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I was in S3 for half a year before I went down to a platoon. Here's to hoping for a specialty platoon next before becoming an XO
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I pissed my XO off once (big surprise) with an ice cream cone. We went to Iraq together, and his name was Dam. I am sure he had heard it all before because of this. So I got an ice cream cone and in my best Forrest Gump impression shouted in HHC. "Hey LIEUTENANT DAM! I GOT YOU SOME ICE CREAM LT DAM! ICE CREAM!" He laughed, and then told me if I did it again he would gently caress me up.
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Feb 6, 2017 05:27
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Was there ever a good time to join the Army?
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I mean the war wasn't that bad when we were actually doing war things.
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Deployed Army is far and away better than garrison Army.
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Soulex posted:I pissed my XO off once (big surprise) with an ice cream cone. While we were in Iraq, our XO got promoted to 1LT. I congratulated him, paused, then said "sir, your rank is on upside down." He actually stopped to check.
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McNally posted:While we were in Iraq, our XO got promoted to 1LT. I congratulated him, paused, then said "sir, your rank is on upside down." He actually stopped to check. We had an S3 major who liked to yell at any LT who hosed up a lot then turn their rank sideways and tell them they were a minus for the rest of the day.
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McNally posted:While we were in Iraq, our XO got promoted to 1LT. I congratulated him, paused, then said "sir, your rank is on upside down." He actually stopped to check. In Afghanistan on patrol I got to use a sharpie on the helmet rank of the LTC who had been promoted from MAJ the day before. He was a chump, having him duck his head while I drew on him in front of our security detail was a real treat. Years of always carrying a sharpie finally paid off.
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Feb 6, 2017 15:09
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Were you not constantly drawing dick art with that sharpie???
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Feb 6, 2017 15:14
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Naked Bear posted:Deployed Army is far and away better than garrison Army.
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McNally posted:While we were in Iraq, our XO got promoted to 1LT. I congratulated him, paused, then said "sir, your rank is on upside down." He actually stopped to check. You had a 2LT as an XO?
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Feb 6, 2017 17:56
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MurderBot posted:Were you not constantly drawing dick art with that sharpie???
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Naked Bear posted:Deployed Army is far and away better than garrison Army.
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Mustang posted:You had a 2LT as an XO? we did for a long while
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Mustang posted:You had a 2LT as an XO? It's not that uncommon.
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In light Infantry world it's pretty common, since there is minimal maintenance to worry about. If you are heavy or Stryker, then you actually need a competent XO since maintenance is 2/5 of your week at minimum. Support units usually have LTs dual tasked xo and some section lead since they send the majority of their LTs to maneuver units to fill s shops.
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MurderBot posted:Were you not constantly drawing dick art with that sharpie??? Dick art and insulting Top's wife with a sharpie is what makes the Army function.
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Speaking of. For all you dick art aficionados.  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/201...2411179007.html
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AmyL posted:Was there ever a good time to join the Army? Well if you were in between 1991 and 1998 it apparently entitles you to talk about how pussified our military has gotten over the last 16 years and how Donald Trump is going to make it great again. So that's something. psydude fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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psydude posted:Well if you were in between 1991 and 1998 it apparently entitles you to talk about how pussified our military has gotten over the last 16 years and how Donald Trump is going to make it great again. So that's something. Thank gently caress I don't run into these vets. That would make me losing my loving mind.
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Lemme tell you about how lazy and poo poo all these Millennials are, and furthermore--
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psydude posted:Well if you were in between 1991 and 1998 it apparently entitles you to talk about how pussified our military has gotten over the last 16 years and how Donald Trump is going to make it great again. So that's something. Obviously I just enlisted but it's pretty funny how the generation of post-Gulf peacetime Army vets tries to rag on the generation that basically deployed to shooty shooty wars from 2001 all the way to like yesterday.
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Vahakyla posted:Obviously I just enlisted but it's pretty funny how the generation of post-Gulf peacetime Army vets tries to rag on the generation that basically deployed to shooty shooty wars from 2001 all the way to like yesterday. Vets from the Gulf War are the loving worst. All branches.
