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Woodlands all day every day! The real question is which general got his panties twisted up at the thought that there were Marines wearing different uniforms on different bases this year.
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That feeling in the air? It's just a bunch of SgtMaj masturbating while thumbing through a revised uniform order. Their desperate grunts resounding over the fetid stench of peacetime.
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Dec 11, 2016 20:29
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PathAsc posted:That feeling in the air? It's just a bunch of SgtMaj masturbating while thumbing through a revised uniform order. Their desperate grunts resounding over the fetid stench of peacetime. I remember peacetime. Hope the drug problem doesn't come back. The bi weekly PMO visits to the barracks where they always find a dealer were great. That dog looked so happy when he found poo poo.
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Dec 12, 2016 00:35
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Internet Wizard posted:Woodlands all day every day! generals are so retarded. Yes lets make 29 palms wear woodlands.
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Dec 12, 2016 01:45
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Reverand maynard posted:generals are so retarded. Yes lets make 29 palms wear woodlands. So far what I'm hearing from my unit is that 29 Palms is going to keep wearing our deserts regardless.
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Dec 12, 2016 02:01
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Steezo posted:I remember peacetime. Hope the drug problem doesn't come back. The bi weekly PMO visits to the barracks where they always find a dealer were great. That dog looked so happy when he found poo poo. The problem never left, I know we just ended up finding them quicker when we were up-tempo. Internet Wizard posted:So far what I'm hearing from my unit is that 29 Palms is going to keep wearing our deserts regardless. Hell yeah, congrats. That place will always feel like home. It's great when your unit can just say "no, gently caress your poo poo, look where we are."
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Dec 12, 2016 02:12
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Lol have fun going to literally any other place and having to pack two different color uniforms
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Dec 12, 2016 03:42
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Bob A Feet posted:Lol have fun going to literally any other place and having to pack two different color uniforms So you mean like every Marine that has to visit 29 Palms?
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Dec 12, 2016 03:56
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Bob A Feet posted:Lol have fun going to literally any other place and having to pack two different color uniforms literally cant even
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Dec 12, 2016 04:08
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Pretty sure I only ever took only deserts to Iraq. I guess I wasn't moto enough.
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Dec 12, 2016 04:22
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Bob A Feet posted:Lol have fun going to literally any other place and having to pack two different color uniforms I went to Pendleton last week with some of my unit and there were a lot of double-takes
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Dec 12, 2016 04:42
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:So you mean like every Marine that has to visit 29 Palms? Why visit when you can be stationed there, go to the field six to nine months out of the year and become very very good at your job. Lets not forget the wonderful wake up call of the lovely effervescent, permeating scent of Lake Bandini right across from the enlisted barracks! Is it weird that the friendly fire incidents were the reason I didn't re-up and not the living conditions?
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Dec 12, 2016 04:43
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I wish I could spend more time in the field. I only got to spend about 5 or 6 weeks this year. It doesn't help that I can't really do my job here, but my occ field is weird like that.
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Dec 12, 2016 05:21
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Steezo posted:Why visit when you can be stationed there, go to the field six to nine months out of the year and become very very good at your job. Lets not forget the wonderful wake up call of the lovely effervescent, permeating scent of Lake Bandini right across from the enlisted barracks! I spent 7 years stationed there. Four as a coyote at TTECG. I am pretty familiar with the base and almost all of the training area.
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Dec 12, 2016 08:47
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:I spent 7 years stationed there. Four as a coyote at TTECG. I am pretty familiar with the base and almost all of the training area. How many times did you have to shut down ranges because California was on fire and no one could see poo poo?
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Dec 12, 2016 12:57
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Steezo posted:How many times did you have to shut down ranges because California was on fire and no one could see poo poo? Idyllwild was the closest place that we saw burn. That was as recent as 2014 I think. The desert doesn't really stay on fire so I can't say I've ever seen a range shut down because of smoke.
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The only one I remember threatening a shutdown over was in 2009 or 2010? That was for the whole base and they wanted volunteers for relief and support efforts. The high desert West of Yucca Valley was a mess and a lot of horses died. I don't know that I've ever seen so much smoke in my life first-hand.
