Military Salt thread

>>32417928
not weapons related. try >>>/r9k/

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>>32417928

>be me inna OSUT
>get little to no instruction on weapon systems then get hazed in front of platoon for not knowing it
>drill sarnt breaks my glasses """accidentally""" when he steps on them when we're out at PT


>mfw im not squared away and people are starting to notice

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>JRTC
>Be medic
>soldier presents to me with epididymitis
>Testicle swollen to the size of an orange
>Physically can't walk
>Unit refuses to medevac him out
>Ends up losing half of his left testicle.
>LOD gets denied, claims surgery was "Elective" and "non-duty related"

>Commander casually mentions in conversation how millennials are delusional, and how he had a soldier choose to chop of a testicle for no reason.

>>32417960
What weapon?

>>32418005
Why is this allowed? Makes me not want to join at all. Are military people really that stupid? No one realized he could lose his balls because of that?

>>32418358
good units and shitty units.

Its allowed because nobody calls them on it

>>32418167
M2 browning

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>>32417928
>be me
>have a million dollars in training for intel job, including a foreign language
>get armorer and commo guy training at my unit
>I'm tasked out be doing people's income taxes for the next 6 months
ITS OKAY. I NEVER WANTED TO DO MY JOB ANYWAYS

>>32418005
IG the fuck outta that shit.
Nigga I would be knocking down every door I could find until that command got relieved.

>>32419075
Oh trust me we are.

Luckily the kid had health insurance, and they were still able to save most of his nut, but its gunna be a hell to pay

>>32418358
Who are you going to complain to that youre being mistreasted? The officer's even more retarded boss?

An older friend of mine told me that the modern military is very much full of toxic leadership, most people with a decent brain and sense of ambition do their 4 or maybe 8 years, get out, finish school or get a good job and move up.

The people who stay in are almost always worthless and wouldnt be able to hack it in the real world, these people become your boss, and promote people they like and force out the hard working competent people.

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>>32419065

>>32419129
we need to drain the military swamp

>>32419065
Fuck you ho. VITA is a skate assignment.

>>32419129
You complain to the IG, not your commander's boss.

But still, your friend is wise.

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>>32418005
Reminder that most commanders have degrees in English or Business Management. AKA, retard degrees. If you allow someone with those qualifications to rule over your entire life, you deserve whatever happens.

>>32419156
>wanting a skate assignment
Yeah, good for your resume or a package to anywhere decent. Leave the skate shit to the Supply fags.

>>32417928
>be spc
>never want to promote because getting out
>squad leader makes me do ssd1 after 3 years of shaming it
>immediately sends me to promo board
>tells me I can easily make sgt
>points then shoot to max
>bastard put the evil of that P status on me with no hope of release
>less than 9 months till ets
>"bro why don't you reenlist"
RRREEEEEEEEE

>>32419181
>"bro why don't you reenlist"

There are so many answers to that question

>>32419181
>"bro why don't you reenlist"


every careerist in the fucking military

>>32419181
Heh a loud fuck no was the response there after 4 months of polite declinations. 12 k for 6 years is less than the ot I made in one year at the mental hospital and dealing with less retarded shit. One enlistment was useful but 6 years was too long in that unit

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>>32419181
>when the retention NCO finally found out I didn't plan on reenlisting
Every god damn day.

>>32419155
True, imho we need to have the military 100% gighting or in direct support of them. Everything else is privatized.

>arty is military
>admin and cooks are not

I'm of being told to thank someone who works in an office when i pull 80 hours a week in the oil field.

>>32419192
>>32419203
>>32419248
>>32419294
I then got in trouble for telling the retention nco to fuck off when he came around

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>>32419248
>12 k for 6 years is less than the ot I made in one year at the mental hospital and dealing with less retarded shit.

I like this ^_^

>>32417951
Hey, stupid faggot, military personel are conscripted weapons essentially owned by the government so, YOU kindly fuck off.

