DBTrek wrote:Running the gauntlet to have your stripes pounded into your collar by the platoon, every new rank, no backing.
That was the Army I joined.
Guess I probably got the tail end of the real Army.
They stopped doing the chest punch when you get your rank while I was in.
As a civilian, I pinned my wife a few years ago. Punched her right in the chest in front of her whole unit. They loved it.
You don't get many chances to publicly batter your wife these days. Can't let them slip through your fingers.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
DBTrek wrote:Running the gauntlet to have your stripes pounded into your collar by the platoon, every new rank, no backing.
That was the Army I joined.
Guess I probably got the tail end of the real Army.
Yeah, me too.
Before I got out in 2013 I could no longer authorize that to happen officially. But NCO's were still doing it off the books and the Newly Promoted asked for the honor of Walking the Gauntlet.
My NCOs got me in the hall the day after I made points. They knew they couldn't do it during the promotion, so they had me standing in the hall outside the platoon office for some made up excuse, and they all came down the hall in file while I was standing there at parade rest waiting to be called in.
It was a reverse gauntlet. I stood there and took the hits as they filed past. Good memory.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
Really? I'm seeing he's in 10th mountain right now. Those pics were from West Point.
West Point means officer. Officers aren't enlisted. They're commissioned.
Officers have, or are supposed to have, a much higher bar of conduct to live up to.
They have to shitcan him, or the officer corps is fucked.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich claimed on ESPN2’s “The Paul Finebaum Show” Monday that “people have to be made to feel uncomfortable,” specifically singling out white people.
“Well, because it’s uncomfortable, and there has to be an uncomfortable element in the discourse for anything to change. Whether it’s the LGBT movement, women’s suffrage, race, it doesn’t matter. People have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people because we’re comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born white means,” he stated.
“If you read some of the recent literature, you’ll realize there really is no such thing as whiteness, but we kind of made that up. That’s not my original thought, but it’s true,” Popovich said.
He added, “Because you were born white, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically there. And they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. But many people can’t look at it. It’s too difficult.”
“It can’t be something that is on their plate on a daily basis. People want to hold their position, people want the status quo, people don’t want to give that up. And until it’s given up, it’s not going to be fixed,” the coach stated.
GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
This time you caught me when I wasn't sipping my Coke Zero, so it didn't shoot out my nose when you called a Marine a soldier.
We bought up all the bottles of zero we could find when we realized they killed it and went with zero sugar.
It's like coke 2 all over again. Store manager down the road says sales are way down.
But Coke 2 was a different formula. These two I can't tell the difference. It's just a branding change.
Nope. Different. We can tell easily.
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GrumpyCatFace wrote:Dumb slut partied too hard and woke up in a weird house. Ran out the door, weeping for her failed life choices, concerned townsfolk notes her appearance and alerted the fuzz.
