For Oerdin and Lonestar...

[Darius871]

So when the hell is #3 anyway? I thought you said it was in a month like two months ago or something. What's the freaking hold-up?

[Al B. Sure!]

So when the hell is #3 anyway? I thought you said it was in a month like two months ago or something. What's the freaking hold-up?

My current OSO is new and the office dropped the ball on my medical clearance. MEPS visits are only good for two years so I need to go back to MEPS. The deadline for medical for the summer class was March 1st, so now I have to wait til the October class.

And what's the freaking hold-up? Everything is hurry up and wait all the time!

[Asher]

Oh christ, Alby.

[KrazyHorse]

Holy ****, now you're going to **** around until ****ING OCTOBER????

WTF.

You ****ing useless ****.

[KrazyHorse]

Why not just admit that you want to stay unemployed for the rest of your life?

[Lonestar]

Lonestar, every time I see your avatar it makes me laugh.

It makes me laugh too.

[Dinner]

Al, you need to get a job, son. Apply at a fast food place, the gas station, a liquor store or any where else they might actually hire you at.

[Hauldren Collider]

****, that reminds me, I actually need to get a job this summer. God dammit. Time to start sending out resumes again

[KrazyHorse]

Why not offer to regrout your bathrooms? Should take at least 3-4 months.

[MikeH]

Holy ****.

Ah... US Army

Like I said, you should try the Army, you might actually get in.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Oh puh-lease. You can't go introducing reasoned and pragmatic career decisions into masturbatory fantasies.

[Asher]

Speaking of world-class American soldiers:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/us-army-apologizes-over-graphic-photos-of-soldiers-posing-with-dead-afghans/article1949975/

U.S. army apologizes over graphic photos of soldiers posing with dead Afghans

A combination of two pictures released by the US Army shows (L) US Corporal Jeremy Morlock, and (R) Private Andrew Holmes. German weekly Der Spiegel on March 21, 2011 published photos that it said showed two US soldiers in Afghanistan from a rogue army unit posing with dead Afghans. - A combination of two pictures released by the US Army shows (L) US Corporal Jeremy Morlock, and (R) Private Andrew Holmes. German weekly Der Spiegel on March 21, 2011 published photos that it said showed two US soldiers in Afghanistan from a rogue army unit posing with dead Afghans. | AFP/Getty Images
U.S. army apologizes over graphic photos of soldiers posing with dead Afghans
Gene Johnson
Seattle— The Associated Press
Published Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 1:41PM EDT
Last updated Monday, Mar. 21, 2011 2:11PM EDT

Graphic photos showing American troops and dead Afghans that the U.S. army was keeping under wraps for a war-crimes probe were carried by a German news organization Monday, with one showing a soldier smiling as he posed with a bloodied and partially clothed corpse.

The army quickly apologized.

The photos published by Der Spiegel were among several seized by army investigators looking into the deaths of three unarmed Afghans last year. Five soldiers based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle, have been charged with murder and conspiracy in the case.

Hans-Ulrich Stoldt, spokesman for Der Spiegel, declined to tell The Associated Press on Monday how the magazine had obtained the photographs, citing the need to protect its sources.

Der Spiegel has other photos from the case — some of which are more graphic — though he said he doesn't know how many. The magazine printed a few in order to illustrate the story, Mr. Stoldt said.

“We published three but not others, and we even pixilated those we did print so that the victims could not be identified,” Mr. Stoldt said. “We needed to document (the accusations) in some form, and were as restrained as possible.”

Editions with the photos were on newsstands Monday, a day after Der Spiegel published them digitally.

Officials involved in the courts-martial had issued a strict protective order, seeking to severely limit access to the photographs due to their sensitive nature. Some defence teams had been granted copies but were not allowed to disseminate them.

“Today Der Spiegel published photographs depicting actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States Army,” the army said in a statement released by Col. Thomas Collins. “We apologize for the distress these photos cause.”

One of the published photographs shows a key figure in the investigation, Cpl. Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska, grinning as he lifts the head of a corpse by the hair. Der Spiegel identified the body as that of Gul Mudin, whom Cpl. Morlock was charged with killing Jan. 15, 2010, in Kandahar province.

