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Woke up feeling congested and snotty and overall crappy. Didn't have to go stand in line outside a little trailer at 4am to get permission to stay home from work.
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Sometimes I wonder if I would have turned out like this guy and stayed in after my 4. My first duty assignment was for Italy, but a few weeks before graduating AIT it got changed to Drum. Vahakyla, you know in a normal 9-5 job you wouldn't have to deal with these types of injuries because most 9-5 jobs don't involve jumping out of planes, right? Aranan fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Since I went on terminal leave, I have never been asked what rank I was in the army. Ever. And I work as a contractor in the same field, surrounded by literally the only people in the country who would even know whether or not Specialist was higher ranked than Major.
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A Bad Poster posted:Army medicine worked out in my favor for once. My surgeon had an opening Monday, so I'm getting my leg surgery done. Then 30 days of convalescent leave that would end 5 days before my ETS date, that is if I weren't going to sign out on ETS leave before it runs out. So tomorrow is my last day of working for the army I did this. Had surgery, got a month of con leave, came back for a month (half-day afternoon shift work for the first two weeks, clearing for the last two weeks) and sign out. It was glorious. Congrats and I hope you don't wake up with a green weenie inside your chest cavity.
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Jun 22, 2018 02:01
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I wonder if he's ever going to post again. He either got scared off or is paralyzed and hasn't gotten good at typing with his tongue yet.
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Jun 23, 2018 13:20
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Who was the officer who posted pictures of his trench feet after a very wet ruck march and then had to vanish off of the forums because his COC found out?
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Jun 23, 2018 22:24
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redneck nazgul posted:Martello. Somehow I missed the memorandum part. What a champ. 
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Jun 23, 2018 23:52
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I've found having a 20-30 minute commute is kind of ideal for me. Gives me time to switch out of work mode, relax, listen to some podcasts. That way when I get home, I'm in full chill mode and can ignore anything that happened beforehand.
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Jun 28, 2018 16:52
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There's a flea on the hair and a hair on the wart and a wart on the frog and a frog on the leaf and a leaf on a branch and a branch on a log and a log in a hole and a hole in the bottom of the sea.
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Jul 7, 2018 02:46
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Friday afternoon/early evening, I got an email from work. I was sad before reading it because I figured it would be stuff that needed to be done after hours or I needed to come in on the weekend or anything else the army had conditioned me to expect. Nope, it was a "You're doing well--here's a bonus!" It's still nice being out.
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Good morning, LTC Mustang, sir.
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Jul 10, 2018 19:02
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Heh... Seamen
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Jul 13, 2018 03:17
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Issued boots also caused me to lose feeling in my big toes for over a year. I thought it was going to be permanent, but eventually feeling came back. I remember getting into bed one night and being surprised I could feel the sensation of the sheets sliding across my toe.
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EBB posted:lol i remember when i cared
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Aug 12, 2018 18:31
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I remember feeling indescribably lucky that I got to sleep on a metal shelf in the parts shelter on the back of my shop's LMTV during a field exercise. It was maybe a foot and a half high and exactly my body's width, so I was basically sleeping in a coffin where any movement would result in banging into sharp metal edges but it was so much better than sleeping outside.
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Sep 28, 2018 13:36
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DoktorLoken posted:Gross. That gives me Trojan flashbacks. Ah, the Trojan 
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Sep 28, 2018 17:48
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Give me summa dat CEO grunt poo poo.
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I'll real-talk you as well since I wasn't too far off from you at one point probably. I was working in a dead-end job throughout college. Graduated, kept working there, needed a masters degree to get a tiny promotion. Decided I want to get into the tech industry, so I planned it out. Did research and my options were to take out more crippling student loan debt or get the government to train me and pick up the GI Bill... I originally tried to go officer in the Navy (because I had a degree and read the warnings about enlisting with a degree--and the navy lets you choose your job as an officer, but the army does not [and the air force recruiters would never return my calls and were always out of the office]). My navy officer recruiter kind of dicked me around for almost a year and my packet got delayed in getting sent in until I aged out of the job I was trying to get. Hooray. I took a break for a bit, then went to the enlisted recruiters. Reversed here--Army enlistment lets you choose your MOS, but the other branches do not (iirc). I researched the jobs, made a list, and went in to see what was available. Got told that neither of the two I chose were open, so I said "Okay, I'll come back later." I did. Eventually the job I was aiming for opened up, I did all the dumb pre-army crap, and signed up. I didn't ship for a few months afterwards and I wound up just not going to their stupid future soldier programs because I had a full time job and couldn't take 4 hours off to play football and practice marching around. I was always open to re-enlisting or trying for green-to-gold (enlisted to officer program) if I found it agreeable, but from day 0 I was planning to do my 4 years and GTFO. First duty station sucked, second duty station was okay, but I decided that was enough of the taste for me so I turned down re-enlistment. Got multiple job offers from the contractors/civilians I had worked with over the few years and took a pretty great one. I'm doing similar stuff to what I did when I was in, but making a lot more and life is just so much more pleasant. I got a lot out of my time in the military--contacts, training, certifications, a pretty drat expensive surgery for something the army didn't do to me, and some monthly pocket change for my broken parts that were from the army. If you have a plan, constantly work toward it, and realize it's going to require a lot of effort and potentially put you through some serious misery and high stress, you can do your initial contract and come out ahead. If you join without a solid plan, you can wind up wasting years of your life, getting injured, and picking up no useful skills in return.
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Oct 5, 2018 20:35
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This is true. Everyone I know has some kind of hearing damage.
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Oct 5, 2018 21:40
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I actually don't hear the EEEEEEEEE sound, but whenever I'm in a place with the buzz of conversation (mall, stadium, restaurant, busy office) it feels like my ears are rattling like a blown speaker would if you tried to push too much bass through it.
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Oct 6, 2018 03:11
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Lol so glad I'm not at drum anymore. That place somehow always manages to top itself.
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Oct 10, 2018 00:29
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Pokemon Go definitely worked at Gordon because I remember seeing people setting up lawn chairs and bringing food out to one of the areas with a few tanks/planes/satellite antennas. Apparently it was marked as a park and that meant it was some kind of Pokemon base. So many ait students spent their weekends there...
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Oct 12, 2018 19:19
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Train like you fight. Fight your command.
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Just get demoted before then.
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