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WaterNerdDummy
This is pretty fucking funny
mrollings53
I'm laughing, but I never even made it to Corporal while I was enlisted.
kjtodd11
Legendary.
DrewK98
E4 Mafia represent.
If there were such a thing. Which there isn't.
Calicious
I hated ceremonies. My sergeant "pinning" was me leaning back in my chair and saying "when are you filing for my promotion?" and my CO saying "Oh yeah, you're a sergeant now." It was the best ceremony I've ever had.
YouTubeRed
HypnagogicHallucinations
It's his corporal punishment.
littlecoatfatguy
SubungualHematoma
The bond between a Camp Lejeune marine and a Jimmy John's delivery driver is second only to their bond with a Domino's delivery driver.
expfarrer
Camp Lejeune homie you might be entitled to compensation !
Keru
When you're Terminal Lance and you know it.
LordNoKids
We play games for reenlistment ceremonies as well, one official usually short as possible and one heinous. I had my fat ass male senior enlisted dress like a mermaid at the beach
gablestout
When I re-enlisted as a Sergeant, while I was "you're a civilian now, you can say anything" before taking the enlistment oath again, I turned and said (to the CO) Fuck you! (to the XO) Fuck you! (to the Company GySgt) You, I like. (to the Company 1stSgt) But fuck you!!
Two weeks later I pinned on Staff Sergeant...and my CO got me back. He palmed my Staff Sergeant pins, and pinned Corporal chevrons on me, instead.
LordNoKids
Ah that’s the good stuff
SkinnerTBD
#teamjimmyjohn
CAustinC0x
For my SGT pinning, my Platoon SSG punched them into my collarbone, then we had to run the gauntlet through all the NCOs hitting us. Not as bad as it sounds.
gablestout
When I was "blood striped" when I picked up corporal (gauntlet of Corporals and Sergeants knee you in the thigh), one Sergeant tagged me directly in the Sciatic nerve so hard...well, let's just say I said, "oh, fuck!! that hu..." and I woke up on the floor.
notworkingghost
That’s gutsy. I had my former platoon sergeant pin my promotion, and my current platoon sergeant wasn’t happy about that. I can’t imagine a delivery guy!
PhilKenSebban
Whats the significance of the red thing around his neck?
gablestout
It's his "blood stripes." Only NCOs and officers wear the red stripe on their dress blues trousers, Once you are promoted to corporal, you have "earned" your blood stripes, and they are draped around your neck during the promotion ceremony
PhilKenSebban
Thanks mate!
sinnfinn86
wait …jimmy john’s delivers?
friendswithfire
When my husband was in Thailand, he had the owner of their local laundry/fish and rice spot to pin him during his ceremony (which they held at the laundry lol)
BonzuPippinpaddleopsicopolisTHETHIRD
I actually really like that, probably made that man's day. I had a fun time in Thailand when I went through.
autopilotpilot
Had more commendations, citations and rank on paper than I ever got to wear. I excelled in the field, deployments and training. Garrison life was an utter disaster. I should have been jailed multiple times but was let off easy. By the time I left I was on Prozac and Klonopin. The Army did nothing wrong my coping mechanisms where shot is all. Humor above all else kept me sane. Thru it all tho I completely enjoyed my service time a little too much.
GIVE IT HELL CORPORAL
swedeonamoose
But who runs around rounding up the LT's when it is time to pin em ? feels like that would be a full time job in the military keeping track of them.
gablestout
Babysitting the LT is the PltSgt's job
Freestila
Well when you're dumb enough to join the military...
inkadikt
bippityboppitybuttsex
I had a giant Staff Sergeant hammer my corporal rank into my collar bones like a real man... who cried after... wife was wondering why I was bleeding, a lot.
TheLastGreatAudit
My first line flying-kicked my CMB into me. It was a time.
bippityboppitybuttsex
When I graduated from ABN school we spent the night punching our wings into our tits... good times... we were fucking hammered tho, we all went OSUT 11B straight to ABN school... we had been, um, deprived a bit for awhile.
TheLastGreatAudit
Oh man, I remember. That first weekend you're allowed to go to the gas station and seriously injure your liver was like every Christmas ever all at once.
bippityboppitybuttsex
We piled into a van, told them 'nearest liquor store' bought a bunch of bottles, got a hotel room and got rickety rickety wrecked... (we had some underage kids with us that we couldn't get into a bar and I was the old man at 24).
TheLastGreatAudit
I was 19 and was one of those younger guys. IIRC we got Crunk on the roof of a K-Mart or something. At least that's the last location I remember.
SeeJenJen
How very pre-NCO mafia of you. I dropped some insignia on the concrete floor of our Barracks at El Toro and stepped on it and had to yank it out of the bottom of my heel. That sucked. That was enough body modification for me. Ha
SeeJenJen
*accidentally step right on that mf
bippityboppitybuttsex
Oh I thought the Marines had some rank stomping tradition.... Do you guys really brand each other?
dudehiemer
They were making us hammer rank on to one of my buddies. I went easy on him, until our sergeants started yelling at me to do it like I mean it. I shrugged, turned around and hammered them into his clavicles. He had to physically yank them out, and by the look on his face and sounds coming out of him, it was extremely uncomfortable.
bippityboppitybuttsex
That is the intent, the pure joy of inflicting pain on new NCOs (esp if they are Army corporals who didn't even get a pay raise and now get to be in charge of every shit detail on post)
polarbearbaby
That’s disgusting.
bippityboppitybuttsex
It's all in good abuse.