>>32417960
I'm guessing your not squared away on a lot more than just that.

>>32419164
No, you idiot, the worst commanders are West Pointers. They quit giving a fuck after a few weeks in

8 years ago it wasn't this bad.

Please, Lord Mattis, unfuck all this shit.

>>32417928
>specialist
That's cute Army.

Enlisting. See navy guys. They all act overly aggressive, and try to intimidate people that they need to take the oath or else they're wasting time. Meantime law suit comes up. I'm staying out until i get paid. They put on the same shit show for me. Meantime I already work for the DoD. I know the military perks. I'm talking mad people to get the fuck in there. Recruiters are dumb fucking shitheads. They are so fucking dumb. Theyre literally chasing people away instead of recruiting. Fucking morons can be LAID back, and let people fall into it. you got to ignore fuckheads galore

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>>32417928
>lowly private
>out one night drinking
>wake up in the morning with a giant black foot
>i am not black, this is a problem
>go to hospital, ankle is broken in 3 places
>get put it in cast, told it would be on for 3 months
>this is one week before battalion exercise
>commander sees cast and questions me
>he works out I didn't go to military hospital, so no record of injury
>he needs soldiers for the exercise, I can see his mind ticking over
>later that day he comes back with orders on where we will be for battalion exercise
>I will be living innawoods for one month
>he hands me a giant size 99 boot, tells me to put it over cast
>he winks and says just keep it quiet
>spend week hobbling around in fuckhuge boot
>day before exercise company medic sees me driving from barracks to mess hall
>asks me why I drove 100yds, why he shouldn't charge me for being a lazy shit private
>I tell him about my cast and what commander said
>bricks were shit, but commander didn't get in trouble
>commander charges me for going to civilian doctor and lying
>I visit stores nco to get a copy of the paperwork commander used to get giant boot
>we watch cctv of him asking for it and explaining why he only needs one giant boot
>go to court hearing, show paperwork and cctv, defence officer doesn't even say anything
>commanders face when
>no charges for me, spend next month alone in barracks
>when commander comes back from exercise he has stack of charges for me
>only one sticks because I can't prove I stayed in camp
>1 month AWOL, 2 weeks in prison
>such is the life of a private

>>32419495
Hey, you chose to be enlisted

>>32419123
I wish you the best of luck and hell on the motherfucker who let that happen. Godspeed.

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>be me
>boot muhreen gettinf ready for ship deployment
>CrewCheif doing gear inspection and watching me pack my shit
>micromanager like a sumbitch, starts getting impatient about 4 minutes into me packing everything I'm taking
>stars cramming shit into my other bags so he can go get drunk
>get issued two sets of side sapi carriers
>only taking one pair, holding the one I'm going to take on deployment
>"Hey pillow biter, I already packed a pair for you, give it here"
>give him the pair I was holding, he stuffs it into my spare seabag
>assume he stuffed the other pair in my deployment seabag
>finish packing, I go fuck off and he gets loudly inebriated
>be under way, almost to Kuwait
>find out we're gonna be at the border of Iraq doing shady shit
>gear inspection for it innaship
>going through my shit, pull everything on the list out and set it up
>wait a minute, something is missing..
>narrow it down to my side sapi carriers
>can't find them anywhere, tear my bags, rack, locker and track trying to find it
>give and go tell crew chief, begins to bitch me and play fuck fuck ganes
>half way into hazing me, section leader finds out
>spend the whole time in Kuwait and at the border getting hazed, pulling extra watch, and being whored out to the grunts for patrols
>borrow side sapis from dude doing ship taxes
>come back from deployment, get my storage shit
>going through my spare seabag, find the one pair I pack
>at the very bottom of the bag is my other pair
>mfw he either lost track of the shit he was packing and stuffed my other pair into the storage seabag or he did it on purpose to fuck with me

Shit sucked, I coulda died if shit went down over there and that dude didn't let me borrow his sapi carriers

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>>32419527
And 5 years later, I chose to leave, like 70% of all enlisted.

