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yourbadmega
06-13-2009, 08:01 PM
I volunteered to go to a boot camp for my JROTC class at school. Totally worth it. The highlights would be high COPES which consisted of rappelling off a 50 foot tower and a 30 foot high obstacle course.
Anyone else go to a boot camp or have another awesome experience?
SlainPwner666
06-13-2009, 08:21 PM
I served.

Staff Seargent Mark Jones is posting in your thread.

EAT IT.
UKMD Elmo
06-14-2009, 01:36 AM
Yeah was in the air cadets in my younger days. Involved lots of shooting, flying, night-time combat simulation ops, traveling, assault courses, the works. Was a laugh.
Tyr
06-14-2009, 02:05 AM
As of yesterday at about 11am I became Private Tyr of Bravo Company in the New Zealand Army.
Cool eh? My first RIT, (Recruit Initial Training,) starts on Friday.

No jokes about the NZ Military please, I'm entitled to now shoot anyone who does that.
Nuttz
06-14-2009, 02:11 AM
No jokes about the NZ Military please, I'm entitled to now shoot anyone who does that.

Dammit, I was just about to...

It's not like I can talk, the Australian army couldn't defend against a bunny attack.
Easton Dark
06-14-2009, 02:30 AM
It's not like I can talk, the Australian army couldn't defend against a bunny attack.

Word is you guys built a fence for that :P

Luckily the American Army is a beast.
Nuttz
06-14-2009, 02:34 AM
Word is you guys built a fence for that :P

Yeah but that can't even keep Aborigines out, how is that gonna help against the might of a bunny horde?
Easton Dark
06-14-2009, 02:38 AM
Yeah but that can't even keep Aborigines out, how is that gonna help against the might of a bunny horde?

Hopefully bunnies are like Cole (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/27/)

and the aborigines could be easily defeated with good ol' SARS
DethPenguin
06-14-2009, 02:57 AM
Actually, I just enrolled for the Canadian Waffletroopers yesterday.
Nuttz
06-14-2009, 03:14 AM
Hopefully bunnies are like Cole (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/5/27/)

and the aborigines could be easily defeated with good ol' SARS

That comic made me lol.
REDSHARK
06-14-2009, 03:15 AM
Yeah I'm part of the Fluffikins Extreme Super navy. I'm leaving tommorow for candy Island. It'll be my most grueling venture yet, we're only allowed one plasma screen television and we have to ration or sugary snacks and Illegal drugs. They say that we may even have to fight aliens
Nuttz
06-14-2009, 03:17 AM
Yeah I'm part of the Fluffikins Extreme Super navy. I'm leaving tommorow for candy Island. It'll be my most grueling venture yet, we're only allowed one plasma screen television and we have to ration or sugary snacks and Illegal drugs. They say that we may even have to fight aliens

I feel for you man...
Fatsuds
06-14-2009, 11:55 PM
I went to fat camp
Marcopolo
06-15-2009, 12:07 AM
I volunteered to go to a boot camp for my JROTC class at school. Totally worth it. The highlights would be high COPES which consisted of rappelling off a 50 foot tower and a 30 foot high obstacle course.
Anyone else go to a boot camp or have another awesome experience?

You can do High Cope without having to be in boot camp. haha.
SickDaza
06-15-2009, 12:20 AM
I went to fat camp

How was that?
Nuttz
06-15-2009, 02:21 AM
How was that?

I would imagine it was very... phat....

c wat i did thar?
REDSHARK
06-15-2009, 02:27 AM
I would imagine it was very... phat....

c wat i did thar?

I did :D

Also...

you might say the experience was...

enlightening?
Nuttz
06-15-2009, 02:33 AM
I did :D

Also...

you might say the experience was...

enlightening?

lolwut?
SickDaza
06-15-2009, 02:36 AM
I would imagine it was very... phat....

c wat i did thar?

:| ...
Steve Cloud
06-15-2009, 02:47 AM
As of yesterday at about 11am I became Private Tyr of Bravo Company in the New Zealand Army.


Good, now all you have to do is avoid practicing your knife throwing like the goddamn plague.
REDSHARK
06-15-2009, 03:18 AM
lolwut?

you know, enLIGHTening

as in, at a fat camp you get light...

I shouldn't have to explain my puns =/
Nuttz
06-15-2009, 03:32 AM
you know, enLIGHTening

as in, at a fat camp you get light...

