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Haha today for the Fort Polk "School of Standards" which is a mandatory 2-3 day course for all newcomers to Polk, while sitting around waiting for the CID guy to show up to give a crime prevention class, we sat around and watched funny movies of people falling down hahaahhahahahahhahaahahah army strong hooah
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:03 |
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| # ? Nov 21, 2009 16:25 |
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also once at a command and staff briefing my phone rang holy poo poo was I embarrassed
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:04 |
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I prefer the women drivers video over the people falling down video myself.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:11 |
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I sat through 160 hours of power point on electronics. Then 80 hours on chemical labs Then 80 hours on bio labs then 80 hours of nuke labs then 3 weeks of FIELD PROBLEMS Ahhhh I loving hate my life (I don't care who you are, I deal with more powerpoint then you.)
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:14 |
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you need a badge for that poo poo
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:15 |
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We watched E-Ring in tech school. Poor Dennis Hopper, did you need the coke money really bad or something? The Christmas episode was so horribly full of puns, I wanted to die. The VIDS dumbasses got to watch good movies all the time in class, we got stuck watching a failed network drama.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:29 |
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Casimir Radon posted:We watched E-Ring in tech school. Poor Dennis Hopper, did you need the coke money really bad or something? The Christmas episode was so horribly full of puns, I wanted to die. The VIDS dumbasses got to watch good movies all the time in class, we got stuck watching a failed network drama. Dude what job are you, all my tech school was rifle PT and low crawling.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:33 |
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The Sheriff Jake posted:Dude what job are you, all my tech school was rifle PT and low crawling.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:37 |
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I picked the wrong AFSC.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 22:43 |
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A few months before I ETS'd out of the guard we had to watch a video on sexual harrasment in the military...it was like The OC but in the army. Some drunken piece of poo poo captain was at a bar with a bunch of other enlisteds in his unit trying to pull rank on some female specialist to get in her pants. Sounded about right.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 23:09 |
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That reminds me, the sexual harassment video we watch has this Captain go in to talk to a Colonel about how she's being sexually harassed by another Colonel. The first time through is to illustrate an inappropriate reaction on a superiors part, he tells her that he's known the guy for years and he wouldn't do that, calls her a liar, and then tells her she's going to have to learn to "play ball" if she wants to get anywhere in the Air Force. Awesome video.
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 23:37 |
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Before we deployed to Iraq, we had to watch the Nick Berg decapitation video. fun times. 
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| # ? Nov 03, 2009 23:43 |
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kombatMedik posted:Before we deployed to Iraq, we had to watch the Nick Berg decapitation video. Why would they do that? To get you pumped to kill some terrorists after seeing them behead an American or to get you scared shitless that an American was kidnapped and beheaded?
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 00:00 |
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forever whatever posted:A few months before I ETS'd out of the guard we had to watch a video on sexual harrasment in the military...it was like The OC but in the army. this is p. much SOP.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 00:10 |
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Jinkin posted:Why would they do that? To get you pumped to kill some terrorists after seeing them behead an American or to get you scared shitless that an American was kidnapped and beheaded? pretty much scared shitless. It was a huge auditorium, too- about 5 or 6 deploying companies. Afterwards, the speaker said "This is why you need to stay vigilant." gently caress that video sucks. loving horrible.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 00:25 |
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kombatMedik posted:Afterwards, the speaker said "This is why you need to stay vigilant." Kind of a similar story, when I was in basic one of the drill instructors loaded up a video from their personal folder on the network before starting class. This was pretty normal, they usually showed combat footage of their unit or something interesting. Anyways, before the guy started it he only prefaced it with "if you've seen this before don't ruin the ending for everybody". It was security footage from an interrogation room at some police station. They brought what looked like a border hopper in, gave him a bottle of water, and left the room. The detainee calmly takes a sip of water and puts it back on the table, reaches into his waistband, pulls out a handgun, cocks it, puts it to his temple, then proceeds to  all over the wall beside him.Afterwards, the DS says "this is why you have to properly search anybody you detain", then launches right into some lecture about radio procedures.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 00:54 |
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In boot camp our Driver Improvement course consisted of watching the last 20 minutes of Gone in 60 Seconds.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 03:57 |
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whoa grover and yoda are like the exact same voice just figured that out
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 03:59 |
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jjgrover the muppet not the poster
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:00 |
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mad.radhu posted:In boot camp our Driver Improvement course consisted of watching the last 20 minutes of Gone in 60 Seconds. In Basic we watched Black Hawk Down instead of doing classes for the Army values.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:03 |
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So I'm going to make a list of reasons why HCT double posts in every thread. Help me out: two people (hillary, and the thong) edit = quote forgets the previous post mods deleted edit button trying to get out of fyad territory
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:20 |
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Railroad Player posted:In Basic we watched Black Hawk Down instead of doing classes for the Army values. we watched band of brothers. also, one of my drill sergeants was in "In the Army Now". He's in the background during the flashlight disassembly scene in the chow tent.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:24 |
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The Sheriff Jake posted:I picked the wrong AFSC. should be the security forces motto We watched Twelve O'Clock High at OTS.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:33 |
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We watched the Nic Cage classic Windtalkers at basic. Saving Private Ryan at AIT. The Last Castle at WOCS. And watching Jarhead in Iraq is surreal and redundant. We had a mini-theater set up, and there is a scene in the movie were the Marines are in a movie theater watching Apocalypse Now. So you have Soldiers in the desert watching a war movie of Marines watching a war movie of Soldiers... yeah. Armyman25 fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 04:39 |
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:37 |
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We watched "Independence Day" in tech school just so our instructors could pop up in the middle and go "See that? That's an EMP!" and then we finished welcomin' aliens to earf. Oh, and one time because the SERE people didn't have everything ready for the exercise we watched "Hart's War" for all about resistance techniques.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 04:48 |
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hannibal posted:should be the security forces motto Lately it has been "Life you chose."
