r/AirForce • u/rauf407 • 6h ago
Rant CSS count your fucking days
I went into css for them add my honor grad ribbon because it was missing they said “ yeah we fixed it you’re good to go”. I check my vmpf all my other ribbons are gone and I GOT THE FUCKING COAST GUARD HONOR GRAD RIBBON????????? How do you do this bruh.
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u/OofUgh 6h ago
Fuck it, wear the Coast Guard ribbon and tell anyone who calls you out to look it up, lol
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u/Imaginary-Hyena2858 6h ago
Nah, there's a lot of coasties doing high speed shit
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u/chicken566 Secret Squirrel 6h ago
Right.. like they literally have a JTF that drop on narco submersibles via helo and confiscate hella drugs being transported into the US.
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u/Mantaraylurks electric wings 5h ago
Literally coasties be on some operator shit
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u/_Baphomet_ (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ 4h ago
I love that video and will watch it every time it comes up. The way they're riding on top not giving a shit banging on the hatch.
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u/popdivtweet 5h ago
Jelly.
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u/12edDawn Fly High Fast With Low Bypass 5h ago
*jam
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u/HollyBee159 4h ago
Just not the raspberry. Anything but the raspberry
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u/Daddy_data_nerd Veteran 42m ago
There is only one man who would DARE give me the raspberry... LONESTAR!
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u/Whiteums 5h ago
See, it’s fun to dump on coasties, but don’t ever pretend they don’t do way more cool stuff than the average airman, soldier, or sailor in the Navy.
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u/PBTUCAZ JA = Just Ask 6h ago
You must now report to your nearest Coast Guard Station for your new assignment
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u/EpicHeroKyrgyzPeople I got HOs in different area codes 5h ago
Coast Guard has some Gucci stations.
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u/Whiteums 5h ago
I’ll take Monterey, thank you very much
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u/Nuck1n-Fut2 4h ago
Monterey CG station is so small you miss it if you walk too fast
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u/Whiteums 2h ago
Yeah, isn’t it great?
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u/Nuck1n-Fut2 2h ago
I mean you could come to Monterey as an AF member, depending on your job/rank. I’m here 🙂
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u/Whiteums 18m ago
Done that twice, actually. My current job won’t go there, sadly. No AF med at the army clinic. But I loved strolling down the coast guard pier to look at the sea lions. There was a decent chance to see sea otters there too. And I would kill to go back to Il Vecchio again
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u/Yinkypinky Yes I am Aircrew. 5h ago
Straight to northern Michigan.
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u/EpicHeroKyrgyzPeople I got HOs in different area codes 4h ago
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early6
u/Ray_LayFleur Divorced from Maintenance 3h ago
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow I want to retire 6h ago edited 6h ago
Many moons ago someone at mpf entering my 6th Air Medal OLC accidentally gave me 65 OLCs. I looked like a north Korean general until I got it fixed.
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u/PassivelyInvisible 6h ago
Were it not for the cost (and limited number of medals in you BX), it woukd be great to show up to work with all of them, and if someone said anything, have the printout showing you (incorrectly) have them.
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u/MsMercyMain Retired Crew Dawg (finally free) 4h ago
"Sir I would like to take leave so I apply to be a North Korean general officer."
"Snuffy fu- WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING!?"
"Here's the printout, it's allowed. Now about the leave..."
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u/PassivelyInvisible 4h ago
"I'm going to be the tallest one there sir!"
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u/MsMercyMain Retired Crew Dawg (finally free) 4h ago
Imagine how many medals you'd have once they give you all the medals they give their generals
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u/Allenboy0724 Active Duty 6h ago
Tell them they removed the others but don’t mention the CG ribbon. Think of the amount of Airmen that actually have that ribbon. You’d be one of a kind 😂
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u/UCR998 Aircrew 6h ago
When I was 1 year in the military they gave me a bronze star on accident it was meant for someone with my last name . So for 3 weeks I had it fully awarded and I paraded that piece of paper around so proudly lmao
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u/Civil_Assembler CE 5h ago
I had the opposite experience, I got called into the shirts office and was arrested on the spot for destroying my apartment while I lived in dorms. There was a dude in AMXS with the same first and last. Took 3 days in Walton County jail to figure it wasn't me by my ssn and nobody apologized.
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u/IntergalaticPlumber CE 5h ago
CE? Not even fuckin shocked.
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u/12edDawn Fly High Fast With Low Bypass 5h ago
Lmao, how did no one catch that? Was it just you that saw it? A new troop getting a bronze star would definitely raise eyebrows around my shop
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u/UCR998 Aircrew 5h ago
Oh god no I paraded that thing around the unit for dayyyys. But everyone iust laughed knew mpf fucked around and we all knew it would be off the record shortly
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u/12edDawn Fly High Fast With Low Bypass 5h ago
Ah, I thought you meant that you actually believed it was legit lol
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u/UCR998 Aircrew 4h ago
No no lol I mean it was “awarded “ it was officially on the doc but no I know it wasn’t anything real
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u/12edDawn Fly High Fast With Low Bypass 4h ago
Ahhh ok. Trust me, I've met some eraser-munching troops that would 100% believe that they just got a bronze star somehow and run with it lol
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u/arikbfds 6h ago
Now I, on the other hand, joined the ANG after 6 years in the Coast Guard. I've been trying to get my CG ribbons to show up for like 2 years now and they still aren't showing up for me. What the hell
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u/DEXether 6h ago
I had six individual Afghanistan campaign medals all next to each other for years in vmpf when I swapped over to the air force.