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On my first contract, my team got assigned a Marine vet who was a helicopter mechanic in the 90s and couldn't shut up about how much better the Marines are than the Army. Dude was also my height and 100lbs more than me, so basically an ambulatory orb. The team at the time was mostly GWOT Army combat arms vets too. We ended up basically hazing him off the team. I'd almost feel bad, but he was such a douche about everything.
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Former Marines who have joined the Army Reserve or National Guard or whatever are pretty much the worst. The general mood was there was probably a reason why the Marines let them go in the first place.
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There's a former Marine in my old company who got medboarded out of the Marines, joined the Army to renew his clearance, and now he's getting medboarded out of the Army.
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Yeah well MAN WE HAD TO SHINE BOOTS you weren't there man you didn't see what I saw
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We had one prior service marine who joined the guard, but he was actually a really chill guy, albeit he didn't give a single gently caress about anything military related except when we deployed where it was all business. Ended up ETS'ing after 6 years and became a lawyer.
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I used to think as a young soldier that the salty former Marines from the 90s we cool cats because they would generally be funny, bitched about common sense and grit, and had experience in the military. Then I grew and realized they couldn't turn off that bullshit when it was time to be an adult, and served in a time the military had no mission. It was actually one of the more distressing revelations I had as a young soldier.
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My favorite AIT thing has been Active people always counting days already to their ETS and leaving AIT and whatever they count for, and how around HBL it started sinking in that a good third here are actually going home after AIT. They feel like people are legit cheating, getting the army experience and still going home. It was like some giant ruse hd a rug pulled under it, hah. If you could switch to NG during AIT, there'd be no active duty Army.
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Vahakyla posted:If you could switch to NG during AIT, there'd be no active duty Army. This is the exact opposite of what retention actually sees and indicative of the value of the PNN.
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It's more just a case of TRADOC sucking and IET students thinking the rest of the army will be the same, so they want to get away from it as fast as possible. At least, that's how I was.
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Throughout OCS and ABOLC the NG guys all wished they could be active duty. Honestly wasn't all that impressed with NG OCS candidates. Some states send anyone with a degree and a pulse to OCS and they only manage to commission by the skin of their teeth. Most of my NG OCS classmates went home to either no job or something less than what they would make as an active duty officer. I definitely don't regret being active duty, I'm in a good unit and legit enjoying being a PL. The pay is pretty good too.
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Officer pay is definitely too high after the GWOT raises. Enlisted pay probably is too, but I don't know as much about that.
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psydude posted:Well if you were in between 1991 and 1998 it apparently entitles you to talk about how pussified our military has gotten over the last 16 years and how Donald Trump is going to make it great again. So that's something. Uh, I joined then. Stress cards were the thing back then.
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Stress cards have been the poo poo the cycle after yours got since probably the civil war, it seems.
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Carteret posted:Stress cards have been the poo poo the cycle after yours got since probably the civil war, it seems. Things were pretty easy in the 90's army I thought. Although it was funny to see all the poo poo talkers suddenly develop surprise illnesses when 9/11 happened and the war(s) kicked off.
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psydude posted:Former Marines who have joined the Army Reserve or National Guard or whatever are pretty much the worst. The general mood was there was probably a reason why the Marines let them go in the first place. we had 2- our CO and our Motor Sgt. CO was good to lower enlisted, but a lot of the NCOs disliked her for micromanaging. Our Motor Sgt was a rad dude who had been in the military forever and had a massive chesty puller back tattoo. He loved to yell at medics for destroying humvees, but if you stuck around to actually change out your CV boot for the millionth time instead of deadlining it and leaving it to them he was cool.
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we also had a former navy cook who got out after 15 in the clinton force reduction times, then went guard to get the 5 years for more $. She loaded her magazine upside down and backwards on nightfire lanes. She got it in there by banging it against a rock. she was a fuckup but she did run the kitchen fine so no one really bugged her. Also she went home due to depression halfway through deployment. When we demobbed from Dix and drove home she was still stuck at Dix.
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Mustang posted:Throughout OCS and ABOLC the NG guys all wished they could be active duty. Honestly wasn't all that impressed with NG OCS candidates. Some states send anyone with a degree and a pulse to OCS and they only manage to commission by the skin of their teeth. This but for all OCS officers... I've never met one with an iq over 80.
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