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White Chocolate posted:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/16/army-survey-morale/24897455/ Wasabi the J posted:NOT A DUFFELBLOG ARTICLE:
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The funniest part is that spokesman handled those questions so poorly, that in any other line of work they'd be quickly sacked; but because it's Army, this person could stand to get an ARCOM for moving the goalposts that far.
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Apr 17, 2015 15:39
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I remember the Afghanistan cigarette warnings being way more direct...
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Apr 21, 2015 07:18
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terrez posted:Have any of you seen this? LMAO they had to fill it with individual water bottles.  It's an old as gently caress story though. e: it keeps getting better when you look up the names. https://www.dvidshub.net/video/87304/spc-deanna-allen quote:You cheer 'em up throughout the day, and make 'em have a better day! FUCKIN' COOKS. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 10:56
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MegaJoe89 posted:Ugh I really wanna get into that LTs calzoni now... I'd settle for a regular calzone
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Apr 23, 2015 07:18
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kill you are self posted:Don't bitch out. Check the disagree box and write that or write "0758 comes before 0800. I learned this in kindergarten." Did this before, got counseled for not adhering to made up policy of showing up fifteen minutes prior to the announced time, which was fifteen minutes prior. I agreed that I was not thirty minutes early. Only fifteen. So they had me do a version of the flutter kick involving my arms and legs which I was pretending to be a clock. This combined physical fitness and mentorship training was cut short in order for me and my leader to be on time to a meeting. We were two minutes late. He did not have to pretend to be a clock, for some reason.
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Apr 24, 2015 15:52
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psydude posted:To be fair, it's possible to have a complete year without going to AT so long as you reach 48 UTAs. Except if you're in my loving conniving unit. The only have a "three week" AT, bookended by two four-day drills.
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Apr 28, 2015 17:22
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http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/04/28/jumping-paratrooper-fish-selfie-update/26536155/
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Apr 30, 2015 15:44
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Can somebody please post the loving reg for the people who have to deal with this dumb rear end bullshit?
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Apr 30, 2015 22:14
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https://youtu.be/MH6lR9z8yQg
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May 4, 2015 22:04
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NTT posted:rip whip Wait what happened to whip?
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May 12, 2015 04:32
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not caring here posted:We were inspecting weapons for the scrubs going through ABOLC, and we kept knocking this guy's back because he just had the most amazingly blue eyes. Like he was wearing fluorescent contacts.
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May 14, 2015 14:53
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psydude posted:I think the whole warrior thing is kind of loving stupid because it makes POGs feel pressured to be super hooah killers even though they army doesn't need them to kill bodies, it needs them to be good at doing whatever their job is. But instead they have "WARRIOR CULINARY SPECIALISTS" and "WARRIOR JOINT NODE NETWORK OPERATOR" shoved down their throats despite the fact that "warrior" is literally the least important part of that title. I'm in a NG signal battalion that in the course of two months changed commanders and first sergeants for three (out of four) goddamn companies. Two out of three of the new CO's are pretty cool but the 1SG's are all about crazy military HOOAH poo poo; they were all bummed out we weren't doing some dumb HDSOC training when we needed to get a qual range done over one drill weekend The 1SG of the company I just transferred out of actually tried to DnC people around the loving motor pool for no other reason than "military fundamentals," effectively wasting an hour and a half of time we needed to actually work; no problem to 1SG Dicknuts though -- it can just come out of the backend of the day. Signal training like MOS-related skills or Network Operations classes got pushed off the schedule for AWT's that were irrelevant in 2003 because they felt ARE SOLDIERS NEED TO GET BACK TO BASICS; so we had soldiers learning how to call in artillery and dismounted tactics, instead of learning how to loving subnet. My battalion is going to hell so loving fast for the average joe. We spent the last four years trying to get away from the dumb warrior culture bullshit to actually cultivate real signal operators who can be relied on to fix poo poo in a hurry for the dudes who actually fight; we actually got commended on our jobs from people that mattered in the field our last deployment, because they saw how bad it got when we got replaced with units that focus on "discipline" instead of their jobs. It's so frustrating to witness history repeat -- sadly, I'm stuck with this for another 5 goddamn years. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 08:46 on May 20, 2015 |
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May 20, 2015 08:38
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Cole posted:don't ever, ever be better at anything than everybody else in the military. Truer words have never been spoken. Effort post mode: it pisses me off that this is the prevailing attitude in the military. It exists in other worlds, certainly, but not to the extent that Joe has done to conceal his expertise.
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May 20, 2015 20:00
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suicide bi cop posted:While this is true in actual army, volunteering for everything in basic training was really helpful for me, i ended up on a bunch of sham details like picking up Hot-A's from the DFAC and unloading LMTVs while other soldiers were doing retarded poo poo, plus none of the DS's ever knew who I was because I was always off doing some sham detail like guarding weapons or w/e. Sitting on range detail, stapling zero targets to the boards, watching my entire company get wrecked for calling the 1SG sir and not calling at ease or some poo poo was the highlight of basic, aside from that time the contractors working on something in the building snuck some cigarettes in our PC's.
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May 22, 2015 07:29
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sky shark posted:Wow. Officers I thought avoided the mud at least...
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May 28, 2015 15:26
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psydude posted:I feel like I missed out on a good deal of classic army stupidity by not deploying to Korea. My ETS date goes through then, but I'm NG not reserves.
