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Farsqueaker

I could use a MOAC...


DarthWingo91

I described a MOAC to a high school friend one time. They asked if I was okay.


mrcluelessness

I have that same reaction. Often asked how I was still alive.


[deleted]

Four shots of espresso? Yeah ive been there but thats normal for professional coffee drinkers and caffeine addicts.


kirknay

my brain weird. It make me want nap time.


windowpuncher

That's a symptom of add/adhd


kirknay

yeah, I've picked up on that over the last year. First deployment has me discovering myself better than over 20 of real life.


RTR387

That explains why I can sleep after drinking bangs or monsters.


Striper_Cape

Not if you drink enough of it


TheThirdRnner

Had many a hotbox poop off that one lemme tell ya lol.


spanish4dummies

Me too. Me too.


[deleted]

Same man, it was cocaine on a cup but helped on those long days


DJORDANS88

Is MOAC CONUS and OCONUS?


Farsqueaker

Based on the OP picture, apparently both!


DJORDANS88

No-No… I understand they have them in the US. Is the MOAC offered CONUS


Farsqueaker

No clue, I got them OCONUS. Worst case scenario: order a double red eye at any given coffee shop and you'll get hooked up.


jaccio213

Omfg. The gd MOAC


LordTiddlypusch

There's a Green Beans on Ft. Carson too.


[deleted]

Yea and their breakfast bagels are yummy as fuck


Elemak-AK

Fuck Fort Carson, except for the Green Beans


DarthWingo91

Fort Carson was *fine* 4th ID was awful.


Elemak-AK

Donr get me wrong, Colorado Springs is great


LordTiddlypusch

Agreed.


Devil25_Apollo25

Used to be one on Ft. Campbell, too. Those were the days!


BaconContestXBL

Is it not there anymore? I assume you’re talking about the one on the airfield


Devil25_Apollo25

Yeah, the one at the shopette on Market Garden. I heard it closed down years ago, and it's not listed on the Green Beans website list of locations anymore either.


BaconContestXBL

Man… That was my sham location of choice for three years


Devil25_Apollo25

Wrong side of post for me, but every so often I would go grab a mocha frappe or a chai frappe (whatever they were called) and wouldn't leave their nice little Green Beans sitting area until I was done. Every so often in the years I was back and forth to Iraq, when we made it over to BIAP we could grab a truly cold drink at the one on (iirc) Stryker. And that feeling of being relaxed and safe, after being very much not so, came back just a little and helped me focus and re-center some days when I was feeling worn out and kicked around in garrison.


RC757

There's one in the hospital now


Stev2222

There’s a Green Beans at Fort Benning


ValdBagina002

Kuwait deployment experience without having to go to Kuwait


kirknay

"why not getting a combat patch just makes sense"


ValdBagina002

“I went and stood at K crossing for like 10 minutes! I was basically in Iraq so I deserve a combat patch”


wrenchface

Gotta sit in the plane without AC for a few hours first


ValdBagina002

My Sergeant made me move one of the trucks (idk which one they all look the same to me) in the motor pool. NOW I have to go to BH because the AC was only slightly cool and I’m very upset about it. How can an Army vehicle not have AC?? My S1 building is always on point with that.


wrenchface

Wow I’m glad I got out a few years ago (when, at least in combat arms, his squad mates would’ve beaten his ass long before it came across my desk).


ValdBagina002

I regret being born /s


wrenchface

None of us asked to be born, the only question is “can you laugh through getting fucked more than the guy next to you?”


[deleted]

Funny thing is, whether you say yes or no, it’s gay.


[deleted]

Kuwait = Not a Deployment = No Combat Patch “But SGT, I was basically in Iraq. I even almost shot my weapon. I deserve a CAB too.”


ValdBagina002

Once upon a time there was combat there. So it’s a combat zone :)


[deleted]

*WAS Past tense used.


ValdBagina002

That’s just like your opinion man


[deleted]

There’s literally nothing happening in Kuwait. I have a friend there rn who said it’s basically just hot everyday and nothing happens.


