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thats pants on head retarded.
Anonymous
>>11079141 Funny since it's SOP to wear hearing protection while on patrol in trucks.
Anonymous
>>11079158 Some people think they know better than SOP. That's when you get 'tards who go "herp derp I don't need SAPI plates and/or side plates."
Anonymous
>>11079167 Related story from a friend of mine:
>Unit deploys with IOTV, going to be issued plate carriers about two months into deployment. >One guy decides not to wear his plates inside IOTV because, "Heavy lulz." >Ends up leaving his plates back in the US. >Realizes, "oh shit oh shit gonna get in trouble when people notice" when getting ready to switch to plate carrier. >Calls someone elses spouse back in the US to have her mail him the plates. >Spouse is smart and realizes something is weird, calls her husband to ask, "wtf?" >Husband is like, "WTF!?!?!" >Guy without plates gets assfucked by his chain of command. Anonymous
>>11079167 I never wore my plates. Shit was heavy.
Anonymous
>>11079179 shouldnt the chain of command get assfucked too? how come no one checked his plates? was this early afghan or recent? This is why micro management happens and that one fucken retard fucks everybody.
>UNIFORM IOTVS EVERYBODY I DONT CARE IF YOU ARE LEFT HANDED. holy shit
Anonymous
>>11079167 Our SOP for PPE required flak,kevlar, and eye pro. I personally wouldn't wear ear pro on a patrol, not because 'herp derp, I need to hear the threat' but because it would hinder communication. I've been next to a SMAW being fired and haven't lost my hearing.
Anonymous
>>11079167 Yeah I know, but if the guy gets caught he'll get his ass reamed and moved from a leadership position. Then if other units operate the way mine did they'll not demote him because it's too much trouble, stick him in an office doing paperwork, where he'll get a bronze star the same as other squad leaders do that go outside the wire, get a shitload of bullets for pushing paper and kissing the right asses and end up a PSG on the next deployment where he'll talk about how he was in the shit and got a bronze star for it.
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>>11079208 Shit rolls down hill.
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>>11079212 You make it sound like a good career move.
Anonymous
>>11079210 NO I DON'T HAVE AN EARRING WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?
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>>11079208 Goddamn, having someone tell me how to set up my gear was one of the most rage inducing things I'd ever encountered.
>YOU WILL LOOK EXACTLY LIKE ME I'm right handed, so my mags go on the fucking left side, you dumb motherfuckers.
Anonymous
>>11079210 Patrol is different than being in a gun on a truck, where you need ear-pro/headset (really not reason not to have an internal headset).
For a patrol, I'll wear surefire earplugs because they don't bother me much, but yeah its no so much a big deal to wear earpro 24/7 dismounted.
I just thought the OP quote was funny because the guy is removing the ability of the gunner to communicate/call out threats with a headset.
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>>11079217 It kind of was, at least in my last unit. It was all fucked up.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11079180 fuckin eh, I had to wear them while training, in AN ARMORED VEHICLE (M2 Bradley).
>mfw Anonymous
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>>11079221 That's funny too, if the truck had them. I didn't get a truck like that until I went to OIF, and not all of ours had them.
Anonymous
>be in the woods training for setting up field accomodations in winter conditions >be team leader >have 2IC in our platoon come to instruct me on what fire positions we should take in case of an attack during the night >"You will go here and stand as close to the tents as possible" >I suggest that he is an idiot since the tents will attract fire >Its been decided in the Field Manual instruction! Obey orders >MFW it isnt in our field manual instructions and ive seen more action than him
Anonymous
>>11079230 i thought those were comms too. You guys just yell at each other in the bradley?
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>>11079221 Yeah, I understand what you're saying, I've only been a gunner on a MATV once and a headset would have definitely helped
Anonymous
>>11079232 Tell PSG.
PSG yells at LT with the force of a thousand angry salty noncomms.
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>>11079234 What? No. Fully integrated headsets with 2 sets in the back so the squad leader and fireteam leader can talk with the crew.
They even have a pass-through mic on the outside so we hear someone talking on the ground without taking the headset off if we have the hatch popped.
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>>11079230 Hey! I was a Mike too, but in all honesty I chose to not wear them because I valued mobility over armor. I just couldn't move in a way that made me feel safe while wearing them. I did however put my nut protector in there to thicken it up.
Anonymous
>>11079240 Im not in the US Army, my 2IC is just a First Sergeant (lowest officer rank in my army) and im a Sergeant (highest non officer rank), Im 28 and that punk is 22, im a bit too old for this shit
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>>11079234 Usually just the squad leader, so he can communicate with the crew.
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>>11079249 ..not brit.....canuck? ...some viking country?
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>>11079249 Oh, OK. Too bad, I've known of 1sg in the US Army to beat the shit out of LT's who don't respect them.
Anonymous
>>11079232 Reminds me of WLC (PLDC)
>Be new SPC. Not combat arms, but like to do tactical innawoods stuff. >Go to WLC, most of the class is infantry that *just* got back from Iraq. >FTX for WLC, go innawoods. An infantry E5 is given command of squad to do a patrol. >Patrol is innawoods and there is a really obvious beaten trail. He's all "lol no" and takes squad through woods away from trail. >Cadre stops him, makes him restart his patrol. >He goes innawoods again, a different way. >Cadre stops him, makes him restart his patrol. >Fine. Whatever, he patrols down the trail where perfectly positioned OPFOR ambush his squad. >MILES is worthless, cadre deems that half his squad is dead. >"LOL U ARE TERRIBLE LEADER! You walked into obvious ambush and noew your squad is dead!" Whatever I had fun and learned a lot from the other students about how they actually did things inna Iraq.
>Did a civil affairs mission for WLC as squad leader. >My squad kills entire town, I blow up Mosque. >Manage to justify all actions to cadre. >lulz Anonymous
>>11079219 Right... Because I haven't passed any of my audiograms...
Anonymous
>>11079261 I went to PLDC and was the Machine Gunner. Ended up "killing" half the enemy platoon on their first assault, then killed them again when they penetrated the perimeter on the other side, when I realized we were fucked and turned the gun around. Then ONE asshole runs forward (I'm firing at him the whole time) ducks behind some skinny as fuck tree and fires three shots from an M-16. A very butthurt SGL runs up to me and starts yelling that I'm dead and to quit shooting. And they were always trying to tell us how who won wasn't important, which I can agree to an extent, but when you are moving in a file right in front of a 240 like a row of ducks, and it opens up, you're not doing anyone any service by letting it slide.
Just like in your situation, the SPC obviously knew what was going on, no one benefited from that training at all. It's all dick waving.
Anonymous
What kind of flash hider is DiCaprio using in OP's pic?
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>>11079277 I just hated the unrealistic way the scenerios came about and the weird limitations you had to work under.
>EOD btw, so whenever anyone but EOD sets up IED related training I'm always "lol no, that's retarded." pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11079283 looks like the compensator from a CAR-15
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>>11079262 N/M was trying to start up a joke that happens on here on occasion, guess no one bit. Oh well.
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>>11079299 you are Anon, yet you did not samefag yourself?
bravo
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>>11079290 I can only imagine. I went with a bunch of MDW pogues, there were a few non pogues there, but it was a giant joke. I had a TV repairman (yes) from the Pentagon as my A-gunner/ammo bearer. We were doing an assault and he disappeared about 50m away. I called out when I was low on ammo, no response. Kept firing, called him by name, he appears because now I'm out. I reload, open fire, he say "Damn" and takes off again with the rest of my ammo. Seriously?
Anonymous
>>11079319 Wait, what?
Where did he run off to? Starbucks?
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>>11079323 LOL, IDK where the fuck he went. After we indexed I informed him of his mistake, politely.
Anonymous
>>11079319 >tv repairman we actually have those? and refridgerator repairman too? shit.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11079331 and plumbers. I know one
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>>11079331 They have some fancy term, but it amounts to being a TV repairman.
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>>11079290 >field op coming up in 1 week > CO (Captain) is making all kinds of useless training events >"Corporal, you're in charge of the IED lane." >I'm an optics tech with a solid electronic background >"Uh... ok." >proceed to stop all work for the next week, MSgt asks what I'm doing one day >"Makin' a bomb, Top." >nobody pays attention to me >field op comes around >Capt decides to get in with the enlisted and do the IED lane >he's the one to trigger my buried baseplate that closes a circuit for the detonator >5 bottles worth of CO2 powered baby powder explodes all the fuck over him >he's already wet, baby powder cakes on him >he's pissed >mfw Anonymous
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>Be corporal. >I think my LT. gave me that to go into maximum troll. >End up having to do a metric ton of paper-shoveling. >We get new Sgt. Fresh from the school. >All of my rage whenever she thinks she knows best. >On her first time as lead on a training drill in my tracked babies. She causes a fucking fire. >MFW she blames it on the FNG`s, whom she was supposed to teach how to NOT TURN THE BRAKES INTO FUCKING FIRE!
Anonymous
>>11079290 I can beat that.
>Be at Fort Stewart before OIF1 kicks off. Everyone training like hell. >Company gets sent to Hunter Army Airfield to help Rangers learn to fight/train against IFV's. >OC's tell us not to attack Rangers unless they're in AT4 range, and not to put dismounts out. >Spend rest of month watching sleeping between bouts of watching Rangers "sneak" up on us with the thermals >Great training for everyone was had Picture: What should have happened to the Rangers while they spent two hours "sneaking" up on us.
Anonymous
>>11079356 But to be fair, would Iraqi IFV's even of had working thermals? Just curious.
Papulu !dCodef2d72
>>11079356 Can some one please explain this shit to me?
Why the fuck would you train like that?
Giving the aggressor the advantage? Limiting engagement distances to those of what the other side can engage in?
Won't that shit get people killed?
Anonymous
>>11079362 In all honesty I don't think the Iraqi's had any thermals, but you always train with the assumption that your enemy is at least as well equipped as you if not better equipped. Plus, not putting dismounts out to form OP's violated our own SOP's
Anonymous
>>11079362 Yes. It would be very possible to go up against working aftermarket thermals on the IFV/tanks of the Iraqi army.
It's a worst case scenario and not all vehicles would have it, but you are supposed to train up, not down.
Anonymous
>>11079364 That's what we tried to explain to them, and we even offered to show them methods we taught our own people to try and fool thermals and move against IFV's, but since we were "Legs" and not Rangers (assholes walked more than I ever did) they told us to shut up and be a target, and the one time we violated the rules and sent a dismount squad out to ambush them. The OC's rebooted the Squad we wiped out and then killed all our guys before yelling at us over the radio.
Anonymous
>>11079356 Light fighters hate to hear how badly a company of Bradleys fucks up dismounted infantry.
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>>11079362 they train to fight first world armies, not iraqi ghetto hooptie IFVs, so yes.