Command has not been able to replace me and I am negotiating salary and benefits to come back as a civilian contractor.

>MFW they bring up the AWOL charge.

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>>32419561
>mfw he either lost track of the shit he was packing and stuffed my other pair into the storage seabag or he did it on purpose to fuck with me

Why is this so fucking common?

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>>32417928
> in army flight school, WO1, formerly E-4
> get told I'm on road guard detail
> never even did this as a private
>such is life at fort rucker

>>32419334
Yeah i did that too as a young SPC. Once i got a team i started to enjoy being able to raise dudes up with the right mentality to survive this shit. After that i decided to stick around.

>>32419683
Worst part is that he wasn't even supposed to be my crew chief for deployment.

The crew I had been in since I had gotten to the fleet and trained to support the mortar squad and recon dudes got split up when some deployment sodget beat the breaks out of his wife, they had to even the crews out and I got put with a crew with a disgruntled alcoholic.

On a positive note, I spent more time with my grunts on patrols and shit and that crew chief got out and got addicted to crack and the dude who got dodged the deployment got kicked out and his wife took half his shit after he got kicked out.

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>>32419717
>wanting to deal with non functioning retards straight out of high school that spend the entirety of their free time at strop clubs and driving drunk
>wanting to actually be in charge of these people
The nice thing about SPC is I get to chose who I hang out with.
You're forced to be with your team.

>>32417951
Are you the same faggot from the Female DS thread?

Neck yourself, swine

>>32419561
I know this sounds kind of impossible with higher ranks, but NEVER, NEVER EVER let another mother fucker touch your CIF gear, EVER!

>>32419431
Yes. 8 years ago it was AT LEAST as bad.
t. Someone who enlisted in 2004

>>32419495
>Was a shitpump
>Fucked up, then fucked up again.
>I didn do nuffin!

>>32419886
huh? you sound like you know what you're talking about...

>>32419942
Yeah just I don't get fucked by my CoC. Then again, I'm not a shitpump.

>>32419704
I thought warrants were legendary for their skating potential?

>>32417928
Well, you'll learn next time won't you?

>>32418005

Fuck everything about JRTC.. Jesus Christ I hate that fucking rotation so fucking much. I need drink now.

>>32419981

Ordnance yes, don't know about others.

>>32419861
Are you still in?

No?

Fuck off.

Lots off quality people have been chased off by "peacetime" fuck fuck games, it's a worse military to be in than it was before higher made it clear that things like tattoo enforcement and trans awareness were going to be more important than getting the correct amount of training time for your job.

>>32420028

>trans faggotry not being on the same level as tattoos

Its unprofessional as fuck and the fact you let everybody see it is literally the only reason people give you shit.

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>drill isn't optional

LMAO yeah sure

I stopped going after 6 months and got an honorable discharge and make 100k+ a year thanks to the training I got.

Reserves/guard is a fucking joke. I highly recommend doing what I did to anyone. Get all the benefits of being in the army except you don't have to waste 6 years of your life in a drill hall wondering when the next sharp class is going to start.

>>32419065
Lmao, are you me?

>35P korean linguist
>company RTO and at one point was company supply nco for half a year
>am now ncoic of battalion S2
>havnt spoken korean other than for my re eval dlpt shit

And the kicker...
>im an E4 with 7 years TIS

Im just gonna keep going till they promite me or kick me out for being a 20 year spc

You know what's worse than being FTUS in the guard? Being a dual status tech. I have to handle all the fucking split trains, additional paperwork and usually get delegated to do extra shit because I have additional access. You know what I don't get? BAH. Stricter standards for going warrant since I can't outrank my boss. Loss of certain benefits. Everyone expects you to be a lifer and the retirement sucks.

>>32420074

You'll get a bar from enlistment before year 20 don't worry ;)

>>32418005
How's Whiskey life?

Should I go to (Para)medic school before I enlist?

