Military BS Stories or the last liar wins.

[actaeon277]

 

[actaeon277]

 

[actaeon277]

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Also...
top pic... when I got out of boot camp
bottom pic... 3 days before EAOS

 

[2A_Tom]

Is EAOS the same as ETS?

ETS= Enlisted Time Served.

Show us your DD 214 or get out!

 

[Alamo]

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lol.
When I was a new 2nd Lt one of my Staff Sergeants tried to rib me a bit by coyly asking why Good Conduct Medals were never awarded to officers. I told him as officers we were expected to behave but for an enlisted troop to go three years without a F.Up was just short of feeding the masses with half a dozen loaves of bread. His buddies listening in the back of the office started laughing and yelling “Burn! Burn!”

He admitted that his first Good Conduct Medal took longer because in his previous AFSC as a Security Police cop he accidentally parked one of their uparmored Blazers in four feet of icy water and had to climb onto the roof and wait to be rescued.

 

[Quiet Observer]

She better not mock my 5” gun…



Eh, the link crops the bottom of the photo:

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It makes sense. It is easier to camouflage or cover a shorter gun. There is also less wind resistance with shorter guns. The British would never have found the Bismark if it had not been for those 15 inch gun sticking out and slowing her down.

 

[actaeon277]

Is EAOS the same as ETS?

ETS= Enlisted Time Served.

Show us your DD 214 or get out!

End of
Active
Obligatory
Service

It's the last Active Duty Date.

 

[2A_Tom]

Squid brass be windy.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

 

[actaeon277]

 

[KellyinAvon]

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Everyone remembers the guy who spun himself around on the buffer. I think the one in my Basic Training flight became a Crew Chief. That checks out

 

[actaeon277]

Everyone remembers the guy who spun himself around on the buffer. I think the one in my Basic Training flight became a Crew Chief. That checks out

The Buffer Rodeo.
Who hasn't participated?

 

[Alamo]

The YC-130 Hercules prototype made its first flight on this date 23 Aug 1954.

The first production C-130A flew on 7 April 1955. It’s been in continuous production for 70 years, with a few changes along the way,


Lockheed YC-130 53-3397

23 August 1954 | This Day in Aviation

 

[Alamo]

Never knew this:

 

[Alamo]

 

[Alamo]

Remember this?

Navy post on X is getting massively ratioed…

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I had to use a photo of it because the US Navy deleted it about the time I tried to paste the link into Ingo. The guy on the rifle is the commanding officer of the USS John S. McCain.

Here’s the new one:
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But it still says “practice gun shoots.“ is that like target practice?

To be replaced shortly thereafter by a second update:
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The commanding officer in the photograph was just relieved of his command of the USS John S. McCain.

 

[actaeon277]

Remember this?

The commanding officer in the photograph was just relieved of his command of the USS John S. McCain.

Loss in confidence is a 'catch all'.
Could be a bad commander.
Could be he stated that giving children sterilization drugs is bad.

 

[Alamo]

More Navy stuff.

2 Sep 1920



Detail:

https://www.usni.org/naval-history/wreck-of-the-S-5

 

[KellyinAvon]

Loss in confidence is a 'catch all'.
Could be a bad commander.
Could be he stated that giving children sterilization drugs is bad.

True dat. Any commander can be relieved by their superior and the standard reason is "Lost faith/confidence in their ability to lead." By standard reason I mean, that's what they say every time.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Summer 1986: young USAF mosquito-wing/1-striper KellyinAvon is at the 347th Supply Squadron, Moody AFB, Georgia.

I was working in the main warehouse and by this point I was licensed to drive pretty much any vehicle in the Squadron. Forklifts, trucks over 1 ton, warehouse tug, I could drive it.

I ended up farmed out to the Pickup and Delivery section for a little while because (1) I had a government license and (2) all kinds of bad stuff happened to the folks assigned to P&D. All of what follows happened in 1 week.

Remember the Ford Courier? It was a Mazda B2000 only not near as good of a truck. I think it had the Pinto 1.4L instead of the 2.0L. We had a government vehicle, 1981 Ford Courier. A Buck Sgt from P&D put the forks of a forklift through the side of the bed. Dude identified as a drug abuser before the Squadron Commander could order the drug test. Popped positive, but ended up getting an Honorable Discharge. That was one P&D driver down.

Troop who had been on leave back home in a podunk town in Missouri. Well a convenience store got robbed the morning he was leaving to come back, the local townie who got robbed said the Blue-Suiter witnessed it and then left. No ****, he had a warrant for his arrest and had to deal with this when he got back even though he had no idea about any of it. P&D is now down two drivers.

Another P&D troop jumps in a 1.5 ton International. He looked, there was nothing behind him. While he's getting the truck started, some guy in a (IIRC) 1978 Chevy half-ton government vehicle manages to pull in behind him, close enough it's not in the mirrors. Throws it in reverse... BAM and P&D is down three drivers.

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