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McNally, even if you can't sue, send every bit of this entire slow motion poo poo show to the media. This deserves to he fixed, and you deserve some real closure. In addition, gently caress everyone who was a part of this.
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Soulex posted:In addition, gently caress everyone who was a part of this. Yeah gently caress you Mcnally. [/quote] Thanks Soulex.
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Jan 2, 2017 18:10
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My first tour a bunch of our BN scouts brought their personal glocks- their leadership kinda looked the other way- but as we were packing up to leave country, all of them scattered the parts over the length of Highway 8 from Baghdad to Kuwait. Also, I would rather have a pistol than not. Sure, I knew I would probably never need it, but it doesn't weigh a lot, and it is always nice to have a backup. Plus, rolling around the FOB with a pistol in a but nicer than with a rifle.
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Jan 4, 2017 15:42
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My unit tested the EoTechs for the 82d. Almost no one liked them- we had problems with brand new ones having battery contract issues, and not holding zero, along with other poo poo. Also had a couple crack on jumps and fail to live up to the manufacturer promise of still working/holding zero. I just didn't like them. No real reason, just preferred the CCO.
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Jan 5, 2017 23:33
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ACOGs are meh to me. It does nothing extremely well, and everything kind of mediocre. Every so often I think about getting another, then I remember I keep selling them off to get something I like better. I also have an M4 clone with everything but the IR laser. It is nice to play with every so often, but it isn't a "work" rifle. I have used it in some comps, but that was before I fell into the rabbit hole and started buying cooler poo poo. No where near rat levels though. He is a mother fucker (j/k cool goon with cool poo poo. Post your Korne gun)
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I remember doing exactly one board that wasn't a medboard (which, I am still not sure how I did. I got retired, so good? Or is that failing? Who cares, I can't get drafted for the coming Syria/Iran cock up). My 1SG asked what the max effective range of the M4 was. I couldn't remember (and honestly, didn't study poo poo. IIRC, it was SOTM and I was forced to go), so my answer was the most Army answer ever. "I don't know the max effective range of that rifle, but I know the max effective range of this shooter." "That's a good loving answer. It's wrong, but it's a good answer." I didn't pass the board.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:45
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Everybody who left my old unit- from PVT to CC got a plaque when they left, so long as they left on good terms. I told everyone to take their money and have a piss up and lunch instead. I now regret not getting a dumb little plaque.
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Mar 5, 2017 06:08
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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.
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Mar 17, 2017 10:42
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Not driving like an idiot rear end in a top hat is actually the best way to get out of tickets~! He has CO plates. Anytime he is driving in another state, he gets pulled over the K9 does a walk around. I guess everyone from CO is running drugs for the pot shop cartels.
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Mar 17, 2017 17:40
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You don't have to believe me, but I have been pulled over he the officer call in K9 when I was just over the NM border. I asked why, and the cop said a lot of CO people bring it down. This dude drives to see friends in KS most weekends, so it isn't it if the realm of reality.
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Mar 17, 2017 18:54
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HCT, you might be a dick bag, but at least you're not Cole. I kid. I love all you fuckers, and I rarely see a reason to take it personal when you guys are dicks.
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Mar 19, 2017 08:36
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McNally posted:I was gonna post a YouTube link to Raspberry Beret by Prince, but all of the videos on YouTube have had the audio muted for legal reasons. Warren Zevon's version is superior.
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Mar 26, 2017 03:09
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I just realized it's been ten years since I was last in Iraq. And I thought we were losing then. So how many generations until we pull out? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 26, 2017 08:37
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:You know what we do to pony avatars here? Apparently notice after five years of posting and feed me a six hour probation without cause. Lol (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 26, 2017 17:03
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Flikken posted:Was yours from the great TFR Bronytar incident from years back??? Yeah, and gently caress spending money to change it. I have better poo poo to spend my money on than changing a little picture to appease someone's sensibilities.
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Mar 26, 2017 17:18
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I didn't even realize it was different until the spelling comment confused me.
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Mar 26, 2017 17:47
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poo poo, technically we could be on third gen in Iraq.
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Mar 27, 2017 04:18
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My unit in 03 had two Desert Storm vets, both of which at different points said something like, "Last time I was here..." It will be a nice bonding experience to be able to take photos wearing the same poo poo, in the same place, 20 years after you Dad did the same.
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Mar 27, 2017 20:06
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I remember my first deployment, they wouldn't even tell us where we were going until we were getting ready to board the buses to head to the airport. I mean, it was pretty easy to deduct from the fact we got DCUs and knew it wasn't Afghanistan.
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Not sure the best place to ask this, so I will ask here. I am a retiree who just got married a few weeks ago. I am signing up my wife and step kids for Tricare, and I have a choice between regular Tricare and Prime. Which is better for a family? Years ago, regular Tricare was better because it required no referrals for specialists. Can someone give me a Big Purple Dinosaur rundown of the two?
