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Bob A Feet posted:I like to believe were fighting the good fight but then I meet my contemporaries on camp lejeune that do things like mando pt and "motivational" hikes and say oorah with a straight face and then I remember I can't fight the system I had a super pog 1stsgt that berated some infantry guy for not shaving while on a 3 day patrol.
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On this day in 2006, I EAS'd. They promoted me to Sergeant at thanksgiving, too 
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I remember Charlie Daniels played the 4th of July 2005 in 29 Palms, and he stopped the show to thank some loving army reserve unit that was doing mojave viper for 2 weeks and he hoped they got home to their families soon. Meanwhile my unit was preparing to go to Fallujah 2 days later. So gently caress the army, and gently caress you charlie daniels. I was there when they finally banned marines from going to the silver screen. Is that shithole still off limits? I remember once I picked up my shitheel roommate from there in his car. He got in the car and while we were waiting to leave the parking lot, got out, pissed in the backseat of the car, then got back in the front. Once we got back to the barracks he woke up in the middle of the night and pissed in his own wall locker.
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Admiral Bosch posted:Call your old buddies sometime. I didn't know this guy all too well, but we were squad leaders together at my old reserve unit, both dealing with the same rear end in a top hat platoon sergeant, so we shared common misery. I don't know what he was dealing with, but today I found out he apparently punched his own ticket. Family visitation is in a couple hours. Seriously dudes. Buddy of mine died of pneumonia over christmas like 2 hours from me because he was borderline homeless.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:3 year sgt means hes some pog shitlord gently caress yeah, Motor T for life. e-5 in 3-3/4 year, EAS'd like a month later. Eat the apple, gently caress the Corps, y'all. Nah motor t is the worst.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:Thanks, I'm doing Savannah tomorrow. I'll just save my moto for a trip to the Quantico marine museum then. Only mentioning it because he has commissary privileges & I'd tag along if there was something worth tagging along for. Super cheap razor blades. I knew a guy who stockpiled mach 3s after PI, he had like a hundred left even 2 years later.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:that's a huge bitch This is some PFC poo poo, a Sgt should know better. I once got chewed out and threatened with NJP for saying Dependopotamus out loud. Of course, by a 29 stumps lifer who got married as a PFC to some Yucca desert wookie.
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Bob A Feet posted:what i've learned about the marine corps: Nah dude. Check into unit 11pm friday newly minted okinawa corporal. buy crotch rocket saturday 3 pm. drunken high speed chase with sheriff's dept at 3 am sunday. call unit 9am monday for help. out of jail tuesday 9 am. busted down to lcpl weds 9 am. E: the shitbird story thread was loving glorious red19fire fucked around with this message at 05:19 on May 16, 2015 |
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May 16, 2015 05:17
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:I remember we all failed afield day inspection Fri having to redo it that night and reinspect 0630 Sat That's weird, I know a guy who lost an encrypted radio thiing in Iraq. It came with a strap that's supposed to stay around your body at all times. He of course took it off, put it on top of the truck (like a latte), and lost it somewhere in the desert. The entire theater had to change their radio codes. Nothing happened, career-wise, and this was the kind of dick who NJP'd someone for ND-ing a SAW full of blanks during a 'SAW Gunning For non-03's' training session. There is no such thing as Karma.
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Jul 27, 2015 01:13
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It was completely out of character for them to act bravely, therefore they must be highly motivated truly dedicated devil dogs oohrah yut yut yuuuutttt
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Largely useless?!?! I can hammer nails with my inner forearms thanks to combat conditioning/nerve deadening training for 50 minutes a day. Gray belt best belt. Though the gun disarming moves were pretty slick in green belt training.
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Internet Wizard posted:RAT boots only starting 1 OCT 2016 Oh boy, I wonder who will be the first to try to polish those leather panels. I'm guessing peacetime Okinawa. E5 in 3.5 years, if I stayed in I'd be SgtMaj by now.
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Booblord Zagats posted:Not if they're not already making that as a contractor. A lot of cushy contract jobs have dried up with all the hiring freezes and budget cuts. But isn't it the lobbyists job to convince the congressmen that control the DoD's budget that it's in their best interest to pay way too much for a contractor to do the same job?
