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The worst has been the PCS/ETS awards. I made sure the 15 soldiers from my old PLT was good to go and about 90% of them were approved within the first two weeks. I just took this PLT over about a month ago and went on leave for 2 weeks and before I left, I found out about 2/3 of the soldiers sent to me had no awards written, there was no rough drafts, none of them had levy briefs done, or was even prepared for it their PCS or know what to do. So now it's been an uphill battle to get everything done because the majority of them are leaving mid Sept. It doesn't help that the division made us do all our team, sqd, plt, company training, NTC, support National Guard and the other BDE for their NTC rotation, just to come back and disband 3 months later. We literally had no time to prep for losing every goddamn 11B at once. The best part of all this is, the first people to leave were the NCOs. So for every 20 e1 to e4 running around, there's one NCO. The BDE as a whole been sucking major dick with discipline problems due to this. Coke, weed, guns, alcohol problems has been ridiculous the last 2-3 months. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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Soldier who didn't clear in time is still a loving retard. I got my only two NCOs taking turns babysitting him (and acting as his personal chauffeur. I still don't understand how a 24 year old man doesn't know how to drive) as he clears. He's out of the Army today and just completed his last ACAP, finally did his phase 2, and still has CIF, and everything else. He cut himself and bled over all his CIF. Because he was too lazy to clean it and someone there told him they'll take anything with blood on it back no questions asked. Clearing him out of the Army was delayed 6 hours because of the giant cut in his leg that required 34 stitches. But he managed to get blood on every single piece of his TA-50.... I mentioned reupping because he's going to loving straight up be homeless and living underneath a bridge when he gets out of the Army, but he said no because he has a great job lined up making 6 figures when he gets out.
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Sep 1, 2017 16:03
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Serious answer: Because it'll make him someone else's problem and get him out of my ETS/PCS platoon because I'm sick of dealing with that retard. And he'll end up getting chaptered for being overweight/PT failure anyways.
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Sep 1, 2017 16:41
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bird food bathtub posted:What's he going to do, be incompetent in the Army? The entire institution is built around dealing with incompetence. Probably the guy's best shot and if he's any good at PT he'll pick up rank in no time. Yeah... About that.... Apparently from what the other NCOs who worked with him told me he was overweight and failed every single one of his APFT's for the last 3 years. But his PSG loved him and fudged his poo poo every single time. EDIT: bird food bathtub posted:Probably the guy's best shot This. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Sep 1, 2017 16:44
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He apparently cleared CIF.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:27
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So before the guy was released I told his baby sitter that the Soldier had to clean his entire locker out before he could go home. We had a mouse infestation a few months back and lockers were covered in rat poo poo. Today we figured out where it was from. Dude had two to-go plates and what looked like a half eaten MRE in his locker. His old uniforms and civilians were covered in mouse poo poo/piss. Feel super bad that he had to spend his part of his 4 day weekend escorting a retard around. I gave him Tuesday off as comp. Better than nothing right?
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mlmp08 posted:lmao, this Kaliber soldier saga is hilarious because while dude is a dumbass piece of poo poo, he got to be really fuckin' effective at being a dumbass by being given a bunch of free time and not being checked on by ncos. Health and welfares so you can bitch about "barracks sop" are dumb but health and welfares to find literal vermin make sense and help you find PFC Filth. The NCO didn't clean it out, we made the kid do it. Another retarded thing, his old leadership made him move to goddamn main post to the WTU barracks since he was getting out of the army to make room for all the new tankers and poo poo coming into the unit. So he's 5 miles away from our compound, has no car, or a license, without anyone to give him a ride to work..... But the problem is, our entire BDE is transitioning to mech from light. So they PCS'ed about 90% of all the NCO all at once, while bringing in tanker privates in, with the 11B privates PCS'ing 6 months later. Then they moved all the 11B NCOs over to the infantry company, before realizing that they were 200% overstrength and there was no way to move the rest of the privates over. Which led to my situation, the 1 or two NCOs leaving at the end of year in each company got to stay, with their 40+ privates. The last 3 month all I been doing is attempting to get accountability (It's to the point where I have 4 formations a day to make sure those idiots are clearing and not in their rooms), writing awards for Soldiers I never worked with because their prior leadership was garbage, dealing with chapters, the ETS'er and PCS'er, while trying to clear myself and getting tasked with every red cycle detail. It's a loving headache all around and gently caress HRC for getting rid of the NCOs before the goddamn lower enlisted. The only thing that makes this somewhat tolerable is the fact that I was suppose to take over as 1SG of one of the other companies that lost all their SNCOs. Lucky an armored E7 and E8 came right as I was going to take over. I probabaly would have blew my brains out by now if I did. EDIT: Kid is still not gone. He was suppose to ETS yesterday. But still has to turn in the commander's signature for ACAP, clear the unit and installation. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Sep 3, 2017 |