>>32419561
bro i never ever let anyone pack my shit, handle my shit, nothing. if they even looked like they were going to talk away "excuse me sgt, where are you taking my sign equipment?"

I WATCHED MY SHIT LIKE A HAWK
>owed nothing when i ETS'd

>>32420015
my pilots walked out of every meeting/mandatory fun day/EO/SHARP/PT/TRAINING.

you would see them all walk in, sign in, and then one by one, as soon as you looked away, they *POOF* ninja smoked out.

>>32420133
I was one fucking jew about my gear after that, didnt owe anything when I EAS'd.

I was pretty salty about the whole ordeal for a long time, when I picked up Corporal I rode my troops ass about gear and passed my paranoia on to them

>>32419129
PREACH

myself and 6 NCO, 2 warrents and a few pvt got out at the same time, all of use were like "NAH FUCK THIS SHIT"

most toxic command ive ever seen, ft campbell literally kills the army, good NCO and even officers leave the army because they cant fucking bare another day on ft. campbell or the thought of getting sent back....

>>32419321
Fucking retarded, excessive contractor graft is a huge part of the military budget

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>>32420167
ya did good m8 ya did good.

i lost over 1k of personal property because of the army and a shitty room m8.

>northface jacket, one of the expensive $270-300 ones
>limited edition invictus watch with tritium inserts my family got me
>leatherman M.U.T. $150 an NCO stole it from me when i was a PFC and i couldent prove it so it was either catch him with it, or just let it go because if i narked with no evidence it would be a shitfest
>PT clothing
>UCP top
>pt belts like 4
>my good nature
>my faith in humanity

its cool tho, civi life with military exp in my field of work is soooooo cash.

>>32420074
>Im just gonna keep going till they promite me or kick me out for being a 20 year spc
I thought RCP was back down to 8 yrs from 10 years?

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>>32419065

>be me inna ft bragg
>tax time
>"spc anon you should go to the tax center"
>"wow sgt its so cool that the army provides us with tax professionals free of charge!"
>"no anon, its a red cycle tasking for soldiers. you'll probably have a young spc just like you."
>my fucking face when

>cctv in supply
>2 weeks prison
>what are thing that never happened for $200 Alex?
even if you are telling the truth, you should have demanded a art 32 hearing. It's clear the charges against you were retribution. Can't tell you how many times I saw someone get hit with BS charge and told to take the Art 15 and just the mention of a Art 32 hearing made everything go away

>>32419660
Fuck, this reminded me of what I think was a movie quote, but I can't quite remember it. It was something like "The price just doubled. Don't make me renegotiate it again".
Anyone know what I'm talking about, or am I just going to go insane trying to figure this out?

>>32417928
Wait you had fucking meningitis and they called you in? They're lucky it wasn't viral or they'd all be fucked and you would have dropped dead.

>>32419425
wtf? Some of the best officers I have ever dealt with have been West Point grads. I'm sure there are turds, I just haven't encountered them. I have dealt with turd West Point cadets though.

>>32419495
Red Coats love sending squads to jail more than the USMC does

>>32420533
I've had good officers and bad officers, and they all hated West Pointers. The one West Pointer I had was shit.

Supposedly the old-boys-network starts paying off once they make it to O5 or so.

>>32419746
No you

>>32417928

lets share some cadence salt running around fort lee

>army ait
>old viet dude platoon leader, cant pronounce name
>starts cadence by dfac infront of marine corp and airforce formations that look disciplined as fuck
>platoon leader and 50+ formation all sing in unison
>WALKING DOWN THE STREET ONE DAY!!
>I RAN INTO SOME FAGGOTS!!
>THEY ASKED ME WHAT I WANTED TO BE!!
>I SAID I DONT TALK TO FAGGOTS!!!
>marines and airforce looking salty as fuck
>officers driving by in their faggy cars looking salty as fuck

few weeks after

>shitbag fuzzy slaps on butterbar rank bought from px
>goes through barracks rooms, people stand at attention half naked
>GROUP ATTENTION
>'carry on privates'
>even the platoon sgts call attention for him
>continues through the entire day with butterbar rank on
>mfw everyone below O1 is saluting him
>gets caught because he missed final formation
>entire chain of command realizes they got rekt
>infinite salt


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKCIFXqhLzo

>>32419561
>MFW you think side sapis will save your life.

