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  • CasualCasual IT'S CRIME TIME MOTHAFUCKAS WE OUTRegistered User regular
    i was 22 when i tried to sign up, and such a fucking idiot

    i mean it was my stupidity that ended up saving me but all the same

    my idea of the military was 1/3 war movies and 2/3 star trek, i had no idea how real military command structures worked so i was snooty about the idea of going in at the bottom rank
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I think my parents were actually pretty worried I'd end up wanting to sign up as a grenadier and go to afghanistan when I was in the army (conscription, so I would have had to voluntarily join and then voluntarily sign up for afghanistan)

    I was blue-sky thinking about it, but just like, I wonder how that would be. Never really had any intention to do that.

    But signing up for officer or command school was a bit intriguing, since I liked being in the army. Nice simple life with stuff I was good at.

    which again worried my parents because they thought that it would inexorably lead me to sign up for afghanistan at some point. Which they're probably right about.
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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    If I was going to join the military I'd need to go in at "has drinks cabinet and never goes near a gun or pointy stick" rank.

    Or maybe "we need a science guy for this mission to Antarctica which may involve aliens" rank
  • TTODewbackTTODewback Pink haired tyrant On my throne of forum faces.Registered User regular
    Well I don't think the IRA is an officially recognized army anyway
    My friend went from Army Reserves then went full active on his only deployment.
    They let him finish college then sent him to OTS for like a year then he got deployed to Afghanistan then he got R&R at some Sicillian paradise then came back to the states, got stationed in Washington and goes on kick ass road trips and hiking trips. He's still in his 20s and is already a Captain I believe and makes pretty decent money.
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark Registered User regular
    this conversation reminds me

    fuck GWB

    seriously
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    i think i was 18 when i tried to join? it was 2005ish. got very far into the conversation, took a practice asvab, met with a recruiter from more than one branch. was extremely close to enlisting until my physical made clear that my eye wasn't reparable (as a kid i'd always assumed it was with surgery). i figured i wasn't going to be a pilot or special forces so it wouldn't be a huge problem. blah.

    impossible to trace back one's life and say what would have been good or gone better or whatever but in the aggregate i really wish i'd joined the military.
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  • CasualCasual IT'S CRIME TIME MOTHAFUCKAS WE OUTRegistered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I think my parents were actually pretty worried I'd end up wanting to sign up as a grenadier and go to afghanistan when I was in the army (conscription, so I would have had to voluntarily join and then voluntarily sign up for afghanistan)

    I was blue-sky thinking about it, but just like, I wonder how that would be. Never really had any intention to do that.

    But signing up for officer or command school was a bit intriguing, since I liked being in the army. Nice simple life with stuff I was good at.

    which again worried my parents because they thought that it would inexorably lead me to sign up for afghanistan at some point. Which they're probably right about.

    in fairness even if you had gone to Afghan your odds of coming back home without a scratch would've been pretty good

    with the best will in the world the Norwegians are hardly doing the risky stuff
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  • DynagripDynagrip destroy everything you touch Registered User, ClubPA regular
    so vet emergency rooms are as expensive as people emergency rooms.
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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    my dad retired out of the af

    I was in jrotc in high school for 3 years

    then after I flunked out of college I went to join active duty -- my asvab scores qualified me for any position, so I said I'd be happy to take X Y or Z and the recruiter was like yeah! and then I got down to meps and did the physical and stuff and they had me in this little room trying to get me to sign for bomb squad and I was like NOPE.JPG and so I left and my recruiter was all furious and I was like, I told you

    then I joined rotc in college and did it for two semesters and then left

    then I joined the af reserves and did that for I think 4 years and then transferred to inactive reserve to finish out my contract and go to grad school like a month before my unit got deployed
  • AntinumericAntinumeric Registered User regular
    this conversation reminds me

    fuck GWB

    seriously
    I'm gonna add Tony Blair to that.

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  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    True facts Winky was going to go into the military to repair helicopters for short period of his lifespan.

