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So if I was combat arms in Korea am I qualified to make bank contracting/advising for this new peacetime army's policy of maximum bullshit I deployed to Afghanistan twice, does that disqualify me
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No but you might be a shoe in for the suicide encouragement officer position
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Bolow posted:No but you might be a shoe in for the suicide encouragement officer position That's a specialist job filled by a warrant. Give em each a pistol, bottle of jack, a bottle of valium, and couple hours of private time in a bathroom to figure it out.
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Anansi The Spider posted:At least I get delicious sand hill dfac food for 3 years. Also loving airborne POGUES sound off the weirdest versions of cadences. Also airborne dfac too good. Hey guess what, you're in TRADOC. You're about as pog(ue) as it gets right now sport.
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Aug 6, 2014 03:24
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Asymmetric Warfare Group is TRADOC. Checkmate.
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Neo Duckberg posted:Asymmetric Warfare Group is TRADOC. Checkmate.
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Aug 6, 2014 04:32
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I remember a peacetime military. It was gay. Not always the walk into a rain room with ten dudes and a semi kind, but still pretty gay.
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Steezo posted:I remember a peacetime military. It was gay. Not always the walk into a rain room with ten dudes and a semi kind, but still pretty gay. Not "always"? Just sometimes? Did they instruct you to have a semi or did you take the initiative all on your own?
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Aug 6, 2014 06:17
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Victor Vermis posted:Not "always"? Just sometimes? Did they instruct you to have a semi or did you take the initiative all on your own? They beat you with (man)sticks until you get the semi.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:21
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Subterfrugal posted:I joined the Bill Clinton peacetime college train and you all hosed it up by voting Republican.
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Aug 6, 2014 06:31
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Initiative was rewarded but not necessary.
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Aug 7, 2014 00:57
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Gonna join because I'm a gangster and when I get out I can teach all my homies how to shoot and combat tactics
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Aug 8, 2014 22:13
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I got offered as spot as an SF seal sniper ranger, but i couldn't join because of medical reasons...
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Aug 10, 2014 02:55
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Don't you get to joyride tanks through Dusseldorf?
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Aug 12, 2014 07:58
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I nearly t-boned this chick in her car in germany Except it was with a stryker and not my dick 
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Aug 12, 2014 23:24
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Story still got me to half mast, regardless.
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Aug 12, 2014 23:25
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my cousin joined the army in the 80s and went to germany he got some kind of money from a bonus or some poo poo and bought a ferrari he wrecked it a few days later
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ded posted:my cousin joined the army in the 80s and went to germany enlisted.txt
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:enlisted.txt pretty much oh also he married a smoking hot german chick and brought her home with him a few days later she was running around in the street screaming like a crazy rear end bitch because she really didnt understand what anyone was saying and thought everyone hated her or some poo poo (my family thought she was great, till that) divorced a few months later
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Aug 13, 2014 00:43
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If he found himself a German that didn't speak English he found a real trashy German.
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I imagine peacetime military as a mixture of Sgt Bilko and Stripes.
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Aug 14, 2014 06:03
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a peacetime military is more like a mixture of the first half of Full Metal Jacket and Oz (the HBO show with tons of buttsex)
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I have two friends, Elchin "Eugene" Turatov and Aleksandr "Sasha" Mairanovskiy. Eugene is from Uzbekistan and graduated with a math bachelor's degree from a leading US liberal arts college in the top 15% percent of his class. After winning the H1-B lottery, he's worked for several major think tanks and consulting firms, the US congress, the UN, and recently co-founded an econometrics firm in the Bay Area. Sasha is from Irkutsk, got his master's degree at a leading Russian academic institute, went on to obtain a PhD in biophysics from the Curie Institute in Paris, and from there on published several papers while working in bionanotechnology postdoctoral research at two Ivy League universities. Both Eugene and Sasha are enlisting in the US Army through the MAVNI program to gain citizenship (specifically, Sasha is already enlisted and through basic training; Eugene is still in the process of enlisting), as both are polyglots fluent in English and their native Uzbek/Russian, and capable in Turkish and Ukrainian/French and German, respectively, so they both meet the language requirement several times over. It's weird for me watching them do this while reading the Ask Us About Joining the US Military thread's constant "DO NOT ENLIST WITH A DEGREE YOU WILL BE SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS AND IDIOCY AND WILL HATE YOUR LIFE" schtick--I guess the citizenship angle is valid, as I have no firsthand experience as to whether years of enlisted life bullshit would be worse than years of US immigration system bullshit. I'd say their lives so far have been similar-ish--they're both intelligent, well-educated, successful professionally, and decided enlisting and obtaining citizenship almost immediately was better than trying to naturalize somehow else. However, the Ukrainian conflicts/crises has started a fantastic Facebook slapfight between them. Eugene is more patriotically pro-American than any native citizen I know; Sasha seems to take everything put out by Russia Today as gospel. They've been going back and forth for days: Eugene will post an article from Radio Svoboda or somesuch, Sasha will show up RT's counterpiece short after, and there will soon be tens or hundreds of comments back and forth in an epic flame war of something something well a Ukrainian SU-25 could have taken down MH-17 we have no way of knowing no that's bullshit and makes no sense those aren't armed for air-to-air combat well something something Zbigniew Brzezinski is controlling Obama and NBC is just as bad as RT something something Descartes solipsism North Korea something something kangaroos. It's all pretty confusing.
