Greetings and Salutations!
Whew!
LOTS of great discussion and PMs from you jokers (and joker-ettes… THAT still AMAZEBALLZ’s me that I have WILLING female readershit… normally I’d figure you all would be held at gunpoint, forced to read my non-PC ‘stuff’… anywho…) Leastways SWMNBN never read this stuff, and r/n I only supressed/deleted (albeit temporarily) the rest of the blegg on advice from my various mouthpieces. Even tho I’m pretty damned sure she doesn’t even know the URL…
Better safe than sore and sorry of course.
And Yeah, I have like 4 lawyers on speed-dial…
Don’t you?
Anyway… one thing that keeps cropping up in the discussion is the M-47 Dragon Anti-Tank Medium Antitank Rocket….
Whoooooooooo boy…
This’ll take a second.
-I- was ‘raised’ as a little ole 11 Hotel.
An ‘offshoot’ back in the day when Infantry MOS’s had various ‘flavors’… The following being:
11B = Straight Legg Infantryman, Modifiers like ‘Airborne’ (or not really per se) to be added later… Essentially the bare-bones Grunt of Fame and Lore.
11C = A Mortarman-who-was-a-Mortar Maggot. Their AIT consisted of dropping bombs down a toob, and killing from High Angles… “Hi-Angle Hellfire” was a popular t-shirt for them at the Sand Hill PX back in the day…. primarily trained on 82mm Mortars. They used to use the BIG 4.2in Mortars until those got retired… not sue if 11C is still around or not…
11H = Dat me. A Heavy Anti-Armor Infantryman, AKA TOW Gunner. Tube Launched, Optically Tracked Wire Guided missile badassery. The MOST fun I’ve ever had with my clothes on. It also stood for “Tired Of Walking” as the missile system, the BGM-71 overall weighed in at 550 pounds with only ONE missile, so we needed vehicles to operate efficiently. They eventually shitcanned the MOS only to bring it back and shitcan it and repeat as necessary. A few fucking times no less…. I got reclassed involuntarily in 1996 when they FIRST shitcanned it.
Fuckers.
Then, lastly, there was
11M = M2* (depending on the Brad) Bradley Crewmember/Infantryman. Brad crewmen used to be Grunts. They’d train a squad worth of guys (‘8 for the Back, 3 for the Track’ as we used to say) and out of the 11 initially trained guys, the three best trained guys would ‘run’ the track, and the rest, being familiar with the whole running of said track, would be the in-the-back Grunt Crew that’d supposedly storm the trenches if needed off of said track. IF the crew got wasted, then any member of the ‘Back 8’ knew at least how to nominally run the track… It looked good on paper leastways….
Nowadays my understanding is that EVERYONE is 11 “X” when they join the Infantry, and they fill the needs for who goes where “according to the needs of the Army” which IMO is a fucking waste as in some cases, as guys with a higher end GT score might end up as 11B (Bodybag) when they could have gotten a better deal… A ‘Hotel’ needed a higher GT score (for whatever reason… why I personally have no idea) but it is what it is….
Now a Dragon Gunner?
They were just ‘regular grunts’ who got a ‘modifier’ for training added onto their MOS. Like I have a few modifiers on my MOS… Originally I had 11H… basic TOW gunner…. and then had the E09 Modifier added which meant I had been trained on the M901 TOW ITV or Improved Tow Vehicle/track:
I was initally an 11H10E9
Meaning an enlisted 11H with an ITV modifier.
If I had made E-5, I would have been an 11H20E9 and so one… rank modified the MOS as you went on as well… In the Rakkasans, I was a 11H10/E9/2B/W5. Add on my Airborne Wings and yeah… not bad… a breakdown follows.
As stated, Modifiers I have are 2B, Air Assault and W5, Special Operations Foreign and Non-Standard Armorer (that one I actually am proud of… that was a tough fucking course lemme tell you!), as well as G2, a Standard Army Retail Supply System-2AC/2B (SARSS-2AC/2B) Materiel Manager which I got under my 92 series MOS. My B4 is in there somewhere, but after a while, too many numbers/letters to GAF about…
Believe it or not, Airborne does NOT have it’s own modifier.
You either have wings or you don’t.
The modifier for the Dragon is/was C2. They should be all gone by now, (except for relics like me LOL). Thing is, I only interacted with the Dragon ONCE… and it was a shitshow.
Like an extreme shitshow
The day us 11H from Lee Field went out to do our live fire? The ‘regular Infantry’ 11B-C2s? Their Dragon Gunner ‘Top Gun’ Graduates got to do their live fire too. The range was shall we say innnntersting in that we fired from what was essentially the top of a VERY large cliff. (The reason for this to be revealed in a minute)
So as Echo 9’ers and 11H standard guys got to fire and yes, I -was- the Top Gun on BOTH weapons systems so AFTER I had fired, the 11B-C2 kids (Dragon) got up and went to fire…
Thank CHRIST in heaven they were firing off a cliff…
BOTH dudes triggered their live rounds (there were NO submunition rockets, outside of the the training 9mm submunitions,) which meant BOTH rounds were FULL ON H.E. (high explosive) Warshots. Let me tell you, NOW we know WHY the range was on a cliff, and WHY both Dragon Gunners fired their shit from the edge…
BOTH gunners, in a row, were told to fire from the edge of the cliff…
They made the first guy wear the full on (for the day) Body Armor, helmet and Googles (unusual) and gloves. This alone raised eyebrowz. Guy #1 walked up sling-carrying his missile and guidance set. His instructor walked out with him, gave him what I think was a pep-talk (as we had a LOT of VIPS in the audience as these events were for the early 90s expensive and rare) and then left him to fire.
