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EBB posted:that what now lol I did a few years in the 18th Airborne. They do the regular APFT, then you do theirs. It was a 3 mile run, a long rear end ruck march, and some pullups. I also distinctly remember a SGM screaming at me for taking a drink of coffee as I was walking into my building (Not supposed to drink/eat while walking!).
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Brackabra hooha airbourn
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An Air Force officer called out "drinking while walking!" at me while I was sucking down a bottle of water in summer, and I thought she was joking, so I said sarcastically "yeah, i'm just a really lovely soldier," and she never spoke to me again unless she really had to. Fuckin' wild.
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Dec 17, 2019 16:59
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thats prolly the best possible outcome
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Dec 17, 2019 17:00
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Well, better throw them camelbaks away boys, no drinking while walking
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spacetoaster posted:I did a few years in the 18th Airborne. They do the regular APFT, then you do theirs. It was a 3 mile run, a long rear end ruck march, and some pullups. Yeah, the 18th Airborne Corps standards are supposed to apply to subordinate organizations too, but it kinda ends up being the commander's discretion as to how much effort goes into it. When I was at 10th Mountain, it was supposed to be a yearly 4 mile run in 36 minutes and a 20k ruck in 4 hours. Did the run one year and didn't bother with the ruck. Next year, we skipped the run, trained up for the ruck, but then due to groups being out on missions, only a handful of people ended up actually doing the 20k.
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mlmp08 posted:An Air Force officer called out "drinking while walking!" at me while I was sucking down a bottle of water in summer, and I thought she was joking, so I said sarcastically "yeah, i'm just a really lovely soldier," and she never spoke to me again unless she really had to. Had an air force officer get really upset in an operations meeting a while back because an old rear end armor officer kept referring to troops as crunchies. She literally interrupted the meeting to ask what were crunchies. And then had to have the term explained. Then made a bunch of comments about 
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lol gently caress 18th airborne i deployed under them organizationally and at least the 42nd Infantry and worst cav were there to make em look good by default
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spacetoaster posted:Had an air force officer get really upset in an operations meeting a while back because an old rear end armor officer kept referring to troops as crunchies. I remember this and lol everytime.
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Dec 17, 2019 18:31
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Air Force people are cool as gently caress, generally. I work in a joint place and they are the most fun group to work around. My dad was right. I should have joined the air force. 
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Dec 17, 2019 18:41
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Never did any of that 18th ABN bullshit during my time at Bragg. We were too busy doing dumb poo poo for subordinate units.
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spacetoaster posted:Air Force people are cool as gently caress, generally. Yeah, which makes the rare weirdo hardass seem even weirder.
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spacetoaster posted:I did a few years in the 18th Airborne. They do the regular APFT, then you do theirs. It was a 3 mile run, a long rear end ruck march, and some pullups. Bet you a penny their command team has no idea why they have a retention problem.
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EBB posted:Bet you a penny their command team has no idea why they have a retention problem. Because they aren't ENFORCING THE STANDARDS HARD ENOUGH HOOAH??
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Dec 17, 2019 19:58
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I bet you were sipping your coffee with your hand in your pocket with your hat ranger rolled and your sleeves as big as the goatse anus. You shitbag. You absolute piece of poo poo.
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colachute posted:I bet you were sipping your coffee with your hand in your pocket with your hat ranger rolled and your sleeves as big as the goatse anus. You shitbag. You absolute piece of poo poo. Back then? Nope. I was an idiot. Now? Abso-fukin-lutly. And I like it.
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Sleeve comment makes me wonder: was I the only dude who purposely pissed off command by doing things like obeying the letter of the reg, but not the spirit- or just straight up lie and make up an Army sounding reg to piss them off?
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I've heard maybe 3 people get pissed about hands in pockets in the past 5 years and none of them were E9s. I pretty much walk everywhere in the BDE HQ with my hands in my pockets. Including one hand in my pocket giving a brief to an O6 and a bunch of O5s. No one at JBLM seems to care that much about hands in pockets. I am however a huge shitbag. About the only thing I'm good at is my job, I'm an awful example of an officer and a soldier. Bitter officers definitely give E4s a run for their money when it comes to shamming.
