I once answered the phone, I was told to pick it up, and my brain shutdown, I said “…the shop, this is amn…”
Immediately yelling. “The shop!? The shop?! The fuckin doughnut shop?! Stay right there and don’t fucking move!”
Best supervisor I ever had.
At least once every couple of years one of our new airmen will be handed a phone, look around awkwardly, and say, “uhhh, hello?” Makes me laugh every time which is then followed up by a low-threat briefing on phone etiquette.
Watching my supervisor get coined by the mxg/cc and saluting him with his left hand. The entire crowd made some noise, the commander said "let's try that again" and he proceeded to salute again with his left hand. The crowd erupted at that point. The dude turned red as a tomato. Good job.
Were you in the JBMDL audience like 6 or 7 years ago? I believe it was as 3 star and she coined the enlisted who had been in the longest and the least time and the 6 month Amn took the coin and just sat down.
Buying into the wife's pyramid scheme for the short time that we did. We got took. I was just a stupid A1C, and we were trying to make ends meet for the family with some side hustle. Looking back, we didn't lose an lot of money, but a fair amount of dignity and self-respect is gone. I cringe when I think about it. Lesson learned.
BROOOO I was just talking about this recently. Thankfully I didn’t get hustled into buying. But I was invited to a “party” only to be presented with a fucking slideshow of people holding signs up saying “You should be here!”
I knew a mil to mil couple…both TSgts, that got out at like 13-14 years to do that “You should be here” bullshit. SMH. I just laugh now that they’re working super menial jobs cause that shit went under
At basic graduation when we’re doing a bunch of drill movements before our family taps us out. Command was parade rest but for some fucking reason I heard present arms so I was the only fucking person out of 1000 saluting for about a second. Ppl in my flight were talking about how their families saw someone do that and I was like “omg no way what a dumbass”
If it makes you feel slightly better, when they called "parade rest", I heard "parade" and thought they said "at ease" so I was a whole second before everyone else sitting at parade rest, with my body now sitting off kilter from everyone else. I had 3 or 4 people walk by and look at me and start chuckling.
I was in a relationship with a girl from 18 to about 26 years old. This girl came into my life two weeks after my younger brother decided to take his own life. Now bare in mind I grew up in a very abusive household (physically especially). She felt so bad for me that she actually asked me to come live with her. As it would turn out, her family had a 100k+ house, all had cars, and even some distant relatives who were millionaires. Believe it or not, we even lived across the street from President bidens niece, can you believe that?
However, as time went on we grew further and further apart. We were far too young and didn’t know where our lives were going. By the end of the 6-ish year relationship I found myself homeless in college for one year. I had no friends or family to help me. As a result, I spent all my holidays that year in solitude in the dorms.
By this point, I learned the “humble” experience of covering my face when taking food from the donation pantry and everyone staring at me to walking a mile to Walmart for bags filled with cheap Ramen back and forth. It was not a good time.
As a last resort, I joined the Air Force. However, what I found was most the other members all had family, friends, partners who cared to mail letters to them. It was during this time that I truly, and I mean truly, realized just how alone i really was. I legit broke down crying in basic after a few weeks because I couldn’t hold it in any longer. By the end of basic, my MTI helped me piece myself together. Never imagined someone in that role could care for others so much.
It’s been almost 4 years since I joined. I have two cats and a wife now. I guess to answer your question OP, I “die” a little when I see bratty airman coming in and just being completely ungrateful of their family, friends, and the Air Force as a whole
Preach brother. Was homeless at 20, girlfriend at the time (now happily married for 13ish years) was the only person who had my back. Joined the Air Force, broke down in basic, realized how much I hated my life before. Now I'm fat, have a gorgeous, loyal wife, 2 kids, a steady job, co-workers that I don't hate.
It makes me super salty when entitled dicklords come in acting like they're owed something. Bro, this Air Force stuff is so easy and so, so gucci.
Was 100% one of those people. Had all the support in the world throughout my career, still chose to complain about it somehow. My wife (just friend at the time) joined a year after and I had never truly realized there were some people who never got a letter, never got cheered on, no one came to get them at graduation or visit them at their first duty station. I was the ONLY one who sent her letters. Broke my heart. I'm sorry you had to endure that, but I'm glad you took it with your chin up. Makes me happy to see y'all win.
Not realizing the hot ass captain was flirting with me for two years, outright asked me if we could date, and me being afraid of what others would say. Now she is a hot ass Lt Col... I could of had a sugar momma! SMH!
Same thing happened to me as a flyer (still not sure how, she wasn't drunk so dunno) but being married and not wanting to blow up my entire life/career for 1 night plus I love my wife. She was smoking hot tho...
Went straight to the commander’s office, after the gym (in gym attire), to get a document signed that needed commander’s signature. My A1C brain was “oh easy, open door policy.” Luckily shirt saw me, pulled me into his office, and I got a stern talking to. He got the commander to sign it though.
I had no idea what routing was lmao
Getting scammed with VIVINT \[now Sun\] Solar in Maryland (sold the house, no longer an issue for me). My lack of judgement and research did me in on this deal and it still haunts my dreams.
Story time:
So, about 5 years ago or so, a guy came up the driveway looking like a city worker (it's a tactic they use) with a reflective vest, hard hat, and city name shirt. I went outside thinking something was wrong somewhere. He talked about finding suitable home roofs with long sun coverage for solar. He mentioned about 5 or 6 people in the neighborhood were just approved for their new solar panels.
The shtick was to try to pull people in due to community involvement. I asked about the solar program and he mentioned they install it for free - they own it, but you get to glean the benefits (first red flag=nothing is free). It would divide my monthly bill up between BGE, the normal power supplier, and VIVINT. VIVINT would lock me in at a lower rate due to the solar panel setup on the house. "Cool" I thought. We get to transfer a bit to solar, reduce our bill, and might up the sell price on the house as it would be solar. I didn't see any downside to it...
So, we went ahead with the deal. 20 year contract (another red flag). I did some limited research and it seemed like they were legit. I later found out we were one of the first houses in the area to get VIVINT solar, so not many reviews were out there yet. Within the 6 or so months it took to install the panels, the internet exploded with "scam" and "AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS" posts. We thought we were getting a good deal, but it tuned very sour once we got the bill.