    Would've had to go through basic anyway. Haha, no, not happening.
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Casual wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I think my parents were actually pretty worried I'd end up wanting to sign up as a grenadier and go to afghanistan when I was in the army (conscription, so I would have had to voluntarily join and then voluntarily sign up for afghanistan)

    I was blue-sky thinking about it, but just like, I wonder how that would be. Never really had any intention to do that.

    But signing up for officer or command school was a bit intriguing, since I liked being in the army. Nice simple life with stuff I was good at.

    which again worried my parents because they thought that it would inexorably lead me to sign up for afghanistan at some point. Which they're probably right about.

    in fairness even if you had gone to Afghan your odds of coming back home without a scratch would've been pretty good

    with the best will in the world the Norwegians are hardly doing the risky stuff

    yeah, our regulars just tool around mazar-e-sharif and get blown up by the occasional IED, occasionally shooting the taliban. There are way worse places in afghanistan.

    what our special forces are doing nobody knows but that doesn't really count.
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  • y2jake215y2jake215 oh ok yeah that's cool RAP GAME KiNG TUTRegistered User regular
    I am pretty glad I never had to join the military because I am a big, fat coward
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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    I toyed with the idea of going active for quite a while because there is a simplicity and clarity to military life that's appealing, even if there's a lot of stuff about it I don't like

    but I started taking pills for deepreshun when I got back from basic training and tech school and that DQs me
  • CasualCasual IT'S CRIME TIME MOTHAFUCKAS WE OUTRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    i think i was 18 when i tried to join? it was 2005ish. got very far into the conversation, took a practice asvab, met with a recruiter from more than one branch. was extremely close to enlisting until my physical made clear that my eye wasn't reparable (as a kid i'd always assumed it was with surgery). i figured i wasn't going to be a pilot or special forces so it wouldn't be a huge problem. blah.

    impossible to trace back one's life and say what would have been good or gone better or whatever but in the aggregate i really wish i'd joined the military.

    the military is probably a great option for most people (in first world nations) at most periods of time, except the US and UK post 2001

    like, fuck. that. shit.

    you should be thanking your lucky stars your eye kept you out of Iraq and Afgahn
    R.I.P Sir Check
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    its all about anthropomorphic dicks doing everyday things like buying shoes for their scrotum-feet
    ??/02/2009 - 19/04/2013
    He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    the odds of coming home with a scratch either physical or mental would be, from the parental point of view, unacceptable
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  • kaleeditykaleedity bad biscuits make the baker broke bro Registered User regular
    I think I didn't even talk with the recruiters at my school. I think it was because of my dad's experience with Vietnam, or I should say, his non-experience. He worked at Lockheed for ~30 years; they wouldn't have drafted him if they wanted to because he was working on airplane bits. I guess I thought I could help out more if I was doing work like him. Maybe. I don't think I came up with my "I don't want anything to do with any real violence on any terms, including not owning a gun" policy until I played counterstrike.
  • TTODewbackTTODewback Pink haired tyrant On my throne of forum faces.Registered User regular
    This is the latest picture my friend posted from work.
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    number one reason not to join the us armed forces:

    those digital camo fatigues are atrocious
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  • bowenbowen Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Delmain wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Anyone know where to get a relatively inexpensive camera that records and can save files to like dropbox or something? I need to catch my neighbor's kids doing stuff because the rental office doesn't believe me that a teenager would throw rocks at cars, swear loudly, or stuff trash in my mailbox.

    -TehSloth had to do something similar at his last place.

    It makes me want to buy a gun sometimes, because teenagers in groups are fucking terrifying. But I realize that's not my rationality talking, and plus, jail time.

    @Bowen

    I just got a cheap webcam and some free software to handle it for me, may not be ideal if it' s gonna be pointing somewhere with any significant amount of traffic. I used this thing called splitcam to split the source so it's available to two programs, used xsplit to record all the footage and stream it to the web so I could check it remotely, and a program called vitamin d which does motion detection and will record clips when it detects motion and can shoot out an e-mail with a picture when this happens (I set it up to send it to my phone as a text. The free version of vitamin d was fine for me, it uses a pretty low resolution in the free version and only supports 1 camera, but if that's all you need it does the job. I had an x-split subscription already but I'm pretty sure there's still a free version which has everything you'll need unless you really need access to various sound codecs for streaming.

