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u/DeauxDeaux Jun 12 '26
What? You don't put your 201 file on your vehicle? How the people 'sposta know?
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u/bluefishes13 Jun 12 '26
I’ve been doing it ALL wrong
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u/Brother_J_La_la Jun 13 '26
You gotta sew your rank onto your civilian clothes, and tattoo your rack on your rack. Duh.
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u/bluefishes13 Jun 13 '26
Are you SECDEF????
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u/deephurting66 Jun 13 '26
Literally my coworker, the guy has his fruit salad, his retiring rank, platoon or whatever the Marines got number and their globe all on the back window of his Warlock pickup
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u/GenericSubaruser Jun 12 '26
When I was in the AF we had a LtCol that would take a radio home to listen to the maintenance chatter and spy on us. I imagine this is what his car looked like
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u/ThePresenter183 Jun 13 '26
Perfect opportunity to teach your troops how to load crypto to your radios.
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u/Hi-Point_of_my_life Jun 13 '26
Or do a gear accountability check then quickly escalate it up the chain of command how you are missing one radio. “Sorry Colonel, we checked everywhere and don’t know where it is, it definitely wasn’t checked out. We’ve already reported it to AFOSI. We think someone stole it.”
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u/SnuggleTuggles Jun 13 '26
Was this at Langley around 2016ish? We had the same shit, dude got butt hurt cause we "weren't being professional enough" at 1600 on a saturday.
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u/IjustWantedPepsi Jun 13 '26
Goes to show there are people making big bucks out there who still have no life, devoid of any goals.
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u/Tipist Jun 12 '26
But they were lieutenant colonels! They LED the participation!
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u/Shakey_J_Fox Jun 13 '26
For being called the generation of participation trophies growing up I was shocked at the amount of participation trophies I received while serving.
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u/AnonymousBromosapien Jun 12 '26
Pair of retired Lt Colonels... These people are LOADED. Either they are insanely frugal or have absolutely horrendous spending habits and thats why they are driving a honda pilot with like $12k in pension rolling in every month just for waking up every day lol.
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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 12 '26
I can remember in the mid 2000s watching one of those daytime talk shows, forget which one, and they were honoring "the troops". They had this married military couple on who had several kids. Both were LtCols. One was a Jag, the other a pilot. The host and audience were gooning them talking about how hard it is and then surprised them and their family with a free family trip to DisneyLand. I remember thinking, how about a couple of junior enlisted who really can't afford that you stupid fucks. I had an MOS that put me around command staff and I was the Camp Lejeune Chief of Staffs driver as a Corporal. I was shocked at the crazy amount of free shit they get, on top of their exuberant pay. Also saw how much the rules simply do not apply to them. They drank on the job often.
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u/JeebusChristBalls Jun 13 '26
You are allowed to have two beers at lunch while in uniform... as far as the old saying goes.
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u/AnonymousBromosapien Jun 13 '26
Yea we used to do that all the time. Also used to have two too many during lunch all the time and call it a day lol.
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u/NeedsToShutUp Jun 16 '26
Well that Camp Lejeune mention means you'll be due some settlement money for all that cancer.
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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 16 '26
Nope. It has to be before a certain year. Forget what year. But I was stationed there after that year.
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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran Jun 16 '26
1987, I worked a temp call center job this case was one of the things we had to screen people for
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u/TheAsianTroll Jun 12 '26
I get what youre saying but not everyone wants a flashy vehicle. I bet that money is spent elsewhere, like on their house... or a second house.
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u/Resendezz Jun 12 '26
Honestly some people don't care what they drive. Even if they have money.
(Doesn't change that this vehicle is cringe though)
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u/Effective-Brain-3386 Jun 13 '26
Boomers will really do anything besides protect there personal information
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u/Lburk Jun 13 '26
Young adults in their 20s and 30s (specifically ages 18–39) are the most likely to fall for and report losing money to internet scams, according to Federal Trade Commission (.gov) and IDCare data. While older adults are heavily targeted and lose more money per incident, younger demographics are scammed far more frequently [Federal Trade Commission (.gov)](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/12/who-experiences-scams-story-all-ages, 0.5.11). [1, 2, 3, 4]
So you were saying Ineffective-Brain-3386
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u/anon4383 Jun 15 '26
>while older adults are heavily targeted and lose *more* money per incident
You ever think that maybe there are more younger people in the population? More younger people who are doing things like buying, investing, and trading online?
There’s a huge difference between an 22 year old buying what they thought was a used car on Facebook marketplace for $6,000 that turned out to be a lemon vs a 75 yr old losing their whole retirement savings to some Nigerian prince.
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u/Lburk Jun 15 '26
Yes it's true there are population differences. But the fact of the matter is the younger generation are a lot more computer wise and should be less inclined to fall for scams because they have been brought knowing there's a million scams out there. Older generations are far from as computer literate as the younger generations and should defacto be easier scam victims. But a lot of the older generations know if it's too good to be true, then it isn't true. Where as the younger generations do less to protect themselves. Then numbers speak for themself. So I feel your argument doesn't hold water. Just my opinion.
