"Bring a Knife and Some Dip:" Army Combat Duty is Beginning to Suck

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
04/09/2018 at 14:32 • Filed to: None

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Spanfeller is a twat > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 14:46

Wait, they have burger king in their base?

Azrek > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 14:46

Sounds like fun to me. Afghanistan in ‘01 we had a box we put over an old Soviet sewer to shit in. We had tubes we dug into the ground to piss in and later a Colonel complained about the smell and wanted us to pour bleach down the pipes...and we had to explain what happens when you mix ammonia and bleach, but I used WW1 logic. We later dug 2 slit trenches and would use one, then use one then light the other one on fire. We built boxes with doors at this time. You didn’t have privacy before.

We showered with a hose similar to these guys, cept it was winter. You learned a new appreciation for hot showers. Screaming was encouraged.

So yeah...this is what we get paid to do. I don’t mind living like shit as long as EVERYONE is living like shit. One day, I was covered in dust and godknows what and some guy in a fresh pressed uniform came up to critize my engineering project. I had to ask him who the F he was and when did he get here? He wasn’t one of us.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 14:47

Airborne? Looks like he’s standing on the ground to me.

Azrek > Spanfeller is a twat
04/09/2018 at 14:55

Many do. It is a trailer they prop up. It is mobile. It is for those days you are tired of the chowhall or you were in the brush for 10 days and just want a fucking cheeseburger

CalzoneGolem > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 14:56

I’ve never served but I’m pretty it has always sucked.

Spanfeller is a twat > Azrek
04/09/2018 at 15:02

Yeah, I suspect it’s a feeling one could develop, probably... I’ve never been in the bush for 10 days so I’ll take your word for it.

I never quite understood the US army to be honest though....

I mean, you guys are supposed to honour veterans for their bravery and sacrifice but then the VA has been critically underfunded in the past, and sometimes soldiers are sent on wars with little to no justification or inteligence.

To honour something (in this case the army as a whole) is to understand when it’s appropriate to use it and know when it’s better to stay home, to honour something is to also keep it in the best condition possible.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 15:07

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I should post some pictures of the first FOB I was at in Afghanistan. Sounds like they are getting soft. You always bring a knife and your tobacco of choice when you get deployed. You bring what you think you need and then you double it. Then bring some more.

Azrek > Spanfeller is a twat
04/09/2018 at 15:14

Yeah, I have my issues with the VA. My friends are encouraging me to go, but the last time I went I sat between a guy who was burned in an IED attack and one guy who had 1 leg. I am mostly intact. I left because I didn’t want to take time away from them. I haven’t been back.

There are philosophy debates on the measure of a good society: How they honor their old and their dead. Sometimes animals are included in this debate.

Generally, it is the same as anything else...once it is past its utility you toss it away and ignore it hoping it goes away. Much like when we give up our old cars.

Spanfeller is a twat > Azrek
04/09/2018 at 15:18

Well, access to VA healthcare is your right as a veteran, the same way it’s their right to be attended by their countrymen for injuries sustained serving their country. Unlike objects we chose the laws of society and if you guys decided veterans should have healthcare, they need to have it; and the government should be frankly ashamed they do not provide enough.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Azrek
04/09/2018 at 15:18

I can understand why you left, but I’m sorry at the same time. There are probably many who stay away as you do. Thank you for sharing that. And yes about the cheeseburger. When I was active Army, in the 80s, the hardest part was scraping all of the icing off the cake so you could eat it. And it was a sodium-laden BK ham sandwich that I craved.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Azrek
04/09/2018 at 15:22

In Louisiana, in the 80s, we had these bags with shower nozzles on the bottom. I’d fill up two or three five-gallon jugs before hitting the rack, then after my guard duty in the middle of the night, I’d go to the shower, which was a few pallets stood up with tarps or something slung over them for a bit of privacy. And if it was 3 am, then nobody else would be up. I’d stand under the first five gallons, and I could feel the slime slowly rinse off myself. Then soap up with the second five gallons. But it was Louisiana and very warm outside.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
04/09/2018 at 15:22

He jumped out of a functional aircraft to get there.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > CalzoneGolem
04/09/2018 at 15:23

“Sucking” is relative. Some situations definitely suck worse than others, and I think this is the point of the piece.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Future next gen S2000 owner
04/09/2018 at 15:24

I didn’t realize what they meant by “dip.” Now I do. Are you still active duty?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 15:44

Nope. Been out, shit, a decade now. Where did the time go?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 15:46

This is one of my favorite pics. This after after IED #2. Aim & timing was slightly off. Hit the rear quarter mainly.

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Future next gen S2000 owner
04/09/2018 at 15:56

Damn, Yo. How much shock blast did you feel? How are you feeling ten years on? What was your MOS? Did you ever actually see an enemy person in a gun sight?

Future next gen S2000 owner > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 15:58

It’s all over pretty quick. That one wasn’t so bad. Ten years on...eh. Knees hurt from time to time but I’m a pretty aggressive skier. My back has seen better days but it doesn’t bug me that much on most days. You get used to the ringing in your ears, although it is pretty annoying. I was a grunt, 11B.

AfromanGTO > Spanfeller is a twat
04/09/2018 at 17:27

Most have Burger King, Taco Johns, Popeyes, etc.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Future next gen S2000 owner
04/09/2018 at 17:47

What’s funny to me about this exchange is that you’ve got that picture of yourself with the shrapnel HumVee and you’ve been out for ten years already. Nobody realizes how long this has been going on.

My bird IS the word > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 19:00

Bored marines are deadly marines.

My bird IS the word > Azrek
04/09/2018 at 19:02

Those MREs aren’t half bad, but I can imagine they suck the hundredth time you have had them.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > My bird IS the word
04/09/2018 at 19:36

Note: we’re talking about soldiers here, not Marines... Not that what you say is not 100% accurate...

My bird IS the word > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 19:41

Well it definitely applies to soldiers too, but I have usually heard this expression in that context.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > My bird IS the word
04/09/2018 at 19:53

I wasn’t trying to be a dick; I hope I didn’t come off that way.

I served back in the 80s when the hardest part was scraping enough icing off the cake so you could eat it. My bid ended right at Gulf I.

My bird IS the word > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
04/09/2018 at 20:00

No biggie. I’m a big military buff but I have moderate asthma, so no army for me. the academic scholarship didn’t help either.