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I'll get right on it. Maybe we can Mel Storm to run up about 120 posts while we are all asleep, and then pick it back up tomorrow.
Haven- I went in February of 1993, at Ft McClellan, Alabama, home of the most toxic US training sites ever. However, my commission date is May of 1992. I have a few years of breaks in service, but hit my 20 year letter soon enough.
Who the hell does basic at McClellan??
You're the first one I've ever heard of. Did you do AIT there too? Is it some bizarre MOS that only trains there?
Ft. Polk was toxic in it's own special way. EVERY species of deadly venomous snake and arachnid that CAN be found in the US, WILL be found at Ft. Polk. If you want to get an idea of what it's like, watch an episode (I don't recommend more than one.) of Billy The Exterminator. Shreveport is the closest civilian settlement.
Please tell me you're a WOWO, and not an actual officer. Nothing in any of our interactions has given me the idea that you didn't work for a living. And I mean that as a compliment.
Did you guys ever play this Godzilla game? My wife keeps playing Godzilla's roar at random times, just to see me get giddy. I want to break out the old game-cube and play a few rounds of this.
I sat for one of my kindergarten students and all he wanted to do was play that game. I went to a GameStop the next day and bought it.
C'mon, LPC! You haven't danced for Haven in a while. Grab this low-hanging fruit.
It's addictive.
Dude, all MPs went to Ft McClellan. So did Chem School folks.
I was not kidding about the toxic thing either. It was closed due to some serious concerns about the Chemical warfare school's live agent training site.
True story- I was the platoon leader marching a group of LTs to a rally point when we came upon an area that had been hit pretty good by a storm. So anyway we continue marching through it, and we find a couple of blown down orange(IIRC) markers laying flat on the ground. All of a sudden the TAC officers supervising/grading us are blowing whistles, getting on the radio, etc.
We'd marched right up the gut of a live agent training and DECON area that was supposed to be off limits, but was not denoted on our maps, nor were the markers still up due to the storms. All of us were taken to a field hospital and tested for exposure/symptoms for one of the nerve agents and for one of the blister agents.
It's be funnier it I wasn't a little bit unsure that maybe I was exposed to some of the persistent nerve agent stuff. There are whole websites, lawsuits, and facebook groups about all us poor schmucks who lived/worked at McClellan.
We also did Officer Advance Course there. I went through that in 1999. We literally locked the door behind us as they moved the entire training post up to Ft Leonard Wood, where the MPs. Chemical Corps, and Engineers are still.
Today's window viewing experience. A homeless man sat down outside to rearrange his backpack. The most interesting part was when he put a slice of pizza into a Christmas stocking.
Today's window viewing experience. A homeless man sat down outside to rearrange his backpack. The most interesting part was when he put a slice of pizza into a Christmas stocking.
Where do you keep your pizza slices?
Catering to the lowest common denominator since Feb 2003.
Dude, all MPs went to Ft McClellan. So did Chem School folks.
I was not kidding about the toxic thing either. It was closed due to some serious concerns about the Chemical warfare school's live agent training site.
True story- I was the platoon leader marching a group of LTs
I stopped reading right here. Whatever happened next was deserved.
I stopped reading right here. Whatever happened next was deserved.
You know when I say "marching", I mean a long cross country tactical march, with rucks, radios, etc, not that parade ground #### you see the REMFs do in the movies, right?
I did all that type of marching when I was an NCO at a corrections bootcamp for a few years. It was actually kind of fun, but not to be confused with a tactical ruck march
You know when I say "marching", I mean a long cross country tactical march, with rucks, radios, etc, not that parade ground #### you see the REMFs do in the movies, right?
I did all that type of marching when I was an NCO at a corrections bootcamp for a few years. It was actually kind of fun, but not to be confused with a tactical ruck march
I clued into that even before you mentioned the markers for some strange reason.