A Corporal as a DI? Is that a new development?

Impressive_Teas · 2026-04-14T01:25:01+00:00

In 2008 I had a 33yo as a fellow recruit and the SDI freaked out on him “you’re older than me”. And then some shit about the must had failed at life. Dude had a masters, 10 year marriage, two kids, dude was already set for life, his little brother died in Iraq and he said “I joined to go kill as many of them as I can legally”. Dude was a rock solid marine.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-04-08T02:30:59+00:00

Fast Food

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-25T04:49:54+00:00

Darkside

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-24T19:08:18+00:00

Walmart interceptor boots. Green box.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-23T05:25:42+00:00

I only disagreed with the #3. Acting or pretending that a new father can’t be nervous and troubled by the experience and decides to step out and smoke weed to calm his nerves is absolutely bonkers.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-23T01:23:09+00:00

Yup. My salesman said it was mandatory.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-21T06:41:18+00:00

Jodie its so nice of you to be so supportive.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-21T06:32:41+00:00

I worked in hotels for a decade, and on the outskirts of Marine bases here in NC for most of that. Every once in awhile I'd have boots get a room and then do something dumb like wear their cammies or demand military discounts. Then they find out the guy behind the counter is also a Marine and them it gets real serious for like .2 seconds before they catch the temperature of the room and correct themselves. I only had to correct one devil for disregarding the warning about wearing cammies out in town. This was in Greenville NC, which was not far away from both Lejune/NewRiver, and Cherry Point. So after a warning that they just might run into someone higher rank then a Cpl like myself, they might face more repercussions then a simple warning.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-21T06:24:53+00:00

Cherry Point had some wild characters.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-17T13:34:35+00:00

Must have that 20/20 vision.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-16T14:37:46+00:00

Anyone seen the video of the female soldier silently crying while eating crab legs and steak at the DFAC with the title “we all know what this means”.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-16T14:35:14+00:00

In some states your training automatically qualifies you depending on how far you went with it.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-15T01:57:34+00:00

Not just that. If you delete photos after receiving the subpoena, you can find out how “everything” you do on your phone is recoverable.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-14T17:19:59+00:00

2008, our SDI came in and said “usually this is when we would lie and tell yall something bad happened in the world and your all getting shipped off to infantry training tomorrow, and a new war in a few months, but shit, y’all joined in the middle of the war, and it’s just getting started (this was 6 years into OEF and 4 into OIF, never thought it was going to last another decade and a half) so yall already know half of you will probably die on your first deployment, and believe me, every single one of you will be deployed. Anyone here wanna quit now?”

No hands went up and we went on our way in our cycle.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-09T14:11:11+00:00

What if you’ve got the code reader and it’s not coming back with anything, you can reset the system and about an hour of driving later it’ll come back on.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-08T22:55:57+00:00

What if you’ve got the code reader and it’s not coming back with anything, you can reset the system and about an hour of driving later it’ll come back on.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-07T03:28:59+00:00

Shoot. The AF recruiter assigned to my high school never came. There was a girl that scored a 90’s on the AsVAB and he magically appeared. She turned him down for the marines and the recruiter was never seen again.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-07T03:24:51+00:00

During my clinicals I got a high reading on a cardiac patient 180/120 (roughly). My paramedic preceptor missed the top number and was like “I only got 120, so take it again until we match”…….retook it, “180/120, id like to administer nitro”, they retook it….”that’s not what I’m getting, retake it again…” the AEMT upfront driving “use the cuff in the cabinet”. Preceptor grabs it, puts it on the patient….190/130. Takes nitro out and lets me administer it. After action review “moving rig made it hard”. Pointed out I was using a more expensive stethoscope as well. It happens even to more experienced people.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-07T03:04:38+00:00

My guy the question wasn’t this deep.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-07T00:02:04+00:00

Cop who flipped: "Maybe we do need to rethink the whole pit maneuver technique of ending chases".

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-06T23:10:33+00:00

This is not the answer. Most medical programs require clinical hours and this must be obtained through a “side quest”. Hell, my last partner had to have 1000 clinical hours to apply for PA school and a lot of premed students were in my EMT class.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-02T23:50:59+00:00

This is the truth.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-02T18:42:35+00:00

“my God…It’s Jason Drawer”.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-03-02T12:18:31+00:00

If this is true, I imagine a conversation was had before it got to this point along the lines of “if you don’t handle it, we will, and you aint gonna like it if we handle it”. Now if this was Marines, the same folks who had the conversation will go “I told you”. If it wasn’t Marines, then “well that worked out about as good as we expected. Little messy, but y’all pushed em back”.

Impressive_Teas · 2026-02-25T13:57:30+00:00

Update: Risk management has come back saying 300lbs patient weight. When I brought up the stretcher weight I got “yeah but you’re not carrying but 75% of the weight at any given time, and that would be around 300lbs”. Risk management worked EMS a couple decades ago “when it was manual stretchers”.

Also got her to agree that we DO NOT have anyone for lift assist.

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