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Mohoender 10-17-2008 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Fusilier
11 year Canadian Army (infantry)... now happy being a teacher.
Didn't really change your job, then. You just switch the ennemies (I'm not talking about the kids of course).:D

Earthpig 10-18-2008 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by jester
As for nothing light about light infantry, AMEN BROTHER!!!!!

However, what I don't understand is you went from engineer to grunt? What, you suffer a head injury? Most folks I know do a tour in the grunts, then we clamor for something else. Anything else, especialy things where we get to ride and stay indoors.


PAUL!!! PAUL!!!! You may have a challenger for the groups mental illness spokesman with this guy!

Mostly because my local unit was Infantry(Guard)...I liked it actually....Mental defeciency it is then;)

pmulcahy11b 10-31-2008 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Earthpig
Mostly because my local unit was Infantry(Guard)...I liked it actually....Mental defeciency it is then;)
Oh puhleeze...I started out in the Guard, then went active duty, then went airborne! Got you beat, easily. :p

jester 10-31-2008 04:05 AM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Oh puhleeze...I started out in the Guard, then went active duty, then went airborne! Got you beat, easily. :p
Oh come on! I beat you all!

I was contract Marine INFANTRY!!!! <Later I found out I was qualed for OCS and even the naval academy which was even funnier at the time> And everytime I got to the V.A. I end up at the phsyc ward! So top that mo fos!

Whats worse, I had orthopediece surgery to remove my waiver to go back in!

HAH!!!!!


So, who is the crazier!!!!

pmulcahy11b 10-31-2008 05:16 AM
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Originally Posted by jester
Oh come on! I beat you all!

I was contract Marine INFANTRY!!!! <Later I found out I was qualed for OCS and even the naval academy which was even funnier at the time> And everytime I got to the V.A. I end up at the phsyc ward! So top that mo fos!

Whats worse, I had orthopediece surgery to remove my waiver to go back in!

HAH!!!!!


So, who is the crazier!!!!
Well...you're a Marine -- that's enough to win right there!:D

Earthpig 10-31-2008 07:52 PM
Well it does make him dumber:D .......just chain yanking;)

LAW0306 10-31-2008 08:58 PM
16 year marine grunt. Now Marine Gunner for Americas Battalion.

chico20854 10-31-2008 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by LAW0306
16 year marine grunt. Now Marine Gunner for Americas Battalion.
OOH-RAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aka
Hoo-Ah!!!!!!!!

jester 11-01-2008 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by LAW0306
16 year marine grunt. Now Marine Gunner for Americas Battalion.

Well, its about time! Remember its K-Bay, so its all laid back all the time right down to the shades and sandals! You go surfing at noon chow and one of the best beaches is across the flightline! But you have always got to be cool, at all times like me :cool:

Targan 11-01-2008 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by LAW0306
16 year marine grunt. Now Marine Gunner for Americas Battalion.
You are the real deal Law. Have I mentioned before how relieved I am that we're on the same side?

pmulcahy11b 11-01-2008 03:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Targan
You are the real deal Law. Have I mentioned before how relieved I am that we're on the same side?
All true...but didn't you ever want to be airborne?:cool:

Targan 11-01-2008 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
All true...but didn't you ever want to be airborne?:cool:
Morbidly afraid of heights. Used to do a bit of rock climbing to try and cure myself but I just spent to whole time terrified.

pmulcahy11b 11-01-2008 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Targan
Morbidly afraid of heights. Used to do a bit of rock climbing to try and cure myself but I just spent to whole time terrified.
I too was deathly afraid of heights -- going airborne cured me!

Earthpig 11-02-2008 07:01 AM
I'm such a stinker!
 
A little joke for you Airborne and Marine types:D :p


"Son, I'm damn pround of you", the retired Marine colonel said to his paratrooper son, slapping him on the back. "Tell me about your first jump".

"I thought I was ready, Dad, but I froze when it was my turn," he said. "Then my my sergeant ordered me to jump, but I still couldn't. Finally, he whipped out his d**k and threatened to shove it up my ass if I didn't jump".

"Well," his father barked, "did you jump?"

"Just a little, at first".



Sorry, I woke up and overdosed my smart arse pills:)

jester 11-02-2008 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Earthpig
A little joke for you Airborne and Marine types:D :p


"Son, I'm damn pround of you", the retired Marine colonel said to his paratrooper son, slapping him on the back. "Tell me about your first jump".

"I thought I was ready, Dad, but I froze when it was my turn," he said. "Then my my sergeant ordered me to jump, but I still couldn't. Finally, he whipped out his d**k and threatened to shove it up my ass if I didn't jump".

"Well," his father barked, "did you jump?"

"Just a little, at first".



