Whats your real job? - Page 4

Strygun · 2011-10-06, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by Traak

Oh, your statement sounded like you were THE ambassador somewhere, not a faceless drone in some great Embassy hive.

Nope, not an ambassador...yet. Give me another 20 years or so.

But I'm also not quite a faceless drone in an Embassy hive.

Tcakes · 2011-10-07, 07:43 PM

EMT in las vegas

Crator · 2011-10-07, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml

hahaha, I'm in IT as well... figures that's why we usually see eye to eye.

CutterJohn · 2011-10-08, 12:46 AM

Maintenance at a factory. Pumps and motor controller and valves oh my!

Baneblade · 2011-10-08, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by Tcakes

EMT in las vegas

I met a Medic West Paramedic who went to work as a cab driver part time. something about not getting enough money.

Tcakes · 2011-10-08, 01:22 AM

ya, the pay here can suck if you dont work any over time, or if your not in the fd. im not complaining though. just glad i have a job currently.

xmodum · 2011-10-15, 11:31 AM

This was me a few months ago. Transport for a classified organization in Baghdad Iraq, Civilian attire, beards (Well my attempt at a white trash goatee at least) and H&K M416 instead of the standard M4, Sig Sauer P228 instead of the M9. Up armored SUV's, Sedans, and trucks. Twas good times indeed.

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Now I'm back in the states.....doing pretty much the same thing, for a Security company here in Boise. Without Iraqi's, Armor, or weapons though....just transporting Mental patients between hospitals, running routes to check out businesses we have contracts with to make sure they aren't broken into, and standing guard at some of them.

BUGGER · 2011-10-15, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

I met a Medic West Paramedic who went to work as a cab driver part time. something about not getting enough money.

I had a friend who was an EMT of sorts, 12.50 an hour aint pretty....suppose it aint bad if they get to sleep or watch movies.

Vegas, though, I bet that's every EMT's goal....imagine the calls.... *insert any Hangover plotline*

Infektion · 2011-10-20, 03:58 PM

IT Server Technician - Studying for CCNA. I got a small cisco lab in my office.

Traak · 2011-10-20, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by Strygun

Nope, not an ambassador...yet. Give me another 20 years or so.

But I'm also not quite a faceless drone in an Embassy hive.

Anyway, here's that idea for IED cell phone use mitigation.

Traak · 2011-10-23, 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by xmodum

Civilian attire, beards (Well my attempt at a white trash goatee at least)

I used to laugh at that. Isn't the first place Hadjis look if they want to find mercs or special forces, is for that telltale facial hair?

You aren't part of the cool (Iraqi) kids club until you can shave with sewing thread.

xmodum · 2011-10-23, 08:06 PM

The point of it was that when we pass by, if there's an IED waiting with a trigger man, they see us and don't know who we are, don't know if we're army or not, and hesitate, and we get out of the danger area before he can hit us. They've been doing this style of operation for almost the entire war, and no one has been hit in about 6 years.

So you can laugh at the facial hair, but hey, im sure it saved my ass at least once, and many others. And they do know who the real mercs are, and what they drive.

Hamma · 2011-10-23, 08:21 PM

Blending in.

Traak · 2011-10-24, 04:31 AM

But, who would you blend in with? All the white-skinned blonde Iraqis? That is what made me wonder. There was nothing about the guys I saw that made me think "Wow, they sure had me fooled. I had no idea they were close-protection guys." Or: Someone call security! There's a whole gang of 6' tall, muscled-up white Iraqis in excruciatingly new t-shirts and jeans walking around the base!

How would they look at the average white guy and think "Oh, he blends in, must be from Iraq?

But, I don't know much about where you were operating. Were there a lot of people that looked like you that you blended in with there? Because not one of you guys ever looked like an Iraqi, or even from someone other than smack-dab in the middle of America to me. You couldn't have looked much more foreign if you were walking around in groups of three with drum, fife, and Old Glory.

I am not saying this to be contentious, despite the humor. I am actually curious how an Elmer's-Glue-All-white American with or without facial hair blended in. And I am not disputing your safety record. If you were trying not to look like regular Army guys, well, you didn't, but, to me, at least, you all looked like Special Forces, which, again, to me, would have made you look like a walking bull's-eye.

But, I don't know what the average Hadji was looking for, either, other than the shiny-smooth chin and ARMY shirt and attitude.

Baneblade · 2011-10-24, 06:19 AM

Have some faith Traak.