Official B.S. Thread

[gearhead1985B]

Sonic i am in

[Tsunami]

i wish we had a popeyes out here still

[gearhead1985B]

i hate the navy

[Swagger]

no, you hate where you are stationed.  Shut the hell up.  You go to work in a garage everyday, in civilian clothes, and you get to wrench all day long.  The rest of us either 9 to 5 daily grinder's that they hate, or if your like kirk, me, or chiefkp, have to go to sea, and stand overnight duty every four days.  You'd better enjoy it while it lasts, cuase once the clock strikes midnight, you and your little pumpkin carriage are going to hell in 688 class handbasket.   Boom-shacka-lacka!!

[PaulW]

no, you hate where you are stationed.  Shut the hell up.  You go to work in a garage everyday, in civilian clothes, and you get to wrench all day long.  The rest of us either 9 to 5 daily grinder's that they hate, or if your like kirk, me, or chiefkp, have to go to sea, and stand overnight duty every four days.  You'd better enjoy it while it lasts, cuase once the clock strikes midnight, you and your little pumpkin carriage are going to hell in 688 class handbasket.   Boom-shacka-lacka!!

wow sounds like that sucks.  working in a garage is great.  even better in the summer.  wearing long sleeves, jeans, and work boots.  coming back from a test drive when it's 90 degrees out, in a shop with NO ventilation, and the engine bay is 500 degrees, trying to bury your hands down in the back of the engine to unplug a sensor.  yup wrenching all day long everyday is the life.  hmmm  being on a boat all day long must suck though.  having the cool breeze from the ocean, not being stuck in the same place all the time, being able to move around, the surroundings change all the time, yup the navy must really suck.  makes me glad i wrench every day. oh did i mention the arthritis, bad shoulder, carpull tunnel, hearing loss, or poor circulation in my feet??  how about the 70k dollars worth of tools i had to buy?  yup wrenching all day long everyday is great.  it's the best job ever.  well at least after doing it for 11 years, i've gotten a promotion to head mechanic and now i make 38k a year.....hooray i'll retire in style!!

[PaulW]

plus i forgot, mechanics are one of the most hated people in the world.  we're all crooks, and theives.  i charged you 2 hours of labor for something that took me 45 minutes.  damn right i did.  the freaking sign in the office says we charge book rate.  ohhh, and when your not psychic that's even better.  my car has 200k on it, i have no money, you just charged me $1000 to fix rotted brake likes on my 1986 ford f350, not
w the a/c doesn't work!! it's your fault, for that $1000 the truck should be brand new.  how can some system, completly unrelated to the brakes, fail because i just spent a lot of money on something i have never maintained, and you tell me that now i have to spend another $1000 to fix my a/c??  i'm now an irrate customer and i'm calling dmv, your a rip off.  all mechanics are crooks!!!.   

yes the life of a professional mechanic is very rewarding.  all i have to say is thank god for tequila.

[Swagger]

I'm sorry paul, thats a bit over the line there. Sure being a full time mechanic isnt a walk in the park and it reaks havoc on ones body. I've watched it tear away at the backs, shoulders and necks of many friends and family members, and the pay is definatley not woth the work.  But until you can say to me or any other Sailor, Marine, Airmen, Soldier, or Guardsman that you have had to spend more than a few days away from the family (that you get to see EVERYDAY), or work in a job that could at any point, kill you because of shear negligence, or becuase your buddy forgot to put the safety on his weapon, or because some bastard jihadist placed an IED in front of a combat convoy, that just happened to kill every one in the humvee except you, then you have no right whatsoever to tell me or any other service member that we have it easy.   The day i graduated boot camp, a lady called me a baby killer.  When my best friend came home in a casket form Iraq on 14 November, 2005, there were people picketing against the US military out side of the cemetery. Me, cheifkp, kirk, sandbox sailor, one eye, cheekbone,  deuce, gearhead, and many other members of this club, plus the other 5000 sailors and marines on this base alone work or have have worked day in and day out, side by side with systems that could kill us and the other 149 crew members on our boats in an instant, or have with out flinching, put themselves at the wrong end of an enemys AK-47 and worked in harms way to the truest form. Your job is hard. Ours is harder.  We go to sea and deploy to battle zones everday of the year with out regards to school play schedules or work holidays or when our babies are due.  When we bitch about our jobs the few times we do, we have the right to do so with out anyone making so much as a hint to a remark about how easy it must be for us "military types". So Mr. PaulW, please for further notice, i recommend you ommit your comments as to how easy you think we have it, or else you may end up pissing a whole lot of people off that you already know you are treading on thin ice with.

