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I'm reminded of someone around here anecdotally mentioning how they once saw a lieutenant colonel picking up cigarette butts outside the Pentagon. Because gently caress you if you're still in applies to everyone.
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Watching an Aurora through nods is also really cool.
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Someone stole all of our 123 and AA batteries out of our connex on my last JRTC rotation. Queue everyone freaking out, because there was nothing they could do about it. Whoops we can't run night ops and nobody can drive anywhere after dark because it's blackout drive only.
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Jan 3, 2017 06:06
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Jan 7, 2017 09:48
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psydude posted:I've noticed this thing where a lot of former military have this idea that places near military bases are nice. "Colorado Springs is nice! Fayetteville is nice! Jacksonville is nice!" Tacoma and Olympia aren't bad.
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Hey Mustang, were you around 4-23 this week during their field exercise? I saw some cav trucks rolling around. It was a total shitshow. Having squads do land navigation through the woods with full combat loads, in the rain, at night, in 35° temperatures for almost 30 hours straight. Had more than 15 casualties in a single company in the span of 6 hours due to heat casualties, cold weather injuries, and multiple broken or fractured ankles. And then the only medical Stryker, being driven at night on worn down mud roads, in the rain, by someone who had never driven one before, dropped halfway off a cliff.
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Mustang posted:By the way, how much time are you guys spending at YTC before NTC this year? We've got at least like 3 months of YTC in the next 6 months. Sounds about like what we're doing. If this week was any indication, I'm telling my doctor that he needs to make my permanent profile more iron clad, because if they're wanting me to go without using my CPAP for weeks, I'm going to have to do something about it.
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Jan 22, 2017 04:36
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Mustang should just transfer across the grass to one of the infantry companies. I know one is investigating like 8 guys for running a coke ring. He would probably have a much more accurate army experience there. Edit: and we don't have a late call tomorrow, at least as of now.
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Feb 3, 2017 07:40
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I wasn't notified about the last two, so if there actually is one I wouldn't be surprised.
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Feb 3, 2017 08:05
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Got my tonsils out today. Excruciating pain whenever I swallow and two weeks of convalescent leave is still better than going to work.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:35
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Has everyone done their yearly "gently caress the Army" training on JKO? If not, I need your certs by COB today. Yes, it's a Saturday, but you're a soldier 24/7.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:08
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If it makes you feel better I will be on rear D the whole time, and won't be using the gym because gently caress it, and I'm on profile.
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Feb 28, 2017 05:08
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My last unit had people fill out loco parentis statements or something like that, so they could prove who raised someone if they got a Red Cross message.
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Mar 1, 2017 05:31
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I'm almost definitely going to finish up my 6 years as an E4, because I don't care. Been in almost 5 years and have never even been to the board, been a SPC for 3. Told my leadership I'm not reenlisting, so they aren't going to send me unless they are forced to, and I'm not even going to try if they do. Being responsible for the idiots I work with is the last thing I need in my life.
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Mar 6, 2017 06:07
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Yeah, our unit has approved for use plate carriers. Too expensive for me, but at least they're trying. In more entertaining news, I saw a convoy brief today that involved driving to Yakima by going south to Portland, and then East. Have fun with that drive in those piece of poo poo strykers.
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Mar 7, 2017 02:56
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Yeah, we have the new strykers. I don't know what the difference is between them and the older versions. Hopefully not something to do with reliability, because then I can't imagine how bad they were before.
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The water damage thing explains why they're so anal about the tarps. I know our mechanics have been pretty good at working on our trucks. Got to watch them change out an engine because some idiot put coolant in where the engine oil goes. $146,000 oopsie there.
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Mar 7, 2017 03:35
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Mandate that all spitters must have lids at the least.
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Mar 7, 2017 22:29
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mlmp08 posted:Not to mention, if the reason were gas masks, why are beards banned in garrison environments where you literally aren't issued one. It's because back when you could grow facial hair, someone got made fun of somewhere in their career for only being able to grow a shameful mockery of a beard, and when they got into the appropriate position said "gently caress all of you."
