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What was the brainwormed train of thought on banning tattoos? Never figured that one out and it felt like it was among some of the dumber, more pointless things the Army did....which is a pretty tall bar to clear. I always imagined it was some stuffy rear end in a top hat that didn't like "kids these days" or some poo poo, so glad to see it getting worked on especially for people who have a cultural reason. Bonus points if it makes some other stuffy rear end in a top hat angry about "Kinder, gentler Army these days!" Every time I hear someone whine about that it improves my mood.
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May 16, 2024 15:15
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Like all the other bullshit, it is always about control.
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May 16, 2024 16:12
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Controversial opinion, likely to explode the heads of staff officers and SNCOs alike: soldiers are people too
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May 16, 2024 16:20
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Icon Of Sin posted:Controversial opinion, likely to explode the heads of staff officers and SNCOs alike: *Citation needed per CSM
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May 16, 2024 16:59
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Most CSMs would have no idea what ”a citation” is.
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May 16, 2024 18:23
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Vahakyla posted:Most CSMs would have no idea what ”a citation” is. Isn't that the thing they have MPs give out for not being in full battle rattle at the commissary?
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Vahakyla posted:Most CSMs would have no idea what ”a citation” is. Some kinda Chevy, right?
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May 16, 2024 19:43
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bird food bathtub posted:Isn't that the thing they have MPs give out for not being in full battle rattle at the commissary? No, we give those to VERY angry staff officers when explaining that they aren't allowed their own special parking spot outside of HQ.
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May 16, 2024 20:03
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Assigned parking spots are a trick, everyone knows where you park and notice when your car isn't there. Shamming is infinitely easier when people can't just look out the window and see if you're here or not.
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May 16, 2024 20:24
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Just buy a second car to leave in your parking spot all day.
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Mustang posted:Assigned parking spots are a trick, everyone knows where you park and notice when your car isn't there. This is why you have a spare car and you just leave it there. And a spare hat which you just leave on your desk. Maybe I've hit peak field grade brain fog though.
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Spare car is a bit much, but I never made it past sham shield money. Learned from the pros though, our warrant had the spare hat and a ring of fake house/car keys to put in it. Dude could ghost an entire day at will, finish whatever needed to be done, when it needed to be done, and nobody would notice.
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May 17, 2024 05:15
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spacetoaster posted:Just buy a second car to leave in your parking spot all day. My uncle was stationed at Alameda for a while during the 80s. There was a small fleet of four identical brown Chevy Novas that made their way on base sometime in the early 70s and kinda never left. If you really, really wanted a car, and didn't mind wrenching on it a lot, you waited until someone rotated out and gave them a few $100 bills. Wash, rinse, repeat. At any one time, there would be two of them parked outside the shop, one broken, and out and about in town. This led to some confusion with visitors and newcomers, "Hey, is Sims here?" "Nah. Why?" "I owe him money and his car's outside." "That's my car." "Well, then what does Sims drive?" "Same car." "No. Which car is his?" "Same. Car. Sims, Roberts, Gigliotti, and I have the same car." "??? Nevermind, I'll be back later." Anyways, I came here to ask a question. Has anyone here been instructed in the use of, been issued, or otherwise used the M67 Recoiless Rifle? Wikipedia and a few other random sources say the system was used by the US Army until the 2010s, which seems odd to me considering how old the ammo must have been unless they got newer stuff from S. Korea, who still use them. Also, if an outdated but still useful piece of equipment gets put back into service, how does training on it work out? Read the manual and figure it out? Ask the oldest person you can find? Form an official training cadre and have them disseminate info? Ask Quora?
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Jun 7, 2024 23:38
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madeintaipei posted:My uncle was stationed at Alameda for a while during the 80s. There was a small fleet of four identical brown Chevy Novas that made their way on base sometime in the early 70s and kinda never left. If you really, really wanted a car, and didn't mind wrenching on it a lot, you waited until someone rotated out and gave them a few $100 bills. Wash, rinse, repeat. Those would mostly be good ideas, so the army will not have anything to do with them. “Kludge your way through it, kill/maim a few enlisted as you do so” will probably be closer to what would actually happen.
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Jun 8, 2024 00:21
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madeintaipei posted:My uncle was stationed at Alameda for a while during the 80s. There was a small fleet of four identical brown Chevy Novas that made their way on base sometime in the early 70s and kinda never left. If you really, really wanted a car, and didn't mind wrenching on it a lot, you waited until someone rotated out and gave them a few $100 bills. Wash, rinse, repeat. Aren’t army manuals relatively exhaustive and thorough? But put some experienced NCOs on it and form train the trainers?
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vuk83 posted:Aren’t army manuals relatively exhaustive and thorough? But put some experienced NCOs on it and form train the trainers? They're pretty thorough, but best used in conjunction with someone who is experienced with whatever subject the manual covers.
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Jun 8, 2024 11:00
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A.o.D. posted:They're pretty thorough, but best used in conjunction with someone who is experienced with whatever subject the manual covers. Look if you're not injuring a few joes each month you're not training enough.
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Jun 8, 2024 11:36
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Army technical manuals are pretty good, just kind of dense and hard to internalize until you get in to the right mindset. They're very thorough, but that thoroughness ends up making them a solid chore to get through and internalize just by their nature. Someone who knows what they're doing can teach you 'Do A, B, and C'. A t.m. has you look at section 4, table 3 to find the different locations in the manual for the reference materials covering procedures A, B and C.