    What sucks is I just resigned my lease. The office has just completely ignored me, but 10 teenagers hanging about outside the front of my apartment does not make me feel comfortable. Two teenagers are kosher, but jesus christ, I feel like I'm in the fucking hood or something. I don't pay a $1100 a month to deal with this, if I wanted to deal with it, I'd pay the $400 and move to the south side of Syracuse.
  • CasualCasual IT'S CRIME TIME MOTHAFUCKAS WE OUTRegistered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Casual wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    I think my parents were actually pretty worried I'd end up wanting to sign up as a grenadier and go to afghanistan when I was in the army (conscription, so I would have had to voluntarily join and then voluntarily sign up for afghanistan)

    I was blue-sky thinking about it, but just like, I wonder how that would be. Never really had any intention to do that.

    But signing up for officer or command school was a bit intriguing, since I liked being in the army. Nice simple life with stuff I was good at.

    which again worried my parents because they thought that it would inexorably lead me to sign up for afghanistan at some point. Which they're probably right about.

    in fairness even if you had gone to Afghan your odds of coming back home without a scratch would've been pretty good

    with the best will in the world the Norwegians are hardly doing the risky stuff

    nah, our regulars just tool around mazar-e-sharif and get blown up by the occasional IED, occasionally shooting the taliban. There are way worse places in afghanistan.

    what our special forces are doing nobody knows but that doesn't really count.

    i didn't even know you guys had a combat role, it was my understanding pretty much everyone other than the UK/US were in logistiacal/support roles
    R.I.P Sir Check
    i write amazing erotic fiction

    its all about anthropomorphic dicks doing everyday things like buying shoes for their scrotum-feet
    ??/02/2009 - 19/04/2013
    He lives on as cheezburger grease in our hearts.
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Your friend smuggles dogs?
  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    Casual wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    i think i was 18 when i tried to join? it was 2005ish. got very far into the conversation, took a practice asvab, met with a recruiter from more than one branch. was extremely close to enlisting until my physical made clear that my eye wasn't reparable (as a kid i'd always assumed it was with surgery). i figured i wasn't going to be a pilot or special forces so it wouldn't be a huge problem. blah.

    impossible to trace back one's life and say what would have been good or gone better or whatever but in the aggregate i really wish i'd joined the military.

    the military is probably a great option for most people (in first world nations) at most periods of time, except the US and UK post 2001

    like, fuck. that. shit.

    you should be thanking your lucky stars your eye kept you out of Iraq and Afgahn

    i'm not. i wasn't a disillusioned teenager (i mean, about other things i certainly was). i'd probably still enlist today if i had the opportunity for very similar reasons.

    plenty of people joined post 9/11 and don't regret their service or their deployment, which i think is a category i would also fit given the opportunity.
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark Registered User regular
    I toyed with the idea of going active for quite a while because there is a simplicity and clarity to military life that's appealing, even if there's a lot of stuff about it I don't like

    but I started taking pills for deepreshun when I got back from basic training and tech school and that DQs me

    what? pretty sure my wife was on depression meds when she enlisted...
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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    I had your typical male fantasies about the military when I was younger but by the time I was old enough to enlist any desire to be in the military had been drained from me by, funnily enough, realistic first person shooters and paintball.

    Mostly a realization of how quickly and easily you can die and how real life has no respawns. Also how everyone in real life has friends and loved ones.
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  • HerrCronHerrCron Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    If I was going to join the military I'd need to go in at "has drinks cabinet and never goes near a gun or pointy stick" rank.

