Ah, the phone calls: Sand Hill, 2001: phone center located in the mini mall, now it's a military gear shop (the old snack bar is now photography). One call a week from the payphones in the company areas (if we earned it). Division Ready Force, 101st Airborne Division, 2002-2004: landline with answering machine. When on DRF-1, only short trips were made to get groceries, lest I miss a call and earn my E-1 back. Fort Campbell, mid-2002: working the Division call center. Me (E-2) and an E-1 on shift when a military spouse calls to demand to speak to who's in charge. She's less-than thrilled when I tell her I guess I am. Fort Polk North Fort, fall-2002: payphones near the Shoppette, gotta make all the calls you can before entering The Box. Kuwait, February 2003: one DSN call from a field phone. FARP Shell and Baghdad, March-May 2003: 😂 Northern Iraq, mid-2003: one satellite phone call a month. Tal Afar, late-2003: call centers (and computers!). Fort McNair, 2004-2008: finally, a personal cell phone! Fort A.P. Hill 2005-2008: one spot in the middle of the vehicle assembly point where T-Mobile worked. Recruiting, 2008-2012: issued flip phone and air card for remote wifi access. Afghanistan 2013: issued flip phone (BDE Victim Advocate), paid for cards out of pocket and used it more to call home than for official use. PEO Soldier 2021: issued iPhone with unlimited hotspot for wifi access. Today: retired, never answer calls and rarely call out. Cell phone used almost exclusively for research on Cory Chase and watching TH-cam videos.
He was in a No Go (national guard) unit...they probably haven't pulled their battle rattle out of the closet in months. They need to get used to it 😂😂😂
When I was a kid back in 2002, I took my allowance and bought a bunch of phone carrier cards from the store around the corner and sent them to troops being deployed to Afghanistan… just a decision I came to on my own one day. I did it again when we invaded Iraq. I knew a lot of families at the church whose kids (many of them had even graduated from the private school there at the same church in 2002) had joined after 9/11, and I just wanted to help… most of the cards were AT&T, I think, and had 600-800 minutes on them? I’ve never told anyone about this before. My parents were afraid if I said anything at church it might make people think I was “weird or a bad Christian for bragging”… and so they made me deny I did it when the families I gave the cards to started telling others about what a generous thing I had done. I wanted to say something not because of glory or anything, but I thought others might chip in and do the same thing if given the idea. But no… I was made to be silent under threat of punishment. My parents were both narcissists, so now that I’m 33 and look back, my guess is they didn’t like knowing their 11-12 year old son not only thought of something before they did, but just literally stood up, walked around the block, and used up three years worth of saved up allowance and did it. After that, my $10 a week allowance was cut down to $7, but “since you need to learn to tithe, we will give the $7 to the church for you to make it easy,” so I literally lost my allowance at that point. Oh well… it was for a good cause. Nothing but the most respect for our veterans.
I made my Christmas phone call from the belly of the USS Peliliu, 2001, Ten feet from the cell they kept Johnny Lind Walker in. He was the American defector that got captured in Afghanistan after 9/11. That phone call was magical. We didn't have my space yet. Or reliable Internet. And they'd black out email all the time because our battle group was the "tip" of the spear. Fun secondary story, I got to clean that brig cell after they shipped him off ship...that cell smelled so bad. Dude hadn't showered in months, the space we kept him in was not far from a boiler, it was 103° down there all day every day. I was NJPd(Captain's Mast) for following orders.... I was told not to give out extra food at the lunch shift for the overnight workers on ship. I had a fella give me a hard time because I wouldn't give him an extra chicken patty.(The chicken patties were 12 hours old and shitty.... I was following orders, I just picked up E-5, waiting to get "frocked" ..... I made E-5 in 2 years... That's damn near a world record for a BM in the Navy. Anyways.... I didn't give him extra food... He wanted to know my name. So I tried telling him.... I didn't give a fuck... I out ranked him... I didn't need to be on mess duty. I was there so a boot could be trained up. He couldn't hear me over the ventilation hoods, and the plexiglass... So since our last names were labeled on the back of our pants above the back pocket ....I pointed to it.... He's gonna know who the fuck I am.... Well... He ran it up... I went to mast for pointing my ass at a shipmate.... The Chief of the galley didn't stand up for me... 45/45 days of restriction, and extra duty...1/2months pay reduction x2 months. And that's how I got to clean a nasty jail cell on the ship, that I had no idea existed. LETS GO LEFT
We had to go out on the street and find a payphone, the squad would pull security while one at a time each guy would get a chance to make 1 phone call, collect, for 5 minutes. If nobody answered you could call someone else so if your wife didn't answer you could call your parents or someone else but if they didn't answer either then you rotated out to pull security. All of this had to occur within around 100 meters of another payphone where another squad would be doing the same routine, the idea being if any locals got froggy you might have another squad to help out with the situation. If the threat situation was elevated at all then of course there were no "Phone Runs". I was able to use the phone 3 times in 7 months. Right before we returned to Georgia there were some phone trailers brought in at the Brigade level but by then we already had our departure date and nobody wanted to go mess around anywhere near Brigade where running into someone with AR 670-1 tattooed around their asshole was possible.
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Men, were going to practice being miserable by being miserable for a year before we deploy. Typical 1SG
His 1st Sgt sounds like a great great great leadership
This was my favorite part from this episode I’m glad it’s a clip to share.
Ah, the phone calls:
Sand Hill, 2001: phone center located in the mini mall, now it's a military gear shop (the old snack bar is now photography). One call a week from the payphones in the company areas (if we earned it).