Papulu !dCodef2d72
>>11079380 Seriously. Having an attitude like that will get you killed. If you can't put aside your fucking secret squirrel status to learn from people that know your shit. You don't deserve said secret squirrel status in the first place.
Anonymous
>>11079382 Yep, Every Mechanized company has the same effective firepower of an entire Battalion of light fighters. Plus, we got Playstation in the back.
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>>11079368 >>11079369 Yeah I get it about training up, just didn't think of it. I also really don't understand why they didn't let you put out dismounts. I didn't know it was SOP, so now I really don't get it.
Anonymous
>>11079387 >secret squirrel status and i have a new name for top secret clearance. thanks pap
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>>11079380 God, I hate that shit. I really want to go the Airborne school just to make fucks like that shut up.
I'm not jelly or in fucking awe of your ability to jump out of a plane five times and run, and it has no bearing on shit outside of your MOS.
"You're just a stupid leg so I won't listen to you on how to use a mine detector, because my airborne training is superior, derpderpderp."
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>>11079391 And when you need it. There's a shitload of Infantry sleeping in the back just waiting.
Especially if you're in a combined arms battalion? There's two companies of tanks, too.
Red Dawn !HUMKYrK8X.
I never served, I was fighting aliens at the time. But this is a story from a roomate of mine. Back during the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003 he was part of a squad that ended up putting two Republican Guard's brains on the floor. The guys survived being shot in the head and having half their skull missing. Because they did survive they had to take them to a military hospital. They load them into a truck and head off to the nearest hospital, they won't take them since they are Iraqi. So they head to the Iraqi civilian hospital, they won't take them because they are Republican Guard. Eventually after two hours back and forth and these two guys gurgling and not much else they just take their bodies out into the desert and wait for them to die before dumping them and going back to base.
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>>11079394 Been around forever.
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>>11079261 Lol good story man....gotta love the lack of common sense in the army =D
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>>11079399 damn it all pap.
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>be Airborne >lol at the legs having to wear functional headgear >yell insults at them >I am hot shit motherfuckers >ow my knees >ow my back >also my wife works a gloryhole during the day as a hobby >my herpes itches They are so buttmad because being Airborne is all they have going for them.
Anonymous
>>11079283 Flash hider? I detect a civilian in our midst men
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>>11079387 You know, of course, we had the whole friendly rivalry thing going and wanted to show up the Rangers with what we could do, but at the end of the day, we were concerned they'd get the wrong ideal about going up against IFV's on foot and get themselves killed in combat, but the OC's, and I guess the command, weren't hearing us. They wouldn't even let us eat in their DFac before the game started.
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>>11079398 Yeah. That sounds about right. lol
Anonymous
>>11079398 If the US hospital wouldn't treat them they dun goofed. I'm assuming you meant a US military hospital. Either room mate is full of shit, you don't have the full story/accurate details, or the hospital possibly violated the law of land warfare.
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>>11079410 It's an XM177 style flash hider, what of it?
Red Dawn !HUMKYrK8X.
>>11079427 From what I understand they wouldn't treat them because they were pretty much dead already. This was seven years ago he told me this.
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>>11079437 That's slightly more believable, depending on the triage that they were having to do at the time.
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Fun Fact: Repairing LN's is almost exclusively performed for CA/PR purposes. When ACF are brought back wounded to a TMC the first priority is intelligence value while they're waterboarded in a connex somwhere after they've been fixed. Someone with massive head trauma isn't likely going to produce any stunning revelations, so, fuck it. Just sayin'.
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>>11079437 they have to treat them, even if its only a morphine (overdose) shot if they're going to die anyway
Anonymous
>Be deployed in Iraq back at beginning of Iraq War >Driving through some abandoned looking village behind the Medics >Some crazy Haji runs out with an AK, so the head Doc hits him with a burst to the chest >Medics 113 stops and they come out and pick up the guy and take him inside >Be a few days later talking to the Medics and ask them about that >Head Medic says, "We had never treated a wound like that before, so we wanted the practice." >Ask the Medics if the Haji survived. >The Head Medic replies, "No, but we know what we did wrong."
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>>11079484 That entire scenario is improved greatly by the addition of Yakety Sax
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>>11079484 can't see anything wrong,
they tried
failed
but learned
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>>11079484 Well, if it happened to a GI then they'd get it right next time. Sucks dude didn't survive, but at least the medics are stronger for it.
Anonymous
Not really a military story, but an interesting story anyway:>An Iraqi dude who studies with a mate of mine (med school) had just started working in the biggest hospital in Baghdad as a surgeon... in 2003... >Invasion happens >All senior personnel/experienced surgeons fuck off >YOU'RE IN CHARGE NOW >okay.tiff >Inexperienced staff, no supplies and casualties coming in 24/7 >Americans capture Baghdad >American officer enters the hospital >We from the great country of AMERICA has liberated you! I'm in charge of this area and we'll help you as best we can. >When will you bring us medical supplies? >Soon. >Another American officer enters the hospital. >We from the great country of AMERICA has liberated you! I'm now in charge of this area and we'll help you as best we can. >When will you bring us medical supplies? >Soon. >Another American officer enters the hospital. >We from the great country of AMERICA has liberated you! I'm now in charge of this area and we'll help you as best we can. >When will you bring us medical supplies? >Soon. >Ad nauseam When they finally got med supplies it was from the Red Crescent/Cross, despite all the promises.
Anonymous
>>11079484 I guess you had to be there. It was rather funny the way the Medic said it.
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>>11079514 Whoever told you that story was flat out lying.
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>>11079514 We still do that shit.
"When can we get some fuel for the generator."
"Soon"
Fuck off back to America, next group comes in.
"When can we get some fuel for the generator."
"Soon"
>>11079518 It always is. Besides, I'm going to bet most of us on here have had our "really?" moments with medics.
Anonymous
>Be in Iraq on second tour. Had graduated from dumb-ass EM to experienced NCO between tours >Company is mostly populated with guys on their first tour >Have mission briefing every night about next day's mission where CO tells us we'll drive the same route we've been driving 12 hours a day for weeks with no changes >I've been asking questions every night about why we never change anything because we're going to get hit eventually and I don't want any of my guys to buy it. >CO finally gets tired of my shit, so when I raise my hand, he says, "Yes Sergeant, I know it's a bad idea, but we're going to do it anyway."
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>>11079553 This is basically whats going to happen here
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>>11079631 Captcha ate my pic
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>>11079179 >>11079180 >used to bitch about plates being > watch buddy take a makarov round point blank in the chest while out on COIN >guys stands back up says he thought someone had hit him with a hammer >xboxfuckinghuge bruise on his chest medic still clears him for duty >never bitch again Anonymous
>>11079553 I lost a buddy to that.
Same time. Same day. Every week. Non-stop for 4 months. And then they changed it after he died.
And repeated it. Again. And again. Thankfully they didn't get anyone else killed but they did get hit a lot.
Fucking FSC... Just because you're not combat arms doesn't mean you shouldn't learn how they operate to at least avoid THAT mistake.
Anonymous
>>11079752 We eventually lost a whole Bradley, crew and dismounts, when they daisy chained three 155mm rounds together as an IED
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>>11079822 Damn.
Sorry, man. I know how much it hurts to have that happen in your company.
My bro took an undetonated RPG to the gut. Split him in half in the driver seat. He lived for about 10 more minutes after they got him out of the truck.
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>>11079368 What does an OP entail when it comes to IFVs?
>it's SHTF >me and some friends are convoying out of the city >we stop to rest. What does our perimeter security look like, in order to keep the zombies/looters/Sambo at bay?
Pic semi-related (for another terrain)
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>>11079398 Republican Guard gurgling to death?
Not bad.
Anonymous
Holy crap, the Army is more fucked up than the Marine Corps.>be 0352, corporal, two deployments to fallujah >have about team of 14 other guys just like me >be OPFOR for 2nd Tank Battalion Exercise >constantly wipe out 2nd Tank Battalion We were praised and rewarded for it. The tankers thanked us, the ones who were adult enough to understand, the command seemed to seriously appreciate it, and we got to dress like hajjis and throw applecore grenades into unlocked tank hatches for a month. Shit was so cash
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>>11079954 I did stuff like that when I was stationed at Quantico. I was part of the QRF, and one week we were tasked with being OPFOR in a MOUT town for a bunch of brand new officers at TBS.
One time I yanked a butterbar in a dark room and "stabbed" him. His squad didn't notice him missing for 10 minutes. That was a big deal.
Anonymous
>>11079968 when you are opfor you learn just how easy it is to be a rebel, you plan the ambushs, you know the route,you force them to take it with booby traps and you can use civilains as cover.If things gets bad just withdraw.
Anonymous
>>11079968 It's also really, really good training for the OPFOR people as well. It really helps you get a more pragmatic handle on how a guerrilla enemy will approach fighting US forces.
We were given scenarios they wanted us to train for specifically, but how we actually instituted the attacks was entirely up to us. Restricted only by the equipment allotted to us for that mission.
But even with a couple of crappy IEDs and a handful of rifles, we could inflict pretty heavy casualties.
Still though, even with blanks, when I saw a turret of an M1 swing my way unexpectedly and start BRRTTrrRTtRrTrRtTtRTrRtrTTtRtTrRtTrtRttrRTRrtTRtTrRtTrtrtrRt with his coax.... Yeah I damn near shit my pants.
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>be an M2 gunner >ROE says I have to use my M4 for warning shots >TC insist that my M4 has to be locked in the gunner rack and I have to be holding on to the M2 at all times >"It's so we look mean, that way insurgents won't want to mess us" >He gets moved to another truck, new TC says have M4 handy
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>>11079989 The element of surprise is a seriously huge deal. We even did night attacks on them. We snuck into a church, killed their 3 guards between radio checks and moved in to plant an IED (arty simulator, loud as fuck) in the middle of the church they were sleeping in.
All too easy.
And when a 249 fires blanks, it is loud. It really makes the moment to hear M16s going "pop, pop", then you hear the SAW go "BRRAATATATATATAAT".
Simunition is fun, too. Got to do that in Oki a few times.
