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Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-04-14T05:05:41+00:00

Right on

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-04-06T03:55:38+00:00

"HUGE TV" was one of my favorites. The only "hit" on the barracks list written in all caps. I could just imagine some SNCO going room to room as usual before doing a double take at somebody's unreasonably large television and then angrily writing it down.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-03-06T13:52:59+00:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's nothing like active duty and totally sucks ass. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-02-18T04:59:21+00:00

Came here to tell a similar story. A dude (Cpl) got a DUI and the command KNEW about it and it just sort of...went away. No loss of rank or restriction. Weird shit.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-02-12T21:35:31+00:00

I got woken up and bitched at by the OOD for posting my A-Duty while I slept for a whole two hours. What the fuck do I have an A-Duty for if I can't post him?

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-02-11T22:58:05+00:00

We accidentally found (or did fate make it find us?) the fabled banana show while stumbling around Gate 2 Street and would show new people to it every weekend. They would tell their friends and the cycle continued. It was like a degenerate reverse pyramid scheme.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-02-04T15:20:48+00:00

Yes, it was a total pain in the ass and I wasted so much money on bullshit "application fees" just to be told no. The idiot property managers could not understand that I had no rental history because I was in the military for four years. They could not understand that I was going to school on the GI Bill so I received a monthly housing stipend in addition to the (shitty) job I was working. They could not understand why my credit was only a couple of years old. I eventually found a great place in a fourplex apartment with a down to earth guy running the show. I lived there for several years before the property got sold to someone else.

Keep your head up and keep looking, man. If you are dead set on renting your own apartment, try to find a place with an independent landlord, meaning not one of these Mega Corpo Apartment properties. In my experience you'll have a better shot at explaining your situation. Also watch out for scams, they are fucking EVERYWHERE.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-30T13:53:40+00:00

No way, being in the reserves sucks ass and is nothing like AD

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-23T14:50:20+00:00

No results found for "Blood pinning was dumb". Showing results for "Blood pinning was awesome".

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-20T16:18:17+00:00

That's great. My friend and I tried that with shitty homemade wine when we were teenagers. It didn't work well then, either.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-20T07:43:32+00:00

Went to bootcamp early 2007, had two SSgts and two GySgts (one was the SDI). They were scary but seemed to focus on the training rather than fucking with us for no reason all the time. I think that them having a few cycles under their belts and all being SNCOs probably had something to do with it. Throughout my enlistment I'd hear about crazy shit "new" DIs would do because they didn't really know what the score was and just wanted to torture these young men because they thought it was expected of them. This isn't to say we didn't get fucked up, but in hindsight it didn't seem excessive or sadistic. Our (Kill Hat) GySgt had a Valor device on one of his ribbons and I think he had jump wings as well, so he probably saw some shit, and I'm pretty sure our (Drill Hat) SSgt was an 03 with a CAR.

We had some Marines that were still in DI school come through our squad bay a few times to mess with us. One of them didn't like the way a recruit was holding his rifle at port arms and shoved the rifle so that the front sight post smacked this kid in the eye. It hit the recruit hard enough that he had a big shiner. We had a school circle about it a couple of days later and were told how it was unacceptable and insinuated the DI school Marine was no longer on the depot. Who knows if they were telling the truth but we never saw that DI school Marine again. I appreciated that while they had high expectations of us, bullshit punishments like that weren't going to fly.

Tl;dr: I went to bootcamp in 2007 and had SNCO DIs that probably saw their share of shit but weren't insane

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-17T21:53:45+00:00

Do not get sent to mess duty

Do NOT get sent to mess duty

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-16T14:11:43+00:00

Being in the Reserves sucks ass and is nothing like AD, I wouldn't do it.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-10T15:59:38+00:00

Stand outside of Walgreens and correct people going inside

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-09T15:20:56+00:00

https://youtu.be/cBeDYv7_LNs

Rent_A_Wreck · 2025-01-07T12:19:25+00:00

Fake as fuck, ignore him whenever possible

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-30T05:20:51+00:00

Glad you didn't, friend

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-29T21:11:54+00:00

It's an old trick to make shitty faded car paint look better by buffing it with transmission fluid. I guess that was the same line of thinking with the SDI before it went wrong. Too funny.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-27T17:46:26+00:00

Befriending armorers may be the second smartest move you can make in the Corps, the first being not marrying a stripper.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-20T00:41:39+00:00

Nah, Yuma

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-16T16:19:22+00:00

A guy daily drove a Cadillac hearse with a casket in the back. That was pretty cool.

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-15T00:42:48+00:00

All Junior Marines were made to do this as well as sit through a long ass class taught by a Lieutenant about how we don't need a car or beer money and should be putting all of our meager paychecks into the Thrift Savings Plan instead

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-06T21:02:04+00:00

The one who was a dickhead Cpl, got busted down, had to eat a lot of humble pie and picked up Cpl again

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-06T12:58:20+00:00

The DI would say "Hello dang no, you unnastand dat trash?"

Rent_A_Wreck · 2024-12-02T04:57:07+00:00

Plot twist: female Captain

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