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Post by Gaidin on Jun 20, 2014 20:14:44 GMT -5
Heck I'd go back to Ft. Sill if they wanted me to.
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Post by cougarfan on Jun 20, 2014 20:15:05 GMT -5
There are three types of training for judges. New judge training. It used to be held in and around Falls Church, Alexander and DC. Then they started having it in Baltimore. Don't know where it will be held this year. Falls Church
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Post by Ace Midnight on Jun 21, 2014 6:48:53 GMT -5
Remember, the first word in "field artillery" is "field".
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Post by hamster on Jun 21, 2014 7:08:05 GMT -5
When I did my initial four weeks of training, in 2012, I was in Falls Church. My supplemental training the next year was in Crystal City, near the Pentagon. Nobody asked about the night shift during training, though. You know, the group of ALJs who were trained from 6:00pm to 6:00am, before our group would arrive for the day. Maybe that's what's planned this year?
Just kidding about the night shift. But our initial training was in FC.
Still, a night shift with a different cadre of instructors isn't such a bad idea, eh? Maybe Funky's a night owl. That would be a win-win.
Best, Hamster
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Post by moopigsdad on Jun 21, 2014 7:12:58 GMT -5
Hamster, I don't think funky sleeps. He is like a machine going 24 hours a day seven days a week. ODAR will be sorry if they pass up on him. Funky will be holding hearings at night for those used to the third shift at work.
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Post by gary on Jun 21, 2014 8:22:55 GMT -5
Remember, the first word in "field artillery" is "field". I hope the third word isn't "oops!"
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Post by bartleby on Jun 21, 2014 8:51:01 GMT -5
Gaidin, but, the question is, do you want it bad enough to go to Ft. Polk??
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Post by Gaidin on Jun 21, 2014 10:10:33 GMT -5
Heck I'd go back to Ft. Sill if they wanted me to. Let's not get crazy with it. Well I didn't agree to go back to Ft. Irwin.
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Post by Gaidin on Jun 21, 2014 10:14:32 GMT -5
Gaidin, but, the question is, do you want it bad enough to go to Ft. Polk?? I never had the pleasure of Ft. Polk but honestly I want this job bad enough that I would take the training just about anywhere.
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Post by Ace Midnight on Jun 21, 2014 11:11:10 GMT -5
Gaidin, but, the question is, do you want it bad enough to go to Ft. Polk?? Fort Polk. Good times, good times. We had our final training and mission rehearsal exercise for Kosovo there in 2003.
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Post by alj on Jun 21, 2014 12:55:27 GMT -5
Gaidin, but, the question is, do you want it bad enough to go to Ft. Polk?? Fort Polk. Good times, good times. Must have changed a whole bunch since I was there.
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Post by futuressaalj on Jun 21, 2014 13:06:48 GMT -5
Fort Polk. Good times, good times. Must have changed a whole bunch since I was there. Agreed, if the US has a smelly armpit, Fort Polk is it!
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Post by funkyodar on Jun 21, 2014 13:25:57 GMT -5
Must have changed a whole bunch since I was there. Agreed, if the US has a smelly armpit, Fort Polk is it! Many many moons ago I asked my father why he volunteered for a second tour in Viet Nam. He said it was because the other option was to go back to Polk.
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Post by Missundaztood on Jun 21, 2014 13:40:09 GMT -5
You have a pretty good idea when the big selling points of Ft. Polk (and some of those other gems) are "great hunting and great fishing" and nothing else. NO thanks, that's Crapland to me.
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Post by hamster on Jun 21, 2014 14:15:55 GMT -5
I was at Fort Sill for a few days once, passing through on a TDY. I had a hideous time there. Why? Because I was in the Air Force. As such, I was used to the finer things--at least the basics. Billeting at Fort Sill lacked TV remote controls!!!!! Can you imagine that? How primitive! I guessed at the time there were no remotes because the primary customers there found the technology so overwhelming. All those different buttons! I was so happy to get back to my Air Force base after a few days and, of course, its golf course and big BX, and the nice carpeting, intact paint, and coffee maker in our air conditioned JAG office. I just don't know how you Soldiers did it. I do, however, have a treasured memento of that visit. I have a challenge coin from one of my best friends, who was the commander, 1st battalion, 76th field artillery at the time. He always told me that you had to be good at math to calculate the trajectory of the shells in indirect fire. Or something like that--my mind was probably on golfing.... Aim High, Hamster
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Post by Missundaztood on Jun 21, 2014 16:00:10 GMT -5
I was at Fort Sill for a few days once, passing through on a TDY. I had a hideous time there. Why? Because I was in the Air Force. As such, I was used to the finer things--at least the basics. Billeting at Fort Sill lacked TV remote controls!!!!! Can you imagine that? How primitive! I guessed at the time there were no remotes because the primary customers there found the technology so overwhelming. All those different buttons! I was so happy to get back to my Air Force base after a few days and, of course, its golf course and big BX, and the nice carpeting, intact paint, and coffee maker in our air conditioned JAG office. I just don't know how you Soldiers did it. Pretty sure that's why the nickname, "The Chair Force," came about.
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