He fired, the round ‘kicked out’ with a “Blooop!” and then fell off the cliff where it subsequently exploded with great force. The Kick-Motor fired, but apparently, the actual motor-motor that should have propelled the missile downrange?
Not so fucking mucho.
It went ‘over the edge’ so to speak off of and over the cliff edge, into –whatever- was down there, and blew the fuck up.
It MASSIVELY blew the fuck up as I recall… a big ole Mushroom Cloud a big old pile of debris rained down on everyrone. AT rounds are positively PACKED with Octal Explosive which makes C-4 and other shit look tame by comparison. Needless to say, Dood #2 you could just tell was not happy to now be the ‘up next’ Top Gunner so to speak…
He experienced the same exact issue and ALL of us in the audience experienced the same ‘dirt bath and sound issues’ i.e. a giant assed explosion… I’m pretty sure BOTH dudes were ready to quit the DotMil after that, leastways as memory serves…
So otherwise….
I have not heard from SWMNBN so far except for the usual “I’ve been thinking about you” and “Can we talk”… Uh nope. I’m good. Too betrayed and hurt to talk have been my responses. Which works. I did get her notification of her permanant change-of-addy letter today, which I notified her of and that works… There ain’t no coming back from hurting the pupper man…. just no. fucking. way.
I’m channeling my inner “John Wick”
Granted she didn’t kill the pupper…
HOWEVER
But even the banned-from-everywhere perma-troll Hedge commented “Wait a minute… I missed that… the bitch. hurt. the. fucking. dog!?!” which of course I allowed…
When Hedge is on your side, you know you’re on the side of righteousness.
Yeah… as to all the other stuff out there?
Well…
Stella’s stiches came out by her own volition dammit.
Chewed them out overnight apparently
The wound is healed but it irritates me that I spent $7 on an overnight suture removal kit as my last one I used on SWMNBN dammit.
Ah well…. she’s doing great.
I also am getting a bike writeup done.
Pics taken… writing in progress…
HOWEVER
I do have a car I found locally but even with the Amazon Windfall I’m about $1500 short. It’s a 2003 Volvo. V70 Wagon in Olive Drab w/ a tan interior. 200k miles, but for a Volvo, that’s just broken in. I dunno…. Raffle? Fundraiser? I hate to ask for anyone to help at this point. I’m going to cash in what gold I have (about $600 worth r/n) and see what happens comes payday.
Hence why I’m riding my bike.
Losing weight whilst I do it too.
SWMNBN is going to be bent when she sees me… My gut is melting away r/n which SHE always claimed was a turn off… Bitch… you’ve been talking to otherDoodz since Day Zero…. suffer is all I can say ya cunt.
Either way, the new PayPal is up and running.
The PayPal name is @CountryOfBigExpat and the Email is countryofbigness@yahoo.com if you want.
I also have a mailing addy for those of you interested
And I no longer care about “the doxx” as one such as myself have ALREADY had enough shit thrown at me. DM Me at bce187th@protonmail.com for it.
Otherwise
Tomorrow is my ‘Combat Escape Bike’ FWIW
Stay Tuned
More Later
BCE
Number 3 Applies INORDINATELY IMO
In the new Superman movie that just came out, Superman goes after Lex Luther after he hurt and stole his dog. You don’t mess with a man’s dog !
I guess the Paypal doggo fund is gone into SWMNBN’s pocket ? That sucks because you could really use that money right now.
I do find it funny that she’s like “can we talk” when the bitch hurt your dog, drained every account she could get her paws on, took your car that YOU paid for leaving you with just a bicycle AND tried to SWAT your ass it sounds like by telling the cops you had a bunch of illegal guns and mods ?
“But I want you back baby”, I bet she fucking does especially when the bills come due.
FUCK THAT…. This nightmare will soon be over and hopefully you will sell the house and be in a new AO with fine women in it and thanks to all of that bike riding be in good shape.
catch you by the end of the week dude. Volo wagon is a good choice with the “crew”
hope it works out for ya. really get a burner phone and put your on standby or something.
fuck the skull sweat. as I said before, my EX never even thought about hurting me or my dog.
she knew better. still have to find a box. I let you know when it sent.
later. keep the faith. it just keeps getting better. you see.
At least in a Volvo, sounds too much like vulva… it will be a safe car. I don’t know if you have thought of a truck and a used camper, at least you can scout out different AOs and find out where in the country you would like to settle. Cheaper than rent most times and space rent isn’t a big expense. Find a storage place to stash your belongings and move every once in a while and leave no forwarding address.
if his toys are anything like the ones I have. it not something you want to “stash’ somewhere and hope it stays safe. I like my toys near me. and there is no way of telling who is watching you stash your stuff when you do it as well. how many people do you trust ? a camper sounds like a good move, but with 2 dogs and cats ? might be able to rent/ borrow one though for scouting ?
might be a bit much to handle. have Snapper make his move- hope he gets a place with a yard. he can watch your pups while you scout a new AO if you don’t go near him. just a idea as they already know him. bad thing about Volo is the price of parts. check out “Rock auto” for parts you may need for it
after you get it that is. funny , the new Frontier is army green but shiny. wife picked it out, so don’t blame me ! I just the guy paying for it. sounds like your head is in the right place now anyway.
Yep, it’s nice not having a car payment…or a female payment. Not sure which is more costly. Bide your time and mind your money, all will be well. Pretty sure she brought the black cloud into your life. The demon has been exorcised.