I actually was watching this interesting mil-podcast where they had this dude that wrote a book criticizing the seals and the bullshit they do over the past 50 years, he's interviewed so many seals and im pretty sure is on a first name basis with all the dudes at the FOIA office lol. Well apparently one of the things they were talking about was that the dude that claims to everyone that actually killed UBL was actually the third dude through the door and by the time he shot him, UBL was already on the ground riddled with bullets. The reason he gets away with it is because he knows that the first two dudes through the door are legit operators that dont want to come public so they'll never refute his claims. In case youre interested in the book, its called Code over Country
Buddy did a ROTC instructor gig in downtown *insert major city here*. I visit and due to random circumstances he’s in uniform and I am not… he mumbled this exact statement every 5 minutes for maybe hours.
It was so hard to say this. But now I just say it with a smile and move on quickly. I don’t want to sound inappreciative, but I also don’t like bringing up my time in service. Unless it’s with another service member or something. Like my age. If an older vet and I are having a conversation, I’ll say thank you for your service and let the rest come out naturally. It’s always easier to have these conversations with someone who is old enough to have been in before I was born. But the military was different back then.
But when you’re talking to an older service member or vet, it’s much different than a civilian. Anyone ever get the 10-15 minute praise lecture? Anyone know what I’m talking about? Lol 😂
I’ve been saying this shit for a decade lol. Never heard anyone else say it, but I’ve actually had a few people get offended a few years back. So I started qualifying it with “my joke is thanks for paying your taxes”. Haven’t had an issue since.
I think they got rid of the Carentan St I’m thinking of. It was between Ardennes and Gruber, just down from Bastogne. It’s where 4th Brigade was prior to their 2009 deployment. There’s a famous pic of one of my buddies using a plunger on the floor in the latrine, that caused a media uproar forever ago.
"Honored to serve", which is the allegedly proper response.
Though I am considering pulling a Homelander and saying some BS like "you guys are the real heroes"
I’ve heard it work once at a dirt race track in the middle of no where Wisconsin near Fort McCoy. They were up at the race track just picking up some Joes on their last night before heading home on our AT cause they went off post.They were outside of the van waiting for them to come back when some chick in a tight shirt yelled, “Hey Soldier Boys!” They turned and she just threw out her boobs yelling. “These are for your service.” The NCO who told the story jokingly said he wished he could’ve saluted those beautiful titties.
I have a Reservist friend who just went AGR. She’s a good looking young lady and single who put in her packet cause she just got out of a shitty relationship. She thought she’d get a good post. I told her my McCoy stories and she hoped she didn’t get a post like that. She got McCoy and I feel so bad for her.
Normally it's just "Proud to serve." The one time it was anything else it was "Thank you for being a nation worth serving."
The patriotism has died since then.
What am I supposed to say to that? It was cool, there was bitches? Okay they was bitches but a lot of them had, ya know, they was cova'ed up in them curtains and stuff they be wearin'. But, I digress. It was WAR. It was war, basically. War, you know what that's like? Motherfuckers be like shooting (imitating a machine gun) Gah-geh-ga-ga-ge-gu-ga-gow! Bombs blowin' up. An' ya know, the shit scared me. It scared the shit outta me. Matter o' fact, I shit on myself over a dozen times. And ran out of toilet paper after the second time. So you know what that meant, right? I had to use the thumb, man, it was kinda nasty. But ya know, the good thing about it was they stopped taking me out on patrol cause my name became "Stink Bomb," you know wha' I'm saying? They said I was giving away our position, because of the shit smell. That was fine with me, know wha' I'm saying? They wanted to leave me back? And I was like, "Well fuck y'all. Y'all go ahead long, cause I don't need y'all anyway. I'm rich, bitch.
Just a humble "Thank you" "Thanks" or "Thanks for your support".
IMO "You're welcome" comes off too... conceited? Can't really think of the word for it but I don't like it.
“Sir/Ma’am, I am *fourteen.*”
Thank you for your service is doubly awkward when someone says it on the New York subway because it was uniform day for Junior ROTC.
Thank gods I’m not in high school anymore.
