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gently caress drill weekends. gently caress training meetings. That is all.
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"Why are you in uniform" isn't the first question I usually expect to be asked by the sandwich artist. I was too tired to say something like "Poor life decisions, same as you."
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Mar 8, 2015 01:23
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I said "What?" the first two times he asked because I was looking at the menu and not paying attention. The third time I said I just finished drill. He said he didn't know there was drill going on around there (I drill about 45 minutes away). Maybe it was because I'd just watched a couple stolen valor videos, but it seemed like he was just itching for the attention I didn't care to give him. He was just some kid who said he was a former Marine.
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Mar 8, 2015 03:25
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psydude posted:Reservists/guardsmen: how many former Marines do you guys have in your unit that still refer to themselves as Marines. We only had one in my last unit. He didn't talk about it much, but you could pick him out of a lineup because he was in better shape than 95% of the other guys. I'd rather have a whole platoon of him versus the three or four former AD 11Bs that I've had to deal with.
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Mar 8, 2015 05:08
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From a buddy's FB: "HRC is an odd place I never want to figure out. You know you're gonna have a bad day when you roll up and a LTC is outside on a detail picking up cigarette butts in the parking lot."
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Mar 12, 2015 17:18
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I went in seven years ago and didn't even take mine with me. They made everyone else turn theirs in in Reception. Dude walked up to drop his in the box and on the way back to his seat another one fell out of his pants leg. I can't imagine the rest of the cycle was easy on him.
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Mar 28, 2015 03:25
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Got an update slide from USARC on the new uniforms. They'll hit AAFES July 1st, but the new boots don't come out until August. So in grand Army tradition, you can buy the uniforms a month before you'll actually be able to wear them.
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Apr 30, 2015 15:48
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I've been advised to show up barefoot. Granted, I'm in WV, so nobody'd notice...
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Apr 30, 2015 16:16
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Well, the wear out date on old gear is 01 October 2018, so about two years of blending.psydude posted:e: just read your previous post. Most likely. We all just get traded back and forth and up and down the chain here.
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Apr 30, 2015 19:08
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Nope, the new ones are darker brown. Coyote brown is the name, I think.
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Apr 30, 2015 20:35
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I'll post the powerpoint I got today and the newest alaract messages when I get to work in the morning.
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May 1, 2015 03:35
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May 1, 2015 13:51
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In the last article I read about the costume changes, they said they're looking at a program to dye all the TA50 coyote brown. lofuckingl
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May 2, 2015 23:35
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Spicy Guacamole posted:Holy good decisions, Batman! The new uniforms will start being rolled out on 1 July. Check my posts for a pic of the timeline earlier in the thread. The boots don't come out until August because why do something right? Edit: Here it is:
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Jun 2, 2015 11:47
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From ALARACT 085/2015 - 4.A. DURING THE TRANSITION PERIOD, CLOTHING INITIAL ISSUE POINTS ARE AUTHORIZED TO CONTINUE TO ISSUE TO INITIAL ENTRY TRAINING SOLDIERS THE TAN/SAND COLORED UNDERGARMENTS WITH THE OPERATIONAL CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN ACU. SOLDIERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO WEAR THE SAND UNDERSHIRT; WHITE, TAN OR BROWN DRAWERS; SAND RIGGER BELT; AND TAN COMBAT BOOTS WITH THE OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM AND/OR OPERATIONAL CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN ACU COAT AND TROUSERS. THE TAN 499 UNDERSHIRT, TAN 499 RIGGER BELT, AND COYOTE COMBAT BOOTS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED FOR WEAR WITH THE UNIVERSAL CAMOUFLAGE PATTERN COAT AND TROUSERS.
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Jun 2, 2015 15:54
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thetechnoloser posted:Straight from the Horse's Mouth- SMA Dailey: Somebody buy that guy an account. <3
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Jun 2, 2015 18:29
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One of my AGR buddies killed himself last night. As we were sitting around this morning letting it soak in, one of my other buddies said, "So...I guess I should work on my briefing." He just gave the suicide briefing at drill this past weekend.
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Jul 23, 2015 16:04
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No, it was just a bit of gallows humor during a situation we're all still trying to process. This guy was less than a year from retirement; he had his twenty year letter hanging in his office. He hadn't shown any of the signs we get drilled into us all the time. Nothing about him seemed out of the ordinary. Hell, one of his soldiers showed up this morning because the guy had asked him to come in today. It just loving sucks...
