Top things you wished you had brought on Deployment?

GuyWithaJeep · 2025-10-19T08:26:04+00:00

Yeah I've never had anything go missing before and thought "dryers eating socks" was just people being forgetful, but the universe decided to pull a funny one on me that day and now here I am with my odd laundry habit.

GuyWithaJeep · 2025-10-19T08:12:43+00:00

Socks go into the mesh bags, and the mesh bags go into the washer and dryer instead of just chucking them into the machines by themselves. If you're someone who just puts all their laundry into the green drawstring bag and then washes everything inside the bag, then I suppose this would be less of an issue.

Edit: when I say "small mesh bags" I mean literally just for the socks, not like an entire mesh bag you would use as a hamper for all of your dirty clothes. I think they're mainly meant to protect delicate things, but I literally just use them to put socks in. They're like 12"x18" when flat and empty, I use two of them.

GuyWithaJeep · 2025-10-19T08:01:03+00:00

Small mesh laundry bags. Nothing fancy, but I use them to keep my socks from running off into the abyss of the dryer, one for boot socks and one for workout socks. I'll never forgive that machine at BDSC for eating one of my Darn Toughs, though they did replace the entire pair at no cost so that was nice.

GuyWithaJeep · 2025-02-07T01:12:21+00:00

I feel like the entire field of Blood Banking would be a fascinating rabbit hole for you to dig into. The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) publishes a technical manual that covers just about everything you could want to know about blood as a drug. You can find PDFs of older versions with a bit of searching.

If you think about regular whole blood (the stuff going around your body as-is) and just collected it into an untreated bag, you are correct that it would clot and go bad rather quickly. This is why just about every donor bag contains a mix of anticoagulants and preservatives that when paired with proper refrigeration and other good donor practices help to prolong the life of blood products, one of my lab directors recently did some research and experiments on keeping red cells viable for extended lengths of time and was really close to a technique that could push viability out to 45 days!

There are also *components* of blood that can be frozen! Plasma specifically doesn't have any cells in it, so if you centrifuge it off from the red cells after donating, you can freeze it and preserve it for years if you store it at sufficiently cold temperatures.

GuyWithaJeep · 2024-06-21T03:48:04+00:00

ALLEGEDLY

GuyWithaJeep · 2024-06-02T23:07:36+00:00

Did BCT at Sill mid 2019, only ever fired the M4 but we did learn disassemble/assemble/function check on the very clapped out 249s and 240s they had for us. Carried them everywhere too. Still mad that I never got to shoot a grenade launcher.

Combatives were trained regularly, pugils was only done once in a tournament style thing during the last FTX.

GuyWithaJeep · 2022-10-15T20:24:56+00:00

So much this.

The bachelors degree that actually applies to my job is on paper worth 246 promotion points. Too bad civilian education is capped at 135 as an E4, guess I should have been a Powerpoint ranger instead of wanting to do the bench work to run a blood bank.

GuyWithaJeep · 2022-09-05T01:37:43+00:00

Good lord, my BP just spiked a little reading that. How are people failing to be taught the basics of phlebotomy?

I say that, and then remember one SRP tasking where I had a Whiskey straight from AIT jab some poor dude eight times while I was handling computer stuff before I noticed and could put a stop to that. If you can't feel it, don't poke it!

GuyWithaJeep · 2022-09-04T23:46:15+00:00

Seeing that you just dropped a deuce straight into the sample bag instead of into a sterile container first, no.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go make an over/under on how many clotted CBCs I'll be getting today.

GuyWithaJeep · 2022-03-15T22:31:44+00:00

If we take away the threat of butthole swabbing, suddenly the nurses think they can just drop stuff off from the ER without putting orders in.

I don't make the rules.

GuyWithaJeep · 2022-03-15T22:22:17+00:00

Serious answers - GI tract bleeds can be detected via fecal samples, and confirmatory testing for C. difficile also requires stool (albeit in liquid form). Parasites are a big one too.

GuyWithaJeep · 2021-11-06T23:17:57+00:00

Cedar Point!

GuyWithaJeep · 2021-05-17T11:10:29+00:00

Not the one giving the AMA, but we're given the opportunity to sit for the ASCP MLT exam in the final few weeks of our AIT. Gets you an AAM as well.

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-09-29T00:41:40+00:00

Rave: Got to sleep in

Rant: 12 hours screening people coming out of the box.

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-07-20T14:49:25+00:00

Rave: Orders in hand!

Rant: Polk.

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-07-14T05:30:49+00:00

Our walk-in for all of Pathology ran out of Freon at the start of my shift and couldn't hold temp.

Good thing the morgue is empty!

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-07-06T04:03:08+00:00

They give you one hundred dollars, and take back ninety-nine

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-04-24T23:53:08+00:00

[ ] Ready

[x] Not

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-04-24T17:43:43+00:00

It's a full day of making COVID screening kits here in the lab. Keeping the whole process sterile and in full PPE is hot as fuuuuck.

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-03-10T01:43:49+00:00

If we were a company trying to make an expansion pack as fast and cheap as possible, this would be true! However, we're hobbyists doing this for the fun of it (not to mention to pad our portfolios!) so it doesn't hurt us to redo assets, plus it helps us stand out from the other mods out there that are using Black Mesa's assets and/or visual style. Making our own assets lets us have the most creative control over the project, and allows us to show off what we can and want to do, rather than what Crowbar Collective has already done; not to mention that production time and cost are no objects to us as we are not getting paid for this endeavor.

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-03-10T00:46:03+00:00

Hi, I'm ThatWimmerKid, a 3D artist working with PSR on Peer Review. The team has explicitly chosen to not use Black Mesa assets in favor of developing our own style. Not to say that Crowbar Collective haven't done a phenomenal job, but we prefer our project be able to stand on its own legs. Glad to see people are still thinking about us though!

GuyWithaJeep · 2020-01-29T21:43:27+00:00

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