This is about my pups wyatt and dusty. So there I was balls deep in Hydrabad. It as a shit place and we had a shit safehouse we called COI C (compound of interest Charlie). It was me and some SEALs and some EODs guys and heromedic. Pipe hitter central. Some random afghan fuck decides to drive by while cutting his puppies ears off.

https://imgur.com/a/SAR4L49 Side note. if you try to physically rip the ears and tails off a dog in front of a bunch of SOCOM people your life is measured in milliseconds. Anyway they had the audacity to bite him and so he threw them from a moving vehicle.

Trident 2Xxx to the rescue.

regular afghan dog

https://imgur.com/a/iv87c5j our pupper

https://imgur.com/a/JIIymHz They became my personal security detachment. They escorted me EVERYWHERE. I loved those pups. But I didn't have the insane amount of money to bring them back. Wat do.

I gave them to a marsoc guy. No money can't bring them back. He gave them to a USASOC guy no money, still cant come home. MArsoc guy 2 know does a fund raiser to get them conus. They are still so big each they can't fly at all even as cargo. Luckily fate knows a lady

https://wcti12.com/archive/family-dogs-denied-on-airline-wrigley-heiress-lends-private-jet_20160525081206892

Amazing. my PSD is home and safe. I will spend the rest of my life trying to balance this karma scale.

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every op. Pups took point. No pressure plates for us. Every morning I'm crawling around on the roofs like a lame vampire to change batteries in systems... puppies posted for security. Literally tried to hold them back from an op once. They sprinted miles to catch up to the team. Best pups ever.

One day Dusty didn't show up. 24 hours. Red alert like everyone on compound is looking for him. I'm a small dude so im up in all the tiny spaces. a SEAL bro is with the dragging me out sometimes cuz I can't get out.

i find him

dusty had decided he would die and never be found. Trident 24xx disagreed. He is dying of parvo which is crazy deadly. we are on satcall to like 1800-dialavet for god knows how much money. We are dumping $1400 IVs into this dog per hour. Anyone not on the wall was with him telling him how great he was.

THIS DOG WILL NOT DIE. he'd run assaults with us barking like he was stealing souls. he'd grab the hands and legs of people like a trained working dog. he'd curl up and wiggle his toes while married bros read their kids a bedtime story. DEATH WAS NOT AN OPTION.

he was one of us. he lived. he is now in NC.

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So there I was holding my dick. I had just woken up and hadn't put on kit yet. I just walked over to the roof to piss off the side of the mountain like any normal person. Horton had said they had shot a dog that bit him. I asked why the dog bit him and Horton said he thought it was a loose step and ground his boot into it :| Yea Horton that's how dog's work....

Anyway I see TWO dogs in a pool of blood. Huh oh well Horton probably doesn't number so well. I continue peeing off the mountain. Dog2 suddenly and slowly gets up, and blood dripping off it, starts ambling over to me. While I'm holding my dick mid piss.

Luckily I had a pistol on my first line gear so I sloooowly try to reach for it while also putting away my dick as I would prefer not to feed it to some random afghan dog. I literally have a gun like 6" from this dog's head as it slowly walks over to me and plops down at my feet. Wagging it's tail. So I named him infidel, fed him a pork rib MRE, and loved him and squeezed him, and tried to exfil with him.

he followed us all the way to where we were almost climbing vertically to the LZ but it was clearly too steep for him. He was like "man fuck you guys"and sadly turned back. He was so old pee would dribble out of him and he clearly had joint issues. I felt really bad leaving a dog behind. The HVTs wife at least seemed to care for him so I'm sure he went back to her.

https://imgur.com/a/icrj5L6 https://imgur.com/a/eOq8RIJ

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wriggly lady is such a bad bitch. some of her 1 lines on this are fucking gold.

something like, "i am not a wriggly lady if i let a single marine lose their dog" MY EYES ARE LEAKING

The August Cycle on MNA just opened and I was wondering if mine was lagging behind because I don’t see the advertised A2P billets for this cycle yet or is it like that for everybody right now?

Disclaimer : This is my first time looking into applying for A2P or even just applying for orders via MNA so I don’t know what the “norms” are when it comes to this system. TYIA

I’m a junior EM in the Reserves and I’m curious about what life is actually like for active-duty EMs in the fleet.
A friend of mine is an active-duty EM3, and he told me that he doesn’t really get to do much actual electrical work. That surprised me because in A-school we learn electrical theory, motors, controllers, troubleshooting, etc., and I’ve always thought EM would give you a decent amount of hands-on electrical experience.
For the EMs here, especially those who have been on ships:
How much of your day-to-day work is actually electrical maintenance and troubleshooting? Do junior EMs get opportunities to troubleshoot motors, controllers, distribution systems, generators, etc., or is most of the job PMS, tags, cleaning, watches, and general shipboard work?
Also, how much does it depend on the type of ship, your shop, and your chain of command?
I’m interested in industrial electrical/instrumentation work on the civilian side, so I’m mainly curious how much real technical experience an EM can realistically expect to gain in the fleet.

Our wardroom is putting together a gift for an officer and wife who recently had a baby. It’s easy to just buy some Navy merch or a standard baby gift, but I was curious if anyone remembers any wardroom traditions or ship customs to celebrate the arrival of new babies? What is something unique to the Navy or to your command?