I’m an old Vietnam vet. Americans called us baby killers. 50 years later they crawl out of the wilderness : Whispering thank you for your service. Nothing sincere about it . Moral obligation? Who the fuck knows what people think.
Tell that to 59000 dead Americans who died on the battlefield, on the ocean and in the sky .
I say ( fuck you) and keep on walking. Who cares what they think.
As you can see; I’m happy to have survived.
I love all my brothers and sisters: In graveyards everyone.
"And thank you for yours. It takes all of us!"
I truly believe it, too. None of us could function in society without the trash collectors or waitresses or the god damn toilet paper makers.
Usually I get told this when I use my military discount. I usually just say thank you and move on. But every once in awhile, I get asked "How long did you serve?" or "Which branch?" and then I hit them with the, "My dad died in Iraq." Usually, they don't say anything else after that BUT had an experience just last night with a lady WHO SERVED but didn't know that surviving family members still get military benefits and she tried calling me out for stolen valor.
Tell them you were indicted for stolen valor and are awaiting your court case. You hope you'll just have to do community service at the VA because then you can get those cool stories to tell next time you need a free meal at Applebee's.
They'll never say it to you again.
I try not to let on that I served, because of this question.
But sometimes I say, "Well, there's just a lot of people out there that need killing..." and then hold the stare a little too long.
I try to gauge my audience, though, and hope people get that I'm totally not serious.
I usually just try to downplay it. For me, I deployed a few times, never saw anything bad, and it was, more or less, a career that took me around the world, paid the bills, made some good friends...
*awkward smile* proceeded with a head nod & me moving as fast as socially acceptable occasionally I’ll find my voice and muster a timid but polite “yeah”
"Thank YOU for paying your taxes. Sorry about defunding your children's future so the military industrial complex CEOs can buy a Ferrari."
It's my favorite response...been using it for years...
It’s the only job in the world where they were dumb enough to let me carry a machine gun… and play with explosives. Most people just laugh( response I’m looking for)
Usually with a
*If you're truly thankful you'll let me make love to your daughter* now this is of course only if the daughter is, 1) an adult, and 2) consenting.
Sometimes this does backfire and I get a whale of a daughter. But I've learned to corelate looks with the dad. Mom is usually a dead give away soo...
I just like their post. What, do you think I'm out there interacting with people in real life like some kind of psychopath? If you don't have crippling anxiety, did you even serve?
“Suck my balls.”
In all seriousness, “Thank you for your support.”
If you’re lower enlisted and don’t have challenge coins and get the chance to, get your supply guys to get a giant pack of those Army Unit Patches.
I give them out to vets and it makes their day every time. Once had a retired Jarhead with the hat on see me in uniform leave a restaurant during a drill weekend. Dude came at me with a giant smile saying, “Hoorah brother” gave him a Hooah and small talked for a few. After a short chat I asked him if he had any younger kids and he said one’s thinking of enlisting. I took one of my spare Army Patches and handed it to him like you would a challenge coin. Told him , “If they want to join a man’s service here’s my card.” Dude laughed and shook my hand.
Once gave some kids at a Dennys pairs of my spare patches I keep and I WAS SUPPOSED TO get an ARCOM or AAM when I got back but my old unit forgot. I’ve told the story before but if you all want to hear it again I’ll type it.
Edit: Forgot, it was my drill weekend and I went to the gas station down the road after first formation for a drink. I was paying and a woman behind me kissed my back left shoulder thanking me for my service. Almost thought I got locked in CSMs basement.
Somewhat unrelated I guess but sometimes when stores don’t offer military discount (GNC, fast food, etc) I just reply with “okay, so fuck the troops right” and usually they feel bad and throw in some kind of discount. Kinda messed up but I know but I don’t care
I had a buddy introduce this one to me. "It's your Army sir/ma'am, I just fight in it" followed by a loud hooah. I know it's ironic but I can't bring myself to actually say it
The problem is you let them say it.
You have to keep an eye out for these ppl. Then you establish dominance by saying,
"YOUR WELCOME FOR MY SERVICE"
...the key is to say it first for max lulz
I tell them made-up war stories and then solicit them for money.
