Now you know.
Posted on 12/17/2020 4:36:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
The military man was supposed to attend PT at 11 a.m. Dec. 1, but when his superior sent a reminder 30 minutes beforehand, he responded that he was headed back home from his shopping trip to Target — and his home was 35 minutes away from his training, according to a written reprimand posted on the popular Air Force amn/nco/snoc Facebook page.
But it didn’t rattle the devoted gamer.
“Yolo, PS5 > letters of discipline,” the unnamed service member told brass, according to the letter, using slang for “you only live once.”
The flippant reply got the unnamed serviceman knocked down in rank from senior airman to airman 1st class, Task and Purpose said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I hope so, what a putz.
Computer games are worth dying for these days.
Well then!!
Got a demotion over PS5.
Could be a PS addict.
Better than porn :)
Many other long-standing military practices and regulations have been relaxed in recent decades, so why not this one?
They really aren’t though.
Why is this publicized?
Why does any military branch publicize this or even have a FaceBook page?
The guy is a real spaceman!
He probably wants to sell it for $500 more.
What an idiot. He should be discharged.
Airhead is up for a period of instruction in “creative non-judicial punishment”, if not a peer level thump session.
when his superior sent a reminder 30 minutes beforehand,
Maybe one of these guys. Meet the USAF Gaming Team:
https://twitter.com/AirForceGaming/status/1337155023394938885
Tune-in tomorrow (Dec 11) at 12 CST to cheer them on against 7 other US & UK military branches for the Call of Duty Endowment Bowl.
PT at 11am? In tech school?
They would disagree. It is their whole life. Some of them play their game 24/7 for days without little breaks. It is indeed a new world. LOL.
Now you know.
Space Cadets?
I can't even fathom a release in the past 10 years that I would waste an entire day over, let alone risk disciplinary action in the military.
Senior airman. When i was in the AF one could be an NCO within 18 months. Something ‘had to be done’ because teenage NCO’s like me had bad attitudes. Didn’t deserve the respect. I was against the change but in hindsight it might have been better,
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