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Jun 8, 2024 16:06
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As an example, the HMMWV 20 level maintenance manual instructs you to support the starter when removing it. That's all well and good, and a strong, young soldier can easily do that as they loosen the bolts and drop the starter. What it doesn't tell you is that you really need an extra set of hands or some kind of support to easily line things back up when you want to reinstall it. That thing is heavy and only gets heavier when you're trying to put it back on from underneath the truck.
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A.o.D. posted:As an example, the HMMWV 20 level maintenance manual instructs you to support the starter when removing it. That's all well and good, and a strong, young soldier can easily do that as they loosen the bolts and drop the starter. What it doesn't tell you is that you really need an extra set of hands or some kind of support to easily line things back up when you want to reinstall it. That thing is heavy and only gets heavier when you're trying to put it back on from underneath the truck. Noted! I've worked on the DD engines that went into earlier HMMWVs, but in civilian Chevy pickups (not CUCVs). God, they suck. Everything wilts and falls apart from the heat, and it's all fiddly poo poo like fuel distribution lines and electronics, with their own badly run wires and badly placed controllers. I've got them running again, but for almost as much money in parts as a crate engine would cost. "Easy" to work on, and the Chilton's manual details exactly what you need to do, but a pain in the rear end when they start to fail (which they do, a lot, frequently, with age.) That said, I've worked on those engines in bigger vehicles and pieces of equipment where the cooling is better and the placement of electronics is, too. Much the same as the 6.0L V8 Powerstroke, packaging is a motherfucker. HMMWV mechanic sounds like a lovely job, even with every manual, diagram, and part at your fingertips.
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madeintaipei posted:Noted! I didn't hate it. There's plenty of room to work on them, and being a 63G (a nonexistent MOS these days) I actually understood how the fuel and electrical systems work, so I could troubleshoot them rather than taking a scattershot parts changing approach to repairing them. It helps that I was in pre GWOT, so I didn't deal with vehicles that were loaded down with armor and modifications, so the things were doing the jobs they were actually designed for.
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Jun 9, 2024 04:59
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Is the Army so desperate for recruits they're willing to try anything now? One of my old section leaders is a recruiter now and it's interesting seeing him try the social media "influencer" thing as a recruiter. And by interesting I mean dumb and sad. But I'm guessing that's coming from the recruiting BN leadership.
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Jun 27, 2024 19:58
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When times are lean recruiters have resorted to anything imaginable so in the modern cyberpunk hellscape that just sounds like the next, most obvious step to me. Sucks to be a recruiter right now I guess, just poor timing that they got caught up in. If (when) bankers find another way to detonate the world economy to put $0.10 in their quarterly earnings report I imagine recruiting will get easier and they'll go back to the old standbys.
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Jun 27, 2024 20:10
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18 year olds: 🤡 US Army: 🥺👉👈 Which sounds way creepier than it should. Or does it?
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Jun 28, 2024 23:44
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Mustang posted:Is the Army so desperate for recruits they're willing to try anything now? One of my old section leaders is a recruiter now and it's interesting seeing him try the social media "influencer" thing as a recruiter. And by interesting I mean dumb and sad. But I'm guessing that's coming from the recruiting BN leadership. There is 100% a powerpoint deck somewhere that was presented to a full bird breaking down "influencer culture" and how people these days want a connection to a person, not a brand when making their purchases and how that applies to recruiting.
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is anyone in here actually still in the army? disband the thread. put it out of its misery.
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boop the snoot posted:is anyone in here actually still in the army? It’ll be a good hand-me-down thread for the marines to come draw dicks in all the places we missed 
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Aug 13, 2024 19:16
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Think they're still squatting in the older Army thread. It got deployed around the forums a while back, that was fun.
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boop the snoot posted:is anyone in here actually still in the army? When I got my retirement paperwork it said Soldier for life. 
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spacetoaster posted:When I got my retirement paperwork it said Soldier for life. Isn’t herpes the same way?
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Aug 13, 2024 20:02
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boop the snoot posted:Isn’t herpes the same way? Less damaging.
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boop the snoot posted:is anyone in here actually still in the army? Yes and about to go to Fort Liberty...
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Dream Weaver posted:Yes and about to go to Fort Liberty... I managed to avoid that one, what sucks there?
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Aug 13, 2024 23:18
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bird food bathtub posted:I managed to avoid that one, what sucks there? Everything  Raleigh and Wilmington are mercifully both close enough for day trips at least. The mountains (Boone/Blowing Rock/maybe Asheville?) are close enough for a weekend trip as well, although those might do best on a long weekend. The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of my favorite places to be up there.
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bird food bathtub posted:I managed to avoid that one, what sucks there? The schools and the amount of sex offenders, mostly.
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Dream Weaver posted:the amount of sex offenders, mostly. Well, there is a military base there.
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Dream Weaver posted:Yes and about to go to Fort Liberty... Grody
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So my guard unit is deploying to Syria some time next year. Anyone have recent experience there? We're planning on bringing Starlink with us and networking gear. We understand the need for VPNs and what not. What else would you recommend we bring?
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A nice mattress for your cot. Also a mosquito net. Honestly, if you can bring one of those tent cots you'll be set.
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