United States Marines 4 Years Motor transport Mechanic, U.A.V. Crew Chief Camp Lejuene, Cherry point N.C. 29 Palms C.A. C.A.X 2-3 AZ, El Centro A.Z. El Toro A.Z., Fort Wachooca A.Z
Army National Guard. Two Trips to the Sandbox (OEF and OIF) Got 12 years in and the last 6 months as a Platoon SGT is causing me to drop my Warrant Packet cause I miss getting to do what I joined up for (Intel Work)
So apparently the American Military is trying to make this a thing. It's almost as bad as the Space Marine helmet they tried to force on turret gunners back in 2004.
as with everything military, function over form, if it does something useful nobody will care what it looks like long as it works
Missed this one. Branch: USMC Reserves Years of Service: 6, Honorable Discharge MOS: Tactical Data Network Specialist (0656) Duty Stations: Great Lakes Naval Base, Illinois (MWCS-48), JTLM, WA (4ᵗʰ LSB). Most interesting part was when part of my platoon went to Africa for a month (beyond a lot of other interesting trash that happened, of course, like getting shot at by .50 cals and then shot guns the next day and so on).
I tried to search for some notable examples with keywords 'dashy uniform' https://www.google.com/search?q=das...6&bih=643&gws_rd=ssl#q=dashy uniform&tbm=isch
True, except it doesn't work, like majority of the prototype shit they force on the line companies. The grunts will use it for a day, deem it shit and never touch it again.
well of course, and the brass will make their own decision regardless of the recommendations of the test group, and force them to use it anyway. Until it negatively effects performance.
I kinda think it looks cool... But bulky as shit, and blinds peripheries, and reduces neck moment and... Yeah, it's shit.
Branch: Navy Years of Service: 2 years Active, 2 years Reserves Rate: Master at Arms Duty Stations: NAVSTA Everett (WA), NOSC Baltimore (MD) Did the whole National Call to Service program (2 years active, 2 years reserves). Tried to stay in active, was denied (too many people in my program had already extended). It was originally a Reservist program, to try and boost up the numbers after people were leaving the Naval Reserve in droves during the start-up of our recent war. The philosophy was to bolster the Reserves with guys who had at least two years of Active experience. They've done away with it since (it was a shitty program to begin with). Didn't get to see the sandbox, though I volunteered to go twice. Just did law enforcement at Everett, and then support for the Naval Academy when I got to my NOSC.
US Navy 4 years active Helicopter Electrician on MH-60s. stationed in Pensacola FL, Norfolk VA, and a few deployments on the USS Mesa Verde LPD-19.
For a long time, I was pretty angry at the Navy about it all. More so, my recruiter, who used the program to hook a lot of people. They sold us with the idea that if we didn't like active duty after two years, we'd just transition to the reserves. Well, most of us really enjoyed active duty, and then got slammed with hard reality - that we were getting out of active whether we liked it or not. It is what it is. Now a days, I've just come to accept the fact that I just chose the wrong program. I spoke to my best friends about it - he's currently Army SF, after doing a few tours as a Ranger. I told him my frustrations, and how I felt that I had "failed" him and other friends of mine in the service, by not getting deployed. That some how, I had "copped" out. He told me, not everyone gets to be the hero, and I shouldn't feel ashamed because I still volunteered to serve when many didn't. Coming from him, this bad ass dude whom I admire, kind of helped quell that anger a bit. He taught me it was okay to be proud of my service, regardless of what I did while in. I did my time (as short as it was), got an honorable discharge. I should be proud of that. And to be honest, I made out alright. I have a lot of friends who were fucked over by this PTS (Perform To Serve) program they have now. I knowa 2nd class who did sixteen years, never got in trouble, got high evals, and was kicked out anyway because he couldn't make first class. They failed to recognize that only the top 5% of those testing for MA1 were being promoted, due to the rate being way too top heavy.
US NAVY 8 years Electronics Technician/Project Manager/IT service level 2 USS CAMDEN (Bremerton, WA), USS JOHN C. STENNIS(Bremerton, WA), Shore duty (Naples Italy)