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Thanks for the replies. We live about 30 miles from the War College. The lady at Tricare told me with either plan, I don't have to use a MTF since I am a retiree. I honestly don't know the difference between the two, and figured someone here would be able to explain it in simple terms my broke brain could understand.
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Jump School will be the last time jumping is remotely close to "fun". Wait until 0300 formations for a 1000 jump, only to sit in the Pax Shed until 1400. Then blowing out one knee or both on a Hollywood jump. Or being told five minutes before hook up to avoid the triple strand at Grid Reference gently caress Yourself.
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May 19, 2017 02:21
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I was happy being airborne. Of course, that could have been the dozens of concussions from jumping.
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May 21, 2017 02:42
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Soulex posted:I'm like 70 or 80 percent service connected now. There's no way I would be drafted back. My mouth and attitude towards that life in general would ensure I stayed in trouble. Half of GiP had mouth and attitude problems when they were in within the last few years. You think the Trump Corps of Krieg is going to give a gently caress when it goes pear shaped? Also, a disability rating that high just means you die in place behind a belt fed.
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Icon Of Sin posted:I couldn't find the article about the riggers intentionally cutting the chutes' rigging Wait, what? And to hyped up Finnish dude- it's all fun when you get there. Then you blow out your legs somehow, or get sick of the timeline slipping left making you have a 0200 weapons draw for a 1300 jump. Oh, you sweet summer child. How your life will change after a few months.
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I remember every jump checking the log and telling my buddies if anything happened to him find the rigger who packed my poo poo. It's not like they can't sign a fake name/initials, but it made me feel better. After reading that article, I'm retroactively terrified.
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To be honest, I loved most of the Army. Overall a net positive. Then again, I came from a hosed up abusive childhood and had undisguised mental health issues. The Army broke me off pretty hard, but I am retired at 34, so there's that.
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its curtains for Kevin posted:
Can you elaborate on this?
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Jun 18, 2017 21:42
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Yeah, I remember some dicks getting the Get Help thread closed by posting all the info elsewhere to grief people. I would take down that pic.
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Jun 19, 2017 03:44
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I didn't have Sleep Appeal until after a couple deployments to Iraq. Thanks burn pits!
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There was a dude in my unit back in 03 who had turned in his TA50 and cleared just about everything, and was signing out Wednesday. He got stop lossed Tuesday.
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Putting this here because I have no other place to put it- I just saw a VA doctor walking by wearing a home ankle monitor. The VA has a doctor is on home arrest. This is somehow still shocking to me. (I know he is a doc because of his ID badge. He was walking with a gym bag, so maybe he was going in to change for work?)
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:the following gas stations can eat poo poo: You can eat poo poo. Sheetz loving rules. Wawa is OK, but a low rent knock off of Sheets. And gently caress you guys if you don't shop at Wegmans. PS. PA is actually pretty cool.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Counterpoint: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Pittsburgh is a shithole, and nearly as worthless as Ohio. Always Sunny is proof that there is a god, and he wants us to laugh.
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TBeats posted:i would totally join the army if i could look like this while doing it This is a great, terrible movie.
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:Just remind the 1sg that you out rank him and why isn't he standing at attention I saw a LT do this once. No poo poo, locked the 1SG up. The LT was my PL, and before he went to OCS, he had spent 15 years in SF, most of it in South America. He was doing his time in the line to get CPT and go back to the Teams.
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I didn't get poo poo when I got med retired, except a pension.
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I was medically retired. I remember two years ago when it finally became final, I was posting in the G Hangouts thread, and literally crying my eyes out. Since then, I got into a competitive "academic" program at the highest ranked school in it's field. I've gotten married to a woman who I don't deserve, who is loving and supportive to a fault. I still get that feeling of 'RPM/Neutral',even though I've been out officially for two years, realistically much longer. I have a myriad of health problems that limit me in my day to day life, and one day I decided to say gently caress it. I'm going to hurt anyway, let's know why. I started going to the gym with some classmates. I don't do much, but the mutual support has been amazing. Start a new hobby. Model making helped me a lot for awhile. The attention to detail, and just focus helped a lot. I also did some competitive shooting for awhile. I sucked at it, but it helped me feel linked to my Army roots and let me turn money into noise for fun. Turns out, shooting is amazing when the Army doesn't fist gently caress it. Same with hiking, and jogging.
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Real talk, send anyone in Basic Body Glide or Gold Bond Friction Defense. Works miracles for people prone to hot spots or blisters.
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Not to break up the suckfest, but I have a very strange question. A soldier forces two Red Cross workers in a marked civilian vehicle, to take an injured local national child (not wounded through action, got hosed up in an accident) to the hospital at gunpoint. Is that a war crime?
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