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Mike-o posted:Water wet, sky blue, nobles must hang.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 07:06 |
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I remember getting a call a couple of days after I went on terminal leave, when I was somewhere in west Texas by that point (2,000 mi. away), asking about where something was. Guy wasn't even in my platoon, what the gently caress are you calling me for? Go talk to the guy who handles that. Jesus. A few months after that, I had thirteen missed calls at about four in the morning from my old PSG. No thanks. e: Just looked, and it was texts and phone calls over the course of a whole week about a loving AAM. The entire drive from coast-to-coast. :facepalm: Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Feb 21, 2017 |
# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 03:43 |
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No, I have no idea what it was for, and I sure as hell didn't call him back.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 04:01 |
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Dude's rockin' the rap industry standard, so you know he's a high speed, low drag spec ops oper8r.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 09:32 |
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Look at who skips leg day.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 18:05 |
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Just lift with your truck's BII. Helllooooo, tow bars?
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 04:52 |
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Out three years on Wednesday.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 06:51 |
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Red Cross chat: my grandmother died while I was deployed. I got a heads up that the Red Cross message was on the way, CO said no problem, we'll get you on the next bird to KAF, etc. even before it came in. With some back of the napkin math I figured out that I wouldn't have made it back in time. Even if everything went perfectly smooth and happened as quickly as possible in getting out of country (shortest possible layovers, first flight out of Atlanta), I'd have arrived after the funeral. At the same time, though, I was kind of glad because that time after the funeral when everyone's bummed out and weepy really sucks.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 18:41 |
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The one time I did the cinch drill, it was against my previous PSG. He had no bones about socking me in the face and gave me one really good wallop right off the bat that knocked me sideways. After I got through, I dragged him to the ground and then had to do it all over again.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 08:24 |
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I got a "wait, you're still here? I thought you left two weeks ago."
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 07:20 |
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As a rule of thumb, combat arms and jobs with relatively high turnover rates will tend to promote faster. At least from what I've seen, 5 in 3 is fairly common for 19D, and that's how I did it. Most of the guys who came in around the time I did and were also worth promoting picked up their 5 at the same time I did. I've seen a few guys with 7 in 7, but that didn't seem to be the norm. The infantry company that we swapped a platoon with in Afghanistan had a 1SG who must have picked up at the minimum TIS/TIG requirements, because he was younger than some guys getting their 6. e: 5 in 3, not 3 in 3 hurrr Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Mar 6, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 01:41 |
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Remember when HRC decided that there were too many 19K's on hand, and reclassed a ton of them to 19D? Good times.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 03:11 |
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not caring here posted:I got dicked by that when I was a PFC, just prior to SPC. Have a guess what my chances of just going to the board as a former tanker in a cavalry squadron with no job training were? I'm sorry.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 07:13 |
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Promotable; recommended for promotion by a board.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 23:53 |
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The double-V ones are more or less the same as the older ones, as I remember. This might sound stupidly obvious, but their condition just boils down to maintenance. Some of the flat-bottom trucks we had in garrison were really solid and some were steaming piles of poo poo that caught fire, and the double-V ones we had while deployed were no different. The one I had had a really wonky engine that wimped out as soon as it got going just barely fast enough to shift into sixth. Slowest truck in the troop by a measurable margin, what the gently caress.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 06:19 |
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The pipe dream gains some traction: beards in uniform??? tl;dr: Everybody knows that hair can prevent proper sealing of the existing M40/42 promasks. There exist masks that will work with a beard, but cost $$$. A good seal can still be had with a well-kept and trimmed beard, and this is still being studied by the Army. It could be a possibility at some point in the future. https://www.armytimes.com/articles/the-army-could-let-soldiers-grow-beards-no-seriously Army Times posted:The Army could let soldiers grow beards. No, seriously.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 21:42 |
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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.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 03:49 |
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Obstacle2 posted:They dont, they just use the terminology wrong.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 09:42 |
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Also this:Diarrhea Elemental posted:MTOE aka manning levels that never actually happen By extension, MTOE also doesn't mean that you'll have enough bodies to fill every slot on every truck. Again, this is just from a Stryker cav perspective, but you're lucky if you have more than 80% of your UMR filled in garrison (for various reasons). This is typical (scrubbed, but green/red reflects actual manning):
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 10:11 |
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Obstacle2 posted:The gunner is the VC as you just pointed out, not the PL PSG or squad leader. Naked Bear posted:in garrison Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Mar 8, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 15:30 |
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If you've got something you want to say to me then go get your first line. This is my training room, bitches.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2017 00:13 |
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gently caress, where the hell are they? They'd be gone for two hours at least, and then they'd keep the door locked and the lights off when they got back. Assholes, seriously. You know there's something going on when you're still trying to get a dude's BAH turned on nearly a year after he got married. Anywhere else in the world, if your job was to help people fix their problems and you weren't, you'd be gone on a heartbeat. Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Mar 9, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 9, 2017 00:37 |
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Thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna go hug a copy of my DD-214.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2017 13:04 |
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They lost it. There is seriously nothing to "process." It gets signed and handed off to S1 so that you can be charged for that leave. That's it.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 14:54 |
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mlmp08 posted:tricked out civic
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 18:56 |
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That's a real quick way to find yourself wearing concrete shoes at the bottom of a lake.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 21:13 |
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He does realize that his brigade is the war crime brigade, right? I mean, mine had SSG what's his face, but there were a whole bunch more in 2 SBCT.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 06:50 |
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Mike-o posted:Bailes? Is 2 SBCT what used to be 5 SBCT? Because that's what I was in and yeah lol war crimes brigade. Nobody likes CID, but they do serve a purpose... even if it's not actually doing anything about the asshats breaking and entering barracks, stealing dudes' poo poo, and stealing their cars, too; even when those asshats can be named. Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Mar 11, 2017 |
# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 08:41 |
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J.A.B.C. posted:people wonder why our retention numbers are solid red
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 15:32 |
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 15:40 |
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 15:41 |
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spacetoaster posted:"Hmmm, (looks at sign on door of building 1) garrison commander. This is probably the right person to talk to." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmn9asN-8AE
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 16:18 |
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The saga continues.
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 19:02 |
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 16:26 |
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Kick-Puncher posted:I dont think it is even used anymore
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 21:31 |
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The only time I saw a gut truck on Lewis was outside the GDLS shop.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 19:36 |
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If there wasn't at least one truck on fire, nose down in a ditch, or upside down, then it wasn't training.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2017 01:04 |
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That terror you feel is the subconscious realization that your life is in the hands of a nineteen year old private who may or may not have the requisite training and experience to navigate a top-heavy twenty ton vehicle over, across, and through a myriad of potentially life-ending obstacles in a state of near-complete sensory deprivation, physical exhaustion, and substance withdrawal.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 06:11 |
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Basically, yeah, it boils down to the driver. A legit good driver (who also isn't a retard) can make a Stryker move like a loving rocket. A retarded driver won't even have the chance to kill you because he'll be too busy claiming that the engine fire caused by oil starvation wasn't his fault (and you'll get stranded on the wrong side of the pass lol). Also, you can totally jump a Stryker and it's totally and completely badass.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 06:24 |
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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:44 |
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Soulex posted:Probably to watch. I've been airborne in a vehicle before and landing is not fun. BUT ANYWAY, it's probably not a good idea. Then again, if you're dumb enough to enlist, you're dumb enough to test a vehicle's top speed on unpaved roads, I guess. Naked Bear fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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