Do any of the d’Ettes remember where and from whom $he first heard “BBD?”
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Combat don’t care about your feelings.
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I am pretty sure “BBD” is a shortened name you devised and I heard it first from you, on this site?
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First heard it on L1.
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They have adopted it as their own.
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They are always stealing from you.
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They sniped this one from me something like 10 years ago.
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Yup…Marine dictionary gets raided again. That’s where all the cool acronyms hang out, y’know. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
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Imitation!?!
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Yeah, wannabees imitate those they wish they could emulate. If that means uncredited “borrowing” of terms/concepts/ideas/whole posts, that’s how they roll. Sad and maddening.
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All wannabees will step this low to be kool?
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No, just those who want it most, but are least able to fully attain it. Truly pitiable.
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I would be happy just to get the occasional hat tip and an explanation how they use my IP as if it were their private code.
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It seems a reasonable pair of requests to me, but: one wonders whether they’re at all open to reason.
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Once you start bending the truth it is not easy for most people to go open kimono at a later point in time.
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True dat.
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Did I tell you about getting busted at The Basic School for flying to SoCal for a weekend without the proper paperwork?
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I do not recollect being told this story, and would love to hear more about this 🙂
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I went from the top of my class at OCS to bottom 1/2 at TBS under Lefty’s tutelage.
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!!! What an outrage!!! I am pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was actually an honor grad at OCS.
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Granny MacTemplar still has the certificate.
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That is so awesome 🙂
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Yep. She reads it to my oldest daughter, I hear.
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What is TBS?
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The Basic School
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What is the difference between OCS and TBS? I get that OCS is Officer Candidate School, what do they teach at The Basic School?
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How to be a basic Marine officer and a bit of land nav.
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Don’t even get me started on bootcamp.
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All Marine officers must go through it. They get a taste of the grunt’s world and few if any like it.
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And you, who had already been a grunt, was in the bottom half of the class under “Lefty’s” tutelage? Yeah, right. That guy was a jerk 😦
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Nor did he care for me much.
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I was going infantry so I didn’t really care.
There were always more seats than arses wanting to be in those Infantry Officer Course (IOC) seats.
Which is the thing that gets me about trying to push young ladies through the course without lowering standards. How does that work?
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The whole point of everything is to lower standards. That is the whole point.
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Hope the weekend was worth it.
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T’was my dearest, t’was indeed.
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I am gratified to hear it, dear sir. 🙂
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But my punishment was to have weekend duty from then until TBS was complete and IOC began BBD soulmates and myself. Some of the ‘stink’ of the punishment (no one remembers the crime) surely stayed with me.
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We are known as Mustangs because not even the big green machine can tame us completely.
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…can completely tame us.
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My Captain (“Lefty”) hated my prior enlisted ass.
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What a jerk 😦
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Because I knew the drill already and few other ‘butter bars’ had a clue.
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Reminder: I am USMC Mustang.
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You are awesome 🙂
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Cpt. “Lefty” sounds sadly typical.
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“We are known as Mustangs because not even the big green machine can tame us completely.”
You are awesome 🙂
This brings back a memory. A long time ago, one of my older cousins was discussing the issue of boys doing ballet in the presence of her young sons. They started to snicker. “It’s ok for boys to do ballet!” She assured them. “It tames you!” she said. They both just burst out laughing, and one of them, with his little arms across his chest, looked straight at her, smiling, and said “Nothin’s gonna tame me.” So cute. He was a wild child. He is much older now, and a good kid, but he was wild as a teenager.
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In my ST UnWoke! avatar pic I was the best rank in the Marines, a Lance Criminal. Meaning I was prior enlisted.
My officer’s commission came via the Enlisted Commissioning Program (ECP).
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You are so totally awesome 🙂
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What $he said, again.
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