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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > Army Thread - These people already don't give a fuck about me

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Soulex posted:

I thought there was a small window of time where you wait for your orders and all that. You need orders to clear CIF right?

Your COC can provide an memo stating that you are pending med board and need to turn in your gear. No orders are needed to do a turn in to CIF, only memo from command. We did a bunch of them right before I got out for people that were waiting on orders.

# ¿ May 12, 2016 22:44

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:39

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

SD stories continue.

SDO comes in to grab me and we go on the barracks check. Only guy to ever grab the NCO for this, but he wanted to do it. So we start walking the foot print when a fire truck and ambulance come through sirens blaring. Of course I had just said something to the effect of, "at least nothing is on fire tonight". Lo and behold, a barracks has a fire. The LT looks at me, I look at the building number. Different BDE. Victory.

He even asked if we needed to call anyone. Silly LT.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2016 23:22

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Soulex posted:

gently caress you got mine

Says it all

# ¿ Aug 5, 2016 22:12

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

One of my old units had 99 bayonets in the arms room. No clue why. But MTOE said we needed them. What a support unit would do with them is beyond me...

# ¿ Aug 20, 2016 19:41

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Wasabi the J posted:

today I had a sadbrains attack thing that I can't explain and I didn't want everyone to think I was a shitbag and go to EMF so I didn't.

I'm better now, but it's really lovely that I don't trust my leadership enough to go, "Hey I feel like someone died for no reason, and I'm having these thoughts that I don't want in my head," without loving being branded or treated with kiddie gloves.

All in all a good Army day.

gently caress the unit. Get your poo poo fixed. You don't want that poo poo to get out of hand and boil over. Believe me, its better to get help than not.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 21:29

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

gonna go against the grain and say bottle it up for a decade or so

edit: then become a CSM and make everyones lives miserable

Pretty sure that is how baby CSMs are born. That and unicorn tears.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 22:09

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

SwampDonkey posted:

08-09 & yeah there was a huge dfac & decent gym. Had a Green Bean & they added a Pizza Hut during that time.

Even with that it turned back into a poo poo hole in 2010. Never stopped raining rockets. The average was 2-3 a day hitting on base. Trust 3 ACR to turn anything remotely nice into a hell hole.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 20:40

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Mike-o posted:

There was a Joe McTrailerpark in my unit who told me I couldn't hack it in the real world when everyone found out I declined to re-up.

looooooooooooooooooool

I love those guys. Usually the same people that think 30k a year is "good money"

# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 21:33

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

spacetoaster posted:

It's average money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States

But what is "good money"? I'm retiring and everyone is on about me being able to get some uber job making piles of cash.

I just don't care. I want to go back to college for free and then be a boring school teacher that does what he wants in the summer (and on weekends and holidays).

Got me on that link. I go by two factors: Doing better than "just getting by" and being happy.

If I have to worry about filling my gas tank, I'm not happy. If I hate my job I'm not happy. I want that balance.

Also 2.5 kids, 1.4 dogs, .6 cats and 2.6 fish with a home that doesn't break me financially.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 22:05

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

It seems to me that most of the people who get out (myself included) want better for themselves. Both emotionally and financially.

In my experience the guy who says that it is really rough on the "outside" isn't willing to do things like working hard and actually applying themselves.

Also, we got paid like poo poo while in.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 22:49

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Soulex posted:

Apparently dude was just being nice. No drug dealer job. Whatever. Didn't even need it.

Good enough for me, might volunteer to be PR/Media at the SVO.

It's actually hard transitioning. I can't sleep. Fuckin go to bed at 5 AM and wake up at 8 AM.

Its going to sound stupid, but, put yourself on a schedule. You went from working "army hours" to nothing. Your body has no clue what is going on.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2016 20:28

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Soulex posted:

I tried. I force myself to wake up at 8. Well my body does. Apparently I am sleep walking or whatever until I "actually" get up around 830. Like I will get up, turn my alarm off, and get back in bed. My alarm is across the room even. I won't remember that either.

Next stupid suggestion.

Are you actually doing anything during the day? Other than getting baked and loving the sweet sweet freedom?

Try doing some projects. Anything, look for a job, work on the resume, build a hut, learn to make fire from random objects.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2016 20:52

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its curtains for Kevin posted:

Tried my first salute train; had the good fortune of catching our platoon's 2lt.

Didn't know that I could actually have fun sometimes

Salute trains were one of the few things that brought me joy when I was in... That were not alcohol related.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 00:01

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Drill is next weekend and i want to kill myself

Not before you complete your mandatory training you won't.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 22:51

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

We have any lucky souls in 82nd here?

The facebooks are blowing up with drama about them right now.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 23:25

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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

did they get caught making gay porn....again???

Not that good.

Just allegedly causing a troop to miscarry and have a bunch of broke dicks fresh off the operating table going to JRTC.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 23:28

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

I for one thank them for their service.

Especially those with the hardest job, the spouses.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2016 01:31

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Kalsu was rocket city. You would think that they would run out of rockets eventually.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 21:59

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Second on the Post. Its time to sent everything to the media. Let them run with it. Watch the world burn.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2016 22:36

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

When she was 95

I couldn't give a gently caress long enough to finish it...

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 22:03

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

We had some great guys from 1st Cav relieve us my last deployment.

You would think that they would like to have basic comms up and operational before we left. That way they could do things like call a MEDVAC and what not. They were still trying to get radios to work when we got back to the states...

# ¿ Dec 21, 2016 21:22

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Vasudus posted:

I liked my time in 3ACR back when they were still 3ACR and out of Carson, but soon as we were going to move to Hood following OIF4 they suffered impossible brain drain and only like 20% of the original unit moved. Everyone else reflagged 4/4ID and stayed at Carson or went elsewhere.

Wait... 3ACR was good(ish)? I was attached to them in 2010, dear lord was that a massive poo poo show.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 20:10

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:39

ASAPI: Apr 20, 2007; I invented the line.

Pesticide20 posted:

Oh god does anyone still have the write-up from when that ACR unit in Germany went to the field and got drat near everything wrong? I seem to remember things like they had no stable comms, were pissing and making GBS threads all over the place because they didn't know how to make slit trenches, and in general were just the worst.

That would be 2CR. The land of the lost.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 21:15

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