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Vahakyla posted:Is a five mile run a requirement for Airborne School? I believe it is. Never went Airborne, but I remember a buddy telling me something about it. But 5 miles at a 9 min pace isn't that bad. Unless you just super suck at running...
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# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 20:42 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 10:06 |
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Protip: Call your branch manager. They can usually help you out. Especially if you are in a smaller MOS. For the longest time the guys in my MOS all knew the branch manager, all we had to do was call him up and he would fix your orders.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 20:12 |
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Mike-o posted:should have been a Glock 19 so more idiots would accidentally off themselves because they don't understand trigger discipline Quoted for truth. And the ARMY way.
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 00:41 |
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spacetoaster posted:Anybody ever gotten a positive counseling? I hear commander's say that they're possible, but I ain't never seen one. I actually would write some up. I handed out about 1 a month. I would basically pick the guy who kicked the most rear end or improved the most and do a positive 4856 for them. It actually went a long way for morale. It also had the added benefit of helping them with boards. All the 1SGs and CSM would be all excited that the soldier has positive counselings in their packets, then they would cut them more slack on the board. But, according to my soldiers, I was one of the "good" NCOs. You know, I worked and stuff.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 21:29 |
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Vahakyla posted:I don't even understand why such chance to be a flight medic should be about the Army Song or collar insignia, but oh well, I guess I'll loving do it. Boards are the dumbest thing about the Army. Hopefully you get to tell a CSM that they are wrong. Twice.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 01:17 |
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A true soldier knows he is having a heart attack, takes a knee and drinks some water from his canteen on his pistol belt, then drives on singing cadence.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 21:51 |
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Went to PLDC with an ASVAB waiver guy. He scored a 12. Which was an improvement over his previous score of 8. He thought he was the best engineer ever. Dude only passed because our SGL took pity on him and saw us helping him out. Before meeting that guy I thought it was impossible to fail a military course.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 20:52 |
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Zeris posted:I am MTOE'd Katy Perry and Gwen Stefani for my dick but am often forced to make do with less I think we can all relate to that.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 20:09 |
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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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# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 00:31 |
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manchego posted:Campbell had/has a breakfast truck where the family makes green salsa and it's seriously the best thing ever made and I would cheerfully kill people to obtain the recipe. Tomatillos. That is the secret to their salsa. That and sometimes avocado. My wife makes that poo poo all the time.
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# ¿ Mar 23, 2017 23:35 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Good Army day. State reached out to me regarding my PDHRA mental health portion just to check in on me, and followed up with the resources I requested, so that I can get counseling and therapy for cheap/free. Whoa there... You mean that they did their jobs?
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 22:03 |
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That would make an awesome AV...
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 23:03 |
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CHICKEN SHOES posted:lets run 4 miles in gas masks and body armor guys c'mon it will be great don't you have heart don't you care arent you a warrior what if you're on a battlefield and we have to formation run in gasmasks you'll DIE man YOU loving PUSSY Young me thought it was awesome running with body armor. It actually helped my run time. Older me hates the younger and what he did to my knees.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 19:19 |
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Wow. Also, could totally happen.
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# ¿ May 12, 2017 01:27 |
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psydude posted:So, I just had to spend a couple of days in Augusta. That place sucks. It's not as bad as St. Robert, Fayetteville, or Killeen, but it's still pretty awful. I feel your pain. Try being stationed at FT Gordon. God that place sucks.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2017 20:13 |
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Kaliber posted:I inherited about 45 ETS/PCS guys from all the platoons before our transition plus 5 art 15 chap dudes so it's been a pain in the rear end to keep track of everyone. This dude is 15% over body fat, his old PSG has been forging his ABC paperwork and apparently he hasn't passed an APFT in over a year either so there's no chance in hell he'll be able to reenlist. The only reason why we let that slide, is because by the time his old PSG left was because he was 90 days out from terminal leave and it was decided that it was easier to just let him get out then let that poo poo drag on with a chapter. I got stuck on a similar "mission". I had my clusterfuck of a E4 outprocessed of the Army if 2.5 days. You just have to plan the route and have a stack of statements of charged presigned.
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2017 23:42 |
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Wasabi the J posted:I'm already a 25S and I want my legal weed. gently caress the army. Was also a 25S. Are they still doing that crazy test to get into 25D? We had guys scoring like 50 out of 800 and were told it was a good score....
