Crazy5711

[Crazy]

Hi All, I just found this forum straight from one of the online testing sites, followed a link, and here I am. I have tested, and have decided myself based on the clues, that I am INTP. No surprise there. Maybe I'll see y'all around the forum, maybe not, I haven't really looked around yet.

A little about me, I am a Corporal (Cpl, E-4) in the United States Marine Corps. Specifically, I am a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Specialist, or NBC Guru for short, which is known in the Marines as occ field 5711. That and sometimes I'm not all there (not quite sane, a few cards short of a deck, you get the picture) in a word, Crazy

I live in the middle of the socal desert, just north of Palm Springs, and I work mostly in an office biulding doing menial tasks for my supervisors. It is incredably boring and I hate it, but every once in a while I do fun stuff (like surf the net and register on an INTP Forum for instance) Well, anything else you want to know, just ask, and I will let you know as long as I feel it is something I want you to know.

BTW, Male, 24 years old, Married (for now, getting divorced) with a 3 1/2 year old blonde hair, blue eyed boy.

[shaytana]

Welcome, hope you stick around

I was going to say that you have a cool job, but then I read the last paragraph so I guess it isn't all that different.

[Crazy]

Welcome, hope you stick around

I was going to say that you have a cool job, but then I read the last paragraph so I guess it isn't all that different.

Well, that is what they have me doing right now, which is annoying, but it is completely different than what my job title entails, and what I did at my last unit, or when I was in Iraq last year.


NBC Defense deals with Field Protective Masks, protective clothing, and Monitor/survey/decontamination operations. Basically, the first part of my job is to take care of all the equipment we will need on the battlefield in the event of a WMD strike. Second, and one of the most important things, is to train all Marines to use said equipment, which means I teach classes on the gear, and run practical application scenarios. Third thing we do is when we get to the battlefield, we monitor the enemy situation and capabilities, and maintain Intelligence contacts in preperation for an attack. If an actual attack happens, we send out reconaisance teams, gather information, and compile it to predict where the danger is and where it will spread to, then we sound the alarm for anyone in a pontentially contaminated area. Then we organize teams to decontaminate any personnel and equipment (friendly, enemy, or indifferent) that may be contaminated, and treat the casualties, or get them decontaminated so they can be medevaced to a medical facility. I am personally responsible right now for the training and safety of some 500 Marines and Sailors.

But my section falls under another section in the unit that is basically all paperwork and scheduling, and they are short handed, so I must take on these responsibilities right now as well.

[shaytana]

Alright, I take it back, you have a cool job.

[Johnny]

A high proportion of my fellow employees are ex-military, all the way back to Vietnam and Korea. Very structured, plan-the-job/execute-the-plan/close-gaps mentalities. As a Perciever working in a Judger culture, it's kinda neat to read about someone else working in an environment with such characteristics. Welcome aboard.

[Crazy]

A high proportion of my fellow employees are ex-military, all the way back to Vietnam and Korea. Very structured, plan-the-job/execute-the-plan/close-gaps mentalities. As a Perciever working in a Judger culture, it's kinda neat to read about someone else working in an environment with such characteristics. Welcome aboard.

thanks, sometimes it feels like I'm out of place in the military, the job I love, the lifestyle is a different story.

[Johnny]

Yes, nothing against it personally on my end either. Things get done, and there is satisfaction in that.

[Crazy]

it's just hard to flow to an unfamiliar groove

[Sugaraddict2702]

*waves*

I have no choice but to join the group: you have a cool job! ;)
hope you enjoy your stay here, i'm doing so far :D

Ellen*

[Miss Padfoot]

I agree with you about the military. There are some incredibly fascinating jobs in it, but I could never, EVER deal with all of the obey-your-superiors crap.

Welcome!

[Tlalocone]

Maybe you wonT believe it but I got to this site the similar way you did Crazy 5711

[kuranes]

As a kid I was always reading up on chemical weapons because I thought "technology as a weapon" was cool. You don't think about the reality of the human results when you're that age. I still have those notebooks of info somewhere. Scary to think of what's out there that can be used against us these days. Especially the Bio-stuff. I was also fascinated with fireworks ( and would have eventually got into rocket engines ) and explosives then. Too many Doc Savage/James Bond scenarios running through my head, I guess.

[aether]

Welcometh...

[Crazy]

Wow, I never thought I'd see this thread again. Well, after 10 months and 900 posts, I guess I have decided to stick around for a little while, so it can't be all bad here. Thanks again for the warm welcome everyone.

You're right Kuranes, there is alot of scary stuff out there.

[kuranes]

We don't really have a plan for dealing with smallpox do we? Somebody told me once that in the event of a city getting REALLY contaminated ( was it with radiation or disease? ) the "plan" was simply to post soldiers around the chokepoints and kill any "non-essential" citizens trying to get out. No, I don't remember where I read that. Think "Dawn of the Dead" but for real. Crazy will now break his oath and tell us the skinny. :)

[Crazy]

I don't know anything about that. I do know that if there is a mass contamination, everyone is triaged and decontaminated. For smallpox, there are vaccines. I don't work on civilian plans, I work on military battlefield plans.

[kuranes]

Smallpox vaccines are only useful BEFORE contamination, of course. And even those can do you in if you've got certain common medical problems that the vaccinations don't mix well with. If large numbers of people catch it who aren't vaccinated . . . . man, I think I'd rather die of Ebola or plague than suffer through a bad case of Smallpox. And that's not saying anything about "weapons grade" Smallpox. Seems that I heard a while back that we don't have many vaccines ready either.

Being in a hot desert as a soldier and having to run around in a bulky awkward "space suit" without built in AC would be awful too. The alternative is worse, though. There's stories that some of those injectable protective chemicals ( which GI's took before battle/invasion ) actually CAUSED some of the Gulf War Syndrome symptoms. Any truth to that?

[Tlalocone]

Welcome on the forum,pal!
Benvenuti!