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We played OPFOR one time on a Marine Reserve Unit (we were active artillery). I posted about 100 yards out in front of their base at night and fired off to draw their attention while my friend snuck around into their base from behind. He caused many casualties. Apparently their Regimental commander was watching from a high altitude spy plane. He had many lulz
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> last deployment to iraq 09-10 > getting ready to leave the sand box > 2 days left before we turn over the commo shack(aka: The Love Shack) > incoming unit inspects the building > they want everything out > Sgt Geo tells me to get a detail together and make this shit vanish off of VBC by any means. > You got it! > sell the generator chairs, desk, and air compressor to the Haji shops > take the rest to the landfill > they wont except any of it > WTF? > O'dark thirty that very night > get the other soldiers in the shop together > borrow the flatbed Humvee > go over to the commo shop and pick up all the shit. > drive over to a drainage canal > toss the shit in > fuckthepolice.jpg > next day we see the people from the dump along the canal we threw the shit in >They were pulling the crap we threw in last night into a garbage truck > We use the money from the stuff we sold to have a pizza party at the MWR > and not a single fuck was given > mfw
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> last work day of my active duty service to the army > CO wants a ruck march > I have to go too > fuck > remember a scheme I hatch over a year ago > I bought a Utilikilt a year and some change ago in ACU print > AR 670-1 mentions nothing of kilts. Fuck it! I'm goona wear a kilt of formation tomorrow! > ruck march day rolls around > standing tall in my ACU Kilt > ruck march happens > nobody notices the kilt the entire ruck march > when we get back to the company my PL noticed > PL: Sgt T, what the fuck are you wearing? > Me In a Scottish accent: A KILT SIR!!! > entire company finally notices > everyone is lulzing > 1SG and CO are dying > PLT SGT gives me high five > new solders are stunned > My going away present to the company > mfw
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>>11080257 Good stuff.
>CSM yelled at me and a buddy who were ducking out of PT when we both had like 2 weeks left. >1SG was there yelled at us, too. >CSM leaves. >1SG says get the fuck out of here. >Go to IHOP with everyone else shamming out of PT. Anonymous
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Bump for glorious nighttime /k/
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> new PL just arrived > giving a class on the Humvee > butterbar is being a real asshole, jumping ahead of my PMCS and safety information > he act like he know everything > do a driving test > Butterbar did a good job until we get back to the motorpool > last task > put the Humvee back on line, put it in neutral, set the parking brake, and put down the chock block and drip pan > Butterbar shuts off the engine and gets out > parking was never set > our motor pool has a gentle slope to it > I'm still in the passenger seat as the Humvee rolls into the next line of vehicles > hits the back of a parked M113 > butter bar is standing there like wtf? > I get out of the truck and see no damage > Yell at LT "You fucking retard!" > butterbar yells at me like it's my fault > we never speak a word of this to anyone > mfw this is why I go to ASAP
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>be on patrol in Baghdad, 2009 >Have joint TCP setup with IA, not stopping traffic, but on presence patrol >Joes are walking around, talking to Iraqis, generally making our presence known >umpteen millionth time we've done this in our AO, different TCP every time though >Terp is with the LT translating while LT talks to IA checkpoint commander >Cars driving by on both sides (it's a 4 lane highway) >BANG! >everyone dives for cover, combat rolls, scnas sector, etc, etc. >LACE check, all soldiers report in, no causalities >"OOOOOWWWWW!!! Fuck *garbled Arabic* FUuuuuuuCK" >Everyone looks at terp >Terp is clutching his asscheek >Terp took a 9mm to the left ass cheek from a drive by >Medic treats him, bullet went straight through his cheek, clears him for duty the very next day >MANY MANY MANY LULZ were had
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>Fort Carson Colorado, Brand new Engineer battalion >Spend 2 years training new soldiers and standing up the unit. >Sent to NTC with 4th id unit that is deploying. >no deployment orders come in >Sent back to NTC to be used as stand in "Iraqi Army" troops for MPs to "simulate training" >Still no orders >End of the NTC rotation BN receives orders to deploy to Iraq >one month after leaving, sent back to NTC for the third time in 1 year. >Finally deploy to iraq after training for months on end. >4 months in, entire BN is shipped to Afghanistan >Deployment clock starts over >Leadership isn't prepared >Shit sucks, people die.
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>>11084455 Your gear looks like a soup sandwich
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>>11084479 Not enough shrapnel.
12B !h9ByLeppH.
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>>11084455 >Tired of this shit, cant get promoted in 4th EN too many shitbag e6's up the chain. >reup to go to Fort Stewart >5 months after getting to Stewart, back in NTC training for Iraq... >End of the year deployed to bagdhad >End up on the same Cop I started at the first time. >Finally make E6 >12 months later company has lost 0 soldiers. 4 Iraqi Engineer units trained for route clearance/disposal >it took 2 years to get back to Iraq to finish the job started in we originality deployed to do. Anonymous
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Generally speaking, our NCOs listen to our complaints when shit's fucked up. One of the benefits of being a Nasty Girl is people don't take themselves so seriously as to look down their noses at people under them.
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>>11084524 spent most of my time in a turret
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>>11084479 Your gear looks clean.....too clean, go do some real work
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>>11084479 And that gear is too clean to ever leave the FOB :3
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>>11084550 I also washed it. Don't let your shit get groady, or you'll get AIDS.
Have some damned professionalism
>Bradleynner gets Flu or osme shit in theatre >No shit wants to go out >Medic will not let him >Pleads and begs >No.jpg >Oh shit That Guy is litearly the only fucking dismount platoon qualified to be a Brad gunner >Get informed, fucking hate mounted, and hate the Brads >Team LEader gets into argument about loosing a SAW gunner, reminds them that were doing an SKT that night. >Zero fucks given >In bradley for Patrol >This sucks >Suddenly, contact >Contact, everywhere >JAM element estimated 30 PAX >Oh shit... >6 Hours later, Black on TOW, red on 7.62 and 25mm AP an HEI >This is a fucking blast >MFW
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>>11084596 Being in a Bradley in battle is like riding a horse of the apocalypse
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>be in aerial refuel/rearm platoon >CO decides we need to do night driving under NODS >go to draw PVS22's (we had thousands--literally thousands of them because pilots are required to have 3 backup sets) >lolnope they're expensive and you're enlisted, here's some PVS7's >erm can we at least get our hundred PVS14's? >lolnope you're enlisted, you'll break or lose them. We no longer give a fuck about the 7's. >okay.jpg >go out to Range 78/79 (innawoods with innaswamp and lotsa closely spaced trees >first run goes fine >now 0200, CO decides training isn't hard enough >out come the HEMTT's with lowboy trailers >wtf boss >first vehicle goes to make first turn, with ground guide, trail isn't wide enough. Accidentally the first tree into the swamp. >Second vehicle goes to make first turn, with ground guide, trail still isn't wide enough. Trailer slides off edge into swamp and sinks. HEMTT has enough balls in 8x8low to pull it out. >Second turn coming up, blind turn up a hill on 30deg bank >first vehicle's ground guide is boss, miracles truck up the hill >second vehicle's ground guide is somewhat less than boss, accidentally whole HEMTT and trailer into swamp >HEMTT sinks like a stone >5 minutes after entering swamp, driver is standing in knee deep water. >"where's the truck?" asks CO >I'm standing on it sir >wellfuck.mov >call Range Control >Range Control shows up with 50k dozer >dozer doesn't have enough balls to pull completely submerged truck and trailer out >we disconnect lowboy and wish it rots in hell >dozer crumbles path trying to pull truck out, also sinks >truck and dozer still there I assume >CO relieved for cause, General's letter of reprimand
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>be on patrol with brand new PL >"Sir the COIST reps want us to check out this guy's house for a build site" >LT Butter "We're not knocking on doors today." >Patrol will take us right past the fuckers house. >"Sir, Top is on the radio wants to know about the house." >PFC Snuffy is already peaking over the back fence of the house "Hey guys check it out." >Pic related...
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>never shit in portajohns >had to shit bad >shit in portajohn >2 TCN's buttfucking in portajohn >never shit in portajohns
Anonymous
>>11079141 WHAT'S THAT? YOU HAVE TO SPEAK LOUDER. I'M A LITTLE DEAF FROM BEING SO ALERT.
Anonymous
>>11084631 Those IEDs in the making?
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>>11084674 >>11084674 EFP's to be specific.
Dem Copper plates, son
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>be out on training ex >Live fire, training ex >Infantry Jube leaves Automatic safety catch off (Aus styer) >Middle of the night >Picket duty >BRAAAAAAP >"oh shit what the fuck was that oh shit im gonna die!" >Turns out jube fell asleep on picket, ND...ND everywhere >thankfully noone was hurt >Platoon got rompers for the night >MFW
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>>11084674 here's a hasty we found on patrol, lead gunner spotted it
>>11084711 You were at JSS Ur?
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>>11084565 We were 1 of 3 RCT that tour that had the entirety of northern Baghdad from taji, ur, War Eagle, Isstacal. Pretty much out on missions 6 days a week. The most i washed on my armor was the neck/throat yoke.
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>>11084661 WHO IS BUTTHURT?
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11084711 I was in south/central Baghdad, just over July 14 bridge from the green zone. Our JSS was right in the middle of a fucking date palm orchard.
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Ear pro always while training While in theater? Fuck that. Semi-related>taking battalion commander out on a tour of our AO >fully geared and mounted up, heading out the Camp Liberty gate >MP checkpoint on the way out >"Wtf? why is there an MP checkpoint on base?" >Traffic cones block our path, we stop >Spec4 MP bitching out our PSG in lead truck for not wearing seatbelts, says we can't pass until all of us buckle up >PSG tells her to fuck off, we're heading out on patrol >she says it's the rules on base, she waves over her PL (1LT) >1LT starts chewing out our PSG >battalion commander (Lt. Col.) gets out of his truck, tells MP 1LT to fuck off and to get out of our way before he reports him to division for compromising our mission >mfw our battalion commander was awesome... certifiably insane, but awesome
>>11084742 >No ear pro in theatre >Not having a Bro-Tier CO that spends Class 2 money on TCI headsets for team-leaders and above and MSA Sordins for everyone else. Sucks to be you.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11084756 Remember those two-sided GI earpro sets they handed out? The ones that were OD green and yellow?
They were fucking awful. Because having .5" of earpro sticking out of your ear while wearing a helmet works so well
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>>11084756 This is like, the /k/ way of being a fashionista.
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>>11084722 Yes, 09-10 When the Defac burned down.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11084794 o shit, you got mortared, right? I remember that.
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11084768 We had the ones on the far left, they worked pretty well as long as you don't loose the fucking things. Still the headsets we're much better. Even inside the rattling can of a Bradley or Maxpro you had Super hearing
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>>11084756 We were light, and TCI headsets went priority to armor before legs. We got noise canceling headsets for gunners and TCs a few months in... don't remember what kind, but not TCIs, they only worked with our ASIPs.
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>>11084817 Agreed. Headset were the way to go.
>>11084805 >Mortared at JSS Ur? This is news? We got shelled once a fucking week if we were lucky.
>>11084794 You must have been our RIP out of JSS Ur. We were there 08-09 during the Seige after we moved out of JSS Sadr. Got sent out there to clean up all the trash and JAM that decided Sadr was no longer the place to be. We built that motherfucker up from nothing man...
Who did you RIP out with if you remember?
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We got mortared and rocketed a lot but i think the fire was caused by something in the kitchen. Or that a rocket hit the kitchen and started the fire. Pic from a cashe we found a few home made rocket launchers.