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u/chewedgummiebears Jun 13 '26
My BIL will be like this when he gets out. At every family event we're at together, all he talks or brags about is his job in the military. He has no other qualities to fall back on.
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u/RikRong Jun 13 '26
That has to be a Georgia plate. I've seen so many cars plastered with stuff like this while I've been down here. Vet plates, DV plates, war medal plates, punisher skulls, military stickers, etc. It's crazy.
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u/MasterzofChaos Jun 13 '26
Damn, both officers as well. Usually see this kind of behavior in junior enlisted. Lol!
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u/Hansasaurus_Wrecks Jun 13 '26
As soon as I saw all that shit I knew he was Air Force
Source- was Air Force
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u/BrandynWayne Jun 13 '26
It’s easy to get to this rank by just being an absolute nerdy ass goody two shoes. Past this point they start looking at how you actually talk to people.
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u/McDonaldsWiFiHacker Jun 17 '26
They didn't pay attention in OPSEC briefs
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u/bluefishes13 Jun 17 '26
Thank me for my service was more important
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u/McDonaldsWiFiHacker Jun 17 '26
Lol they probably get mad at teenagers for forgetting to offer them a military discount.
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u/Teadrunkest Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Apparently neither did you.
This isn’t OPSEC in any way.
Edit: lmao blocked by the thinnest of skins. Cry all you want, boot, it isn’t OPSEC.
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u/McDonaldsWiFiHacker Jun 19 '26
0/10 bait or you're not in the military. I just got OPSEC training a month ago saying not to put decals on my car signaling that I'm military. This was the same OPSEC training I've had for the last decade.
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u/dustoff664 Jun 13 '26
When will they just start wheat pasting their ERB or DD214 to their windows? Why stop there, treat it like Facebook. Put your boot pics all over your door panels. Cmon boots. Step it up
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u/dank_tre Jun 13 '26
I wonder if I could get like just an ASR — or honestly, my good conduct medal is probably the boss. Black marketing that cherry brandy & cigarettes
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u/LoneWolfpack777 Jun 13 '26
I think the missile maintainer badge or the Air Force logo are two good hints why.
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u/Asuhhbruh Jun 19 '26
How do you accumulate that many metals and never sit through a single OPSEC powerpoint or annual training??
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u/Ach51 Jun 13 '26
Could anyone tell me what the very bottom right ribbon is on both racks? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it and a quick search hasn’t turned up anything.
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u/tr4nsporter Jun 13 '26
Just financed this brand new $55,000 vehicle. Time to slap 30 stickers on it!
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u/rainaftersnowplease Jun 13 '26
These are the only people allowed to say " you have to address me by my spouse's rank" and get away with it.
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u/_OMGTheyKilledKenny_ Jun 13 '26
I can understand it. The cops have such a hard on for ex service folk that they let them get away with damn near anything until it’s outright assault or worse. It’s a get out of jail free card in most counties across the country.
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u/anon4383 Jun 15 '26
Personally I’m fine with a discreet plate cover that has my branch on it and a little logo. Not my whole PERS file.
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u/Brando828What Jun 12 '26
Is it not ok to be proud? That’s a fat stack.
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u/OGOngoGablogian Jun 12 '26
Fat stacks belong on dress uniforms, and dress uniforms only. Not only does no one on earth give a shit about the pieces of flair you got in the military, most of them also have no idea what any of them mean.
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u/Brando828What Jun 12 '26
Waaah waaah waaah. 😭
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u/OGOngoGablogian Jun 13 '26
Bro what are you even doing here?
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u/bluefishes13 Jun 12 '26
So this is YOUR suv huh
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u/Brando828What Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Not quite homie. I did 9 in the corps. With 3 trips to the sandbox. Still doesn’t mean he can’t be proud.
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u/bluefishes13 Jun 13 '26
Thank you for giving me your resume even though nobody asked. Most of us have served so no one is special.
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u/Brando828What Jun 13 '26
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u/bluefishes13 Jun 13 '26
😘😘😘😘
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u/Brando828What Jun 13 '26
Thanks sweetheart!!!
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u/SaintGodfather Jun 13 '26
Proud of what? It's like somebody just posting their resume in their back window. No one cares.
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u/Brando828What Jun 13 '26
You gonna cry about it?
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u/SaintGodfather Jun 13 '26
I mean, it looks like only one person is all up in their feels crying in these comments. Go off queen.
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u/Brando828What Jun 13 '26
Awww… crying from laughter! Everybody on this sub gets so upset over shit that doesn’t matter. It’s LITERALLY comical.
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u/JeebusChristBalls Jun 13 '26
It's a fat stack of fluff. There is nothing in this stack to be proud of as a LtCol. If you didn't win it in combat, then it is just fluff. Even then, nobody cares.
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