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Jul 23, 2015 16:41
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Wasabi the J posted:Jesus. I hope you're alright; what state are you guys in, out of morbid curiosity? I have an AGR that I know personally went through some brushes with suicide and recently gave a brief about it, now I'm worried about him. Kentucky. And yeah, I'll be okay. I feel bad for his wife and child, and the guys that served with him. The rest of us'll play some cornhole and drink a few beers in his honor. Retrowave Joe fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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Jul 23, 2015 18:04
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All this isn't entirely correct. Yes, everyone goes on the PPRL when they hit their TIS/TIG. But unless they submit a promo packet, they get put on the PPRL with either 38 or 39 points. It's meant to highlight these Soldiers to higher so they can't just hide in the E4 mafia forever.
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Aug 2, 2015 04:43
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calmasahinducow posted:Pretty much. Compiling all the paperwork and doing all the counselings for troublemakers results in myself and the rest of my leadership spending 80% of our time on 20% of our soldiers. A higher priority for me is focusing on real, relevant training and developing the numerous good soldiers we have. No loving poo poo. I got to work this morning and the first thing I got to deal with was a Soldier that's in jail for multiple counts of petit larceny. This same person also has a drug packet in progress, so I'm guessing they were pawning the poo poo they stole to support their pill habit. I finished dealing with that at around 5pm, and I'm still in the office working on another drug packet for a pothead. This'll be the second time in the last week that I'll be spending the night on the couch in the Colonel's office. What I'm saying is, gently caress lower enlisted retards for wasting my time.
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Aug 4, 2015 02:37
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I'm as proud as I can be of my newest Specialist. She hasn't even been in a year and she's already at zero fucks to give. I mean, she still enlisted, so she's still partly retarded.
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Aug 7, 2015 13:58
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Wasabi the J posted:On this tiny twelve building compound where you can throw one rock twice to cover the whole length, they want us to loving march 65 steps to chow. psydude posted:The Army deserves itself.
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Aug 20, 2015 14:59
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The big green weenie is an ouroboros, loving its own butthole forever.
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Aug 20, 2015 15:51
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It's too bad you're headed to the IRR psydude. We could use a TPU brigade S6 that has the GiPper mentality here.
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Aug 24, 2015 06:12
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Hey Lard Goat, your service records, including your DD 214, are available online now. You can request copies at: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/
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Sep 17, 2015 13:16
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psydude posted:Drill for an HHC in the reserve components basically consists of about 7 people doing all of the work and the other 100 or so sitting around doing nothing. 100% Truth.
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Sep 17, 2015 18:50
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I just spent three hours pulling my privates
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Oct 14, 2015 23:19
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That post coulda used more ammo, more hands on training, and maybe some better visual aids
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Oct 16, 2015 12:57
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Hell, right now our CG is approving suspended discharges for all E1-E4 first time THC positives. It's fun listening to the E7+ people bitch about how that's not fair.
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Oct 19, 2015 02:52
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And no, that's not true. AR 135-178 Chapter 12 states: "A Soldier may be discharged for misconduct when it is determined under the guidance set forth in chapter 2, section I, that the Soldier is unqualified for further military service by reason of one or more of the following circumstances: d. Abuse of illegal drugs or alcohol. Illegal drug use is serious misconduct. Discharge action normally will be based upon commission of a serious offense. However, relevant facts may mitigate the nature of the offense. Therefore, a single drug offense may be combined with one or more disciplinary infractions or incidents or other misconduct and processed for discharge under paragraph a or b, above, as appropriate. (1) Commanders will process for separation all Soldiers who— (a) Test positive for illegal drug use." When you use is irrelevant. If you test positive for illegal drugs, it's an automatic Chapter 12 discharge. If it's for a controlled prescription drug, the Soldier is given time to produce the prescription and/or dispensing logs from the pharmacy.
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Oct 19, 2015 18:49
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There's a better than average chance that I'll be working on a project to reduce the number of nonparticipants in the Reserves. Since most of you have experience and aren't retarded, I'd love to hear your ideas on how we could do a better job of a) keeping people from just not showing up and b) if they aren't gonna come back, how we can get them out of the Army faster, either through separating them or transferring them to the IRR.
