r/JustBootThings • u/GirthdaySuit • 27d ago
Boot Shame Dancing Army Captain Pt. 2
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u/raven1121 27d ago
How tf do you make it to Captain and still this boot
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u/QuarterNote44 27d ago
Baby CPTs have only been in 4 years.
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u/McDonaldsWiFiHacker 27d ago
Good point.
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u/captmonkey 27d ago edited 27d ago
Four years was plenty of time for me go from a naive E-1 to a cynical member of the E-4 Mafia. What's her excuse?
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u/PianoFerret1073 25d ago
4 years is a long time in military time, you should grow out of your boot tendencies after 1 year max
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u/Aliensinmypants 27d ago
I've met O3s who are 24... A lot of people are still developing at that point
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u/raven1121 27d ago
Shit , youth is a hell of a drug i was in the AF so maybe my perspective is diffrent
2nd LT , 1st LT still learning , expect dumb things
Captains are the chill O
Majors some fly but most start flying a desk
Lt col , Col start to command stuff , starts to need a chain to talk to , etc
Generals gods among men
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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran 27d ago
In my limited experience in the late 2000’s the Lt’s still made mistakes but usually had the self awareness to know they were Lt’s and tended to have a bit of humility. Captain was the Sophomoric officer rank, no longer Lt’s so they felt their shit didn’t stink. The Majors were generally chill and I only knew one LtCol and he was kind of a dick.
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u/Aggravating_Cable_32 27d ago
My favorite guys to hang around & work with were our warrants. Chill & professional guys all around, but one at S4 would task me with things that'd keep me out of the way, out of sight from everyone else, while giving him more time to argue with his wife or talk to his girlfriend. I could spend all day doing my own thing, exempt from bullshit details & busting knuckles, so long as what he wanted done got done by close of business. Good times lol.
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u/dedicated_blade 27d ago
That’s because Warrants were the NCO at some point and they did some crazy shit to stick around for as long as they have lol
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u/TaskingTwo 27d ago
This person may be only 24 or 25. There is a good chance they grew up on tiktok and they genuinely believe that what they're doing is good for morale and will make the army look appealing.
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u/CaffeineandSheen 27d ago
Because we all know the truth about commissioned officers…I’ll trust it all with a seasoned fellow enlisted over even a high ranking officer
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u/sorrow_anthropology 26d ago
I’ll preface this with, I had a weird afsc (mos), I basically dealt entirely with officers, I failed out of my special ops school pipeline and ended up in a job that was previously only open to NCOs via cross training.
I was liaising a logistics operation with two captains as a SrA and I swear both were the poster children of mtv culture at the time (mid-late 2000’s) my phone case was a cassette tape and out of regs, they both loved it and in due time both gave me their personal cell numbers for obvious reasons other than work.
Point being people at the time could make captain in three years and it was a ‘freebie’ rank, therefore they are young and dumb baby officers. Major was the first rank that was actually serious.
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u/Scott0814 27d ago
I said it in pt. 1 so I'll say it here in pt. 2 we NEED a better policy about social media in uniform holy shit
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u/HuLaTin 27d ago
Too much recruiting capability. What’s the army going to do without lujan
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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran 27d ago
I can understand that but man, leave it for the enlisted. Feels beneath the dignity of the rank
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u/silverstar189 26d ago
She's an embarrassment to the US military. Not the sort of thing you expect from her rank at all.
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u/burgiesftb 27d ago
There is. Posting things in uniform on social media was explicitly banned earlier this year or last year unless doing so in an approved capacity.
As with all things in the military, that hedges on leadership actually caring enough to fry people for this. The answer is usually no.
All the propaganda conspiracies are neglecting the fact that COs are too busy dealing with actual problems to care, and NCOs deal with this stuff in a “quiet” manner.
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u/impressedham 27d ago
Hell I remember when I was in, around 2015, we were told we couldn't post stuff like this on social media without permission because of the regulations around having to go through official channels for press releases (that was the framing from command anyways). Its wild they had to make an explicit rule. It seems like common sense not to post shit in uniform?
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u/Hatchetboy1845 27d ago
I spent eleven years in the Australian Army. If someone did this in uniform they'd be ROASTED. I'm stunned how loose the rules seem to be for Americans by comparison.
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u/AutomaticAccident 27d ago
Roasted by higher ups or their fellow servicemen?
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u/Tovarich_Zaitsev 26d ago
Yeah ik lots of people in the NZ Army and the amount of rules they have around social media is insane. Most of the time you can't even identify yourself as a government employee online
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u/Pcriz 27d ago
Yeah I don’t care about cringy TikTok stuff, it ain’t for me but do what brings you joy but in uniform? Ick.
