Tragicomedy
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Where at? I did a tour in Tikrit, Iraq, and a tour in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The mission was way better in Afghanistan, but the location was better in Iraq. I'd rather see neither ever again.
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Where at? I did a tour in Tikrit, Iraq, and a tour in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The mission was way better in Afghanistan, but the location was better in Iraq. I'd rather see neither ever again.
TrueGrime
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Nice! I was a youngin back in '93.
Been on severalAFB's in my career and I have to say that Davis-Monthan and Hickham AFB is absolutely the best. I've never seen more high-tech buildings than the AOC's on those bases.
As for the Marine bases..
Where at? I did a tour in Tikrit, Iraq, and a tour in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The mission was way better in Afghanistan, but the location was better in Iraq. I'd rather see neither ever again.
Rather not say. But we aint hurting for much here. If it werent for some people back home I would extend. Morale is a lot higher here than at home station.
TrueGrime
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Nostremitus
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Army
AD 68W
2009-present
I had no idea there are so many service members on GAF.
AD 68W
2009-present
I had no idea there are so many service members on GAF.
Indeed.
GAF PMC
TrueGrime
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We all like to hide. We're the heroes GAF needs but doesn't deserve at the moment.
Litflynt912
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2001-2009 AD AF (3M, 3A and 3D AFSC) whiteman and Luke afb
Deployed to Diego Garcia and Iraq
2009-2013 AF reservist 3D cyber tech
2013- present AF ART ( air reserve technician) reservists on the weekends, GS during the week.
Love it but cannot wait to collect those three retirement checks and still have the lifespan to enjoy it.
Government paid for my home, my bachelor and master degree and let's me go TDY and party it up - if that ain't freedom then I don't know what is ;-)
Deployed to Diego Garcia and Iraq
2009-2013 AF reservist 3D cyber tech
2013- present AF ART ( air reserve technician) reservists on the weekends, GS during the week.
Love it but cannot wait to collect those three retirement checks and still have the lifespan to enjoy it.
Government paid for my home, my bachelor and master degree and let's me go TDY and party it up - if that ain't freedom then I don't know what is ;-)
Doomshroom
Member
Swedish army
volunteer medic/soldier
92 artillery battalion
currently doing a few exercises a year.
volunteer medic/soldier
92 artillery battalion
currently doing a few exercises a year.
fluffydelusions
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USMC Flir bro
TrueGrime
Member
Awesome that service members other than US are posting. Career or just something temporary for you?
naw its just really easy to get tired of dumb shit lol
us army intel
2011-(just reenlisted for 6 more years a few months ago)
ft hood, drum
'deployed' to the us/mexican border for 3 months. odd situation
now let me tell YOU about powerpoint
obligatory fuck da AF
us army intel
2011-(just reenlisted for 6 more years a few months ago)
ft hood, drum
'deployed' to the us/mexican border for 3 months. odd situation
now let me tell YOU about powerpoint
obligatory fuck da AF
TrueGrime
Member
What do YOU know about powerpoint?? LOL. Took you long enough to find the thread, DY.
Whoa now..
Elor_Nocudee
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US Army
91D
2011 to 2014
I was gonna re-enlist but ended up with a disability before i submitted the paperwork, was gonna switch over to 68P (that was Radiology Technician i believe).
Happy to see a lot of service members here.
91D
2011 to 2014
I was gonna re-enlist but ended up with a disability before i submitted the paperwork, was gonna switch over to 68P (that was Radiology Technician i believe).
Happy to see a lot of service members here.
Navy
2013-present
2013-present
Navy bootcamp was a joke. Worst thing about it was being locked up all day for 8 weeks straight.
TrueGrime
Member
Epsilon-delta
Banned
US Navy
2001-2008
FMF-8404 Hospital Corpsman
Good to see some devildogs in here.
2001-2008
FMF-8404 Hospital Corpsman
Good to see some devildogs in here.
hhhhheheehehehehehehehe
weekend_warrior
Banned
Army, 2014-2014 (lol), 15G, currently in AIT, graduate August 27, going to Hunter Airfield.
Savannah's a fun town. Don't let the little ranger babies give you shit.
the air force had a short run of it during my last year in, not sure if they're still doing it. had a msgt get out on it.
TrueGrime
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There was no laughing in bootcamp. Only tears.
I was a relatively quiet recruit in boot camp. During what we call team week (where we do other duties like maw lawns, serve in the chowhall, etc) I got to be the trash recruit. All I did was take out trash all damn day.
One day, I found a case of unopened cookies and ate one. Just fucking one. That day our senior drill instructor just happened to be walking around and caught me with crumbs around my mouth. Nothing happened to me then. In fact, nothing happened for several weeks.
Finally out of the blue, I get called out "The cookiemonster" and the DI's made my squadmates fill all the pockets of their utilities with sand. Over and over and over again. Then they made us clean the squad bay. We were cleaning sand out of that damn squad bay for days.
No laughing. Only tears. ;_;
most real life torture i've ever seen was aimed at this kid in my class back in AIT.
dude fell asleep in class and got ripped into but apparently something he said back just rubbed the instructor the wrong way. hard.
