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Is the "DLI is the sperg capital of the world" thread still around?
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Oct 10, 2018 23:31
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I was a farsi analyst for the navy so I can only speak second-hand as to the air force experience, but DLI was already miserable and stressful like nothing else I'd ever done, and the air force seemed to go out of its way to gently caress their students around even harder. I don't know of any way to prepare yourself for it, really. As far as I know, all of the branches have you select or be told your language while in boot. You have a bit of time before classing up once you're at Monterey though, so you can hit some online resources and supplementary schoolhouse stuff to get a jump-start on sound and script, and I highly recommend doing that. You're gonna hate life for a year and a half though. But as a bit of silver lining, almost every AF guy in my class that graduated ended up loving their job.
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Oct 11, 2018 00:04
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SalTheBard posted:Is the "DLI is the sperg capital of the world" thread still around?
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Oct 11, 2018 00:34
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It's only been a couple years https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3319492
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Oct 11, 2018 04:41
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Arc Light posted:If your heart is set on the job, by all means go for it, but otherwise go comm, get a clearance and some professional certs, and walk out in 4 to 6 years with a bunch of nice civilian job offers.
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Oct 11, 2018 07:15
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Holy balls Tyndall got hosed
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Oct 12, 2018 00:22
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Hotel Kpro posted:Holy balls Tyndall got hosed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML_Vn0FF6lM
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Oct 12, 2018 00:42
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The building I spent almost a year working in as a Lt survived, sort of. I suspect inside looks worse than outside. But most of that base probably needs to be bulldozed.  That was a good base.
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Oct 12, 2018 03:24
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gently caress that sad face poo poo. Every base I’ve been to was some shithole amalgamation of garbage from the 1950s and up that desperately needed to be bulldozed and rebuilt to modern standards. Good on Tyndall for finally having an excuse they can’t ignore.
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Oct 12, 2018 04:13
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Can Hill catch a hurricane some time so they’ll finally get rid of the WW2 warehouses storing hantavirus
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Oct 12, 2018 04:14
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Only thing we might get here is an earthquake. Or if we're lucky the inversion will house some building eating virus and take care of everything
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Oct 12, 2018 04:24
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Fallom posted:gently caress that sad face poo poo. Every base I’ve been to was some shithole amalgamation of garbage from the 1950s and up that desperately needed to be bulldozed and rebuilt to modern standards. Good on Tyndall for finally having an excuse they can’t ignore. Tyndall had a lot of 90s and newer stuff. The hangars had major upgrades to support fifth-gen, the ACS facilities were all less than 20 years old, CONR and 325 FW HQ were in good shape. Base housing was loving trash though, and even though nobody I know has been allowed over there yet I'm confident it's at least 90% flattened/washed out to sea.
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Oct 12, 2018 04:27
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drat, it almost looks like it got hit with a nuke
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Oct 12, 2018 07:07
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wish minot got hit with a nuke
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Oct 12, 2018 07:25
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Yall thought you were going to Germany for silver flag, look who just got a major upgrade to their ADAT and DART training courses.
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Oct 12, 2018 12:10
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Clavavisage posted:Yall thought you were going to Germany for silver flag, look who just got a major upgrade to their ADAT and DART training courses. Thank god I went to Silver Flag last year
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Oct 12, 2018 15:28
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So I got my first look at the Air Force OCP’s today at drill, and I’m not totally sure about them. The uniform itself is fine, but the spice brown lettering on the nametapes and rank are nearly impossible to see from more than a few feet away. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I think the army did it right with black lettering.
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Oct 13, 2018 21:17
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It's like we were so close to a great idea and then someone had to go gently caress it up. Spicy brown captain rank is loving duuuumb-looking. And while we're at it, I get why the flag has to be reversed due to being on the right arm, but why wouldn't you put the flag on the left arm and just have a normal flag goddammit army
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Oct 13, 2018 22:30
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Because we always do the stupidest thing
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Oct 13, 2018 22:38
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Prop Wash posted:It's like we were so close to a great idea and then someone had to go gently caress it up. Spicy brown captain rank is loving duuuumb-looking. Because the flag goes on the right shoulder. Always been that way. Only argument against it should be why not full color flag in garrison.