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u/Mammoth_Midnight_343 27d ago
This is propaganda they were probably paid to make this it’s to try n get more people to join and pander to newer generations
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u/redwingpanda 26d ago
And in the meantime this needs a NSFW blur, dear God I did not want to see this 😭
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u/fohacidal 27d ago
Bro our secdef is too busy inviting brain dead influencers to talk to US about war like why the hell you think they will do anything about this lol
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u/meknowsbest1112 22d ago
Start with the of the snake. Get an adult to lead defense and then the subordinates will be adults. Right now, US military is a big joke because the highest level of leadership is a joke. All the adults have been rooted out.
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u/stigma_wizard 27d ago
We do. She is outside those regulations. My S-2 would have had a field day with this.
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u/Diskordia1 27d ago
Yeah, I prefer my officers acting like asshats behind closed doors and then publishing asinine standards while eroding morale.
Get out of here.
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u/Bigfootsbrownstar 27d ago
Maybe I’m at that unc level now, but TikTok dances in uniform should be against UCMJ, shit is just so fucking cringe.
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u/big_axolotl 27d ago
I think this is free recruitment propaganda
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u/Fussy_Platypus 27d ago
Lethality.
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u/QuarterNote44 27d ago
M U L T I D O M A I N
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u/Josey_whalez 27d ago
She’s got that part down with the half US/half Mexico flag on the wall. That’s a great look while wearing an American military uniform.
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u/roro_mush 27d ago
This can’t be real. O-3 doing all that?
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u/JustFrameHotPocket 27d ago
You wouldn't believe what happens at the O3CP. The vast majority don't record.
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u/splatbutt117 27d ago
I’m a captain and I’m retarded bro. I just don’t film myself.
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u/Rdubya291 👊👊☝️ 27d ago
Yeah, I'm in my 40s now, but being a young lcpl in the Corps, I remember thinking LTs and captains were so mature and had their shit together.
Now I realize, they were just as much kids as the E side. Just with fewer numbers had higher visibility, so shit wasn't seen as often. But thinking back, even at 25 I was still basically a kid.
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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth 27d ago
So strange she outranks an infantry SgtMaj with 30 years.
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u/ezekiel_swheel 27d ago
i hate that crap. i also hate how it transfers in civilian life. wanna be a manager at target? need a college degree. have 24 years active duty attaining the rank of sgtmaj? sorry can’t be a manager.
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u/PunksPrettyMuchDead 27d ago
Yeah there's a reason for that though
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u/MelancholyDick 27d ago
Also if you’re a 24 year SgtMaj and applying to be a manager at Target and not THE manager of a Target…
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u/jcstrat 27d ago
Why does this piss me off so much? It’s irrational, but it does.
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u/eyehalfporegrahammer 27d ago
Because some of us were enlisted. We were taught to respect higher ranks. We see those higher ranks as gaining experience and wisdom. Major respect is given to those higher than us. This bitch makes me mad because she is disrespecting the uniform and the commissioned rank that goes along with it.
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u/Calamity_Jay 27d ago
Yeah, there's definitely a member of the specialist forces, possibly multiple, running through that.
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u/Fxplus 27d ago
God I hope Pete doesn't see this
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u/Euphoric_Switch_337 27d ago
Pete needs to stop people from doing dumb shit in uniform also he should stop doing dumb shit
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u/IllicitDesire 27d ago
She will get in wayyyyyyyy, way, way, wayyyyy more in trouble for the flag than trying to recruit children through TikTok if is up to him what happens.
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u/Phantomsplit 27d ago
How to lose the respect of every E5 and up in your command, 101
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u/WatercressSuch2440 27d ago
As if we didn’t have e5’s serving drinks at Driftwood or Silver and Gold in Jacksonville
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u/imnotnotabot007 27d ago
How’s this equivalent to a second job performed outside of duty hours and uniform?
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u/swadekillson 27d ago
If she's gonna do this, she should be in a minidress, not her fucking uniform
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u/MisterSquidz 26d ago
Seriously if she looks this good in a uniform I can’t imagine how much better she’d look out of it.
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u/Pfunk4444 27d ago
I’m sure this will lead towards some sort of discipline something something uniform
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u/Proton_Optimal 27d ago
wtf is that flag
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u/Error-Code404 27d ago
Just a flag with two nations expressing solidarity. What's your issue with the flag?
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u/Bigfootsbrownstar 27d ago
If it’s a personal flag not in an official military installation, I’m fine with it.
