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White Chocolate posted:Back the end of the last thread, McNally please seek a lawyer if only to see what is possible for this. One of mu buddies is fighting for her BAH from basic/AIT(we've been in five years) and she got the whole RPAC section removed for not doing their jobs. That they were paid to do. And loving up Soldiers pay. They call it, "Disciplining the system." I'll try, but I don't even know where to begin or even if I have a leg to stand on.
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Soulex posted:
This made me laugh pretty hard, well done.
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bird food bathtub posted:Then getting yelled at for not being dress right dress and using your own poo poo and SOLDIER WHY IS YOUR IFAK NOT ON THE LEFT SIDE, EVERYONE ELSE AROUND HERE IS RIGHT HANDED In fairness, everybody's IFAK is on the same side so that whoever comes to fix you up knows where it is. You don't use your own IFAK on someone else. Or so I was told, anyway.
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I'd might go back in as the pogiest of pogs for a sweet bonus, short enlistment, and no goddamned organized PT. Not going back to combat arms, though. gently caress that noise.
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Soulex posted:I pissed my XO off once (big surprise) with an ice cream cone. While we were in Iraq, our XO got promoted to 1LT. I congratulated him, paused, then said "sir, your rank is on upside down." He actually stopped to check.
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Speaking of heart, I remember hearing about an Army Reservist who had a heart attack during PT and the LOD ruled that it wasn't in the line of duty and therefore he was on the hook for a bunch of medical bills.
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Kaliber posted:My soldier's grandmother/adoptive mother just got out of surgery today and was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I told my PSG about this on Sunday to be ready for a Red Cross message and a leave form. He didn't respond to my voicemail or txt message. Reminded him about the surgery today and just got a "So?" poo poo on his desk.
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We had an issue where a bunch of guys were, for whatever reason, getting into accidents going to or coming back from lunch. Word came down that if there was one more accident, they'd start requiring us to travel in groups and have at least one E6 or above with each group. The accident that followed the announcement? My buddy was returning from lunch and a loving sinkhole opened up under his truck.
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As far as Big Army dickings go, I got off pretty light.
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Pesticide20 posted:I'd hate to see what you consider a hard dicking I won in the end, and in a relatively short amount of time.
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bulletsponge13 posted:the dude who did it says he did it to impress chicks (Ha!) and get out of tickets. I'll allow this as an excuse for all kinds of poo poo, tbh
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So I have some retardery updates for you guys. Back in September I sent a letter to goddamned everybody from the Secretary of Defense on down saying "Army suicide prevention is broken, Army casualty assistance is broken, DA civilians give no fucks, it's all poo poo, unfuck it." I got a reply from one of my senators first. The letter expressed condolences and promised they'd contact the VA about my case. Uhhh, what? I contacted them and said "no, not the VA, the Army." No reply. A week later I called and said "yeah, no, Army, not VA" and got an email that said "Army, not VA, got it." A few weeks later I got a call from the VA. "Yeah, we got a call from your senator's office but we don't know why." So after a couple months of calling, I finally managed to talk to the case manager at my senator's office and learned a few things: 1) My case worker, for whatever reason, keeps forgetting to tell me she's still actively working on this 2) Every time my case worker contacts the Army about this, the Army says "contact the VA." So second part of this story: In response to the copy of the letter I sent to the Secretary of the Army, I got a reply from some DA civilian who runs some resiliency program or other that was a nicely worded letter about "suicide prevention and casualty assistance are important to us" but didn't really address anything I had to say other than "we know we can always do better." Then at the end of the letter, it goes on to thank me and SGT [NOT MY WIFE'S NAME] for our service and sacrifices. So I reply with a strongly worded letter about how the letter I received underscores the point of "nobody gives a gently caress" I was trying to make in my letter. In response to that, I got a phone call from the executive officer to the Army G-1 saying "if you need anything, this is my phone number and e-mail address." So to tie this all together, since he's pretty much my only POC in the Army (and XO to the G-1 isn't a bad ear to have) I sent him an email saying "every time my senator contacts the Army on this issue, some chucklefuck tells them to bother the VA instead, WTF." What I've learned from all this, largely, is that DA civilians give absolutely no fucks whatsoever. Someone in uniform will go out of their way to help. Which is kind of counter to my previous experience, now that I think about it.
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Zeris posted:DA Civilians are basically us in real life but our job is to deal with active duty retards who hate us. It's not cool, but I get that people have their limits. Yeah, but there's a difference between "oh, God, not another loving joe who lost his ID card" and "hmm, this person who lost their spouse less than a month ago is really angry because we've been trying to tell him he doesn't get any benefits and it turns out that's not true, I think the best thing to do now is to drag our feet and deliberately not do our jobs." There's a difference between "God, I'm sick of dealing with these idiots" and "Boy, it sure is fun having a job whose sole function is to assist someone who just went through the unthinkable! Maybe one day I'll learn the stuff I need to know to do my job! Nah!" There's a difference between "I'm bitter and jaded because I deal with stupidity all the time" and "I'm too bitter and jaded to do my job."
