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Link Posted: 8/5/2019 3:57:13 PM EST
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Well it's national guard so anything is possible.

I can tell you that when I was on active duty, they would bring everyone who was ETS'ing up to battalion HQ to meet with the LTC & do an outprocessing interview.
As well as putting suggestions for changes to improve morale in writing (either signed or unsigned), you were able to say whatever you wanted about whoever you wanted & it was confidential - so if you worked for a dickhead that was your chance to get it off your chest.
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Never was in the military.  Have a question.  Are there actually times where someone would hand in a letter like that?

I did work in a place that was paramilitary, and I could see it happening there, heck I am surprised I didn't in the end, but I wanted the option to come back if needed.
Well it's national guard so anything is possible.

I can tell you that when I was on active duty, they would bring everyone who was ETS'ing up to battalion HQ to meet with the LTC & do an outprocessing interview.
As well as putting suggestions for changes to improve morale in writing (either signed or unsigned), you were able to say whatever you wanted about whoever you wanted & it was confidential - so if you worked for a dickhead that was your chance to get it off your chest.
My last CO was the problem with the command. I didn't bother to tell her. I think she figured it out after receiving a letter of reprimand. She went her last 10 or so years as an O-4 despite being one of the first women to earn a command at sea pin. She was also the spitting image of John Denver.
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My last CO was the problem with the command. I didn't bother to tell her. I think she figured it out after receiving a letter of reprimand. She went her last 10 or so years as an O-4 despite being one of the first women to earn a command at sea pin. She was also the spitting image of John Denver.
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She wasn't an LST driver was she?
Link Posted: 8/5/2019 10:53:50 PM EST
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She wasn't an LST driver was she?
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My last CO was the problem with the command. I didn't bother to tell her. I think she figured it out after receiving a letter of reprimand. She went her last 10 or so years as an O-4 despite being one of the first women to earn a command at sea pin. She was also the spitting image of John Denver.
She wasn't an LST driver was she?
Nah, no females on combatants in my time ~1990. She was the CO of Oceanographic Unit 3, which was deployed on the USNS Hess. There were ~20-25 military in the unit. At the time, I think there may have been a female CO on a tender or two. She did something extremely stupid, and got a letter of reprimand for ruining an E6's career. Unfortunately for her, someone in her chain of command was the former CO of a submarine on which the E6 had served. Whoops.

Don't get me wrong. It was a blast serving on that ship. It was some of the easiest time I served.

Link Posted: 8/5/2019 11:31:39 PM EST
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I've seen things you wouldn't believe. 113s melted to the ground while the external fire extinguisher handle hadn't been pulled. An M1 tank barrel after it had been traversed into the pine trees at 40 mph. A Bradley ramming the back of another Bradley so hard it separated the frame welds.

ETA: Oh, and the aftermath of someone driving an MTV with a Remote Weapons Station into the famous 11 ft 8 bridge. How could I forget that.
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@skinny79 Did you happen to see the Bradley wreck on a tank trail at Benning?  Around 2003?
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 1:35:24 AM EST
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Nah, no females on combatants in my time ~1990. She was the CO of Oceanographic Unit 3, which was deployed on the USNS Hess. There were ~20-25 military in the unit. At the time, I think there may have been a female CO on a tender or two. She did something extremely stupid, and got a letter of reprimand for ruining an E6's career. Unfortunately for her, someone in her chain of command was the former CO of a submarine on which the E6 had served. Whoops.

Don't get me wrong. It was a blast serving on that ship. It was some of the easiest time I served.

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I ran the waterfront at West Loch from 1991 until 1998.  I remember a female LST CO that seemed alright.  I let them use one of our piers for the JOs to practice docking and undocking.
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 3:25:20 AM EST
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I've seen things you wouldn't believe. 113s melted to the ground while the external fire extinguisher handle hadn't been pulled. An M1 tank barrel after it had been traversed into the pine trees at 40 mph. A Bradley ramming the back of another Bradley so hard it separated the frame welds.

ETA: Oh, and the aftermath of someone driving an MTV with a Remote Weapons Station into the famous 11 ft 8 bridge. How could I forget that.
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lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

Secret military equipment gets banged up at the 11foot8 bridge
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 4:37:56 AM EST
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So, you've been at Pike Field also,  huh?
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 5:19:20 AM EST
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@skinny79 Did you happen to see the Bradley wreck on a tank trail at Benning?  Around 2003?
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I've seen things you wouldn't believe. 113s melted to the ground while the external fire extinguisher handle hadn't been pulled. An M1 tank barrel after it had been traversed into the pine trees at 40 mph. A Bradley ramming the back of another Bradley so hard it separated the frame welds.

ETA: Oh, and the aftermath of someone driving an MTV with a Remote Weapons Station into the famous 11 ft 8 bridge. How could I forget that.
@skinny79 Did you happen to see the Bradley wreck on a tank trail at Benning?  Around 2003?
Afraid not.
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 7:37:16 AM EST
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lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osCPYPywnU
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I've seen things you wouldn't believe. 113s melted to the ground while the external fire extinguisher handle hadn't been pulled. An M1 tank barrel after it had been traversed into the pine trees at 40 mph. A Bradley ramming the back of another Bradley so hard it separated the frame welds.

