RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Stress card? Call the MP's and two weeks in the motivational platoon at the stockade will fix then right up! Cripes.Stress Card?!? If so, yes.
Stress card? Call the MP's and two weeks in the motivational platoon at the stockade will fix then right up! Cripes.Stress Card?!? If so, yes.
Not sure how retiring after 24 years equates to being kicked out, but whatever.Sounds like someone from an abusive relationship. You don't have to go back, they kicked you out.
DLI! Made a man out of my son, 1989/1990. Eight weeks of Basic at Ft Gordon, or what ever they changed the name to, then four weeks Jump school at Ft Benning, or what ever they call it now. Then 50 weeks at DLI for Russian school. At the end of the term, he was second behind a West Point graduate but ahead of an Annapolis graduate and two State Department guys. Then to Ft Huachuca for interrogator AIT.
He never did the regular PT because he aced all the PT tests. Only because he did his workouts with a SFC SF guy who was in his class and taught him how to run and stay fit. Finished his enlistment with the 82nd Airborne at Ft Bragg, or what ever they call it now.
He always said that he knew he could do anything he wanted in life after leaving DLI. So he goes to college, Villanova for a JD and Pennsylvania School of Medicine for a MS in Psychology. We both owe it to the challenges of the Army.
Ric - your son and I may have crossed paths. I took the Arabic Co Dec 1990. He might remember LTC Lessor - an 82nd guy that was the BC. I can't recall who the Russian Co CO was near the end of his time, but would prob recall if I heard the name.
I was a active duty Navy chief for 9 years and the Navy was thinking of something like this until the subject of a fire or flooding on the ship was brought up.Stress card? What! If my CPO saw one of those, you got a kick in the pants. With a BIG boot. Did have a program, if you couldn't get through the scuttle, shore duty or out!
Never had a guy that couldn't fit through a scuttle because we had smaller openings on aircraft that they had to fit through.Or a battle (GQ) situation where hatches are secured and scuttle is only way to get anyplace. Gotta keep it water tight.
I was a active duty Navy chief for 9 years and the Navy was thinking of something like this until the subject of a fire or flooding on the ship was brought up.
Unfortunately the individual would be under a great deal of stress, but pulling a card would be useless, so the plan was dropped.
My first barracks Chief in A school was at Midway in 42, he was a retread of retreads. Same age has my old man, so it was almost like living at the house again because all he did was tell us how much we sucked.I joined in 1966 and as a seaman, I wondered why some of the Chiefs were such hard a$$es. It wasn't until later that I realized some of these guys had been in during WWII and were finishing up their careers. Pretty much at the end of the "Rocks and Shoals" events down in the bosun locker to settle any question of who was in charge.
when i was doing my basic at benning in 08 i had the misfortune? of having a pair of complete misfits for DI.. seriously inept and stupid. When week 6 rolled around, we were still doing the official week 3 things. Everyone else was at week 6. Oddly, once i was in outprocessing for a health issue, those two idiots got replaced with a DI who had done 20 years as a marine before retreading in as an army DI for 4 years.^^^ funny! My youngest said Basic was easy. It was just like living with me!
Told me I was to old.. 74..Stress card? Call the MP's and two weeks in the motivational platoon at the stockade will fix then right up! Cripes.