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Justin Tyme posted:For when you do a live fire range with smokes/frags and some dingus doesn't keep the pin so you're stuck crawling in the tall grass looking for it, except now you have a bunch of pins and save the day for all your friends.
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Mustang posted:I still can't believe how much poo poo costs that the Army buys. The chairs we use are like $450, desks like $4000 and I'm pretty sure the huge table in the classroom costs over S10,0000. Could save so much money just buying poo poo from COSTCO or Ikea, it's not like the stuff the Army buys is high quality material or anything. Some of the poo poo on GSA Advantage was cheap buy it was labyrinthine to navigate
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bird food bathtub posted:I actually really like the Colt 1911 my unit sponsored when we got back from Afghanistan. Didn't carry it during deployment or anything but it's still a nice piece that I enjoy having around. The one we got was an overpriced FDE tan turd that doesn't accept fully loaded magazines without jamming, and one of the pins would work itself halfway out after a few range trips. Also it has a loving retarded signal flag and our unit name on it so I can't find anyone who would want to buy it.
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psydude posted:No, because we half rear end everything in the Army, including being jealous of other MOS'. Tangentially related, I poorly remember an anecdote about how the services breakdown when you talk poo poo about their service. Air Force just chuckle and laugh, because poo poo, life is pretty sweet. Sailors have heard every gay joke and wrote half of them, but will defend their ship. Marines get the most uppity about their flavor of koolaid. They all "wanted to be infantry" anyway. Someone talks poo poo about the army? That's not even the dumbest loving story any soldier has witnessed, so we're likely to one up you. E:  @being scared of infantry. I find more reasons I'm glad I didn't do that poo poo everyday. No one is scared of infantry unless they're either the enemy or a rape victim.
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Aranan posted:gently caress no. I'm the POGiest rear end POG that ever POGed and I'm fine with that. Some of the Pogiest POGs I knew were prior shooters. Unrelated.
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A Bad Poster posted:You intentionally switched from Fort Rich to Bragg One of the weirdest dudes in my detachment deployed to Africa loving LOVED Bragg. Why, yes, he was a huge Kool Aid drinker, why do you ask?
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Jaguars! posted:Power armor would suck. Statement of charges for mech parts you were never issued.
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Is it bad form to hang yourself with a yellow ribbon to price how worthless these briefings are?
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Icon Of Sin posted:My old unit left a fully armed and running Stryker completely unattended at NTC I like the new tonal shift of USAWTF into a whistleblower forum whilst maintaining the comedy of the military's insanity.
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I used to think as a young soldier that the salty former Marines from the 90s we cool cats because they would generally be funny, bitched about common sense and grit, and had experience in the military. Then I grew and realized they couldn't turn off that bullshit when it was time to be an adult, and served in a time the military had no mission. It was actually one of the more distressing revelations I had as a young soldier.
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The only guy I know who described air assault as fun scored sub 50 on his asvaab and is in the guard. He's surprisingly a fun kid to work around. Like a human Labrador retriever.
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Naked Bear posted:LTC: Are you in line?
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Mustang posted:My platoon is so ridiculously stacked with good NCO's that I'm honestly surprised I haven't had any of them taken to another platoon. It is done. The pact is sealed. So sayeth the verdant sausage.
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:Prepare your butthole. But he out ranks him!
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ASAPI posted:Boards are the dumbest thing about the Army. Hopefully you get to tell a CSM that they are wrong. Twice. I liked the board when someone actually wrote down a list of FM's and their titles on a card, and asked if he could reference it, as he didn't want to give the incorrect response. Fuckin' genius aced it, and of course the loophole was quickly closed.
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Zeris posted:I don't know if we're all so woke and post-army then maybe these guys who can't readjust and constantly live in the past could use a little mentorship and help discovering cool things about the post-army life? It's a double edged sword. You try to talk about your times in and it's always some loving non fun story about how actually their friends are dead now after their deployment and they don't understand my pog life. Like drat dude where do I go from there? I'm sorry of course that is bad and you should see someone about that I guess no one cares anymore about dumb lieutenant stories.
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Soulex posted:Yeah. Mine isn't bad because it's a more liberal college but still, there's mostly navy dudes anyways and that's like speaking French. I got one of my Joe's hired at my job and somehow we ended up talking about our terrible African adventure, and poo poo all over the Navy dudes we had to work with. Forgot one of our co-workers was a sailor, and one of those kind of pathetic guys who thinks he's the same dude from 20 years ago. He left the office today without saying a word.
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Justin Tyme posted:At a purely human level, what would make someone do that? Stanford More specifically, leaders are actively encouraged to separate themselves on an interpersonal level to the extent that they probably no longer have empathy. This is why when someone talks about good NCOs in the Army, it typically refers to a person that maintained some measure of empathy with his subordinates and acted upon it fairly. This is a hard thing to teach, and harder to enact, so it is not something they can easily rate. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:my recruiter also told me to drink cranberry juice This poo poo doesn't work, i cannot confirm or deny that a recruiter may have given a kid one of those clean pee drinks and a stern warning right before he went to MEPs. psydude posted:They ruin it by training a bunch of overzealous E5s and O3s who've watched too many UFC fites to go out and teach stupid techniques that get people injured. This. The actual 40 hour course that only people a level above can instruct are great; the loving piece of poo poo hip pocket level one classes are gay and bad.
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I learned that being in a fight sucks and that I can run for longer than I can fight. Also that a broom stick is a better weapon than my hands. Combatives did help me as a security officer once.