[kirksjeep]

VERY WELL PUT SWAGGER!!! It brings a smile to my face that one of the younger sailors has such pride in his job, his Navy and his country.  Any time you want to transfer to "Big D" we could use a guy like you.

There are those out there that really go out of their way to thank those of us that put on the uniform.  I am always almost speechless when someone walks up, shakes my hand and says "Thank you for your service."  It usually happens on a day where the job has me worn out, and after that it picks my spirits right back up. 

[BlacXJeep]

I can say, when I'm deployed, my job sucks ass. My last was 12 hour shifts -40 degrees, yes farenheit, snowing, In the armpit of the world. Of course with the Air Force I had a hardened structure to sleep in , and the food was top notch. However any time your away from the world as you know it and your family and friends for that long, it can really take a toll on your mind and body. It really is a culture shock. You take everything you have for granted untill you are away from it all.

All of us who serve, know what it is to serve and that the sacrifice is worth it. As Kirk and Swagger mentioned, for all the days were people look down on you, ask you stupid questions, spit at you, call you a "baby killer" it is well worth it when one single person once a year looks you right in the eye and shakes your hand and says, "thank you for your service!" As for those baby killer people, well I just think of them as people taking full advantage of the rights that people like us fight for. morons. I'm glad to have so many fellow service members in this club, and glad to serve right along side all of you. Even if you are a bunch of squids!

[Sandbox Sailor]

wow sounds like that sucks.  working in a garage is great.  even better in the summer.  wearing long sleeves, jeans, and work boots.  coming back from a test drive when it's 90 degrees out, in a shop with NO ventilation, and the engine bay is 500 degrees, trying to bury your hands down in the back of the engine to unplug a sensor.  yup wrenching all day long everyday is the life.  hmmm  being on a boat all day long must suck though.  having the cool breeze from the ocean, not being stuck in the same place all the time, being able to move around, the surroundings change all the time, yup the navy must really suck.  makes me glad i wrench every day. oh did i mention the arthritis, bad shoulder, carpull tunnel, hearing loss, or poor circulation in my feet??  how about the 70k dollars worth of tools i had to buy?  yup wrenching all day long everyday is great.  it's the best job ever.  well at least after doing it for 11 years, i've gotten a promotion to head mechanic and now i make 38k a year.....hooray i'll retire in style!!
[/quote]

Well, let's see. 90 degrees in a shop with no ventilation in long pants/sleeves and boots. Let's compare it to 130 degrees, long pants/sleeves, boots, knee pads, elbow pads, kevlar helmet, goggles, gloves... Oh, and 30 pounds of body armor with another 20 pounds of equipment hanging off the molle system. Add to that dust so thick it looks foggy out while you are trudging throgh the streets of Baghdad on patrol. You haven't seen your wife or kids for 6 months and won't see them for 6 more...


Or, maybe you are stuck on a SUNMARINE... no wind in your hair there, no shuffleboard and cocktails on the prominade deck. Not sure where you get your image f military life, but it sure as hell is NOT the Love Boat. But you are welcome. I am proud to do all of these things and put my life on the line so that you can bitch like that and not be shot for it. Again, you are welcome.

Oh, and by the way, if this is the life, why didn't you sign up?

