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My new office has a collection of rotating O5s/O6s that do like 45 days at a time or something. They're just used for hey-you action officer stuff because they're only there for such a short time.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Me running out of time sneaking through the floor only to be saved by the Commandant deciding everyone needed to do some PT in a loving briefing is my favorite part of that game. I mean its still bullshit because no way is the Marines going to get enough money to secretly build a Metal Gear
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Aug 1, 2019 20:54
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We had someone who was doing all her drills in two goes a year, and living several states away with her active duty officer husband. She sucks so it's pretty annoying that she got to do it. Anyway she became the only divorce from our deployment because she came back and demanded they start having kids right then and there. Her husband wasn't ready, and they got divorced after 2ish years of marriage. For the best really, she's a dumbass party girl who can't barely look after herself. He's a solid guy who's only real big mistake was looking at this drunken idiot who failed out of AFROTC and thinking she'd make a good wife.
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Aug 1, 2019 20:57
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In the navy that’s perfectly normal. My unit has a CO from Florida and an XO from New Mexico but we drill in WA. They rotate months drilling and once a quarter they are both there.
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Aug 1, 2019 21:19
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LingcodKilla posted:In the navy that’s perfectly normal. I'm tired of this stereotype. Not everyone in the Navy is married to an Air Force Officer dropout.
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Aug 1, 2019 21:22
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piL posted:I'm tired of this stereotype. Not everyone in the Navy is married to an Air Force Officer dropout. It's true, you might have a waiver.
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Aug 1, 2019 21:35
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OK, I admit that it's a lot more prevalent than I thought. I don't think that's how it should be, but whatever.
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Aug 1, 2019 21:41
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congressmen being in the reserves is the dumbest poo poo
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Aug 1, 2019 22:48
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Some of the wall funds are being pulled from the DoD's Blended Retirement Program: https://www.businessinsider.com/mil...RETwH_lsoURMThI
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Aug 1, 2019 22:52
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CommieGIR posted:Some of the wall funds are being pulled from the DoD's Blended Retirement Program: That’s some troop respectin’ right there
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Aug 1, 2019 22:54
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One hell of a conflict of interest if they ever had to do their job and actually vote to declare war. But, I guess most of them would duck out of their obligations since I'm guessing that most of the people that situation applies to only signed up for political points like that scum gently caress Reince Priebus.
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Aug 1, 2019 22:55
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Vasudus posted:My new office has a collection of rotating O5s/O6s that do like 45 days at a time or something. They're just used for hey-you action officer stuff because they're only there for such a short time. Probably IMAs, which I believe is a Reserve-only program. You basically do like one long TDY per year at a D agency and then don't go to drill. The catch is that you aren't covered by the laws requiring reservists to be given certain notification prior to being mobilized, and can be activated for basically any reason at any time. psydude fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 22:55
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A Bad Poster posted:How the gently caress can you be in the Guard for one state, where you'd have to have residency to serve, and be in congress for another state, where you'd also have to have residency? Residency is not a requirement. Closest thing I had to a permanent address was a holiday inn express I used once a month.
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Aug 1, 2019 22:57
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https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1156786633779404801
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Aug 1, 2019 23:00
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:congressmen being in the reserves is the dumbest poo poo And if you get deployed while in office do you go? Do you get a waiver?
