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[spadepacolypse]

Thanks or all the responses. New rule as of today, back packs not even aloud hanging on you bike outside the T-barriers. Perfect. And although you all articulated your arguments well I must disagree with the idea that the no back pack rule is good. If I am in uniform and have a military ID that some one actually looks at seriously I should be

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[88comet]

To be honest, I agree with you

[snarkactual]

We left a life that we ran ourselves, you did not. You are told who, what, where, when everyday of your life. I tell myself. I make decisions that affect whether food gets put on the table for my wife and children or whether my business, school career etc. continue. Someone makes those decisions for you and it is pretty tough for you to lose everything from a lay-off don't you think.I probably don't know the difference between the AD and the ARNG. Neither do you. As amply demonstrated in the above rant. I make decisions not only about the same things you do but have to make daily decisions that affect the lives (many times literally decisions of life and death) of the people in my unit. We don't have lay-offs we have RIFs and then there's the up and out policy that means you can't just hang out doing the same job for years. So suck it up troop and open your eyes and ears twice as much as your mouth

[spadepacolypse]

I don't know why or how we got to this point of arguing with each other. In reference to the 159th the proof is in the numbers, my battalion is dusting them. And SF didn'tr choose them Brigade did, as a slap in the face to the guard. Flight hours and OR rate is what I am talking about, it's not even close. But they have the attitude that they are so much better not us. ALso it is very clear you don't know the difference between AD and Guard, because we are all here we all make decisions like the ones you mentioned above, however back home our lives are very different. AD lives a structured life dependent on the Army to make most of their decisions or give them plenty of guidance to do so. Civilian soldiers like myself do both and we do it just as good here in Aviation. So maybe if the AD started treating us like we were team members things would run smoother here.

[digitaldmc]

i understand exactly how you feel about leadership having nothing better to do than gig soldiers. when i was in iraq, i was on combat escort and security missions. i manned the .50 cal on my humvee. we drove all over that country! there is not anywhere there we have not been. last year, when they launched that big offensive in fallujah, my platoon was to escort the iraqi army there for the offensive. we were the first US soldiers into fallujah at the begining of the offensive. we got hell! mortors, ambushes, IED's... and it was POURING rain that day. anyways, back to why i initially started typing this... the next day, after being in combat, rained on, and sleeping in our vehicles, we pulled into a FOB on our way out to get some food and to re-fuel. we were walking up to the chow hall and this CSM was all like "hey! you cant come in here like that! you are filthy! where's your first-line leader!" well, my platoon leader who was with us walked up and said "here i am!" oh, god! my LT lit up that CSM!!! rank was not an

[rothgar]

kudos to your lt. crap like that was one my biggest pet peeves in that country. Getting told I could'nt come in because I was too dirty happened to me once. I told the dude at the door that I actually worked for a living and that if he wanted me out then he would have to physically remove me, then I went to get my food. Needless to say he didnt do anything about it.

[qp4]

I'm in the "Triangle of Death" and so not only are my living conditions absolute shit (so it's tough to even get clean) I usually run six days in row and it's all about changing the browns and blacks, the uniform itself be damned.

And I love going into the chow halls on Liberty and Falcon and other assorted "Camps" like that. It's even better when I'm on some 48 or 72 hour ops and I'm sporting a beard.

[lafinjack]

Our CSM was a riot. He tried to chew out a friend once who was a Humvee gunner for not wearing eye protection. He started yelling from about 20m away, telling my friend to put his goggles on. Thing is, he was already wearing them, and they were clear and hard to see especially from a distance. Our CSM came up to him, yelling the whole way. Then my friend, an E-4, started yelling back that he was wearing eye protection. CSM claims that ZOMG they weren't authorized. Friend says they must be authorized since they were issued to him. CSM runs out of ammo and storms off

[giantlaser]

Hey, it's your decision to remain angry about these things. But continuing to name names, publicly in your blog when it is a violation of regs and prosecutable under UCMJ, well, that's just dumb. Your call. I hope nobody reports it. Because it is being read, I guarantee you.

[lafinjack]

Agreed. I was slammed and nearly given an article 15 for simply mentioning a unit and referring to immediate superiors [not by name] in my journal. While it might not be read now as giantlaser said, they will find it eventually. When they do it's your ass, especially since you're naming high-ranking people.

If they let you keep your internet privleges after they catch you be sure to tell us how it went.