18psi

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not ssgt, I think he meant ffgt

2Bit

This here is the truth mang. I joined as a 6 year, so when i graduated basic my -date of rank- started then. After that it was 20 weeks or finish tech school and you get that rank from date of rank. (E3) After that for me it was just a waiting game. 2 years and 4 months. Then i got E4. If you get it with 6 months or more until the testing cycle, you're eligible to test, which I did, and then it's back to the waiting game. You get a line number and that's what number you are to put on that next stripe. I'm still waiting. I will be until somewhere around May-June, possibly into July.

2Bit

Silly, the Annual awards for 2011 are already out. This will be for the year of 2012. I just have to keep on volunteering and busting my ***.

18psi

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Was your intention of starting this thread to talk about how ------- awesome you are or are you just that full of yourself that it naturally took that path?

gearhead_318

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That makes me feel a LOT better, that's like being a Corporal in the Marines. (Pvt, PFC, Lance Corp, Corp, SGT, SSGT, Gunnery SGT and so forth.)

Edit: do you mean E-5 or E-4?

Seefo

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A Developer of sorts.


Cars:
Volvo S70 (junked)
Mazdaspeed 3 (totalled)
1999 Miata (My mother would say its totalled also)

2Bit

Honestly I've read a ---- load on this forum with your posts in it. You are ------- ruthless and I don't know what I did to get you to start talking ---- to me but this is the only time I will acknowledge it. I really don't want to start any more bullshit than what has already been posted I just want to be a part of this forum and get to know everybody. I just wanted people to know who I am and what I'm about. That's all, nothing else.

jbrown7815

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Nah it's E-5. Airman Basic is E-1 (no stripes)

2Bit

There's a rank missing there, Airman Basic, No stripes. Or slick sleeve, It starts there at E-1

TorqueZombie

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^I'm not going to even go into how easy your world must be if this is your response. I was Security Forces (basically cop, security, and infantry shoved together) and hated my leadership almost enough to frag them. But it's too much paperwork to be worth it. The military experience is really luck of the draw. I've seen some serious retard s---bags succeed with the right friends and enough sucking up. <They are usually the first one to do something stupid an get someone killed/maimed because they are cocky or just dumb. To quote one of my leadership, "You are nothing more than bullet magnets here to keep the enemy busy until more bullet magnets show up" I'm out now due to disabilities that would not be nearly as sever if my leaders took "care" of me.

^this is so true. I'm the other side of the coin to his happy rainbow experience and I have friends that had it worse so this isn't a pitty parade

2Bit

Don't even get me started on Security Forces bullshit. Yeah you guys work your *** off, hated on until your needed, and put up with some dumbshit, but have you ever worked FLIGHTLINE? I have it easy on this DEPLOYMENT because I got shoved into a desk job at MOC because they had a slot to fill and I had time in grade. Now that I have my line number I'll be going back to 14 hour days, making the ------- MISSION happen. You know, sortie generation to protect the idiots that went in as bullet sponges? Don't hate on my job because YOU picked a shitty career field.

18psi

iTrader: (76)

oh no he didn't

jbrown7815

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2bit you're just asking for ---- now man. I work flightline, and would much rather do so then stand guard all day as SF.

jbrown7815

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Almost all of us work 12+ hours while deployed.

2Bit

Damn straight. I wouldn't trade my job for SF even if they offered a huge *** bonus. No disrespect to him, thanks for the service. Somebody has to do the job and it's great he stepped up. I'm just saying don't call my job ------- easy until you spend 2 years changing JFS, CGB, Pawl carriers, and living the shitty life of box nasties.

2Bit

I literally work less ours during the week while deployed now, than I did at Kadena on the flightline as an A1C SrA.

TorqueZombie

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For the thread
Ex-military now current 30yr old full time student to get a new career. Mech engineering fyi

Current:
97 Miata DD no turbo just basically a majority of FM's susp stuff
99 Miata FMII -apart more than in it lately
02 Wrangler-lifted long travel w/ 4.6 I6 stroker
06 Suzuki SV1000-not much left stock

Past:
86 Mitsu Montero 4x4- loved this tank back in highschool
98 Frontier KA24 4x4
96 SE-R miss this car
95 240sx SRswap and lost a ton of money in it when a tow truck totaled it
Unsure of which year
92-93 Opel Astra GSI- absolute blast to drive in Europe until the motor explodes. Was an Italian guys hand me down rally parts car
92-93 Merc 180 or 190 payed $100 bucks for and it lasted 6months with a blown head gasket and more oil in the cooling system then anything else. Popping the rad cap looked like the inside of a babies diaper after indian food

gearhead_318

iTrader: (1)

I'm going to shoot things in hot places where people speak gibberish, but first I'll get screamed at for 3 months for no apparent reason. After I get done getting screamed at I'll come back to this thread and cast judgment down upon you all.

2Bit

I've never seen an Astra before. Googling now.

2Bit

Have you decided what branch? 3 months sounds a lot like Marines.