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>>11084843 I meant that it was a mortar that caused the fire.
>pic of my JSS for no particular reason Anonymous
>>11084725 this.
sorry, not all of us had running water with which to wash our shit.
>Dipshit pl decides that, whilst out at cop, we will conduct stand-to....with fixed bayonets >meh, whatever. Taliban only like to hit in daylight, so its cool >be grenadier >mfw he tells me to dismount my 203 and fix a bayonet >allofmywhy.jpg thank god that guy was relieved for cause.
>>11084827 TCI will pin for anythin you want, you just need to let them know and send them the pattern.
They also have adapters for MBTIRS or the Haris PRC-152's like we had if that was your speed.
>>11084852 Dem IRAM's, they were a big problem out there and in Sadr in general.
Anonymous
>>11084805 while you got path to glory i got a path to party
NCNG as well
Djibouti 07
>we drive back into lemoneeir for whatever reason i forgot >hey lets stop by the dfac and grab some drinks before we head out >so driver stops suv next to dfac ,left it running >im chilling smoking a cig >a Navy commander (major i think)out of nowhere tells me to put it out im in a gov vehicle >ok so i get out and keep smoking in the dfac smoke pit 5 steps away >kept smoking obvious >he is livid at this point screaming for my commander name etc >i tell him right where the office is and take care lol as a e-3 too , fuck da law
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>>11084843 We ripped with some 2ID guys I want to say they were from Lewis, can't quite remember right now.
We closed down a lot of the JSS bases and turned them over to the IA we were training up. Part of me still misses samoon bread
Anonymous
>>11084865 Yeah, we were there in '05-'06... we didn't get any of the fancy shit that the surge units got. All we had for dismounted commo was Motorolas.
>>11084898 We were worried for a minuet man, we had some dated ass shit sitting in our arms room. I mean shit like AV/PVS5's and 7B's it wasnt until a month before we left that we got new PVS-14 and PVS-15's
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11084861 You mean that you didn't get a million FUCKHUGE pallets of water on every supply drop? We got so many that we started giving it away to the peshmurgah. That's what I used to clean my shit.
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>>11084896 1st Brigade? COTTONBALERS BY GOD!!
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>>11084887 We always tried to get food at Prosperity or VBC/BIAP.
JSS food was MRE for lunch and UGR for breakfast/dinner
Anonymous
>>11084957 haha, no. one case of 12 bottles per man per day.
yes, Bn rationed it like that, but only if you were staying out on the COPs. Bn fob had showers, albeit it was gray water.
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>>11084929 Well, I'm glad to see the Army figured their shit out and updated everything. Back in '04/'05 our unit had some of the most advanced gear short of SF. I bet now even POGs are more decked out than we were.
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>>11084896 oh yeah funny story about that coin...
>Be in bagdhad on route clearance missions when a email comes down from Brigade CSM >email asks for soldiers to submit designs for deployment coin. >whythefucknot.jpg >doodle on my computer for 1 night and make a design to submit. [pic related] >1 week later commander tells me that i am going to see the CSM in camp Eagle >fuck i knew i should have left this alone... >Arrive on uncle sam's uh60 Baghdad taxi service and check into the HQ >show up the next morning to find the CSM and 5 other soldiers there who submitted designs. >notsureifwant.jpg >CSM proceeded to give vague direction of what he wants the coin to look like. then leaves for 3 hours >none of them brought a computer >work with the other soldiers turns into me creating the entire coin from >>11084896 >CSM shows up once every 3 to 5 hours, asks to make one minor change and disappears >3 days later his coin is finished, last edit is a space for numbering. Was promised to get a coin once they are made. >Back in FT Stewart get summoned to see the CSM, forgotten all about the coin by this point. >Smiling CSM hands me a huge coin, thanks given goot time had by all. >Check the number later >007
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>>11084985 Fuck yeah UGR.
After a while we got a pair of cooks who actualy made Realy good food out of the MKV, like these motherfuckers got creative with shit.
One of hte was Philipino, made awesome shrimp fried rice out of ... I don't know what but it was good.
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>>11084988 we occasionally had showers, but the enlisted ones never seemed to work, while the officer ones never had an issue.
Weird how that works...
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11085020 This was our brigade coin
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>>11084978 I was with 3/69
"Speed and Power!"
or more accurately "Weed and Powder!"
Nearly 12 fucks in 1 platoon were busted for "Spice" while deployed.
Anonymous
>>11085020 Our battalion coin was pretty awesome until that bottom line.
Not to brag or anything, but our battalion did have the best motto I've ever heard. We always got compliments on it from officers outside our unit also.
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>going home on midtour leave OIF II >stuck at FOB Annaconda waiting for flight >me and joe from my company go to chow hall to eat >Suddenly sirens >FOBbits start freaking and running for the bunkers >fat female contractor jumps up and starts pushing for the door, eyes wide >Me and joe look at each other and shrug and go back to eating >our FOB is so far from the flag pole, no sirens,no bunkers, no PX >chow hall NCOIC starts yelling at us to get out and get to the bunkers >slowly get up still eating >almost get to door, all clear sounds >fuck yea I would post that rage builder comic, but I can't find it, have some after dinner mint /k/ight time /k/
>>11085070 >>11085068 >>11085067 >Get ARCOM with V for being high speed >NEver get coin because CSM hated our platoon Shitbags lead the way
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Yo, dog. Lemme get dat TCCC certification.
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>>11085070 >>11085067 Haha! nice. I will have to dig around and find my coins again the deployment ones are nice but my favorite was a random as shit coin from a BG. 4th ID it's in the shape of a battle axe
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>>11085093 funny story, must green text
>get back from 12 hr night patrol >first sleep in 72 hours >undress, go to sleep at 1100 >1230 >KNOCK KNOCK >wtf, this is my rest cycle? >Cussing, agitation, thoughts of murder >open door wearing nothing but boxers >full bird brigade commander is at the door with 3 scowling captains looking at me >Snap to attention, salute >"Thanks for all you've done soldier, you've been at one of the most contested and critical places in our bridgade... yadda yadda" >extends his hand for handshake >When I shake his hand, I notice he is handing me coin pictured in last post >salute again, he moves on to the next CHU >mfw when I got handed my deployment coin by the brigade commander while wearing nothing but my underwear Anonymous
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>>11085140 >mfw when my face when when
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>>11085140 those were proly a bunch of the S3 Cpts following heim around for no good reason and just pissed that they had to watch all these joes get coins and all they were going to get for their year in the TOC was a Silver/Bronze Star serv award.
Swear and officer would body check a joe out of the way of he thought it ment he could get a coin
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11085093 I got a CIB and a "thanks for coming" ARCOM from my tour
I'm jelly of that ARCOM-V though.
>gettin dat CIB from my CO Anonymous
>>11085093 >be PSD for battalion command group >do QRF also >316 combat missions >60+ "other" missions >more missions and more combat engagements than any other platoon in our brigade >platoon gathers the intel that leads to al-Zarqawi's death >save 101st's asses a few times >entire platoon gets put in for ARCOMs, some with V for specific actions >every one gets knocked down to AAM by brigade commander seriously, fuck brigade
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>>11085195 >awards formation wearing sunglasses >CO and Top DGAF >fuckyea.jpg 12B !h9ByLeppH.
>Basic training/AIT, no drinking >Leave before 1st duty station, not much drinking >Get to Korea middle of winter >In process, no drinking > Immediately picked up by unit for 30 day FTX >Come back from FTX, immediately put on red cycle over Christmas holiday >1hour recall always in uniform, patrol camp Casey, no drinking.. >red cycle ends, hit TDC (local strip) with A&O platoon >First bar we are in KATUSA (korean soldiers assigned to the US army, some shitbags some Bro's) "ROK Tiger Kim" brings me a small pitcher. >Can't turn down a drink from a guy who makes $60 a week >Soju tastes like kool-aid when mixed >Kim comes back 10 min later so i uy him a round. >2nd Soju kettle goes down easy as the first. >Stand up to leave, Platoon mates all head out too. >Everythingisagoodidea.jpg >14 bars later >THE LIVER IS EVIL AND MUST BE PUNISHED! >back at the B's at night, and see buddy from BCT leaning on a pillar outside the room. >buddy is pissing into the turtle ditch in full view of the main street through base >"What, this isnt the bathroom?" >wake up in the morning, NEVERDRINKAGAIN >Next night, Back in TDC again >Groundhog day.
>>11085140 That's pretty fucking awesome man I got one
>Be a JSS Ur hating life >Showers recently hit with 81mm, doing patrols, guard and Raids non stop >On guard, bebopin to some thug ass shit >Suddenly a Wild CO appears in the ladder hatch >"Some whistle head from Taji is commng to shake his dick at us, look proper ya fucks." (Actual words) >Mumble mumble mumble >About an hour later Blackhawk lands >Some fucking general and his PSD shit bags get out >PSD trying to look like fucking CAG, just look like MP's instead... lol >General walking around, has rank on his PC >lolwut is this nigga serious? (LT almost got his head blown off in recent memory by Sniper after he was taking a shit." >Telling people what a great job we are doing >Suddenly, RPG 7 over the wall >shit.lol >Oh look, another one and..... IT'S GOOD! Right into one of the towers, no one hurt. >Now, Drive by on my and my boy in our tower >Engage death blossom with M2 and M249 >Winning.jpg >General suddenly trying to leave in a hurry >"But sir you just got here... come on they almost never hit!" >Our CO's face when he was later telling us about the Generals "Extensive Combat Expierence" Anonymous
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>6 months into OIF II >Haji has learned not to fuck with us and our Brads >Hiji gets a willd hair up his ass and gives us a stand up fight >whole company comes out to help our plt after initial contact >2 hours slugging it out in the market place >pop a few haji heads from the rooftops with ACOG equiped M4s >Brads splatter a dozen with HE >HE rounds burn down at least 4, 2-3 story building, we don't giva fuck >after battle find out the BN S3 Maj drove by, stopped and talked to our CO for 5 min >before we even make it back to the FOB the S3 Maj has put himself in for a Silver Star >mfw
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>>11085281 "Sniper check, sir."
Get them every time.
Anonymous
>>11084455 >>11084455 The that the fucking Imperial Guardsman's Uplifting Primer?
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>>11085281 We had a few Generals fly in on us at the JSS.
Shit was annoying, a bunch of us got cussed at for not saluting them, ON THE JSS.
>General's reply: "Well if you aren't going to salute me, then you need to be walking around in full battle rattle. Anonymous
>>11085356 I knew I wasn't the only one who noticed, I'm sure his commissar was happy
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>>11085278 Oh, god. Drinking in a foreign country is pretty awesome.