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Zeris posted:I regret making that comparison Nah, I get what you were trying to say. I'm just, y'know, drained. Besides, I'm pretty sure that if any of the DA civilians I had to deal with were bitter and jaded vets, poo poo would have gotten done right the first time.
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Triggs posted:Day 1 of In-processing: An ICE comment card I filled out saying "poor service, staff didn't know their jobs, attempted to deny me benefits based on incorrect information, illegally stripped me of ID card" didn't go anywhere.
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I was gonna post a YouTube link to Raspberry Beret by Prince, but all of the videos on YouTube have had the audio muted for legal reasons. So assume that I did.
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Army to require all soldiers to test for Expert Action Badge, because why not?
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War is hell, but peace is a motherfucker.
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Mar 27, 2017 22:18
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Flikken posted:His chain saw his posts and green weenied him I think. He was the one who banned high and tights in his company, right?
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Naked Bear posted:However, I think that (in a cav context, at least) they're a happy middle ground between light and heavy So... medium?
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Soulex posted:CANT SMOKE A ROCK Unless it's crack.
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Icon Of Sin posted:They came to get the wounded My buddy's in a foxhole With a bullet in his knee I went to his rucksack And ate his MRE
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Apr 7, 2017 15:15
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I'm using Tricare Prime and because I live juuuust close enough, I have to drive over an hour one-way for a 20 minute appointment on Thursday.
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Not gonna lie, one of the best things I ever saw was a drill sergeant come out of loving nowhere to flying-tackle some dumbass who turned with his whole body on the range, causing his M16 to stop pointing downrange. It was magical.
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It's an attempt to make the Army sound better than it used to be in an attempt to bring back guys with operational knowledge. It's a clever ploy. Which is why I'm here to remind you of how hosed up it truly is.
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spacetoaster posted:Why would anyone sharpen a saber? Historically they were not sharpened because they don't need to be. You're hitting people with them from a running horse. Besides, it's been known for a couple centuries now that the point beats the edge. That's why the last of the cavalry sabers were straight-bladed
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Naked Bear posted:Perfectly reciting Fiddler's Green is the one get out of jail free card that allows you to bail your team out after they massively gently caress something up. One of my the drill sergeants in my troop at Knox liked calling Fiddler's Green as a cadence. Can't tell you what his name was, but somehow Fiddler's Green is still in my head.
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not caring here posted:Most combat arms poo poo is dumb as gently caress but tanker tradition dictates steak and eggs after table 6 or 8 or whatever it is. That's probably among the least worst of the military traditions.
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The 249 was part of my training when I went through scout OSUT in '06, so who the gently caress knows what they're doing anymore.
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Mike-o posted:I don't know if it's in bad taste or whatever due, but I feel like that's an appropriate avatar for you along with the text you already have. I'm fairly certain I've actually quoted this lighter in conversations regarding my situation to at least one flag officer.
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J.A.B.C. posted:This is the Army, and I don't see F, U or N anywhere in ARMY. lol if you think "F U" isn't a primary component in ARMY
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In early 2010 I got a message from The Rat saying he saw a dude wearing a McNally name tag and wearing a shoulder holster at the PX at VBC earlier that day. I told him that I was wearing a McNally name tag and a shoulder holster when I was at the PX at VBC earlier that day. That's the story of how I almost met another goon when I was in Iraq.
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Terrible Robot posted:Almost forgot, I met Micromancer for breakfast at a Waffle-House in Bumfuck, Tennessee while driving across the country a few years ago. He's good people. He and I were gonna do the same thing when I was driving through Bumfuck, TN, but something threw off the scheduling so I didn't get to meet him.
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Zeris posted:Did you just dox yourself o poo poo
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I bet the future removal of skill badges and identifiers won't include the ranger tab. They'd have a riot. Yeah, but they're gonna have to start somewhere. Maybe with combat patches, but it probably won't happen.
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psydude posted:Wait, the sentencing didn't include a dishonorable discharge? Based on something I read, Manning gets to stay in (without pay) while the appeals process is happening.
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http://terminallance.com/2012/10/05/terminal-lance-229-she-dont-rate/
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My old Guard unit is at the NTC right now. Started seeing some vague Facebook posts about "I'm safe" and poo poo. Then someone posted a news article. One dead and three injured at NTC. Nobody I know, but gently caress. Edit: Oh, hey. You with 155 BCT?
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