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May 29, 2015 14:22
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Nimmy posted:I know you're right, but the odds of me moving to Germany without language skills as a civilian is virtually zero. Being the stupid gaylord that I am, I think that I can go there, learn the language, and stick around the country after ETS. Rosetta Stone sucks less dick than an enlistment.
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May 30, 2015 12:36
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at the date posted:Redefining womanhood would just be a continuation of the Army's long and proud tradition of altering the meaning of words like "morale," "success," "healthy," "rape," and "victory" in order to boost stats.
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May 31, 2015 13:15
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Eulogistics posted:Whoa, whoa.....whoa. You feminists need to calm down with all this "women can do stuff too" nonsense. There's a loving reason female characters had a -2 strength penalty in Dungeons and Dragons. http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/05/females-complain-after-admin-mos-opened-to-males/
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Jun 2, 2015 09:02
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Spicy Guacamole posted:If that article is to be believed, you can wear whatever you've already got all the way through the wear-out, and (supposedly) you can't be forced into new uniforms until then. I have a loving footlocker full of Multicam. I guarantee the Army would find some dumb reg preventing you from wearing something non-matching.
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Jun 2, 2015 15:27
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I wore white moisture wicking socks; it's almost like the color doesn't have anything to do with how they work.
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Jun 10, 2015 07:28
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Maybe the Chinese can figure out my pay issues, then.
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Jun 12, 2015 20:25
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Grossly incompetent doesn't begin to describe it. Your S1 -- "May as well just email it to the Chinese " That or some Chinese Intel schmuck is gonna realize how ridiculously overpaid we are, yet what terrible spending decisions Joe makes. I'd love to see the positives come it of this. "PFC Schmuckatelli, were you aware that your wife has spent thousands of dollars on another soldiers car?"
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Jun 13, 2015 05:43
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:My last unit actually had one of the companies pac clerks steal like 20 socials (if I remember correctly it was all the females in the BN) on her way out of the Army. She did the whole stolen identity thing and started cranking through credit cards. Last I heard she was still running around the south with a few people's identities. They have our SF-86's now. This gets better and better.
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Jun 14, 2015 18:22
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Cole posted:using an acog took the need for glasses away Wearing glasses fucks with optics so much; if you need to wear them, you GOT to put your face in the same place every shot -- even with Aimpoints. You can take some glasses, put them in front of a holo sight that's anchored down and has a perfect mechanical zero with a boresight (for the sake of the demonstration); move the glasses and watch the dot move around everywhere.
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not caring here posted:Just sit on your rear end then? Some graders are super dicks about that and will DQ your rear end.
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Jun 17, 2015 02:15
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Anyone without a combat patch suck my dick from the back qtiyd
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Jun 19, 2015 10:51
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I know one dude in my unit got a CAB for sleeping in an MRAP when a sniper took a potshot at it.
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Cole posted:i never wore any flair on my uniform because i was too lazy to put it on and hey, anybody can get shot at, but telling me i can't because it'll boost the morale of junior enlisted just means i would probably stack every badge i had on my uniform out of spite. This is the crux of how I feel and I don't even have half the credit y'all do. Army spends so much time making you do poo poo for dumb points and patches, it should be up to the dude who rates it to decide. It's the most retarded thing they could do for morale. :carepost:
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Carteret posted:No one ever believes us.
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Nimmy posted:If you want soldier loyalty all you have to do is let them wear black socks with PTs. Who knew. My guys LOVE the new SMA. http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/06/04/black-socks-pt-uniforms-dan-daily-sergeant-major-army/28498995/ He's pretty alright.
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Jun 30, 2015 07:24
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psydude posted:I already have them from Afghanistan. Actually, my ACUs are falling apart so it'll save me from having to buy new ones. I, on the other hand, have matching everything.... But I'm just a lonely E4, and I'm getting pinned next month. Wonder if they'll troll me by holding off on that because the patch don't match.
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psydude posted:As of tomorrow there's no commander's discretion. OCP is the Army uniform. Thought about it, but I only have flame retardant uniforms, so they could probably use that chestnut.
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Jul 1, 2015 02:40
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psydude posted:My unit is doing one of those gay "Have a three day drill the weekend before you go to AT" deals. We're a loving brigade HHC with zero class VII on our books. What the gently caress do we have to "prep" prior to sitting around and POGing the gently caress out for two weeks? If your units anything like mine, you're still going to get out late as gently caress for ~reasons~.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:hahahahah god drat thats lovely My unit were loving wizards at combining the month before and after AT with it, along with making them poo poo like MUTA7's and MUTA8's
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Aranan posted:
At least if he was shot, the first responders wouldn't have to waste their own first aid kits, and could easily identify where his was, due to strong leadership dictating all IFAK be marked with high speed red tape. AIRBORNE.
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Zeris posted:I will never stop saying this:  just hoping it's that and not some weird good old boys thing where she's the same as her male counterparts, but because of  she's seen as a bitch. I've not seen it at the brigade level but I've definitely seen it at battalion.
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Jul 9, 2015 17:38
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Carteret posted:Besides stuff like the MILES gear for Strykers and poo poo, has anyone actually seen stuff made after '91? Related: my first satellite shelters, the AN/TSC-93 and 85, were older than me in 2006, although they had some new parts inside; we used that thing for 7 more years. (Not mine) 
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Equine Don posted:arty has fight clubs Now it's a haiku
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