Any military on Sundren?

[Kaizen]

I'm an Army brat, never stayed in the same spot for more than three years, and I was wondering if we had any military people on Sundren? (no offense to civs, i just tend to gravitate towards the armed forces lol)

And I just got accepted into EOD school.

Hell fucking yes.

[vexxen]

Yeah, I'm a military brat as well lol, decided to join up and its been a good 2 years so far I live in New Zealand for the record

[BedlamX]

Ex-Army here. I was demo instructor at the end of my career. You will love and hate EOD school . But the MOS is quite fun and rewarding. Congrats on joining up.

[The Almight Red]

When I was in, I was a 98G reclassed 19D. Being a Cav Scout, I got to work with a lot of 89Ds and 21Bs, considering all the IEDs that Cav Scouts come across.

A lot of the 89Ds related huge washout rates in your MOS schooling, but apparently that was due to a lot of the night life of where you'll be training at. I was told to keep yourself focused, and you'll get through it. There was a lot of washouts when I was doing my language training as a 98G.

Just stay focused on your academics.

Also, be prepared for the never ending stare down between you and the 21Bs. :P While deployed, there was no end to EODs and Engineers giving each other shit over their respective jobs. But, as I used to always tell my Squad, "Ignore the arguing. I don't give a damn how they get it done, they just get it done." 21Bs or 89Ds, I don't give a shit. Just disarm that shit so my men don't get blown to hell.

Good luck, soldier. And Hooah.

[Aries1918]

U.S. Air Force here. Just call me a glorified mechanic. I'm a crew chief on those big refueling tanker planes, the KC-135. I just joined last February, so I'm just getting started.

[Kaizen]

When I was in, I was a 98G reclassed 19D. Being a Cav Scout, I got to work with a lot of 89Ds and 21Bs, considering all the IEDs that Cav Scouts come across.

A lot of the 89Ds related huge washout rates in your MOS schooling, but apparently that was due to a lot of the night life of where you'll be training at. I was told to keep yourself focused, and you'll get through it. There was a lot of washouts when I was doing my language training as a 98G.

Just stay focused on your academics.

Also, be prepared for the never ending stare down between you and the 21Bs. :P While deployed, there was no end to EODs and Engineers giving each other shit over their respective jobs. But, as I used to always tell my Squad, "Ignore the arguing. I don't give a damn how they get it done, they just get it done." 21Bs or 89Ds, I don't give a shit. Just disarm that shit so my men don't get blown to hell.

Good luck, soldier. And Hooah.

Hooah. And thank you.

The EOD school washout rate I think right now is 1 out of every 3 people. It probably has to do with the fact that there is only one, and it is at Eglin AFB, Florida. Since I'm only 19 I'm hoping the fact that I can't legally drink will keep me out of trouble.

That, and I'll be bringing my computer to play NWN2 to keep me straight .

And yes, the Crabs and Castles have a looong thing going - I haven't even gone to school yet (i leave in Feb) and I'm already seeing it .

[Saulus]

Haha I keep forgetting about that, 21 in the US is so silly, in the Netherlands it's 16...

[Aries1918]

16? That's the way it should be. Or at least 18. If you're old enough to die for your country, you should be old enough to drink. That said, I'm 22 so it doesn't matter to me anyways.

[The Almight Red]

Since I'm only 19 I'm hoping the fact that I can't legally drink will keep me out of trouble.

Well, I couldn't say as the area where you'll be training, however, when I was learning Russian at the DLI at Monterey, California, my age didn't prevent my partying.

I was only 17 when I entered (yeah, yeah, I was a dumb kid), but it didn't seem to matter much. Most places that carded just would look at my military ID and immediately let me in, no questions asked. Largely like that at a lot of Army stations I was around. Fort Knox. Benning. Hood. The surrounding communities had rather lenient bars when it came to service members.

For obvious reasons.

Not to say I'm trying to condone you partying your time away! Don't! I almost made the big mistake of washing out in my classes, but then got my ass in gear, fortunately. I would have lost my Airborne slot, otherwise.

I do want to say something, though. You're going to meet some combat MOS soldiers speak crap about EOD, especially from those soldiers that have never been deployed.

I can't state how many men I had cycle over to my unit when I was deployed, who'd make jokes and bitch about EOD being 'soldier-light' and being pansies. I'd set them straight real quick.

There is nothing like setting up a perimeter around a live mortar/shell round, calling in EOD, and one of them going down to disarm it. Some of the EOD guys have some of the biggest set of brass balls known to man. Most of the time they just need to go in and BIP something, but not always. Sometimes they have to get right up next to the Ordinance, and christ, man.

Good on you for taking such. When I was over there, I highly respected people from EOD. You might not be in straight combat nearly as often, but your job is still insane. Make 'em proud.

[Kaizen]

Thank you.

My unit is based out of New York. They head into Afghanistan around October of '10. I'll be finishing up school, and deploying straight out of graduation.

The rotation is such, that I might even run into my father over there. Uhg, nothing like having to salute to your own dad.

I'm proud, no doubt ... but its my dad!

[BedlamX]

Luckily, I didn't have to worry about any argueing between engineers and EOD...12B is one of my multitude of MOSs . You would be amazed at how many engineers go on to train as EOD. They recruit heavily from engineers so they can get NCOs with some explosives training into their ranks (or at least they used to). EOD was full when I enlisted, so I started in Artillary, switched to engineers, became an instructor, and did training later in life. Kind of a fun run. Too bad I blew a knee out...but I did get to let my hair grow again :P.