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In over a decade of IT I only heard of the cupholder miscue, never saw it. That's priceless... I did have a doctor scream at me (literally) regarding his inability to print when I was in healthcare IT. If he hadn't hit 'cancel' on his Win95 PC, bypassing the network logon, he'd have been printing to his network printer. Some folks get to the point that they handle so much high-brains stuff they screw up the easy things. |
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I never believed in the cup holder thing either, until one day we got a call from some officer, saying his cup holder wouldn't open or close anymore. We had no idea what 'cup holder' he was referring to, so we HAD to go check it out. We figured "No way could someone with a college degree NOT know what a CD Drive was... Right? I mean... Wait... AHHH CRAP! SERIOUSLY?! And we work for this guy?!" Turned out, he was an older gentleman who got his degree the old fashioned way - Pen and paper. He was too smart for his own good.
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Never underestimate the power of stupidity.
[WAR_STORY_ALERT] 1st left-nut was having fun at the grenade range, right up until they had a dud (other than the LT). The LT decides to have everyone throw grenades at the area of the dud grenade. After that stroke of genius he had another thought, he tied tripwire to the pin of a grenade and took it down range. He managed to find the first grenade without killing himself so he placed the new grenade next to it, went back to the pits, and started pulling... When he had reeled in the pin, without an explosion, he decided it was time to call EOD. When we finally got to the bottom of things (talked to the NCOIC) we had one dud grenade with numerous frag holes in it, and "somewhere out in the elephant grass was a grenade with the spoon being held down by grass. We were VERY VERY ANGRY... When we told him that HE was going down range to find his grenade, he about wet his pants and declined the honor. His NCOIC helpfully pointed out that the senior EOD NCO on the range was "in command", NOT the LT. We let him off the hook after he lost about a gallon of sweat. [WAR_STORY_ALERT/]
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When you get into the joint ops mode, you save the anger for your common enemies (like the Navy), and the heckling for off duty. It worked the same way when I was in the Army and banked at Marine Corps West Credit Union in Barstow. There we shared the "common foe" of civilian guys with longer hair and nicer cars. Had a few Marine drinking buddies in Barstow that were shocked when they found out I was in the Army (they assumed that since they saw me at the credit union, I called the Marines in uniform by their ranks, had a good haircut, and dogged out the Navy, that I must be one of them - I wasn't posing or trying to fool them at all, in fact they tried to tell me I was lying when I told them I was in the Army). Note that items in blue italics are added for goodnatured humor only, and should not be taken as an attack on those fellows in the bell bottom jeans who travel in boats. |
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That's a different generation right there. I am reminded of teaching my Mom the DVR at her place. For someone who has accomplished so much she's stumped by the multi-remote. |
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Oh, and Sgt, I wouldve spartan-kicked that imposter brat out the door, job or no job, no one insults my family (3rd Generation Marine). |
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Ugh it took me sooo long to try to remember the ranks for each branch. Then having to remember the Naval ranks for different jobs... I eventually gave up haha. Any Air Force personnel with more stripes than me I called "Sgt" too. Then there was the generic Army "Sgt"... The generic Navy "Chief"... I learned that one the hard way - Saluting the shiny stuff as a boot PFC, only to have the Chief put me at attention, then laugh at me and walk away... Yup, they got me good.
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Something comes to mind about women not being able to handle the responsibility that is the TV remote control... But quickly gets dismissed after I remember that mindset cost me my first marriage... NEVER change a man's football game - Especially if it is his favorite team playing a rivalry game, in anticipation of making the playoffs! I banished her to the bedroom for the rest of the night, and she took the TV the next day... And the couch... And the dogs... And... You get the point.
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Yeah it was the individual jobs that threw me off. I didn't know about that as a boot, so I never took the time to learn them. Luckily, I only ever really dealt with Corpsmen, so it didn't really matter too much. |
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I would have traded a hospital FULL of ARMY doctors for one good corpsman. The only ARMY "Doc" that I ever thought was qualified was the Warrant Officer (almost doctor) in charge of the Personnel Reliability Program medical facility. (Nuclear Surety Program)
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Spent many a drunken nights with a couple other Corpsmen friends of mine. We would all get plastered, then get hooked up to an IV overnight and be perfectly fine the next morning... Great times. Now, when I go to civilian doctors and nurses, I sit there pissed off all day because they don't care, they have no passion for their jobs, they just collect a paycheck nowadays. They are all overpaid *******s who just wanna run test after test for no reason other than to pass you off to someone else so they don't have to deal with you. "Doc, you really need to keep testing me? My finger is MISSING, what the hell are you ordering an x-ray for?!" |
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And every unit I was with after that.
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