It's official. I'm going to EYE-RACK

[ohgood]

400 day INVOLUNTARY deployment begins June 22, 2009.

I'm Combat Engineer. Am I going as combat engineer? Noooooo, that would make too much sense instead, get this...

I'm going as Civil Affairs....with a Chemical Unit....that is transitioning to Civil Affairs.

Here's an idea. Lets give a bunch of soldiers a job none of them know how to do. f%$k it, then lets send them to war. BRILLIANT!

From Jan - March I'll be in Fort Bragg, North Kakalaka learning how to be a CA officer. Fun Fun.

Buddha you still live on the East Coast?

fixed the date for you - unless they're using a time warp now to f%$k up things before they f%$ked them up the last time they f%$ked them up. (they being the politicians, not the military)

wow, your training and your assignment are exactly not compatible. great. genius even !

hope you can make something good of it. thanks for serving, even if the assignment is stupid and involuntary.

(edited to -not- sound so much like a jerk)

[wladziu]

Hahahahhaha!  Compressed air cans!  Hahahahah!  You keep thinking that, and let me know how it turns out.

A) The PX only stocks about a dozen cans a month.
B)  The office pansies (with nothing else to do with their time) are waiting like vultures when the box gets opened, and then fight over it.
C)  The cans that your supply officer gets... he trades those on the black market.  Guess how much trim you can get for a CO2 can....
D)  The left-over black market cans (the ones that get stolen off the office pansies desk's) are guarded better than the front gate.
E)  All the rest are huffed by the jonesing drug-crowd. 

It was a pet peeve of mine.  And everybody else with a computer.
Those little vacuums are about the best you can do, unless you get lucky and find a can of air.  But, the vacuums aren't very strong.
After a while, I just stopped taking mine apart. 
Want to know a trick?
USAA has renter's insurance for $20 a month, and covers everything you own (up to $125K).   Laptop costs $1K. 
After about two or three months, all the idiots will start getting bored (they always do).  Sell them your computer at original price or more, after reporting yours stolen.  Buy a desktop from Haji on the cheap, plus they're easier to clean out.  Or, have someone send you another laptop and repeat. 
Only bad boys do things like that, though...


You can drink all the water in the world, killer, and it won't do you much good over there.  You break a sweat just taking a dump.  Every bit of water you drink just comes right back out.  It's like pouring it right on the ground. 
You get used to it, though.  You'll sweat, sweat,sweat, and you'll feel miserable.  Then you'll realize that the more water you drink, the more your body sweats.  You'll stop drinking so much water, and then you'll feel better.  Just like everybody else. 
You'll get a migraine every now and then, cause you're basically at Level II heat exhaustion, like I said.  Just wait in line for a Ringers at the medics, and bring a magazine like everybody else.  Or take a nap without a stupid radio "bleep bleep-ing" in your ear. 

I just stopped getting the headaches about last year, around this time.  I've been out for 3 years, just to tell you how crappy it is. 

That aspirin your buddy gave you isn't gonna help with dehydration headaches, either. 
Another tip:  Exedrin- Tension Headache. 
You'll go from wanting to stab your eyes out to normal in 15 minutes.  Helps a lot when you're busy. 

[wladziu]

Salt your food. 
Sweating= loss of electrolytes= bad headaches/puking your guts out= acting like a sick little pansy = people won't get out of your way when you walk by.
Salt your food.

In the summer over there, you can get sick at the drop of a hat.  Eating too much, not eating enough, being too tired, bending over, yelling at somebody, blah blah blah.
If you're gonna get sick, just don't look like a pansy about it.  Just do what you gotta do, and then go back to work.  Big bonus points if you puke ON somebody and then just walk away without saying anything.   

[bettingpython]

I am told by a friend thet did a tour in the sandbox that wild turkey looks just like listerine when you put it in a listerine bottle. His wife sent him weekly care packages of cookies and mouth wash.

[Mdow]

i might be joining you over their in a couple of years

lookin at signing up my self

[loki7714]

What'd you make on your asvab when you took it?