Paging Czar, Sniper School In Session

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The US Army is advertising with a unique Halo 3 tie-in. Head over to XBox.com (http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/events/playandwin/sniperschool/) to sign up, and get entered in the contest just for playing some Halo! You might also want to join the army, but don’t ask Slitt about joining, he’s still bitter.

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[CzarCastic]

Very cool. I registered, but it really has nothing to do with sniping. :sad:

It's just a contest that you enter by playing Halo 3 matchmaking. The grand prize is a very cool piece of Halo art with M$ points as runner up prizes.

[UncleGramps]

Careful, if you play really well, you are automatically drafted! -eek-

[Primal Urges]

This look like shades of The Last Starfighter! Be careful how good you play!

[Spiderbite73]

Very cool. I registered, but it really has nothing to do with sniping. :sad:

It's just a contest that you enter by playing Halo 3 matchmaking. The grand prize is a very cool piece of Halo art with M$ points as runner up prizes.

Dude, unless your are seriously interested, I would never give my name to the Army or any other Armed Services. They will bug the living shit out of you.

See you in Iraq, Czar!

I hear they have special government goggles that make Al-Qaeda look just like The Covenant to make for an easier transition.

[xmiyux]

Very cool. I registered, but it really has nothing to do with sniping. :sad:

It's just a contest that you enter by playing Halo 3 matchmaking. The grand prize is a very cool piece of Halo art with M$ points as runner up prizes.

Well there are some videos that reveal beginner, intermediate, and advanced sniping perches.

[Canis Firebrand]

Yeah.. I am always a bit leary when having to deal with the military.

Once when I was in high school and friend and I thought it would be a great idea to get out of 3 classes by signing up to take the asfab test. I must have scored pretty high because I had a ton of recruiters calling and sending letters to me.

One letter was from the Navy. I had a friend of the family that was a naval recruiter look at the offer and he said they just don't give that out to anyone. It was 4 years paid at U of M, spending money. Then, when I graduated, I'd enter the Navy as an officer and serve 4 required years. I turned it down as I did not want to be in the military, esp at a time when things in the middle east were heating up. I would have been entering the Navy sometime in 1997 had I gone for it.

[xmiyux]

In high school i had recruiters calling me due to making it into a foreign language honor society. They kept calling me. I told them no. I told them i was registered as a conscientious objector, so no. The calls kept coming. Finally i told a recruiter who called that i was, and i quote, "as gay as a French Horn." All calls ceased after that. :lol:

Now if the Dianetics folk would leave me alone.

[Spiderbite73]

Once when I was in high school and friend and I thought it would be a great idea to get out of 3 classes by signing up to take the asfab test. I must have scored pretty high because I had a ton of recruiters calling and sending letters to me.




No offense but you could have scored a negative 50 and they would have still called you. Every government needs a steady supply of meat shields.

They are so desperate right now they would enlist the retarded if they could.

[xmiyux]

True but they flip out over anyone who has college potential. Especially if that person has tech skills or language skills.

[SameBIG CHIEF]

you mean the asvab right? When I saw asfab I thought absolutely fabulous....:)

[Canis Firebrand]

yeah.. that is probably it.. I didn't know what the acronym was, actually.

[H I McDunnough]

Every government (Halo clan) needs a steady supply of meat shields.

They are so desperate right now they would enlist the retarded if they could.

that's why we allow you to play....

[xmiyux]

that's why we allow you to play....

rotfl :thumbsup:

[Spiderbite73]

that's why we allow you to play....

So I take it you represent the geriatric community in the clan.

Governments need old assholes as well. Your Marine recruiter should be calling you tomorrow. I just signed you up on their website.

[H I McDunnough]

Your Marine recruiter should be calling you tomorrow. I just signed you up on their website.

that's OK ... I signed you up for NAMBLA

[Strangehate]

If any of you get drafted for this but are against the Halo Wars... I can house you here in Canada.

[Brikenjon]

No offense but you could have scored a negative 50 and they would have still called you. Every government needs a steady supply of meat shields.

They are so desperate right now they would enlist the retarded if they could.

He was being offered an ROTC officer program, not an enlistment. Besides, there aren't too many "meat shield" jobs in the Navy.

I considered doing the ROTC thing, but I didn't like the idea of doing four years of college and then doing four years of service. That meant starting real life eight years after high school. Of course, I ended up in the nuclear program, which was a six year enlistment. Two years of training followed by four years of service. A compromise, I guess, but it worked out pretty well, I think.


yeah.. that is probably it.. I didn't know what the acronym was, actually.

Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery.

[Primal Urges]

that's why we allow you to play....

You for got the obligatory :cabbagepatch:

[fightclubjeff]

If any of you get drafted for this but are against the Halo Wars... I can house you here in Canada.

Does this include a trip to the Hockey Hall of Fame? That would be sweet.

[Spiderbite73]

Of course, I ended up in the nuclear program, which was a six year enlistment. Two years of training followed by four years of service. A compromise, I guess, but it worked out pretty well, I think.

That's interesting. My best friend from high school joined the Navy's nuclear program and did the exact same thing. He was in it from '91 to '97 or so. You have to be pretty smart to get into that program. He ended up getting out at the end of his 6 years instead of going career and then went to Georgia Tech for free.

[Brikenjon]

That's interesting. My best friend from high school joined the Navy's nuclear program and did the exact same thing. He was in it from '91 to '97 or so. You have to be pretty smart to get into that program. He ended up getting out at the end of his 6 years instead of going career and then went to Georgia Tech for free.

Thanks for the inferred compliment, and I'd tend to agree with you, but I did meet some real dumb asses in the Navy Nuclear Power program. You do have to get a minimum score on the ASVAB and then there's another aptitude test you have to take with more physics, chemistry, and math on it. Making it through the program used to be a much bigger deal. Even during your friend's time frame, it was much harder to make it through as opposed to when I went through. And by the time I got out, the quality of new people making it through the training pipeline was a little concerning. At one point, there was supposedly somewhere around an 80% attrition rate. Nuclear Power School was considered the third most difficult school in the country and the mental equivalent of Navy SEAL training. When I went through, about half my class made it. Now I think the attrition rate is probably around 30% or so.

The biggest change, I think, is in how much easier they made Prototype. You go to A-School and Power School first, which is purely a classroom environment (though A-School did have some labs). Then you go to Prototype, which where you learn how stand watch and operate on an actual, running reactor. When I went through the pipeline, hardly anybody failed out once they got to Prototype. That wasn't always the case, with Prototype having as high an attrition rate as A-School and Power School. There's book smart and then there's real smart. It used to be that if you were just book smart, you'd make it to Prototype and get weeded out. Now, they just make it through.

Nothing is more frustrating than working with or, worse, trying to teach something to, somebody that obviously has the brains but has no fucking clue how to turn a wrench or freezes up when the shit hits the fan.

Anyway, my point is that becoming a Navy Nuc these days isn't quite the achievement it once was.

:brikenjon: