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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:14:31 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   I always go out of my way to say "he used'ta be a marine" and then try to keep a straight face when I act as if it's the first time I've ever had a fat old guy angrily explain the faux pas and the "once a marine, always a marine" silliness

   (It's cool and all, but the guys who get bent out of shape over it are the ones that most dishonor the name to begin with)

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:16:27 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     In your 60's you should have a LOT more to be proud of than a stint in the USMC as a 19 year old. The guys who make their whole public image on that foundation just suck, and I like to give their egos a little stress-tap when I can

     Chances are there's a cooler MOS in the room anyways

   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:28:26 JST Frondeur

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot reminds me of an ex marine ranting at the bar about duty...and how no one else knew what it meant except marines...bartender who had been a cav scout kept dropping all these marine jokes...😂 😂 😂 ...I wish I could remember them now...
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:29:18 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Frondeur A while back I was talking about this, asking why marines are so soft-skinned about this because some obituary listed an "ex-marine". My buddy chuckled then showed me this huge ass 'semper fi' tattoo he's apparently had forever

     He's never talked about the marines, at all. He has too many cool stories from the OTHER 50 years of life he lived

   • Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:46:03 JST Cliff Secord

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     The ones I genuinely cannot stand (or anyone for that manner) are those douschebags who roll up at the range in a Jeep Wrangler adorned with tattered American flag, "Molon Labe", "NRA Life Member" and "III Percenter" decals, step out wearing 5.11 apparel to look the part, then, to complete his douschebaggery, sets up at the firing line with an overpriced AR with useless accessories and a $2,000 optic attached to it, talking all kinds of shit, including all his excuses as to why he isn't able to group 'that day'.
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   • Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:46:04 JST Cliff Secord

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     • Frondeur
     They are such easy targets! It is entertaining to approach & start asking them basic questions, then hearing the gears in their head grinding to a halt.
     
     Over the years, I've met countless "Rangers", at numerous airports close to TRADOC installations, and one time in Charlotte, while on our way to Eastern Europe for our wedding, my soon-to-be wife and I had the 'pleasure' of meeting a nineteen year-old mullet-sporting & Cope-chewing 'Operator' and "recipient" of the Congressional Medal of Honor! To this day, we are still kicking our asses for not filming the hilarious takedown...
     
     He ended up getting his ass kicked by some people who got tricked into covering his tab, then he got arrested for using a fake ID to drink.
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   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:46:04 JST Frondeur

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     @CliffSecord @WashedOutGundamPilot epic!!!
   • Cliff Secord (cliffsecord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:46:05 JST Cliff Secord

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     • Frondeur
     I was in a long time; started on the enlisted side then moved up halfway into officer country for the second half. There was the share of good times and some really bad times, but I'll never use that status as a 'former Marine' as some kind of calling card the way I see so many others do. That said, for those cats who do, their time in was probably their peak.
     
     To give an example, we subbed out some welding work to a fellow veteran not far from our works. I go to him because he does great work (I was unaware of his status until after we started doing business with him), but shit man, you go into his office to handle business and all you see is a full-retard tier shrine to his service, complete with framed awards & promotion warrants, the obligatory challenge coin collection, all the way to the cross-like stand that only a SgtMaj uses, including a helmet, body armor and boots...complete with his dog tags. Too much, but he never openly brags about his time in.
     
     You won't find that at my shop en masse, even though three of us did time. You'll see a few things in our offices, but that is it. We are not in business to brag about our prior military service- we're in business to solve engineering problems. Period. I am way more proud of my academic & professional certificates I earned outside of the military, as well as commendations I've received from the local community.
     
     This said, the ones who like to brag and one-up, especially when it was never solicited, were either bottom-feeding shamurai douschebags if they were actually in, or outright bullshit artists.
   • Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:46:05 JST Frondeur

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     @CliffSecord @WashedOutGundamPilot the amount of bullshit artists is surprising...once outed a guy pretending to be a ranger by asking him where ranger school was...
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:48:39 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @CliffSecord @Frondeur The exact guys I needle with it. It's fine to be proud of whatever suffering you went through, but it's sad when it's all you have to build your identity on. Tearing into normies because they don't know your special snowflake military traditions is a pussy move, and the boomers' veteran worship has let it go on for too long.

     The GWOT guys aren't AS bas about it, maybe because they didn't have as much fellating from pop culture over their "service". They do go into cheap gun industry crap though. Wow, what a 'get', being an 11B and parlaying that expertise into making $32,000 a year by teaching "carbine courses", the arrogance is earned.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:53:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @CliffSecord @Frondeur I don't really mind the retarded SEAL trident/ranger tab faggots. They're obviously broken, retarded people. It's more embarrassing to get all up in arms and emotional because it infringes on your boomervet identity. Nobody is taking the retarded 70IQ guy at the mall seriously because he's got tiger stripe USAF pants and ATACS with a little badge from the USMC, CG, and French Foreign Legion. They need to be pitied more than hated. Saying it's "STOLEN VALOR" is like admitting the dumbest downie on the bus actually passes for whatever veteran MOS he's playing

     It's just so unbecoming for a man to get emotionally charged by someone horning in on "his" turf. A new guy comes to work with his pet identity and they'll huff and puff about it. "What's he into? oh he's like me? Well, he's probably not as serious about it, he looks like a beginner, he probably sucks, I've got a better rig than him..."

     I get it w/ pilots all the time, they get so arrogant, I just can't smile & nod

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 12:22:13 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     hey speak o' the devil

   • WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 14:45:59 JST WhitestTemplar

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     @Dudebro @WashedOutGundamPilot Much like with Ivy League schools, military service is nothing to be proud of anymore, because even niggers, trannies, and women can get in.
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   • Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 14:46:00 JST Dudebro

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     Once a marine, always a marine. Makes sense as to why you force diversity at gunpoint when we try to get rid of the niggers