*Official US Army Thread* 6th Tour: Reflector belts and females with Ranger tabs

[schnit]

i finally got around to watching this

Watch this

[jmonty]

lol

[Hola Bola]

And I have now entered myself into a rep race against burly man...since I crushed hola is the last race

negged

Just saw someone post this. Supposedly from the Chicago Tribune.

Thats not where you mount the bayonet or grenade launcher?

mindblown.gif

Quick question for you gents:

I'm trying to get my run times down (1 mile, 2 mile) but am having a bit if difficulty with finding a pace fast enough to break the 8 minute barrier without becoming winded quickly. Any tips on increasing speed? Perhaps I need to breath better? Just run and push myself as much as I can before I puke?

I would really like to pass the future soldier APFT when the time comes so I can go in at a higher rank.

Run faster. Now gtfo.

[Daegus]

Run faster. Now gtfo.

That and learn to pace yourself. About 99.9999999% of people in the military don't seem to understand this concept or how to apply it but act like they know **** because way back when they ran track while now barely running low 13's.

On a running note: Deploy to Afghanistan, live above 7000 ft for 9 months and continue to run daily. Come home and troll folks who didn't in a two mile.

[paulpfiction]

question: Does anyone know about how long it takes for a Soldier to get a government travel card? One of my Soldiers is scheduled for a school. In Pennsylvania, school has no transportation, Soldier pays for own meals, and own lodging. He is a new Specialist. The school is 10 days.

also, speaking of PT runs... my brother just ran it in 13:30 and he is 240 lbs.

ALSO

burlyman is losing the rep race!

[schnit]

Finishing my basement and building a home theatre, about to place my order from monoprice for some of the in-wall stuff

So far....

8", angled ceiling speakers for my rear surrounds & rear center (with install kits)
100ft of 12AWG CL2 speaker wire
8 pairs of bannana plugs
3 wall plates for bannana (front speakers will be floorstanding)
1 ceiling bracket for projector
2 low voltage recessed gangs
2 hdmi wall plates. One up front, one next to couch to plug laptop into
8 outlet home theater power center/surge protector
30 ft hdmi cable (ceiling run to projector)
50ft hdmi cable (wall run to laptop port)
15 ft hdmi cable (wall run to front port)
motorized 106" projector screen
15 ft subwoofer cable for left sub
25 ft subwoofer cable for right sub

10% off coupon for $80 in savings
$200 for shipping (fuking freight for the screen)

Anyone else home theater dorks? Is I forgetting anything?

[CheekyRunt]

question: Does anyone know about how long it takes for a Soldier to get a government travel card? One of my Soldiers is scheduled for a school. In Pennsylvania, school has no transportation, Soldier pays for own meals, and own lodging. He is a new Specialist. The school is 10 days.

It took about 2.5 weeks to get mine.

If money is an issue, you can get DTS to do a partial payout or advance pay.

[CheekyRunt]

Finishing my basement and building a home theatre, about to place my order from monoprice for some of the in-wall stuff

So far....

8", angled ceiling speakers for my rear surrounds & rear center (with install kits)
100ft of 12AWG CL2 speaker wire
8 pairs of bannana plugs
3 wall plates for bannana (front speakers will be floorstanding)
1 ceiling bracket for projector
2 low voltage recessed gangs
2 hdmi wall plates. One up front, one next to couch to plug laptop into
8 outlet home theater power center/surge protector
30 ft hdmi cable (ceiling run to projector)
50ft hdmi cable (wall run to laptop port)
15 ft hdmi cable (wall run to front port)
motorized 106" projector screen
15 ft subwoofer cable for left sub
25 ft subwoofer cable for right sub

10% off coupon for $80 in savings
$200 for shipping (fuking freight for the screen)

Anyone else home theater dorks? Is I forgetting anything?

Sweet jesus. Hook that up to the internet and stream some porn...

[jmonty]

Anyone else home theater dorks? Is I forgetting anything?

i want to become one someday, when i get into a decent sized house.

all i have so far is a HTPC i built a few weeks back. and i still need a wireless keyboard/moue for it

my decade old computer speakers/subwoofer will get hooked up and i'll install a bluray drive so i can watch the hobbit tomorrow.

tv sucks 42 in, but it's 1080p at least. it was just some cheapo i got while in school so i could upgrade from my old fat tv, also about a decade old, lol

when i get my wireless mouse/keyboard i think i'll load up red alert 2 and play on my couch

[armamentdawg15y]

Finishing my basement and building a home theatre, about to place my order from monoprice for some of the in-wall stuff

So far....