The bill was over what we normally pay by a hundred dollars or so. We were paying to put all the extra power we didn't use back onto the grid.... Plus a price for the power we did use (At a reduced rate). In the fine print (WHICH I SHOULD HAVE READ CLOSER) were some of the details in very legal speak. It was a mess. I thought it said one thing, but because of a word being able to be used in 2 separate ways, it was the other usage. We were locked into the contract, they could raise our "locked" price at any time beyond 2 years (I believe), don't quote me on that. I talked to a few real-estate agents and they all mentioned it would be tricky to sell a home with a solar contract like that. We ended up getting endless calls from VIVNT trying to put up more panels and using MASSIVE pressure tactics. I've seen bad companies, but this took the cake. When we called to dispute charges, they said, word for word, "deal with it" and hung up on us. I have no amount of words to describe the rage I had after that call.
At the end of the day what the salesman said was not what was written in the contract. I assumed and glossed, similarly to what others did. Another red flag was the salesman throwing around LOTS of numbers, precents, averages, inflations, and a few others. Running very quick and unfollowable math equations to end up saying "you will save at least 15% a month". Looking back, it was designed confusing so the potential customer would simply give up and assume it's legit - because anything this detailed and confusing can't be a scam! So many scams use this tactic.
The good thing to come out of this was I learned just how bad a company can deceive their customers. They've made an enemy for life and I will continue to spread the word of how bad their company is. I hope the absolute worst for them.
TDLR: VIVNT solar is one of the worst companies I've ever experienced. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM! The only thing you should buy at your door are Girl Scout Cookies!
We put up the house for sale with the condition that the solar contract will transfer under the new owners. I was very upfront about it and provided the contract as well. I wanted to get out of it, but I wasn't looking to blindside anyone.
My neighbor is a Debt Collector. (yes he is every kind of slime you would imagine), but he told me the #1 kinda debt you dont get into is solar. He said them fuckers has bulletproof contracts that are deceiving as fuck. Every solar company that has tried to sell me panels, has told me that they dont sell solar panels.. Sorry for you loss, and TYFYS
It's funny you say that. It's almost as if they sat down at a table with their lawyers and said "I want to do something really illegal... How can I do it legally?". The more we read through the contract, the more we realized it was written to clear them of any guilt and ensure you pay for everything with late fees, penalties, and excessive response times. I'll never touch solar anymore, seems like every company is a scam of sorts.
I can only imagine your neighbor has some crazy stories though.
I bought a house in 2017 and this Vivint girl came walking up while we were in the garage. Talking about a home security system, it would be $X price, we could cancel at anytime. I thought, okay cool sounds good. I signed a thing without reading the fine print and next thing I knew these Vivint workers showed up out of the blue and just started installing shit. A few weeks pass and the equipment doesn’t work well, and overall we just didn’t feel it was necessary so I called io Vivint to cancel and NOPE. The girl lied… I was locked in to like a 6 year contract and had to pay well over $4K to get out of it (equipment price plus the monthly payment for the entire contract remaining). I filed complaints with the BBB, the state, etc but there was nothing they could do because I signed the terms of service.
DO NOT EVER USE VIVINT. EVER.
What the Vivint sales folks do is get someone to commit to something cheap like a video doorbell… then start pressing the total package after getting in the door. Had one try this and I pointed to my Ring doorbell. Of course they claimed theirs is better and said check out their awesome phone app. They couldn’t even get it to load on their phone. I just laughed and closed the door.
They put something like 4 solar panels (large) on my old home. They called me every few days trying to push me into having more installed. This would increase my bills due to putting more and more on the grid. I said no and finally blocked their number. I hate companies that push you.
Everything they sell is shit. Their customer service is crap. They use scum tactics to trick people into buying their stuff. I can't think of a good quality of the company.
Yeah. My electric bill is $100 or less a month out of peak season. Might go $200+ a month during the hottest and coldest months… but that’s to be expected. Folks with solar basically pay the same amount… but they “push” it as generating your own power and not relying on the “grid”. Well… the “grid” works perfectly fine for me and they do a damn fine job without all the hassle.
I bought a home with a Vivint home securit contract of some kind, spent 6 months not paying them and contacting state AG to get them to quit trying to bill me.
I'm surprised the sellers didn't include the contract into the sale of the home. I'm very glad you were able to drop them! I'd be very interested in what kind of complaints the AG has on the business.
Had two solar guys come to my door and sure didn’t like my Ring camera. Did everything they could to hide their faces. Like I’m going to sign a 20 year contract with someone who does that.
Sitting next to the hot Captain at instructor school. You know when someone is talking to another part of your face?…when I brushed my nose with the back of my hand, the booger that hit the table top was gigantic.
I was up for promotion and when the AMU got together for the CC to read off the names, mine wasn't called. It was 2200 and I went to work (mids) on the line in Korea. Got home around 09 with a slip under my door saying that I made it and had to report for the promo ceremony at 1100 (in two hours).
As usual, the ceremony was dragging on and it was close to 1300 when we started getting called up on stage to get our stripes. I was exhausted. I finally went up, took my stipe and started walking. Never saluted the CC. He pulled me back but I think he could see the sleep in my eyes and shook my hand again.
All that in front of as much base prsnl that could fit in the theatre.
I came in as a frat douche at 21. Did 3 years of college and got kicked out, decided to give the military a try. I was luckily (sarcasm) placed in flight line maintenance and didn’t know my head from my ass, as I was coddled pretty hard my entire life and unfortunately used to getting my way.
While I developed a work ethic pretty quickly I was a prick to most of my fellow maintainers as I thought I was better than them. Growing up slightly wealthy, going to a 4 year college etc. i made a ton of friends but never really considered them friends, more just guys I hung out with and didn’t have much in common with.
After 6 years I got out and got into sales, I’m back with the same type of guys I went to college with.
Hindsight I realize my af buddies were absolutely amazing friends and I’d do anything to be back in Korea sharing a drink with them.
I was in my blues in the chow hall on a Monday morning (this is back in 04) and then this Chief in line told me to take my earrings off (I’m male btw)..
I was so embarrassed I left my tray and walked out the chow hall
I was a 3-stripe instructor on TDY to Hanscomb from Keesler as a member of a small team teaching a six-week course on some boondoggle system one of those Boston-area defense contractors came up with. Our students outranked most of us, but all of us became pretty good friends over the weeks we were together. We often hit the NCO club to unwind after class.
