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Neighborhood Talk
Israel has three “official” languages: Hebrew, English, and Arabic. You have to pass a test in these before graduating school, but while Hebrew is the daily language of the land and English is popular, many find Arabic unappealing and don’t stick with it. I visited Israel for awhile as a student for a “Junior Year Abroad” program and most of the people I met had largely forgotten their Arabic.…
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Choice Assignment
In the military, you know you’ve found an easy job when an Air Force guy questions your work ethic.
I was inspired, at the time, by a guy in the unit who said he’d worked in exactly this kind of situation– it was some sort of joint services something something planning & operations thing, and he knew it was time to leave when an Air Force guy said, “Do you ever actually work?” Of all the…
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The Golden Throne of Saddam
The Golden Throne of Saddam
I remember hearing about the “toilets made of gold” in Saddam Hussein’s palace. They were, at most, gold-plated or (more likely) brass, but the story caught hold as an example of the former dictator’s excesses. He also had several palaces all around the country– I got to see two of them. One of them, the one featured in today’s comic, was the one on Camp Victory. That’s the camp we stayed on,…
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All My Hopes, Dreams, Plans… So as can be expected, the palm trees died. No one really knows what, if any, larger plan the Sergeant-Major had in mind.
Position Improvement
TOC: Tactical Operations Center. In conversation, it is pronounced “tok” and almost sounds like the word “talk”. It is incredibly common for a small field headquarters to be referred to as “the TOC”.
So, seriously, our Sergeant-Major had a crew of guys take a crane and uproot a bunch of palm trees from next to the marshy canal, and transplant them around the TOC. Bear in mind the whole area where…
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Complacency Kills... and Annoys
Complacency Kills… and Annoys
Early in the deployment, we had a guy using a crane to lift something that was probably too heavy for the crane. It makes sense to think that the cable might get tighter and tighter and then snap (which would lead to some nasty injuries on its own) but instead, what is more likely to happen is that the heavy items remains on the ground, and the crane just gets pulled down to its level. That’s…
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A Bad Business Plan
A Bad Business Plan
Okay, I’ll make this my last Star Wars joke for awhile. Every now and again I just have a bunch to let out.
In Star Wars, you don’t hear much about the regular business people. I guess because regular ol’ work is something that’s kind of boring, since we all do some variation of it ourselves each day. But still, even the Death Star had roofers, right?
Years ago there was a massive online video…
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With Great Power Comes… Opportunity Staff-Sergeant Ransom would totally indulge her inner Sith, just in much more... practical ways than Joe Rock would.
If The Force Was With Me
If The Force Was With Me
Now, Joe, such use of the Mind Trick isn’t very Jedi, is it? You’d think after the recent flap with Sergeant, now Sub-Private, Skeeves that you’d learn something.
Sometimes it is fun to think about the things that could be done with Jedi powers– or rather, simply having “The Force”, since I suspect a lot of us would be tempted to indulge in a little Sithy-ness. Most of the time I’d probably use…
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Full Stop
Full stop for the Full Bird.
Remember the rank of “Colonel”? It’s pretty high; the next rank up is 1-star General. Sergeant Skeeves finally made his big mistake.
Once, in the chow hall at Camp Victory, I was walking behind a female soldier I did not know. She was short, slender, seemed kind of cute, and when she turned around to look for someone, I saw that she was also a Lieutenant-Colonel (one…
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Intercepted
Now Specialist Glass has the E-4 Cloaking Device, as well!
I actually went “where no man has gone before” once, which inspired the original comic this is based on in Camp Victory. I was doing patrols in Baghdad and we were loading our Humvees in a different trailer section than I was used to. One of out 4 latrines were female and I forgot where I was… I had to pee so bad I jumped out of the…
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Special Specialist Powers
The rank of Specialist is also known as “E-4″, as in, “Enlisted (Grade) 4″. It is the 4th Enlisted rank after E-1 (Private), E-2 (Private 2nd Class), and E-3 (Private First Class or “PFC”).
Many times, if you ask someone in the military their rank, they might say “E-4″ or “E-6″ or something like that– some alpha-numeric code of some sort. That’s because the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines…
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You Watch Your Lane; I'll Watch Mine
You Watch Your Lane; I’ll Watch Mine
Congratulations, Specialist Glass!
The rank of “Specialist” is kind of funny. Because of Hollywood, people are familiar with Privates, Corporals, Sergeants, Lieutenants, and so on. People with no experience with the military can pick up on those and have a general idea of where they stand in relation to one another. Oddly enough, not too many people know about the Specialist rank. I admit that I…
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Quit Playing Around
One problem with large organizations, be it the Army, a corporation, or any large group, is that as soon as they start to identify a problem and decide to take it seriously, there’ll be a period of time when they try to see everythingthrough that lens. In this case, Sergeant Skeeves has made harassment and fraternization such a problem for the Battalion, that they no longer recognize good…
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Just A Look
This is an almost direct re-do of one of my original comics. I posted new comics every morning at breakfast, then I’d sit down at a table near enough to see the first readers reactions but not so close that anyone might feel strange walking up to view it.
I was hoping this one would be received with a sense of humor. As soon as I put it up, a young female Sergeant walked over to look at it. She…
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The Alienation Game
Oh, Sergeant Skeeves, you’re going to get in so much trouble…
Female SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) gunners are rare, but they’re out there. The SAW is heavier than the M-16, of course, and carrying it for long periods of time can be taxing. But if she can do it, she can volunteer for the duty. The thing is, if a female volunteers for a job, and gets assigned to it, anyone who insults her ability…
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Playing Well With Others
Playing Well With Others
Remember ol’ Sergeant Skeeves? He’s back, and as obnoxious as ever. Sergeant Skeeves has no respect for the females, and now he stares at them, “fraternizing” mentally with them, which they find creepy.
Technically, “fraternization” is a term used for any too-friendly relationship between the “rank barriers” of regular Enlisted Servicemembers, NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) and Officers.…
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