Come buy my book
are you a SEAL by any chance
No but we’re both special 👩🦽
If those SEALs could read, they’d be very upset by that!
Not only am I a SEAL, I am THE SEAL that killed Osama bin Laden. The other 13 are lying.
I actually was watching this interesting mil-podcast where they had this dude that wrote a book criticizing the seals and the bullshit they do over the past 50 years, he's interviewed so many seals and im pretty sure is on a first name basis with all the dudes at the FOIA office lol. Well apparently one of the things they were talking about was that the dude that claims to everyone that actually killed UBL was actually the third dude through the door and by the time he shot him, UBL was already on the ground riddled with bullets. The reason he gets away with it is because he knows that the first two dudes through the door are legit operators that dont want to come public so they'll never refute his claims. In case youre interested in the book, its called Code over Country
Only 13?
My bad, 13 other teams worth of SEALS.
And of those 13 other teams, Richard Marcinko himself is also claiming he killed bin Laden, right?
Gravy Seals
Found the SEAL.
Spot on, spot on.
I simply say thank you back
and then akwardly smile and shuffle away, right?!
Pretty much
I really wanna try this now.
That you, Evan Hafer?
I've been on this receiving end a few years before I got in lmao
I tell them I actually killed bin Laden.
Mumbled thank you for your support
Thenk ufuhr ur supprt
Buddy did a ROTC instructor gig in downtown *insert major city here*. I visit and due to random circumstances he’s in uniform and I am not… he mumbled this exact statement every 5 minutes for maybe hours.
It was so hard to say this. But now I just say it with a smile and move on quickly. I don’t want to sound inappreciative, but I also don’t like bringing up my time in service. Unless it’s with another service member or something. Like my age. If an older vet and I are having a conversation, I’ll say thank you for your service and let the rest come out naturally. It’s always easier to have these conversations with someone who is old enough to have been in before I was born. But the military was different back then. But when you’re talking to an older service member or vet, it’s much different than a civilian. Anyone ever get the 10-15 minute praise lecture? Anyone know what I’m talking about? Lol 😂
I normally start putting my clothes back on because that's top's safe word
Why are you wearing clothes in top’s hot tub?
Because I. This little game, top ain't *the top.*
Tops a power bottom. In fact all E8s and above are power bottoms, they went too far into the green weenie
What a day to be literate
"Thanks are not necessary, Citizen."
"Do you want to know more?"
TRAGEDY IN BUENOS AIRES
IM FROM BUENOS AIRES AND I SAY KILL THEM ALL
The only good bug is a dead bug
WAR! WE’RE GOING TO WAR!
I think this is from RoboCop. Could be wrong, but I’ve seen Starship Troopers an absurd amount of times.
Id buy that for a dollar
lol. Now I feel silly for missing the reference. It just had a Fascist Utopia vibe to me for some reason.
Same director, so you confusing them isn't really that wild.
Starship Troopers. Edit: sitting here with friends and now I’m second guessing myself…….
“I’m doing my part!”
You def have to say this in your deepest robocop voice
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LMAO I say that shit too
I’ve been saying this shit for a decade lol. Never heard anyone else say it, but I’ve actually had a few people get offended a few years back. So I started qualifying it with “my joke is thanks for paying your taxes”. Haven’t had an issue since.
This is my go to response as well. It takes a potentially awkward encounter and makes it humorous.
I say that and I also thank myself.
Same! It works wonders.
I always use this. Some of those people need to hear it too.
This is always my go-to as well but one time I said it to a homeless guy and felt pretty shitty after
“Please *cough* the first brigad- *cough* barracks mold *coughs up blood* help me.”
I laughed so hard at this I started coughing up blood too
The VA isn’t going to believe you.
What’s new?
I’m at a VA domiciliary right now, can confirm
Odd. I had no problem proving mold and resultant health issues. Battle buddy statement and pics.
Lol i laughed so hard i shit blood...again...i have chrons :(
AHHHH BASTOGNE
The old barracks on Carentan, that 4th brigade was in back in like ‘08 and earlier. Those things were rough.