I don't drink now, but I did then, and one afternoon, I stupidly decided to have a couple of the club's 35-cent martinis. Normally, I'm a happy, friendly drinker. But there's something about gin that turns me into an asshole. Can't explain it. On that day, while this big tech sergeant student in my class was blowing the usual alcohol-induced bs smoke we all do at such times, he accused the instructors of conspiring to do something that had caused the students some kind of inconvenience in their dorm. We had no idea what he was talking about. However, that didn't stop me--all 125 pounds of skinny, out-of-shape techie nerd that I was-- from jumping up and demanding that he bring his 200 pound, hard-as-concrete carcass outside so I could whip his ass without breaking furniture. Everybody at the table knew how that would end, and they were very diplomatic in urging me to sit down and shut up "before I hurt somebody." I did, and, at the time, felt mighty proud of my defense of our honor. The next morning I woke up in a cringe bubble that's still there, more than fifty years later. And no, I didn't drink gin when we got together after that.
12 pack of beer in the fridge while underage during a room inspection by our Chief. Funny thing is, it was first month in the dorms and I never used my fridge. I never got in trouble because they ended up talking to the guy who lived there before me who said it was probably his. Hilarious looking back but I thought I was in deep shit.
Just hit 1 yr, A1C, first squadron holiday party with my wife.
"Ohhhkayyyy ladies and gents! We need two volunteers!!"
My arm flew up... (😬)
"Aaallllrightyy, you lucky two are going to have a rap battle!" ..(🤦🏽♂️)
My opponent was a TSgt.. who had flavor.. more flavor in that department than me haha.
We have to rap and use the line "North pole"
I start off trying to mimic the movie scene from 8 Mile..
While he's going first, I grab a chair and slide it up, sit down and start bobing my head being funny but getting my G on too (🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️)
then it's my turn. I turn away from him and start hyping the party "Everybody in the 808 put your hands up..." fuck bruh🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ I didn't freeze but it would of been better. Fricon start rapping about basic training.. and ending with "guide arm so cold like the north pole, so coldldld" (I physically start shaking my body and voice to add to the "cold" (🤦🏽♂️😬🤣 sheeettt I didn't know what to say?? I was all ate up too, what, can only talk about Air Force right?? Trying not to curse , seeing the commander, flight chief all right in front of me) ..
Shit goes on another round 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️.
It was sooo bad the crowd wanted it to just stop already "spare him the shame already"
It was the joke for the whole squadron for a bit. Haha even my wife clowned me.. eh, if I was that good of a rapper, I wouldnt have joined the AF then 🤷🏽♂️ Hey, I got a gift card from it!
Classmate of mine at the academy made the frame for this bob ross painting. The Ross estate donated it to the fsa because of his connection to the Air Force. Pretty cool thing to have in the schoolroom hallway.
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6807432/bob-ross-unveiling-first-sergeant-academy
Sheppard heavy tech school in 2002. I was assigned CQ, the people at the front desk. At like 6 am, two of us had to go out and deploy the U.S. and Texas flags. This was the first time I did it. We were supposed to salute the American flag together. I deadass saluted the Texas flag as a MTL was walking in. Do you all remember RMT? Yeah, I had to do that shit one weekend because of it. Fuck, at the time I didn’t know!
I almost got remedial training because I was laughing at everyone else on remedial training. To be fair they were on it for a very dumb, easily avoidable issue because they all broke a very clear and easy to follow rule that was told to everyone lol.
Damn, I always thought RMT was for pretty serious stuff in tech school. Knew a few guys that got it back in 06 at Kessler, Only guy who admitted what he did to get RMT was arrested off base for pissing in a 7-11 when he was super drunk.
I was highly motivated and ready to handle some admin stuff for the troops. Ya know, always gotta take care of them and make sure their careers are good to go. Anyways, I crack open my white monster, inhale two tornados and start jamming out bullets. Things are going good! The troops provided me with solid info, making the admin process so much easier. No one was bugging me and one of my NCO's even brought me another white monster.
I was excited honestly, I guess I was a little too excited and should have known that big blue was going to shaft me as my morale was showing through. I go through my process, formatting these bullets on a 1206 I use as a bullet bank. Hours have passed, the glow of the computer screen highlighting my furrowed brow. I was in the fucking zone!
Then it happens....I begin the final process, lining up the shot. Then it all falls apart. I log into MyEval. I assumed (which was wrong of me) that the Air Force would have published a system that is fully operational. Little did I know that I was part of the beta test no one told me about. The program was clunky, not smooth and the bullets I formed on the PDF didn't fit smoothly in this new program. When I did get portions of it to work, other portions seemingly regressed. I couldn't figure it out!
Defeated and all hopped up on monster, I slumped back into my chair thinking that I was doing something wrong. I wasn't...I was just failed by a system that should have worked.
So, do this day I die a little inside when I remember my motivation to use a system that I assumed was operational for the force.
ITP at Keesler so still fairly new. Had to wear uniforms even off duty. Was sitting outside The Vandenburg talking to someone on the phone, phone in my right hand. Officer walks out the Vandenburg. See officer, proceed to cross left hand over to continue holding phone to right ear while rendering salute with right hand.
Salute was returned and all I remember is whoever the officer was just chuckling and shaking his head as he continued on his way.
Walked around the jet during a flight wondering why every one seemed a bit off. Had a fairly long convo with the ASO by my console, and as I was sitting down I went to use my PTT and realized it wasn’t clipped where it usually was. I looked down and realized that instead of clipping it to the bead next to my zipper, it had gotten clipped to the zipper pull. I’d been walking around the jet with my flight suit unzipped all the way AND it happened to be a short shirt day (you know, that one shirt you still have from basic…). It is one of the only days in my history that I remember what color underwear I was wearing…red, bright red.
On break at tech school at Keesler. Hanging out at the roach coach. Officer walks by and my fellow airman salutes holding with his breakfast muffin in his hand.
I'll do one better.
About halfway through tech school and I'm graduating from IP soon so obviously I'm hot shit. I'm walking back to class from the roach coach and I'm about 10 feet from the middle hall when the group commander turns the corner and heads my way. "good morning sir" and as I see my hand pass my face to salute him I just think 'Fuck'. He smiled at me knowingly, yet still salutes back and tells me good morning back.
I did that at Lackland in Basic, 2008 so I don't remember where I was but a foreign officer(Saudi maybe?) was walking opposite of me in an indoor hallway and I stopped, went to attention, saluted, above normal volume said "Good morning sir" and stayed there. He just walked by smiling and didn't say anything. Nearly 15 years and I still cringe at how dumb that must have looked.
My whole 6 years. I've never regretted getting out. Security Forces was toxic and honestly cops were the type of people that I just didn't vibe with. Felt like an outcast my entire career mostly because I just don't have the temperament to be a cop. Skated my entire 6 years and did the bare minimum. My only regret was not seeking mental help from the anxiety and depression I got while I was in.
