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Spicy Guacamole posted:Gentlmen, here's your new SMA: He came down to DLI and did an NCOPD with us last month, before this was announced. He has a good sense of humor and doesn't take himself too seriously. I was impressed, especially considering who he is replacing.
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Loden Taylor posted:I'm shipping to basic sometime after the holidays, going in as a musician. Once I get to the school of music, I'll get to choose my first duty station based on my audition and what bands have vacancies. If you love drinking and hate sunlight then Alaska is the place for you! Nah, it was all right. I'd pick Anchorage again over places like Hood or Riley or any TRADOC craphole.
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Was SGM Chandler's reign of terror cut short? It seemed like SGM Preston had a much longer tenure. Fake edit: Looked it up on wikipedia. SGM Preston was 2004 - 2011, SGM Chandler will be from 2011 - 2015.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:Was SGM Chandler's reign of terror cut short? It seemed like SGM Preston had a much longer tenure. Army was pissed that Chandler couldn't come up with an competitor to Terminal Lance, so they sent him packing
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Nov 4, 2014 15:15
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At least the new guy has more than just one kush deployment very early in the war and more than just a simple CAB, hopefully it will give him perspective and wisdom so he can be an effective and popular SMAfaaaaaart. Was Chandler even tabbed?
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lmao that dude was my csm for my entire career. he was cool as a bn csm, but as he (quickly) shifted into bde and div, I think the high command mentality got to him. he went from making sure dudes were successful in missions (e.g. prevent people from blowing the gently caress up) to policing moostaches pretty quick. it doesn't surprise me that odierno loves him, they spent oodles of time together in the 08 surge. he was (and is) a young rear end csm, too. spent his career quickly rising to the top of the same platoon, then company, then battalion, all through bde in a short as gently caress time. lol, thought he was getting fast tracked for his career, but didn't think he'd end up as the head csm. lol
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Justin Tyme posted:Was Chandler even tabbed? No, but he was a tanker so that's par for the course. I think it's weirder that he never went to Scout Leader's Course (now ARC).
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Nov 4, 2014 17:25
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:No, but he was a tanker so that's par for the course. I think it's weirder that he never went to Scout Leader's Course (now ARC).
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Because tankers ain't scouts, duhhhh. Do you even recon, bro? Duhhhh tanker leaders going to ARC isn't a new thing.
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Nov 4, 2014 20:25
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Duhhhh tanker leaders going to ARC isn't a new thing.  My boss got to go and said it was pretty rad.
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Hey, does anybody happen to have that ad about being an army spouse and how it is the hardest job in the army? I may be on painkillers right now but I know that somebody in these very forums posted that video in the past few years. My own Google fu is weak and I want to show my buddy's wife.
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Spicy Guacamole posted:I know. That was the one school I actually wanted to go to. Can confirm ARC is rad. Good school with (mostly) good instructors who are knowledgeable and p cool. I had a weird sleep deprivation hallucination and thought it was raining bats. I jumped in a bush and a crusty sergeant pulled me out while I muttered about falling bat poo poo everywhere. Also watched a dude brief an opord to his section sergeants and grader while about ten paces away some poor guy was having violent, loud, diarrhea. Gotta stay in security, yo
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TheAlphaChaser posted:Also watched a dude brief an opord to his section sergeants and grader while about ten paces away some poor guy was having violent, loud, diarrhea. Gotta stay in security, yo What about sneaking around kelly hill with a SAW and poo poo ton of treelimbs hanging off of you, counting drunk privates for a SALUTE report (you guys did that, right?). Weirdest thing I've ever been paid to do.
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benem posted:What about sneaking around kelly hill with a SAW and poo poo ton of treelimbs hanging off of you, counting drunk privates for a SALUTE report (you guys did that, right?). Weirdest thing I've ever been paid to do. Yep it was awesome. We stalked this basic training FTX for a day and stole some kind of roster for "intel." Also stole a bunch of their magazines to "reduce combat effectiveness of the enemy." They never saw us but we got to hear them get smoked for losing poo poo. They must have been very confused.
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TheAlphaChaser posted:Yep it was awesome. We stalked this basic training FTX for a day and stole some kind of roster for "intel." Also stole a bunch of their magazines to "reduce combat effectiveness of the enemy." They never saw us but we got to hear them get smoked for losing poo poo. They must have been very confused. This unironically sounds fun as gently caress, I wish I went to RSLC like I was supposed to. The ol' "you're going next month with all your best army friends for a fun time at army school" then "nope, nobody is going, now unload this connex" trick. Same poo poo with our Afghanistan deployment, and then with SERE school. If poo poo ain't official don't tell people cool stuff then yank it away last minute tia.
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The new captain on rear d (he pretends to be the battalion co) just came up with the bright idea of having a tracker to track all the other trackers that we present in the training meetings as well as an additional 10 or so other trackers to track new poo poo. He loves saying "tracking" and "pinging" too. Came from the 82nd. AIRBORNE
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Hopefully he does them in some system completely unsuitable for them too, like maintaining databases in Powerpoint or some weird cloud storage solution that just involves emailing himself constantly.
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Nov 7, 2014 01:20
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gonna make a tracker to track all the nobles that need to die. hint: it's all of them.
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Mike-o posted:gonna make a tracker to track all the nobles that need to die. hint: it's all of them.
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you're cool, you'll be spared in the holocaust. not the nuclear apocalypse though, that's a privilege.
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stevenolson88 posted:The new captain on rear d (he pretends to be the battalion co) just came up with the bright idea of having a tracker to track all the other trackers that we present in the training meetings as well as an additional 10 or so other trackers to track new poo poo. He loves saying "tracking" and "pinging" too. Came from the 82nd. AIRBORNE Did he get sent there from Afghanistan after being promoted to O3?
