[Wullu]

to quote Glenn Beck, when I read this.

No title could do this justuce

Well it appears she got caught in a bureaucratic snafu. Unfortunate indeed, but you will have to excuse me if I have a slightly different opinion of what would constitute "hell"

Quick story. She failed her PT test, was given the option to go into a PT training platoon to allow her to pass. She apparently turned that down (anyone know somebody that would turn down a full time fitness program while getting paid $2484/month to do it?) so she got put on a work platoon until her release was processed.

Some of the horrors she endured while on the work platoon:

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watching French movies with English subtitles in a cramped, unventilated room with about 100 other Forces per­sonnel who were also waiting to be released.

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One time she had to pick up cigarette butts and clean the smoking area.

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not allowed to exercise during the day because the exercise fa­cilities were reserved for the other crews on the base. Edit, remember she turned down full time paid PT?

Oh the PT test she had to pass?

Stage 3 of the 20m shuttle run. You can walk to stage three.
Total grip of both hands, 48 pounds.
Seven push ups
Twelve situps



It is not so much her story that bothered me, but that the Chronically Horrid thought it was actually news worthy.

[Scape]

MIR Commando, good riddance.

[Tricks]

Wow..... Wonder what the PC crowd will say.

[2Cdo]

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

Actually I think she is just a run of the mill whiner who realised it is easier to quit something rather than see it through.

[xerxes]

Tricks wrote:

Wow..... Wonder what the PC crowd will say.

How does good riddance sound?

[Tricks]

xerxes wrote:

Tricks wrote:

Wow..... Wonder what the PC crowd will say.

How does good riddance sound?

I was thinking more along the lines of "We should lower the requirements so that people aren't excluded."

[Wullu]

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

True.

Another story, this one from personal experience. A half dozen or so kids showed up at the school in Stadacona fresh from basic about four years ago it was now. We sent them on their merry way to clear into the base (getting all the paperwork in order for those not aquainted with this wonderful ritual). Just before lunch all but one of them show up, pretty much done. Where is the other asks I. At the base hospital. Ok, fair enough, since the hospital is normally busy and records can go astray.

After lunch, junior shows up. With three, count em three medical chits in hand. No marching, no extended sitting, no extended standing, no PT.......... etc. I shit you not.

I had been in about 13 years at that point and this kid already had more sick chits in one morning than I got in those 13 years. I felt nothing but pity for his future bosses.

[BartSimpson]

Wullu wrote:

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

True.

Another story, this one from personal experience. A half dozen or so kids showed up at the school in Stadacona fresh from basic about four years ago it was now. We sent them on their merry way to clear into the base (getting all the paperwork in order for those not aquainted with this wonderful ritual). Just before lunch all but one of them show up, pretty much done. Where is the other asks I. At the base hospital. Ok, fair enough, since the hospital is normally busy and records can go astray.

After lunch, junior shows up. With three, count em three medical chits in hand. No marching, no extended sitting, no extended standing, no PT.......... etc. I shit you not.

I had been in about 13 years at that point and this kid already had more sick chits in one morning than I got in those 13 years. I felt nothing but pity for his future bosses.

There's always slackers in every crowd. On the other side of it, there's always the guys who will fall in with blood oozing out of some wound or another, they'll hobble in on a busted ankle from a bad jump, they'll show up and puke during review, and they'll bitch and whine that they don't want to miss out on a required march, match, or etc. if you send them to the clinic.

The brave man dies but once, the coward dies a thousand deaths.

[Wullu]

BartSimpson wrote:

Wullu wrote:

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

True.

Another story, this one from personal experience. A half dozen or so kids showed up at the school in Stadacona fresh from basic about four years ago it was now. We sent them on their merry way to clear into the base (getting all the paperwork in order for those not aquainted with this wonderful ritual). Just before lunch all but one of them show up, pretty much done. Where is the other asks I. At the base hospital. Ok, fair enough, since the hospital is normally busy and records can go astray.

After lunch, junior shows up. With three, count em three medical chits in hand. No marching, no extended sitting, no extended standing, no PT.......... etc. I shit you not.

I had been in about 13 years at that point and this kid already had more sick chits in one morning than I got in those 13 years. I felt nothing but pity for his future bosses.

There's always slackers in every crowd. On the other side of it, there's always the guys who will fall in with blood oozing out of some wound or another, they'll hobble in on a busted ankle from a bad jump, they'll show up and puke during review, and they'll bitch and whine that they don't want to miss out on a required march, match, or etc. if you send them to the clinic.

The brave man dies but once, the coward dies a thousand deaths.

That would be these guys Bart, Link

[BartSimpson]

Wullu wrote:

BartSimpson wrote:

Wullu wrote:

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

True.

