Wingnut Ninja posted:

It's all one single organism. It has two baby-shaped tentacles protruding from its ventral flesh sacs.

Crab Dad posted:

I said enlist illegal aliens to make up our numbers in the armed forces not Alien aliens.

nullscan posted:

I don't know what is going on with Osan's algo, but only when I'm at work I get weird AI Facebook posts of super thicc stackediers of the buttlefield.

Nystral posted:

So you’re against ETs fighting for a new home?

Nystral posted:

So you’re against ETs fighting for a new home?

Platystemon posted:

https://twitter.com/wusa9/status/1781011463634567340

Oh no!

Anyway,

iwentdoodie posted:

Lmao gently caress I'm pretty sure I met this dude at one point when I was in


E: lmao gently caress yep we were on Ike together

Platystemon posted:

Godholio posted:

That beret is the funniest thing I've seen all week.

Loden Taylor posted:

My favorite thing in the Army was getting issued gear and either having to modify the poo poo out of it to make it work or being told I couldn't use it as designed.

Beret: shave it, wet it, wear it and stretch it out, and actually if you cram it in between the cushions of your truck's seats for a month or so it'll probably look about right

Waffle Top: it zips up to the neck, but you guys need to wear it open to about the sternum so I can't see you're wearing it under your ACU top

Fleece jacket: division pam says it's not recommended it wet conditions, so you can't wear it in the winter

Soft shell jacket/wet weather jacket: they have hoods, but gently caress you if you use the hood

ECWS parka: we issued it, but gently caress you if you ever wear it

Punished Ape posted:

Incarcerate ahead of peers.

Scratch Monkey posted:

Was he as big a piece of poo poo as we imagine?

Crab Dad posted:

Appears to be a PO1… well they say you can’t make board without a DUI and a divorce…. I guess this would be a good instead-of.

Army captain gives up his rank to enlist in the Marine Corps posted:

A former Army officer has relinquished his captain’s bars to enlist in the Marine Corps.

“I was kind of at a point in my life in the Army where I didn’t feel really fulfilled,” Nicholas Brooklier said in a Marine Corps news story. “So, it was either get out and go to the civilian world, and to be honest, I did not want to do that. I felt like my time in the service wasn’t over. I just felt like I needed a change in my environment.”

Now, Brooklier is scheduled to graduate from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Friday and enter follow-on infantry training.. Ultimately, he told the Marines, he hopes to earn his commission and become a Marine infantry officer.

Brooklier is far from the first soldier to switch to the Marine Corps (and many Marines are known to go Army, as well, including Special Forces Medal of Honor recipient Msgt. Early Plumlee). But the fact that as a commissioned officer, he was willing to start over as an enlisted service member to reboot his military career makes his case rare – but not unheard of. After World War I, British Army Col. T.E. Lawrence ended his military career by serving as an enlisted soldier and airman in the Royal Air Force.

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Originally from Los Angeles, Brooklier was commissioned in 2018 through the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Washington State University, according to the Army. He entered the service as a transportation corps officer and left as a logistician.

Rather than extend his contract in the Army, Brooklier decided to earn his Eagle, Globe, and Anchor. The process of transitioning from the Army to the Marine Corps began when he visited Recruiting Sub-Station Killeen in Texas. There he met Staff Sgt. Lafayette Halmon, a recruiter, according to the Marines

“I respected his high-level of commitment and conviction,” Halmon said. “It was a slow process, but he was willing to step backwards, basically from scratch, to move forward and earn his way into the Marine Corps. It motivated me in a way to put in the work for him and give him the opportunity to earn his title.”

It took nearly a year of preparations before Brooklier shipped out to step on the Yellow Footprints that await all Marine recruits as soon as they get off the bus at boot camp.

Brooklier arrived at MCRD San Diego in January and two weeks ago completed The Crucible, Marine recruit training’s capstone event. The multi-day field exercise culminates in Marines having their Eagle, Globe, and Anchors pressed into their hands, according to Marine Recruit Depot San Diego.

“I chose the Marine Corps really because of the symbol,” Brooklier said. “The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor means a lot to me to try to become a United States Marine. I also realized that the Marine Corps is the nation’s premier 9-1-1 Crisis Response Force, and that gave me a lot of purpose in my life, to continue down that path.”

Mustang posted:

Get a load of this hard charger. From Army logistics captain to Marine infantry private. Wanted to do some of that grunt poo poo.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-officer-marines-enlist/

Mustang posted:

Get a load of this hard charger. From Army logistics captain to Marine infantry private. Wanted to do some of that grunt poo poo.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-officer-marines-enlist/