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Aug 14, 2014 08:33
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Your friends are idiots.
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For all of their learning, they still seem pretty loving dumb.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:03
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Your friends are going to kill themselves.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:55
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I can't imagine especially with those degrees that getting a work visa or eventually citizenship would be very difficult at all. So yeah your friends are highly educated idiots.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:07
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I'd like to watch a PhD mop a floor for once.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:11
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Seriously. Someone is going to find out how educated they are and will put them to work using their minds. To fill out spreadsheets about who qualified what on the range and who needs to take a PT test. Also their superiors, who will probably be incredibly stupid, will constantly make fun of them for going to college but managing to get bossed around by someone with a degree in Military History from Hollywood Upstairs University.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:12
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We had a Doctor of Anthropology in my platoon is basic. Once the staff found out they especially enjoyed volunteering him for the shittiest most menial jobs, and asking him the hardest "smart" questions they could think of. If he got a question wrong, the rest of us faced collective punishment. I'm still not convinced any of them knew what anthropology was.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:47
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at least nobody in the states has to do this
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IPvSH6T posted:I have two friends, Elchin "Eugene" Turatov and Aleksandr "Sasha" Mairanovskiy. Eugene is from Uzbekistan and graduated with a math bachelor's degree from a leading US liberal arts college in the top 15% percent of his class. After winning the H1-B lottery, he's worked for several major think tanks and consulting firms, the US congress, the UN, and recently co-founded an econometrics firm in the Bay Area. Sasha is from Irkutsk, got his master's degree at a leading Russian academic institute, went on to obtain a PhD in biophysics from the Curie Institute in Paris, and from there on published several papers while working in bionanotechnology postdoctoral research at two Ivy League universities. Reserves or national guard. please tell me they enlisted in the reserves or national guard. That's what they're there for. If you have other things going on but want to serve your country or you are somehow the 1% of a 1% that gets a tangible benefit from military enlistment. I know in my heart of hearts that these dudes are in places like Fort Sill surrounded by 30 something chinless specialists being told every friday to please not commit any felonies by a E-9 who himself barely escaped prison once, but please, please tell me they went reserve anyway.
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update: I asked a NG officer I work with how this program works and these guys are almost certainly active duty enlisted lol
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Aug 14, 2014 19:04
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Please tell me they are Infantry
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sforzacio posted:Please tell me they are Infantry Yeah I am really enjoying my skills transferring over to the civilian world.
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zombie303 posted:Yeah I am really enjoying my skills transferring over to the civilian world. Hang on sir, I missed everything after "Large Fries" because I just got a hit on the radar. Please pull forward and we'll be out shortly with a hamburger requisition form.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:41
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I guess there are always banks that need robbing.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:44
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zombie303 posted:I guess there are always banks that need robbing.
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IPvSH6T posted:MAVNI That program is a real crapshoot on the enlisted side. A fuckton of MAVNI enlistees end up as 88M. DA G2 is terrible about tracking who came in under MAVNI; they lose visibility of where all those supposedly critical language skills end up.
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zombie303 posted:I guess there are always banks that need robbing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Elliott_Sommer
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