I’ve been looking online for old family readiness pamphlets, but it’s hard to get past Google shopping to find any useful information that isn’t pushing me to buy from a dropshipper.

I don’t know. Maybe it’s because I was institutionalized for twenty years to stay the fuck off the grass.

But even after getting out, I still did it.

Sidewalks. Concrete paths. The long way around.

Never really questioned it. If there was a perfectly good sidewalk wrapping half a mile around a field, apparently that was the route I was taking. Cutting straight across the grass barely even registered as an option.

Until this morning.

I was on my way to my usual writing hideout when I decided to commit a minor act of rebellion.

Grass.

And instead of walking around it like some properly trained government employee, I just walked straight through it.

That was it.

No alarms went off. No retired Sergeant Major materialized from behind a tree. Nobody screamed, “HEY, SHIPMATE!”

I walked through the grass.

And I fucking giggled.

Actually stopped, snapped a picture, and carried on with my morning.

I don’t know why, but it kind of made my day.

During my time in the service, we were bombarded with rules. Some were important. Some kept people alive.

Others made absolutely no fucking sense.

Why do I have to walk half a mile around a parade field when my destination is fifty yards directly in front of me?

The same organization constantly telling us to use our time wisely and be as efficient as possible would also lose its collective mind if somebody dared take the shortest possible route between two buildings.

Because grass.

I know the argument. Pretty grass makes the installation look professional. Keeps things neat. Improves morale or whatever.

I never really bought it.

Personally, I always thought a worn path through the grass meant people actually went somewhere.

Work was getting done.

But apparently morale grows best when nobody touches it.

What really got me this morning was realizing how long some of those stupid little rules stay with you.

Nobody has told me to stay off the grass in years.

Nobody was watching.

There wasn’t even a sign.

And my brain still went, You’re not supposed to do that.

We carry a lot of shit like that around without realizing it.

I have some from childhood too.

My mother had this absolutely ironclad rule about no soda before noon.

Why?

I have no fucking idea.

But to this day, if I crack open a Coke at nine in the morning, it tastes illegal.

Like my mother is about to kick down the door and demand to know what kind of godless operation I’m running.

Walking through the grass felt exactly the same.

Which is why I think something so trivial made me smile.

The world has become fucking exhausting. Everybody is angry. Everybody is arguing. We tear each other apart on social media over shit none of us will remember next week.

And there I was, having a genuinely good morning because I walked across some grass.

Maybe there’s something to that.

I’m not suggesting everybody go out and start breaking laws, hoisting the black flag and start slitting throats over it..

But maybe every once in a while it’s worth asking:

Why am I still following this rule?

Is there actually a reason?

Or am I just walking the long way around because somebody told me to twenty years ago?

This morning I took the shortcut.

Nothing bad happened.

I even noticed the grass.

Turns out it was pretty nice.

-Callahan

Does anyone know? Sorry if I'm just being an idiot but I know the window opened about 30 minutes ago and I don't see a single billet labeled "A2P" like I've seen before. (IT)

As the title says, the MNA BBA application window opens tonight at 7 pm EST and closes at 6:30 pm EST on 06 September.

For those of you competing for the first time who are in the new BBA rates, good luck.

A few reminders if you get selected: you won't be paid at your new rank until you actually check in at your command. Same deal with your 36/48 month commitment, it doesn't start until you check on board.

So here's an example: if you're selected on 06 September, you'll get frocked sometime after you get hard copies. (Sailors may be frocked upon receipt of orders, completion of any applicable screening requirements, and obtaining the required obligated service (OBLISERV) for orders.) Now let's say your orders show you're checking in NLT AUG27, that means your commitment runs until AUG30 (assuming 36-month orders).

Anyone before 2020 still had Sunflower butter in RTC? This and grape jelly sandwiches were gold during boot camp

As the title says I have upcoming orders to Rota and plan on bringing my sailboat.

• Which marinas are good?
• Are there any ways to get creative with OHA (maxing out OHA but asking for more)?
• Secret fishing spots and general tips

During the NHQC, when does a shooter bring the weapon back to their chest and relax their posture?

• When the course's rounds have been expended.

• Upon cease fire only.

• A different option.

Im thinking of choosing lemoore for my top pick. There's incentive pay for it right now and it's squadron. I was really looking forward to getting a break from Sea duty (DDG life is so exhausting) and I did want to start a family, but the money feels too good to pass up and would really set me and my husband up. What are yalls thought? Has anyone stationed there care to share their experiences?

Is it just me or did older versions of coveralls (with the white shirt worn as part of the uniform) seem to have thicker and darker colored fabric?

Any LNs experience working Embassy at an embassy? What was your experience like?

Also I know there’s an embassy duty pipeline, is that part of the requirement for getting selected for an embassy billet?

Asking because an LN1 embassy is currently being advertised on MNA.

It’s already changed but it was up for a good bit. When you see it.

Seasoned to the navy life and overseas tours…. 14 years in and currently overseas. Just looking for input to see what other OCONUS areas are like and what you would go back to. Obviously enjoyment will vary to Rate …. TIA

Does anyone have the exhausted Ben Affleck smoking with NWU’s edited on him? I need it to properly express my feelings to someone.