PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:

I've told this here before, but we had E-5's who would pull rank on each other based on when they were pinned. A bunch were pinned on the same day, but they did them alphabetically, so they had literally 1-2 more minutes of TIG than the people whose last name was after theirs. It was incredible.

about_face posted:

I work on a joint installation and I've seen three or five army guys wearing a subdued enlisted Surface Warfare device on their ACUs. I've also seen an army guy wearing either cyber or space wings I'm not too sure which one it was. Is there some kind of joint skill exchange program or are these just guys from a prior service who pulled strings to pin these on?

I've tried looking this up and couldn't find anything relevant.

Kick-Puncher posted:

Is there any way to access my enterprise email from my mac now that I have been migrated from the AKO webmail? It is seriously a pain in the rear end to go to the guard armory whenever I need to check it.

Best Friends posted:

My girlfriend's dad was in the Navy from 58-62, as best as everyone knows. He died recently. The Navy gave him a headstone that says "Vietnam Veteran."

He was supposedly just a stateside engineer but they are not really certain seeming that's true, and they wouldn't be the first family to learn about what their dad really did by a government headstone. But, it doesn't seem right. Is there a way anyone knows to contact the Navy to verify the situation?

Manmower posted:

Save that money because your first few years as an officer are going to be poor.

about_face posted:

Can someone tell me what rules this guy is breaking in taking this stupid loving pic if any?

Beria posted:

Saw some guy at the veterans parade wearing full nwus riding a motorcycle

Was made cool by th fact that he had long flowing locks like Skynard cover band length

iyaayas01 posted:

Or quit being a scrub and just get thin ribbons, it costs like $20 for an average size rack and all you have to do is spend money, wait a week, and pin on uniform.

Wokrider posted:

Going to navy boot in a few months.
I have had fillings and a crown way before I got into DEP, my recruiter said this isn't a problem. Am I going to get burned on this at the navy dental exam?

EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:

Varicelli posted:

Hey guys. Really, really obscure question here, wasn't sure where to put it being a first time poster to GIT and all, so hopefully it's OK. I'm Australian, and don't know anything about the military, so apologies in advance for my probably offensive lack of knowledge.

I'm trying to find out information about Marine/Army/X bands, for a lovely creative work I have been thinking about. There's a lot of information available about "the" army band, AKA the band that plays mainly ceremonially, but I'd like to know about regular army bands. Are there regimental/division/? bands? Do they go on tour or deployed? Do they have to go through general training and everything like regular soldiers? Are they formed from musicians who joined the army, or soldiers who can also play instruments?

I have a general sense of this information from wikipedia and the like, but it's pretty sparse and imprecise, and further more, what I'm really looking for is information about what nonceremonial bands are actually like and do, in particular those bands that are deployed to zones experiencing current conflict. What do they do on base? Do they get shot at or shoot at dudes? Do they sit around and play music, or do they only do that on occasion and most of the time have regular army jobs and stuff? Etcetera

Thanks in advance