Sorry, I woke up and overdosed my smart arse pills:)

Well, it sounds more like a NAVY joke to me :p

pmulcahy11b 11-11-2008 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Earthpig
A little joke for you Airborne and Marine types:D :p


"Son, I'm damn pround of you", the retired Marine colonel said to his paratrooper son, slapping him on the back. "Tell me about your first jump".

"I thought I was ready, Dad, but I froze when it was my turn," he said. "Then my my sergeant ordered me to jump, but I still couldn't. Finally, he whipped out his d**k and threatened to shove it up my ass if I didn't jump".

"Well," his father barked, "did you jump?"

"Just a little, at first".



Sorry, I woke up and overdosed my smart arse pills:)
Right before I left Korea, the G-3 Sergeant Major gave me an interesting article from his hometown newspaper. Seems some reservists were on a jump, the coordinates were a bit off, and one of them landed in a large, open tank of liquified cow manure. He drowned in shit.

He was an old 82nd trooper, and knew I was going to jump school from Korea...Sergeants Major are allowed to OD on smart ass pills!

Earthpig 11-11-2008 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Right before I left Korea, the G-3 Sergeant Major gave me an interesting article from his hometown newspaper. Seems some reservists were on a jump, the coordinates were a bit off, and one of them landed in a large, open tank of liquified cow manure. He drowned in shit.

He was an old 82nd trooper, and knew I was going to jump school from Korea...Sergeants Major are allowed to OD on smart ass pills!
Just one more reason for me to enjoy the fact I was a dirty, nasty, leg, Mechanized, Army puke:) ........Eeeeeewwww! liquid manure what a horrreeeble way to go.:dead:

Targan 11-11-2008 08:12 PM
Famous last words?

"Oh, shit".

pmulcahy11b 11-11-2008 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Targan
Famous last words?

"Oh, shit".
Oh man, I came real close to ruining my new monitor by blowing a mouthful of Pepsi on it!

Graebarde 11-13-2008 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jester
No you have it wrong. They did give him champagne, but after some heroes treatment since he was a founder of modern aviation, they sent him to a POW camp, and then after several semi successuful escape attempts they took his legs away,

Just imagine that, you have no legs and you have still managed to get out of your POW camp several times.

And that makes me wonder about real life.

Today they have a Marine sniper with one eye, a kid in the 25th Division with one leg, an armor captain with one leg, and several others who are on active duty who have injuries who would precluide them from initial entry, however, they do have exemptions that so allow folks who have serious injuries to continue to serve and they have relaxed them more so these days which is a good thing, I just hope it continues rather than it being used as a political tool.

Thanks for listening to my rant,

Semper Fi
LTG Franks, commander VII Corps, the left hook of ODS, was an amputee from Nam that rose above his leg, and fought to stay on active duty as a major, rose to command a corps. There was a Sgt Maj in the Ranger training camps that was and amputee as well.

Grae

Graebarde 11-13-2008 01:04 PM
Credit for 10 years 11 months and 11 days, Five years grunt, then five in TC as traffic manager. 1968-1979 Exotic tours in SEA, ROK, and FRG (over half the total service time.

Grae

jester 11-13-2008 09:20 PM
Well there's a familiar face err um screen name! How have you been? Where have you been Grae?

Graebarde 11-14-2008 07:46 AM
Chugging along, fighting RL. Nice to get back amoung folks with common interests. Back in Texas after five years in Mizzery. Didn't really want to leave there as had a great job, but the things you do for family........

Grae

jester 11-14-2008 08:56 AM
I recall mi amigo, I dealt with the same thing. Still am well, its after affects.

Anyhow glad to see you again, so many good people have disapeared into the either, and I am glad you found your way.

Jes

Ed the Coastie 11-15-2008 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by jester
Hmmm?

Again I ask, why on earth would someone downgrade?

Coast Guard=boats=no humping, and they sleep in beds and have hot food. Why on earth would anyone want to give that up for being bounced and battered in a armored vehicle, choking on diesel fumes and living in the cold or heat?

Ed, by any chance are you tall? Did you possibly bang your head on those bulkheads and do yourself an injury? Thats the only explaination I can fathom...
It's a long story, but in a nutshell I had the "misfortune" of being the boarding officer on a drug bust that involved in a VERY negative way a close family member of a then-prominent United States senator. As a result, I became a political hot potato for the Coast Guard...so the Army offered to take me off of the Coast Guard's hands, put me through officer training and do it's best to hide me within it's own ranks.

It worked out pretty well for both sides. The Coast Guard was shielded from a potentially embarrassing inquiry, and the Army wound up with an officer possessing an unconventional enough background to comfortably fulfill various oddball assignments.

headquarters 11-15-2008 07:53 AM
holy crap
 
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Originally Posted by Ed the Coastie
It's a long story, but in a nutshell I had the "misfortune" of being the boarding officer on a drug bust that involved in a VERY negative way a close family member of a then-prominent United States senator. As a result, I became a political hot potato for the Coast Guard...so the Army offered to take me off of the Coast Guard's hands, put me through officer training and do it's best to hide me within it's own ranks.