"you'll give me a 2000 word essay on professionalism. on my desk tomorrow morning before class"
too easy to do. guy just halfassed and put 400 something together and made up an excuse
"alright. maybe you didn't hear me the first time. 3000 word essay. and you will stand the entire class on top of being the waterboy for all your classmates (basically made sure the entire class had a full cup of water for the entirety of our 7 hour classes)"
did the punishment in class, ignored the essay again. he tried but the guy just didn't know how to write. he was a kid lol. the kid was generally shit at the job and hard to live with so no one cared.
"alright scumbag. 4000 words handwritten"
failed. yikes - but he deserved it.
"4000 words. new topic - how military intelligence draws parallels to The Smurfs every other word in a different color"
failed. jesus christ... he's gonna get kicked out damn
"4000 words. every 2nd sentence in spanish. every 3 in russian. every 4th in french"
don't kill yourself bro. just quit. please. that's enough. just take this L and move on. we don't want you to die (because it will fuck up our 4 day weekend)
It was just amazing. I've seen plenty of blatant assholery but that was just mindblowing having to witness at the time.
I love the creativity Drill Sergeants, TIs, and so on have.
TrueGrime
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LOL.
Doomshroom
Member
I have a Civilian job this is just something i like to do on the side breaking up the monotony of everyday life. I enjoy it its great funand you get to meet a lot of people, working together and play with interesting toys. Pays good aswell.
So my friends and I kept a little journal of funny shit that happened in basic. One of the drill sergeants' voices cracked a bit one day, and for whatever reason the dude wrote that one down as "Girly Denny". They found the notebook.
So the final ~2 weeks including the FTX was hell. Before our final march, while all the other platoons were sleeping, we were going back and forth through this field doing lunges and shit, counting off the reps with "memories!" Fun times.
So the final ~2 weeks including the FTX was hell. Before our final march, while all the other platoons were sleeping, we were going back and forth through this field doing lunges and shit, counting off the reps with "memories!" Fun times.
TrueGrime
Member
Sounds like the US reserves.
Yet another amazing way to screw an entire platoon over. Like my story above, I know all about that. Blahhh.
Yeah it fuckin' sucked. Everyone knew it really wasn't our fault, but we still got some nasty looks and comments.
tornjaw
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Active Duty Army
Joined in 2001 as an 11H (Heavy Weapons Crew Member) was consolidated into 11B (Infantryman)
Reaclassed in 2004 as a 91W converted into 68W (Healthcare Specialist/Combat Medic)
3 tours to Iraq
1 tour to Afghanistan
Joined in 2001 as an 11H (Heavy Weapons Crew Member) was consolidated into 11B (Infantryman)
Reaclassed in 2004 as a 91W converted into 68W (Healthcare Specialist/Combat Medic)
3 tours to Iraq
1 tour to Afghanistan
I warned him. If he squirted me I was going to destroy his squirt gun. This was the evidence.
Enjoying s'mores (the first time my Afghan-counterparts had every tried it)
My favorite photo from that deployment. So peaceful and serene, which it is normally crazy as fuck at that area.
Tragicomedy
Member
10th Mountain? I deployed with you guys to Kandahar in 2011. Were you at RC-South? Small world, if so.
Hahha bad line.
Actually I have a question.
To all the military gaf: would you let your kids join? Why or why not?
naw. i just stopped through on my way to Hood. a lot of my friends ended up out there though.
Ultimately, its their decision.
But, I would definitely sway them not to. The way things are looking, atleast from the perspective of an AF maintainer, fuck no.
AlimNassor
Banned
To those who deployed did you see very many bugs? Like i'm not talking ants, im talking monster bugs. Any of you guys get any bootleg DVDs, or did the government confiscate them?
Oh and where are they keeping the alien bodies?
Oh and where are they keeping the alien bodies?
Kite
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Bootleg dvds and portable hard drives full of torrented movies are very common and accepted. Everyone turns a blind eye to it. All the local haji shops sell em.. and make mad bank. These shop owners from Turkey would bring in their POS terminals to cash out their sales at the finance office and I saw receipts of 10k+ USD per week easy. Bored deployed soldiers spend lots of money.
User 73706
Banned
Going to Air Force bootcamp September 9th! Have a four-year contract for Radio and Television Broadcasting, going in as an E3 thanks to college credits. I'm really looking forward to it.
Yaphett Kotto
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Nah, bud, what AFSC are you? Unless you're a SIGINT guy, there's a strong chance that you met me at Goodfellow.
Your day in the sun will come soon enough. All my 1N1s were pulling in $60K bonuses eight years ago.
If you really want to direct some negative vibes, hit up the pilots who receive a quarter of a million dollar bonus to keep burning holes in the sky.
I'm a 1N1. I was at Goodfellow last year from March to late August. It was great.
I'm still optimistic, though. Some NCOs told us how dynamic the budget can be at times. I'm not too frustrated over the money as what I am doing now can be pretty great and satisfying.
And yea, I've heard about the pilot bonuses in AF Times and again this year. Do you know what I can do with $250k? lol
AlimNassor
Banned
I can imagine it was probably boring as shit. But you were probably always on edge afraid to sleep because some monster spider or insect might crawl up into your bed, right?
Sorry ;(
Are you in the Joint Base, or doing cool shit (not really cool, but still)
Cool shit.
Up to them, but ideally once I'm out I'm living comfortably enough that if I have my own family I can help pay for college without sweating it financially.
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