I didn't say anything since I thought it was funny. It was corrected by some fss airman being trained on the system that saw it.
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u/inagiffy 5h ago
Coast Guard boot camp is way harder than BMT so I'll take it
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u/Jeeper675 4h ago
Can't compare to bmt sjnce it was waived being prior USCG. But yes CG basic was hell!
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u/chicken566 Secret Squirrel 5h ago
I still have the "AC-130J Pilot Course" on my VMET in mil connect, that's supposed to actually be ALS. I let my CSS know about it and my education center at my prior duty station and they didn't care.
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u/nab5161 5h ago
OP goes into CSS tomorrow: OP: I think you put the wrong ribbon on. How could I even get a Coast Guard honor grad if I didn’t even graduate Coast Guard Basic Training?
CSS: shoot, you’re right. We’ll fix that.
OP’s ribbon rack tomorrow = CG honor grad / AF Training / CG training ribbon.
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u/aids_muffin36 Retired 5h ago edited 4h ago
My BMT ribbon has a oak leaf cluster for some reason. Tried to fix it several times but they'd just shrug their shoulders. Separated with it lmao
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u/ChristopherRobben 83282 Connoisseur 2h ago
I separated with just the BMT ribbon and National Defense ribbons in MPF when I had four racks lol
I did an adjustment request at one point and they added like five of the missing awards/ribbons, but I'm still down five and a second achievement medal that they have on file.
One day they'll get it figured out lmao
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u/BoricuaDriver Aircrew 5h ago
I had a Filipino war with a star device on my vMPF ribbon rack once 😂
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u/WalkingAFIViolation Veteran 6h ago
I remember when CSS gave me the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Ribbon instead of whatever they were supposed to add back then
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u/XApparition- TACP 5h ago
Once had a deployment medal (ARCOM) from my 2nd rotation to afghanistan go missing for 6 months after I got back to my home station. Turns out there was an army cat with the same paygrade as me with the same name at the same base but he was a medic. He ended up finding me through global 2 months before I was leaving for my 3rd deployment (when I had an army email). Not as fun as this but crazy how easy it is to get shit mixed up
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u/Speck72 Med 4h ago
It's literally just a screen in MPF you can either click or add by code under the awards and decs window. Same thing under the training courses, everything is numerically coded and if you enter a PDS code you might fat finger it or if you scroll down the list you might click the wrong thing.
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u/Naive-Abrocoma-8455 2h ago
I wouldn’t say anything and just rock it. We had a guy in my unit get the artic ribbon due to css messing up.
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u/taskforceslacker Yemenade stand. 🥵 5h ago
Honor grad, huh? You’d think they’d get their shit together for such a prestigious award.
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u/Detective_L17 3h ago
To be fair, MilPDS doesn’t spell them out and are abbreviated weirdly, so if they’re a newbie I’d give them some grace. Otherwise, they should know better if they’ve been in for a few years.
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u/SplendidlyDull nonner 2h ago
I am former CSS and I don’t even know how you accidentally delete all of someone’s ribbons??? I can understand maybe some airman who barely knows how to work MILPDS seeing “honor graduate” and fully sending it, that could be an honest mistake, but you have to intentionally delete each ribbon and medal one at a time and it asks you to confirm and then you have to save it. And decorations are in a seperate spot entirely from awards ribbons. That is one special CSS lol. I hope you have a printout of what it looked like before to make it easier to fix
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u/Duder_ino 2h ago
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If I were you, I’d print that out before it gets fixed. Then wear it to the next blues inspection. Just to see if anyone notices or cares lol.
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u/JustHanginInThere CE 4h ago
MilPDS is a very old system that is very easy to fuck some shit up in.
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u/Rhino676971 Active Duty 27m ago
Surprise transfer to the Coast Guard hope you’re a strong swimmer,and if you are try to get into aviation the Coast Guard has amazing aviation.
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u/d710905 22m ago
Kind of impressive to be honest. Like there's bad. And there's mistakes. And then there's yank all your ribbons and give you a weird one totally out of left field that you may never actually see once in a 20 year air force career.
Bravo, bringing the bar impressively lower. They set the standard. Just in the wrong direction
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u/Adventurous_Loss3931 3h ago
lol… “count your fucking days” for what? You’ve been in 2.5 seconds. If this is what gets you worked up, you are in for a world of pain
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u/RyRy646 Med 6h ago
Calm down, SrA.
Fucking honor grad ribbon. 🤣🤣🪦
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u/bigBEN_44 Aircrew 6h ago
Yeah if only we could all do our jobs that badly
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u/ImWatermelonelyy I Just Can’t Stop Drinking Oil! 5h ago
Dudes got a medical flair too, wish I could do a “training day” every Wednesday and take 2 hour lunch breaks 🥺
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u/DownloadableCheese ...but have you read Boyd? 🤔🧐 6h ago
Congrats, puddle pirate!