Division Ready Force, 101st Airborne Division, 2002-2004: landline with answering machine. When on DRF-1, only short trips were made to get groceries, lest I miss a call and earn my E-1 back.
Fort Campbell, mid-2002: working the Division call center. Me (E-2) and an E-1 on shift when a military spouse calls to demand to speak to who's in charge. She's less-than thrilled when I tell her I guess I am.
Fort Polk North Fort, fall-2002: payphones near the Shoppette, gotta make all the calls you can before entering The Box.
Kuwait, February 2003: one DSN call from a field phone.
FARP Shell and Baghdad, March-May 2003: 😂
Northern Iraq, mid-2003: one satellite phone call a month.
Tal Afar, late-2003: call centers (and computers!).
Fort McNair, 2004-2008: finally, a personal cell phone!
Fort A.P. Hill 2005-2008: one spot in the middle of the vehicle assembly point where T-Mobile worked.
Recruiting, 2008-2012: issued flip phone and air card for remote wifi access.
Afghanistan 2013: issued flip phone (BDE Victim Advocate), paid for cards out of pocket and used it more to call home than for official use.
PEO Soldier 2021: issued iPhone with unlimited hotspot for wifi access.
Today: retired, never answer calls and rarely call out. Cell phone used almost exclusively for research on Cory Chase and watching TH-cam videos.
Imagine what we could be if we just trained everyone to this standard.
When I was in Turkey in 95 I would call my buddies on base and have them forward my call my house so I didn't have to get a calling card.
He was in a No Go (national guard) unit...they probably haven't pulled their battle rattle out of the closet in months. They need to get used to it 😂😂😂
Almost spit my beer at the end omgoodness.
When I was a kid back in 2002, I took my allowance and bought a bunch of phone carrier cards from the store around the corner and sent them to troops being deployed to Afghanistan… just a decision I came to on my own one day. I did it again when we invaded Iraq. I knew a lot of families at the church whose kids (many of them had even graduated from the private school there at the same church in 2002) had joined after 9/11, and I just wanted to help… most of the cards were AT&T, I think, and had 600-800 minutes on them? I’ve never told anyone about this before. My parents were afraid if I said anything at church it might make people think I was “weird or a bad Christian for bragging”… and so they made me deny I did it when the families I gave the cards to started telling others about what a generous thing I had done. I wanted to say something not because of glory or anything, but I thought others might chip in and do the same thing if given the idea. But no… I was made to be silent under threat of punishment. My parents were both narcissists, so now that I’m 33 and look back, my guess is they didn’t like knowing their 11-12 year old son not only thought of something before they did, but just literally stood up, walked around the block, and used up three years worth of saved up allowance and did it. After that, my $10 a week allowance was cut down to $7, but “since you need to learn to tithe, we will give the $7 to the church for you to make it easy,” so I literally lost my allowance at that point. Oh well… it was for a good cause.
Nothing but the most respect for our veterans.
Yous guys is NUTS. Thank goodness you're all our our side. 🙃
I made my Christmas phone call from the belly of the USS Peliliu, 2001, Ten feet from the cell they kept Johnny Lind Walker in. He was the American defector that got captured in Afghanistan after 9/11. That phone call was magical. We didn't have my space yet. Or reliable Internet. And they'd black out email all the time because our battle group was the "tip" of the spear.
Fun secondary story, I got to clean that brig cell after they shipped him off ship...that cell smelled so bad. Dude hadn't showered in months, the space we kept him in was not far from a boiler, it was 103° down there all day every day.
I was NJPd(Captain's Mast) for following orders.... I was told not to give out extra food at the lunch shift for the overnight workers on ship. I had a fella give me a hard time because I wouldn't give him an extra chicken patty.(The chicken patties were 12 hours old and shitty.... I was following orders, I just picked up E-5, waiting to get "frocked" ..... I made E-5 in 2 years... That's damn near a world record for a BM in the Navy.
Anyways.... I didn't give him extra food... He wanted to know my name. So I tried telling him.... I didn't give a fuck... I out ranked him... I didn't need to be on mess duty. I was there so a boot could be trained up. He couldn't hear me over the ventilation hoods, and the plexiglass... So since our last names were labeled on the back of our pants above the back pocket ....I pointed to it.... He's gonna know who the fuck I am....
Well... He ran it up... I went to mast for pointing my ass at a shipmate.... The Chief of the galley didn't stand up for me... 45/45 days of restriction, and extra duty...1/2months pay reduction x2 months.
And that's how I got to clean a nasty jail cell on the ship, that I had no idea existed.
LETS GO LEFT
I had phone trail when I was in
I Never Used "Roshan" SIM cards to get on a local cell service. Never.
We had to go out on the street and find a payphone, the squad would pull security while one at a time each guy would get a chance to make 1 phone call, collect, for 5 minutes. If nobody answered you could call someone else so if your wife didn't answer you could call your parents or someone else but if they didn't answer either then you rotated out to pull security. All of this had to occur within around 100 meters of another payphone where another squad would be doing the same routine, the idea being if any locals got froggy you might have another squad to help out with the situation. If the threat situation was elevated at all then of course there were no "Phone Runs". I was able to use the phone 3 times in 7 months. Right before we returned to Georgia there were some phone trailers brought in at the Brigade level but by then we already had our departure date and nobody wanted to go mess around anywhere near Brigade where running into someone with AR 670-1 tattooed around their asshole was possible.
Dammit. I just noticed that the mics are all upside-down.
I used to sell pork patties to the kids for phone cards lol
What does the then ft. Mean I keep thinking foot
Featuring.