I'm certain the command would enjoy hearing about your plan and may bend a few rules for you. can't hurt to ask, right?

Hahahahahaha!

Yeah, I'm sure they'd be terribly accommodating. Nothing bad can happen there. :p 

While your at it I need you to go get me about 100 more feet of flight line and a gallon of blinker fluid, oh and while you're out go as Gunny Smith if he knows where the Platoon's PRC-E7 is ok? 

Syntax, I say this because at my Basic graduation, one of my platoon members was able to have an extended pass because his wife came down with their newborn. Our CoC was really cool about it. The Colonel actually met with him and his wife and he was even congratulated during the ceremony speech. 

it all just depends. 

Do you have any experience with Lackland GodMachine? Any idea who I would contact/how? I'm guessing the general receptionists desk on base isn't going to be too particularly helpful, but then again, I'm not too familiar with the military-yet. Something tells me that being married to a potential lifer will make me VERY familiar with Air Force policy-damn $50,000 resigning bonuses....maybe they'll ship us somewhere cool though?

promotes weakness I say.

IKNOWRITE? 

I wouldnt call but I've had different experiences. 

Funny. I listened to everyone who told me to keep my head low and keep my mouth shut at basic, and I'd do fine. So what'd I do when I got to basic? Kept my head low, stayed out of the way and kept my mouth shut. Only got smoked because I sneezed in formation during the 1SG's morning orders before PT.

And yet, when everyone said to let it go and accept the fact that she'd be getting dick when she joined the Navy, I was still slightly crushed when my best friend calls me from Hawaii, we get to talking and the topic comes up that she lost her v card.

Two years ago she wanted me to be her first.

Meh, I just want my leg to heal, so I can re-enlist, that seemed to get my mind off of her pretty easily. 

Any idea who I would contact/how?

Colonel Westerman. 

Colonel Westerman.

That's one of those military jokes, like retrieving some blinker fluid, right?

/newb 

No.

Colonel Westerman(n) is the top dog out there, for trainees, AB's, if you will.

I got to meet the man, he was mighty impressed with the tears coming down my face...

"This world is in need of more fathers like you..." 

Contact major peter or private parts. They seem to know what's up. I also need a box of grid squares and see if you can find the keys to the hmmwv. 

Major Peter makes some good bloody mary mix. 

I dont even wanna know what he stirs it with. 

Also, please change the summer air for winter air in the tires aaaaaaaaaaaand paint this rock. Thanks. 

Paint this rock is a VERY real Extra Duty Assignment.

The HHC for my Battalion at Schofield Barracks was in the Barracks Quad - there was this Unit insignia (giant) rock in front surrounded by pebbles stones ( about the diameter of a quarter). The SGM and 1SG used to have people that got Company Grade Article 15s paint the stones when they were on Restriction/Extra Duty.

Some funny ass shit to see knuckleheads out there with a bucket of paint, a rake ( to separate the painted from unpainted piles) and little paintbrushes.

Those boarder stones changed color quite a few times while I was there. 

I also need a box of grid squares and see if you can find the keys to the hmmwv.

Would you settle for some chemlight batteries and a box of tank shocks? 

Replace tank shocks with LAV muffler grease and you've got a deal. 

Someone o to the Armor and let them know we are headed to the range today.

Since the whole battalion is going - we will need an entire ballet of rounds for M16A2s.......make sure your don't request rounds for M16A1s! 

Good talkin' with 'ya, wsquimsby! 

Thanks for the help! I'll get back to you sometime middle of next week once I'm getting my plans officially squared away - even though we're already engaged, I feel I should still give her a reason to marry me, right? 

I heard this one when I was a young Marine... "Hey lance corporal, it looks like your cover needs gurred"

I hand it over... the corporal says GRRRRR while he crumples it all up into a ball, wrinkles everywhere. 

axe quals 

hahahahahahaha "gurred" 

welloverpar said:

axe quals

Yup, I remember axe quals. I didn't fall for it but my PFC did, lost his cover that way. 

RicoSuavee said:

box of grid squares

Anyone pulls that shit on you, cut up 5 tenino maps into individual gird squares, put them in a box, hand them back to the guy.
And if that person was lower rank than you, tell them to put it back together. 

first off, if you cut up a map your shit is gonna get jumped. second, if the person telling you to get grid squares is of lower rank than you, you need to think about why people are treating you like a pvt. 

Isn't PaintChips an officer? 

active duty is getting another pay raise 

D rock 007 said:

Isn't PaintChips an officer?

I was under the impression he's ROTC but I guess I don't really know. 

I was mistaking him for someone else who is a CanadiaLand Officer, nevermind. 

active duty is getting another pay raise

we get one every year, to match inflation 

Yep. ROTC. 

we get one every year, to match inflation

That's the idea anyway, it hasn't always matched up, sometimes higher, sometimes lower. 

An AF 1SG was in jump school with me. He was a POS. 

What do you mean? 

Piece of Shit 

Oh, I know 'POS'.

I jsut wonder why he thinks he was one.... 

Ahhhhhh.

scuba? 

because in the military, every one thinks they are better than the next guy. 

Yeah.....but...this guy was Air Farce. :) 

because in the military, every one thinks they are better than the next guy.

That's too bad.

Everyone has a specialty, and the way this civilian sees it, all are an asset to the United States of America, and her people. 

thats the way it should be WTT, but unfortunately you have people who think they are gods gift to the branch of service. lol

you get people who ooze their way up in the ranks doing jack shit. etc etc.. 

I had 2 kinds of NCO's when I was in the Army.
Those that were concerned about their men and tried their best to make them better soldiers.
The other kind were just pure jack ass and did everything they could to belittle their men and make sure that everyone knew who was in charge.

I once made the mistake of wearing non-uniform long John underwear.
It was in Norway, 360 klicks above the Artic Circle in January.
This fuckhead E7 made me strip down to my skivvies and take them off...in front of the whole platoon, and then put my uniform back on.
There was a reason I was wearing them....it was fucking cold, and the only part of them that you could see was a tiny bit of trim around my neck.
He just wanted to be an asshole and throw his weight around.

That kind of thing is why I got out after 13 years.
I would have finished my 20 if there had been more of the first kind of NCO. 

The rivalry between services is fine in my book - as long as it is taken (and meant) as the joke that it is.

He just wanted to be an asshole and throw his weight around.

This is the kind of asshole that walks about 5 feet BEHIND the rank on his collar.

Fucking with Privates and new guys in your unit is one thing. Being a dick for dick's sake is a NoGo in my book - always has been. 

Is it allowable for Army drill instructors, or any personnel for that matter, walk and eat at the same time?

I've seen it twice today. 

If they are Army, I am surprised they can do both at the same time.

HARHAR! 

welloverpar - that's a neg, at least for anyone in the navy. 

Seen some high-quality Iraq war-related films/TV series lately, namely The Hurt Locker and Generation Kill; and was wondering if any of you in the applicable services have opinions of these?

I suppose accuracy (historically & technically) might be your main criteria but any opinions are welcome. I think The Hurt Locker might have been mentioned in here back around when it first came out but I can't remember anything other than that. 

Apart from the one really intense combat scene, I'd say Generation Kill is one of the most accurate depictions of the modern battlefield; boring as hell and dealing with senior leadership incompetence. 

I really liked gen kill.
watched every episode 2 or 3 times when it originally ran.