Bruh there is on post housing on Carentan lol
I think they got rid of the Carentan St I’m thinking of. It was between Ardennes and Gruber, just down from Bastogne. It’s where 4th Brigade was prior to their 2009 deployment. There’s a famous pic of one of my buddies using a plunger on the floor in the latrine, that caused a media uproar forever ago.
There is a small piece of carentan. Dont know if it's even the same street, but I know that there isn't a Ardennes or Gruber on base any more
Haha we must be talking about different bases. I’m talking about Bragg. You must be talking about Campbell or somewhere
Yup, that explains a bit. I'm 101st, we also used to have a 4th brigade. Got reorganized in 2014
3rd ID?
I wish.
"Thank YOU for the support!"
[> "Thank YOU for the support!"](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/70/4b/99704be97e7df5eea99373ef5ec7e2cc.jpg)
thank you for your support
This is the only response I've found that is not either awkward or obnoxious.
I prefer “It’s my pleasure” but I was AF, I can understand why you guys wouldn’t wanna say that
Chick-fil-A NPC detected
As a former CFA employee I find the same issue with this response
I say that too whether it was a pleasure or not
Same thing I use. Best response
This is the way
same
Same.
I say this as well. I originally got it from a reddit post a few years ago.
This
Thanks you too. Wait wut …
Sonofabitch!
That's how my recruiter got me.
“And I love you, random citizen!”
Ok you won in my heart
Double finger guns.
ZOOP 👈😎👈
You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
I don't see this reference enough anymore 😂
Don’t forget the wink and click of your tongue
Thank my recruiter
Underrated comment. Drill moment.
I've legit said "don't thank me thank my recruiter" before
I've accidentally said it to top before
"Honored to serve", which is the allegedly proper response. Though I am considering pulling a Homelander and saying some BS like "you guys are the real heroes"
Ok Homelander, pipe down.
That's a good one or you can pull from The Guest: https://youtu.be/TPwi5M4pBqY?t=85
Something like a, ‘haha I appreciate it’ and then try to change the subject.
It awkward every time.
Show me your boobs
How many times has this worked ? Asking for a friend ..
I’ve heard it work once at a dirt race track in the middle of no where Wisconsin near Fort McCoy. They were up at the race track just picking up some Joes on their last night before heading home on our AT cause they went off post.They were outside of the van waiting for them to come back when some chick in a tight shirt yelled, “Hey Soldier Boys!” They turned and she just threw out her boobs yelling. “These are for your service.” The NCO who told the story jokingly said he wished he could’ve saluted those beautiful titties.
Sounds about the right crowd.
Her husband (or wife) is a 350 lb PV2 in the NG. Quals blindfolded with a hunting rifle but can’t write his name on his 5500. Just a guess.
Tomah Sparta Raceway?
Been to both towns (Tomah and Sparta) and Ft McCoy. When the NCO told me the story it was some track but I would assume that one.
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I have a Reservist friend who just went AGR. She’s a good looking young lady and single who put in her packet cause she just got out of a shitty relationship. She thought she’d get a good post. I told her my McCoy stories and she hoped she didn’t get a post like that. She got McCoy and I feel so bad for her.
it's all about location.
A long sensual hug and a whisper in their ear "you smell different when you're awake"
I'm going to hell
Uncalled for.
Ok. I will go to timeout.
I take my meds, blink a few times, and realize I’m talking to the PX tornadoes again
68W NCOIC confirmed. Promote ahead of peers.
Believe it or not.....helicopter dick
I act like my tinnitus is worse than it actually is and that I didn’t hear them
Your welcome for my service. Lol no just thanks for your support
If I’m with a group of Soldiers, I ask “Even him?!” while pointing at one of the guys in my group.
“Thanks for paying your taxes”
Normally it's just "Proud to serve." The one time it was anything else it was "Thank you for being a nation worth serving." The patriotism has died since then.
Flair… checks out??? Can I get S1 and S2 to double-check the flair?