Those things sat in my footlocker for both deployments and I never died.

>>32420581
Yea well you better I heard it from my SNCOs and PL, I never wore them in training or even on patrol

>>32420581
Meh, in the 06-09 days Iraqi hadjis made a thing out of sniping dudes in the side.

>>32420028
Yes.

So fuck you.

>>32420338
>cctv in supply
it saved the guys who worked there so many times and even caught a major stealing a pallet of brass

>art 32
not sure dirty foreign military laws would have worked

>>32419438

Forgot all of your punctuation, Marine?

>>32420641
we need flags on post like on /sp/ and that other board

>>32419129
Truth.

BUT

>toxic

Fuck right off with that.

>>32419446

English is either not your first language or you have GED education at max.

>>32420108
if you have your EMT, great, if you don't, then don't sweat it.

You wont do much medicine, mostly just extra labour in whatever unit you go to

>>32420813
How hard is the Army PA program? As in, entry and stuff

>>32420819
You won't get it, unless you've got a bachelor's degree with GREAT grades

>>32420859
Fug

I've been contemplating going to school for my Biochem degree first, or just enlisting and letting them pay for it after.

>>32419495
What da fack is wrong with your all officers. Do they not understand the importance of morale and actually looking after their soldiers?

>>32420884
national guard is good for that.

But after the national guard, you won't want anything to do with the military

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>>32420913
Only thing is, I wanna be high speed.

I am seriously considering getting an opt 40 so I can go to SOCM. That's another reason for getting my degree prior, my work ethic is shit and I'm worried I'll academically wash out

>>32417951
No one cares about your autistic demands about board culture, faggot.
>>>/v/

>>32420064
Or your me and get placed as XO/RTO because fuck you that's why. Y do.

>>32420952
Then you'll wash out of SOCM.

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>>32421130
Idk, Biochem is a fucking shitstorm and I'm thinking my work ethic will improve during 4 years of intensive studying and tests.

meningitis is potentially fatal and is serious shit, what kind of retard forced you to go and what kind of retard followed the order against medical advice?

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>>32419495

>>32420952
you want the best advice i never got?

Do 3 years active, if you're high speed, you'll get to ranger, give the Army EVERYTHING and then some for the 3-4 years you're in.

Then get the fuck out. Don't let it ruin you. Don't let it become a huge emotional stress on your life. It will consume you. Get the FUCK out. I don't care how hooah hooah you feel. Get. The. Fuck. Out.

>>32420404
That's Star Wars, right? Darth Vader said that.

>>32421210
yeah, I think it was between him and Lando about something about capturing the dream team.

>>32421222
"I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

>>32421222
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further." is what he said multiple times, then Lando said something like "This deal is getting worse ALL THE TIME."

>>32420441
Bacterial is probably worse anon

>>32419495
Another bad idea

>>32421192
This holy shit.
You'll be fucking shocked how quickly ARMY ARMY ARMY wears off.
Rangers is ARMY ARMY ARMY on crack.

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>>32418005
This JRTC rotation this year was a shit show as well.