Another story, this one from personal experience. A half dozen or so kids showed up at the school in Stadacona fresh from basic about four years ago it was now. We sent them on their merry way to clear into the base (getting all the paperwork in order for those not aquainted with this wonderful ritual). Just before lunch all but one of them show up, pretty much done. Where is the other asks I. At the base hospital. Ok, fair enough, since the hospital is normally busy and records can go astray.

After lunch, junior shows up. With three, count em three medical chits in hand. No marching, no extended sitting, no extended standing, no PT.......... etc. I shit you not.

I had been in about 13 years at that point and this kid already had more sick chits in one morning than I got in those 13 years. I felt nothing but pity for his future bosses.

There's always slackers in every crowd. On the other side of it, there's always the guys who will fall in with blood oozing out of some wound or another, they'll hobble in on a busted ankle from a bad jump, they'll show up and puke during review, and they'll bitch and whine that they don't want to miss out on a required march, match, or etc. if you send them to the clinic.

The brave man dies but once, the coward dies a thousand deaths.

That would be these guys Bart, Link

Yes, it would.

[Arctic_Menace]

BartSimpson wrote:

Wullu wrote:

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

True.

Another story, this one from personal experience. A half dozen or so kids showed up at the school in Stadacona fresh from basic about four years ago it was now. We sent them on their merry way to clear into the base (getting all the paperwork in order for those not aquainted with this wonderful ritual). Just before lunch all but one of them show up, pretty much done. Where is the other asks I. At the base hospital. Ok, fair enough, since the hospital is normally busy and records can go astray.

After lunch, junior shows up. With three, count em three medical chits in hand. No marching, no extended sitting, no extended standing, no PT.......... etc. I shit you not.

I had been in about 13 years at that point and this kid already had more sick chits in one morning than I got in those 13 years. I felt nothing but pity for his future bosses.

There's always slackers in every crowd. On the other side of it, there's always the guys who will fall in with blood oozing out of some wound or another, they'll hobble in on a busted ankle from a bad jump, they'll show up and puke during review, and they'll bitch and whine that they don't want to miss out on a required march, match, or etc. if you send them to the clinic.

The brave man dies but once, the coward dies a thousand deaths.

I hate to admit it, but I'd be a mixture of slacker and lazy.

What I mean by that is the following:

My superior: "Macias!"

Me: "Yes, sir?"

My superior: "I want you to take four men and clear the area around the LAV's."

Me: "Aw, can't someone else do it?"

MS: "Hell no! Now hop to it before I slam your ass into the sand!"

Me: "Ah, Christ..."

or even something like this(based on a true story in cadets at night on a bush exercise):

Cpt.: "We need two volunteers to go find our missing cadets; check out the plateau."

*no one raises their hand*

Me: "Oh, for God's sake, I'll do it. Sgt. Wang, you just volunteered with me; let's go..."



And then there was the time when my face was whacked by a pine tree bough that had been pushed aside by a cadet. I only realized that I was bleeding fairly heavily when two cadets freaked out at me saying: "Omigod, omigod, omigod!!!"



It's a fleshwound!:lol:

[Tricks]

BartSimpson wrote:

Wullu wrote:

Scape wrote:

MIR Commando, good riddance.

True.

Another story, this one from personal experience. A half dozen or so kids showed up at the school in Stadacona fresh from basic about four years ago it was now. We sent them on their merry way to clear into the base (getting all the paperwork in order for those not aquainted with this wonderful ritual). Just before lunch all but one of them show up, pretty much done. Where is the other asks I. At the base hospital. Ok, fair enough, since the hospital is normally busy and records can go astray.

After lunch, junior shows up. With three, count em three medical chits in hand. No marching, no extended sitting, no extended standing, no PT.......... etc. I shit you not.

I had been in about 13 years at that point and this kid already had more sick chits in one morning than I got in those 13 years. I felt nothing but pity for his future bosses.

There's always slackers in every crowd. On the other side of it, there's always the guys who will fall in with blood oozing out of some wound or another, they'll hobble in on a busted ankle from a bad jump, they'll show up and puke during review, and they'll bitch and whine that they don't want to miss out on a required march, match, or etc. if you send them to the clinic.

The brave man dies but once, the coward dies a thousand deaths.

What would happen if they puked during a review?

[BartSimpson]

Tricks wrote:

What would happen if they puked during a review?

Wouldn't be the first time it happened. No one gets in trouble for puking during a review. Not stifling a sneeze will get you some harsh looks.

Now where the men get cut from the boys is did the guy puke and then come right back to attention or did he fall out?

You're not getting promoted based on your ability to blow chunks and then keep standing, but the fact that you didn't fall out and make your team look bad by doing so should reflect well on you if your CO or NCO is worth anything.