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Oct 27, 2015 18:12
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psydude posted:Biggest thing is prevention: make sure recruiters just aren't dumping recruits on your books without telling you. Then keep tabs on them before/after IET so that they know where and when to show up. Same goes for promotions: the RSCs love promoting people into positions for whatever obscure MOS they held 14 years ago at a unit located at the exact edge of their mileage statement. We also had a lot of success sending out AGRs to people's houses to explain why getting kicked out with an OTH for being a non participant is pretty bad. Okay, so how do we translate that into something that works across the entire Army Reserve? Better communication between units and recruiters by having easy access to a list of recruiting stations in their 50 mile radius? A welcome packet that gives new Soldiers an idea of what to expect from their unit and contact information for their first line leaders and unit FTS? Does the sponsorship program work? Does that 62-R that new Joes walk around with do any good? These are just some questions that have popped into my head. There's a good chance I'll be able to talk directly to the people that program some of our most-used databases, so I'd be happy to see tools what we can create to make UA/HR NCO/Training NCO/etc.'s job easier. The second paragraph is pretty standard procedure for every unit I've been in. But is that necessarily the right way we should be doing things? One thing I was asked yesterday was, "We make it so easy for Soldiers to sign the dotted line to join. Why can't we make it easier for them to unsign the line if they just don't want to do it anymore? Give em a General discharge and send them on their way." Edit: For example, one thing I'd like to see as a UA is for RLAS or now CSMM to run a search when a Soldier's address is updated in the system to see if there's a unit within 50 miles of their new address that has a vacancy in their MOS and poo poo out the results in a spreadsheet or pdf or whatever. gently caress, I'll keep going. Have a transfer module built in that would allow you to send a request to the other unit to accept the Soldier. If they click the button to agree, have the new pdf-f's of the 4651 and the 4856 built in so that it would autofill all the admin data, chain of command info, UIC, position #, etc. for both gaining and losing units on the 4651, and load in the admin data on the 4856. Then all that would need done for that packet is filling in the reason for transfer, plan of action, and some signatures. Retrowave Joe fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 18:40
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Geirskogul posted:Is that an orubouros? No, that's the last thing you see before you become the next letter in the Human Centipede that is the Army.
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Nov 12, 2015 19:47
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That's all she wrote for the old retirement system. Gonna be interesting to see how the new Joes in 2018 feel about it. And I wonder how this'll shake out if people don't indef just to cruise to 20 for the retirement.
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Nov 26, 2015 17:41
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Remember that nonparticipants project I was gonna start on this month? Well, instead I've gotten the big green weenie. I was supposed to start on the 16th. Still don't have orders. The packet has been held up at various echelons, and gotten kicked back once for a flag (which was an error and got corrected by a literally fifteen second phone call). Now, two weeks after I was originally slated to start, they're "just now realizing" that I'm a MilTech, even though in the goddamn Tour of Duty website it asks you if you are, I checked yes, AND included the loving memo it required from my civilian supervisor saying it was cool. My buddy at USARC is about to lose his goddamn mind and I'm not far behind. I canceled on a condo here because I figured I'd be there for the foreseeable future. It's making me consider switching over to the new retirement system so I can get the gently caress out.
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Nov 30, 2015 15:33
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Oh, I know, I'm just pissed right now. It's gonna be a poo poo deal for people that stay in for 20, but a decent deal for people that are smart enough to only do one tour and get out for a much better paying civilian job. Hell, I'd only consider it if I was deadset on getting out before twenty because if I switched now I'd be missing out on 7 years of matching contributions and uh...gently caress that.
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Nov 30, 2015 17:07
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Nov 30, 2015 23:03
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DoktorLoken posted:I'm curious how this new retirement system will work on the reserve component side. At this rate, I almost certainly don't see myself making it to 20 even as a traditional RC soldier. It'll be nice to walk away with something, even if it's only some extra beer money once I hit my late 50s. There's a good write up of it here. 20% decrease in the base amount, which you're supposed to make up with investments in your TSP. Vested after 2 years. Everyone in before 2018 will have 18 months to decide whether to switch or keep the old system.
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Soulex posted:Hey lets do PT on the wet parking lot. Oh and that dumb PRT stuff too. We just had that discussion at work yesterday and top decided he'd rather not injure anyone trying to take a PT test. At least some NCOs have sense...
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