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10-04-2011, 11:47 AM
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#3101
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Jake has officially been re-classed as a CTI, his ship out date has also moved up to early April instead of mid-May, which kind of sucks for him as it will still be rather cold up in Great Lakes but starting things sooner is still a good thing.
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10-04-2011, 12:06 PM
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#3102
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,812
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CTI? What's that?
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10-04-2011, 12:26 PM
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#3103
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Cryptologic Technician Interpretive, essentially he will be a linguist. He won't know what language they are going to teach him until he completes boot camp but he qualified for the top tier languages so it will be Mandarin, Korean, or Arabic.
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10-04-2011, 02:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: colorado USA
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WOOT! GO Jake!
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10-04-2011, 02:41 PM
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#3105
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Solumina
Cryptologic Technician Interpretive, essentially he will be a linguist. He won't know what language they are going to teach him until he completes boot camp but he qualified for the top tier languages so it will be Mandarin, Korean, or Arabic.
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Shit, I'd love to get paid to learn languages!
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10-04-2011, 03:00 PM
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#3106
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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Lots of weed, writing and Clamtones. 
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10-04-2011, 06:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Delicious Hostess Fruit Filling, Oregon
Posts: 469
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Another gem from PD.com:
"Everyone who calls themselves "wolf-something" or "something-wolf" almost inevitably turns out to be an irredeemable shitneck."
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10-04-2011, 06:45 PM
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#3108
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Solumina
Cryptologic Technician Interpretive, essentially he will be a linguist. He won't know what language they are going to teach him until he completes boot camp but he qualified for the top tier languages so it will be Mandarin, Korean, or Arabic.
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That's awesome! If its going to be Manadrin, tell him Mandarin isn't scary, my prof triggers my anxiety around it, but my homework I actually find fun. I make flash cards with the symbols on them and my sister will randomly take one and demand to know what it is XD The only thing that's a pain in the ass is that you're basically learning two languages, since the symbols are not phonetic. And the tones you have to watch but once you get an ear for it, its not bad.
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10-04-2011, 07:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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Originally Posted by Kasdeja
Another gem from PD.com:
"Everyone who calls themselves "wolf-something" or "something-wolf" almost inevitably turns out to be an irredeemable shitneck."
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Wolves are cooler than magick.
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10-04-2011, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 416
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I 'applied' for a job at a Halloween store a day ago (it was really just giving the woman my name and number in case she ever needed someone extra).
Got a call today, and I start work on Thursday.
Fuck. Yes.
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10-05-2011, 05:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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Awesome news, CC!
^_^
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10-05-2011, 08:19 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 416
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Thanks!! I am super stoked about it. I really didn't think I would get a call, atleast not for a while:P
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10-05-2011, 10:00 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Delicious Hostess Fruit Filling, Oregon
Posts: 469
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Sounds cool... I'd love to work at a Halloween store! Congrats!
I was able to afford cat treats today. He deserves them... most of the time.
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10-06-2011, 04:50 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,812
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Solumina
Cryptologic Technician Interpretive, essentially he will be a linguist. He won't know what language they are going to teach him until he completes boot camp but he qualified for the top tier languages so it will be Mandarin, Korean, or Arabic.
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Oh, is that like a Defense Language Institute type deal? If I remember correctly, the stuff like Chinese and Korean is a good 18-24 month course. He'd pretty much be in school for a good while. Does he have any idea what his CONUS/OCONUS rotation will look like when he graduates from DLI?
Oh, I'm also curious: If his job is something like a linguist, does he still qualify for the extra pay for scoring high enough on the OPI? When I was learning Pashto, I read that it was something like an extra 300-1000 dollars a month for scoring just a 2. Err. To put that into perspective, I scored just underneath a 2 from only 3 months of studying the language when I went to school for it, so his proficientcy after he's done with the school would obviously be much higher. It might be something to look into!
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Woke up with fifty enemies plottin' my death
All fifty seein' visions of me shot in the chest
Couldn't rest, nah nigga I was stressed
Had me creepin' 'round corners, homie sleepin' in my vest.
-Breathin, Tupac.
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10-06-2011, 06:02 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Finding out there's a "Ghouls Night Out" roller derby spooktacular on Sunday, October 30th featuring Zombies versus Vampires!
I might just have to go ... sounds like fun!
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10-06-2011, 02:19 PM
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#3116
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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The mods on the Tradwitch forum liked my info thread on obtaining bones from roadkill so much, they're going to promote it into the article section 
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10-06-2011, 04:48 PM
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#3117
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Originally Posted by Ben Lahnger
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Holy crap! Our local rollergirls are pretty freaking awesome...but they've never done anything like that.