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stevenolson88 posted:The new captain on rear d (he pretends to be the battalion co) just came up with the bright idea of having a tracker to track all the other trackers that we present in the training meetings as well as an additional 10 or so other trackers to track new poo poo. He loves saying "tracking" and "pinging" too. Came from the 82nd. AIRBORNE I found the best way was to have 2 HUGE spreadsheets with a million tabs. If the commander wanted everything, I'd just send him that. If he wanted something specific, I would save one of the tabs as a new spreadsheet and send just that to him. All in one place. Total loving bitch to update. Every time we did some new bullshit training, "hey collect all the certificates and track this for eternity even though no one will ever ask for it." Nimmy fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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How's your first crop of kids saying 'Mommy gets really angry easily and like to drink' going? Ours is going great guns.
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Today has been priceless, because the looks of hate I received from everybody wearing their ASUs for payday activities as I walked to physical therapy in my civilians was just pure gold.
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Mike-o posted:gonna make a tracker to track all the nobles that need to die. hint: it's all of them. Please hurry, I can't handle scooping my cat's litter another day edit: ping glide path zero in on stand by to stand by counseling statement o dark thirty end of tour award METL crosswalk no such thing as NCO business lit up like a christmas tree WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR Zeris fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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psydude posted:Did he get sent there from Afghanistan after being promoted to O3? Came here straight from the career course where he was still an O-2 about 9 months ago.
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just heard a dude humblebragging about his multiple combat patches from his Qatar "deployments" mfw ADA
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7777777 posted:just heard a dude humblebragging about his multiple combat patches from his Qatar "deployments" mfw ADA At the Deid my wireless Internet was spotty on the best of days and the Burger King tasted funny. War is hell.
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The last quarter or so of my unit finally got home...and we lost leave...and had to do reintegration training that we already did during our leave. Can't wait to drop my refrad. Anyone gone from active to guard?
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Ashmole posted:Anyone gone from active to guard? Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. Don't. I figured this would be the answer but I feel like I've dealt with so much bullshit in my unit that the bullshit I would experience in the guard wouldn't be as bad (and in smaller doses). The extra income doesn't seem bad.
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Guard is a different kind of bullshit. but bullshit is bullshit and you will hate your stupid gay life for being a literal retard into signing up for more army. You'll deal with people who don't care about anything because they're just there for school, retards who signed up because they are the next generation of the cops taking selfies of themselves in gear for Guns and Ammo in the first Rambo movie, old farts who have slipped under the radar for 15 years and just looking to get their 20 then peace the gently caress out, and Marines who got out and went guard and never shut up about how it was in the Marines. The only good thing I can think of for the Guard is people who do the job they do in the Guard as their Civilian job as well, and it's just an extension of that. Lawyers, Helicopter Pilots, Medics, etc. But gently caress the MPs who are actual cops.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Oh god. So many former marines. Our Motor Sgt was a marine, with a huge Chesty Puller portrait on his back. He was actually a cool as gently caress dude.
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Ashmole posted:I figured this would be the answer but I feel like I've dealt with so much bullshit in my unit that the bullshit I would experience in the guard wouldn't be as bad (and in smaller doses). The extra income doesn't seem bad. If you're going to do this, go USAR so at least you don't have to deal with the bullshit promotion system that the guard uses for officers. And do something cool like CA, or something useful in the real world like signal corps. e: VVVVVVV - Pretty much. The reason you do Reserve/Guard as an officer is to network with senior FGOs to boost your civilian career. And to grab a TS/SCI out of it. The extra pay will largely be negated by the amount of time you spend TDY on sub-30 day ADOS orders. psydude fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Nov 11, 2014 |
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Ashmole posted:The extra income doesn't seem bad. This is the worst of all options to consider this valid. Unless you want to get your motoboner stroked a couple days a month, many weeks a year, don't do it. Guard life isn't terrible if you can find good unit, and don't get hosed into driving 400mi each way, only to find out they hosed up lodging for everyone and you're now sleeping in a gym on a puss pad or setting up an impromptu bivouac site, and also the dining schedule is inexistant so now your dining options are 10hr old quesaritos or footlongs for day one of a muta6. It's like having the most soupsandwich of all gently caress ups on active side, but concentrating their brilliance, and giving them a few days to really shine. But not every unit is like this, and some are really enjoyable, and filled with good + responsible adults.
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McSpatula posted:This is the worst of all options to consider this valid. Unless you want to get your motoboner stroked a couple days a month, many weeks a year, don't do it. The best thing I can say about my unit was that it was mostly people who did the same thing for civilian side, or were doing it for school money so they actually wanted to do well enough to not lose that. But even poo poo like that gets thrown out the window. Here's the best story I can tell about being in the guard. I've told it before, but it's worth telling again. Prior to our Iraq deployment, our unit promoted everyone possible. If you were PT/Weapons pass and MOS qualified (this was 2003 so some people were still 91-B when they had to be 91-W for medic), so basically all of our Specialists were made into E-5s in a massive promotion ceremony. We were a small Medivac unit, about 50 people all said, and once this occurred we had more NCOs than enlisted people. The new sergeants instantly took to trying to make up for all the bullshit they endured by taking it out on the enlisted people. They were mostly squared away, though, and the only thing that really got harped on was having a BDU cargo pocket unbuttoned. When there was nothing else to police for the enlisted people, they started to devour one another, by policing each other and saying they had more time in rank because they were pinned alphabetically in the promotion ceremony. After about another week of this they finally calmed the gently caress down and everything returned to normal, but still. I'll never forget seeing two E-5's yell at each other and one trying to force their will because D came before S in the alphabet. And that is the National Guard.
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