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Do contractor CACs get PX privileges? I've never bothered trying since whenever I'm on a military base I make a point to leave as soon as possible.
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spacetoaster posted:I would think that the IRR, like the National Guard, is completely different from what it was pre-9/11. I've actually been in schools, and deployments, with several IRR guys. So I'd assume they'd have I.D.'s and access just like everyone else. When I transferred to the IRR they told me to hang on to my CAC in case I wanted to take an IMA position or go to school. I don't plan on doing either of those things, but hey.
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Justin Tyme posted:Why the gently caress would you even bother going to a px/commissary even for tax-free booze/tobacco, is it really really worth the few extra dollars to deal with seeing camouflage again that isn't being worn by a disinterested human behind a plastic table with a "Join the X!" placard on the front? If you're in state without alcohol control, they can sell booze at something like 15% below market rate tax free. So if you're buying something like Scotch it can be considerably cheaper. But I wouldn't go out of my way to do it.
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TheAlphaChaser posted:100% agree. And while the blame lies somewhere in the middle it won't stop being a problem until echelon's at DIV and higher start removing requirements rather than adding. And that will probably happen around the same time we have a PT program that makes sense. I think it all comes back to increased communication facilitating easier micromanagement of everything at the company and battalion level by command level staff. When you start suffocating the people who are hired for their ability to act independently in the first place, they're going to start doing it behind your back. That's when you end up with the kinds of problems Zeris is talking about : it's a byproduct of lying/bending the truth being the only way to get things done.
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benem posted:CSMs and PLs actually have pretty similar roles - they are both entirely unnecessary to their organization's mission, but are told by both themselves and the army that they are REAL IMPORTANT motherfuckers. Thus, they typically spin their wheels and kick up pointless poo poo everywhere in an attempt to justify their presence. PLs are pretty necessary in construction units. The platoon leader becomes the project manager and the platoon sergeant becomes the operations manager. Both of those responsibilities are really too much for one person to handle, especially with all of the other Army administrative and operations stuff overlaid on top.
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TBeats posted:I miss the military a lot sometimes Stop it.
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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? I'm not embarrassed to be a veteran, I just don't want to be confused with the veterans we all know and hate. e: To be sure, my work friend was in the Marines. We both love sharing dumb military stories and laughing about the military, but we also can't stand people who treat their time in the service like it makes them entitled to something. Or that they still hold their rank as civilians. psydude fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Wait a minute. None of this advice is showing him how to be a better combat leader by improving his marathon time.
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Mike-o posted:No poo poo, a an old fat as gently caress SSG who came back in after having been out for like 7 years was my platoon sergeant when I got to Ft Lewis. He was from South Carolina, and ho-leeeee-gently caress this guy was a mouth breathing moron. He used to write my squad leader's NCOERs like that. Jesus loving Christ that guy was an idiot. 80% of my platoon in Afghanistan was from the Ohio River Valley. I'm not exaggerating when I say that a full third of them were functionally illiterate.
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cravius posted:Combatives is hands down the most fun/least gay Army thing I've ever done. Surprised the army hasn't ruined that yet. 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.
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Pesticide20 posted:I would've but I got injured and clearly an injured soldier lacks the heart required to be promoted. I was actually told that by one of my NCOs. Didn't you get injured on deployment, too? Makes it even better IMO.
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Mar 6, 2017 18:00
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The gas mask excuse was always a flimsy one because if that's the case, just make people loving shave in the field and keep their facial hair trimmed in garrison.
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Vahakyla posted:On current deployments, aren't shavers on a quicker access than gas masks? You still deploy with it. It just sits at the bottom of your duffel bag for 10 months.
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I'd probably die horribly from whatever nerve agent was shot at me before I'd jam that needle in my leg.
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Obstacle2 posted:Why is an officer VCing a stryker? Also try doing it at -35 bitch. Platoon leaders are the VC of their own vehicle.
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Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? lol
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Pesticide20 posted:I prefer the commander's discretion version
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Yeah I don't know too many veterans of Falluja loading their cars up with stickers talking about their trinkets.
