Really, Army? Really? This is Army Strong?

[Dinner]

By the time those kids arrived at basic training, not only did they lack aerobic or physical strength, but changes in their bone mass left them vulnerable to stress fractures and broken bones, he said.

What kind of ******s get "stress fractures"?

Lots of people. Especially fat ****ers who aren't used to running and who are suddenly made to run a lot.

[Al B. Sure!]

**** **** games

What?

We've been over this before, Asher. **** **** games. We talked about it.

Lots of people. Especially fat ****ers who aren't used to running and who are suddenly made to run a lot.

You're not really helping my case here

Tell Asher that doing sprints on concrete in ICB's is a bad idea and can lead to increased risk of stress fractures. Especially when you're doing buddy carries and ammo can carries. Plus, that rucksacks aren't designed to be carried in front of you while you run circles on the parade deck.

[Asher]

We've been over this before, Asher. **** **** games. We talked about it.

I forget or was drunk at the time.

[Al B. Sure!]

Hazing is technically a punishable offense under Article 92 of the UCMJ and MCO 1700.28... so no hazing occurs at MCRD Parris Island, MCRD San Diego, or OCS... instead, there's **** **** games. Not hazing; it's instruction. To an outsider, I'm not sure they would see the distinction, to be honest, though. Still, it's not quite the same thing.

These **** **** games can be as benign as "2 sheets and a blanket" or "Show me" games or as frustrating as the one I described from that night or my personal pet peeve involving holding back the charging handle on the M16. There's so many **** **** games that DI's play.

[Asher]

WTF are "2 sheets and a blanket" or "show me" games?

[Al B. Sure!]

Sigh... I feel I've said too much as is. This stuff isn't really for civilian consumption

However, to wet your appetite a bit, I'll quote some random guy off facebook:

he was one evil mother****er. I didn't know human arms could hold a pack straight out for that long. I think at one point I was almost in tears it hurt so bad. Oh, and not to mention squeezing nut to butt with your rack mate on the wall- bare ass naked. Or fitting the entire platoon in the laundrey bay. Or squeezing the entire platoon into 2 bathroom stalls. Or playing ****-**** games in the nude. Or getting dressed by the numbers. Or getting undressed by the numbers. Or making your rack by the numbers. Jesus, If I ever hear the words "grab your weapons, I'm gonna show you what 8 pounds can do," ever again, I think i might join the Air force.

[Al B. Sure!]

Damn it sucks that I got to do at least 6 more weeks of that crap

"Foot lockers online right now! No! Foot lockers outside right now! ZEEERRROOO! Get in my house right now! 10... 9... 8... 765432 and... 1! Too slow. Foot lockers outside right now!"

But in the midst of something like this, there's always those brief moments when you and your buddy's eyes meet and you both smirk for a half second before one of you makes that quick twitch reflex to a mean mug to remind you of your bearing.

Oerdin, I assume they do this stuff in the Army, right?

[Dinner]

You actually don't have foot lockers in the army for private use during basic training but yes they do stuff similar to that.

[Asher]

Oh, and not to mention squeezing nut to butt with your rack mate on the wall- bare ass naked.

So ****ing gay.

[onodera]

**** **** games

What?

Dedovshchina.

[Al B. Sure!]

Dedovshchina.

Yeah like that but you Russians take it to a whole nother level.


No foot lockers, Oerdin? I'm curious now. How do you store things like rifle cleaning kit, hygiene kit, PT clothes, and 782 gear (I think in the army it's TA-50?)? We always had so much random crap that we needed the storage space.

[Lonestar]

The Marines are basically Army Junior.

"Oh look at us! We have different Uniforms! We're light infantry with APCs that go in the water! We're going to re-live Normandy some day!"

"Huh? What do you mean Normandy was a ARMY operation?"

We shoudl just fold the whole organization into the Army, or reduce it so they can get back to just guarding nukes.

[Al B. Sure!]

The Marines are basically Army Junior.

"Oh look at us! We have different Uniforms! We're light infantry with APCs that go in the water! We're going to re-live Normandy some day!"

"Huh? What do you mean Normandy was a ARMY operation?"

We shoudl just fold the whole organization into the Army, or reduce it so they can get back to just guarding nukes.

I hate you. Seriously. You're going on ignore.

[Al B. Sure!]

May Chesty haunt your soul. May your child's first words be "Ooh-rah" and "Yut yut". May you have nightmares of devil dogs and Gunnery Sergeants in Smokey covers.

[Lonestar]

Marines are basically the most overrated service, and most redundant one. To me it's amazing that someone thought it would be a good idea to make a second army and a second(even third!) air force out of them.

"We need these super duper V-22s for vertical envelopement and teh EFV to go 5o mph on the ground AND water so we can launch massive invasions against someone more organized than the Somalis, which will totally happen. Also we need our own STOVL aircraft so we can pretend we have our own aircraft carriers. Vroom vroom!"

Convert most of the USMC assets over to the Army, we can keep a ceremonial guard for the President or something. Get rid of Marine aviation entirely. Make them wear the same uniforms as the Army.