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2017 20:01 |
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rifles posted:At my last AT I joked to our PSG that the new guy to our unit (been there for a month) deserves a medal for unclogging a shitter in our designated separate-building bathroom. Someone dropped a huge gross half-diarrhea MRE deuce and clogged this toilet and it sat for a week and a half until we were clearing and he plunged that thing with a plunger that was missing half the handle, and he had no protective gear. army.txt right there...
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2017 01:56 |
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:I think of problem Soldiers as people who actually did something undeniably bad. For example, I have 4 people I'm currently chaptering out. I have various other soldiers Soldiers who have trouble with PT, weight control, or just aren't particularly good at their jobs. These people I can work with and genuinely try to find a solution for their shortfalls that isn't treating them like poo poo until they do better. You can't post about a guy trying to steal from the arms room without more story. Don't play with my heart.
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2017 01:42 |
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NUKES CURE NORKS posted:I genuinely think one of the reasons I hated the military so much was because it was detrimental to myself to watch out for people once I got into a leadership position. I was seriously loving myself over by trying to keep my dudes healthy and motivated. Total agreement on this. What should be no brainer actions suddenly make you less than a child rapist.
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2017 20:28 |
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Mustang posted:Ummm excuse me but there’s red boxes on this excell spreadsheet. They need to be green. Jokes on you. I made a rule for the training room spreadsheet that automatically made any of my red boxes turn green. Went years without mandatory training at my last duty station.
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2017 00:50 |
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Zeris posted:Hahaha this retard posts on that forum This joke is making the rounds again already? It only works if you wait a few months for people to forget...
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2017 20:27 |
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Vahakyla posted:When soldiers come to me for non-physical help, I often tend to get them to, or contacted by, or somehow involved with MFLC, since I’ve seen first hand how awesome and well they seem to handle things. Before I got all hosed up I had a rifleman who was having serious family issues to go to an MFLC and he wanted me to go with him, and we all met at a pasta place off-post, miles away from any americans. MFLC is one of the best resources the Army ever developed. I would carry around about 5 of their cards on me at all times. Got one of my mechanics some treatment for his alcoholism because of those guys.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2018 21:14 |
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mlmp08 posted:Yeah. My wife found "soup sandwich" extremely funny. She uses it all the time now.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 03:39 |
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Soulex posted:
This is how we ran SGT's time in my unit. If there was nothing pressing we turned it into MOS specific training/cross training the other signal guys. For the cross training, I would put one of my middle of the road guys in charge with a more senior guy to help him out, that way the teacher was reinforcing what they just learned by teaching and making the other guys better. The key is to "say" you are doing 9-line training, but actually do what makes sense.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 20:05 |
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Pretty sure is was 2015, right after I did my final out. I remember hearing about it and laughing, knowing it would never bother me.
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# ¿ May 1, 2018 23:35 |
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Viva Miriya posted:They told me I'd make sergeant asap and i have a kid on the way with my stripper boo chantelle so i needed a job quick. Fueler was the fastest ship date. Imma get hella strong and go SF tho. This is a joke, right? RIGHT?
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# ¿ May 23, 2018 23:46 |
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boop the snoot posted:Stopped saying squared away This man knows how to live.
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# ¿ May 31, 2018 19:42 |
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Mustang posted:Soldiers in support companies have got to be the most god awful, incompetent soldiers in the Army. Only 5-10% of the guys in a support unit know their job. Usually, those guys spent time with a "real" unit. The rest are just stealing oxygen and collecting a pay check.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2018 19:58 |
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DoktorLoken posted:
You speak some truth. I've seen it the other way. The best training I received (concerning my support MOS) was WHILE in a line unit. The good commanders recognized the need for support and acted accordingly. I was shocked when I ended up in a strictly "support" unit. I went from senior guys that I could ask for help, advice, training, etc to guys that were blatantly fired for incompetence once people figured out their only skill was running fast. BDE and DIV tended to "steal" the really good seniors to run their shops, we ended up with the short timers and rejects.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2018 22:49 |
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movax posted:Serious post: I need to learn more about electrical grounding procedures / methods for There is an actual Army FM for grounding. My Googling is not turning up the exact pub number. Its full of crazy poo poo you can do to ground things, it might have somethign about flying death traps in it.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2018 20:40 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 10:06 |
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Syrian Lannister posted:https://www.signal-chief.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CECOM-TR-96-2-Earth-Grounding-Pamphlet.pdf Ah yes, that was it. I got a hold of one once. The command did not approve of my new grounding system.
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