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Pesticide20 posted:Or Afghan. I've seen their RCP procedures... it consists of three guys in front of the convoy: one that points at the ground and two that run over to the places pointed out and kick at the ground. yo, plz censor this opsec information thx
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GD_American posted:yeah, for good christ that's two minutes to fix. Officers generally don't get second chances when they gently caress up like that.
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vacation in kabul posted:Oh yes they do. *Applies only to O5 and below.
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Shimazu posted:do whaaaaaat? It's pretty widespread, dude. If you're in a command/platoon leader position and you gently caress up, you're done in that position and you'll be able to enjoy all of the fun that comes with being on the battalion staff.
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DRONES CURE HAJI posted:Neoliberal usually refers to someone who is ardently pro-free trade and globalization (aka everyone in US politics), so it would be pretty easy for neolib and neocon to overlap Aye. Neoliberalism was born out of the Reaganomics movement in the 80s and was pretty popular in Latin America during the late 80s and early 90s. So basically a lot of the same core tenets to which neoconservatives adhere.
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We all have stories of Joes making poor decisions, but this one always stood out. About halfway through our deployment, I drive out to one of my projects to pick up an 18 year old E4 who is having a nervous breakdown. Essentially, he thinks his 18 year old wife is cheating on him because he's noticed a few hundred dollars a month being taken out of his dip and preworkout fund and she's kind of been dancing around telling him why. Apparently, in addition to giving his wife General Power of Attorney, he also keeps everything in his wife's family's house, and even signed the loving title of his truck over to his father-in-law. So we take him to chaplain, who goes through the whole marriage counseling thing (which, by 4 and a half months into the deployment, he's an expert on). In the end, it just turned out he was being paranoid and didn't know about things like "communicating" and "not spending $1000 a month on workout supplements." Okay, whatever, we send him back to work the next day and that's that. A month or two later, one of his buddies, another E4 in his squad, offers to sell him his lifted pickup for $6000 (I guess in West Virginia and Eastern Ohio, social status is measured by the height of your lift kit). Despite having never seen the truck in person, and having a good 3-4 months left on the deployment, he jumps at the opportunity because, in his words, he "Found an extra $5000 lying around that I didn't know about!" So he wires the dude the money, has his father-in-law sign the title, and asks him to drive down to pick it up. Back in the States, The father-in-law shows up at the house, picks up the truck, and begins driving it home. Everything is going smoothly until, an hour into the drive, one of the wheels of the truck flies off its axle, causing the truck to spit out of control and crash. The father-in-law is okay, but the truck is totaled. Of course, the Joe in question never bothered to purchase insurance before it was picked up, nor was the truck covered under the Lemon Law. The next day, I was talking to his squad leader, who tells me that he'd overhead this Joe talking to his wife earlier in the week. She was really excited to tell him she'd saved up $5000 from her earnings and his deployment money to put a down payment on a house when he got home. psydude fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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Crazy Mike posted:A lot of Soldiers on my Facebook are either posting MLM ads, right wing anti Obama messages, or Born Again Christianity. I don't get the right wingers considering the army turned me super liberal. Because most people in the military are too retarded to realize that they're living and working inside the socialist nanny state that they fear will take hold if we give luxuries like "healthcare" and "education" to people who would otherwise be unable to afford them.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Besides, its not like basement dwelling pillow fuckers can actually make it through basic. 
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My way of countering uniform stupidity was to write a memorandum and work it into the risk assessment. "Well, Sergeant Major, the risk assessment signed by the battalion commander dictates that the uniform will be t shirts while performing manual labor in body armor in heat category IV or higher."
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GQ did a pretty good piece on it.
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Facebook veterans are the best. For example, this was just shared by no fewer than 3 people who were in my old unit:
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