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Aug 1, 2019 23:01
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Nystral posted:And if you get deployed while in office do you go? Do you get a waiver? LBJ is a good case study for this. He got activated after Pearl Harbor while he was a member of the House.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:05
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A Bad Poster posted:LBJ is a good case study for this. He got activated after Pearl Harbor while he was a member of the House. He really isn't. He used his political clout to get a commission, insisted on seeing combat, and flew a single combat mission as an observer on a bomber that turned back with mechanical issues before reaching its target. Johnson was awarded the Silver Star, the only person in the aircraft to even be recommended for a medal at all. He promptly returned to Washington and was made chairman of a powerful committee.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:09
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McNally posted:He really isn't. He used his political clout to get a commission, insisted on seeing combat, and flew a single combat mission as an observer on a bomber that turned back with mechanical issues before reaching its target. Johnson was awarded the Silver Star, the only person in the aircraft to even be recommended for a medal at all. Exactly why he's a good case study. That's what most reserve politicians would do.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:11
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We needed a control group to evaluate the last 18 years of data we've collected
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Aug 1, 2019 23:12
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Grandma went out with a bang
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Aug 1, 2019 23:14
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A Bad Poster posted:Exactly why he's a good case study. That's what most reserve politicians would do. I question whether they'd allow themselves to get that close to actual combat.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:16
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orange juche posted:Grandma went out with a bang I'm sure there's a good boomer joke in there somewhere.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:21
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poo poo they can have mine for free once I’m done with it.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:22
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Where'd Sean Spicer get shipped off to after turmp fired him. Greenland?
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Aug 1, 2019 23:23
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Where'd Sean Spicer get shipped off to after turmp fired him. Greenland? Fox News?
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Aug 1, 2019 23:29
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Nystral posted:And if you get deployed while in office do you go? Do you get a waiver? Typically, people in elected office or other positions deemed "essential" to the functioning of the government (certain public safety officials, certain federal employees, etc.) can't be compelled to deploy. Right now it doesn't matter because we've just been rotating people through the desert for the last 16 years, but the idea is that in a full-scale war you do need to keep certain experienced government professionals and elected leaders in their positions so as to avoid a sudden governmental vacuum on the homefront. psydude fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 23:39
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You can get sent on some bullshit short term deployment where you pretend to do work for a little bit. That's what Lindsay did.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:43
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Sounds like "being a federally elected official" is a qualifier for non-deployability, so I guess under that new DoD mandate they'll all be getting the boot.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:46
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A Bad Poster posted:Fox News? Yeah he was just on yesterday
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Aug 1, 2019 23:52
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Vasudus posted:My new office has a collection of rotating O5s/O6s that do like 45 days at a time or something. They're just used for hey-you action officer stuff because they're only there for such a short time. Our reservists all needed accounts and certifications that lapsed in the year they spent between IDTs and couldn’t be reactivated before they were done with their next set. Literally worthless - they couldn’t even access email.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:54
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A Bad Poster posted:Fox News? It was a Sgt Bilko reference. 
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Aug 1, 2019 23:57
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I think I'd enjoy spending some time at Thule.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:58
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Some time, maybe, in the summer. Not a winter though. gently caress that.
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Aug 2, 2019 00:02
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It was a Sgt Bilko reference. Stripes 
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Aug 2, 2019 00:04
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Some time, maybe, in the summer. Not a winter though. gently caress that. If you don't like winter in thule, just wait a few years
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Having read Stiff a few times and looked into the matter more since, you should never donate your body to science. Also if you do partial donation and still have open casket afterwards, a decent portion of your loved one is actually PVC pipes and stuffing. Cremation is pretty much "here's some ashes that may contain some of your loved one and whoever else got shoved in there to save time and money". Please just leaver my body in the woods or a dumpster or something. At least then I'll be reasonably sure of its fate.
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Aug 2, 2019 00:18
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A Bad Poster posted:Stripes Stripes is a dumb loving movie that people have way too much love for
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Stripes is a dumb loving movie that people have way too much love for You're a dumb loving movie that people have way too much love for
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Aug 2, 2019 00:25
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McNally posted:You're a dumb loving movie that people have way too much love for I wish people had respect for me. 
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A Bad Poster posted:Stripes Stripes is fine. I like a bit of the history about it, and I ran around the barracks from the movie when I was in boot at Knox. I just like Sgt Bilko more. It's not perfect, but it's like the army version of Down Periscope. Although In The Army Now is always a classic too.
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