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Oct 20, 2015 22:22
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:seeing someone go from prior enlisted army to thinking about being a marine officer is really loving weird. i feel a little woozy over here I know a guy who used the boost program, I guess you're in the reserves for the 4 years you're in college, so he was e-7 by the time he was done with that, then I think he was at 9-10 years by the time he finished ocs/tbs. His first year as a butterbar, I believe he was halfway to retirement. So I can see being a lifer in that sense. Booblord Zagats posted:Counter Point, a post by my brother in the Idiot thread SgtMaj Barrett told me the same thing when I worked at the S1 in 2/7 when I was considering the BOOST program. "you know how like 10% of enlisted lifers are loving worthless shitbirds? it's like 40% for officers" And then the Lt Col nodded agreement.
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MurderBot posted:Doesn't reserve components work a bit different with job placement rather than sheer needs of the corpse? My greatest fear in life would be getting a Motor T or Supply billet. I was switched to open contract (never admit to doing  ever) and had a 285 PFT, expert marksman, 99 ASVAB.MOTOR T BITCH VV I hit the halfway point at 9 minutes and decided I could take it easy. Final time was like 19:15, fastest I've ever run in my life. Even as an Oki super stud LCPL the best I ever did was the high 20's. But didn't you know, if you get a 300 PFT Recon battalion kidnaps you out of your bunk and sends you directly to recon school! /PFC UNDERGROUND red19fire fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Bob A Feet posted:I'm in port. I have five required forms of identification, a requirement of no more or no less than five liberty buddies (one of them being sober), limited to three drinks a night, a breathalizer to look forward to, curfew at midnight. Happy thanksgiving debba dawgs My friend jon (2nd award pfc) is the reason you need 4 libo buddies on okinawa. He and his one libo buddy beat the poo poo out of a cab driver. you're welcome you loving boots.
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Wasn't there an incident on Oki where like a SNCO and Wing CWO conspired to kill one of their spouses because of their affair? It was in the marine times, it was some real film noir poo poo. Basically the crime in the marines is loving insane.
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SgtMaj Barrett is the coolest and his favorite beverage is peach iced tea  SgtMaj Geletko is a terrifying bear of a man, but very cool. I went to a BBQ for the S1 once, and walking up the driveway I noticed he left his keys in his car. I mentioned it, and he said "Nobody's loving stupid enough to touch my Caddy." SgtMaj Tanksley is a piece of poo poo, according to every port a john in Fallujah. red19fire fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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There's an MOS for Lake Bandini Life Guard?  E: That's not too bad, I think CO is just inside the acceptable-to-drive-on-a-96 radius. This guy at my unit had a gf in Denver, and he worked some deal with the CO that he could drive there on 96's if he had a driving buddy, who was another guy with a GF in Denver. They basically had a day and half there before they had to get back in the car and come back. red19fire fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:matterhorn and fields of fire were weird to read. you hear about dudes living on remote pbs in afghanistan; eating 2 mres/day if they're lucky, never showing, washing their clothes in a bucket, 4hrs on/4hrs off/4 ever, redipping the same can for a week, etc and think 'gently caress im glad im not there' but all those guys in vietnam lived like loving animals. drank parasite infested water, never bathed, never slept, wore their uniform until it rotted off their bodies, wondered seemingly aimlessly around their ao for their entire enlistment. 2 of my neighbors are vietnam infantry vets. One was a flamethrower  I feel like an absolute phony compared to them.
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:katt williams graduated bootcamp when he was 16 Choked out by a 15 year old. Like a tan belt PFC on boot leave.
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overdesigned posted:I'm still salty about missing expert pistol by two goddamn points. And I haven't had a chance to re-shoot for three years. I had the battalion shitbird pulling my pits on my last qual. Expert for 3 years then... Marksman. At least that fucker got a BCD.