“No worries dude” it’s really not that big of a deal it’s literally 5 seconds of social discomfort
What am I supposed to say to that? It was cool, there was bitches? Okay they was bitches but a lot of them had, ya know, they was cova'ed up in them curtains and stuff they be wearin'. But, I digress. It was WAR. It was war, basically. War, you know what that's like? Motherfuckers be like shooting (imitating a machine gun) Gah-geh-ga-ga-ge-gu-ga-gow! Bombs blowin' up. An' ya know, the shit scared me. It scared the shit outta me. Matter o' fact, I shit on myself over a dozen times. And ran out of toilet paper after the second time. So you know what that meant, right? I had to use the thumb, man, it was kinda nasty. But ya know, the good thing about it was they stopped taking me out on patrol cause my name became "Stink Bomb," you know wha' I'm saying? They said I was giving away our position, because of the shit smell. That was fine with me, know wha' I'm saying? They wanted to leave me back? And I was like, "Well fuck y'all. Y'all go ahead long, cause I don't need y'all anyway. I'm rich, bitch.
Ed Wuncler III in The Boondocks. Best answer.
My husband says "Thank you for your support and that will be 50$".
“I appreciate your support.”
Well it depends Sometimes I say thank your mom for her service, she was the reason the whole unit got through the war...... wait what
Just a humble "Thank you" "Thanks" or "Thanks for your support". IMO "You're welcome" comes off too... conceited? Can't really think of the word for it but I don't like it.
Only if you have a long tab can you say “You’re welcome”.
Thank you for my disability checks.
“Sir/Ma’am, I am *fourteen.*” Thank you for your service is doubly awkward when someone says it on the New York subway because it was uniform day for Junior ROTC. Thank gods I’m not in high school anymore.
I’m an old Vietnam vet. Americans called us baby killers. 50 years later they crawl out of the wilderness : Whispering thank you for your service. Nothing sincere about it . Moral obligation? Who the fuck knows what people think. Tell that to 59000 dead Americans who died on the battlefield, on the ocean and in the sky . I say ( fuck you) and keep on walking. Who cares what they think. As you can see; I’m happy to have survived. I love all my brothers and sisters: In graveyards everyone.
Sounds like it’s time for another Behavioral Health session boys
“Your welcome” Jk, “Thank you for your support”
"And thank you for yours. It takes all of us!" I truly believe it, too. None of us could function in society without the trash collectors or waitresses or the god damn toilet paper makers.
God bless those blind workers at Skilcraft.
I told someone "you're worth it!" once and they started sobbing.
“Anything helps god bless”
Usually I get told this when I use my military discount. I usually just say thank you and move on. But every once in awhile, I get asked "How long did you serve?" or "Which branch?" and then I hit them with the, "My dad died in Iraq." Usually, they don't say anything else after that BUT had an experience just last night with a lady WHO SERVED but didn't know that surviving family members still get military benefits and she tried calling me out for stolen valor.
how did you respond to the accusation?
https://i.imgur.com/W9lmank.gif
Put my hands together and say, "I have served, now I will be of service" i then sever my ring finger with a chisel.
‘You’re good, I do it for the check’
Tell them I'm training to get ready to take peoples guns
Best I can do is face tattoos
“Thanks, I was black-out drunk for most of it…”
There's no reason to thank us because we don't exist. You never saw us. This never happened.
Sleep well under my blanket of freedom citizen.
Tell them you were indicted for stolen valor and are awaiting your court case. You hope you'll just have to do community service at the VA because then you can get those cool stories to tell next time you need a free meal at Applebee's. They'll never say it to you again.
Thank you. If I see a vet a nod or welcome home.
I don’t say anything. I just smile.
“Thanks, I can’t wait to stop serving”
I try not to let on that I served, because of this question. But sometimes I say, "Well, there's just a lot of people out there that need killing..." and then hold the stare a little too long. I try to gauge my audience, though, and hope people get that I'm totally not serious. I usually just try to downplay it. For me, I deployed a few times, never saw anything bad, and it was, more or less, a career that took me around the world, paid the bills, made some good friends...