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I vaguely recall an incident where some tweakers hid a trailer-borne meth lab somewhere in the training area, and I think someone on the mortar range hit it for some awesome fireworks.PathAsc posted:The problem never left, I know we just ended up finding them quicker when we were up-tempo. There was a period after our '05 deployment where for 10 consecutive weeks, despite repeated warnings from the battalion CO that there'd be a piss test every monday morning, we had at least 1 person pop positive for cocaine. The SJA's office told me once that 2/7 accounted for 60% of the legal workload at the time.
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When I left 29 palms last year two of the 7th marines battalions were doing all hands formations (even the co was showing up) at 0500 every week day so I guess they still going strong
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Dec 12, 2016 20:00
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When I was AD with the reserves in Texas, we had a dude pop for coke on his drill weekend. Dude that's literally the only time you have to not be snorting coke and you managed to gently caress it up.
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Dec 12, 2016 20:27
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FastestGunAlive posted:When I left 29 palms last year two of the 7th marines battalions were doing all hands formations (even the co was showing up) at 0500 every week day so I guess they still going strong If I had 0500 formations every weekday I'd want to do drugs too
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Dec 12, 2016 21:14
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While I was doing laundry on main side 29 palms, some 4th Mar reg guys were telling me about Oki. They told me they were confined to the barracks 24/7 in Chuck's for a month before they came to 29 palms. Itx was a vacation for them.
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Dec 12, 2016 22:17
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Bob A Feet posted:While I was doing laundry on main side 29 palms, some 4th Mar reg guys were telling me about Oki. They told me they were confined to the barracks 24/7 in Chuck's for a month before they came to 29 palms. Itx was a vacation for them. its just 4th marines you noob edit: i would ask why charlies but then i remembered collective punishments dont have to make sense. ill go do gas mask pt in blues until i die.
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Dec 12, 2016 22:53
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:its just 4th marines you noob Hahaha woops yeah I should know better haha
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Dec 12, 2016 23:18
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Bob A Feet posted:Hahaha woops yeah I should know better haha no anglico bro is gonna take you serious if you read unit names like youre reading nam citations. you dont have to go to anglico to fac. infantry/lar units all have some. you'd be an officer in h&s so you could probably skate out of almost everything.
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Dec 12, 2016 23:23
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:no anglico bro is gonna take you serious if you read unit names like youre reading nam citations. Yeah probably true. It's a career progression issue. Most fac tours are done during your first flying tour which is actually career enhancing for jet bros and skid guys but doesn't do much for assault guys. Where as ANGLICO would be an entire tour. I'm not sold on it quite yet though. I'm keeping an open mind.
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Dec 12, 2016 23:36
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Bob A Feet posted:While I was doing laundry on main side 29 palms, some 4th Mar reg guys were telling me about Oki. They told me they were confined to the barracks 24/7 in Chuck's for a month before they came to 29 palms. Itx was a vacation for them. I remember my stupid pog base Kinzer had nightly curfew formations every night, because someone on Hansen punched a cab driver, and then the BN CO got mad because he randomly showed up at our barracks and someone was in formation in full scuba gear as a joke (and could get away with it because he was night scuba certified). Then there was a sergeant who drove his POV drunk, so all corporals had to have 1 libo buddy to leave the base, and lance & below had to have a party of 4, even if you were taking the bus from one base to another. Okinawa is the fake marine corps.
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The image of that island thousands of feet below me as I flew away from it, never to return, is burned into my brain as a very happy memory.
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This all makes me want to find that list of ways we were treated like the feeble minded. It was long as gently caress, but rang true enough. Wear helmets in vehicles, dress alike when in groups to be easily identified, always have a handler and a buddy, lots of emphasis on sports with little hand-eye coordination. So, so many things.
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Bob A Feet posted:Yeah probably true. It's a career progression issue. Most fac tours are done during your first flying tour which is actually career enhancing for jet bros and skid guys but doesn't do much for assault guys. Where as ANGLICO would be an entire tour. I'm not sold on it quite yet though. I'm keeping an open mind. Lar is chill imo. And anglico is even more chill from what I've seen and people I know . Kind of wish I had gone there
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Helmet and flak while in tactical vehicles when not in combat followed by daytime ground guides piss me off so much. If a 7-ton sneaks up on you and runs you over a sleep midday, then you deserved it. Also, gently caress the field.