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Preechr posted:Uh... If you got discharged on Feb. 28th, doesn't that mean they can't give you orders anymore? I'm just a lazy civilian, but I would think that would rate a "smdftb" at the very least. They rescinded it. They're assholes but they said the magic words that take it all back. I'd still try to not show up at a minimum.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:i had to max out basically ever category and got to like 740 pts and waited like 3 years for E6 points to drop to that level :/ another deployment or like a bachelors and I would have maxed that category too Deployments don't count for points anymore.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:lmao since when? Since like Jan 2016. It's so crazy right now. On one hand I hated being held with poor regard against soldiers who deployed, and deployment doesn't always equate to relevant experience, but it really was a kick in the balls to explain to my soldiers that it actually didn't matter much anymore whether or not they came on this deployment points wise, and that their BLC course was given to another SPC, and that their competitors would be SGT Rear D upon our return home.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:BLC courses are different in country anyway. In my case, BLC for the OK natty G had really atrocious availability, and here overseas there is actually much better opportunities to attend. Yeah but we fell under AFRICOM which means some loving rear end in a top hat in Germany gets the slot. Not actually the in country dudes. Africa sucks.
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Woof Blitzer posted:That reminds me of an SFC having an aneurism that I had rolled my sleeves up. While in DCUs. At JRTC. There was one glorious army day when we rolled up our sleeves in Africa. Then commander's discretion came along and killed everyone's fun.
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A Bad Poster posted:Mandate that all spitters must have lids at the least.
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Justin Tyme posted:If we ever fought a war that had VX used in large amounts or any other sort of nerve agent it would be a loving shitshow, soldiers are grade-a morons and can't tie their shoes half the time let alone ensure their MOPP gear was 100% sealed/not think "it'll be okay if I unzip and jerk off but only for a little bit" Oh poor old Snuffy, thought of titties and died.
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Obstacle2 posted:I think he means 2 SBCT in 2nd ID out of Ft Lewis. You know, the post that got exposed for overturning people's PTSD diagnoses just before all the kill team poo poo came out. what...   There's some murdered body pics in the Wikipedia article, I was not ready to see that."Rogue "kill team" criminal charges posted:Main article: Maywand District murders Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 07:23 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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So tonight, I had an officer from another unit in the state (he's my wife's coworker), at my own dinner table tell me it's the new kids fault for not being good soldiers, when I said I was getting out. I said what led to that decision was that after nearly eleven years in this unit, the leadership and command climate have become completely alienated with their soldiers needs, and I've been simultaneously tasked with more responsibility and treated with less authority needed to complete them. He is younger than me with less time, but he actually began to pull the liberal millennials card out. He then continued, by trying to tout libertarianism as a command style, and likened me getting out to the reasons ghettos don't improve (as "the good ones get out"). There's got to be a German word for confusion to the point of anger. Hang all nobles holy gently caress. I think I'm gonna let my wife know it's against the rules to hang with officers of all types. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Mar 13, 2017 |
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bulletsponge13 posted:This stems from a conversation in class. A dude in my class has plates that have his Bronze Star w/V on them. Is this super tool like, or just fine and a way to get out of tickets? Most of the civilians think it's awesome, most the vets think it's tool like, and the dude who did it says he did it to impress chicks (Ha!) and get out of tickets. B with v seems like where it's cool. Like I feel like the v qualifies it for being something actually dangerous. I get am totally fine with dudes who did something ballsy enough to get that award through the militarys bullshit process, they can roll through a couple stop signs.
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Pesticide20 posted:Hahahaha there are about to be a whole lot of pissy command teams Oh my God. perfect.
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Aranan posted:Thumbs up to the cool CIF workers. Also I love cartoon Ponies. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Good Army day. State reached out to me regarding my PDHRA mental health portion just to check in on me, and followed up with the resources I requested, so that I can get counseling and therapy for cheap/free. 
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ASAPI posted:Whoa there... You mean that they did their jobs? Yeah. It's still better than my last deployment where I was having real bad depression, like, "maybe you should just... Stop existing," stuff, and they told me they could see me in 6 months. spacetoaster posted:Was that Active Army, or Guard Army? Guard.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Wasabi- You dealing with just major depressive order or is there a PTSD element to your problems? If so don't let that get buried because treating just MDD isn't necessarily good for MDD+PTSD. Different drugs and counseling methods all together. I believe it's a depressive disorder thing. I didn't really have this problem until after my first deployment, but I don't believe it was triggered by any traumatic events; I just developed a crazy amount of anxiety and started having uncomfortable thoughts on how to resolve it, over the course of a few months. I am still getting help, and just talking it out with a counselor really helps, along with diet and exercise. Like, an example of my bad thought process is: wake up tired every day -> SOMETHING DUMB HAPPENS AT WORK -> begin to think about it obsessively -> Maybe you're actually a fuckin' loser -> cherry-pick evidence based on past experiences -> maybe you should just quit, you could just kill yourself and not worry about any of this bullshit everyday. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Genocide Tendency posted:According to the nice and good looking lady doctor at the VA I talk to every few weeks, this is A REAL BIG PROBLEM. As in you need to talk to someone and they need to help you fix this. Which you are, however.... Yes. I'm aware; this is also an occasional thing, but I understand what you're trying to say. Funnily enough, I was getting more help when I deployed, as there were more than a few really underutilized and eager behavioral health workers/counselors/therapists out there.
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