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Yeah I’ve been wearing the same six pairs of those sand colored wool socks for six years now and they are holding up strong. They have a lifetime warranty if they ever fall apart. As someone who has spent decades on their feet, a good pair of socks can make the difference between barely surviving and doing just fine.
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Just started reading “Battle Born” by Terminal Lance creator Max Uriarte. It’s a very different graphic novel than “The White Donkey” and I’m not sure what to think of it yet. However, it’s lovingly-illustrated and really brings out the beauty that I saw from Afghanistan during my time there. Anyone else pick it up?
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No I can’t read which is why the Marine Corps let me in.
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Time Crisis Actor posted:Just started reading “Battle Born” by Terminal Lance creator Max Uriarte. It’s a very different graphic novel than “The White Donkey” and I’m not sure what to think of it yet. However, it’s lovingly-illustrated and really brings out the beauty that I saw from Afghanistan during my time there. I've not read it but I have always avoided any media about OIF or OEF because my memory is so poo poo I am afraid it will mess with how I remember the deployments I had.
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Time Crisis Actor posted:Just started reading “Battle Born” by Terminal Lance creator Max Uriarte. It’s a very different graphic novel than “The White Donkey” and I’m not sure what to think of it yet. However, it’s lovingly-illustrated and really brings out the beauty that I saw from Afghanistan during my time there. I just got it and finished it up. Really liked it. More terse than White Donkey, still serious subject matter, but also didn't leave me awake staring at the ceiling until like 3AM afterwards.
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Hekk posted:I've not read it but I have always avoided any media about OIF or OEF because my memory is so poo poo I am afraid it will mess with how I remember the deployments I had. I'm glad I'm not the only one this happens to. When I think about those dumbass times I have to make sure I'm not remembering something I saw watching Generation Kill or something. It's stupid.
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Eason the Fifth posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one this happens to. When I think about those dumbass times I have to make sure I'm not remembering something I saw watching Generation Kill or something. It's stupid. As someone who lived Generation Kill trying to read the book or watch the series is loving infuriating as it always dredges up something I'd forgotten about and then I'm angry for a week and fighting the hyper alertness and urge to chase people off the property. Which is better now that I'm not living in an area with out as much auto theft. They weren't the only unit with someone who was as loving stupid as sixta. Sadly the ones I knew like him aren't in jail or dead. Yet. But the good HQ Plt and later XO got killed by a drunk driver who's walking free now so I've got that in the back of my mind for whenever I get a terminal diagnosis.
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Yea, Generation Kill was super triggering, probably for anyone in invasion. I think the book and the show played up the characters but that just makes it easier to amalgamate with idiots I personally knew. But poo poo, I also wonder who people I was there with relate to me!
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UPDATE! My not yet a boot nephew decided that in addition to joining the Marines he should propose to his terrible girlfriend of 8 months and she said yes! I feel like I need to start a terrible decisions bingo card
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Getting a tattoo before training should be the free space
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Arson Daily posted:UPDATE! My not yet a boot nephew decided that in addition to joining the Marines he should propose to his terrible girlfriend of 8 months and she said yes! I feel like I need to start a terrible decisions bingo card He’ll make a great jarhead.
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Arson Daily posted:UPDATE! My not yet a boot nephew decided that in addition to joining the Marines he should propose to his terrible girlfriend of 8 months and she said yes! I feel like I need to start a terrible decisions bingo card good lord  make sure he gives her a full power of attorney too!
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Does the fact that he's catholic and extremely religious mean anything? Or is that more of an Air Force thing
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Arson Daily posted:Does the fact that he's catholic and extremely religious mean anything? Or is that more of an Air Force thing Like the Catholic Church, the Marines love them some dressup, ritual and tradition, none of which the Air Force has*, much like non-denominational evangelicalism. *The cartoon sword actually proves the point
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Arson Daily posted:Does the fact that he's catholic and extremely religious mean anything? Or is that more of an Air Force thing it means kids are coming soon
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Arson Daily posted:Does the fact that he's catholic and extremely religious mean anything? Or is that more of an Air Force thing He needs an SA account so we can all relive our series of terrible life decisions through a younger generation’s bad life choices.
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loving lol’ing so hard. There hasn’t been a true blue crayon eating marine idiot in a long time. Hekk isn’t dumb enough to truly sustain this threads lust for marine idiocy. I know it’ll just be going to Lowtax, but I’ll front the kid an account and we can try to get some new blood in here.
