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maffew buildings posted:I thought 34 was too old for commissioning or have I been yet again lied to Yeah, but they have waivers for everything.
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maffew buildings posted:I thought 34 was too old for commissioning or have I been yet again lied to 34 is old enough to know better
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He did army ROTC in college for a couple years, but dropped it before he had to commit. We’ve always joked he was a conversation with a halfway-competent recruiter away from joining. I get the feeling it’s an early midlife crisis type of thing. Also, he’s been listening to my stories of being an Air Guard engineer officer for the last few years, and got inspired. Something tells me his TDY’s won’t be to Europe and tropical islands with full per diem...
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EBB posted:34 is old enough to know better I already enlisted well past the know better age, this would be the next idiot step
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Enlisting: burning your hand on the hot stove. Re-enlisting: burning your hand on the hot stove again. Going officer: deciding that it’s worth the time and investment to keep joe from putting his hand on the hot stove, where you’ve now stuck your dick.
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pkells posted:He did army ROTC in college for a couple years, but dropped it before he had to commit. We’ve always joked he was a conversation with a halfway-competent recruiter away from joining. If he gets into the right reserve unit, maybe. Engineer officers in USAR get some interesting TDY assignments, especially if they're in the non-big-army units or IMA positions. But he'll still have to do time in a line unit as a lieutenant arguing with maintenance warrants about fixing bulldozers. That and he'll probably be deployed, because engineer units are some of the most frequently deployed in the entire reserve component (outside of your weird poo poo like MISO). psydude fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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colachute posted:Enlisting: burning your hand on the hot stove. If anyone has an OCS recruiting POC/burn doctor please PM me. I'm not leaving the service and someone with no bullshit answers on this would be helpful, thanks.
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OCS is just normal run of the mill Army recruiters. I don't think your age matters if you're prior service, only for college option OCS candidates, which can still be waivered. No idea what the policy is for reserve or guard OCS candidates though. Life in a BCT blows, it's essentially a constant state of crisis and you lurch from one fire to put out to another, while various smaller fires simmer around you (whether you know it or not) with the potential to also turn into really big fires. It gets old when literally everything you do is treated like an emergency and the world will end if you don't make an arbitrary suspense.
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Mustang posted:OCS is just normal run of the mill Army recruiters. I think Reserve OCS cutoff is something like 33 as far as how old you can be by the time you commission, so if you're not prior service you expect that the max age you can be rolling into basic/federal OCS is around 31, or 32 if you just had a birthday. National guard requires you to be 34 just to enlist, and then you can commission before your 42nd birthday lmbo. so if you have even 1 contract of prior service under your belt you can jump into OCS right before you hit 50, which would be hilarious seeing a 48 year old dude bopping around the national guard OCS training sites with a bunch of young 20 year olds.
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Sep 4, 2019 00:02
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im so glad to be too old
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Enlist or reclass to an appropriate feeder MOS and go Warrant. It's like being an officer, but you're not in charge of Joe.
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SimonCat posted:Enlist or reclass to an appropriate feeder MOS and go Warrant. It's like being an officer, but you're not in charge of Joe. The best thing I ever saw was an e-6 go into ROTC at Kansas State University. Dude was ranger tabbed and apparently had been through a decent amount of poo poo during the first few years of the Iraq war. His entire goal in the military was to get the most skate job as an officer and grab Major, hit 20 and ETS. Aside from that all he did was fish. Dude had no fucks left to give but wanted to ride out the last 7-8 years and grab that pension the easiest way possible.
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Nice and hot piss posted:The best thing I ever saw was an e-6 go into ROTC at Kansas State University. Dude was ranger tabbed and apparently had been through a decent amount of poo poo during the first few years of the Iraq war. o7
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When I reached out to the HRC OCS contact I was told no go on waiver if prior service, so this is probably just a matter of networking to who will work with me. Or the last month of deployment kills ALL my motivation and I move on with my life. I wish I joined the Legion
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Seek help.  I entertained trying to go be an ANG/AF Reserve officer pre-Trump, but I think the persistent low grade worry and anxiety of the military + Trump has totally put the kibosh on that. You're an insane person if you go try to be an Army officer having seen Mustang's experience over the past 5 years. Flying_Crab fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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Lol just saw a dude at the Green Bean on Buehring who somehow still had an A2. Natty Guard rolling deep in this shithole
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Thump! posted:Lol just saw a dude at the Green Bean on Buehring who somehow still had an A2. Natty Guard rolling deep in this shithole hey i was a nasty girl at buehring with an a2 in 2004 shout out to the tradition holding strong
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:hey i was a nasty girl at buehring with an a2 I’m just surprised to see it in tyool 2k19. I woulda thought even they had gotten at least A4s
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There were still ng helicopters in Afghanistan with m60s for the door gunners in 2005, think they upgraded yet?