It worked out pretty well for both sides. The Coast Guard was shielded from a potentially embarrassing inquiry, and the Army wound up with an officer possessing an unconventional enough background to comfortably fulfill various oddball assignments.

sounds like a hell of a plot .

what happened to the druggie /"importer" ?

Ed the Coastie 11-16-2008 01:59 AM
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Originally Posted by headquarters
sounds like a hell of a plot .
*chuckling* Yeah, but it was typical of my entire career.

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what happened to the druggie /"importer" ?
I'm not at liberty to say.

headquarters 11-16-2008 01:05 PM
echelon
 
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Originally Posted by Ed the Coastie
*chuckling* Yeah, but it was typical of my entire career.


I'm not at liberty to say.
I am thinking aboout the surveillance system nSA goyt set up - what the f*** will they think when these boards come blinking up on tehir screens with all our talk of nuclear devices and major metropolitan areas ,sedition,murder and of course bomb and whitehouse.

Wonder if they ever think - hey that is a pretty good idea -put in the manual !

Anyone got a nondescript van with blackened windows on their block as we speak ? hehe

Dont worry Coastie.I get it .

The relative sleeps with the fishes .

roger that .

lol

pmulcahy11b 11-16-2008 03:00 PM
I used to wonder about that and our sites, but I figured that somebody was actually using their brains (a rarity in the government!).

Targan 11-16-2008 08:10 PM
Well it would probably help that we are all clearly patriots and not a word has been said by any of us that would suggest we are terrorist sympathisers.

headquarters 11-17-2008 01:22 AM
eeeh..
 
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Originally Posted by Targan
Well it would probably help that we are all clearly patriots and not a word has been said by any of us that would suggest we are terrorist sympathisers.
well if you look away from the fact that our chosen playground is a a USA devestated by war and split into fiefs and areas of lawless chaos with people using that Abe Lincoln monument in DC as a ritual human sacrifice spot -then yeah.

No seriously .I suppose they have just labeled us in the "harmless cookoos" category and read our stuff on slow shofts to get a chuckle .

headquarters 11-17-2008 01:22 AM
oopss.
 
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I used to wonder about that and our sites, but I figured that somebody was actually using their brains (a rarity in the government!).

they will get you for that one !

Jason Weiser 11-17-2008 09:33 AM
Then I guess mention our annual ritual "removal and burning of mattress tags"
is right out then?...Oops!:D

pmulcahy11b 11-17-2008 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason Weiser
Then I guess mention our annual ritual "removal and burning of mattress tags"
is right out then?...Oops!:D
Uh-oh...I don't burn them, I just throw them out! I guess the NSA has a lot of those charges stacked up against me, since they pick through my garbage disguised as sanitation workers all the time...

CStock88 11-29-2008 09:44 AM
On the relevant topic of the poll, no, I have never been in the military. Currently, I'm tracking myself to go into emergency services (firefighting, EMT, etc) when everything is all said and done.

Well, either that, or doing toxicology on dead people - I must confess, I haven't entirely decided yet.

And as for the NSA... "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!" and all that.

pmulcahy11b 12-01-2008 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by CStock88
On the relevant topic of the poll, no, I have never been in the military. Currently, I'm tracking myself to go into emergency services (firefighting, EMT, etc) when everything is all said and done.

Well, either that, or doing toxicology on dead people - I must confess, I haven't entirely decided yet.

And as for the NSA... "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!" and all that.
Cool, emergency medicine is a very relevant topic in T2K! But if you go the toxicology on dead people route -- are you going to be on CSI, CSI:Miami, or CSI:NY? :D

JimmyRay73 12-05-2008 10:40 PM
Well, I'm the newbie here (or would FNG be more appropriate?) so I'll chime in. When I was younger I thought about serving, talked to a few recruiters, was told that my asthma and knee injuries might be issues, and then dropped the idea to move on to college. Kept Mom and Dad happy and college sure had fewer rules than the Marines it seemed. Every now and again I wonder what might have been, but there's no sense crying over spilt milk I suppose...

Targan 12-06-2008 12:56 AM
Welcome to the forum JimmyRay. Good to have you with us.

jester 01-02-2009 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Cool, emergency medicine is a very relevant topic in T2K! But if you go the toxicology on dead people route -- are you going to be on CSI, CSI:Miami, or CSI:NY? :D

Hey, lets not forget NCIS or Bones.

pmulcahy11b 01-03-2009 06:30 AM
I'd pick CSI:Miami. The women on the show are hotter, and they have computer equipment so modern it doesn't exist yet!


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