>Get told we are deploying, train hard for the past 6 months because of it
>One week before we leave to JRTC get told we are staying home as the rest of the battalion deploys
>JRTC now becomes a joke
>Our company ends up sitting at an airfield the entire time "the box" happens, so we don't even get any training fighting Geronimo
>End up staying two weeks longer to do details and load up everybody's shit as the rest of the battalion goes home

And to top it off

>On a Thursday, one day before we can finally get on the buses to go home
>Only to find out Friday, our glorious leadership lost the contract with the civilian charter bus company
>So instead of spending the weekend home relaxing with our families
we get to stay at Polk with the horses
>Sunday arrives and we finally get on a plane to come home on
>Get home Sunday night, only get Monday off and head right back into work on Tuesday

And that's not including all the people that got fucked up on the jump in, the fact that no one received separation pay, and also got their food allowance taken away because I guess the Army considers 3 meals a day of mostly MRE's acceptable

FUCK

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>just went to meps
>didn't think they'd let me cause I'm fat
>they do
>signed for 8 years in the army as a 68w
>start doing more stringent research
>instant regret
>mfw

Is this normal?

I'm 18 btw

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>>32419181
>be SrA
>Security Forces
>six months to seperation
>have a cross train package to TACP
>Commander wants to see me
>"Anon, you're a pretty squared away troop, everyone admires your work. Why do you want to leave the most important job in the Air Force?"
>spoiler: there was no right answer
>"You're a valuable enough member of Security Forces that I've decided to keep you with us where you belong."
>cross train denied
>seperate six months later
>prior service is now a disqualifier for going to the Army or going back to the AF as a TACP.
>they would rather have trannies and snowflakes.

>>32421465
>welfare queen woes
lmao

>>32421489
18 year old's doing no research whatsoever and selling their youth away?

Yes. At least you know what a MOS is and at least you don't think you'll be shooting patriots at ISIS.

The others I met at MEPS were not so lucky.

>>32421541
I knew EXACTLY what i was getting myself into it just really hit me after I signed

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>>32420533
The worst officers by far are West Pointers because they're told from day one at school that they're God's gift to the military and they're better than everyone else and all that.
So they get to their first unit as a brand new butter bar 2LT, with their heads completely up their ass, thinking they're hot shit.
Meanwhile you've got PFCs with more experience than them who know about how things need to be.
But brand new 2LT What'shisface, with his shiny West Point ring on his finger that he makes sure to make as visible as possible, decides he wants to do something, his E7 Platoon Sergeant with 15+ years of experience and multiple combat deployments tells him it's stupid and they're not going to do it, but the butter bar refuses to be told that he's not perfect and that his ideas are dumb makes everyone do it anyway. Rinse and repeat for their entire careers. Then they become XOs of a company and decide that right before closeout formation for the weekend he wants to do an inventory and layout, then he becomes a captain and is in charge of a company and then he's really untouchable and whatever he says goes, so he comes up with the dumbest shit ever for his soldiers to do, like stay in the field for weeks doing nothing, but god forbid a West Pointer be out there with the lowly enlisted the entire time. And then it just goes from there as he gets longer in the service.
West Pointers are trash. Pure fucking cancer to the service. The only good officers are prior enlisted and got out and came back in as an officer, those who did OCS, or those who did ROTC at some small college and didn't let it go to his head.

>>32420659
There was some punctuation you Army slut.

>>32419438
Sounds better than Lance Corporal. What the fuck does Lance even mean?

>>32421567
West pointers are okay if the lower enlisted can get to them quick and corrupt them before they've had too long in power.

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>>32421277
>>32421192
Thanks guys. That's legit wisdom, even if I don't understand it fully, I can appreciate the caution.

>>32421594
The problem is they usually don't interact with lower enlisted much if at all. Most just sit in their office on their computer bullshitting with the PSG while the Joes are out doing layouts or some shit in the sun.

>>32421590
Hitler was a Lance Corporal.