I shouldn't have to explain my puns =/

Yeah, that was pretty punthetic.
REDSHARK
06-15-2009, 03:43 AM
This thread has now contracted the deadly pun flu
Tyr
06-15-2009, 06:46 AM
Good, now all you have to do is avoid practicing your knife throwing like the goddamn plague.
Steve knows how I got dismissed from the Air Training Corps. :D
UKMD Elmo
06-15-2009, 07:00 AM
Steve knows how I got dismissed from the Air Training Corps. :D

I was in the ATC, got to corporal before I got tired of our group never going shooting no more.

What did you do wrong Tyr? Stand to attention when you're talking to an NCO!
Steve Cloud
06-15-2009, 02:53 PM
Knife-throwing practise.
Officer.
Bad timing.
Kicked out.
mshield
06-15-2009, 03:36 PM
I think Tyr is a pretty cool guy. He kills lots of aliens and doesn't afraid of knife-throwing.

DO YOU SEE MY GENIUS!? NO ONE HAS EVER TAKEN A MEME AND SLIGHTLY CHANGED IT TO SUIT A CURRENT SITUATION.

KNEEL BEFORE ME
YuriTMND
06-15-2009, 03:40 PM
I think Tyr is a pretty cool guy. He kills lots of aliens and doesn't afraid of knife-throwing.

DO YOU SEE MY GENIUS!? NO ONE HAS EVER TAKEN A MEME AND SLIGHTLY CHANGED IT TO SUIT A CURRENT SITUATION.

KNEEL BEFORE ME

I don't use memes anymore, but instead, rely on my natural ill-humor. That makes me better than you.
Kneel before me!



... and since when did they teach knife-throwing at boot camp?
mshield
06-15-2009, 03:45 PM
I don't use memes anymore, but instead, rely on my natural ill-humor. That makes me better than you.
Kneel before me!



... and since when did they teach knife-throwing at boot camp?

Dude, what place doesn't teach knifethrowing? I was taught it in school when I was 8. Honest.
YuriTMND
06-15-2009, 03:49 PM
Dude, what place doesn't teach knifethrowing? I was taught it in school when I was 8. Honest.

I was never taught knife-throwing. Hell, I can't even do that flippy stuff with a butterfly knife.
UKMD Elmo
06-15-2009, 04:07 PM
Knife-throwing practise.
Officer.
Bad timing.
Kicked out.

Ouch. He get pinned to the wall by his hand or something?

There was this cadet in a local squadron that was a living legend of how not to stay alive. When flying in a light plane he turned off the engine 2000 feet up because he wanted to see 'what that button did'. The pilot instructor had to restart the engine and pull it out of a nose dive.

He also nearly blew off an instructors head with a single shot assault rifle on a training course. Basicaly he thought his rifle was jammed, so without putting the safety on, he stood up with it, waved it in the instructors direction saying 'it dont work', at which point he pulled the trigger, firing off the round that blew a hole in the ground a few inches in front of the man.

The guy was just a legend xD
Steve Cloud
06-15-2009, 04:24 PM
Ouch. He get pinned to the wall by his hand or something?


Bitch this ain't Starship Troopers.

The knife just missed the officer's foot, I think.
SlainPwner666
06-15-2009, 05:00 PM
What book was that from?
REDSHARK
06-16-2009, 03:00 AM
Ouch. He get pinned to the wall by his hand or something?

Yeah, but I think you're thinking about ti the wrong way round

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1HcOVTrLRs

Edit: damn steve bet me to it
globalenjoi
06-19-2009, 07:45 PM
I regret not joining the Army before college. Now I have a shitload of student loan debt, no income, no vehicle. My friend just joined the Guard. I almost followed, but I didn't wanna have to take 18 months out of my schoolwork to go to training. I'm thinking about going for it after I graduate, just so I can have the experience.
yourbadmega
06-19-2009, 08:18 PM
where are you getting this 18 months from? it's 9 weeks for basic and another 4 for AIT training.
globalenjoi
06-20-2009, 08:44 PM
where are you getting this 18 months from? it's 9 weeks for basic and another 4 for AIT training.

AIT lasts different amounts of time depending on the MOS. I was going to go for an intelligence MOS, either 35M or 35P. Both of those require 10-18 weeks of training, not including language training at DLI, which can last to 18 months. The 35P MOS requires that you go to DLI, and that was the one I was leaning towards most. I am taking Arabic right now, but I'm not fluent, so I would have to go.