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mlmp08 posted:An Air Force officer called out "drinking while walking!" at me while I was sucking down a bottle of water in summer, and I thought she was joking, so I said sarcastically "yeah, i'm just a really lovely soldier," and she never spoke to me again unless she really had to. Army.mil has a story related to this https://www.army.mil/article/23189/commentary_old_fashioned_reg_knowledge_sparks_smoke
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pmchem posted:Army.mil has a story related to this Oh man I'm so glad I'm out, that no doing anything while walking is new to me 
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Mustang posted:
Uhhhh, shamming implies you had something to do in the first place
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Mustang posted:Bitter officers definitely give E4s a run for their money when it comes to shamming. Neither of them have poo poo on a warrant officer. Some of the stuff I learned from watching my WO in Afghanistan was wild. I swear they have school house lessons on how to sham like a hard core champ.
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pmchem posted:Army.mil has a story related to this I’ll take “poo poo that didn’t happen” for the daily double
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Mustang posted:I've heard maybe 3 people get pissed about hands in pockets in the past 5 years and none of them were E9s. Some people might have seen permanent night shift TOC OIC as a punishment. For me, it meant I only ever had to deal with two people and could sleep the day away like a vampire.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Never did any of that 18th ABN bullshit during my time at Bragg. Also, lovely as things could get, I'd take it over being on the other side of Gruber Road. I didn't have to deal with too many moto dipshits until I went to Carson, or back to TRADOC for that matter.
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I was on the wrong side of Gruber, I'm sure. I missed a lot of the super dumb poo poo at Bragg just by being deployed. We had our own dumb poo poo, but it sounds like I missed the worst of it.
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colachute posted:I’ll take “poo poo that didn’t happen” for the daily double Even more self-indulgent than stories of "let me tell you about when I was right and someone in a position of power was wrong," are the ones with a made up audience of onlookers gettin' ready to see some poo poo and jeering like it's an early 2000s movie dance-off.
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Never even heard of the no smoking/drinking while walking thing. Looking back, in 3ID in the late 1990’s just about everyone was doing a combination of both. So long as you switched it to the left hand so you could salute it was no problem. Of course the cell phone thing wouldn’t have come into play.
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The Rat posted:Oh man I'm so glad I'm out, that no doing anything while walking is new to me the marines are extremely serious about the no walking and chewing/smoking/drinking etc thing
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:the marines are extremely serious about the no walking and chewing/smoking/drinking etc thing And that’s when the guy standing there and me made eye contact. And we just knew.... ...I was about to end this man’s whole career. (I read that story in the same tone that this post is supposed to convey.)
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My time and pride are both worth more than two cigarettes. loving tuck that poo poo, lie, resume smoking.
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Also the amount of times in a joint environment that I was hosed with on regs was non-zero, sure, but noticeably less often than any army heavy installation, and, more often than not, actually correct about the regulations.
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I don't think I had my sleeves cuffed my entire enlistment once I got out of AIT. Never had a single person even blink at it either, oddly enough.
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God the Army is stupid.
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LMAO I remember the DAY Army approved rolled sleeves it still got immediately got shadow banned
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Flying_Crab posted:God the Army is stupid.
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"We're in Alaska, you don't need to roll up your sleeves" the 25ID leader says to their subordinates as a soldier from USARAK with rolled up sleeves walks by.
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gently caress the Marines, and their judgement on anything. It doesn't matter how angry you get, I'm not going to call you Staff Sergeant, and you can't make me.
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Wasabi the J posted:LMAO I remember the DAY Army approved rolled sleeves it still got immediately got shadow banned Old(ish) guy question. WTF is the deal with rolled sleeves? That was the norm for hotter months, it was like the UPS guy breaking out the shorts in the spring. The CG would decide when everyone had to wear them rolled and when they had to come down again in the fall. Obviously this was just garrison, in the field they were always down.
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Itchy_Grundle posted:Old(ish) guy question. WTF is the deal with rolled sleeves? That was the norm for hotter months, it was like the UPS guy breaking out the shorts in the spring. The CG would decide when everyone had to wear them rolled and when they had to come down again in the fall. Obviously this was just garrison, in the field they were always down. CGs/BDE/BN commanders tend to hate the idea of rolled sleeves and no one wants to mandate that all sleeves get rolled during the summer months, so it either ends up getting unofficially banned or there's just no official word put out on it, in which case you'll see most people with their sleeves down and a handful of dudes with rolled sleeves who get passive aggressively stared at. I don't bother rolling my sleeves just because I think the pen pockets on the left sleeve are handy.
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