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Sep 2, 2017 09:46
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Mustang posted:Well yeah but apparently I can't even change my shirt in front of women in the Army. That's dumb. Your unit is dumb. Do you guys not have females in the companies yet? And at least you aren't light infantry in NTC. We went in May. Nights were freezing and when we did all our walking. Day was 100+, no shade and when we did security and slept. It was loving miserable and just a week long march march with some react to contact here and there. We were told to air assault with rucks (Watching us get into the Blackhawk and out was hilarious. They had to close the door so the rucks wouldn't spill out and when we landed, the crew chief had to get out and pull rucks off us because we were stuck. Apparently the entire company ran into the same issue.), so no one bought assault packs to save weight. I know that sounds dumb. But ounces=pounds. Especially when we had over 100lbs of bullshit to carry for the entire rotation. About a day or two into it, they realized no one could make it more than a day with our rucks so they put it on trucks. So only 10-15 people had their assault packs. But we couldn't fit anything like sleeping bags, cold weather gear or woobies cause we HAD to bring our full mopp bullshit. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Sep 4, 2017 23:37
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Soldier who missed ETS date finally cleared out 5 days passed ETS. Attempted to stay in barracks, got booted from his room, and threatened to go to media for us making him be homeless.
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Sep 7, 2017 00:39
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Can't bar a guy from reenlistment when he's already out of the Army and a civilian. Dude's plan was to seriously stay in the barracks for a week or so after he got his DD2214... I hate all Soldiers. gently caress me for still being in. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Sep 7, 2017 01:42
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He had a bus ride back to Chicago 4 hours away in Atlanta. Didn't book a flight home because it was too expensive. I know one of the dudes in the platoon dropped him off at a hotel. But no one in the platoon wanted to give him a ride because he was only offering $50 for gas and with all the gas stations out of gas, charging $2.50+ for a gallon, no one wanted to waste their time. No clue what he's doing right now.
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Sep 7, 2017 22:31
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I don't know why he booked a bus then? Trying to save the government money?
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Sep 7, 2017 22:48
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Naked Bear posted:You didn't give him an ETS award, right? I didn't write his. His old platoon leadership did it. The e7 who loved him to death gave him an AAM or something. Hell, I don't even think it was me that handed him his award. But I know he got one because he never asked for a memo of lateness when he was clearing. Apparently you can't even PCS/ETS without an award or a memo stating why you didn't get one.
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Sep 7, 2017 23:50
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:We have TMPs for things like this. Even if this kid was a mouth breather, he was your mouth breather. What the hell are you doing? Your unit might have TMPs. I had to sign out a TMP from the civilians at the TMP yard for funeral detail because we didn't have any in BDE. mlmp08 the reason why no one did the work, is because we're slammed with a hundred other things right now. Change of command layouts, 80% of the BDE is PCS'ing starting next week, an average of 2-3 NCOs per platoon, red cycle tasking, funeral detail,trying to figure out who has to get their PCS pushed back to support this OC/T poo poo at NTC, EIB, the hundreds of awards that is being written, all while every single one of the leaders is leaving within the next few weeks as well. I spent so much time dealing with everyone else's poo poo, I still haven't started on mine and I still need to figure out how to fix my orders for when I leave in 3 weeks. If the kid ever decides to drop all that weight, get in shape and come back in, all the more power to him. It'll probably be better than being homeless. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Sep 8, 2017 |
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Sep 8, 2017 00:23
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Soulex I been searching for one particular AFN commercial for years and you need to help me find it. It's of a little girl playing with a barbie and an Army Ken doll. And she shakes the Ken doll and goes "Woman where's my dinner?!" And then proceeds to pretend beat the Barbie doll. I know it exist and I didn't just dream it up. Google tells me it's real. It was the funniest goddamn thing I ever saw and needs to be shared with the world.
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I just got my orders for a compassionate reassignment OCONUS, gotta start clearing next week to get my wife command sponsored and poo poo for my report date in December. My 1SG expects me to clear a chapter out of the Army next week. LOL, ok bud. You better throw some Sergeant rank on one of those privates cause I got more important poo poo to give a gently caress about.
