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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Aren't you supposed to get a sponsor if you are going to Korea? I'm about to run out of time before I leave and no email yet. It's a sign. Skip at the airport and start a new life in Thailand.
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Aren't you supposed to get a sponsor if you are going to Korea? I'm about to run out of time before I leave and no email yet. Korea is a hard core clusterfuck. If you get a sponsor, you'll probably end up in a different unit or he'll PCS or be in jail by the time you get there. That fuckin place.
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Sep 10, 2014 04:42
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I don't even remember if I officially had a sponsor or not. If I did, I couldn't tell you who it was. The entire loving plane took off from Sea-Tac and was a military charter with nothing but military on it. We landed in Osan, and were all bused to Yongsan. We did some in-processing there, and stayed in a hotel in Itaewon. The next day they bused my rear end to Suwon, and the suck started. (This was 2005)
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Sep 10, 2014 04:55
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Aren't you supposed to get a sponsor if you are going to Korea? I'm about to run out of time before I leave and no email yet. Nine times out of ten you'll be better off without a sponsor swinging his incompetence around like a night stick and ruining something in your life in new and inventive ways. Of course, it's Korea. You won't be better off. Ever. From the moment you step on that plane the only question you will be able to answer is "Does this suck, or does this loving suck?" Dumbass punched a local at a bar? Nobody below O1 or E-FuckYou off post for a month. Someone missed an ASAP meeting? General order 1 for everyone. 16 hour mission starting at 11 PM yesterday? gently caress you, watch this don't-rape-people power point while some pencil pushing cock holster with a nine-to-five position lectures you about how you're a soldier 24/7 and sometimes you have to stay a little past 5 so quit your bitching and don't fall asleep.
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Sep 10, 2014 05:54
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man i'm so glad i never got orders to korea
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Sep 10, 2014 06:23
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Yeah I guess after three deployments to include getting back earlier this year I need to get some Korea experience. I just finished over a year and a half in company command and one of the many responsibilities was to quickly get sponsors for all inbounds, usually within a couple days of them receiving an RFO. And this is at Hood, where it's really simple and no need for a sponsor. It's been a month and a half for me now and nothing.
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Sep 10, 2014 06:31
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Yeah I guess after three deployments to include getting back earlier this year I need to get some Korea experience. I just finished over a year and a half in company command and one of the many responsibilities was to quickly get sponsors for all inbounds, usually within a couple days of them receiving an RFO. And this is at Hood, where it's really simple and no need for a sponsor. It's been a month and a half for me now and nothing. Deployed company commander worried about his sponsor
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Sep 10, 2014 12:46
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Yeah I guess after three deployments to include getting back earlier this year I need to get some Korea experience. I just finished over a year and a half in company command and one of the many responsibilities was to quickly get sponsors for all inbounds, usually within a couple days of them receiving an RFO. And this is at Hood, where it's really simple and no need for a sponsor. It's been a month and a half for me now and nothing. With all due respect sir, it sounds like you're looking for a cock to suck in korea.
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Sep 10, 2014 12:51
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Yeah I guess after three deployments to include getting back earlier this year I need to get some Korea experience. I just finished over a year and a half in company command and one of the many responsibilities was to quickly get sponsors for all inbounds, usually within a couple days of them receiving an RFO. And this is at Hood, where it's really simple and no need for a sponsor. It's been a month and a half for me now and nothing. Company commander doesn't realize sponsors are a thing the Army fucks up completely with such regularity that for practical purposes they don't exist. Army.txt
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Sep 10, 2014 14:34
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:Aren't you supposed to get a sponsor if you are going to Korea? I'm about to run out of time before I leave and no email yet.  All you have to do is squint a little bit and change around a few words to get a view of your future.
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Sep 10, 2014 17:09
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Sponsors? What? Like, someone to hold your hand and walk you around post and show you where the PX is and make sure you don't check on your weapon card? AHAHAHAHHA! gently caress that. The military is like goddamn Lord of the Flies. They have some hung over E-1 pick you up at 21st, half your poo poo falls out of the back of the should be deadlined vehicle, someone steals your loving ruck while you sign in, then they give you a room full of motherfuckers with faces like sheep killing dogs. Oh, and formation is at 0500, you inbred moron human being cocksucker, don't be late.
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Sep 10, 2014 19:22
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I think I was given a sponsor when I first got to my unit. He ETS'd that same month.
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Sep 10, 2014 20:08
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I just had a couple loving questions to ask is all. I am pretty good at just figuring poo poo out when I get there, it'd be nice just to prepare a bit.
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Sep 10, 2014 20:34
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Find a juicy girl, I bet she knows your post inside and out. Just don't lick the tires.
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Sep 10, 2014 21:17
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3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:I just had a couple loving questions to ask is all. I am pretty good at just figuring poo poo out when I get there, it'd be nice just to prepare a bit. If your going to be getting accounts, you may wanna try knocking out the dumb pre-req certs if you'res have expired.
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McSpatula posted:Find a juicy girl, I bet she knows your post inside and out. Just don't lick the tires. No poo poo, juicy girls knew when we had field exercises coming up, when we had alerts, all the good poo poo.
