BF2S Forums Hurry up and wait, now defined.

k30dxedle wrote:

Government...efficiency?

Mmfph. Mffp.

GAHAHAHA

please wait 6-10 weeks for a response to your post.

The Navy has forms for requesting...

...more forms. I have one laying around somewhere.

Last edited by k30dxedle (2007-06-03 17:23:38)

stryyker wrote:

I now know why the Military coined the phrase "hurry up and wait".

I just spent much of my day yesterday at the Military Entry Processing Station (MEPS) in LA. Holy God. For the most powerful military in the world, we sure are unorganized. It took a group of 30 people 2 hours to get our folders BEFORE the processing could start. Ouch. All things culminated in the worst day ever. Rather extensive physicals, blood work, urine tests, physical screening, mental screening, background check, counseling.

The best part is, you can't small talk with the other recruits to be. This whole system could be a well oiled machine, seeing as we are the United States (lol, the US being efficient), but no. Waiting 2 hours between posts because the doctors are older than Moses.

Long story short, It took me from 0200 to 1500 (12 hours) to process 3 pages worth of information. And I have to go back in a year and do it all again. Balls.

They really need to make this kind of thing more efficient.

/rant

Really I went to the one down in Sacramento to get enlisted it wasn't too bad. oh and for the urine test is that a drug test as well?

stryyker wrote:

DEP. I didn't disclose a minor injury I had as a kid, so they want be back in a year with the xrays.

By the way your sig says 22 days of hell left whats that mean?

stryyker wrote:

I now know why the Military coined the phrase "hurry up and wait".

I just spent much of my day yesterday at the Military Entry Processing Station (MEPS) in LA. Holy God. For the most powerful military in the world, we sure are unorganized. It took a group of 30 people 2 hours to get our folders BEFORE the processing could start. Ouch. All things culminated in the worst day ever. Rather extensive physicals, blood work, urine tests, physical screening, mental screening, background check, counseling.

The best part is, you can't small talk with the other recruits to be. This whole system could be a well oiled machine, seeing as we are the United States (lol, the US being efficient), but no. Waiting 2 hours between posts because the doctors are older than Moses.

Long story short, It took me from 0200 to 1500 (12 hours) to process 3 pages worth of information. And I have to go back in a year and do it all again. Balls.

They really need to make this kind of thing more efficient.

/rant

Here is the really scary part.  Should ask someone there how many people they process.  Viewed from the POV of the MEPS personnel, it is most likely pretty efficient.  Granted, it really does suck to go through it yourself.  You think MEPS is bad, wait until you get '5 minuted' to death.

There will be a division formation at 0900.  It takes 5 minutes to march from the Brigade area.  We want to make sure no one is late, so the Brigade formation will be at 0840.  It takes 5 minutes to march from the battalion area to the brigade are, and we want to make sure no one is late, so the battalion formation will be at 0820.  Noone wants to be late for the battlion formation, so the company formation will be at 0805.  YOur platoon leader does not want to look silly, so the platoon formation will be at 0750.  No squad leader wants to see his troops be late to any formation, so YOU have to be there at 0735.  So now, there you are, standing in formation almost 90 minutes before the start of the division formation.

stryyker wrote:

0200 to 1500 (12 hours)

dude, thats 13 horus

imortal wrote:

Here is the really scary part.  Should ask someone there how many people they process.  Viewed from the POV of the MEPS personnel, it is most likely pretty efficient.  Granted, it really does suck to go through it yourself.  You think MEPS is bad, wait until you get '5 minuted' to death.

There will be a division formation at 0900.  It takes 5 minutes to march from the Brigade area.  We want to make sure no one is late, so the Brigade formation will be at 0840.  It takes 5 minutes to march from the battalion area to the brigade are, and we want to make sure no one is late, so the battalion formation will be at 0820.  Noone wants to be late for the battlion formation, so the company formation will be at 0805.  YOur platoon leader does not want to look silly, so the platoon formation will be at 0750.  No squad leader wants to see his troops be late to any formation, so YOU have to be there at 0735.  So now, there you are, standing in formation almost 90 minutes before the start of the division formation.

hahah, do i know what you are talking about! thats one of the worse parts about my time during service... Rushing to wait, waiting to rush.

lol just wait till your done baisic, you think that was bad...

stryyker wrote:

theit57 wrote:

stryyker wrote:

0200 to 1500 (12 hours)

dude, thats 13 horus

1400*

welcome

tthf wrote:

imortal wrote:

Here is the really scary part.  Should ask someone there how many people they process.  Viewed from the POV of the MEPS personnel, it is most likely pretty efficient.  Granted, it really does suck to go through it yourself.  You think MEPS is bad, wait until you get '5 minuted' to death.

There will be a division formation at 0900.  It takes 5 minutes to march from the Brigade area.  We want to make sure no one is late, so the Brigade formation will be at 0840.  It takes 5 minutes to march from the battalion area to the brigade are, and we want to make sure no one is late, so the battalion formation will be at 0820.  Noone wants to be late for the battlion formation, so the company formation will be at 0805.  YOur platoon leader does not want to look silly, so the platoon formation will be at 0750.  No squad leader wants to see his troops be late to any formation, so YOU have to be there at 0735.  So now, there you are, standing in formation almost 90 minutes before the start of the division formation.

hahah, do i know what you are talking about! thats one of the worse parts about my time during service... Rushing to wait, waiting to rush.

Oh man, when I was in 29 Palms... PT was scheduled for 05, but platoon formation was 0300. WTF is that about. LMAO. Good times though, you just stand there in PT gear... feeling the cold breeze and being the desert... when PT starts... wham... temp shoots straight up and you're sweatin' your balls during PT.

But MEPS isn't really all that bad. All the Admin people in there need to make sure all your paperwork is good to go, and YOU need to make sure your paperwork is good to go. When I signed up, I was picked up by my recruiter at zero3, into Ft. Hamilton MEPS station by 0430, all the paperwork was done by 1500. There were 30+ other Marine poolees with me.

killer21 wrote:

stryyker wrote:

I was there for the Marines. I just hope the paperwork went that way

the MEPS in Los Angeles has a gameroom, but none of the games were on, so I spent my 1 hour lunch break sleeping next to a TV that was playing M:I 3

Good stuff.  I spent 7 years in the Marine Corps.  Damn, you're gonna have to go to San Diego for boot camp lol.  That sucks with all those mountains out there...like mount motherfucker lol.

Mountains don't scare me. Only if they are on fire. Or in Vietnam.

Apparently there is a 100 mile hump from 29 palms to the backside of Pendleton these days. It almost sounded interesting.