    Or maybe "we need a science guy for this mission to Antarctica which may involve aliens" rank

    Friend of mine joined the navy after he quit working in Stainless, the last time I talked to him he was just back from a tour that involved heading down to the Antarctic, taking a quadbike out to where he was told was the crater of an extinct volcano and taking a bunch of readings for "some guys in oxford somewhere"

    I get the feeling he made a pretty good choice there.
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  • descdesc the '87 stick-up kids Registered User regular
    The latest in cutting edge tactical puppies
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    So the beginning of my quest has you investigating whether this nobleman's wife had an affair around the time his son was conceived in order to potentially prevent a dispute of inheritance (you later find out that she did indeed cheat on him, with a lich, but the lich was not the son's father). I was thinking of having the son just blatantly be a half-orc, though, and have all of the characters ignoring it. "What? That's absurd. He's just a little large for his age."
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  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark Registered User regular
    i briefly considered joining the Air Force because i was super into flying planes (had my pilots license at age 17) and Top Gun was my favorite movie of all time

    but then my mom was like, you know, you kind of have a big problem with authority figures and being told what to do

    and i was like, oh right haha fuck that
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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Oh shit it is winky.

    Sup?
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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    I toyed with the idea of going active for quite a while because there is a simplicity and clarity to military life that's appealing, even if there's a lot of stuff about it I don't like

    but I started taking pills for deepreshun when I got back from basic training and tech school and that DQs me

    what? pretty sure my wife was on depression meds when she enlisted...

    they didn't disqualify me from the service I was currently on the hook for, but in order to go active duty I would have had to get a waiver and they stopped giving those as freely as they did right after 9/11

    so when I looked into it, it was p much a DQ
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    number one reason not to join the us armed forces:

    those digital camo fatigues are atrocious

    So digital camo is to make it hard to see you when you're working with computers, right?
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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Pink haired tyrant On my throne of forum faces.Registered User regular
    In the 1960s and 70s. The US smuggled opium in Laos.
    In the 2000s. The US smuggles puppies in Washington state.

    When will the American atrocities end?!
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark Registered User regular
    I toyed with the idea of going active for quite a while because there is a simplicity and clarity to military life that's appealing, even if there's a lot of stuff about it I don't like

    but I started taking pills for deepreshun when I got back from basic training and tech school and that DQs me

    what? pretty sure my wife was on depression meds when she enlisted...

    they didn't disqualify me from the service I was currently on the hook for, but in order to go active duty I would have had to get a waiver and they stopped giving those as freely as they did right after 9/11

    so when I looked into it, it was p much a DQ

    oh, well i guess that's not as surprising
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  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Oh shit it is winky.

    Sup?

    Yo!

    Are you still in Japan?
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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Winky wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Oh shit it is winky.

    Sup?

    Yo!

    Are you still in Japan?

    Right now I am in Indonesia but I will soon be back in Japan.
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  • AManFromEarthAManFromEarth Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad. Risk is our business.Registered User regular
    If I was a hundred pounds lighter I'd join the military no question. Get me the fuck out of here and get me doing something that marginally matters.
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  • EvigilantEvigilant Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    The Army ACU's, the digital camo pattern above, are so god awful. Not only can do you only blend in around smoke and the sky, but they're uncomfortable as shit. Like a completely different stitching or fabric is used. And they rip so easily at the crotch, so when you're going commando it's more like "HELLO WORLD!"

    I've had every set of Army uniforms in 12 years. The old forest BDU's, the old Desert DCU's, the ACU's. The only one I haven't had yet are the Afghanistan specific multi-cam, but there is no way in hell I ever want to get those. Not because I don't think they're better, but because getting them requires me to deploy to Afghanistan and F that noise.
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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Barbara Streisand! Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    TTODewback wrote: »
    In the 1960s and 70s. The US smuggled opium in Laos.
    In the 2000s. The US smuggles puppies in Washington state.

    When will the American atrocities end?!

    You sound suspiciously like a cat supporter. You're gonna need to step over here for a minute.
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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    If I was a hundred pounds lighter I'd join the military no question. Get me the fuck out of here and get me doing something that marginally matters.

    sometimes they'll take someone interested and make you run and shit for 6 months before they send you to basic, where you will run more
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