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Nov 2, 2017 21:22
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If I have to deal with another loving drunk soldier covered in his own loving piss and poo poo again...... Would post pictures, but people would get pissy. This time it was a fully clothed idiot.
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Nov 3, 2017 21:11
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not caring here posted:Appointments. This will never happen on my watch again. Since I had that kid who failed utterly at clearing on time (didn’t make it in time for terminal and went 5 days pass his ETS date) every single soldier who ets/pcs has to sit around the company and do 4 platoon accountability formations a day until they are 14 days out and have clearing orders. Then they have to come in and show a NCO their clearing papers so someone can track their process. Sounds lame, but we had 2 guys that we caught who were not clearing and just sitting in their room playing Xbox. You would think that for as much as everyone hates the army, they would do their hardest to clear everything and GTFO as soon as possible. But instead they rather cut into heir terminal leave cause they’re so lazy and useless.
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Anyone done the basic military mountaineering course and can give me a heads up on what to expect?
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Ashmole posted:I think it's lol worthy that the Army is the only service that doesn't scale the PT test at altitude. Hey guys we are over a mile up but have 30 days to acclimate and you'll be good. Oh by the way we are still going to score it the same way as if you are at sea level lol see ya That's how I got flagged years ago. 2nd week in CO (with the company) and I had an "diagnostic APFT". I failed by 10 seconds and I didn't really care. I mean it's a diagnostic right? Cue Former Enlisted micromanaging Commander flagging all of us. God it made my day when that jerk off got relieved in the middle of a field problem for being so incompetent.
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Yeah, when I made a bitch fit about it and my PSG tried to talk to the commander the response was "Blah blah blah orders say he should be able to pass an APFT upon arrival to the unit" I passed about 2-3 weeks later, but he wouldn't remove the flag because it was graded by my SL/PSG and not an official company APFT. It sucked that our 1SG at the time was a beta yes man.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:57
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gently caress man, what happened? Did you get hit?
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Jan 11, 2018 08:09
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I’m taking in my nephew’s due to their mother abandoning them because she’s a meth head and got a compassionate reassignment back to Hawaii. Right now I’m in a Defense agency and will be working 2-3 hours for the next 3 years. My career according to all the SNCOs I talked to is pretty much over, but who cares? I’m taking care of family, keeping them out of the system and trying to be a positive male influence for themand happy again. Totally worth not ever picking up my e7, being a broken and angry individual who never sees his family because of a never ending red cycle.
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spacetoaster posted:"career" 6 years left. I’ll be 3 years out when I leave the island, that’s if the adoption process is complete by then. Which I have no clue how long it’ll take for the state to terminate parental rights and let me adopt. I already applied for the local community college out here for the fall semester. Hopefully I’ll be on a routine with the 3 boys and can be at least halfway thru a year by the time my deros is up.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Also they just blocked military paychecks during shutdown so I hope your wife has a job. This couldn’t have happened at a worst time. We just blew our saving getting our second car and dogs here. And I’m still waiting on back bah, cola, dla, tla, and travel pay to kick in.
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My old spoiled, entitled, silver spoon in mouth LT’s mom is a senator. I should tell him his mom should go suck a fat sock.
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Wondering if anyone can answer this question for me before I raise hell. So I just PCS OCONUS and got my travel pay. They did a split pay and paid off my GTC and I only got back $1100 for my one day of travel and DLA. Checked the travel voucher pay out sheet and apparently more than half my reimbursement went into paying for my wife and I’s flight to Hawaii. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought paying off the airline ticket was a separate reimbursement no?
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I got yelled at for a potential SHARP complaint because I was shirtless in the MP. After getting stripped down during a TCCC training exercise to assess and treat my wounds. I had just wiped off all the fake blood, ran to my desk to grab a clean hoodie when the NCOIC MSGT saw me and yelled at me about females being around, etc etc etc. As I'm still covered in dried up fake blood. What is up with old school infantry cats and being afraid of being around females? I bet he's the guy who gets mad when people take off their shirts when we go across the street and conduct beach PT. Even when I think I got away from all the retardness that is the army, there's still someone who proves me wrong. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Feb 22, 2018 |
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Feb 22, 2018 06:19
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Yessssssss. Get hosed people in the real Army.
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Mustang posted:We had a command climate survey for my company recently and the worst thing anyone had to say was that its hosed up we don't have our own printer and have to use BNs. The civilian dude that put together the results said that he usually only see's that in the SOF units on post. Not that we're super high speed or anything just that morale is pretty high.