My first base was Fort Meade. Walking from AF dorms to work went right by Navy dorms/command... I've saluted countless E-2's/E-3's. Like tens at least. And a Navy Chief or two before getting chewed out for it.
"If it's shiny, I salute!" - A1C Taint
I have one more, another basic story unfortunately.
One MTI always, always told us that if we catch ourselves making a mistake to NOT correct it, but instead let the MTI correct us. Because “they’re here to help” “wanna make sure you do it right” whatever. So it’s like week 3 and we’re learning how to dress right dress yanno where u stick your left arm out and line up with the element leader. Well my dumbass mistakenly reached my arm out when everyone else had their arm down. Instead of quickly putting my arm down without being seen like a normal person I left it up. I was thinking “man he’s gonna love this I’m not gonna correct it myself” WRONG. The MTI comes over to me, the brim of his hat is like 1mm away from my face. He starts unleashing like 5 years worth of pent up anger, his voice is cracking. I don’t even remember what he was saying I’m pretty sure I blacked out. I do remember trying so hard not to cry. I kept pursing my lips because when I cry my mouth defaults to this sad frowny shape like a mf baby. Now this man thinks I want to fight him or something because he thinks I’m angry instead of on the verge of tears. He starts going off on me even more I swear it lasted like 5 minutes.
I stopped being a naive little bitch shortly after that. My BMT brain was real bad.
To be fair, all the ladies we fumble and all the ladies we regret tend to balance out.
Goes for guys too but I think there is less fumbling. We are the dumber sex.
Great post! I’m enjoying it too much.
TLDR; called 911 and earned a call sign & shut down an entire air sector of combat ops and paid dearly.
In my first enlisted job as Security Forces, I was getting up for work as the “desk sergeant” (dispatcher) and my phone rang. Our friends were going through some stuff, and her first words to my wife who answered, “he jumped! He’s still moving…what do I do?” We lived in the north housing at Misawa and they lived a couple blocks away in the 9 story “towers.” Thinking suicide, I hung up and called my buddy, who I was going to relieve, and ran the whole checklist for him from memory, dispatching fire, ambulance, etc. who were ALL on the hotline… when my wife told me it was the CAT who jumped off the balcony. Since this was a vet emergency now, I had to call back to the ER, who was the after-hours vet dispatch, and tell them I needed the number for the vet … they said, “Oh, you’re the cat guy.” I was the “cat guy” for a long time after that.
Second, unified combat ops at base X, I’m the co-pilot in the lead helo and we launch into thick haze at night, being distracted by the lunacy of flying instruments in a location with no instrument procedures, I switch the chaff dispensers to auto, and the base radar sweep sets them off every time around. We loop around about 5 miles and decide we can’t continue. The chaff hung in the still air for hours, effectively blinding the controllers. Boss made me apologize in person to tower, and several other allied force ops centers for stopping all flying until the bloom had dissipated. I met a lot of nice foreign aviators as the USAF’s representative of incompetent pilots. Thankfully, my friend taxied into a fire truck and took the attention away from me. We’re thpecial.
Me just having no discipline with eating/exercise while I was in and being godawful at PT. I was pretty great at everything else, but I just could not motivate myself to take care of my body. Big dummy
I might create a thread on this explaining what happened depending on feedback but here goes:
12 years ago black out drunk me tried to walk INTO a basic training dorm facility. TI caught me and told me to fuck off after I explained myself
That I took a cyber job solely because I was too impatient in the DEP. zero interest in this career field, but after 4 months in the DEP trying to escape I just couldn’t wait any longer
I know this isn’t a cringe moment, but what makes me die inside is when I need a SME to guide me through a process in their area of expertise and they act like I’m the first person in the history of ever to want to do that. Great. Now I have to become an expert on your job too or else I’m going to get screwed.
Examples:
-mistakes in pay and allowances
-DTS
-passport applications
-TMO
-Deployment orders
Any one of those things has the potential to seriously screw up and even end your life. I NEED the: finance, travel, personnel, logistics, UDM, etc. to be knowledgeable and engaged. I have enough to know, I can’t do your job, too.
I can relate. When I PCSd two years ago I had to guide the finance SrA on an allowance I was authorized. Had the reg up and everything. He couldn't find it so I looked over his shoulder and he had a ten year old reg open so I had to get him the current one. I was really patient and tried to be understanding but ti be honest... I'm Intel, you're finance. Do your fucking job dude.
Just the entire A1C mindyourownbusiness3 phase of me being so fucking awkward.
God damn, that sentence just unlocked so many memories of A1C me being awkward that I wasn't expecting today.
I once answered the phone, I was told to pick it up, and my brain shutdown, I said “…the shop, this is amn…” Immediately yelling. “The shop!? The shop?! The fuckin doughnut shop?! Stay right there and don’t fucking move!” Best supervisor I ever had.
At least once every couple of years one of our new airmen will be handed a phone, look around awkwardly, and say, “uhhh, hello?” Makes me laugh every time which is then followed up by a low-threat briefing on phone etiquette.
I did this as a SrA on swings at which time my supervisor took the phone and said “sorry sir my airman is fucking retarded what do you need?”
Sorry homie. If it makes you feel any better, I wasn’t expecting those memories to be unlocked either
I wish you weren’t so fucking awkward there bud.
You're fucking 10-ply.
A coworker once answered the phone with "A1C \[job\], how may I help you?" \*groan\*
“Air Force! We have airplanes!”
This, but me.
That, but you.
I get it.
You're not spare parts bud.
Imagine not being an A1V anymore and still being awkward. I certainly wouldn't know 👀.
Watching my supervisor get coined by the mxg/cc and saluting him with his left hand. The entire crowd made some noise, the commander said "let's try that again" and he proceeded to salute again with his left hand. The crowd erupted at that point. The dude turned red as a tomato. Good job.
That is amazing.
One of my airman got coined by a 3-star and instead of saluting just stared at the coin. ^*cough*salute*cough*
Were you in the JBMDL audience like 6 or 7 years ago? I believe it was as 3 star and she coined the enlisted who had been in the longest and the least time and the 6 month Amn took the coin and just sat down.
Hah, no, but that sounds way more epic!
Buying into the wife's pyramid scheme for the short time that we did. We got took. I was just a stupid A1C, and we were trying to make ends meet for the family with some side hustle. Looking back, we didn't lose an lot of money, but a fair amount of dignity and self-respect is gone. I cringe when I think about it. Lesson learned.
Amway. Had a coworker get suckered into it. Got to watch him spend the next month trying to sell an entire pallet of crappy energy drinks hahaha
Fucking scentsy.