Another photo shows Pte. 1st Class Andrew Holmes, of Boise, Idaho, holding the head of the same corpse. His lawyer, Daniel Conway, said Sunday that Pte. Holmes was ordered “to be in the photo, so he got in the photo. That doesn't make him a murderer.”

The photo was taken while the platoon leader, Lt. Roman Ligsay, was present, Mr. Conway said. Lt. Ligsay has asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to testify in the legal proceedings against his troops.

Mr. Conway sought copies of the photographs so that he could present them to a ballistics expert, who he argued might be able to tell whether the victim had been struck by the weapon Pte. Holmes was carrying. His request was rejected.

“I'm very disappointed that in an American judicial proceeding, I have to get potentially exculpatory evidence from a German newspaper,” Mr. Conway said.

A third photo depicts two apparently dead men propped against a small pillar. Der Spiegel said the photo was seized from a member of the platoon, but did not involve the deaths being investigated as war crimes. Soldiers have told investigators that such photos of dead bodies were passed around like trading cards on thumb drives and other digital storage devices.

The killings at issue occurred during patrols in January, February and May 2010. After the first death, one member of the platoon, Specialist Adam Winfield, sent Facebook messages to his parents, telling them his colleagues had slaughtered one civilian, were planning to kill more and warned him to keep quiet about it.

His father notified a staff sergeant at Lewis-McChord, but no action was taken until May, when a witness in a drug investigation in the unit separately reported the deaths. Mr. Winfield is accused of participating in the final killing.

Cpl. Morlock has given extensive statements claiming the murder plot was led by Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs of Billings, Mont.; Gibbs maintains the killings were legitimate.

Cpl. Morlock told investigators he threw a grenade and Pte. Holmes shot Mr. Mudin without cause; Pte. Holmes says that he fired when Cpl. Morlock told him to, believing that Cpl. Morlock had perceived a legitimate threat.

Cpl. Morlock's court martial was scheduled for Wednesday. He has agreed to plead guilty to murder, conspiracy and other charges and to testify against his co-defendants in exchange for a maximum sentence of 24 years in prison.

Meanwhile, military judge Lt.-Col. Kwasi Hawks ruled late last week that Mr. Winfield can present evidence at his court martial that he tried to blow the whistle on the violence.

Prosecutors had tried to bar evidence that he sent the messages to his family.

Mr. Winfield has given a videotaped statement saying he took part in the final killing because he was afraid other soldiers might kill him if he didn't.

However, the judge sided with prosecutors on whether to suppress Mr. Winfield's videotaped statement as coerced.

In addition to the five soldiers charged in the deaths, seven soldiers in the platoon were charged with lesser crimes, including assaulting the witness in the drug investigation, drug use, firing on unarmed farmers and stabbing a corpse.

[Asher]

I'm also shocked that someone so depraved can be from Wasilla, Alaska.

[Al B. Sure!]

Al, you need to get a job, son. Apply at a fast food place, the gas station, a liquor store or any where else they might actually hire you at.

I don't know what it is. I've applied to places left and right. I have a friend who just started working at Family Dollar and he said I was guaranteed a job the way they're hiring. Nothing. They didn't call me or anything. Drug stores, fast food places, etc. Places with "Now Hiring Supervisors" on signs on the window.

Like what the ****? I can see if I get the interview and they don't hire me but they're not even giving me a call?

Who the **** are my competition for these jobs?

I even applied to one of my old jobs that I hated but I was the best thing to ever walk through those doors (Checkers). I talked to one of the shift managers and when I told him my name, he said he had heard of me and said he would try to get me to work at the store he's at because of my reputation. I applied and nothing weeks later. I do have the phone number of the new Area Manager in Philly so I could call him personally to see what's up, though, but would that be appropriate? Technically, I'm supposed to apply through human resources.

I also don't want to just take the first thing that comes along. I have certain stipulations like I don't want to be getting off at work late at night because my walk/using public transit to get home is dangerous. I don't want to go back to the routine of getting robbed on my way home from work. I'd rather have no job that do that again.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I don't want to be getting off at work late at night because my walk/using public transit to get home is dangerous.

USMC. QED.