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colachute
Mar 15, 2015

haven't checked on the army thread in a while and i have one question

is mustang still in?

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colachute
Mar 15, 2015

when are they going to change the camo pattern again

as someone who is not in anymore, i support making the dress uniform the daily garrison uniform

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Blue pants with a black jacket isn’t a bad look but the Army dress uniform looks like a clown show to me.

It’s also pretty awesome that I don’t remember specifically what that dress uniform is called. Maybe my brain is scrubbing the army away.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Steezo posted:

Not sure if thisbelongs here or the idiots thread. As part of a deployment workup we have a shitload if admin stuff to do. So of course we spend two of four days doing defense and land nav.

Anyway, here's a range card.

Trick question: all of the service threads are also idiot threads.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

If you’re counting the days, Mustang, just how many is it until you hit 20 years?

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

you make fun of the Air Force with words. The Air Force makes fun of the army by not being the army.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

bird food bathtub posted:

Isn't this the default state of existence for contractors?

And most of garrison army when people aren’t police calling cigarette butts or mowing the lawn.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

My first real introduction to an e9 was when I was cutting through the grass instead of walking on the sidewalk.

Exactly the way you imagine it going is probably how it went.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Just gently caress with your soldiers about their hair or find some dumb uniform poo poo to hound on.

Bam, fast track to CSM.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Hey

The army sucks

See ya

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

When I led PT we would do a lap around the barracks and I dunno what happened but nobody ever made it to the end of the run :confused:

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Slim Pickens posted:

Great news, you're getting promoted to major! You start your new duty station on the border next month.

Idk how it works for officers but Mustang is gonna get that order and re-enlistofficer. And then immediately post about how much he hates the army and wants to get out.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Naked Bear posted:

That's what happens when you don't change your socks. :colbert:

i thought he broke his back because he wasn't wearing eyepro

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

sucks the first time but if he comes back in the thread and says he broke his back/legs/hips on a subsequent jump, then i have zero sympathy.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

You don’t want to be responsible for privates.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

not caring here posted:

I don know about everyone one else, but when my broken rear end got medically retired the VA was on time that next month, but you know, as always your mileage may very much vary.

Mine took three months.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

You should have two ratings. An army and a VA. My army rating footed the bill for the three months while I waited on the VA.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Slim Pickens posted:

I get to witness the magic of a 2-2 live fire for the next couple weeks. They're already way behind because they thought they could fit 4 hours of activities into two hours. Glad I only get to work 40 hours!

40 hours what, by Wednesday?

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

spacetoaster posted:

And here my dumbass has been giving passes and days off as rewards.

this is why we lost the war

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

I decided the army wasn’t for me when I sent my dudes home to be with their newborn babies and got yelled at for taking the trash out instead of making my dudes sit around and doing nothing waiting for 1sgt.

And THEN I went to Camp Casey.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Naked Bear posted:

This and trying to hide from 1SG so that he doesn't see my sleeves uncuffed.

wearing your sleeves as loose as you can crew, reporting in

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

i joined in 2009 and got out in 2014.

the ways people smoked weed changed drastically and blew my mind.

dabs are not bongs. my cousin let me hit his dab rig and i kept waiting for him to pull the bowl out so i could inhale the smoke, not knowing i was inhaling smoke the entire time.

if you've done dabs, you know how much of a problem this is.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

I have random dreams about deployment or patrols in a random non-Afghanistan place. I go through cycles where I’ll dream for a few weeks and then I won’t dream for several months.

These days though most of my “nightmares” are about something happening to Monty. I went through a phase of deployment night terrors but they were so consistent for so long that I got used to them and they don’t really bother me anymore. In fact, I would look forward to the dreams because it meant I could hang out with my friends that died.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Mustang posted:

It will never cease to amaze me how seemingly simple things become stupidly difficult and complicated in the Army.

Things like not being a dumbass and getting out?

If you’re not out in the next, say, year, then I think you revoke your right to bitch because you obviously enjoy it enough to stay.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

You know what’s better than staying in for some ETS leave benefit?

ETSing.

Stop putting your career in other people’s hands and get out if you hate it so much.

If YOU are going to put the army before YOU, then guess what the army is going to prioritize.

I guess my point is that at this point, your situation is your own fault.

colachute fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Aug 9, 2019

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

I had no job when I got out.

I’d absolutely get out without one again.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

spacetoaster posted:

You're getting a big NO checked under loyalty on your evaluation. :colbert:

gently caress... that’s a career killer. Can’t kill the career before I decide to stay in past my ETS window again.

gently caress HOW DID I END UP AT NTC AGAIN????? THIS IS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED!!!

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Mustang’s stars constantly align in the shittiest way possible and he keeps going back for more and I said it a while ago that he’s just IDR on an alt account. I think someone made the comment in the IDR thread that he should have lied about having some lovely staff job because it would actually be believable.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

When we got back from Afghanistan our BC said we would be getting three days and four days and life would be pretty easy for several months.

We were back in the field within 30 days.

Someone was ballsy enough to bring it up to our (new) 1sgt and he said “I wasn’t 1sgt when he said that” and we went to the field.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

i'm going to constantly live stream everything. pt? live stream. staying until 6pm doing abso-loving-lutely nothing except waiting for 1sgt to get his head out of his rear end? live stream. private dumbass doing keg stands with no pants on while specialist idiot holds him up and simultaneously makes out with his meth-head wife he married just so he could move out of the barracks, with two other morons playing "gay chicken" in the background? live stream.

the next war will be livestreamed if they bring me back in. and so will every other thing our brave warriors do on the weekends.

colachute fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Aug 12, 2019

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

iKon posted:

I'm going to follow in the foot steps of our boy Gandhi and preach the path of nonviolent resistance. And just in case my refusal to do absolutely anything and everything is not clear enough, I'll also only clothe myself in a bed sheet.

No worries. I’m sure you’ll be seen as very fine people.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Diarrhea Elemental posted:

I don't think I could do the malicious compliance thing as a medic, but God help anyone that expected me to do poo poo besides taking care of my gaggle of idiots.

Give every single person in the brigade deadman profiles.

And shaving profiles.

Also set up a booth outside the barracks on Sunday mornings charging $5 for an IV for hungover people.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Naked Bear posted:

I have a beard.

That's my story, thanks!

-a sof marine

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Can you even get dishonorably discharged if you get drafted?

I’ll sure as poo poo find out!

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Just trying to do my part

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

If I give it too much thought, I feel legit guilty about my deployment. We accomplished nothing except a high body count on both sides. A lot of broke people and broken families, and a lot of carnage and death to the locals. And if the US were invaded by a foreign military (a legit one, not a republican contrived one based on racism) you know what I might do?

Set some roadside bombs or shoot at them.

But hey at least I got college out of it, right?

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

spacetoaster posted:

Pretty sure it was the Republicans on the anti-slavery side during the civil war.

I was more talking about the invasion of mexicans but ok bud

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Icon Of Sin posted:

Same, but from 2011.


Richardson or Wainwright? If Wainwright, is 1-5 still a toxic dumpster fire?

I don’t wanna say there’s a such thing as a dumb question but I feel like this one is pretty obvious, and I’m oblivious to 1-5.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Enlisting: burning your hand on the hot stove.

Re-enlisting: burning your hand on the hot stove again.

Going officer: deciding that it’s worth the time and investment to keep joe from putting his hand on the hot stove, where you’ve now stuck your dick.

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colachute
Mar 15, 2015

Richard Bong posted:

I almost died jacking it in a porta shitter there. gently caress Kuwait.

Don’t blame Kuwait for your like of heart.

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