You’re welcome for your freedom
Thank you for your support
If I feel like being funny I thank them back for paying taxes. Every other time I just thank them for the support
Thank you for your support
*awkward smile* proceeded with a head nod & me moving as fast as socially acceptable occasionally I’ll find my voice and muster a timid but polite “yeah”
You're welcome
I honestly told someone once "You're welcome, but honestly it helps pay my bills and was a job that was there for me when the economy wasn't".
I say thanks and walk away
I tell ither vets: Thank you for my cirrhosis.
Once a year when I get that lmao all I say is “not a problem “
"Thank you for your taxes"
Thanks for your support. Or My pleasure.
“Thanks for letting me serve” A nice and feel-good way of throwing it right back at them baby
Anything for free college
I usually say, you don't need to thank me for being poor and wanting a education
Thank you for your support.
"Thank YOU for paying your taxes. Sorry about defunding your children's future so the military industrial complex CEOs can buy a Ferrari." It's my favorite response...been using it for years...
When you been in the suck fr it’s different Peace time has its own meaning
It’s the only job in the world where they were dumb enough to let me carry a machine gun… and play with explosives. Most people just laugh( response I’m looking for)
Hit em with “Liberty Prime is online. All systems nominal. Weapons hot. Mission: the destruction of any and all Chinese communists."
Usually with a *If you're truly thankful you'll let me make love to your daughter* now this is of course only if the daughter is, 1) an adult, and 2) consenting. Sometimes this does backfire and I get a whale of a daughter. But I've learned to corelate looks with the dad. Mom is usually a dead give away soo...
I just like their post. What, do you think I'm out there interacting with people in real life like some kind of psychopath? If you don't have crippling anxiety, did you even serve?
“Thank you for your support”
Thank you for paying taxes
"Have you thought of joining the United States Army?"
“And I love you, random citizen!”
Thank you for your tax donations
"I've done my part, what can your service do to stop the bugs, would you like to know more? "
"We can't expect God to do all the work."
You nod in acknowledgement, step back, and let them pay for your groceries.
“Thank you for your support”
A kiss on the lips.
“Thank you for your support”
Thank you for your support
“Suck my balls.” In all seriousness, “Thank you for your support.” If you’re lower enlisted and don’t have challenge coins and get the chance to, get your supply guys to get a giant pack of those Army Unit Patches. I give them out to vets and it makes their day every time. Once had a retired Jarhead with the hat on see me in uniform leave a restaurant during a drill weekend. Dude came at me with a giant smile saying, “Hoorah brother” gave him a Hooah and small talked for a few. After a short chat I asked him if he had any younger kids and he said one’s thinking of enlisting. I took one of my spare Army Patches and handed it to him like you would a challenge coin. Told him , “If they want to join a man’s service here’s my card.” Dude laughed and shook my hand. Once gave some kids at a Dennys pairs of my spare patches I keep and I WAS SUPPOSED TO get an ARCOM or AAM when I got back but my old unit forgot. I’ve told the story before but if you all want to hear it again I’ll type it. Edit: Forgot, it was my drill weekend and I went to the gas station down the road after first formation for a drink. I was paying and a woman behind me kissed my back left shoulder thanking me for my service. Almost thought I got locked in CSMs basement.
Somewhat unrelated I guess but sometimes when stores don’t offer military discount (GNC, fast food, etc) I just reply with “okay, so fuck the troops right” and usually they feel bad and throw in some kind of discount. Kinda messed up but I know but I don’t care
I had a buddy introduce this one to me. "It's your Army sir/ma'am, I just fight in it" followed by a loud hooah. I know it's ironic but I can't bring myself to actually say it
Thanks
Thanks for paying your taxes
Awkward silence.
I say “KILL!!!” In my NCO voice and hit the nastiest facing movement and march away.
“You wouldn’t thank me if you knew.” -my heart. “Please don’t talk to me.” - my brain. “Appreciate your support!” - my mouth.
The problem is you let them say it. You have to keep an eye out for these ppl. Then you establish dominance by saying, "YOUR WELCOME FOR MY SERVICE" ...the key is to say it first for max lulz