Me and some friends went to a bar that was literally on the Okinawan beach front. You could walk 20 feet and get in the ocean. Drinks were 100 yen a piece (about $1.20) and we drank until the sun came up. Japanese girls were cooking on a makeshift grill near the water, there were little dogs playing in the ocean and I witnessed the best goddamn sunset in the world.
Fuck, I really miss Okinawa now.
>$3 beach shirt >trunks were under my pants MedicBro
>mfw this entire thread >dis gon b gud
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>Walk into TOC to get intel from COIST team. >Glance at RTO's live feed from the thermal cam. >See two guys dancing at the IA checkpoint. >no one in the toc can stop laughing >2 days later come back for another briefing, RTO pulls me aside and plays the remic > Fucking Remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALTnbzJ8Bko Sorry wrong link
Anonymous
>>11085278 I had a lot of fun in TDC. I know I had a lot of fun because can't remember much.
I was in the barracks behind Burger King and the Parade Field (assuming it hasn't been changed up). 11B.
Anonymous
>>11085380 welcome to night time /k/
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>>11085375 >>11085356 Yes, yes it is...
O immortal Emperor have mercy on us, miserable unworthies that we are.
O master of the galaxy, protect your flock from the alien.
O keeper of the light, guide our darkened path with your radiance.
We are your warriors and we are servants to thee, we stand free from blindness of heart, free from hypocrisy, vainglory and deceits, but captive to hatred, malice and anger, to the filth, the alien, the heretic.
By thy agony and bloody sweat; by thy Golden Throne and thy death; by thy destruction and re-emergence as the God of men, keep and strenghen us, we who fight for thee.
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>>11085375 >>11085352 >MFW also,
>>11085352 , I almost pissed my pants watching that. out-fucking-standing
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11085205 I love that shit.
I had a soldier follow me and a few others into a burning building where a mortar platoon was during a mission, it had been hit (semi ironically) by a mortar probably launched by the insurgents we chased out of it. One guy dead right off the bat, another guy lost an eye, one guy had shrapnel through his spine, others with various burns and shrapnel, the fire was right next to the mortar platoons impromptu mortar dump and some of their M4's were cooking off (firing randomly from the heat of the fire.)
This E4 followed me and others in while mortars were still coming in to get the injured out, he ended up taking twice as many trips as I did because I got called elsewhere to spot the enemy mortars. They got all the guys out and I actually managed to get an azimuth on the enemy mortars (standing in the middle of a goddamned field with mortars still coming in like an asshole while the officers called in a medevac from a nice solid building).
Luckily there were a couple of Apaches on station nearby and they ended up taking out the enemy mortars so they could bring the medevac choppers in.
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11085414 I put the specialist in for a bronze star for taking those trips into a burning building under enemy fire to save fellow troopers. A shitty shitty sergeant major who was nice and safe inside a solid building downgraded it, not to an arcom with V, or even a plain arcom (which is what I ended up with), they downgraded it to a freaking AAM which isn't supposed to be a godamned wartime medal at all.
Fuck that asshole and the Bronze star *he* received for cowering indoors. The awards shit in many units is completely rank based, and the lower enlisted and lower NCO's who do the majority of the real warfighting consistently get shit on while assholes back at the motor pool or shuffling papers get bronze stars all day for absolutely nothing. I advanced in my career and went to a unit where those things still mean something but I hate with a passion all of those big army bullshit artists running around with medals they never for an instant deserved.
fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Anonymous
>>11085278 that the VIP Lounge?
>>11085403 enjoy walking back and forth through the Casey Cut just to get that belt buckle?
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>>11085403 I hear it has been demolished now but the old "Sapper" barracks for 2-9 was an awesome place to be.
We always felt sorry for the 1-72 guys. In the field more than we were And had to come home to shitty 2 man in a room Barracks.
Military Pilot Guy !!PQsqBON+19j
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>Think that by joining the military I will be among competent people who will have my back, be it at a bar or if we bend metal >how wrong I was
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>>11085379 I took my MTL in Costa Rica.
I don't remember much
MedicBro
>>11085406 Familiar with night time /k/, just love these stories. Trying to soak up as much of it in the vain hopes that it'll help buffer some of the enormous amount of bullshit that'll beset me between Jackson and Sam Houston (as a 23-year old that didn't eat paint chips growing up), come September.
Anonymous
>>11085454 Jackson? hope you enjoy being yelled at by women with a major case of penis envey.
That being said, good for you taking a non combat MOS. You going medical?
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11085428 We walked up mt Soyosan and back down again then outside the base followed the river for what seemed like a foot march to Rod Range. Back to the base, up schoolhouse hill and for shits and grins the old air assault course. Col Kuhn wanted to stay off Casey as much as possible.
I just stayed in bed the day after and went out to the old U.P. club after the march.
Next>"Those Guys" roll up >Oh no... please be SF... please be SF... please be SF >Fuck my life, it's the idiot SEAL's >Just ignore them and they'll go away >Go talk to our CO and let him know they're entering our battle space "Because we were told to let you know, not because we want to." >CO DGAF asks them where they are going >Were not gonna tell you that because were hard asses >Cool, have fun. >That night gunfire >Idiots... >Call on company frequency >Oh look the SEALS have two wounded >Over in (redacted) exactly where we told them not to be alone, without CAS and QRF ready to go. >Good job, no we are not goin to come help you. >Wind up back at the JSS with there "wounded" >Two light shrapnel wounds and a concussion >Our medics LOLing >Co finds out that they were after a HVT that we had under frequent surveillance >Co RAGES about them chasing our HVT off >A few weeks later, raid time >MFW we find the guy the SEALs couldn't get with his pants down, trying to fuck another dude.
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>>11085419 Indeed. They did blanket awards at the end. Junior enlisted got AAMs, squad leaders got ARCOMs, PSGs Bronze Stars, PLs Silver Stars. Other than that our unit didn't hand out many awards, their excuse being that they weren't going to award us for doing our jobs. I can respect that mentality, but there were definitely guys that deserved more recognition for what they did.
My biggest rage story came from my squad leader in Afghanistan in '03, greentext follows;
>attached to SF during Operation Mountain Resolve >SF doesn't have mortars; send squad leader with a 60 in their GMV convoy >SF convoy gets hit by IED on the approach of a Taliban compound >no one killed, TC and driver unconscious, gunner thrown from the back, leg broken >squad leader is only one conscious and uninjured >he pulls TC and driver from the vehicle to a safe spot behind a stone wall >buddy carries gunner to the same spot and makes sure he's good enough to patch himself up >ambush starts >squad leader pulls off the 240 and brings it to the gunner so he can return fire >squad leader grabs the 60mm and starts direct laying rounds on enemy position SF put him in for a Silver Star with Valor. Brigade turned it down, said they don't accept awards from other units.
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>>11084978 Damn Fine Soldiers!
2-7 Represent
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11085454 you just going in now? I went in when I was 21, by far the worst part at first was dealing with all the kids who'd never been away from mammy and daddy for more than a weekend. The drill sergeants never made me bat an eye, the kids I was stuck working with in basic were horrifying.
It'll be fine though. There is a ton of bullshit in the military, but in a lot of ways you get out of it what you put into it. There are people I served with who I consider human garbage, and some that years later I still keep up with and care about. The people I hear who are bitter about the military as a whole tend to be people who's shittiness came back to bite them.
Also, just a note, if you *like* the army and feel any kind of urge to stay in go to selection the first chance you get. There's no reason to stick around a regular Army unit for too long if you aren't getting what you put into it out of it, get a deployment in if you are in a combat slot, but other than that if you are a support guy get the fuck out of big army the first chance you get.
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>>11085525 Hey, remember these rooms?
Death by powerpoint
Anonymous
>>11085494 are SEALs generally fuck ups like this?
almost every news article i hear it is SEALs needing to be rescued by someone after fucking something up. takur ghar, red wings, etc.
Anonymous
>>11085489 god, looking at that pic I can almost smell TDC again. Damn it, now I want some yaki fresh from the fryer. used to grab a bag of that stuff and eat it while staggering back to the main gate before curfew.
also, lol @ Silver Star. do dumbasses still run around with those "Silver Star Outlaw" jackets?
>>11079141 They really don't have a good reputation among other SOF, or even line troops.
They're generaly regarded as Jocks with a lot of equipment that they don't know how to use and lot of unwarranted confidence that gets them into trouble frequently.
Anonymous
>>11085550 Never worked with them directly, but they were in and out of our AO several times. I can say that I have much more respect for Green Berets, after working with them, than I do SEALs.
yonderdonkey !!zzcu7fpS8Ph
My uncle was part of Seal Team Six in the 80s and early 90s. He was a radio operator, and helped fuck Noriega's shit up during Operation Nifty Package.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package According to my dad, he's killed a fuckload of people. He's also the nicest guy I've ever met.
MedicBro
>>11085475 Original plan was 35 series, had a 94 AFQT and like 130+ line scores across the board so I thought I had that shit locked down. Get up at 0400, bus to Meade at 0515, hurry up and wait bullshit til about 1330-ish with medical. Counselor pulls 35P and I'm almost terrified of the DLAB but I figure why the fuck not, sit down in the clearance dude's office, counselor pops back in 5 minutes later after security dude finally gets off the phone and goes LOLWAIT YER PARTIALLY COLORBLIND COME WITH ME. Back to his cubicle, only thing that pulls up is 18X and fucking 140-something slots for 68W. Pick 68W almost in a daze, sit around til 1600 to actually swear in, then take the two hour drive back home with my fuming recruiter who'd been there since 1400ish.
I figure fuck it, I'll just pray that I at least luck out and get an Airborne or maybe even a RASP slot. I'm pretty sure I was so calm about the way I got bent over and force-fucked by the Army in the counselor's office just because I was in a goddamned daze.
Pic related, dude was one of the biggest shitbags I've ever seen anywhere.
>>11085525 Yep. I'm fully expecting wanting to slam my dick in a fucking doorjamb at a minimum of every second of every day until I (hopefully) get attached to an infantry unit. Moving on to bigger and better things or getting the fuck out is pretty much the plan, as it stands. Right now I'm waffling on telling my recruiter to get my ass down to Meade again and kicking my counselor in the dick until he produces an 18X contract, so I'm not basically just in a holding pattern until I hit E-4 otherwise. There's a really, really strong pull to just say fuck it and go for an x-ray contract. Then there's the voice in the back of my head screaming, "HEY DICKHEAD, WERE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WASH-OUT RATES?"
Military Pilot Guy !!PQsqBON+19j
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They buy into their own hype a little too much.
Anonymous
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>>11085596 >>11085574 interesting. i ask because now that i think of it, i have always tended to hear more stories of failure from seals during operations and them getting killed than other guys like green berets or rangers and stuff like that.
seen more reports of them dying like monsoor and other dudes getting ambushed and killed like in red wings, but never very often with other guys.
then i read the battle of takur ghar and it basically just made it sound like the seals completely fucked that mission in every way possible, and then rangers came in and seized the mountain without any problems.
kind of makes the seals look bad.