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10-06-2011, 08:47 PM
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#3118
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Um, lower, oh yeah, uh, uh ... YES THERE!
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Originally Posted by wolf moon
Holy crap! Our local rollergirls are pretty freaking awesome...but they've never done anything like that.
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When I went to the local comic book convention (Comicpalooza) back in April, they held a couple of fennish roller derby events. I think one was Trek versus Star Wars (wish I'd seen that!) and Autobots versus Decepticons!
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Lead me not into temptation ... follow me, I know a shortcut!
As the poets have mournfully sung,
death takes the innocent young,
the rolling in money,
the screamingly funny,
and those who are very well hung.
Your days are numbered - 26,280 per person on average - 2,000,000,000 heartbeats ... tick, tick, tick
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10-06-2011, 09:03 PM
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#3119
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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There needs to be a Kirk vs Picard!
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10-06-2011, 10:43 PM
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#3120
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
Posts: 8,030
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Versus
Oh, is that like a Defense Language Institute type deal? If I remember correctly, the stuff like Chinese and Korean is a good 18-24 month course. He'd pretty much be in school for a good while.
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Yep, I believe that all top tier languages are 18 month courses, the lower tier languages start at 6 months (I think).
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Originally Posted by Versus
Does he have any idea what his CONUS/OCONUS rotation will look like when he graduates from DLI?
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He does and he told me but I don't remember.
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Originally Posted by Versus
Oh, I'm also curious: If his job is something like a linguist, does he still qualify for the extra pay for scoring high enough on the OPI? When I was learning Pashto, I read that it was something like an extra 300-1000 dollars a month for scoring just a 2. Err. To put that into perspective, I scored just underneath a 2 from only 3 months of studying the language when I went to school for it, so his proficientcy after he's done with the school would obviously be much higher. It might be something to look into!
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Unfortunately he would only get that pay for additional languages.
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10-07-2011, 02:03 AM
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#3121
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Originally Posted by Solumina
Yep, I believe that all top tier languages are 18 month courses, the lower tier languages start at 6 months (I think).
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I want to say that, normally, they would but the army and I think the marines have been experimenting with trying to churn out as many people with a little bit of language skill as possible. Like, the Pashto course I took was a last minute decision to be funded by my unit, so they had to condense it from 6 months to 3, but still maintain the same standards for completion as opposed to the Dari course before that which was only 5 months.
It's probably more likely all that is a branch specific decision, though. It makes sense, given the level and type of interaction that you expect from a platoon of infantry in rural Afghanistan versus a US/South Korean training exercise, for example. It's just not necessary for the soldiers to build and retain their language because they won't need it after 12-15 months when their deployment ends and the hearts and minds bullshit goes out the window. The guys that stay at DLI for a year or more, however, are given that opportunity because those skill sets in information technology are projected to be needed by that level of command for a good while.
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Originally Posted by Solumina
Unfortunately he would only get that pay for additional languages.
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Bummer! I wonder if he'll get that opportunity? I know that you can't just pick up anything and get paid for it (it only applies to languages with a military significance) so I expect it would be pretty difficult to learn another of those languages with work's support or even being self taught.
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Woke up with fifty enemies plottin' my death
All fifty seein' visions of me shot in the chest
Couldn't rest, nah nigga I was stressed
Had me creepin' 'round corners, homie sleepin' in my vest.
-Breathin, Tupac.
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10-07-2011, 05:14 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Versus
(it only applies to languages with a military significance)
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! What are you planning to do to China?!
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10-07-2011, 05:42 AM
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#3123
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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I succeeded at making a poached egg! Of course that was after 5 failures(in my defense, 3 of them were due to the egg yolk being punctured). I only wish I had bigger better eggs to work with from grade AA rather than these grade A eggs I was stuck working with.
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10-07-2011, 08:10 AM
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#3124
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,812
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Originally Posted by Saya
! What are you planning to do to China?!
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Spy on them, at the very least.
If I play my cards right, however, I might be able to convince GANDHI that it's in his people's better interest receive their aluminum from me, instead of from China.
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Woke up with fifty enemies plottin' my death
All fifty seein' visions of me shot in the chest
Couldn't rest, nah nigga I was stressed
Had me creepin' 'round corners, homie sleepin' in my vest.
-Breathin, Tupac.
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10-07-2011, 09:41 AM
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#3125
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 416
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Had my first day at the Halloween store yesterday. It was alot of fun! I get to talk about fx makeup and show people costumes all day! I've never been so excited about work before!
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