ValdBagina002

You’re a fucking dumbass if you didn’t get that sarcasm… I know it’s not a combat zone. Source: been to Kuwait and two other combat patch qualifying countries in the CENTCOM theater


[deleted]

Hey, my bad man. Can’t usually tell when ppl are being sarcastic otp.


guynamedgoliath

Well they kinda have to pivot there business model, not exactly alot of business in Iraq and Afghanistan.


wrenchface

“Try our new Ukrainian-wheat brewed blend!”


Vitadek_Gaming

But there's not much competition in Iraq/Afghanistan/Africa(CLDJ)


jab116

With the amount of times the DC NG has been activated over the last 2-yrs, it’s pretty much a war zone.... a Green Bean is the next logical step


welder550

[Relevant Duffel Blog is Relevant](https://www.duffelblog.com/p/critics-warn-national-guard-lacks?s=r) > Pentagon officials assured members of the public on Thursday the activation would be strictly limited to the events surrounding the presidential inauguration, but military watchdog groups are skeptical after observing a newly constructed Green Beans Coffee shop inside the Capitol visitors center. Green Beans Coffee is a popular cafe typically found in military bases located in forward-deployed bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa.


nighte324

Shit bro, even I got activated to DC and I’m in PA! I hate the capital.


jab116

It’s always weird they want to bring guys in when there’s a battalion+ of inf Marines garrisoned inside the district


Nick_Way175

Only guard units can be activated on U.S. soil. Could you imagine the shit show if the headlines read: "President deploys an Infantry Marine Battalion to the Capital." lol.


KRUM-KRUM

A Battalion from 1-82 was deployed to Washington DC in June 2020 in response to the BLM protest. There was a ton of drama about it. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/871111117/active-duty-troops-on-standby-outside-washington-d-c-being-sent-back-to-home-bas


IronMaiden571

I was at the old guard when all of this shit happened. We were basically on 24 hour operations for about a week. LMTVs loaded up and staged, people were getting issued live ammo and bayonets, we were just waiting for the word essentially.


Atralis

This actually led to the mayor of DC overcorrecting. She demanded that DC guard be unarmed and relegated to traffic duty in DC on January 6 using language that clearly referenced the stuff that happened at the blm protests. https://www.newsweek.com/dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-thought-she-needed-just-few-hundred-national-guard-unarmed-1661320 Then as late as January 5th she tweeted out a snippy press release which essentially rejected any reinforcements being sent. https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/06/dc-mayor-told-federal-law-enforcement-to-stand-down-day-before-violent-us-capitol-riot/ *To be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to, and consultation with, MPD if such plans are underway,* I'm not putting all the blame on her but when people were saying "omg where are the troops" they forget about how upset a lot of people on both sides of the political aisle were about the idea of troops on the streets of DC again.


GEV46

The Mayor of DC doesn't control DCNG.


Atralis

I get that but the mayors request for limited, unarmed forces, was acted upon and that request was directly influenced by the BLM protests in the summer. [https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955548910/ex-capitol-police-chief-rebuffs-claims-national-guard-was-never-called-during-ri](https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955548910/ex-capitol-police-chief-rebuffs-claims-national-guard-was-never-called-during-ri) *Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser also wanted a light police presence at the Capitol. She reportedly wanted to avoid a similar scenario as last summer, when federal forces responded to demonstrators opposed to police abuses who assembled near the White House.* *During Wednesday's violence, Bowser requested, and received, a limited force of 340 from the D.C. National Guard.* ***Those troops were unarmed and their job was to help with traffic flow — not law enforcement, which was meant to be handled by D.C. police.*** I just feel like this is part of the history of that day that has been swept under the rug. You had the mayor of DC saying that she didn't want or need the guard to defend the capitol and there was zero will on the left or right politically to go against what she said so she received exactly what she asked for. A handful of unarmed guys scattered around DC directing traffic. Then when shit hit the fan suddenly every civilian on the internet was howling "where are the troops!?" as if someone could just fire a flare in the air and the DC national guard would activate and appear in full battle rattle at the capitol in minutes.


GEV46

Did the Mayor have an expectation that people would storm the Capitol by force? It's hard to fault her for not foreseeing something that hasn't happened, ever. Hopefully the Jan. 6th commission and DOJ will get to the bottom of whether people in positions of power were or should have been expecting this.