>>32417928
I was ARMY ARMY ARMY once....
>Be high-speed AD
>Go NG, be TL
>Get into pissing contest with NG PSG immediately over training
>Utterly shocked by the screaming idiocy and utter incompetency of this Stryker unit
>Get kicked over to vehicle section (this is apparently a fucking thing in the NG)
>PSG is shocked when he finds out that I'm already qualified to drive every variant of Stryker
>PSG shocked when I turn out to be one of (not THE, but one of, there's one NG VC better than me and dude is fucking boss) the best VCs in the Company
Bitch, I've got more time sleeping in a fucking Stryker downrange than you have drill days in the Army.
>spend next five years as a happy competent VC and actually enjoy drill. Keep my head down, follow boss VC's lead. All is well.
>Get new CO
>Get drafted to being new CO's VC
MFW_FML.gif
>New CO is enormous bag of shit
>3-day drill in the field with no ammo and no training schedule (admin weekend in the field)(WTF IS THAT)
>Return to home station
>1600, CO says to get in PTs
>Do PT, run, yeah, whatever
>PVTs who didn't bring PTs doing run in ACUs, its fucking 95 degrees out
>PVT numbskull falls out, whatever
>No medics, no supplies, no nothing
>CO proceeds to blame NG PVT for not being Ranger-qualified and properly hydrated
(Yeah, I know, EVERY SOLDIER SHOULD BE READY AT ALL TIMES TO DO SOLDIER THINGS, fuck you, this is the goddamned NG. We ain't that high-speed. Be fucking realistic.)
>Next drill, 3 days in the field, PT test on Sunday at 1500
>Next drill, 3 days in the field, broken rifle qualification range shared with 3 other units, able to get 3 shooters at a time, 50R target doesn't go down
>CO tells me to get the OE354 or whatever the fuck it was
>Talks to me like I know how to set it up or some such shit
>is 11B, not 25 whatever the fuck
>Condescending asshole to my face in front of privates
>Privates later ask why SGT Anon didn't just fucking eat CO
CONT.

Being an NCO is the absolute worst thing ever. I got bosses above me tasking me with impossible shit to do on a Friday evening and told to have it done on Mon. If I need clarification they usually have left early for the weekend. Turn around to my troops and it's amazing some of them even learned to breathe.

>>32421646
>Too demotivated
>Don't give a fuck any more
>Find out OEwhatever cable's broken anyway
>Too tired to care, shrug, leave fuckhuge antenna up all weekend anyway
>Return to home station
>CO declares PT session
>'Can't find' sensitive items, don't know what some are, take forever to miss PT
>11B don't wanna Army anymore
>Wanna 91F and pogue like no man has pogued before
>Other NCO leading mass exodus to 88M unit
>Three other 11B NCOs filing IG complaints

When you've taken the Infantry out of the Infantrymen, even Guard-ass Infantry, you done fucked up, dude.

>>32421646
You just described basically ever officer ever. They're all the same.

>>32420231
>gearfag
>everyone takes turn stealing

>>32421684
Man, good thing they don't make infantry write things...all i got out of that is that your unit sucks

Also, gotta love those 3-day-admin-in-field drills

>>32420641
What the fuck was he going to do with pallet of brass?

>>32419029
You can literally Google that shit bruh

>>32421732
>Google
>While in basic training

>>32420884
Hey no way, I too am a biochem major that wanted to operate. I went national guard, is good for college students. Also I got lucky and am in like the only NG Airborne unit, so I got to do that. But after I finish my contract I will never reenlist lol

>>32417928
>Meningitis?

Things that never happened

No Dr in the military would allow the chance of you spreading a potentially lethal disease.

A cold of flu maybe but not meningitis.

>>32422042
>No Dr in the military would allow the chance of you spreading a potentially lethal disease.

you'd be surprised.

I once saw a smallpox outbreak in the dorms because the docs released someone back into the wild.

>>32422039
Hmm, interesting. 68w?

>>32422042
national guard. I left a civilian hospital

>>32422039
11B, aint nobody got time for all that trainin

>>32422186
Oops, see
>>32422270

>>32420283
It is, if my 35L packet goes through in the next couple of weeks i will definitely get promoted to e5. Im not even a shit bag. I just havnt got promoted because my unit is run by a infantry and nothing else command. Their mindset is, pogue? Fuck off you dont know leadership enough to be an nco. And im like, ive been filling an e6 slot for my ncoic position for over 3 years.