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The Rat posted:I know I've been out a while, but yeah, confirmed, MTOE for a Stryker platoon has a dedicated VC per truck. Alright, now do that with half the people, replace half of the E3s with E1s, the other half with E4s, and just remove all of the E5s except for 2. There's reality for you.
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Mar 8, 2017 05:28
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Mustang, we should meet up for drinks sometime when you get back. I'd love to get your side of that inevitable cluster gently caress compared to my sides.
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Diarrhea Elemental posted:DoD. txt Let me tell you the tale of how I had to explain to a light colonel how one of his S3 guys didn't have NVGs because we only had enough to equip 25% of the company with them, and that would be if they all worked, which they didn't. If I have reallocated that set of PVS-14s, then we wouldn't have enough for the people driving and TCing vehicles to have optics. I explained that he would either have to pull them from one of those guys, or someone from his command staff, and he backed down.
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Mar 8, 2017 08:05
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4/25 is the only not terrible non-SOF airborne unit, but that's only because it's small and people forget they exist.
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Mar 8, 2017 20:46
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Airborne school is easy as hell. Since it's actually relatively dangerous, they baby the students the whole time. Granted I look at it from a "if a poo poo bag like me can do it, it can't be that hard" point of view, much like I look at Ranger school and West Point, because my brother is just as stupid and lovely as I am and he got through that poo poo somehow. He's a better runner than I am, I'm pretty sure that's it.
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He doesn't even know the horrors that are going on in his own brigade. Edit: But seriously, Mustang, when you get back, I've got some real army poo poo to explain to you. Alcohol will be required. And probably a fire extinguisher after you try to self immolate afterwards. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 06:03
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Let's just say that pretty much all of my coworkers really don't like CID.
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Mar 11, 2017 07:37
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Gonna need that one if they authorize beards, because you know that's going to be at the commander's discretion and gently caress you. Still haven't seen anyone rolling their sleeves!
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Mar 13, 2017 23:48
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Saw a Mercedes SUV with big decals on the back window of a CIB, HALO badge, Bronze Star, and SF crest. They took up about 40% of the window. Quiet Professional my rear end.
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Looking forward to seeing the stories about how the Staff Sergeant got a Bronze Star, but the Specialist got an AAM with a C for the same thing, and the argument that will ensue. Also waiting for the first person to have an award with "VCR" on it having to explain that to someone. Edit: ^ Yeah, putting your rank on your car has always seemed like the dumbest thing to me. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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Mar 18, 2017 05:29
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Mustang posted:God drat Yakima Training Center  Apparently they just shipped a bunch of guys from our rear D out there to fill sandbags and do range clean up.
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McNally posted:An ICE comment card I filled out saying "poor service, staff didn't know their jobs, attempted to deny me benefits based on incorrect information, illegally stripped me of ID card" didn't go anywhere. Oh, it went somewhere. The office shredder.
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Mar 23, 2017 02:49
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All of that is literally the same, except the food trucks are now the FRG.
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Mustang posted:So much Stryker recovery training....and some funny stories "Recovery training" as in "here's what to do if your truck breaks down" or as in "we drove halfway up/down a cliff and now we're stuck because we'll flip over if we move."
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Mar 24, 2017 01:04
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Mar 25, 2017 04:13
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And odds are there's a couple of people sticking halfway out the top who are 100% going to die
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Mar 25, 2017 06:15
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Literally unable to imagine a time when we weren't at war in the Middle East.
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48 hours in Yakima filling in tire ruts was enough for me. I'm getting drunk and watching the new Dave Chappelle special. Edit: oh yeah, gently caress the Army. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 27, 2017 |
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I haven't met a single lower enlisted person in this brigade who likes it, or would feel at all comfortable deploying with it. Also tons of people who were thinking about reenlisting before they got here, but after this place are firmly in the "gently caress this" camp.
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Mustang posted:I'll save the stories until I no longer have this job or tell them in person About those drinks I mentioned...
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I got a bunch of really nice socks from my time in Alaska, definitely using those on the outside. Silks and waffles I could take or leave, but you can pry that smoking jacket from my rotting corpse. Everything else is going to be sold, except for maybe one uniform so my kids can find it one day, and ask "daddy, you were in the army? Tell us!" And then regale them with hours of bullshit. Enough to traumatize them into never signing up themselves.
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