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Uroboros posted:Helmet and flak while in tactical vehicles when not in combat followed by daytime ground guides piss me off so much. If a 7-ton sneaks up on you and runs you over a sleep midday, then you deserved it. While I was out there as a coyote we had 3 Marines die from being run over by vehicles (one of which WAS in broad daylight). The only other death I can remember was the guy that burnt alive in the AAV when the MCLIC malfunctioned and he got trapped inside.
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Lol my favorite is you can't pick up MREs on camp Wilson in a pick up truck cause it's not a tactical vehicle but the delivery drivers for the lovely Italian place on main side can zip through camp Wilson going 45. I swear the elcc gets kick backs from that place cause I brought it up to a cwo3 in there and he told me what they do isn't any of my business.
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:While I was out there as a coyote we had 3 Marines die from being run over by vehicles (one of which WAS in broad daylight). The only other death I can remember was the guy that burnt alive in the AAV when the MCLIC malfunctioned and he got trapped inside. Goddamn that's a lovely way to go.
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:While I was out there as a coyote we had 3 Marines die from being run over by vehicles (one of which WAS in broad daylight). The only other death I can remember was the guy that burnt alive in the AAV when the MCLIC malfunctioned and he got trapped inside. Were you here when one of the coyote trucks got run over?
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Uroboros posted:Helmet and flak while in tactical vehicles when not in combat followed by daytime ground guides piss me off so much. If a 7-ton sneaks up on you and runs you over a sleep midday, then you deserved it. the gear thing i get. a plate carrier with no plates isnt going to protect you from anything. ground guides help prevent stupid accidents that kill people or damage equipment. it doesnt cost anyone anything to do and the benefit is real.
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Internet Wizard posted:Were you here when one of the coyote trucks got run over? I was. That was our deputy director's vehicle. He was kind of an rear end in a top hat but I don't think anyone wanted him to get smashed. He dove onto the floor and it crushed the cab of his truck.
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:the gear thing i get. a plate carrier with no plates isnt going to protect you from anything. Literally every civilian motor pool deals with the risk of people driving trucks much larger than military vehicles around lots without ground guides, I'd love to see an actual study that shows the ground guides have dropped the vehicle related deaths in any statistically notable way. I understand reinforcing the buddy system, but needing an a-driver to leave the motor pool and drive 2 kilometers down the road is silly. Hell, if you want to bitch about being treated like a child this is a pretty good example. If you were a civilian you could get your CDL and be entrusted to drive your rig across an entire nation, on heavily trafficked roads.
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Uroboros posted:Literally every civilian motor pool deals with the risk of people driving trucks much larger than military vehicles around lots without ground guides, I'd love to see an actual study that shows the ground guides have dropped the vehicle related deaths in any statistically notable way. I understand reinforcing the buddy system, but needing an a-driver to leave the motor pool and drive 2 kilometers down the road is silly. Hell, if you want to bitch about being treated like a child this is a pretty good example. If you were a civilian you could get your CDL and be entrusted to drive your rig across an entire nation, on heavily trafficked roads. im not sure if there is a study that could determine that given how infrequent these fatal incidents occur. however, it literally costs 0 dollars to require lcpl retard to get out and walk in front of whatever piece of equipment is moving while in close quarters(motor pool, ramp, company/bn coil, etc). my experience is different than yours, lavs have like a 270 degree blind spot. ground guides and a drivers are like the least onerous thing that the military makes people do. in my industry, there is typically a groundman associated with any piece of lift equipment but it varies by location.
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You're making the classic military mistake of assuming that the manhours being used by lcpl retard are free. Every minute somebody spends doing ground guide, or barracks duty, or whatever, is a minute that they spend not doing something else to further mission. This is also how leaders justify keeping people on standby so much, they treat labor as free. Imagine trying to justify people sitting around for an hour+ waiting for word that never comes just so they can leave work to a civilian accountant.
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