Barracuda_Magoo

Or get a trans MOS and do nothing but drive. Even though our entire company is drivers, I'm almost always the one assigned to the 5-ton on FTX's. Our unit dosen't even have 5-tons; we have to borrow them.

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War.mongeR1

I second that motion! C-5 Loadmaster's all I've been in the AF. Fantastic job with no possible deployments. The C-5 is global and can take off from any place in the world and fly non-stop to the destination (with our aerial refuels ofcourse). Now I'm going to try to be a pilot! I start my PPL training this summer. Woot!

BTW, whenever an ORI comes around, just volunteer to conveniently go TDY during the duration of the inspection. That's what I've done twice. So much better than joining in all the "dog and pony shows" that we all know. During the last ORI we had, I believe I spent half of it in Rota, Spain admiring the ladies at the beach. Aww, yeah. Aircrew life rocks.

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MajWood

That why I should have been a wing wiper, not a GROPO

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Dirtboy

Sorry for the bump but I got a new one for you all!

The past weekend I was looking forward to playing my new copy of CoD4...but this was not to be! We had some 3 Star come on base and we had to do some "Base Beautification". So what does this mean...


1. Since its fall, the leaves were falling onto the streets. Apparently this was not acceptable to the Commander and we had street sweepers out almost all week. The leaves were falling constantly and we could not keep up.

2. So my dumbass says the following..."Why don't we get a bunch of leaf blowers and blow all the leaves off". I said it sarcastically in the hopes that my smartass remark will give them the hint that this is silly....WRONG!

3. So they say..."Great Idea, get a crew assembled and lets knock this out Saturday!" At this point everyone is looking at me like I just have took a chili dump all over them. So Saturday comes and I "supervised" my troops doing this, damn its good to be an NCO

Moral of the story...I hate this place and I want to go back to my old unit!

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BigGaayAl

I don't get exactly what you mean dirt; did they have to literally blow the leaves away like sitting on their knees?

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Ferris Bueller

No, they got big leaf blowers, the kind that lawn service people use.

Dirtboy, if you were my staff NCO, I'd have killed you by now and fed you to the North Koreans.

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Gillespie

OK. Let me think. Some are tasks, and some are just stupid crap I've suffered through.

Fakes things we sent the new guys to get (that haven't been mentioned):

1. M203 blank adapters from the arms room.
2. Arctic-camouflaged M-4s from the arms room (while I was at Ft. Drum... "they're the white painted ones").
3. A grid square from supply.
4. A few T-R-double E's.
5. A spot can of elbow grease from the motor pool mechanics.
6. A replacement clutch pedal for the Humvees from the motor pool.

As for stupid jobs:

- In Iraq, going outside the perimeter of the FOB to supervise extra-duty guys while they cut down some grass and weeds from the wire. Yes, we got mortared.

- Picking weeds by hand every single week instead of just buying weed killer and getting rid of them properly.

- Sifting through the colossal garbage dump after a JROTC rotation looking for unopened MRE heaters.

- The "Hands Across the Desert" detail after an NTC rotation.

- Spending 2 hours digging ranger graves for ourselves only to immediately move position... when we knew we were going to have to move position.

- A bit of an anecdote... when I was in Afghanistan our platoon was moving up a mountainside at night, using our NVGs for navigation. We were in a file moving up a trail when the movement slowed way down. There was this tremendous boulder in our way, so everyone was arduously climbing up on top, helping the guy behind him up, then dropping down to the other side. I was waiting my turn to climb the boulder and started scanning around me. I suddenly noticed that there was a 3 foot path going around both sides of the boulder. I stepped out of the file, walked to the side of the boulder, and watched as my buddies grunted and groaned their way over the top of this boulder instead of simply strolling around it to the other side. It was so hilarious I simply let the rest of the guys climb on over while I watched, then fell into the rear of the formation. Gotta love the way NVGs take away your peripheral vision.

- Being ordered to literally climb a goddamn mountain in full battle rattle just "to see what's on the other side".

- Getting spun up on QRF and flown in a Chinook with the rest of my platoon to respond to a group of sheep herders with "something that looks like a machine gun". In other words, the walking stick the old dude was carrying.

- Spotlessly cleaning my gear in case the general stops by... while you're in Iraq.

- Sitting around all damn day long not doing anything but sit in our rooms and playing videogames... and then getting tasked right before we're released with some random nonsense that "needs to be done ASAP!"

- Giving our Humvees a wash every week... while in Iraq. You'd spend an hour spraying the damn thing down only to have it get dirty 30 minutes later when the choppers roll in, sending a huge cloud of dust everywhere.

- Road marching for 14 miles and setting up security at our objective- no... wait, we got to move, this isn't our objective. Here's our objective. Set up security, men.... No. No, wait. We gotta move again, this isn't our objective. Here's our- No... wait... this isn't our objective. Hey, let me see that map. Where the hell is our objective? (ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!)

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CingularDuality

Well, improving your position is never a bad idea.

Heh... The scariest thing in the Marine Corps? A butter bars with a map.

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That had me laughing at my desk.

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Dirtboy

No...no we don't. We had small little sidewalk blowers and blew the leaves OFF the trees.

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CingularDuality

Ha! You blew the leaves directly off of the trees? I didn't get that from your first post. That's awesome! It had to have been a lieutenant that issued that order!

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BigGaayAl

Yeah I only got it now: . You have to appreciate the creativity of the order .

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Bc2ID

Dirt would have been duct taped under his bed for that one. "Has anyone seen Sgt Dirt....Nope not us."

Gillespie, are you sure we weren't in the same unit...sounds awful familar.

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BigGaayAl

Lol I'd have him duct tape them all back on the trees afterwards .

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