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not caring here posted:No poo poo, juicy girls knew when we had field exercises coming up, when we had alerts, all the good poo poo. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA, OPSEC! Uh I hate to break it to you top, but...
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Sep 10, 2014 22:56
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I came to Korea as part of a unit, but since I was torch I went to WRC. Pretty sure they'll give you a sponsor there or that will be your de facto "sponsor".
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the only sponsors i ever heard about in korea were people who used to be in aa but fell off the wagon
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Got tasked as the investigating officer for a FLIPL yesterday. All the investigations were already done, but I had to do the final report. In short, a soldier received a call from his wife saying there was a fire in their garage. He comes home and finds a large portion of his TA-50 in flames. But that's it. Just his TA-50 was burned to a crisp. And the incident happened 9 months ago. What the gently caress am I supposed to do with this?
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stevenolson88 posted:Got tasked as the investigating officer for a FLIPL yesterday. All the investigations were already done, but I had to do the final report. In short, a soldier received a call from his wife saying there was a fire in their garage. He comes home and finds a large portion of his TA-50 in flames. But that's it. Just his TA-50 was burned to a crisp. And the incident happened 9 months ago. What the gently caress am I supposed to do with this? If it's anything like my unit, he'll be liable no matter what. And so will his first line, the commander, and the XO (even if they weren't in the unit when this happened). Not based on experience or anything.
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stevenolson88 posted:Got tasked as the investigating officer for a FLIPL yesterday. All the investigations were already done, but I had to do the final report. In short, a soldier received a call from his wife saying there was a fire in their garage. He comes home and finds a large portion of his TA-50 in flames. But that's it. Just his TA-50 was burned to a crisp. And the incident happened 9 months ago. What the gently caress am I supposed to do with this? Find him not liable for anything? Look out for your soldiers!
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Nimmy posted:Find him not liable for anything? Look out for your soldiers! Yeah, I never understood why other officers seemed to err in favor of the army on this one. We waste so much loving money and resources, but when it comes time to give a soldier a break or, god forbid, let him get away with something stupid, people want to drop the hammer every time. I didn't investigate many FLIPLs but never saw the point, in the ones I did do, in punishing anyone unless it was blatantly obvious theft or negligence. Oh no, a 20 year old tent went missing. What the gently caress are we gonna do now? etc.
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Zeris posted:Oh no, a 20 year old tent went missing. What the gently caress are we gonna do now? etc. Amazing how big a hard on the Army has for individual half shelters.
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Nimmy posted:Find him not liable for anything? lol in you ever recommend anything other than this on any 15-6 or flipl no matter what you burning mega retard
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Amazing how big a hard on the Army has for individual half shelters. Jesus Christ, you guys still have those loving things?
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50 Foot Ant posted:Jesus Christ, you guys still have those loving things? Yep. They were always on the packing list.
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So the packing list still contains: 3 uniforms 1 pair extra boots 6 pair socks 6 tent pegs 3 tent poles 1 sleeping pad 1 shelter half Whatever else the retarded chain of command wants to add... I ****NEVER**** used my loving shelter half in my entire time as anything but some canvas to line the inside of my ruck with except for the 2 times I went to NTC and they made us stay in that dumb loving area. And that always sucked. Who wants to be that close to ANYONE at ANYTIME. Escpecially if you ended up with some fat gently caress or that weird guy that smells like bad mayo and stupidity? With all the other changes, who the gently caress thinks those dumbass things are going to work as anything but the first thing you toss in the back of the truck, in the toolbox, and forget about?
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They became completely pointless with the advent of the 3-piece sleep system. Keeps you warm and dry and makes your patrol base look like it's full of bodybags.
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Got into a pissing match with my HHT commander for not deploying to Jalalabad with my gas mask; he never came through on the statement of charges he threatened.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:They became completely pointless with the advent of the 3-piece sleep system. Keeps you warm and dry and makes your patrol base look like it's full of bodybags. The only thing better than a bivy bag is a hammock tent, and the two go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
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Hi. Did the desert thing for a few months and have enough internet to return to the goon lair. You are all still homoerotic and self-depreciating as ever, which is oddly comforting.
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iceslice posted:Hi. Did the desert thing for a few months and have enough internet to return to the goon lair. You are all still homoerotic and self-depreciating as ever, which is oddly comforting. Were you around when IDR was outed?
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Sep 12, 2014 20:05
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Maybe? He was a marine and claimed to be more, right?
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Sep 12, 2014 20:28
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iceslice posted:Maybe? He was a marine and claimed to be more, right? close enough.
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3551832 http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552039 Never gets old. 
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No, 1st.FOURTH WAVE LESBRO posted:The only thing better than a bivy bag is a hammock tent, and the two go together like chocolate and peanut butter. I slept in my hammock on a C-17 with my puss pad and wubi, and green sleeping bag. It was totally worth carrying since its like 22 hours in the back of one of those things. Life so was so good when it could have been so bad. iceslice fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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iceslice posted:No, 1st. Did the hammock ever shake enough that ...it distressed you and made you rethink that decision?
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