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Montana National Guard (Help!)
12/7/07 | bear_slayer

Posted on 12/07/2007 1:47:58 PM PST by Bear_Slayer

I joined the MT National Guard last month.

I was supposed to drill tomorrow, but they changed it for me to tonight.

I just got my uniforms 10 minutes ago.

The patches were rubber-banded together. I'm not sure which patch goes where.

I have two for my last name and 1 that says "US Army"

I also have a circular, which looks something like a sunburst over a mountain top. I'm not sure though and as far as I can tell it could be up-side down.

I don't want to look like a dork!

Can anyone help me?


TOPICS: US: Montana; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: nationalguard; patches; uniform
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To: SFC Chromey

“Hey, there are only so many of us to go around! I’m really surprised to hear of an MI unit NOT deploying. Civil Affairs, MP, and Psyops seem to be getting the heaviest rotations outside of combat arms.”

Sorry, it wasn’t my intention to knock my valued MP brother/sisters in arms. Thank you for your service also. God Bless.

You are right about so many in the Psyops deploying. Maybe since this an “asymetrical” conflict they don’t need “tactical MI.” ?


81 posted on 12/07/2007 3:51:17 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: NEMDF
Do you have a woman of some type to help SEW the darn things on? Mom, neighbor, wife, sister, ETC??? Otherwise you can take them to a dry cleaner but not if you need them in just a few hours — but you might call if any are close.. you are Mountain time, right?

Both sewing patches and dry cleaning the ACU are against the regs. Dry cleaning the ACU--even washing it with the wrong detergent--can degrade its stealthy characteristics. It's treated to make it harder to see with night vision equipment; the optical brighteners common to most detergents make it glow in the dark (for certain values of dark).

That being said, I'm sure there's some Pentagon O3 somewhere dry-cleaning, pressing, and starching his ACUs--and one day he'll be CSA :(

82 posted on 12/07/2007 3:53:25 PM PST by Caesar Soze
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To: Bear_Slayer

You just joined? Non prior service? Been to IET/AIT?

If you just joined and just got your uniforms no one expect squat outta you.


83 posted on 12/07/2007 4:00:58 PM PST by Eagle Eye (If you agree with Democrats you agree with America's enemies.)
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To: SFC Chromey

Velcro?

Man you Army guys got it easy.

:)


84 posted on 12/07/2007 4:22:33 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: Sola Veritas
I’m surprized a little bit though. Right now Army Times reports that the Army is looking through the Active ranks to find persons who have yet to deploy.

Yes, I saw that story, too. There is a surprising amount of soldiers who haven't deployed. Although I've only been in for almost 17 months. I know people who have been in for 15+ years and have never deployed. My MOS is apparently the least-deployed in the Army (had no idea when I joined). That's OK, but I would feel incomplete if I finished my military career without deploying at least once. I know war is hell, but it's something I feel I need to do. Kind of hard to explain it.

85 posted on 12/07/2007 4:32:05 PM PST by tlj18 (Keep your eye on China, they are our #1 enemy....)
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To: tlj18

“That’s OK, but I would feel incomplete if I finished my military career without deploying at least once. I know war is hell, but it’s something I feel I need to do. Kind of hard to explain it.”

No need to, I fully understand. I feel guilty that I have never heard a shot fired in anger while so many others have.


86 posted on 12/07/2007 5:00:37 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Caesar Soze
That being said, I'm sure there's some Pentagon O3 somewhere dry-cleaning, pressing, and starching his ACUs--and one day he'll be CSA.

When BDUs first came in, we weren't supposed to starch 'em. How long did that last?

I see plenty of folks picking up their newly starched ACUs and ABU (the the new USAF uniform) from the Pentagon cleaners...that includes my boss, an O-8.

87 posted on 12/07/2007 7:53:54 PM PST by TankerKC (You don't have to believe everything you think.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Hey mad-as-HE double money signs :-).

Is that Lower Alabama?

Sometimes it sures feels like I'm livin' in lower something :-), but Bama's not it. lol. LA feels more like UM these days--Upper Mexico.

88 posted on 12/07/2007 9:11:22 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: 2111USMC

They just should have listened to me when I said we should use the Marines camo patterns, instead or re-designing a completely new uniform with (my term- neon green) as the main color. :)

Guess that decision was way above my pay grade.


89 posted on 12/07/2007 11:38:48 PM PST by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascists inside and outside our borders, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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To: squarebarb; Old Sarge

Only on Free Republic.
lol.


90 posted on 12/07/2007 11:44:18 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Non-Sequitur; Bear_Slayer; SFC Chromey; BiggRedd
I’m going to sleep soundly knowing that the safety on our country rests in the hands of crack troops like yourself.

Well, well, not even the first ten posts and some smartass comes out from under the stairs and puts his unwanted sixty pesos in.

The man is doing something a whole lot better than you ever could, and all you can do is urinate on his uniform.

You're pathetic.

91 posted on 12/08/2007 4:52:16 AM PST by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Sola Veritas

I was a corpsman. My best memories in life are the time I spent with the USMC.


92 posted on 12/08/2007 5:04:17 AM PST by Bear_Slayer (When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
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To: tlj18
I originally joined the US Navy in 1983. I joined for a number of reasons, but one of which was to experience war.

It is unexplainable and yet those that share the same feeling understand it.

93 posted on 12/08/2007 5:12:08 AM PST by Bear_Slayer (When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
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To: SFC Chromey

He will keep Canada at bay


94 posted on 12/08/2007 5:13:53 AM PST by GeronL (so a gerbil and Richard Gere go into a bar.....)
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To: Old Sarge; Non-Sequitur; SFC Chromey; BiggRedd
Non-sequitur, I spent 5 years with the Marines. I still know how to be squared-away in a Marine uniform 18 years after leaving the service.

Not only that, but having served with the Marines, I am more than qualified to defend your life (and take it too) and having been a corpsman, save your sorry a$$ as well.

95 posted on 12/08/2007 5:22:48 AM PST by Bear_Slayer (When liberty is outlawed only outlaws will have liberty.)
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To: Old Sarge
The man is doing something a whole lot better than you ever could, and all you can do is urinate on his uniform.

I look back on over 20 years commissioned service in the Navy, and I don't feel the need to spend additional time in the Guard. But if I did, I'm pretty sure I could figure out where stuff goes on my uniform.

96 posted on 12/08/2007 5:41:39 AM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: GOP Poet

Understand..


97 posted on 12/08/2007 6:43:27 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Illegal Immigration, a Clear and Present Danger.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Remind me to explain the concept of a ‘joke’ to you sometime.

...
Sorry, I did not realize it was a joke. Had I been able to see your face as you said it I would have understood that it was humor. (I am a woman, so maybe I had my hissy girl sensors out; usually women don’t crack on other women — to their faces, at least — unless they know them. Men, OTOH, say all sorts of outrageous things to each other, and no one is offended. One of the many things that I admire about guys.)


98 posted on 12/08/2007 10:14:57 AM PST by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: Retired Greyhound

...Non-Sequitir’s comment was tounge-in-cheek.

**
Please see my #98.


99 posted on 12/08/2007 10:19:17 AM PST by Bigg Red (Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
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To: Bear_Slayer

“I was a corpsman. My best memories in life are the time I spent with the USMC.”

I will be sure to brag on you to my retired Master Chief Corpsman coworker. He will be proud of you.


100 posted on 12/08/2007 10:24:40 AM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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