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Oct 14, 2018 03:36
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antimatt posted:Because the flag goes on the right shoulder. Always been that way. Uhhh... no?    
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Oct 14, 2018 04:00
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Yeah aviators seem to have figured out the correct shoulder for the flag to go on. It's one point on which the Air Force and Navy can clearly agree. And also astronauts and... aviation cooks?
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Oct 14, 2018 04:10
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Edit: Should've refreshed. Left shoulder flags 4lyfe
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Oct 14, 2018 04:26
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Godholio posted:Edit: Should've refreshed.
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Oct 14, 2018 05:20
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Got an email from the wing thanking me for volunteering to be on the review board for Key Spouse Of The Quarter. I did not volunteer. I can only assume that leadership is "rewarding" me for doing good work with the exciting opportunity to do more work. I don't have a spouse, nor any involvement, ever, with spouse activities. Quarterly awards are absurd to begin with and shouldn't exist. Spouse awards are even more full of unquantifiable subjective "honcho'd monthly spouse gp--boosted morale 200 troops" nonsense than the average Whole Airman block on an EPR. I need to sleuth out which of my sins I'm being punished for.
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Oct 16, 2018 09:27
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You could respond to the email telling them that they're mistaken and you didn't volunteer 
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Oct 16, 2018 10:26
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dscruffy1 posted:You could respond to the email telling them that they're mistaken and you didn't volunteer I did. The response was, "Sorry, but we don't know how your name got put in for this. We assumed you volunteered. Blame your chain of command."
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Oct 16, 2018 13:42
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So... are they still expecting you to do it? Also, who writes those packages? Not the spouses I assume.
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Oct 16, 2018 13:51
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Belgian Waffle posted:So... are they still expecting you to do it? lol look at this guy
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Oct 16, 2018 15:02
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Vote for one of the stripper wives.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:08
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Use the same rigor on the wives as you would on SNCO of the Year imo Gotta prove you have the hardest job in the military to get the honors
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Oct 16, 2018 15:13
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Belgian Waffle posted:So... are they still expecting you to do it? What does your heart tell you? Fallom posted:Use the same rigor on the wives as you would on SNCO of the Year imo As far as I can tell, two of the packages went through the normal enlisted bullet vetting process before they were submitted to the wing, so they're full of nonsensical buzzwords and inflated numbers. The remaining three were evidently done by someone who had heard a bullet described, but had never actually seen one in the wild. Possibly written by the officer whose wife was put in for the award. atm I'm inclined to go with the nominee who lead a "sensing session" to improve unit morale, just because I had to google the term and it made me laugh.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:49
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Officers have to write the same dumbshit bullets. If she's married to a Lt that would make sense though.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:51
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Founded tiger (mom) tm;
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Oct 16, 2018 16:52
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Ask to see metrics on improved morale, point out that as a member of the unit your own morale decreases sharply when put in contact with unit spouses and demand to know the methodology behind the metrics.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:56
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Arc Light posted:What does your heart tell you? That I'm glad i don't have to do it. Thank you for you're service
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Oct 16, 2018 17:21
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Belgian Waffle posted:That I'm glad i don't have to do it. Thank you for you're service Hot take of the day.
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Oct 16, 2018 17:28
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Black Balloon posted:You're gonna hate life for a year and a half though. I guess the point is, poo poo's highly variable... but then that can be a perk over a job that you know is just gonna be straight terrible the whole time.
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Oct 16, 2018 22:02
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Nice man. I suppose a lot of DLI does depend on your language and how onerous your chain of command is at the time. Monterey's a great town, when the dickheads over you actually give you the chance to enjoy it. When I was there in 2012 the Air Force spent some time making all of its non-Farsi students march to class.
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Oct 16, 2018 22:46
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I had to march to class in Biloxi carrying a stupid laptop that didn't actually do anything besides pull up the instruction materials so it was really more of walking creepy because any real parade was impossible without waving your arms to counterbalance the ancient 10 pound laptop
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