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Off Topic / Re: Test how forgeted your eyes are by matching colors
« on: October 24, 2013, 03:38:27 PM »
I was too lazy to finish it all stuff was too long but the half I did was perfect :D
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Games / Re: Begging for Hearthstone beta key. plz giv me your key!!!! :^)
« on: October 24, 2013, 02:10:30 PM »
I got into beta only played it like 20 minutes and gave up. It's in beta for a reason it's HORRIBLY unbalanced and 90% using OP decks 10% lucky draw 0% skill. I watched a tournament and one of the finalist guys made like 20 MAJOR forget-ups and still won just because his deck was OP and he got really lucky top draws.
I've never played a card game before this so not sure if that's the whole point but I'd rather play a game that has some skill involved.
I've never played a card game before this so not sure if that's the whole point but I'd rather play a game that has some skill involved.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 23, 2013, 07:54:08 PM »I understand considering it, and stuff. I've considered the airforce and if it weren't for my eye issues I'd possibly still be considering it. but he seems to think that's definitely what he's going to do
You only have to have to have good eyes to be a pilot. As long as your eye-sight is correctable to 20/20 pretty much every other job is fine.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 23, 2013, 02:18:46 PM »Props, dude. I love your choice of field. Just don't get dishonorably discharged for smashing your keyboard when the nub next to you can't crack his codes.
I don't know why you think I have anger problems just because I always yell at you and threaten to kill you.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 23, 2013, 12:50:44 PM »But it's bad to be a Pvt. Grunt, isn't it?
Rank is universal, it does not affect your job or vice versa. Everyone starts out in basic training as an E1(except I believe people with a bachelor's degree or something of that effect start as E4). Also grunt is just a nickname for anyone in the army, like jarhead is marines.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 23, 2013, 11:51:37 AM »Cryptological network specialist = No war involved.
You just sit in a tech room with those 'hardbook' laptops.
Most likely true but in the marines and army they are more likely to issue an in-lieu order to you, which means they will send you to combat because they are short actual infantry. All military branches can do this too so it's just something you have to be aware of. You can't go into the military with the idea that you definitely will never see combat.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 23, 2013, 11:36:27 AM »oooOooo careful with that dude. do not get into the foreign language field in crypto
I think what you're thinking of is the crypto field in the Navy, which was actually what I originally was going in for when my medical waiver was DQed. Crypto is what they call the cryptology field in the navy. They call what I'm going for Cytech.
The only doubts I have about my field is it is new and advanced so it is what they call top heavy, meaning it has an abundance of high ranking officers. The military works kind of the opposite of civilian job systems in that the easier jobs like infantry actually pay more because they are extremely easy to move up ranks in, while the more advanced jobs usually make less because they are harder to rank up in. Like my recruiter was infantry and he was E5 after his first 2 years and E6 after his third. In an advanced field you could be stuck at E4 for like 10 years.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 23, 2013, 12:05:07 AM »Wait, do you actually go in real world combat? My brother is a marine and he's never even been on guard duty.
What exactly are you asking? Anybody in the military has the potential to go into real world combat. Certain jobs guarantee it and certain jobs make it highly unlikely though.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:45:10 PM »i don't think they can legally hit them
It is highly illegal now but it is likely there's a few old school drill instructors left in the marines that do unorthodox stuff like that.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:37:54 PM »Just don't become one of those arms cigarettes that calls everyone else a "civilian"
"Ah, you civilians wouldn't understand"
I most likely won't do any combat so I won't be a hardened war vet like that I'll just be a computer nerd that happens to wear camo.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:36:31 PM »Bones, don't know if you know this but is it possible to which careers? Say you take classes at the community college and would like to switch is it possible?
it is possible to switch careers and you don't need education to do it. What you have to do is finish your enlistment time, and then when you re-enlist you retake the ASVAB and hopefully this time you qualify for the job you wanted originally. But you only get to take the ASVAB until you pass it once per enlistment.
Or if you score high enough to qualify for every job like I did you never have to re-take it again you just re-enlist and pick that job.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:19:59 PM »Other than our run being 1.5 miles instead of 2, our basics are pretty damn similar.
That's what I said.
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:14:33 PM »I've always wondered if boot camp/basic training is what they make it out to be in Full Metal Jacket. I mean I know it's a movie and all, and that it was a different time period, but would anyone like Bones (even if he's in the Air Force) or someone in the military know what it's like?
I don't have specifics but back when FMJ was made marines were notoriously hard. Now all the boot camps are kind of standardized and basically all the same. The only difference is the army has a slightly higher requirement for running and marines an even higher requirement for running. In Air Force and Navy they test you on like 1.5 mile run, in the Army its 2 miles, and marines is 3 miles I believe.
Don't take a job because you like the sound of it. Talk to people who do it. At least find reliable message boards.
I've put like a month into this before I came to that job decision. It has a nice mix of being safe, having real world use and future, and it teaches a wide variety of fields. Also I really wanted a job that teaches you a foreign language just because, my recruiter says currently they need mandarin chinese and korean speakers I think I want to learn korean and get me that avg korean gf.
Also out of curiosity what did you get on the ASVAB bones?
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:10:14 PM »I only got a 36 on my ASVABm. :c
I got 89 my first time fresh out of high school and it's been 4 years since then with 0 education and I got a 60 on the practice so I expected to get pretty bad, but then bam aced everything. I never have to take the ASVAB again my recruiter told me because I've already qualified for every job in service.
Also don't feel bad I went with 3 other guys and one got 17, one got 21, and one got 34, so you're better than all those guys!
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Off Topic / Re: I'm Joining the Army
« on: October 22, 2013, 11:03:55 PM »What exactly does a "Cryptologic Network Warfare Specialist" do? Decrypt codes or enemy intel?
They are pretty much data brown townysts except the data is war related. Data brown townysts make a lot of money in civilian world and being in cryptology I will learn a foreign language which is also nice for civilian world.