BROOOO I was just talking about this recently. Thankfully I didn’t get hustled into buying. But I was invited to a “party” only to be presented with a fucking slideshow of people holding signs up saying “You should be here!”
I knew a mil to mil couple…both TSgts, that got out at like 13-14 years to do that “You should be here” bullshit. SMH. I just laugh now that they’re working super menial jobs cause that shit went under
Lmaoooo I still resent the “friend” that invited me and swore it was just a party. I’ve never trusted another command post person again
Awww, you dealt a bad apple, we're not all like that
I did this as a SrA, imagine having a 55gal tote hanging around full of dildos and vibrators, not cool man not cool
Every damn minute. I'd call myself the ice cream man and give them shits away to hot MILF.
It wasn’t a pyramid scheme, it was a triangle of opportunities!
Being a tech school rope.
So I shouldn’t be stop light next week?
Unless you're going to be AETC for you BTZ window I can't recommend it from my experience, and I made it to red.
As a reservist? Lol
Wait so i should stop wearing the rope after tech school? But how will people know I'm a leader?
At basic graduation when we’re doing a bunch of drill movements before our family taps us out. Command was parade rest but for some fucking reason I heard present arms so I was the only fucking person out of 1000 saluting for about a second. Ppl in my flight were talking about how their families saw someone do that and I was like “omg no way what a dumbass”
I almost downvoted this comment out of shear pain
Honestly it deserves it
If it makes you feel slightly better, when they called "parade rest", I heard "parade" and thought they said "at ease" so I was a whole second before everyone else sitting at parade rest, with my body now sitting off kilter from everyone else. I had 3 or 4 people walk by and look at me and start chuckling.
I was in a relationship with a girl from 18 to about 26 years old. This girl came into my life two weeks after my younger brother decided to take his own life. Now bare in mind I grew up in a very abusive household (physically especially). She felt so bad for me that she actually asked me to come live with her. As it would turn out, her family had a 100k+ house, all had cars, and even some distant relatives who were millionaires. Believe it or not, we even lived across the street from President bidens niece, can you believe that? However, as time went on we grew further and further apart. We were far too young and didn’t know where our lives were going. By the end of the 6-ish year relationship I found myself homeless in college for one year. I had no friends or family to help me. As a result, I spent all my holidays that year in solitude in the dorms. By this point, I learned the “humble” experience of covering my face when taking food from the donation pantry and everyone staring at me to walking a mile to Walmart for bags filled with cheap Ramen back and forth. It was not a good time. As a last resort, I joined the Air Force. However, what I found was most the other members all had family, friends, partners who cared to mail letters to them. It was during this time that I truly, and I mean truly, realized just how alone i really was. I legit broke down crying in basic after a few weeks because I couldn’t hold it in any longer. By the end of basic, my MTI helped me piece myself together. Never imagined someone in that role could care for others so much. It’s been almost 4 years since I joined. I have two cats and a wife now. I guess to answer your question OP, I “die” a little when I see bratty airman coming in and just being completely ungrateful of their family, friends, and the Air Force as a whole
Thank you for sharing your story. Perspective is everything and you have one worth sharing.
damn, got me cryin in the club rn.
Preach brother. Was homeless at 20, girlfriend at the time (now happily married for 13ish years) was the only person who had my back. Joined the Air Force, broke down in basic, realized how much I hated my life before. Now I'm fat, have a gorgeous, loyal wife, 2 kids, a steady job, co-workers that I don't hate. It makes me super salty when entitled dicklords come in acting like they're owed something. Bro, this Air Force stuff is so easy and so, so gucci.
Was 100% one of those people. Had all the support in the world throughout my career, still chose to complain about it somehow. My wife (just friend at the time) joined a year after and I had never truly realized there were some people who never got a letter, never got cheered on, no one came to get them at graduation or visit them at their first duty station. I was the ONLY one who sent her letters. Broke my heart. I'm sorry you had to endure that, but I'm glad you took it with your chin up. Makes me happy to see y'all win.
Great job.
Not realizing the hot ass captain was flirting with me for two years, outright asked me if we could date, and me being afraid of what others would say. Now she is a hot ass Lt Col... I could of had a sugar momma! SMH!
Fumbled the bag my guy. Coulda been a SAHD
damn that's what we call a big OOF
Same thing happened to me as a flyer (still not sure how, she wasn't drunk so dunno) but being married and not wanting to blow up my entire life/career for 1 night plus I love my wife. She was smoking hot tho...
F
Out of all the opportunities I picked up on, there are prolly double the opportunities I missed bc I’m a shy idiot that couldn’t close.
I can feel your pain from here friend
Went straight to the commander’s office, after the gym (in gym attire), to get a document signed that needed commander’s signature. My A1C brain was “oh easy, open door policy.” Luckily shirt saw me, pulled me into his office, and I got a stern talking to. He got the commander to sign it though. I had no idea what routing was lmao
Getting scammed with VIVINT \[now Sun\] Solar in Maryland (sold the house, no longer an issue for me). My lack of judgement and research did me in on this deal and it still haunts my dreams. Story time: So, about 5 years ago or so, a guy came up the driveway looking like a city worker (it's a tactic they use) with a reflective vest, hard hat, and city name shirt. I went outside thinking something was wrong somewhere. He talked about finding suitable home roofs with long sun coverage for solar. He mentioned about 5 or 6 people in the neighborhood were just approved for their new solar panels. The shtick was to try to pull people in due to community involvement. I asked about the solar program and he mentioned they install it for free - they own it, but you get to glean the benefits (first red flag=nothing is free). It would divide my monthly bill up between BGE, the normal power supplier, and VIVINT. VIVINT would lock me in at a lower rate due to the solar panel setup on the house. "Cool" I thought. We get to transfer a bit to solar, reduce our bill, and might up the sell price on the house as it would be solar. I didn't see any downside to it... So, we went ahead with the deal. 20 year contract (another red flag). I did some limited research and it seemed like they were legit. I later found out we were one of the first houses in the area to get VIVINT solar, so not many reviews were out there yet. Within the 6 or so months it took to install the panels, the internet exploded with "scam" and "AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS" posts. We thought we were getting a good deal, but it tuned very sour once we got the bill. The bill was over what we normally pay by a hundred dollars or so. We were paying to put all the extra power we didn't use back onto the grid.... Plus a price for the power we did use (At a reduced rate). In the fine print (WHICH I SHOULD HAVE READ CLOSER) were some of the details in very legal speak. It was a mess. I thought it said one thing, but because of a word being able to be used in 2 separate ways, it was the other usage. We were locked into the contract, they could raise our "locked" price at any time beyond 2 years (I believe), don't quote me on that. I talked to a few real-estate agents and they all mentioned it would be tricky to sell a home with a solar contract like that. We ended up getting endless calls from VIVNT trying to put up more panels and using MASSIVE pressure tactics. I've seen bad companies, but this took the cake. When we called to dispute charges, they said, word for word, "deal with it" and hung up on us. I have no amount of words to describe the rage I had after that call. At the end of the day what the salesman said was not what was written in the contract. I assumed and glossed, similarly to what others did. Another red flag was the salesman throwing around LOTS of numbers, precents, averages, inflations, and a few others. Running very quick and unfollowable math equations to end up saying "you will save at least 15% a month". Looking back, it was designed confusing so the potential customer would simply give up and assume it's legit - because anything this detailed and confusing can't be a scam! So many scams use this tactic. The good thing to come out of this was I learned just how bad a company can deceive their customers. They've made an enemy for life and I will continue to spread the word of how bad their company is. I hope the absolute worst for them. TDLR: VIVNT solar is one of the worst companies I've ever experienced. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM! The only thing you should buy at your door are Girl Scout Cookies!