Togame21
Wait what, army guys are required to make someone bleed when they put a pin on them? I don't understand the army at all
IceWeaselX
It's a form of hazing, officially banned but still happens in some units. "Blood wings" are probably the most well known version, but it can be done with any pinned insignia.
bippityboppitybuttsex
My first sergeant pounded my corporal in also... If it is frowned upon, the E8s don't give a shit
Nengex
And velcro ranks. Had my wife punch mine on whenever I made sergeant.
bippityboppitybuttsex
That is when you find some older NCO and ask him for his old pin on
BenjyX55
Someone please translate the military terminology for us laymen.
DoseOfScience
"NJP" is non judicial punishment (jail/brig time not an option), a demotion in rank this time. Yoyo-ing in rank is apparently a thing.
4vie
Better to yo-yo than being terminal lance, right?
DoseOfScience
https://terminallance.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2011-03-04-Strip_110_The_Swarm_web.gif
EstellaOsoka
It is commonplace in the Marine Corp and Navy. You go off on a 6 month "cruise" and then get back, have ton of money to spend, so you get drunk, do something stupid, get arrested, then military punishes and demotes you. Get rank back after a little time and rinse and repeat.
TheLastGreatAudit
*On occasion* a person receiving a rank/award gets to request a specific person "pin" them (put it on during the ceremony.) Usually it'll be a commander but its not uncommon for someone to ask that its a friend or a spouse. Ol boy had been punished previously by his command so rather than having them pin him he had someone he respected more do it.
buttcreambandit
Ya it’s really fucking funny. I’m sending this to my buddies. We all served together but still keep a running group chat
ArcaneConjecture
So...we won't be seeing this guy on the Joint Chiefs will we?
TK421isAFK
More likely chiefing a joint.
CaptAlbertAlexander
You also get to choose the place you Reinlist, so people let themselves be taped to tank gun barrels. Do it underwater and so on
3Davideo
"On the Moon!" "..."
funone77
Great description. A service man respecting a member of the service industry is beautiful.
PathologicalLier
Serves him right
ghos5t7
One of my buddies had his reenlistment ceremony held at a waffle house, for all the support on hungover sundays
TheLastGreatAudit
Heroes. All of them.
littlecoatfatguy
Kind of a technically-polite "fuck you" to leadership.
backrideup9
TheBlueMuppet
Gonna guess he won't be receiving many more of these, and we may have discovered why he's on his way back up from below, lol.
evilechoempire
Naaah, one day he’ll be the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
Targe0
Well it's either him or them.
CorrectMostOfTheTime
Always look to blame management/leadership first
massdefect3
I think they meant to ask what NJP means And what the difference between lance and corporal is. I think maybe we mostly know what it means to receive a rank or reward.
PimpinKen
No, I needed a full explanation
lapus
Same
PTKrieg
NJP = non-judicial punishment, the kind of shit an officer can do to their subordinates without needing to go through a court martial (a military court). Corporal and Lance Corporal are Marine corps rank, the former outranking the latter. The guy got busted down one rank, which is a big deal because it's a significant change in pay (about a $250 a month pay cut) and a major speed bump for anyone looking to go career. 1/
PTKrieg
Further, if they've not changed duty areas since they got busted down, it could be the same officer who demoted them in the first place doing them the "honor" of pinning the "new" rank on... hence why they may choose the Jimmy John's guy instead, if they didn't agree with the original punishment. 2/2
TheWhiteBarry
Understandable, the pizza delivery guy is 1000x more respectable than the imperialist warmonger.
BenjyX55
I, too, have the utmost respect for people who serve fast food.
TheLastGreatAudit
I spent four years as an army man and let me tell you I wouldn't last four days facing customers in fast food work.
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
Pizza delivery drivers are statistically more likely to be shot in the line of duty than police officers. *salute*
TheLastGreatAudit
Respect the thin bread line.
Zoroasterisk
Less likely to fucking murder someone and get away with it, too
BeingABotIsRad
Or, hear me out, MORE likely to get away with it (rather than just not being convicted).
TheLastGreatAudit
God I'd have killed to have had in a war zone in rural Afghanistan the ROE (Rules of Engagement) a comparatively untrained police officer has in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee.
WhyDontYouMakeMe
I love marines
TenguKaiju
Marines are pretty chill until you run out of Red. You don’t wanna know what happens when you run out of Red.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Dude got an Company Grade Article 15 for being a dick, went from E4 to E3, then got promoted back to E4 and had some sandwich delivery dude pin his rank back on
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
What’s E
MrE158
"Enlisted", and the number is the level, higher is better. "O" for Officer ranks. Indicates paygrade and part of a NATO standard system.
OldPenguinDoug
Lol this picture made me laugh. Worst I ever got were some Letters of Counseling. This makes me wish I had gotten NJP'd
abhorance
I somehow made it 12 years without a single article 15, no idea how. Came close a few times, probably deserved it 2 or 3 times...
ObiWanKenobitch
I got an LOC once for my language. Apparently I cussed too much. I was really proud of that one. I framed it and kept it on my desk.
bippityboppitybuttsex
I was in the Army, they call it Non Judicial Punishment... I think the Navy calls it a Captain's Mast and the USAF calls it 'Bad Day for Junior Birdman'
lljkstonefish
I thought it was called Ninja Punch
OldPenguinDoug
Lol it was a bad day for Senior Birdman :D
bippityboppitybuttsex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1J8E9dnd5g