12B !h9ByLeppH.
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Heard this story from the TOC crew.>Settled into JSS War Eagle in Baghdad. >A Wild CO has appeared! >Gets a hair up his ass to paint the entire office area white and red >Ops soldiers repaint the place and build all sorts of shelves and desks. >Last office to be painted is OPS NCO >"Just paint it whatever color you have left." >SPC "I'm painting it pink, watch" >One "No Balls" later. <--- Pic related
Anonymous
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That movie Blood Diamond. The character Leonardo Decaprio played. I remember he said he was former Rhodesian army and then went on to be a mercenary so was he Executive Outcomes?
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11085620 That's some advanced TL;DR technology right there
Anonymous
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>>11085603 Of course there were those other SEALS during just cause who got their asses kicked by the Panamanian Army.
Reaperguy !!rsPXN3uj0N/
>>11085550 I did overwatch for seal teams a couple times, was cool
12B !h9ByLeppH.
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>>11085563 I saw a few when i was there but it was years ago.
I always wanted to go back to Casey, It was just too damned fun to only do once in your life.
Legatus Fancius !!o+hMc04ZB0d
Anonymous
>>11085620 Now would be the best time to go combat arms. With Iraq pretty much over, and Afghanistan winding down they're going to be a lot pickier with who they let in, which means you'll be around less fucktards, with guys that actually want to be there, and leadership with combat experience. That means if we end up marching into Syria or Iran you'll be in a much better position.
If you're not hot on combat arms, I would recommend a desk job, anything in finance.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11085670 Seems like every time I was on QRF, some flavor of chucklefuck from SOCOM needed us for cordon all-of-a-sudden, with no prior notice they were in our AO.
We found ourselves taking fire in all kinds of wonderful chokes inside of the mulhallahs for hours and hours (pictured)
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>>11079141 Ahh yes.... I will never forget the cluster fuck that firefights quickly turned into in those Neigbhohoods
>Jumping them low walls Reaperguy !!rsPXN3uj0N/
>>11085720 my form of overwatch is a little less labour intensive and dangerous to me
Anonymous
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>>11085419 >with medals they never for an instant deserved here's one you'll love
>deploy to Afghanistan on MITT >reserve LTC on our team >when we get in theater, her gets reassigned to J2 >less than 3 months later, LTC gets nasty stomach virus >returns CONUS, never comes back >awarded BSM >mfw Anonymous
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>>11085715 i disagree ,combat arms after war
>garrison life >garrion badasses all day >same fuckers would shit themselves under fire >nobody will ever find out and they keep actting like rambo 9000+1 rolling eyes already
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11085747 I loved seeing these guys on my BFT
MedicBro
>>11085715 No 11X contracts for like a year, brotato. Going medic and praying to pick up airborne or a ranger slot is about the best that can be done, at this point. Aside from going 18X, and that's a whole 'nother can of worms. I actually had the counselor bullshit me that it required full color vision and not just red/green, got home and looked that shit up. Behold AR 40-501, 5-3, G-4:
"For Airborne and Special Forces Training:
Failure to pass the PIP Set or FALANT test for color vision (see para 4-2a) unless the applicant is able to identify vivid red and/or vivid green as projected by the Opthalmological Projector or the Stereoscope, Vision Testing (SVT)."
At this point I just really, really want to kick that dude in the junk a few times.
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11085620 Unless you're really on your game i do not recommend trying to get an Xray contract right out of the gate. It's very difficult, the training takes years and they often don't select (even if you pass) new recruits that came right out of BCT.
Rule #1 pick a job you like
Rule #2 pick a job that can actually be useful in the real world.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11085769 From what I remember, you can't be 11B if you are red/green colorblind, but 11C is ok
Anonymous
>>11085708 >Come back from the invasion before rest of my unit because I was supposed to PCS in Jan but got stop lossed >now on rear d waiting to start clearing >pulling staff duty as the SDNCO as a E5, fuck yea >share our BN HQ building with 3/69 >2 am, two female redguards show up at 3/69's desk looking for someone >one looks down and sees the giant door mat that says "Cottonbalers by God" >bitch reads it out loud, cocks her lip back in a snear and says "Don't dat be racist?" fucking red guard females are the worst
Legatus Fancius !!o+hMc04ZB0d
MedicBro
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>>11085773 Hence the dilemma. Huge pay-offs if you make it backed up by almost mind-boggling levels of risk involving possibly being stuck in the 82nd as an 11B with no hope of getting out of the garrison unless Iran or something kicks off.
>>11085785 I pass the red/green, my color distinction is just kinda fucked otherwise.
>>11085785 How competitive is combat engineering MOS for officers, armor?
Anonymous
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>>11085785 11C has same requirements as 11B; colorblind is ok, but you'll need a waiver.
>>11085720 Jumping low walls? Just blast through them with the .50.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
Anonymous
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smell a fuckin POG a mile away both of these kits..
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11085793 >MFW "It says Cotton it must be racist!"
Anonymous
>>11085838 indeed, I was almost tempted to take them past the Staff Duty desk and show the the actuall cotton bale we had in BN HQ. shit was the size of a VW bug I swear
Anonymous
>>1085824 HEY JOE! YOU'S GOT KORROSION ON DAT CREW SERVED!
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11085812 You need an engineering degree of some kind.
Officers can be stuck in the Horizontal or Vertical engineer units (construction) or even battalion staff for a while before getting to a Combat Engineer company.
I have met good ones and terrible ones but most of them counted themselves lucky to be in a Combat company and not construction.
Legatus Fancius !!o+hMc04ZB0d
>>11085868 It's still in the BN building in Stewart.
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11085620 sounds like the guy was fucking with you. Combat Medic is a decent slot and in your situation probably a smarter choice than 18x, think of it this way, you'll have an opportunity to go SF later no matter what, if you go 18x and wash out you are stuck in the infantry, if you go combat medic and wash out you go right back to combat medic which gives you better training to build on if you decide to get out. The partial color blindness thing sounds like bullshit to me though, hard to imagine color blindness keeping you from intel and not from an 18x contract, don't trust those fuckers.
Also, if you want Airborne, get it in your contract period. Yeah they tend to have airborne slots available for most MOS's at the end of AIT but getting it in writing is the right thing to do, there is also sometimes a bonus for it.
>>11085890 Hmmm... Crap... How can I increase my chance of getting 12b officer MOS?
Anonymous
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>>11085869 What you gonna do about it, faggot?
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11085891 >mfw demob at Ft Stewart was the longest 3 weeks of my life Me and my two friends got the whole collection:
Mechanic got a CAB
Medic got CMB
Me with CIB
Anonymous
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>>11085891 yea, about a year or so before I got to the unit, the old bale they had caught fire somehow. Staff duty got it put out real fast so everything was cool. later the 7th Inf assoc got us a new one with donated money. Didn't know a blae of cotton was so damn expencive. I used to lol at the tiny one they had for Bn runs
Anonymous
>>11085868 I remember the Cottonbale's. We had one just as big in 2-7. We had to move that shit twice while they built a new display for it. Shit weighed more than a track section.
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11085620 sounds like the guy was fucking with you. Combat Medic is a decent slot and in your situation probably a smarter choice than 18x, think of it this way, you'll have an opportunity to go SF later no matter what, if you go 18x and wash out you are stuck in the infantry, if you go combat medic and wash out you go right back to combat medic which gives you better training to build on if you decide to get out. The partial color blindness thing sounds like bullshit to me though, hard to imagine color blindness keeping you from intel and not from an 18x contract, don't trust those fuckers.
Also, if you want Airborne, get it in your contract period. Yeah they tend to have airborne slots available for most MOS's at the end of AIT but getting it in writing is the right thing to do, there is also sometimes a bonus for it.
Seriously, until you ship the recruiters are instructed to do absolutely nothing, you could wait until the night before you get on the bus and decide to pull out with no consequences, If you tell them it's no deal without airborne and you'll wait for a slot to come open they will make it happen.
I'll be back in a bit, the alcohol is starting to wear off.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11085931 Growing up, my highschool summer job was "cotton scout" we were "crop scientists" that measured the plants, checked for bugs, abnormalities, invasive plants, etc. The farmer's sprayed the fields according to our recommendations.
I got crop dusted by who-knows what. Twice. Between that and a deployment to Iraq, I hope my kids aren't cross-eyed.
Anonymous
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>>11085383 Last bit of video... Iraqi army soldire pissing on the other guy, while the one being pissed on runs away... Must have been hilarious.
MFW
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11085906 Officers can often pick their branch. what kind of degree you have goes a long way towards what branches the Army will offer you. The best way to raise your chances of being put in the engineer corps is to have some kind of engineering degree. even if it is only your minor studies.
Any Engineer officer can work in a combat engineer company. Volunteer for it, request a combat unit assignment. and most importantly, don't have a vagina. Sounds silly but yeah, I have never seen a female engineer officer in a combat engineer company. Sure a few of them may have worked at battalion, but never as a PL, XO or CO. Also try to request a duty station that has a dedicated engineer battalion. as the Unit of action model has 1 company of 12 series per UA.
Anonymous
>>11085931 2001, the Brigade deployed to Kosovo, 3/7 put theirs in aconex and shipped it over, and had it on display in the big building right next to the chow hall on Camp Monteith
MedicBro
>>11085902 >>11085959 I figured waiting to get my sham shield as a whiskey then going to Selection was the safer bet, I'd just have to extend by 1/2 years or re-up. I did pull the requirements for pretty much the entire 35 series, though. All full color vision, even the fucking linguists. If I do manage to wrangle an Option 40, or just blow the Regiment recruiter when he swings by AIT, Ranger medics basically get the first half of the 18D course by going through SOCM. I'm hassling my recruiter every single week about running that shit up the chain to MEPS and the ROC if they have to, trying to get at least an Option 4 tacked on. Also it was made clear by a bunch of prior/current service dudes that until you swear in the second time right before you ship, you can tear that contract up and eat it without consequence.
I'm just really praying to be assigned to an infantry unit, right now. I'm not physically or temperamentally suited to dealing with a bunch of whining little chucklefucks if I don't absolutely have to.
Anonymous
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>>11085915 That's bitching man.
I remember when I was at Stewart we had a subscription to the Army Times and every year they put out an edition listing the best and worst bases force wide in different categories. We use to run a pool on how many of the bad categories Stewart would win when the article came out. The only bad category we could never get was child abuse. Fort Carson had that locked down, but dammit the guys tried.
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>>11086006 Oh ok, I bought I implied im taking engineering courses. Actually as both my major and minor
Anonymous
Fuck, all this 12B talk has me wanting to try for it again, despite the threats I got from my 1SG that if he ever saw my ass again he would kill me.