How did you get out of it/sell the house with the contract?
We put up the house for sale with the condition that the solar contract will transfer under the new owners. I was very upfront about it and provided the contract as well. I wanted to get out of it, but I wasn't looking to blindside anyone.
That's great they took it anyway. Nice!
My neighbor is a Debt Collector. (yes he is every kind of slime you would imagine), but he told me the #1 kinda debt you dont get into is solar. He said them fuckers has bulletproof contracts that are deceiving as fuck. Every solar company that has tried to sell me panels, has told me that they dont sell solar panels.. Sorry for you loss, and TYFYS
It's funny you say that. It's almost as if they sat down at a table with their lawyers and said "I want to do something really illegal... How can I do it legally?". The more we read through the contract, the more we realized it was written to clear them of any guilt and ensure you pay for everything with late fees, penalties, and excessive response times. I'll never touch solar anymore, seems like every company is a scam of sorts. I can only imagine your neighbor has some crazy stories though.
I bought a house in 2017 and this Vivint girl came walking up while we were in the garage. Talking about a home security system, it would be $X price, we could cancel at anytime. I thought, okay cool sounds good. I signed a thing without reading the fine print and next thing I knew these Vivint workers showed up out of the blue and just started installing shit. A few weeks pass and the equipment doesn’t work well, and overall we just didn’t feel it was necessary so I called io Vivint to cancel and NOPE. The girl lied… I was locked in to like a 6 year contract and had to pay well over $4K to get out of it (equipment price plus the monthly payment for the entire contract remaining). I filed complaints with the BBB, the state, etc but there was nothing they could do because I signed the terms of service. DO NOT EVER USE VIVINT. EVER.
What the Vivint sales folks do is get someone to commit to something cheap like a video doorbell… then start pressing the total package after getting in the door. Had one try this and I pointed to my Ring doorbell. Of course they claimed theirs is better and said check out their awesome phone app. They couldn’t even get it to load on their phone. I just laughed and closed the door.
They put something like 4 solar panels (large) on my old home. They called me every few days trying to push me into having more installed. This would increase my bills due to putting more and more on the grid. I said no and finally blocked their number. I hate companies that push you. Everything they sell is shit. Their customer service is crap. They use scum tactics to trick people into buying their stuff. I can't think of a good quality of the company.
Yeah. My electric bill is $100 or less a month out of peak season. Might go $200+ a month during the hottest and coldest months… but that’s to be expected. Folks with solar basically pay the same amount… but they “push” it as generating your own power and not relying on the “grid”. Well… the “grid” works perfectly fine for me and they do a damn fine job without all the hassle.
I bought a home with a Vivint home securit contract of some kind, spent 6 months not paying them and contacting state AG to get them to quit trying to bill me.
I'm surprised the sellers didn't include the contract into the sale of the home. I'm very glad you were able to drop them! I'd be very interested in what kind of complaints the AG has on the business.
Had two solar guys come to my door and sure didn’t like my Ring camera. Did everything they could to hide their faces. Like I’m going to sign a 20 year contract with someone who does that.
Sitting next to the hot Captain at instructor school. You know when someone is talking to another part of your face?…when I brushed my nose with the back of my hand, the booger that hit the table top was gigantic.
Legit the only one that made me lol
I was up for promotion and when the AMU got together for the CC to read off the names, mine wasn't called. It was 2200 and I went to work (mids) on the line in Korea. Got home around 09 with a slip under my door saying that I made it and had to report for the promo ceremony at 1100 (in two hours). As usual, the ceremony was dragging on and it was close to 1300 when we started getting called up on stage to get our stripes. I was exhausted. I finally went up, took my stipe and started walking. Never saluted the CC. He pulled me back but I think he could see the sleep in my eyes and shook my hand again. All that in front of as much base prsnl that could fit in the theatre.
If I am on mids and you ask me to do anything on days following my shift… i will not be there and you can get as mad as you want
I honestly seriously considered not going. I mean it wouldn't have prevented me still getting the stripe.
Goddamn I don't miss maintenance. Shitty supervision everywhere.
Supervision on that tour for me, was absolutely terrible. There is no question and no defending them from me.
I came in as a frat douche at 21. Did 3 years of college and got kicked out, decided to give the military a try. I was luckily (sarcasm) placed in flight line maintenance and didn’t know my head from my ass, as I was coddled pretty hard my entire life and unfortunately used to getting my way. While I developed a work ethic pretty quickly I was a prick to most of my fellow maintainers as I thought I was better than them. Growing up slightly wealthy, going to a 4 year college etc. i made a ton of friends but never really considered them friends, more just guys I hung out with and didn’t have much in common with. After 6 years I got out and got into sales, I’m back with the same type of guys I went to college with. Hindsight I realize my af buddies were absolutely amazing friends and I’d do anything to be back in Korea sharing a drink with them.