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Mar 18, 2017 04:11
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Mustang's BC and XO and S3 will all PCS when he gets back from NTC and be replaced by uncaring assholes. Just wait.
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It's like people who work at Site R being all coy about it. I'm like dude, why else would someone with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency be working in Chambersburg, PA.
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Finnish dude joins the US military and gets sent to Italy. Or Germany, because I think most of their units are actually in Germany at this point.
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Mar 25, 2017 04:42
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Hell, we've been there. Wasn't it in War/Restrepo where the CSM's son was killed on their first day in the valley?
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mlmp08 posted:Do GOs still tell LTs that being a PL is the best part of the entire Army? Depressing because it's true.
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TBeats posted:Just about every army vehicle will deadline if you fart in the wrong direction, just FYI. Don't worry, we'll circle X that poo poo. XO, get in here and sign this.
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Apr 4, 2017 03:52
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Man the Army sounds terrible.
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Hey Mustang look at the bright side: at least it won't be the peace time army much longer.
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Man I remember getting off the plane on BAF and being so scared. And then like 4 people getting killed in a rocket attack on our third day there. Then I sat there for the next 4 months dealing with stupid military bullshit, basically forgetting I was in a war zone until I was forward deployed, saw some civilians and ANA get hosed up by IEDs and rockets, and nearly missed eating a recoilless round. Then I went back to BAF and one of the NCOs from 1-504 that I met at Ghazni got killed like two weeks later. That's my story of being a reserve POG noble deployed to Afghanistan. Thanks for reading.
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I've only known a few DIs and they were the most annoying, Moto people I've met.
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I like how that's not an Armytimes article, but an actual article posted on the official Army site.
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Mustang posted:I'm starting to realize why everyone in the Army has a drinking problem Now imagine having to be sober for a whole year while putting up with it.
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Army dumb.
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mlmp08 posted:I, too, earned a PT badge but didn't deign to wear it cause I'm too cool for that My orthopedist laughed knowingly when I told her I was in the Army because apparently bulged and slipped discs are a common side effect of doing Army sit-ups and she already guessed what the problem was even before she saw the MRI.
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mlmp08 posted:spinal injuries are so fuckin weird. I was deployed at the time. The aid station just gave me a shot of toradol and told me to take it easy. Four months later it finally didn't hurt too much when I put on my boots or sat down to take a poo poo. I said nothing at DEMOB because I'd already accepted a new job and didn't want to rot in a WTU for a year.
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Running actually doesn't bother my bulged discs (in fact I usually feel better after). Now, deadlifts and squats? Absolutely. I basically can't do anything fun at the gym anymore and am relegated to doing lunges and body squats with kettle bells if I want a leg workout.
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mlmp08 posted:I went rock climbing over the weekend and 2 one hour sessions has made my back feel better than 2 weeks of physical therapy. Bodies are weird. Physical therapy definitely helped after I hard core re injured it last year, but it didn't resolve the ongoing minor pain. I think we have one of those reverse hyper machines at my gym. I'll give it a shot.
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The army really does need to bring back the specialist ranks so that people like that can actually excel instead of being forced to do dumb NCO poo poo.
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spacetoaster posted:We'd never be able to find them. False. Check the nearest Starbucks off post.
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DoktorLoken posted:I don't know why people think it's so hard to find warrants, outside of being in a branch that doesn't have many (or any at all) of them. They're all at the battalion or above, with the majority at the brigade or above. Exceptions are obviously aviation and watercraft.
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Mustang posted:Why is every loving digital program the Army uses complete and utter dog poo poo. Holy gently caress is DTMS a steaming pile of poo poo. No poo poo it's not up to date, we've spent the majority of the past 4 months in the field so yes BDE, let's make it go home criteria for the weekend literally the day after people get back from Yakima. Because the contractors they hire to build them will take anyone with a pulse.
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milk milk lemonade posted:also it would be in SharePoint Online No.
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