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I don't have anything to complain about. I'm back in the POW/MIA community and it's pretty drat awesome. Enrolled into the local community college for a few night classes this fall semester after my TDY this summer, having absolutely no clue what I'm doing with my 3 nephews, but got them all signed up for BJJ, Soccer, and poo poo to keep them active and not fat. Yeah, it's going to suck all the balls when I go back to the real army and get reamed in the rear end over and over again.
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I had a ROTC LT who's mommy was a Congresswoman. He was more insufferable than a West Point officer. Especially when he kept rubbing it in to all the privates and some of the NCOs face that he made more money than us. He was really mad when someone keyed his car after we got back from the field, so it's the little things that evens it out I guess?
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I wrote a sworn statement for a chaplain once. His assistant came out to our plt COP and threw a hissy fit because he had to cover down on COP security (We were extremely short handed) He was telling the PL/XO/PSG that he couldn't pull tower guard in our remote outpost because if we got attacked, it was his job to protect the chaplain. The Chaplain told him to gently caress off and pull security anyways. I came back from an OP at midnight when he was suppose to be on tower guard and saw him doing his laundry and recording a podcast. As I'm grubbing down on a MRE before bed, the SOG comes back from his rounds and starts chewing his rear end about why he left the goddamn tower. His excuse was, it's late, there's nothing going on and he had dirty clothes to wash. That was extremely dumb because we were taking alot of small arms, a kid got molotov cocktailed a few weeks earlier (No clue how the gently caress that happened. One of the dudes went down to take a poo poo, and then all the sudden there was an explosion and a kid on fire). Then he almost got his rear end beat when he ate all the loving chocolate chip cookies while we were out on patrol and left only the loving raisin cookie. And an entire box of fig newtons that one of the dudes got and left out to share.
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spacetoaster posted:(as a lieutenant I actually dated an nco) A girl I know, an almost 40 year old jewish former E6 somehow got herself the officer she always wanted and married a butter bar she met while he was in BOLC . They were both stationed in Korea and got hitched when she got out and did a few years in Bliss together. I laugh at him because they're in Hawaii now and she's aging so badly. I wonder how much he regrets his decisions in life when he sees all the hot half naked Hawaiian girls that's in his age group running around. Kaliber fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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She always made a huge point to let everyone know she was a Jew when we were in Germany, so it just became second natural after awhile to refer to her as one. Sorry?
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Well all veterans are heroes.
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Vahakyla posted:Going to Finland on my block leave, but before my form is approved, I'll have to take a culture briefing and customs and traditions, and terrorism and crime risk evaluation from S2. They made one of my dudes go to S2 to get one for going home to Puerto Rico.....
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Mr. Nice! posted:There's a reason there's only one SNCO emote (and I think maybe one the only milgoon one period) What's that poo poo I hear about PO1's getting hazed by Chiefs until they pin when they get selected to be a Chief? Can you just tell them to gently caress off?
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So I'm a compassionate reassignment to take in my wife's 3 nephews who were abandoned and in state custody for the last 3 years. 2 months after finally getting the kids, I was sent on a 2 month long TDY with another 2 month TDY 50 days after coming back. Everything is already stressful as gently caress with becoming instant parents, not knowing what the gently caress we're doing, the realization that they are going to be permanently ours and all the trauma and issues they have that we have to deal with. While on TDY I was just there doing my job, not going above and beyond, just more worried about how my wife and the kids then whatever dumb poo poo we were doing at work. The OIC gets pissy about it and has my NCOIC give me a stern talking to, who had the nerve to ask me if I had any personal issues or anything going on with my family. Yes mother fucker. I just took in 3 loving goddamn kids and you send me across the loving world to leave my wife high and dry. All you mother fuckers knew my situation so why the gently caress is it such a big surprise? I even told every single one of you dickwads when I first got here. When I get back, it's a whole big deal because now I have too many issues and the field grades want to get rid of me and send me to an infantry division because they don't want to deal with the poo poo I have going on and I'm "non deployable". gently caress man, just send me to be a goddamn paper pusher somewhere and let me take care of my goddamn family for the year I was allotted.
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Wasabi the J posted:Nike stopped doing the legit active duty discount (you could cheat it) and now just charge full price. No where else side from a few IRL stores had them either. Nothing to do with the boots, but if you make an online purchase and then call Nike, they will apply the discount to your order. Or get your one time code for each purchase. https://verify.sheerid.com/nike-military/
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