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Internet Wizard posted:You don't test for E-4. Even in the slow fields you should get E-4 within like 4 years. Maybe it was some active duty extension paperwork? Like they wanted me to do a 2nd Fallujah tour  when I had a month to go before EAS and wanted me to sign an extension for exactly 7 months.Or if you lat move/B-billet into a long school? My command on Okinawa wanted me to go to like arabic translator school for 12-18 months, which I would have had to sign an extension so I'd have 4 years of active duty left when I got out of the school. Probably a rumor on the LCPL underground, I was told similar things about HIGH SPEED LOW DRAG schools that my GT qualified me for like CI and scout sniper school, and this was more than 10 years ago. VVV which reminds me, we had a guy who finally picked up E4 after nearly 4 years, then got a DUI the same night after his celebration party. Busted right back down to E3. red19fire fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Apr 15, 2016 |
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Holy loving poo poo guys i saw an actual scrub washout in bloused jeans, camelbak, desert boots and a MARINES underarmor shirt in the wild today. Too tough for PI, apparently, as he loudly bragged to anyone who would listen at this event. Am I allowed/obligated to stomp his guts out? What's the rule on that and public humiliation when I've been out for like 10 years?
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:who gives a poo poo? I don't, it was just such a shock to hear "...yeah i broke my ankle in week five and had to leave, they said I'm a Marine through and through' in a college auditorium at 10pm.
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Thump! posted:You either should've challenged him to single combat or sucked his dick. I did one of these things but it was before the stolen valor part 
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There was a guy in my unit who found out his wife was 3 months pregnant... 4 months into his Iraq tour. Is that the same situation?Steezo posted:It's got cuba on it, must be an officer. Enlisted don't rate Cuba?
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MassivelyBuckNegro posted:lol at worrying about immediate action for air craft I wonder if this is just something they put into training just so there's something to answer with when some boot puts his dickskinner in the air and asks. Like those duck and cover drills for nuclear attacks. You're not going to survive, but it eases the mind to think there's a plan.
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I remember in cobra gold, in Thailand, the chaplain was the nicest guy imaginable before we got there. Then after like 3 weeks in country he was on the mic to the entire base screaming STOP TRYING TO MARRY PROSTITUTES YOU loving MORONS and refused to process any more marriage applications.
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Caving in a man's skull with his own machine gun is at least a green belt.
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Best Friends posted:Right before I got out I got the mcmap moves about throwing a starving desperate rear end in a top hat off your rifle and I thought hmm maybe they should have done more of this stuff and not drilled lovely dumb uppercuts and even shittier roundhouse kicks and trips and various suicidal takedowns. Also lol at gating actually useful things behind a belt hierarchy. Sorry padawan, but you must practice ten thousand four fingers chokes and be approved by a council of supply corporals before we might show you ancient secrets about how to retain control of your rifle. Don't forget 20 hours of smashing your forearms together per belt grade.
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Booblord Zagats posted:I had it explained to me that it can always be charged using ucmj assuming your CO and the JAG hate you enough Yeah when I was a legal clerk a guy got a dui off base, and the sja hammered him under the ucmj after his criminal court case, and called me an rear end in a top hat for asking if that was a double jeopardy violation.
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Pounded in the Butt By My Own Butter Bars
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Go to any car dealership and get a base model mustang for 36% APR.MassivelyBuckNegro posted:just get a bunch of tats and spend every free minute you have in a stripclub. Also get a series of payday loans so you can spend as much money as possible at said strip clubs. I recommend the Mirage (if it's still around).
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Alex433999 posted:Lol but for real, is there anything worth doing in this town? Or do i just have to sit in the barracks jerking off every night? Also yeah its still here. So is tobies, when we were in holding platoon some kid spent his last $1400 of boot money Here's my Mirage story: at mechanic school (3521) on camp johnson, someone snuck off base and went to the mirage. Next day in class, his face was red and covered in pustules. He had caught panties a stripper had thrown into the crowd and drunkenly rubbed it on his face. Don't go to the Mirage/strip club/boot bullshit, save your money, do worthwhile things.
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:General Mattis told us to expect 30% of our unit to be dead or injured within the first 96 hours of the invasion of Iraq. He gave a big speech in Kuwait two days before we crossed the LoD. "My name's Mattis and I'm a loving general" That's how he started every speech I ever heard.
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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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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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