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if you needed anything more than an a2 then you're a bitch hth ARMY STRONG
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quote this poo poo if you remember when it was called udari instead of beuhring
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:if you needed anything more than an a2 then you're a bitch hth True Speaking of shooting, the new qual COF is fun as gently caress and has everyone pissed off. I shot a 38 on it my first time and literally everyone else shot like a 8.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:quote this poo poo if you remember when it was called udari instead of beuhring I almost died jacking it in a porta shitter there. gently caress Kuwait.
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Richard Bong posted:I almost died jacking it in a porta shitter there. gently caress Kuwait. Don’t blame Kuwait for your like of heart.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:if you needed anything more than an a2 then you're a bitch hth Isn't the A2 full auto?
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I’ll get my 240. You get your a2. You call me a bitch. And I’ll say you’re right cause I’m not carrying this stupid poo poo. Army strong.
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not caring here posted:Isn't the A2 full auto? a2 is a modified full auto that the regular army got rid of that has a three round burst that maybe works, handguards that require three grown men to remove, and a buttstock cubby that has seen more joints than an airport toilet
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:a2 is a modified full auto that the regular army got rid of that has a three round burst that maybe works, handguards that require three grown men to remove, and a buttstock cubby that has seen more joints than an airport toilet Just lol if you haven't removed a chunk of skin from your fingers while trying to take the handguards off of an a2. I believe the M4 has an automatic variant, but the ones we were issued were all 3 round burst (the most useless of firing modes).
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M16, M16A1, and M16A3 are full auto. M16A2 and M16A4 are burst. M4 is burst. M4A1 is full auto.
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EBB posted:I briefly carried an XM16 at LDAC. Same. With a ridiculously low serial number and wobbling the handle left the upper with some impressive give and clackity goodness. Ripped off blanks full auto like a champ, though!
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Thump! posted:Lol just saw a dude at the Green Bean on Buehring who somehow still had an A2. Natty Guard rolling deep in this shithole It’s not NG necessarily; as an individual deployer from the ARNG to an AD unit, the mob site at Fort Bliss gave everyone (which was a mix of all Army components) A2s. My home ARNG unit, an MI company no less OTOH had all brand new M4s, SAWs, M320s, optics/PVS-14s, etc. That was the only A2 I ever touched outside of BCT.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:quote this poo poo if you remember when it was called udari instead of beuhring Well it was Udari Army Airfield at camp beuhring. On my last deployment to Afghanistan (within the last 2 years), our flight ops guys were issued A2s. Also, an Apache pilot found out that the Army had converted some M4s from burst to auto and back and this had left them with an issue where the hammer dropped when the selector switch was moved from semi to safe. This caused him to ND into the tarmac at Kandahar after a mission as he had loaded a round and taken the weapon off safe when he went over the wire. Y'know, so that he wouldn't have to waste time racking a round and moving the selector from safe if he got shot down and needed to participate in a fire fight. SimonCat fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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mlmp08 posted:Same. With a ridiculously low serial number and wobbling the handle left the upper with some impressive give and clackity goodness. Ripped off blanks full auto like a champ, though! Yeah, I went rock n' roll with the blanks and didn't jam even with no CLP for miles. It was a miracle.
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colachute posted:Don’t blame Kuwait for your like of heart. If I lacked heart I wouldn’t have finished. I did.
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So I’m here in CLDJ. I’m spending my lunches either at the woodshop making plaques or swimming. I swear I get more work done outside of work hours(civil affairs) and basically we’re just all arguing about money and missions with our higher. I’m considering doing a run of a few E-4 sham shields 🛡 the blue falcon one, once I’m done with my current work.(Does anyone think I could sell these?) ..since I’m the OIC I set my own hours, which is nice. But really people do stupid poo poo on deployment like the guy who dislocated his arm playing ultimate frisbee, why?(I know why.)
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White Chocolate posted:So I’m here in CLDJ. I’m spending my lunches either at the woodshop making plaques or swimming. I swear I get more work done outside of work hours(civil affairs) and basically we’re just all arguing about money and missions with our higher. Congrats for finding a new side of mad income on CLDJ. Old military fucks on cake rear end missions love plaques and you can TOTALLY bilk a few chiefs outta their cigar money on CLDJ
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Does the store still only sell nighthawk routers because watching people drop $200+ for one with a 1Mbps internet was always funny.
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