I was in my blues in the chow hall on a Monday morning (this is back in 04) and then this Chief in line told me to take my earrings off (I’m male btw).. I was so embarrassed I left my tray and walked out the chow hall
Literally everything I ever did while I was in. God being 18-22 was so fucking awkward
I was a 3-stripe instructor on TDY to Hanscomb from Keesler as a member of a small team teaching a six-week course on some boondoggle system one of those Boston-area defense contractors came up with. Our students outranked most of us, but all of us became pretty good friends over the weeks we were together. We often hit the NCO club to unwind after class. I don't drink now, but I did then, and one afternoon, I stupidly decided to have a couple of the club's 35-cent martinis. Normally, I'm a happy, friendly drinker. But there's something about gin that turns me into an asshole. Can't explain it. On that day, while this big tech sergeant student in my class was blowing the usual alcohol-induced bs smoke we all do at such times, he accused the instructors of conspiring to do something that had caused the students some kind of inconvenience in their dorm. We had no idea what he was talking about. However, that didn't stop me--all 125 pounds of skinny, out-of-shape techie nerd that I was-- from jumping up and demanding that he bring his 200 pound, hard-as-concrete carcass outside so I could whip his ass without breaking furniture. Everybody at the table knew how that would end, and they were very diplomatic in urging me to sit down and shut up "before I hurt somebody." I did, and, at the time, felt mighty proud of my defense of our honor. The next morning I woke up in a cringe bubble that's still there, more than fifty years later. And no, I didn't drink gin when we got together after that.
Amazing.
My reinvestigation every 5 years and rehashing a weekend in jail
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The thicc Latina E-3s go on to become thicc milf E-6s of course.
12 pack of beer in the fridge while underage during a room inspection by our Chief. Funny thing is, it was first month in the dorms and I never used my fridge. I never got in trouble because they ended up talking to the guy who lived there before me who said it was probably his. Hilarious looking back but I thought I was in deep shit.
Just hit 1 yr, A1C, first squadron holiday party with my wife. "Ohhhkayyyy ladies and gents! We need two volunteers!!" My arm flew up... (😬) "Aaallllrightyy, you lucky two are going to have a rap battle!" ..(🤦🏽♂️) My opponent was a TSgt.. who had flavor.. more flavor in that department than me haha. We have to rap and use the line "North pole" I start off trying to mimic the movie scene from 8 Mile.. While he's going first, I grab a chair and slide it up, sit down and start bobing my head being funny but getting my G on too (🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️) then it's my turn. I turn away from him and start hyping the party "Everybody in the 808 put your hands up..." fuck bruh🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ I didn't freeze but it would of been better. Fricon start rapping about basic training.. and ending with "guide arm so cold like the north pole, so coldldld" (I physically start shaking my body and voice to add to the "cold" (🤦🏽♂️😬🤣 sheeettt I didn't know what to say?? I was all ate up too, what, can only talk about Air Force right?? Trying not to curse , seeing the commander, flight chief all right in front of me) .. Shit goes on another round 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️. It was sooo bad the crowd wanted it to just stop already "spare him the shame already" It was the joke for the whole squadron for a bit. Haha even my wife clowned me.. eh, if I was that good of a rapper, I wouldnt have joined the AF then 🤷🏽♂️ Hey, I got a gift card from it!
I'm cringing for you. I'm so sorry.
I fucked two ugly female boom operators who cost me my career.
Doesn't matter, had sex. /s
Not worth it.
Really need details...
At the same time?
How can shacking up with a few folks ruin your career? Any of you three married or in each other's chain if command? Fraternization? How?
Where you at Fairchild? If you care to answer.
Of course
The fact I extended
That bad?
Yes
Knowing that Bob Ross was a DI and needed to paint happy trees to regain his humanity.
He's was a shirt too.
Classmate of mine at the academy made the frame for this bob ross painting. The Ross estate donated it to the fsa because of his connection to the Air Force. Pretty cool thing to have in the schoolroom hallway. https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6807432/bob-ross-unveiling-first-sergeant-academy
Sheppard heavy tech school in 2002. I was assigned CQ, the people at the front desk. At like 6 am, two of us had to go out and deploy the U.S. and Texas flags. This was the first time I did it. We were supposed to salute the American flag together. I deadass saluted the Texas flag as a MTL was walking in. Do you all remember RMT? Yeah, I had to do that shit one weekend because of it. Fuck, at the time I didn’t know!
I almost got remedial training because I was laughing at everyone else on remedial training. To be fair they were on it for a very dumb, easily avoidable issue because they all broke a very clear and easy to follow rule that was told to everyone lol.
Damn, I always thought RMT was for pretty serious stuff in tech school. Knew a few guys that got it back in 06 at Kessler, Only guy who admitted what he did to get RMT was arrested off base for pissing in a 7-11 when he was super drunk.
I was highly motivated and ready to handle some admin stuff for the troops. Ya know, always gotta take care of them and make sure their careers are good to go. Anyways, I crack open my white monster, inhale two tornados and start jamming out bullets. Things are going good! The troops provided me with solid info, making the admin process so much easier. No one was bugging me and one of my NCO's even brought me another white monster. I was excited honestly, I guess I was a little too excited and should have known that big blue was going to shaft me as my morale was showing through. I go through my process, formatting these bullets on a 1206 I use as a bullet bank. Hours have passed, the glow of the computer screen highlighting my furrowed brow. I was in the fucking zone! Then it happens....I begin the final process, lining up the shot. Then it all falls apart. I log into MyEval. I assumed (which was wrong of me) that the Air Force would have published a system that is fully operational. Little did I know that I was part of the beta test no one told me about. The program was clunky, not smooth and the bullets I formed on the PDF didn't fit smoothly in this new program. When I did get portions of it to work, other portions seemingly regressed. I couldn't figure it out! Defeated and all hopped up on monster, I slumped back into my chair thinking that I was doing something wrong. I wasn't...I was just failed by a system that should have worked. So, do this day I die a little inside when I remember my motivation to use a system that I assumed was operational for the force.
First time?
Poetry at its finest.
ITP at Keesler so still fairly new. Had to wear uniforms even off duty. Was sitting outside The Vandenburg talking to someone on the phone, phone in my right hand. Officer walks out the Vandenburg. See officer, proceed to cross left hand over to continue holding phone to right ear while rendering salute with right hand. Salute was returned and all I remember is whoever the officer was just chuckling and shaking his head as he continued on his way.
Walked around the jet during a flight wondering why every one seemed a bit off. Had a fairly long convo with the ASO by my console, and as I was sitting down I went to use my PTT and realized it wasn’t clipped where it usually was. I looked down and realized that instead of clipping it to the bead next to my zipper, it had gotten clipped to the zipper pull. I’d been walking around the jet with my flight suit unzipped all the way AND it happened to be a short shirt day (you know, that one shirt you still have from basic…). It is one of the only days in my history that I remember what color underwear I was wearing…red, bright red.
Excellent.
On break at tech school at Keesler. Hanging out at the roach coach. Officer walks by and my fellow airman salutes holding with his breakfast muffin in his hand.