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Armyman25 posted:We watched the Nic Cage classic Windtalkers at basic. Next can they show Apocalypse Now and have everyone kill themselves
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 05:46 |
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FBCB2 class. Seriously, we need slides on the difference between left and right clicking a mouse?
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 17:01 |
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hannibal posted:should be the security forces motto
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 20:34 |
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Casimir Radon posted:That reminds me, the sexual harassment video we watch has this Captain go in to talk to a Colonel about how she's being sexually harassed by another Colonel. The first time through is to illustrate an inappropriate reaction on a superiors part, he tells her that he's known the guy for years and he wouldn't do that, calls her a liar, and then tells her she's going to have to learn to "play ball" if she wants to get anywhere in the Air Force. Awesome video. Oh, Army suicide prevention briefings. If anything ever made me want to kill myself, it's sitting through those garbagefests. Until the CYOA video gets to the choice of A) telling your buddy to seek counselling or you will go to the chain of command and make him get it or B) putting his dumb rear end in a headlock and dragging him to mental health. I still pick headlock, drat it.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 21:42 |
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The POW or whatever its called CBT sucks, and there is a lot of advice I will not follow if I'm captured. If anyone collaborates I'm cracking their head open.
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| # ? Nov 05, 2009 11:19 |
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After a morning of battalion safety breathings in the little theater, we were released while the rest had to stay and do more of them. Our 1SG had insisted we would be doing some company event right after lunch on Friday; however it ended up coming down that the battalion would have to stay for more after we got back at 13:30. Our 1SG just looked at us, and everyone sitting down waiting, and then said, "gently caress this, we're going bowling". Another time during PLDC instructor of our class (who hated getting stuck with the position for the next month) showed up in our barracks and informed us that since we were doing so much better than the other classes, that we were all going to go to the movie theater (which was definitely not allowed). The 10 of us and him then snuck out leaving the others to clean and do other bullshit. We snuck out of the compound, through the nearby forest and entered the theater without anyone noticing. However as we were leaving another of the class instructors (who was there with his wife) saw us and our instructor as well, and as our eyes locked I knew we were so busted. He apparently ending up getting reamed the by Sergeant Major the next day. He didn't give a poo poo though, as he wanted to be released back to his unit.
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| # ? Nov 05, 2009 14:38 |
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One of my favorites was some slideshows and movies for Combat Lifesafer training. SFC goes "This is why you never bite on a blasting cap to crimp it. Imagine having to stop this bleeding." Next slide was a dude who was missing everything from the middle of the bridge of the nose down, no jaw, just a tongue. It looked like someone was trying to wear a mask made out of tenderized steak. Google Jerry Stromyer, I think that's the right dude, but it's very 
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THE BALLAD OF THE POWER POINT RANGER (sung to the tune of "The Green Beret") Requests are made from day to day; Briefings held and changes made. Graphic slides, a must they say, Power Point is the only way. Computers crash and printers stall, Overloading protocol. Network's down and soldiers cry Briefing's late, so heads will fly. Pin Power Point slides upon my chest, Full color slides, they look the best 100 slides were made that day but only 10 made the final display. Smiles upon the General's face Slides were done, looked really great Was up all night really working late, Just to hear the General say .... My soldier son, your slides were great, Briefing's done, staff's up to date, One problem son, you took too long, So put in one more change, then go on home. So tell my Mom I done my best, Pin Power Point slides upon my chest 100 slides were made that day, but only 10 made the final display. -unknown
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| # ? Nov 05, 2009 17:46 |
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antimatt posted:
What ever happened to him? Google says that he lived, but I can't find any pictures or info about what happened afterwards. Frankly, I am amazed that he survived that.
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| # ? Nov 05, 2009 18:17 |
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Jiro Kage posted:What ever happened to him? Google says that he lived, but I can't find any pictures or info about what happened afterwards. Frankly, I am amazed that he survived that. No idea. He looked alive in the picture, but he was hosed up bad. I searched around and couldn't find anything else, either...
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 00:03 |
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Mr.48 posted:THE BALLAD OF THE POWER POINT RANGER This is amazing, in a SPC creed kind of way.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 00:53 |
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Mr.48 posted:THE BALLAD OF THE POWER POINT RANGER Oh man, I want to sing this as a cadence with my directorate (comm) so bad.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 04:45 |
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It was at a safety Stand down before christmas in 06 right before we deployed. We sat through the normal dumb poo poo about this and that. When I didn't think it could get any worse, the BN Head cook, some douchbag SSGT, talked for 30 minutes about not eating properly refrigerated Potato salad or various items that require cooling. 30 loving minutes, to a BN of grunts that had been sitting there for 4 hours already.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 09:38 |
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Basically an BUB during a ftx. It's at the end of the day when the battalion commander and battery commanders get together to talk about the day. I was my battery commander's driver and got the "pleasure" to sit in and watch. Cue 4 hours of powerpoint broken up with 1 hour discussions between two commanders on fuel, and how can we fuel launchers, and when can we fuel, and gently caress JUST HAVE THEM PUT FUEL IN THE loving LAUNCHERS JESUS. I only sat in until after the S2 brief since our battery was acting as the opfor and we had an excellent propaganda video's and pictures. Also, we set up an ambush on all the commanders as they left the battalion toc after their BUB.
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