ETA: Oh, and the aftermath of someone driving an MTV with a Remote Weapons Station into the famous 11 ft 8 bridge. How could I forget that.
lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osCPYPywnU
I don't know, I'd left that battalion a few years before that. I do know that the 11 ft 8 page uploads crashes damn quick, because their battalion maintenance warrant learned about it when I texted him the youtube link.
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 7:38:50 AM EST
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lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

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I think they keep that bridge just for the laughs.

There's no reason they couldn't put it up a few feet.

Having two cameras on it at all times just to catch idiots is funny all by itself.
Link Posted: 8/6/2019 10:43:29 AM EST
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Link Posted: 8/6/2019 11:57:54 AM EST
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I think they keep that bridge just for the laughs.

There's no reason they couldn't put it up a few feet.

Having two cameras on it at all times just to catch idiots is funny all by itself.
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Sewers below.
RR track would have to be regraded for miles - a major project that would shut down the track.
Plus, neither the RR or the city/state wants to pay for it.
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lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osCPYPywnU
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I've seen things you wouldn't believe. 113s melted to the ground while the external fire extinguisher handle hadn't been pulled. An M1 tank barrel after it had been traversed into the pine trees at 40 mph. A Bradley ramming the back of another Bradley so hard it separated the frame welds.

ETA: Oh, and the aftermath of someone driving an MTV with a Remote Weapons Station into the famous 11 ft 8 bridge. How could I forget that.
lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osCPYPywnU
Yeah... That’s gonna be a ROS.
Link Posted: 8/9/2019 3:01:34 AM EST
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lol How much shit did the driver get about it? Especially after the video was released?

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It's Durham.....nothing good ever happens in Durham....
Link Posted: 8/9/2019 5:21:39 AM EST
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It's Durham.....nothing good ever happens in Durham....
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Truth.
Link Posted: 8/9/2019 6:20:07 PM EST
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It's Durham.....nothing good ever happens in Durham....
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Oh, I don't know - the one I live near to is quite civilised
Link Posted: 8/9/2019 7:54:13 PM EST
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Oh, I don't know - the one I live near to is quite civilised
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It's Durham.....nothing good ever happens in Durham....
Oh, I don't know - the one I live near to is quite civilised
Yeah, sure
Roger Whittaker ~ Durham Town (1969)
Link Posted: 8/10/2019 5:40:56 AM EST
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Durham Light Infantry - Germany 1960's
Link Posted: 8/10/2019 5:48:46 AM EST
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That was kind of a sketch-ass helo landing at the start of the vid.
Link Posted: 8/12/2019 9:32:55 PM EST
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It's Durham.....nothing good ever happens in Durham....
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Except Duke winning national ships!
Link Posted: 8/12/2019 9:47:14 PM EST
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Except Duke winning national ships!
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It's Durham.....nothing good ever happens in Durham....
Except Duke winning national ships!
and the 11 foot 8 bridge is in Durham - that's the gift that keeps on giving...
Link Posted: 8/13/2019 6:57:58 AM EST
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and the 11 foot 8 bridge is in Durham - that's the gift that keeps on giving...
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The G2 guy's here....
Link Posted: 8/13/2019 7:50:06 AM EST
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Except Duke winning national ships!
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stupid private
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The should really just change the ratings in all military branches to this:

E1- Stupid
E2- Stupid

E3- SGB   Stupid, Getting Better

E4- Can't call something by rank if you can never find them
Link Posted: 8/14/2019 11:42:29 AM EST
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Back in the 80's my buddy got a USMC tattoo before going to boot camp. I tried to talk him into waiting until he got out. He quickly became the drill sergeants favorite boot. They smoked him long and hard every chance they got. He made it through, and by all accounts had a good career, but damn he started out rough.
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I had a brother rat at military college get the EGA on him- but they mirror-imaged it and the anchor was going the opposite way somehow.
Link Posted: 8/14/2019 1:00:44 PM EST
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Had a kid in the late 80's show up to boot camp with a Trident on his chest....  It wasn't pretty.
Link Posted: 8/14/2019 1:30:23 PM EST
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Motor so small the boat is going to travel backwards when the gun is fired.
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Link Posted: 8/21/2019 7:31:07 AM EST
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That's probably the entire Marine Corps.
Link Posted: 8/21/2019 7:55:48 AM EST
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Back in the 80's my buddy got a USMC tattoo before going to boot camp. I tried to talk him into waiting until he got out. He quickly became the drill sergeants favorite boot. They smoked him long and hard every chance they got. He made it through, and by all accounts had a good career, but damn he started out rough.
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Wow.....
Back in the 80's my buddy got a USMC tattoo before going to boot camp. I tried to talk him into waiting until he got out. He quickly became the drill sergeants favorite boot. They smoked him long and hard every chance they got. He made it through, and by all accounts had a good career, but damn he started out rough.
Went to boot camp with a kid who's last name is Marine.
His laundry list number was 36.
He was called number 36 until Graduation day.
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