So get this, i reupped to get stationed in hawaii to do a 35P job, and they still ended up putting me in goddamn s2

>>32420404
Will Smith's first scene in suicide squad

>Be me, fresh E4 coming back from deployment 2014
>Starting to get my shit together, better at pt, actually learned some skills on deployment, avoided getting blown up or shot.
>Get stateside, get told Im moved to ops to run DTMS.
FML. No, Seriously. Fuck. That. Shit.
>Spend as little time doing things as possible, purposefully shitbagging and fucking things up for CO/Top.
>Watch all my platoon mates get sent to school after school after school after school.
>My slot for EEOCA gets yanked because "its more important I crunch numbers" than learn to do my fucking job.
>Hate CO, Hate Top, Hate Ops NCO.
>Hate my life.
>Get new CO. The only WPointer ive ever met whose head wasnt up his ass.
>Actually get to bullshit with him, he actually fixes a few things that were getting stupider by the day for joes.
>Still hate Ops.
>Pop goes my back a week before a PT test
>7 months later finally get an MRI
>Degenerative discs, spinal stenosis and arthritis in low back
>Top calls me shitbag to my face for profiles.
>Hey 132GT score, where are my DTMS stats?
>Havent even done them. Dont feel like doing them. Wont Be doing them.
>End up back in a line platoon, free at last.
>Actually get to train some newbs on Husky utilization in a RCP.
>Do good job as E4 teamlead
>Now I work part time and go to school

>If I had gone to EEOCA, like the guy who replaced me, I wouldve had a slot for SAPPER. Which would have meant a slot for RANGER. Which would have been very kickass.

Alas, paperwork, done incorrectly and behind schedule is more important to top. Fuck it.

>Getting tired of being polite to recruiters nowadays. Would much rather tell them eat shit, but I dont. Idk y

>>32417928
Guard here with a similar failed PT test story. Whole unit knew I broke my forearm in a accident. Showed them the doctor's paperwork, x ray, surgery with a pin in place and didn't file it through guards medics so my cast happened to come off a month before the test. Failed it and then I took 2 months to finally pass. Didn't matter that technically I would have had 6 months of recovery if I was active duty.
Lesson is if you have real documented medical issues make sure to get a real profile.

>>32419717
I've been a team leader, acting squad leader, and even acting psg for a day. Fuuuuuccckk that shit.

>>32421568

Keep talking dirty to me, daddy.

>>32421232
Furthermore, I wish you to wear this dress and bonnet.

>>32421567

or you get prior E officers who start every single goddamn motherfucking piece of shit conversation with "when i was a SGT/insert rank here".

you're not a goddamn E-3 anymore, start acting like a fucking officer.

this entire thread makes me so glad i joined the air force as a rated officer.

no shit our flight doc plays beer pong with us.

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>>32422075
>I saw an outbreak of smallpox in the dorms
>The last case of smallpox wasn't reported in Africa in 1978
>CDC wouldn't go apeshit and the Dr who released said petri dish back into the world didn't lose his license for not reporting a mandatory reportable disease.

You know how I know you're a liar and a faggot? Maybe I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your dumb ass meant chicken pox.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049694.htm

>>32423768
>smallpox vaccine is mandatory for Security Forces pcs'ing to Korea
>A1C Anon fell severely ill from his vaccine and manifested symptoms
>his roommate and the two Airmen in the conjoined room fell ill with pox symptoms as well.

officially, it was not a smallpox outbreak, it was "four people fell ill to a vaccine"

when you're 5,000 miles from the nearest majcom, a LOT of shit gets ignored.

>>32418005
I was at a rotation last year, we jumped in and a new PV2 burned in, didnt stop rotation what so ever cause "hurr durr train as you fight"
go i was so salty at my brigade

>>32421740
Well the motherfucker is on 4chan

>>32421723
the same thing those greedy range operators that ban steel case do, sell it.