8", angled ceiling speakers for my rear surrounds & rear center (with install kits)
100ft of 12AWG CL2 speaker wire
8 pairs of bannana plugs
3 wall plates for bannana (front speakers will be floorstanding)
1 ceiling bracket for projector
2 low voltage recessed gangs
2 hdmi wall plates. One up front, one next to couch to plug laptop into
8 outlet home theater power center/surge protector
30 ft hdmi cable (ceiling run to projector)
50ft hdmi cable (wall run to laptop port)
15 ft hdmi cable (wall run to front port)
motorized 106" projector screen
15 ft subwoofer cable for left sub
25 ft subwoofer cable for right sub

10% off coupon for $80 in savings
$200 for shipping (fuking freight for the screen)

Anyone else home theater dorks? Is I forgetting anything?

What about the receiver for your surround sound? Or were you just gonna plug all the speakers into......?

Also, I assume you already have the projector?

[paulpfiction]

If money is an issue, you can get DTS to do a partial payout or advance pay.

more info on this please


what do I need to fill out or take care of for that?

[austin.j.taylor]

question: Does anyone know about how long it takes for a Soldier to get a government travel card? One of my Soldiers is scheduled for a school. In Pennsylvania, school has no transportation, Soldier pays for own meals, and own lodging. He is a new Specialist. The school is 10 days.

also, speaking of PT runs... my brother just ran it in 13:30 and he is 240 lbs.

ALSO

burlyman is losing the rep race!

Wont happen in that timeframe. Have the unit request a travel advance in DTS, that can be paid out in 48 hours. I dont remember the entire process as its been awhile, but someone who does your dts should know it.

[schnit]

Sweet jesus. Hook that up to the internet and stream some porn...

That's pretty much the plan. Paulp will come over and bring his blu-ray copy of Brokeback Mountain and a box of tissues...for the tears.

i want to become one someday, when i get into a decent sized house.
all i have so far is a HTPC i built a few weeks back. and i still need a wireless keyboard/moue for it
my decade old computer speakers/subwoofer will get hooked up and i'll install a bluray drive so i can watch the hobbit tomorrow.
tv sucks 42 in, but it's 1080p at least. it was just some cheapo i got while in school so i could upgrade from my old fat tv, also about a decade old, lol
when i get my wireless mouse/keyboard i think i'll load up red alert 2 and play on my couch

I really wish the room I'm turning into the theater was bigger, it's barely big enough to do what I want. There is nothing wrong with old speakers, literally nothing major has changed with speaker technology in the last 20 years. All of my speakers are getting to be about 25 years old, and I can guarantee you one pair of them will decimate anything Best Buy has. The 6 floorstanding speakers i own also set me back only $450 total. New stuff in some areas is great, but in other areas it's a complete waste of money...BRB spending $3,000 at Best Buy and having Schnit's $350 receiver/speakers blow the brand new purchase out of the water.

What about the receiver for your surround sound? Or were you just gonna plug all the speakers into......?

Also, I assume you already have the projector?

Right now my receiver isn't as nice as I wanted. I've got a Denon 1912 (craigslist for $200) which I "upgraded" from a nice Yamaha 5990 (bought and sold for $300) because the Yamaha didn't handle 1080p passthrough, and I need an OSD since my A/V equipment is located elsewhere in the house. The 1912 is a decent amp, but it doesn't have a lot of power (thankfully I run Klipsch mains, which are very efficient). Once the theater is done I'll be running the front 2 mains off my Adcom amp so the other 3 speakers have all the power they need.

I don't yet have the projector. I've done a fair amount of research and it looks like if I run all my wiring to ~12' back from the screen it should be in a spot where just about any projector can adjust for. I might pick out a projector before I seal up the ceiling.

