What Makes You Angry Today?

[Sarg]

Once again, I'm the "odd man out". Except for a few exceptions, most Air Force officers were straight up. Several Flight Officers, Aircraft Commander, Co-pilot-types saved my ass. One in particular, brought my ass, along with a $2 Mil. C-130 from a full sideways skid at 100+Knots back up into the air, saving all. Walks on water!!!

But I do understand, as my dad worked for some real doozies. Most importantly, you guys are talking your men's lives or their morale, my dad just talked pushing papers around.

Hope you can get over under or through, em' Squaddie.

Sarg

 

[Tim Cake]

As Sarg and I said there are good officers and there are those who should never have received their commission... I hope your encounters with the "ticket-punching" careerist officers end quickly. They only care about their personal career advancement and don't give two whits about the welfare of their subordinates. Unfortunately these types of ladder-climbers tend to disillusion those whom they command and drive good professionals from the ranks. An officer is NOTHING without good professionals to carry out his orders.

 

[tho9900]

on the Guam they had a mini Hitler for the medical officer... an 0-3.... somehow he convinced someone in the lower to mid part of COMPHIBRON 6 that he needed every corpsman green or blue at muster in the morning... we Gyrene corpsmen typically waxed the floors etc... no biggie it was better than playing spades while the pornos were playing.... we had a full bird surgeon deployed with us, in line and yes eventually picked up his star.. he convinced me to shave my hair at an angle so it looked like I was leaning forward at muster to piss the MO off lol..... he invented an orthopedic procedure in in Nam that is widely used in setting a massive femur fractures even today, 44,000 surgeries in Nam under his belt... THAT is a real officer!! I remember the horrified gasps when he went out on liberty with us one night. everyone was Capt Glass this or that.... bout my 4th beer down I looked over and said "So Bob... where do you like to vacation at?" if it werent for him telling me all about the Smokie Mtns you probably woulda heard a pin drop... someone said something and he looked at them and said "Do you see rank on me anywhere? At least Tom is wise enough to know the difference"

But ya I have had the opposite side too....

 

[Wagon]

On the bridge of my last ship in the Navy there were 2 signs. "Don't hit anybody" and "A collision at sea can ruin your whole day". The last one is about a 4ooo year old quote.

Having said that and having had the job of baby sitting O's on the bridge I can say I've met all types. Probably split down the middle. But my favorite is the names of all the bad ones.

Boloney Dick, Ensign Numbnuts, Mushroom Head, What If?, Hog Breath, Dick Nose, Miserable Cock. Johnny Peave.

I remember the bitching and debates we had about the watch schedule. "Who do I have tonight?" "What If? and Baloney Dick, nice combination"

It's like any other large organization, you got the good and the bad.....you try to limit the power of the bad.

 

[Ned]

Anyway, what makes me angry. f*cking leaf-blowers. The most useless quality-of-life-reducer of the day.
They all have a two-stroke pitch matched to that of a dentists drill and are about as much use as mudflaps on a tortoise.
Get a bass broom out and do it properly!

 

[Rezdawg]

I was lucky enough to work with some really classy, no B.S officers. Still keep in contact with a great friend who's a Major. Not bad for a lowely Corpral.

 

[JarHed]

f*cking leaf-blowers.

Get a rake. Go outside, get some exercise, breath some fresh air, listen to the birds. Stop wasting energy. It's like my neighbor that has a $3000 riding mower for a 50 X 100 piece of lawn. :confused: People, can't live with them, can't shoot them.

 

[combatgoldfish]

Spent the whole day at the Veteran's Hospital. I hate going there as a patient. I go in for one thing and they pretty much ignore me and make me jump thru all these hoops. Every time I'm there I end up giving them blood, urine, and shit. Nothing ever comes back. Oh just feed me more medication. Awesome.

Then the doctor was like "Oh when did you go to Iraq?" I told him and he's like "Oh it wasn't that bad then and now Afghanistan is bad." Thanks. Is that what the news told you f*ck face?! :mad: f*cking treat me and point me to the next line asshole.

I swear everything is going wrong this week. :poop:

 

[tho9900]

f^ck............ I am not going start...... shutting on the it wasnt bad then thing............... sorry CGF.... in a bit of a bind right now wish I could get your six.... but I understand,....

 

[Sarg]

CGF, Welcome to the "Vietnam wasn't a war, it was a police action" Club. I didn't arrest anybody, I killed them, and they us. Nobody issued me a f*cking ticket book. Got real tired of hearing it.

Sarg

 

[JarHed]

"Oh when did you go to Iraq?" I told him and he's like "Oh it wasn't that bad then and now Afghanistan is bad." Thanks.

Welcome to the "Vietnam wasn't a war, it was a police action" Club.

I think it's Welcome to People are f*cking Idiots Club. Once we 'finish' with some war it's no longer that bad. I can tell ya' one thing; None of the MF's that say that were there.

The longer I live the large the list of Complete Idiots seems to grow. Guess we all learn that with time. Once again, Can't live with them, can't shoot them.

Beginning to sound like a Credo. :confused:

 

[Tim Cake]

JarHed: o_O Who say's ya can't shoot 'em? But then again jail time kinda sux...o_O