was one of the prosecutors on the butt-fingering case.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Defleshed posted:

A good friend of mine was one of the prosecutors on the butt-fingering case.

How the gently caress did they get off with basically nothing for fingering three privates and a captain?

doogle
May 24, 2003

Justin Tyme posted:

They're just round chutes with holes and flaps cut and sewn into them, they're not HALO aerofoils. Presumably it's because staff/command needs to be able to reliably not land in trees and way out on the opposite end of the DZ unlike Joe Grenadier.

That double standard always pissed me off, sustained airborne training is always conducted and as gay as it is it's a pretty big safety thing that these fucks always think they can skip because they've done it a million times and think it isn't a big deal. I can't imagine the jumpmaster on that plane got away scott-free since they would have to had known they were jumping MC-6s if they JMPI'd them and they should have known the minimum altitude and what altitude the plane was going to drop at- it's all stuff that gets briefed to everyone.

Even if you have only been trained on a t10 you can jump a mc6. You're supposed to watch some video before you jump it, but if all else fails you can pull a slip exactly as you would on a t10. The jumpmasters are probably hosed for not dropping at 1200 feet though.

Mustang
Jun 18, 2006

“We don’t really know where this goes — and I’m not sure we really care.”
I'm going to guess that the guys that like sticking fingers up other dudes butts are huge homophobes.

McSpatula
Aug 5, 2006
Army is gay
OP is gay
This thread is gay
We're all gay

Because tradition :colbert:

Fucitol
May 8, 2005

Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam



Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

Mustang posted:

I'm going to guess that the guys that like sticking fingers up other dudes butts are huge homophobes.

i don't think that fingering a dude's butt if you are also a dude qualifies you to be a homophobe.

^^^^p much that

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



This was posted in the AF thread, but is very relevant here:



Basically Army commander gets RIFed 37 days after he assumes command because he disagreed with some of his superiors. In his change of command speech he says that his soldiers are all cool and then just shits all over peacetime army for four minutes.

Defleshed
Nov 18, 2004

F is for... FREEDOM

Mr. Nice! posted:

How the gently caress did they get off with basically nothing for fingering three privates and a captain?

Just like any case in the civilian world, you're stuck with the evidence you have. The case was probably (just spitballing here) strongest against Nunez. The sentence is solely in the hands of the panel, and I wasn't there for the trials so I can't say what was presented at sentencing in his case. All I can do is apply my experience in my own cases which is that panels and judges both are sympathetic to weepy unsworn statements about how sorry you are, and testimony from family members about how they will be out on the streets without the paycheck.

Newitt was acquitted, which means he was probably offered a guilty plea since the evidence was weak (we generally don't take pleas on cases we know we can win), but he chose to roll the dice and won. Cornell took a guilty plea to 128 and 93 which carries a max sentence together of a year and a half. Again I am not privy to the ins-and-outs of the evidence and the wheelings and dealings but if the Government accepted a plea of that nature we probably didn't have a very strong case against him either.

It's just kinda the nature of American justice in general. This sort of thing is extremely common in the civilian world too. It's just not national news every time it happens. I'm of the honest opinion that the military is no more or less agressive in pursuing these types of cases than comparable civilian jurisdictions (e.g. college campuses). That doesn't mean we always do the right thing or that we can't do better, just that the way we get crucified in the court of public opinion is not necessarily justifiable.

I don't post here very often but just happened upon the new iteration of the thread for the month as I am preparing for trial next week on a drug distro case. A nice break from the dozen or so 120 cases I am carrying right now. Assessments of winnability on those range from "yeah fuckin right" to "well maybe".

Defleshed fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Aug 2, 2014

Naked Bear
Apr 15, 2007

Boners was recorded before a studio audience that was alive!

Mr. Nice! posted:

This was posted in the AF thread, but is very relevant here:



Basically Army commander gets RIFed 37 days after he assumes command because he disagreed with some of his superiors. In his change of command speech he says that his soldiers are all cool and then just shits all over peacetime army for four minutes.
e: nope, wrong one!

Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Aug 2, 2014

Anansi The Spider
Jan 30, 2014

loved basic so much I decided to stay

OMFG PTSD LOL PBUH
Sep 9, 2001

Pls don't quote the stain on this threads underwear, it offends the senses.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Oh wow xviii airborne fucks up royally? Oh me oh my I would never have imagined this at all.

its curtains for Kevin
Nov 14, 2011

Fruit is proof that the gods exist and love us.

Just kidding!

Life is meaningless
gently caress i need a tan tshirt for drill




fuckkkk where did I put one I have like 8 this is horseshit

EBB
Feb 15, 2005

NTT posted:

gently caress i need a tan tshirt for drill




fuckkkk where did I put one I have like 8 this is horseshit

I know where mine are. In the one duffel of stuff I have left after turning everything else in this week.

:chord:

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psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Can you wear the multicam issued boots with ACUs, like how you can wear the ACU issued boots with multicams?

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