Anonymous
>>11086016 I was there at the time. I remember we sent a few volunteers over there to help out the tankers at 3-69.
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11086039 that's why I stressed getting airborne in your contract, 82nd, Rangers, SF all require it anyway and it's a relatively easy easy three week training course as long as you are a moderately ok runner and not a complete pussy. You get airborne in your contract you are not going to be sent to a pogue unit, there are some good non airborne units but you are better off not gambling. I started off in the 82nd and our medics were bro-tier as fuck.
Anonymous
>>11086076 you know Col Brooks is a 3 Star now, right?
Anonymous
>>11086085 All combat medics are bro-tier.
Pic related.
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11086074 Again?
What happened?
Anonymous
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Blasts were directed towards gunners and these were givin to us.
Anonymous
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>>11086074 And I was just about to go to sleep. Give us the details.
MedicBro
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>>11086085 Well I'm going to cross my fingers and pray I can hustle my ass to jump school, by hook or by crook. If the other DEPpers from my station are any basis for extrapolation, I've got such a better chance at getting extra goodies it isn't even funny. Seriously, some of these dudes are just a fucking hot mess. I'm sitting back, chilling in one of the recruiter's swivel chairs and half listening to my iPod while three of the recruiters are fucking shark attacking this one kid. I mean the difference between the shit I DON'T get and the amount that gets piled on these retards... It's incredible.
Found it! Just took some drinking and the realization that it was on Live leak and not Youtube.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=43f_1218852490 12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11086122 It is kinda funny, Every combat medic I met either smoked or had way too many knives on them, especially when deployed.
Not just small utility knives but large fuckin' combat knives. But hey no one was really arguing with 'em.
Anonymous
>>11086076 I also remember this:
>Walking to work from barracks over on the 2-7 side of the parking lot pre-dawn. >Have to walk through the 3-7 Battalion area like every morning. >Get near and notice all the street lights aren't working on the fire break. >No big deal. Keep walking, but eyes haven't adjusted to the dark. >Trip over something and fall onto another something. >Guys start cussing me out, and as my eyes finally adjust realize there are guys sleeping everywhere on the ground. >Apologize, get up and then finish walk to work trying not to step on anybody. >Get to parking lot, "Wonder what they did this time?" Anonymous
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>>11086039 Former 97/35 series here. Don't feel too bad; although there were some real awesome assignment opportunities, anything FORSCOM sucks and would probably have driven you out of the military.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11086170 we gave ours a shotgun, see
>>11084735 Anonymous
>>11086099 No fucking shit! Well god damn! Good for him.
I still remember the first time I met him. I was still brand new from basic and everyone made fun of me afterward for how attent my attention was when he spoke to me. He was the first Full Bird who ever said shit to me.
Anonymous
>>11086130 I wasn't able to finish my BCT APFT run in time. They kept me on till half way thought AIT then put me on non-trainer the day of my live blast.
Long story short, my 1SG was a hardass and didn't like me, would always give me dirty looks and ask why the fuck a pussy like me joined the Engineers becasue I was weak and would get people killed. My PSG was a fucking boss though, day I left he have me a pat on the back, told me to take care of myself and come back, just not as an Engineer maybe the Air Force would be more my style.
I'll admit I wasn't ready for the Army when I first joined, and I fucking hated Missouri weather, but damn if that wasn't the best 6 months of my life.
Anonymous
>>11086170 Yeah, I never understood the knife thing. Here's one of our other medics. They were all quiet too, rarely ever said anything.
Anonymous
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>>11086122 most blood thirsty/ crazy guy in my Inf platoon was our medic, which reminds me..
>half way through OIF II Doc K (no joke) has taken to walking around with a folding knife and flipping it open and closing it over and over >Doc keeps this knife in his front pant pocket >pulling 24 hr shift at local IP station cause they are a bunch of pussies >annoying IP is running his mouth in arabic. >Doc K starts going off on him >"I don't fucking understand you Haji! Shut the fuck up Haji! SHUT THE FUCK UP!" >Haji getts in Doc Ks face still going on in durka durka >Doc whips out his knif and snaps it open in one smooth motion with the tip of the blade just barely touching Hajis nose when it locks open >Hajis eyes bug out, turns and runs >Guys outside say they watched him run down the main blvd of town till he was so far away they couldn't see him anymore 12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11086164 Fucking god i hate that part of town. There were huge T walls lining Sadr city like it was the projects of Baghdad. so these fucks started placing EFP's on the other side of the wall facing our convoys. ISR cant spot them, We eventually modded a husky with an arm on it to hold a camera and a floodlight to look behind the walls to find these things.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11086218 >dat shoulder kevlar >mfw Anonymous
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>>11086164 Good old Saddam City. I spent many an hour out on those streets back in the day.
Anonymous
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>ready at 0600 >wait less then a minute for fat pvt pyle types to catch up >march to cumdumpster barracks >wait a fucking hour because we aren't allowed in and they can't wake up On time >finally arrive at mess hall, cold chairforce pancakes mfw I have to deal with femanon bullshit everyday mfw I have no face
Anonymous
>>11086209 indeed, I liked working for him, shame he had to leave the Brigade just a few months before the invasion, I bet he knew it was coming too. He got boned out of CIB in the first gulf war, and he missed out again,
Related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_K._Brooks related
Anonymous
>>11086239 That place WAS the projects of Baghdad! When we set up shop there in 2003 the friendly natives told us Saddam's people didn't fuck with that hood because they didn't come back if they went down there.
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11086218 the knife thing...
yeah, it's usually guys on their first deployment who put a huge pigsticker on their IBA, it takes a deployment or two to figure out that you *never* use those things and they are just extra weight. A smallish fixed blade? Fine, but I think you are better off with a decent folder, maybe a leatherman or gerber for jury rigging shit and a strap cutter in a handy spot in case you need to cut someone out of their uniform to give aid (which happens).
Only toolbags keep carrying a giant knife after their first deployment or so, every ounce counts. I know, I was the guy running around with a becker Rtac on his gear back in 2003.
Camping, sure, whatever, but rucking around the desert, the city, clearing houses you learn to keep shit simple.
MedicBro
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>>11086239 Christ, just hearing about EFPs makes me pucker up like a pair of fucking vice grips.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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>>11086292 but...but... what will I cut my MRE open with????
>>11086239 >>11086289 Your faces when that was my Platoons 1'st Squad in that video and the peeps getting shot the fuck up in the back was my Squad.
Sadr City was not the place to be in 08-09
space herpes... !F4e0wtigJo
>>11086303 Sadr City was *never* the place to be.
Anonymous
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>>11086240 SOP is SOP unfortunately.
I saw that pic you posted in that other thread with the guy who was going to be starting quarterback and reminded me of this guy. He was an immigrant from Guinea. Had an economics degree from UW-Green Bay, his cousin was the economics minister of Guinea or some shit. Got his citizenship during OIF-IV. After ETSing after our deployment he got accepted to Johns Hopkins, ended up dropping out to go back to Afghanistan.
Anonymous
>>11086173 I was up in brigade when 3/7 had a bluelight special sometime in 2002. They were told it was a BN run, formation in the MP @ 0600. Once everyone was accounted for, the gates were closed and they opened up the bays revealing the 100% piss test, then they went through the B's with the dogs. One guy had like 6 lbs of pot in his room, another guy had a runaway 15y/o living in his room. They still do bluelight specials down there or has IG squashed them yet?
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
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decent thread going on here, I dumped some photos, give up what you got:
>>11085049 Anonymous
>>11086173 I was in Bravo 2-7 from late 1999-2001.
12B !h9ByLeppH.
>>11086210 BCT and AIT are designed to be passed. Failing out of a job like 12B is pretty difficult. The main thing is the running though. I was at fort lost in the woods in the summer. Lots of kids right out of high school, it is a bit harder on the body especially if you're not used to the mountains and the oppressive heat.
Fall/Winter is bitterly cold, it snows and ices over, there are days that you just cant get warm. And then if you're not lucky you get stuck with Christmas Exodus and have to break your training half way through. then you likely will not get Leave before being assigned to your new duty station.
Combat engineer is a hard job. not just for the route clearance portion but everything else that gets done too means that you need to be able to work and lift and of course PT along with the rest of them.
But i say this. If this is what you want to do, accept nothing else. Train up, exercise, and try again. I would rather have a scrawny soldier that wants to be an engineer than a PT stud that had to settle for it.
Anonymous
>>11086287 Yeah he was a good guy. Much better than that short fucker afterward. Col Grissom was it?
My favorite commander there though was, LT.Col Scott E Rutter. Guy was a beast on the battlefield.
b00ce !s9oBJdL9GA
Going down to MEPS to pick an MOS Friday, trying for UAV Pilot, Aviation repair/Avionics tech, communications or intel.>MFW I hear stories of the Peanut butter shot... Nothin against needles, but fuck that noise.
Anonymous
>>11086365 I drove Rutter for nearly a year before being sent to Korea, right before OIF.
Heard some interesting stuff, like every FTX got to listen to him bitch out that incompetent CO from A co.
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11086375 My sister did UAV at Ft. Huachuca (spelling?) and she HATED it.
She re-classed as PAO and hasn't regretted it for a minute
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
Anonymous
>>11086384 And yes, Rutter was a beast. A real battlefield commander. Fucker slobbered a lot, though.
b00ce !s9oBJdL9GA
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>>11086391 It'll set me up for WOFT quite nicely. And I think I'll like it.
Anonymous
>>11086365 #/7 had LtCol K for the invasion (dont ask me to spell or pronounce his name) was a cool guy,but at some point after the invasion he lost his mind and grabbed his drivers crotch. He quietly got relieved and sent to drive a desk in the basement of the Pentagon till retirement.
And I don't care what anyone said, CSM Dunn was a cool guy. Man spent years refusing to get moved up any higer than his job as a BN CSM over there in 2/7.
Anonymous
>>11086325 That story took place in 2002! :-D
I remember the rumor about the teenage runaway. LOL
Did you know a guy named Greathead over there? He was my bro.
Anonymous
>>11084805 hey you 2/252 here from Nashville.
Anonymous
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>>11086359 Thanks man. Most of it wasn't that hard. I was able to pass all my tests first time and could beat my push ups and sit ups, but I'd never run a day in my life before I joined and that shit just killed me. I'm working on it now, but I was thinking about maybe going 13M instead.
I was there last Jan right after the tornado tore though base, and then we got hit with all that snow and didn't do shit for week on end.
Anonymous
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>>11086375 It's not that bad. People make it sound worse than it actually is. We had to get the infamous peanut butter shot the day before we did the five mile run in ranger school. Your ass cheek is sore and you can feel it everytime that leg impacts the ground but everyone who was going to make without the shot, made it with one.