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we need someone to contract with the armed forces that can peddle this sub forum so they can get "up to date access" on military life from seasoned experts. like one person stationed at every initial entry point for each branch. Just get a ton of boots subbed to this forum
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GIP recruiter stationed between the Barber and CIF
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If you can "afford" to buy a sword, you can cough up  .
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Just start selling "family crests" that come with a forums account, and the "crest" gets to be their avatar.
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Hekk posted:He needs an SA account so we can all relive our series of terrible life decisions through a younger generation’s bad life choices. So uh that would be a weird conversation that I'm not really willing to have.
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PenisMonkey posted:No I can’t read which is why the Marine Corps let me in. One of my platoon Sgt's favorite insult was "Penis Wrinkle".... Seeing your name triggered a flashback... lol...
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When I was in high school I got a perfect score on the ASVAB, I think I was the only kid in my school to do so. The army guy and air force guy wouldn't leave me the gently caress alone. The marine recruiter didn't even attempt to talk to me aside from pointing and laughing once as I saw him in the hallways.
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I didn’t have to take the ASVAB. I just farted Taps and the Marine recruiter snatched me right up.
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My soon to be boot nephew came very close to marrying his minor girlfriend (he's 18) only to find out the marines wouldn't take him if he went through with it. Thank Allah for small miracles I guess.
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Lol the rare GOOD recruiter lie
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Pryor on Fire posted:When I was in high school I got a perfect score on the ASVAB, I think I was the only kid in my school to do so. The army guy and air force guy wouldn't leave me the gently caress alone. Wow, you could totally be a General by now.
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Pryor on Fire posted:When I was in high school I got a perfect score on the ASVAB, I think I was the only kid in my school to do so. The army guy and air force guy wouldn't leave me the gently caress alone. Wow, I’ve never met someone who could say they had a perfect ASVAB score. You must have been a pretty poo poo hot student- Did the academies reach out to you?
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shim are you a mr grumpypants today
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EBB posted:shim are you a mr grumpypants today No 
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Internet Wizard posted:Lol the rare GOOD recruiter lie Wait is that BS?
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Arson Daily posted:Wait is that BS? I know plenty of people who enlisted married. They get BAH or Base Housing at their first duty station and never have to live through barracks life. It’s actually a much nicer life than having TBI/PTSD addled E-5’s and E-6’s ripping your room apart looking for bath salts, your barracks cat, or candles. The young marriages have about the same luck of turning out successfully as any other young marriage. There’s some happy couples who got married at 19/20. I don’t know them, but law of large numbers and all that.
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Arson Daily posted:Wait is that BS? His recruiter probably doesn't want to do all of the hosed up paperwork it takes for him to get a minor wife added in deers as a dependent.
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It’s not even that, recruiter has nothing to do with putting a recruits wife in DEERS. The extra leg work for the recruiter with married folks is the same as if he had children: Gotta have a dependent care plan. You gotta show how you intend to take care of your dependents when your not around, say Boot Camp, Field Exercises, Deployments, etc. You hilariously don’t have to do this if you get married and knock up a stripper you meet during Christmas block leave. When you inevitably divorce said stripper and become a single parent, your back to having to prove you have a care plan. This is a DoD requirement, and yet I saw its implementation being done wildly different from one unit to the next. It is standardized for accessions however. He’d have to do a dependent care plan and it has to be signed off on by the CO. That’s the extra work the recruiter is avoiding with his lie. But it’s a good lie, because marriage is a loving terrible idea. LtCol J. Krusinski fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It’s not even that, recruiter has nothing to do with putting a recruits wife in DEERS. The extra leg work for the recruiter with married folks is the same as if he had children: Gotta have a dependent care plan. You gotta show how you intend to take care of your dependents when your not around, say Boot Camp, Field Exercises, Deployments, etc. The recruiter does have to do the paperwork to get his wife setup to enroll in deers. That's why I said he probably didn't want to do it. If the kid gets married on boot leave, it's not the recruiter's problem anymore but if he gets married in dep, the recruiter has to update his entire enlistment package because MCRD will throw a loving fit if the kid goes down there and says he is married but all of his wife's poo poo isn't on his contract. Then he has to go through with a care plan that shows how his wife is going to live without money for 3 months while her hubby is in training and the RS OpsO has to sign off on the plan.
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