Funny military memes, B.S., and shotgun club!

My old man was active Marine Corps for about 175 years and did a lot of cool stuff, with retrospect. I remember being a little kid and seeing his huge-ass fruit salad when he would prep his blues. I asked him one time what they were all for and he told me. A few years later, a week or two after the ball, he and some of his bros were joking about being able to tell where the reservists were clustered because that part of the dance floor was a lot quieter, since they didn't have enough medals to bang together when they bounced.

The other thing I remember him saying about awards and decs was "It's pointless to care about what other people got. I know what mine are for, and that's all I care about."

I filed that one away for a decade and kept it in mind every time I saw some CMsgt checking IDs and being a cargo pocket Nazi at chow in Mazar, or a LtCol doing 6 months as an LNO/human e-mail filter on a "combat tour" at the Bagram Steppingstone Promotion Complex, and both of them walking away with a bronze star at a minimum.

Don't be salty, just laugh.

 

So, he came in around the Mexican-American War?
Did he ever tell you stories about Belleau Wood? What about General Puller?

But seriously, comparison is the thief of joy... and sometimes promotions.

 

He used to shine boots with Chesty and his DI crossed the Delaware with Washington.

Also, it was easy for me to be easy about other people's shit - I maxed my awards points early.

 

Yeah they implemented a policy in the mid 10s about points resetting with every promotion in the CG.

 

Yup. You could only use 10 points and I went from 18 to 0 when I made E6 lol

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-navy-...age-him-shooting-rifle-scope-mounted-backward

 

Take note of the name of the new commanding officer. I mean you have to be a dipshit to not realize that the optic is backwards but not much the CO of a battleship needs to know about shooting an AR.

 

LOLSKIBIDYHOWDO TELESCOPES EVENWERK ??
I mean, even Daphne and Velma can figure out that if it looks further away and it's not supposed to, then something's not being the way it's supposed to be being. So, you can extrapolate with previously experienced information, or you can look at the way the thing that's not being the way it's supposed to be and just fucking ask someone how to make it be the supposed to way.
In charge of a major command, 4000 people, and a $40 Billion dollar boat and he can't figure out a fucking telescope. Nobody is asking him to do spherical trigonometry to locate his position on the surface of planet Earth, nobody's asking him to do a motion analysis of a submarine threat, the expectation of authority and responsibility to wield the largest weapons platform against multiple targets in a fast-paced multidimensional environment in coordination with a carrier strike group isn't there either, all he has to do is look through the thing and see it's that it's not doing the stuff it's supposed to.

The best part about this: someone else handed this to him. I can only conclude there are at least two team-killing fucktards on the boat. The really scary part is whoever gave him the rifle with the attached microscope might also be in charge of other people. They might be telling these other people something like "all you need to do is put the weird sideways x on the bad thing way over there and it will magic away with the trigger" or something like that and this fuckhead is paid for saying and doing stupid shit that is commensurate with what I can expect from a similarly-minded idiot whose job it is to use a bulldozer to move trash around a fucking landfill under close supervision in probationary conditions. Maybe it would help if someone painted the words "sexual harassment" or "equal opportunity" on the side and this tepid homunculus might take an active interest in the fucking proceedings. Better yet, just say it's part of the path to Chief of Staff.

And if this tourist politician uniformed CEO still can't figure out how to do the magic with the funny glass tube on the loudstick then, for his safety and the sake of those in his midst, he should use a firm grasp at the fore and aft end of the rifle, position his hands horizontally at shoulder level, extend his arms to their full reach, walk to the edge of the carrier deck, and release the fucking gun into the wild.

 

If any of you could have tricked your CO into firing a rifle with the scope mounted backwards, you would have. I'd like to think that we'd keep the photos to ourselves, though...

 

I trained a monkey with starburst and then took them away for weeks. When our CO showed up I handed him a pack of starburst as the monkey was watching. I have a photo of that monkey upside down with his feet on the BC’s face tearing into his pocket to retrieve his favorite snack. The BC was pissed!

 

What is the funniest is the people talking about what he is looking at through the optic. It’s the fucking ocean! He isn’t looking at shit. Seamen like to dump ammo into oblivion. They don’t care until they play with the big guns that rock the ship. And honestly, that’s how it should be.

 

Old mate does/did his annual qual on iron sights and has other shit to worry about. I reckon he posted it because it’s either a goof, or he doesn’t care.

 

I wouldn't have done that with every CO I had, but there was one...

 

If I had a commander that I could dupe with a telescopic sight, I would change units. Because that dude isn't worth the fourteen cents worth of carbon atoms he's made out of, much less my time and energy. The condensation from that fuckhead exhaling is worth more than the vapor-emitting receptacle. Since I learned about near and far from Grover on Sesame Street I should probably be a commodore.

Imagine being so universally hated that your subordinate personnel allowed you to be photographed for posterity wielding a lethal instrument looking like a dick-nosed monkey.