Anonymous
>>11086407 Holy shit, really? I'm the anon who drove Rutter, and I remember driving over to 3/7's AO all the time in the field while Rutter and 3/7's CO shot the shit.
Luckily Rutter never grabbed my crotch. oO
pathsofglory !!L/tDtT62c7H
>>11086417 Oh shit bro, whats up? Nashville... Mechanics? I was in Williamston/Woodland
Anonymous
>>11086408 I'm sure with a name like Greathead in the Inf I would remeber that
>>11086365 Was he still in command of 2/7 for the invasion? I remeber when we moved out the the dispersal areas before the invasion, we just kicked back in 3/7 and chilled, we looked over and saw guys by their Brads digging Ranger Graves "Who's that?" "2/7, that's their BN SOP"
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>>11086292 I kept my Sykes knife on that vest as a good luck charm, it's stamped as being made the same year i was born and i'v had it for 20 years. It had been used twice in OIF-3 and was very light. so I kept it on there just as a superstition thing. Silly, yeah but whatever keeps you sane.
Ive seen some guys go overboard though, but by the end of the tour that shit is just taking up space in a tuff box.
Anonymous
>>11086348 Shit dude I was there in late 2000 through 2003. I was the broke dick with the bad back. What platoon were you in?
Anonymous
>>11086442 Yes, Rutter took 2/7 into Iraq. They took BIA, and he's the CO who recommended and got the first CMH of Iraq, for SFC Paul Smith.
Anonymous
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>>11086450 A friend of mine lost his knife in a Haji's chest. To this day, he still bitches about losing it.
Anonymous
>>11086455 Oops, not CMH, MoH. I dun goofed.
Anonymous
>>11086434 negative infantry out of smithfield. we are the guys always rucking at 2 am on bragg
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>>11086455 no, all of 1st Brigade took BIA, I was in B 3/7 and we were with 3/69 leading the whole brigade.
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>>11086451 >>11086466 And I seem to remember a lot fo dudes in Bravo with broke backs.
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>>11086479 his MOH is one of the best i ever heard , dying after taking out so many people with a M2 , hero to the end
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>>11086482 Oh shit, Bravo company in the house... Do you know LeCompte? He's my brother-in-law
Your CO Vines was a fucking lunatic on his JSS, he ran that MTV crew ragged when they did that special on what's-his-nuts.
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>>11086489 I wasn't there, I'm just going off of what I saw on TV while in Korea.
>holy shit that's Scotty Rutter and he's talking about BIA! I drove that guy! >none of the other dudes in the barracks believed me Anonymous
>>11086504 hmm not really , im in 3rd plt dismounts. we kinda do our own thing. i know a few of the guys from 1st and 2nd dismounts. like ssgt or sfc cant remember briggs.
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>>11086398 Yes, The spitting! We use to always fight to get to the back of the pack when he fell us out to bring us in close so he could talk. He always had those little foamies at the corner of his mouth. lol
Here's a story about Rutter:
>Second night of the war >People are still real nervous and not sure about what to do >Guy calls up to Battalion asking what to do about civilian trucks coming toward their position. They don't want to kill civilians. >Shit goes back and forth for a while >Then suddenly a wild LtCol appears on the net >"This is Able-6 dammit. (And he stutters when he says this, which is why one of his nicknames was Stutter Rutter) KILL 'EM ALL!! >And a new SOP was born That's one of the many reasons I loved this guy.
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>>11086365 Grissoms problem was he had spent is whole time light, he made full bird and he got a Mech Brigade. When ever we whent to the field no joke he would leave his 113 in the motor pool. Marne 6 made him bring it out halfway through his last Marne fuckus
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>>11086525 He's in the Smithfield detachment, well he was before he re-classed. Now he's a forward air controller in Raleigh
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>>11086552 cool bro, well gotta get up early tomorrow. remember. "see you on the high ground" :)
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> On patrol in Bamyan > See some Afghanis walking down a hill in the middle of nowhere > Drive over to talk to them > Notice that they have woman and children with them > They start to run away from us when we get close >we think 'WTF' so naturally we chase after them to see why their running > The translator with us starts yelling at them and they stop. > He talks to them for a while >Translator turns to us and says "They say that they are scared because your horse has no legs" >realise that they are talking about the Humvee >These people haven't been in contact with the rest of the world for about 100 years >Then we gave them candy
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>>11086466 So you worked for SFC Bost. I was in 1ST and later HQ Plt with SSG Cherry.
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>>11086531 god I wish I could have stilll been part of the brigade TAC just to hear that on the net
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The story of PVT Rambo (I wish i was making this shit up...) If you join the army and your last name is "Rambo" you have 2 options. You either become a shitbag or you are Bro-tier.>New PV2 Rambo gets to an engineer unit in Ft Carson >He's under 21 >Rambo starts drinking heavily and gets busted >Article 15, now PVT Rambo >Rambo starts drinking again, busted again >Second article 15 >PVT Rambo gets off Extra duty a second time and heads over to Carson MP motor pool > Proceeded to sign out a humvee from the MP's >loads it up with his stuff at the barracks and drives off the base like it wasn't even a big deal. >Drives across colorado, stopped 2 times by police, not arrested. >Drives across Kansas, Stopped by officer who lets him go >"My commander gave me permission to use this vehicle" >Former Army police officer calls in to FT Carson to check the story >No responce >Officer puts out an APB and Rambo is arrested. >Front page news on the base "FT CARSON SOLDIER RAMBO ARRESTED!" >Pic related, fuck you rambo.. Fuck you.
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>>11086567 Ready. Poised. Decisive.
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>>11086493 I was also the tallest Anon in the Company and probably had the most hair.
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>>11084455 >dat Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer Anonymous
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>>11086534 I did not know that. Makes sense now.
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>>11086531 That's awesome.
I remember one field problem where we parked the humvee out in the fucking woods somewhere overlooking what was going to be a battlefield later in the day. It might have been Marne Focus, but anyways 2-7 was supposed to perform a blocking mission across some giant fucking open area.
So I get out and start smoking, checking the area like I usually did, wiping down the headlights, chekcing the tires....and Rutter just sits there. And sat there he doesn't move a muscle. Staring at a map in front of him. He didn't move for literally 45 minutes. So I'm walking around, thinking my battalion commander has passed out or died or some shit and I'm gonna have to get on the horn to Able7 and call him over.
I stood there staring into the humvee, chain-smoking for a good 15 minutes.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Rutter's hand shoots out, grabs a handset, and starts throwing out a fuckload of orders to every Able element in the area. It was like watching a wizard or some shit. He had been STARING at this map the whole time, planning the entire battle, every fighting position, laying everything out in his head and then stringing it all out in one fuckhuge Op Order to every company commander in the field.
Now, honestly, I thought Rutter was a bit of a dufus. i always did, he was a goofy guy. But he knew how to fight.
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>>11086429 I remember you. You had the little Bradley as the hood ornament on the HMMWV.
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>>11086572 We had a bunch of PSG's, I think. Bost sounds familiar, yeah. I think he was a prick.
I remember Cherry. Did you know sergeant Root? Or Godwin?
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>>11086621 No, I never had any hood ornaments. might have been the guy after me. I left 2-7 in early 2002.
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Question: Outside of doing all kinds of secret squirrel shit in the Regiment, what's the likelihood of getting fast-tracked along the way to E-4? I know the way, way outside chance is 3 months TIG + 18 months TIS for E-4; But that's if, by some act of god, somebody up there in the big CoC in the sky really likes you and you get waivered THREE fucking times. I realize that the likelihood of it happening once, especially when we'll already have one foot out the door with Afghanistan by the time I graduate AIT, is unlikely as hell. I also realize that it's completely dependent on what unit I'm in. But still, I gotta wonder. If I do end up deciding early on I really want to go to Selection, it's going to suck some titanic dick if I've gotta sit around twiddling my thumbs for the two years to hit TIS requirements for E-4.
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Alrighty, this is becoming incetusous guys.
Who has some good coins? I have posted 2 so far...
>>11086591 >>11085067 and we had some 'booters
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>Be on patrol in Iraq >Radio call from Lead truck >"2-6 this is 2-1 Golf. we have two locals over watching out convoy...Break" >"One of them has a camera, the other one looks like he has a cell phone... Break" there is a pause, butt-holes clench. >A sound rips through the vehicle that i've never heard before. Deep and concussive. >Whatthefuckwasthat?!.gif > "2-6 this is 2-1 Golf. One local holding a camera videotaping his headless friend with a cell phone. >look up through the gunner's hatch and see the m-107 laid out ontop of our vehicle and a great big smile on the Gunner's face. >mfw i have no face. >PL says we can't have the .50 in the lead truck any more.
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>>11086633 Hell yeah, I knew SSG Root. That's him on the left. Godwin I think left right after I got there.
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>>11086776 dude, that stand is ballin'
nice collection too. What's your highest rank (that gave u a coin)?
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>>11086617 Rutter was awesome in the field. He's one of the main reasons 2-7 did so well during the invasion and had so few casualties, but he was a goofy guy.
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>>11086806 got the stand at clothing and sales I think. Big gold coin and like 2 others are from 2 stars, but I got them when I was driving for a full bird, so whatever
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>Deployed to NTC, yadda yadda >Get sent out to help some guys in the FSB because they're short handed. >Get the job done. >FSB's Command Sergeant Major notices the work. Gives us a thanks and starts handing out coins. >Gives me one. I say thank you, but then hand it back to him. >"I appreciate it, but I don't collect these things." Everyone's face around me.
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>be in russian army >apply for combat duty >sent to border of chechnya and dagestan >just a bunch of kids fucking around >FSB and regulars come to take us on a patrol >they make US go ahead of them into the village >so far so good >then they make US enter buildings to search house >we are not trained for this what the fuck >my unit run into guy trying to stash AK pistol when we come in >everyone opens fire, kills him and his wife >get yelled at, weapons taken away, sent back to base. >wtf
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>>11086896 peacetime NTC used to be the closest thing anyone had to "combat". Once a year (or every other year) it was 30days for everyone in the Brigade combat team to have a chance at some sort of award, and for the O's a chance to get that one bullet commant that might put them over the top for that next promotion. Joe got shit, every PL and PSG got at least a ARCOM.
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Oh NTC and those 6 weeks without a shower... I fucking hated Barstow
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>>11086927 and this is the army we feared for 40 years during the cold war
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>>11086963 this was pretty early and we were all young kids drafted i think is what you call it. everyone serves some years in service, but we wernt trained for that type of shit, the special troops and regular infantry just wanted us to get blown up instead.
i stayed in the army and switched to airborne unit, its much better, we know our shit
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Alright guys, great thread, but I'm calling it a night.
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>>11087074 as am I, COTTONBALERS!
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great thread. I think it has reached capacity though and can't be bumped. What a shame.
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