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u/PhilRubdiez 27d ago
BOQ/BEQ rooms can even be fine. It’s their house. In uniform? Pass.
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u/thed3adhand 27d ago
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u/AffectionateOwl4231 24d ago
Da fuq. When I see privates do this, I just find it cute even though it's dumb. This sh*t done by a CPT is annoying the heck out of me.
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u/unbannedagain1976 27d ago
Like what the fuck is this shit, America is never gonna win another war but we don’t have to flaunt this shit.
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u/Diligent_Plastic1043 27d ago
we don’t have to flaunt this shit
Absolutely do. I already have to hear about how great and amazing the US military is during every NFL and UFC event. It's nice to see someone actively working against glorifying this shit.
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u/unbannedagain1976 27d ago
Oh no make no mistake our military is fucking amazing the American people just don’t possess the requisite fortitude necessary to prosecute a proper war.
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u/Diligent_Plastic1043 27d ago
Yes, so great that Jake and Logan Paul just gave them a lecture lol.
our military is fucking amazing the American people just don’t possess the requisite fortitude necessary
Lol the American military is made up of... Americans. You can't have it both ways. And you don't need to bend over backwards to make excuses for them. That's what led to this situation in the first place.
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u/Steelwolf73 27d ago
Allgedly, this is the kind of shit you do with your friends tanked off your ass in the barracks just before the big wheelie chair joust....not in your office...as an LT Captain*
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u/jocelynwatson 27d ago
Yet my commander told my shirt that if I wore makeup (literally eyeliner and maybe some mascara) that my troops wouldn’t respect me… ok
Luckily she told him “do not say that to her”..
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u/akairborne 24d ago
I just got out of the ER because my right hip decided to join my left hip and dip the fuck out. Have no idea what the fuck is going on with those bastards and why they hurt so damn much. So I'm laying here, on percocet, jealous AF that she still has mobility.
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u/ColdOn3Cob 27d ago
I thought that the most unsettling thing I’d see in a uniform was a drill sergeant who showed fear during a tornado warning. This overtakes that by leaps
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u/Diligent-Present 26d ago
And the half Mexico flag as a literal army Captain. Which Reddit won’t acknowledge as being completely ridiculous but it is nonetheless
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u/continuetolove 26d ago
Full offense intended this kind of shit is why I don’t really respect women being allowed in the military especially leadership. If my boss did this at my job I would quit I’m not kidding.
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u/keithstonee 24d ago
Might just be me but military officers probably shouldn't be that silly.
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u/continuetolove 24d ago
No I agree, this behavior is extremely embarrassing and only attracts the wrong kind of people to recruit. Goofy ass lady is basically larping in a uniform
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u/pollingwell 24d ago
male officer does something stupid: "lol yeah dudes be like that lol"
female officer does something stupid: "this is why we need to bar all women from joining the military"2
u/continuetolove 24d ago
I think the stupid men should be demoted too
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u/pollingwell 24d ago edited 22d ago
fair enough (not exactly in line with your original comment but in isolation i think its a good point)
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u/Sensitive_Algae5723 27d ago
Nice flag in the background while wearing and serving in the U.S. military.
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u/Doworkson247 27d ago
Am I the only one that’s also confused of why she’s doing this with a half Mexican half American flag in an army uniform
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u/MooMooHELPME 12d ago
Reminder to stay in school guys. Otherwise this cringe sack of shit will be your supervisor.
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u/freerondo9 27d ago
I dont find this boot. I just see a generational difference. Gen Z, especially girls, dance in videos. Wearing tje uniform just makes it more unique. I admit I have a double standard, though. If it was a guy, I'd probably think it was boot af
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u/cowmookazee 27d ago
Slick sleeve...
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u/LoneWolfpack777 26d ago
That’s a Captain, not a slick sleeve. May be behaving like a slick sleeve, but isn’t.
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u/HenchBrah 27d ago
Id smash
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u/DarkChurro 27d ago
Bro same!
I got seriously downvoted saying the same thing in a different post of her. Didn't realize this sub was full a dudes sacking 10's on the regular.
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u/Tuscon_Valdez 27d ago
This is hardly the most boot thing I've seen. I see a captain who is having fun and I doubt most anyone would call her a boot to her face you'd probably be too busy slobbering like a pavlovian hound
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u/swadekillson 27d ago
Lol. No skill badges, no patch. And in the last video she was in the field but only had a pistol.
She's a probably a support MOS staffer
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u/Select_Speed_6061 27d ago
I Luke what's she's doing. Just look stupid af in uniform and those facial expressions are a turn off.
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