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Missionary Program
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RE: Missionary Program
(November 25, 2014 at 3:03 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(November 24, 2014 at 4:16 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: Very true. In basic training, we weren't given more than five hours of sleep a night the first week.

Ah, the memories. In basic, I learned it was quite possible to fall asleep standing up. Sleep deprivation sucks. I can't decide what was worse, that or all the time I spent in a dog forsaken frozen hole in the ground.

This is why I joined the Air Force ... no field training worth mentioning.

Seriously, shopped all four recruiters. The Marines wanted me to be infantry -- no thanks. The Navy promised me two years on a boat ... and I get seasick. I go to the Army recruiter, a captain. He tells me how I can get to be a warrant officer and fly heloes yadayadayada, but I've got to get going -- catch the bus to make my afternoon class. "Can I talk to you Friday, Captain Bagadonuts?"

"No, I'll be out in the field, on exercises for the next three weeks."

Sitting at the bus stop, in a chilly December rain, thinking that the Army makes even their recruiting officers do field training in this shit ... well, that pretty much made the Air Force the deal.

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Missionary Program - by Bboppinb - November 23, 2014 at 8:30 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Minimalist - November 23, 2014 at 8:56 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Exian - November 23, 2014 at 9:23 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Bboppinb - November 23, 2014 at 9:36 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Minimalist - November 23, 2014 at 9:40 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Tonus - November 23, 2014 at 9:42 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Bboppinb - November 23, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Brian37 - November 23, 2014 at 9:33 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Thumpalumpacus - November 23, 2014 at 10:06 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Jackalope - November 23, 2014 at 10:23 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Thumpalumpacus - November 24, 2014 at 4:16 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Jackalope - November 25, 2014 at 3:03 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Thumpalumpacus - November 25, 2014 at 11:39 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Bboppinb - November 30, 2014 at 9:14 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Jenny A - November 23, 2014 at 10:12 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by rexbeccarox - November 23, 2014 at 11:20 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Nope - November 24, 2014 at 12:45 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Alex K - November 24, 2014 at 1:03 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Lemonvariable72 - November 25, 2014 at 9:28 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Bboppinb - November 30, 2014 at 5:41 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 5:45 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Bboppinb - November 30, 2014 at 6:03 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 6:09 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Alex K - December 1, 2014 at 3:51 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Fidel_Castronaut - November 25, 2014 at 6:20 am
RE: Missionary Program - by LastPoet - November 25, 2014 at 6:58 am
RE: Missionary Program - by polar bear - November 25, 2014 at 11:14 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Dragonetti - November 30, 2014 at 8:00 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by Elskidor - November 30, 2014 at 8:55 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by The Valkyrie - November 30, 2014 at 9:32 pm
RE: Missionary Program - by robvalue - December 1, 2014 at 5:28 am
RE: Missionary Program - by The Grand Nudger - December 1, 2014 at 7:48 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Thumpalumpacus - December 1, 2014 at 9:40 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Cato - December 1, 2014 at 11:01 am
RE: Missionary Program - by The Grand Nudger - December 1, 2014 at 11:03 am
RE: Missionary Program - by Thumpalumpacus - December 1, 2014 at 11:48 am



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