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My nephew is going to Poland.
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spacetoaster posted:Hope he gets some free time. Lot's of cool historical stuff to see. I hope his days are filled with unending makework Army bullshit while he's there.
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I have never seen someone as happy to see an American than when I was in Croatia/Hungary.
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How long does it take for a company to get through these new apfts? All morning?
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Mar 23, 2022 17:06
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Sit-ups were my best event.
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Carteret posted:The biggest load of poo poo I ever had to swallow was the "train as we fight" bullshit. Yeah, of course. Lets do that. I was a loving mechanic, why am I doing a 20k ruck in full battle rattle and a 203? I only did my Army job 1 1/2 times (the 1/2 was not my MOS, but at least it was work that mattered) in a setting that really mattered. My time in Germany at least had me doing my MOS and the worst of the bullshit was kept to a minimum. Stateside I barely did my MOS and there was lots of extra nonsense (road marches, a month of grass duty, the usual bullshit) that made me long for my ETS date. The only time I actually enjoyed my enlistment was when I was deployed doing something that actually mattered. Everything else was at best boredom, and at worse bred resentment. I hosed my knees up, but at least I managed to avoid wrecking my back. Seriously, what the gently caress good is a 63 series MOS going to contribute to the army in a road march, or pulling security on a perimeter? Those wrenches aren't going to turn themselves.
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Bell_ posted:Same, but while I maxed the event often I frequently feel in my back all the times I did them on pavement or slammed my back down for more repetitions. We usually had PT mats when we did situps.  It wasn't so bad.
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If uncle Sam wanted you to receive texts he'd issue you a cell phone.
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PeterCat posted:We legit have one old guy who didn't so they either made him/provided him with a bargain basement one so he could stay in contact. F in chat for that guy. I bet he died a little bit inside when that got foisted onto him.
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Wrong Theory posted:Looks like Sig is making the next gen weapons Reciprocating barrel? I see what looks like a gas tube or piston but a reciprocating barrel suggests recoil operation. What's going on here?
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Apr 21, 2022 02:43
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Wrong Theory posted:Watch the video on the site, you can see it moving backwards. The article mentions it as well, I am not entirely sure of the magic going on here. That has to be recoil operated. What a throwback.
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Wrong Theory posted:Was on TDY all week to Benning and came back to Picatinny today and haven't heard anything about a new mask mandate. You're stationed at Picatinny? It seems like it'd be a pretty good duty station, if you can get it.
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MightyJoe36 posted:So, Air Force Base I live near just went to masks all the time. My non-DOD governmental facility just went mask on, too. I want to wish every anti-vaxer a very Watch Your Grandmother Drown on the Fluid in Her Lungs.
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General Battuta posted:Hello army thread. Quick book research. Would anyone ever refer to someone by their pay grade? Maybe as a put-down? Like if you wanted to remind a petty officer that you (a master sergeant) outrank him, would you possibly call him 'E6'? Or is this nonsense and you would just call him by his rank or name. It's a really specific put down. You could use it to refer to a higher ranking person but not where they could hear it. Face to face it's a pretty direct insult that can carry the implication that they're merely filling a slot rather than performing a leadership role if you're talking about or to an NCO or a commissioned officer. If you're referring to lower enlisted, then it'll almost always be about the clique-ish E4s, which is the point where you know enough about how the Army works to game the system, but also know what the limits are, and don't have any real leadership responsibilities that you have to be responsible for.
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Carteret posted:Dropping the rank altogether when speaking to a subordinate above Specialist in the Army is a solid way to wave your dick around. It feels like "I don't even respect that you earned your rank" That depends very heavily on context. It's not uncommon for people of different ranks to be a bit more casual when working together privately in an office environment, especially if they have an off duty social relationship. I've found that officers can quite often be very collegiate and are sometimes even on first name basis in the workplace.
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Mustang posted:Haha true, I guess the big yellow stripe also just screams ARMY to me. Or you could sew on a patch that says "Homest" right in front of ARMY. You have to ask yourself 'Do you has the 5 bucks' before you do it, though.
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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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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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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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