Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I have a crazy story for y'all, and while I get my newness here probably deserves at least an eyebrow raise, I can verify with the mods/admins as much as possible:
I was supposed to be promoted to E4 at the earliest possible time with 2 other guys, the entire unit was in the field, and we had a "EO" (wokeness) class we had to do before getting ready to get back to the motor pool.
The class was on Sikhs, and how one was apparently allowed to grow a beard in uniform. The SSG, who I always found annoying because he kept pushing Alex Jones got into a mini-argument with the NCO giving the EO class, and while he mistakenly thought the guy they were referring to was Muslim, when he heard that, he said, "I don't care, I'll never trust a Muslim doctor".
Once we got to our motor pool, instead of promotions, 1SG told us to get home ASAP.
I get in the barracks, and we're being warned of a chemical attack and other things through the Ft Hood alert system.
After hearing that, I ran downstairs, and every higher up in the unit was nervously pacing. We initially heard there were 3 shooters and they were close, but that died down quick.
Because my room was right by the staircase, and we were locked down for 8+ hours, I of course invited everyone upstairs to smoke. We found out it was a Muslim doctor (I'm sorry if this gets me banned), I tell him I was skeptical, but he fucking nailed it.
We also had a few days off, and literally the first thing we're told is to say it's not terrorism. My best friend and I looked at each other like we were just told the sky was the wrong color.
I caught H Pylori and was late to deploy, because I had a flesh eating bacteria. When I healed up enough, I went at 3 or 4 am, and was there with 2 other guys. We all got to talking about how the deployment readiness center was attacked, and the main guy came up to us. One of the guys asked to hear exactly what happened, and he brought us around back.
There was a hole the size of a fist in the shed immediately behind the building, and he explains how this coward threw a fit early in the day, and came back to shoot a bunch of people. The most important detail was that he shouted "Allah Akbar" before jumping on a table & slaughtering real Americans.
I deployed in 2011, but that info didn't become public knowledge until 2013. That Obama willingly hid such info for 2+ years said EVERYTHING about his agenda. He cared more for Muslims than Americans