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The grenade test and the getting your gas mask on in 5 seconds with a proper seal, were the two biggest reasons people failed the EIB course.
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Holy poo poo far too many fucks being given in the last page. gently caress you I'm out. SMDFTB.
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Mar 9, 2017 03:50
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A is for army Army army army army army
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Mar 9, 2017 03:56
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Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? lol
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psydude posted:Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? Lmbo
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Mar 9, 2017 07:12
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psydude posted:Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? remember pt belts
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Aerial gunnery qualification for utility aircraft: why yes, we have weapons but if we have to use them we're already dead.
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psydude posted:Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? yes and i no poo poo want those days back
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Mar 9, 2017 10:21
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Thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna go hug a copy of my DD-214.
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Kempo Yellow Belt posted:yes You can go to AT for me then. It's my first time in five years and it's with my old unit, who I don't even belong to anymore. Good times!
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Mar 9, 2017 13:30
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Kempo Yellow Belt posted:and i no poo poo want those days back You're in the wrong thread. The Let's Talk About Idiots! (It's us.) thread is elsewhere.
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Mar 9, 2017 14:25
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psydude posted:Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? I'm still here. It's cold and lonely.
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Mar 10, 2017 14:39
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Such an appropriate name/post combination. God drat when will my terminal leave get approved? I submitted it over a month ago and the O room still says it's being processed. 
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Mar 10, 2017 14:51
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They lost it. There is seriously nothing to "process." It gets signed and handed off to S1 so that you can be charged for that leave. That's it.
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Mar 10, 2017 14:54
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Aranan posted:Such an appropriate name/post combination. Unless it's for a lot of time and he's fortunate enough to have one of those BN or BDE commanders that doesn't sign things until literally the day it MUST be signed and only if a staffer or commander basically holds the senior officer's hand and forces him to sign it.
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Mar 10, 2017 14:56
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One of the redeeming qualities of being a noble is hand walking leave to your boss for signature then sending it to the S1. I haven't done a trips form in like 5 years now... but I'm an idiot who's still in and will inevitably be hung when the purges come.
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Mar 10, 2017 15:33
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psydude posted:Hey guys remember that time we were all in the army? Worst part about army was definitely other people, those cunts made not want to defend my country. And they didn't bully me or anything, just loving awful people ruining the day there. But ofc I went to conscript army which way different from "real army" I could guess that at least the guys who know they can die in few months don't act like children.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:One of the redeeming qualities of being a noble is hand walking leave to your boss for signature then sending it to the S1. I haven't done a trips form in like 5 years now... but I'm an idiot who's still in and will inevitably be hung when the purges come. I had a soldier way back when I was a PL who did not have a car, was basically taking leave to burn use/lose days and to avoid a bunch of lovely inventory layout duties, and whose plans consisted of sitting in the barracks playing video games and seeing his brother for a day or so while he was traveling through. He didn't own a car. He didn't submit a trips form. BN S1 kicked it back, despite the 1SG and I explaining the situation. He got that kind of angry motivation that means you dedicate hours to telling someone to gently caress off. He did some drafting as a hobby and drafted a layout of the buildings between his barracks and the BN staff duty desk. He then made a to-scale stencil of foot-prints. He stenciled them in, to scale of a regular stride, going down the stairs, out our battery, to BN staff duty, then back to his room. He even drafted in a smoke break at the smoking pit on the way back. He had me sign the bottom where he marked this trip low risk. I made sure the packet bypassed S1 and went straight to our BN XO's inbox, who was the acting BN CDR (some stupid incident meant that all leave forms were going to BN). I got a call a couple hours later and the BN XO was drat near in tears from laughter and told me the S1 wouldn't require trips forms for people who don't own cars anymore. I hate myself for not having taken a picture or scanned the thing.
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But did you perform an inspection on his shoes to make sure they were safe and serviceable? Shitbag.
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I used to have to do trips reports to my on base housing at one point a leave packet for 51st CM company was like 12 pages worth of poo poo on top of a DA31 it was so retarded
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In one unit a soldier smashed his tricked out civic with NO2 cans into a wall and burned to death. CSM made a requirement that all leave and pass forms contain a list of aftermarket parts, even cosmetic or sound system stuff. My car was pretty lightly modified, but by listing each new bushing and bolt and audio wire individually on their own lines, I managed to make that part of the leave form about four pages long.