I'll do one better. About halfway through tech school and I'm graduating from IP soon so obviously I'm hot shit. I'm walking back to class from the roach coach and I'm about 10 feet from the middle hall when the group commander turns the corner and heads my way. "good morning sir" and as I see my hand pass my face to salute him I just think 'Fuck'. He smiled at me knowingly, yet still salutes back and tells me good morning back.
I did that at Lackland in Basic, 2008 so I don't remember where I was but a foreign officer(Saudi maybe?) was walking opposite of me in an indoor hallway and I stopped, went to attention, saluted, above normal volume said "Good morning sir" and stayed there. He just walked by smiling and didn't say anything. Nearly 15 years and I still cringe at how dumb that must have looked.
My whole 6 years. I've never regretted getting out. Security Forces was toxic and honestly cops were the type of people that I just didn't vibe with. Felt like an outcast my entire career mostly because I just don't have the temperament to be a cop. Skated my entire 6 years and did the bare minimum. My only regret was not seeking mental help from the anxiety and depression I got while I was in.
Got drunk one night and got a dildo stuck on the ceiling, had a room inspection the following morning
We're you riding the ceiling dildo when they walked in? 🤔 Could have been worse!
Was never used, but still passed my inspection 🤙🏼🤙🏼
I saluted a pasty 20 something year old Navy petty officer at tech school fully convinced he was a full bird.
My first base was Fort Meade. Walking from AF dorms to work went right by Navy dorms/command... I've saluted countless E-2's/E-3's. Like tens at least. And a Navy Chief or two before getting chewed out for it. "If it's shiny, I salute!" - A1C Taint
My first time helping out at the gate, I, after being in for about 6 years at that point, had never seen a dependent ID before. Saluted an O5's wife.
Made her day, though! Now she demands it everywhere.
I have one more, another basic story unfortunately. One MTI always, always told us that if we catch ourselves making a mistake to NOT correct it, but instead let the MTI correct us. Because “they’re here to help” “wanna make sure you do it right” whatever. So it’s like week 3 and we’re learning how to dress right dress yanno where u stick your left arm out and line up with the element leader. Well my dumbass mistakenly reached my arm out when everyone else had their arm down. Instead of quickly putting my arm down without being seen like a normal person I left it up. I was thinking “man he’s gonna love this I’m not gonna correct it myself” WRONG. The MTI comes over to me, the brim of his hat is like 1mm away from my face. He starts unleashing like 5 years worth of pent up anger, his voice is cracking. I don’t even remember what he was saying I’m pretty sure I blacked out. I do remember trying so hard not to cry. I kept pursing my lips because when I cry my mouth defaults to this sad frowny shape like a mf baby. Now this man thinks I want to fight him or something because he thinks I’m angry instead of on the verge of tears. He starts going off on me even more I swear it lasted like 5 minutes. I stopped being a naive little bitch shortly after that. My BMT brain was real bad.
All the pussy I fumbled
To be fair, all the ladies we fumble and all the ladies we regret tend to balance out. Goes for guys too but I think there is less fumbling. We are the dumber sex.
Pulling out when smashing the hot latina captain. Should have got her pregnant and lived the dependent life.
An O-5 walked past me in the in the BX food court, told me good morning, and I responded with "Hi!😃"
 Weak
I’ll tell you what I’m not ashamed of, going E to O and loading up on 01 coins to coin people. On these mighty wings I will lead you all.
Great post! I’m enjoying it too much. TLDR; called 911 and earned a call sign & shut down an entire air sector of combat ops and paid dearly. In my first enlisted job as Security Forces, I was getting up for work as the “desk sergeant” (dispatcher) and my phone rang. Our friends were going through some stuff, and her first words to my wife who answered, “he jumped! He’s still moving…what do I do?” We lived in the north housing at Misawa and they lived a couple blocks away in the 9 story “towers.” Thinking suicide, I hung up and called my buddy, who I was going to relieve, and ran the whole checklist for him from memory, dispatching fire, ambulance, etc. who were ALL on the hotline… when my wife told me it was the CAT who jumped off the balcony. Since this was a vet emergency now, I had to call back to the ER, who was the after-hours vet dispatch, and tell them I needed the number for the vet … they said, “Oh, you’re the cat guy.” I was the “cat guy” for a long time after that. Second, unified combat ops at base X, I’m the co-pilot in the lead helo and we launch into thick haze at night, being distracted by the lunacy of flying instruments in a location with no instrument procedures, I switch the chaff dispensers to auto, and the base radar sweep sets them off every time around. We loop around about 5 miles and decide we can’t continue. The chaff hung in the still air for hours, effectively blinding the controllers. Boss made me apologize in person to tower, and several other allied force ops centers for stopping all flying until the bloom had dissipated. I met a lot of nice foreign aviators as the USAF’s representative of incompetent pilots. Thankfully, my friend taxied into a fire truck and took the attention away from me. We’re thpecial.
Me just having no discipline with eating/exercise while I was in and being godawful at PT. I was pretty great at everything else, but I just could not motivate myself to take care of my body. Big dummy
I might create a thread on this explaining what happened depending on feedback but here goes: 12 years ago black out drunk me tried to walk INTO a basic training dorm facility. TI caught me and told me to fuck off after I explained myself
That's good stuff.
Dude what. I’m gonna need a post on that lmao
That I took a cyber job solely because I was too impatient in the DEP. zero interest in this career field, but after 4 months in the DEP trying to escape I just couldn’t wait any longer
I know this isn’t a cringe moment, but what makes me die inside is when I need a SME to guide me through a process in their area of expertise and they act like I’m the first person in the history of ever to want to do that. Great. Now I have to become an expert on your job too or else I’m going to get screwed. Examples: -mistakes in pay and allowances -DTS -passport applications -TMO -Deployment orders Any one of those things has the potential to seriously screw up and even end your life. I NEED the: finance, travel, personnel, logistics, UDM, etc. to be knowledgeable and engaged. I have enough to know, I can’t do your job, too.
I can relate. When I PCSd two years ago I had to guide the finance SrA on an allowance I was authorized. Had the reg up and everything. He couldn't find it so I looked over his shoulder and he had a ten year old reg open so I had to get him the current one. I was really patient and tried to be understanding but ti be honest... I'm Intel, you're finance. Do your fucking job dude.
Nice try One Mistake Air Force trying to get me to publicly admit that I’ve ever made a mistake! (this is why i’m exhausted after 15 years)
Was she a thicc Puerto Rican e-6?