[PaulW]

wow sounds like that sucks.  working in a garage is great.  even better in the summer.  wearing long sleeves, jeans, and work boots.  coming back from a test drive when it's 90 degrees out, in a shop with NO ventilation, and the engine bay is 500 degrees, trying to bury your hands down in the back of the engine to unplug a sensor.  yup wrenching all day long everyday is the life.  hmmm  being on a boat all day long must suck though.  having the cool breeze from the ocean, not being stuck in the same place all the time, being able to move around, the surroundings change all the time, yup the navy must really suck.  makes me glad i wrench every day. oh did i mention the arthritis, bad shoulder, carpull tunnel, hearing loss, or poor circulation in my feet??  how about the 70k dollars worth of tools i had to buy?  yup wrenching all day long everyday is great.  it's the best job ever.  well at least after doing it for 11 years, i've gotten a promotion to head mechanic and now i make 38k a year.....hooray i'll retire in style!!

Oh, and by the way, if this is the life, why didn't you sign up?
[/quote]

diabetes.  i wasn't accepted, not even for coast guard. i've tried.  i'd love for nothing better then to have been able to serve my country.  my country just would not allow me to.

[Seabee_BUC]

Hmmm...Let's see where I can contribute to this interesting topic... 

-Jump back to FEB 28th, 2003. It's my wife's birthday and I'm leaving for war.
-Mar 17th, I'm on the edge of the Iraqi border and the chemical alarm goes off, and we can hear missiles taking off from miles away and see the flame trails stream through the sky as the US begins it's initial bombardment of Baghdad. And we're heading right to the same area where the missiles are heading!
-Our battalion spends the next four months building bridges for the Marines to make their assault: dodging 12 yr. olds with grenades,  minefields, and well within range of enemy mortars-because we damn sure had to take cover more than once because they decided to try to destroy the bridge we were building.
-Fast forward to 2006 and I'm 1 month into a new shore duty and I'm sent off to Africa for yet another 6 month tour in a terrorist ridden region of Ethiopia and Tanzania, driving into villages where the streets are LINED with over 100 or more people; each with an AK-47.

Paul, you could work 90+ hours a week and still have it easy...

[B52BUFF]

diabetes.  i wasn't accepted, not even for coast guard. i've tried.  i'd love for nothing better then to have been able to serve my country.  my country just would not allow me to

Do you volunteer, or do you just sit around saying "Woe is me"?  So you couldn't make it into any of the services, you could have served your community.  I served in the Air Force during the first Gulf War.  I was never sent overseas.  I didn't have a wife and kids then and the base I was at didn't need to deploy.  The B52's would take off from Griffiss and fly half way around the world where they would deliver their presents and then a few sorties later would return.  Even when I went into the CT Air Guard 10 years later and 9/11 happened I was activated to stand watch over a radar facility.  There were good days and bad but nothing like what those who deploy went through.  When I wasn't on duty I was volunteering with Ledyard Fire Company.  Most of them weren't military but they all were serving their communities.  Some of them had medical conditions that prevented them from going into the service but they still served, with honor, their communities.  I have walked into burning buildings for no pay.  I have been covered in blood from the waist down caring for someone who fell asleep at the wheel and folded himself in half, for free.  So don't tell me that because you have diabetes you can't do anything.  My grandfather had a medical condition that prevented him from going into the military, so He worked in the Norfolk Naval shipyards.  One last thing, don't say you "even tried the Coast Guard" like they are some pushover organization.  They don't have nearly the resources the other services do and they still get the job done and sometimes under worse conditions.  There is always a way to give back to the community and whining about having diabetes isn't one of them!!!

[Tsunami]

i also was not accepted because of medical issues, but i do as much as i can for my local communities, helping out at shelters, donating time and money to and raising awareness for different causes.  small things make a huge difference, not for the people doing the acts, but the people recieving them.  i have no job and no money, i am still trying to find work, but in my spare time, i help raise over $1000.00 for the boston aids walk or put in 50+hours per week making sure the fire victims from the peach tree apartments have quality clothing, food, blankets, toiletries and other things, not to brag, but my point is that weather serving over seas or at home, do something more than sit around with the "END OF THE WORLD" complex... WOE IS ME

[footman]

I like pizza