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mlmp08 posted:I had a soldier way back when I was a PL who did not have a car, was basically taking leave to burn use/lose days and to avoid a bunch of lovely inventory layout duties, and whose plans consisted of sitting in the barracks playing video games and seeing his brother for a day or so while he was traveling through. He didn't own a car. He didn't submit a trips form. BN S1 kicked it back, despite the 1SG and I explaining the situation. I'd put that guy in for an AAM.
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We had an issue where a bunch of guys were, for whatever reason, getting into accidents going to or coming back from lunch. Word came down that if there was one more accident, they'd start requiring us to travel in groups and have at least one E6 or above with each group. The accident that followed the announcement? My buddy was returning from lunch and a loving sinkhole opened up under his truck.
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"CSM made a requirement that all leave and pass forms contain a list of aftermarket parts, even cosmetic or sound system stuff." "they'd start requiring us to travel in groups and have at least one E6 or above with each group." Good god, I just can't even. I salute anyone who can make it long term as active duty enlisted. If they ever question why suicide or mental health issues are so high in the Army, that's probably a great example of why.
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mlmp08 posted:tricked out civic
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When I retire I'm going to think up some proprietary
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:When I retire I'm going to think up some proprietary Anybody got a grenade?
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That's a real quick way to find yourself wearing concrete shoes at the bottom of a lake.
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So where can I find the six letter unit codes? My 173rd sub unit is "WARJ1A" and Googling points out it is "one of the 173rd units". I am like well yes, but which one?
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Well, it's a BCT; as a medic you've probably got a chance at being assigned to any of the subordinate BNs, be it the BSB or Inf, Arty or the BEB. Basically anywhere.
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Yeah you have the Unit Identification Code for a Brigade. You won't know what unit you are heading to until you sign in. DA only assigns down to the Brigade, the personnel and strength manager decides what BN, then BN decides Company, so on and so forth.
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Vahakyla posted:So where can I find the six letter unit codes? My 173rd sub unit is "WARJ1A" and Googling points out it is "one of the 173rd units". I am like well yes, but which one? Like said above, you are referring to an UIC. Each company, BN, BDE, etc has one. Usually, grain of salt needed here, the last character in the UIC is the company. That is assuming that no one seriously screwed up with your unit, like one of my previous units, where everything was one character higher than it was supposed to be. TLDR; You should be going to A Co. EDIT: I am a moron and can't read, don't worry about the exact company, you will be a BDE or BN asset as a medic most likely.
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Vahakyla posted:So where can I find the six letter unit codes? My 173rd sub unit is "WARJ1A" and Googling points out it is "one of the 173rd units". I am like well yes, but which one? It doesn't matter what it says until you get there. It still won't matter.
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Yeah when I got to the 173rd they literally just split us off from a big line for 1st / 2nd Battalion (I was infantry so not a ton of options) and then from there into Able / Battle / Chosen. Don't expect to know what the gently caress is happening until it's already done I imagine!
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Okay now I gotta do this silly FTX in AIT, graduate in couple weeks, and not gently caress up jump school or my wife will forever hate me for ruining this italy thing. My two mile run last week was 15:37. Goddamnit me
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Airborne school is easy as hell. Since it's actually relatively dangerous, they baby the students the whole time. Granted I look at it from a "if a poo poo bag like me can do it, it can't be that hard" point of view, much like I look at Ranger school and West Point, because my brother is just as stupid and lovely as I am and he got through that poo poo somehow. He's a better runner than I am, I'm pretty sure that's it.
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If you get onto 1-503 try to be medic for D Co. They're heavy weapons and do everything from a truck. Trust me, it's a much better way to do the grunt poo poo.
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Pesticide20 posted:If you get onto 1-503 try to be medic for D Co. They're heavy weapons and do everything from a truck. Trust me, it's a much better way to do the grunt poo poo. On a similar but somewhat different note, I would take light over mech any loving day of the week.
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TBeats posted:On a similar but somewhat different note, I would take light over mech any loving day of the week. My whole infantry experience is from heavy weapons in airborne units. It's so nice being able to store your poo poo in trucks and ride around while warm and dry when everyone else in Hohenfels is wet and cold.
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