[paulpfiction]

That's pretty much the plan. Paulp will come over and bring his blu-ray copy of Brokeback Mountain and a box of tissues...for the tears.

that and magic mike. i have them both on high def

[CheekyRunt]

more info on this please


what do I need to fill out or take care of for that?

Wont happen in that timeframe. Have the unit request a travel advance in DTS, that can be paid out in 48 hours. I dont remember the entire process as its been awhile, but someone who does your dts should know it.

Pretty much this. Request your S1 get the soldier a travel advance. Since DTS already computes the estimated cost of the trip it should be able to pay out most expenses the soldier will incur. Then they'll have some work to do on the backend to make sure that the docs submitted to DTS marry up with the payments made.

[4ca_mma]

Navy checking in. Cool thread...deploy soon so this should keep things interesting.

[Dirk__Diggler]

question: Does anyone know about how long it takes for a Soldier to get a government travel card? One of my Soldiers is scheduled for a school. In Pennsylvania, school has no transportation, Soldier pays for own meals, and own lodging. He is a new Specialist. The school is 10 days.

also, speaking of PT runs... my brother just ran it in 13:30 and he is 240 lbs.

ALSO

burlyman is losing the rep race!

He can get it done in less than a week. He has to do the app online and get the card sent over night. He will have to pay that fee. Have him start today!

[Jayl12345]

question: Does anyone know about how long it takes for a Soldier to get a government travel card? One of my Soldiers is scheduled for a school. In Pennsylvania, school has no transportation, Soldier pays for own meals, and own lodging. He is a new Specialist. The school is 10 days.

Hmmm... I put my request in last April... and still waiting. The best part is I send a follow up email every three weeks or so to my command.




I also get to hear about how I need a gov't travel card from my command at our weekly conference calls. I don't get it.

Finishing my basement and building a home theatre, about to place my order from monoprice for some of the in-wall stuff

So far....

Anyone else home theater dorks? Is I forgetting anything?

Samsung E6550 ftw.

[CheekyRunt]

He can get it done in less than a week. He has to do the app online and get the card sent over night. He will have to pay that fee. Have him start today!

Actually, he can be reimbursed for this fee through DTS.

[Dirk__Diggler]

Actually, he can be reimbursed for this fee through DTS.

If they are doing it again then good. But I know they had stopped the fee reimbursement.

[jmonty]

damn, i was adjusting my allotments, trying to get my mid month pay and end of month pay even to the $100 but they gave me a penny over on the 15th and a penny under for the 1st.


/firstworkproblems


but shockingly my leave was fixed, ****ers overcharged me 6 days back in december.



brb saturday night, reviewing my LES

[austin.j.taylor]

next thread needs to be title "ltproblems/10"

[VAPump]

Just slept 17 hours, LOL. Strong tired considering 1) This SERE challenge wasn't anywhere near as hard as the first. and 2) I only spent half of it as a competitor, and the other half as an instructor, lulz.

Will give more cliffs later. Now that I'm out of hibernation I need to find food.

[jmonty]

you are a fukking tank

[put5onyo]

I really wish the room I'm turning into the theater was bigger, it's barely big enough to do what I want. There is nothing wrong with old speakers, literally nothing major has changed with speaker technology in the last 20 years. All of my speakers are getting to be about 25 years old, and I can guarantee you one pair of them will decimate anything Best Buy has. The 6 floorstanding speakers i own also set me back only $450 total. New stuff in some areas is great, but in other areas it's a complete waste of money...BRB spending $3,000 at Best Buy and having Schnit's $350 receiver/speakers blow the brand new purchase out of the water.

When I was employed at Best Buy I got about $3500 worth of Klipsch speakers and a $500 Pioneer receiver for around $950. Works pretty well.

[CheekyRunt]

next thread needs to be title "ltproblems/10"

US Army thrad: We have a platoon of LT's

[austin.j.taylor]

US Army thrad: We have a platoon of LT's

I believe its only a squad, but that is still too many officers in one place

[VAPump]

I believe its only a squad, but that is still too many officers in one place

And between them all they have the knowledge, experience, and common sense of 1 SPC.

[austin.j.taylor]

And between them all they have the knowledge, experience, and common sense of 1 SPC.

Or 1 high speed PFC (P)

[schnit]

Or 1 high speed PFC (P)

I always refer to them as "very high ranking privates".