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[Jackrabbit]

That's pretty amusing.

[Nikov]

Back in the <1950's when the American army was so badass it got loaded while it unloaded. Damn you, Eisenhauer, and your black boot reform!

[Strife26]

Doing mehish here.

Instead of a four-person crew, we've gone to five people. This means that there's a lot less work, but now I feel like I contribute less, which has always really bugged me. I always feel like I don't contribute enough, which I'm pretty sure is why I always try to be proactively helpful. Yeah, nothing else to really say right now.

[Nikov]

Wait a minute.

Driver, gunner, loader, commander, ?

Does this fifth man weld a Mk 19 tripod to the turret and sit up there in a pile of sandbags?

[Strife26]

We're on trucks at the moment, gunner, driver, commander, combat bartender, extra person.



Feeling pretty poorly at the moment. Dealing with highly stupid shit again. Bad enough that optimistic insanity has half slipped into stoicism. Still got the glimmer that I'll feel better in the morning, though.

[Strife26]

I think that in the future, whenever I change my signature and title, I'll put the old ones here and explain their significance to me. I was wondering how many old sigs I've had but that I don't remember.

Also, I'm going to start posting my completed work outs here, just so they're in a nice safe place.

June10: Ran, 4mi total, various speeds, Treadmill.
Set of 70 sit-ups, done quickly and continuously, last 10 were primarily using obliques.
Military Press, non-backed bench, 20 Ilb's, 12x3, 1 min rest
Bicep curl on a machine, both hands, 5th weight increment, 8x3.
Note: Back hurt like heck after previous stupid PT shit.


Doing well enough here, looking like time are going to get a little chaotic (a safe chaotic, note) in the near future. It's possible that I'll lose access to a MWR for a few days, so don't panic if I don't post for awhile.

I started a new forum game, White Rabbit, it's a multiperson, non turn based game based on exploration of lots of nested settings, with the system(s) I'm using a mystery for the moment. If anyone wants to check it out, I'm willing to take as many people as'll wander into the hotel.

[Zrk2]

Enjoy your ordered chaos.

[Strife26]

Fair chance that it's going to be of the 20 hour workday and no services chaos. As well as the "how do I sneak my duffel bag of mre's out" and "what kind of idiot left a 200 foot roll of bubble wrap where Strife and/or infantrymen can get at it?"

Honestly, we've been really tempted to wrap someone up in it and see what would happen if they got dropped from a guard tower. Probably me, as I'm the lightest guy about.

[Aqizzar]

Well, as the saying goes, it's not the fall that destroys your internal organs.  Good luck.  Hey, maybe you can wrap a meaty guy in it and run him with a hummer.  Or, just spend the rest of your deployment methodically popping it.

[Strife26]

Honestly, I was very very very close to stealing the thing and trying to ship it home. I've been officially ordered to stop playing with it now (I was hiding behind tents and rolling it into privates when they passed).


Got to take some classed today, 240 work, small unit tactics, medically stuff, and ammo types for the Abrams. All stuff that I'm goodish at, but I learned some useful things. It seems that my NCO's are conspiring to get me to learn NCO type stuff.

[Scaraban]

Honestly, I was very very very close to stealing the thing and trying to ship it home. I've been officially ordered to stop playing with it now (I was hiding behind tents and rolling it into privates when they passed).

Good idea or BEST IDEA

[Strife26]

I've actually got my own list, not unlike Skippy's list of things.

Did a short workout today, kinda crunched for time, and annoyed at the gung-honess going on in my tent at the time. I'm going to try to supplement it with some push and sit up sets later tonight.

Also, I'd like to put forward a serious note on how spam bots have advanced while throwing another pitch for White Rabbit up. Escaped Lunatic with his first post (and a link to VEGAS VIP SERVICE in his link) says "Good one Strife, seriously what a great thought. Thanks for posting."
It's interesting how he's using the familiar of my name, don't you think?

[Zrk2]

It seems that my NCO's are conspiring to get me to learn NCO type stuff.

Is it possible someone wants to promote you?

[Strife26]

It is. And, while I'd perfectly like to be a Specialist, the idea of being a leader type still doesn't appeal to me much. I like being in the background as the person who gets asked when the platoon's awesomeness in knowing stuff needs to be demonstrated. However, it looks like there's going to be one or two waivers available for promotion to Specialist (I'd have to wait like a year for normal promotion), and they are going to be determined by going to a mock board for the 1st Sergeant. I guess that I'm going to actually start working on studying this kinda shit. Focusing on memorizing weapon ranges and velocities and the like. I'm really good at knowing capabilities of a weapons system, but straight number memorization is a little tougher for me. Especially when there's multiple ways to look at weapon range, so I'm going to have to memorize Field Manual citations as well.

[Strife26]

Woo. Feeling really lethargic today. Not sure why. As a test, I turned on my brightest flashlight and set it in such a way that it shone right in my eye (shining is one of the things that really gets a response from me normally). I didn't actually get enough energy to turn it off until someone repeatedly told me that I should get up and go to dinner with them. It's about the normal symptoms for when I've been given large amounts of time that I spent sleeping, but all I slept was a normalish 7 hours last night, although I remember waking up repeatedly because it was really cold. We've been hacking our AC's in our tent to get more cooling out of them, and I sorely regretted not having my sleeping bag set up right last night. Still, that should be about the right amount of sleep for me. Weird. In any case, I've slept for another 5 hours (and not called anyone in my family like I meant to :-/). Just downed a cup of coffee, so that'll hopefully help. I take great care in the preparation of cheap DFAC coffee, spending a fair amount of time getting three different kinds of creamer and three sugar packets (which I had to dig in a conex to find). Once all that work is done, I tend to down the cup of joe in one long gulp.

Changed my signature, the part that was a quote from Ernie Pyle that read
"The most vivid change is the casual and workshop manner in which they now talk about killing. They have made the psychological transition from the normal belief that taking human life is sinful, over to a new professional outlook where killing is a craft. To them now there is nothing morally wrong about killing. In fact it is an admirable thing. "

Honestly, I haven't read nearly as much of Ernie Pyle as I should. He was a WWII journalist who really lived with the troops. If one wants to talk about a real embedded journalist, that's the guy. But yeah, it's a very interesting quote I think, and very true. However, I don't really know how much it's ever applied to me. When I think about having to kill someone, it's only ever been an academic thought to me, I've never had any doubt that I'd pull the trigger as soon as I concluded that someone needed to die. Maybe I read too much Clancy as a kid.