FEB15 Army - There's no line in the budget for a new thread.

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Ace of Baes: Jul 7, 1977

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 09:14

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# ? May 24, 2024 16:47

tyler: Jun 2, 2014

7777777 posted:

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 09:56

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

7777777 posted:

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 13:53

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

7777777 posted:

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 14:51

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Suntan Boy posted:

The truest words I've ever heard were said to me by a retired army doctor: "The Army produces a lot of outstanding administrators, but very few good leaders."

All the people that I've ever talked to that missed the military, but can't explain why, fall into two categories: they miss the camaraderie, or they miss the easy paycheck. There's nothing quite like either on the outside.

The thing is, unless you truly enjoy being treated like a child, you don't really miss The Army. At some point in your adult life, it should occur to you that having another grown adult very literally screaming in your face, pushing you to physical injury, and threatening your paycheck for smudged shoes or other people's hosed up life choices shouldn't be acceptable. On top of that, the crucible of the war is pretty much gone. The only hardships left to bring people together are all artificial, manufactured specifically for that purpose, or for a bullet point somewhere. Self-interest is the name of the game now.

If you're gone, stay gone; I promise it's not what you remember or want. Peacetime Army is the worst thing you could inflict upon yourself.

A good post.

# ? Feb 10, 2015 15:24

tyler: Jun 2, 2014

Suntan Boy posted:

The truest words I've ever heard were said to me by a retired army doctor: "The Army produces a lot of outstanding administrators, but very few good leaders."

All the people that I've ever talked to that missed the military, but can't explain why, fall into two categories: they miss the camaraderie, or they miss the easy paycheck. There's nothing quite like either on the outside.

The thing is, unless you truly enjoy being treated like a child, you don't really miss The Army. At some point in your adult life, it should occur to you that having another grown adult very literally screaming in your face, pushing you to physical injury, and threatening your paycheck for smudged shoes or other people's hosed up life choices shouldn't be acceptable. On top of that, the crucible of the war is pretty much gone. The only hardships left to bring people together are all artificial, manufactured specifically for that purpose, or for a bullet point somewhere. Self-interest is the name of the game now.

If you're gone, stay gone; I promise it's not what you remember or want. Peacetime Army is the worst thing you could inflict upon yourself.

Qft

# ? Feb 10, 2015 15:31

Fucitol: May 8, 2005; Ceterum autem censeo mundum esse delendam

Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris

7777777 posted:

gently caress you if you want to be in the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 15:41

Nostalgia4ColdWar: May 7, 2007; Good people deserve good things.

Till someone lets the winter in and the dying begins, because Old Dark Places attract Old Dark Things.

7777777 posted:

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 16:38

Kung Fu Fist Fuck: Aug 9, 2009

7777777 posted:

gently caress

# ? Feb 10, 2015 16:40

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

7777777 posted:

the

# ? Feb 10, 2015 16:53

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

7777777 posted:

army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 16:54

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

7777777 posted:

# ? Feb 10, 2015 16:55

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

edit-

Actually:

Zeris fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Feb 10, 2015

# ? Feb 10, 2015 16:58

its curtains for Kevin: Nov 14, 2011; Fruit is proof that the gods exist and love us.

Just kidding!

Life is meaningless

imshallah

# ? Feb 10, 2015 17:53

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

# ? Feb 10, 2015 17:56

Mike-o: Dec 25, 2004; Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed; Grimey Drawer

blastoff bitch

# ? Feb 10, 2015 18:24

Mike-o: Dec 25, 2004; Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed; Grimey Drawer

7777777 posted:

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 10, 2015 18:26

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

Icon Of Sin posted:

that's one bad STD

# ? Feb 10, 2015 18:48

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

# ? Feb 10, 2015 20:02

Cole: Nov 24, 2004; DUNSON'D

she could give me STDs

i'd be cool with it

# ? Feb 11, 2015 01:14

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

Cole posted:

she could give me STDs

i'd be cool with it

Who wouldn't?

# ? Feb 11, 2015 01:49

Gooble Gobble: May 2, 2011; One of us

7777777 posted:

gently caress the army

# ? Feb 11, 2015 03:31

Suntan Boy: May 27, 2005; Stained, dirty, smells like weed, possibly a relic from the sixties.

Cole posted:

she could give me STDs

i'd be cool with it

I'm down. Who wouldn't be cool with Rocket Dick?

e: "Does it burn when you piss?"

Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Feb 11, 2015

# ? Feb 11, 2015 03:36

Woof Blitzer: Dec 29, 2012; [-]

Zeris posted:

# ? Feb 11, 2015 06:41

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

I'm taking a "personal day" today. Had a physical therapy appointment this morning, after which I went and got coffee. Now I'm escorting a buddy as he gets his wisdom teeth removed. It's looking like I'll have to stay with him the rest of the day, too, at least as far as my leadership is concerned. Not that that really even matters, since I'm within a year of ETSing and I have appointments three days a week my leadership rarely bothers me about anything.

# ? Feb 11, 2015 17:54

Ace of Baes: Jul 7, 1977

i feel like the only thing ill miss about the army is the stupid amount of 3day and 4day weekends

# ? Feb 11, 2015 22:42

Cole: Nov 24, 2004; DUNSON'D

7777777 posted:

i feel like the only thing ill miss about the army is the stupid amount of 3day and 4day weekends

It was stupid how few of them I got.

# ? Feb 11, 2015 22:58

not caring here: Feb 22, 2012; blazemastah 2 dry 4 u

My first duty station was Korea. After my loving cush first accomodations of dragon hill lodge, my slow trip up the peninsula to the turdtastic camp casey was heart breaking.

When I was with 1-72 however, with the loving awesome LTC Stevens in charge, as long as we had done everything we could to make sure all our tanks were up, he pulled a DONSA. Like, nearly every loving week. And if it was a 3 day weekend, he turned it into a 4. One month stands out as we only worked something like 12 days out of the month.

And then our company got transferred to 2-9.

And my rear end in a top hat became infinitely wider.

# ? Feb 11, 2015 23:21

Zeris: Apr 15, 2003; Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

not caring here posted:

My first duty station was Korea. After my loving cush first accomodations of dragon hill lodge, my slow trip up the peninsula to the turdtastic camp casey was heart breaking.

When I was with 1-72 however, with the loving awesome LTC Stevens in charge, as long as we had done everything we could to make sure all our tanks were up, he pulled a DONSA. Like, nearly every loving week. And if it was a 3 day weekend, he turned it into a 4. One month stands out as we only worked something like 12 days out of the month.

And then our company got transferred to 2-9.

And my rear end in a top hat became infinitely wider.

Whatever, I was in 1-15 FA at Casey/Hovey and they were so worried the cav and infantry would forget who was the gayest of them all, that they invented an artillery spur ride and made us buy these red mesh trucker caps with our secret society nicknames on the back and you drat well you know why it was on the back

# ? Feb 12, 2015 00:21

Cole: Nov 24, 2004; DUNSON'D

I was in A Co 1-72. It loving sucked.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 01:08

not caring here: Feb 22, 2012; blazemastah 2 dry 4 u

Yeah, I mentioned under LTC Stevens for a reason.

Apparently it sucked major rear end before he got there, sucked major rear end after he left.

For 3 months I pretty much just got lucky.

Zeris posted:

Whatever, I was in 1-15 FA at Casey/Hovey and they were so worried the cav and infantry would forget who was the gayest of them all, that they invented an artillery spur ride and made us buy these red mesh trucker caps with our secret society nicknames on the back and you drat well you know why it was on the back

Goes to show that infantry have the real Gay Agenda.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 01:25

Androies: Oct 23, 2008; Ask me about my knives

And twice as much heart to rape a 14 year old and set her family on fire...

# ? Feb 12, 2015 03:41

psydude: Apr 1, 2008

idgi is this some sort of reference that I'm not aware of? Because I only follow scandals for O6 and up.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 03:45

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

psydude posted:

idgi is this some sort of reference that I'm not aware of? Because I only follow scandals for O6 and up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_killings

# ? Feb 12, 2015 03:55

Mike-o: Dec 25, 2004; Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed; Grimey Drawer

gently caress.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 04:23

Dead Reckoning: Sep 13, 2011

psydude posted:

idgi is this some sort of reference that I'm not aware of? Because I only follow scandals for O6 and up.

Pretty much exactly what he said.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 04:29

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Dead Reckoning posted:

Pretty much exactly what he said.

yeah im buying this book

# ? Feb 12, 2015 05:17

Dead Reckoning: Sep 13, 2011

It's pretty good, but strap in for some crushing hopelessness and graphic rape-murder-arson.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 05:26

The Rat: Aug 29, 2004; You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

I read it and was like :stare:

the whole time. I didn't even realize that happened while I was in Iraq. Always thought the press was blowing smoke up our asses when they said we were "elite" when we got extended. But gently caress, if that's what we were being compared to, I can see that.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 05:31

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# ? May 24, 2024 16:47

Cole: Nov 24, 2004; DUNSON'D

Its a fascinating book. Bravo company collectively lost their loving minds on that deployment.

The very next deployment (the one I went on) they got hit harder than any other company in the battalion.

Karma??

# ? Feb 12, 2015 15:22

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