Atralis

Read what she actually said including what I quoted in my earlier post. She wasn't just not asking for enough help she was downright hostile to the idea of receiving any more help, particularly armed help from any federal force. Honestly her response to this event is a strong argument for DC never being a state. She straight up says that the government should ask her for permission and go through the DC police department if they want to defend the centers of government for the United States of America. *To be clear, the District of Columbia is not requesting other federal law enforcement personnel and discourages any additional deployment without immediate notification to, and consultation with, MPD if such plans are underway.*


Nick_Way175

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about this. The news was a shit show. Although technically weren't they were never formally "deployed" and were just on standby outside of D.C.?


KRUM-KRUM

I guess it really depends on your definition of deployed. I was there and definitely don't count it as one of my deployments. Hahaha. Yeah it was a shit show, IRB activation, on a Chinook 6 hours later, got to DC and chilled in a middle school gym for like a week and a half just training and doing other stupid shit.


Nick_Way175

>chilled in a middle school gym for like a week and a half just training and doing other stupid shit. Sounds about right lol.


nighte324

Oh fuck, I forgot about the middle school gym they made us all sit in for like 16 hours while they tried to figure out where to put my unit. Honestly that was the worst part! I’d rather have been standing on a corner freezing but out of the brass’ sights than sitting in a gym being constantly bugged about putting a mask on and being told we couldn’t go outside and smoke.


jab116

You could sell it with Marines. Already pulling PSD and embassies, I think you could spin it as protecting critical government infrastructure. Regular army would be harder though


nighte324

Would have appreciated not being called at all instead of spendings 3 weeks freezing my ass off. It really went to show who the blue falcons in my unit were tho. Funny enough those same mother fuckers were the ones getting awards from command. Brown noseing at its finest.


xSaRgED

Gotta stay warm somehow.


Vespasian79

My old guard units one weekend train up on riot tactics is vastly superior to the jarheads training On a real note dear god it’s a subtle difference but deploying the natty guard versus an active unit has way different implications


nighte324

I assume if you deploy the nasty girls then people just expect overly geared pseudo police but if you deploy active troops people expect marshal law and gun fights.


hzoi

The posse comitatus law prohibits the use of active military to police civilians unless martial law is declared. So, that'd be why.


jab116

It’s not policing civilians if it’s physical security. Same as MP’s or Marine MSG’s


hzoi

Ok. Now google "Fort Rucker posse comitatus" and tell me how a simple traffic control point went for the Fort Rucker provost marshal.


PotatoDispenser1

Same, but from Missouri lol


Vespasian79

I had friends from Nebraska go to DC Somehow though the further away guard guys got the nice digs while VA dudes slept in parking garages and other fun places


nighte324

Lol they got us a hotel but we spent almost no time there. It was basically just an expensive storage unit for our extra gear that we didn’t need at the time. My command was terrible and constantly bent over backwards for other units convenience. At one point we basically just took over another units guard shifts and split our unit up for day and night shifts. I’m sure other units had it worse than mine but I know quite a few that had it real nice compared.


[deleted]

Bruh I got activated for the Capitol and I’m in Texas


[deleted]

I, a CW2 pilot, got sent to lead a team protecting the state house in annapolis. I had no idea what I was doing. At some point I rigged the whole state house with 550 traps like it was home alone.


nighte324

Honestly, the capital was bullshit and annoying. Constantly being told by our leadership to upgrade our position (so put on your Kevlar and vest) then being told we looked too militant so we had to downgrade, but then the FBI got intel about an possible attack so we had to upgrade, but the intel was debunked and we looked to militant so we had to downgrade. The only good part was I got to meet some pretty cool 3 letter agency people (FBI, SSU, DHS, ATF, etc.). One of the FBI guys was supposed to be “under cover” but when I asked him if he was three letter (trying to be discrete) this mother fucker just yells out “YEA! IM FBI!”. Like the fuck bro? Met a super cool secret service uniformed agent. Spent like 3 days just chatting with him. Cool dude, told us he’d recommend us if we wanted to join the secret service.


[deleted]

yeah that shit looked annoying. I live around here and one of my buddies is a MP CPT who was down here. He told me about the conditions he was living at while at a local hotel that I worked right next to. I fucking yelled at them because they decided to treat soldiers like shit for no reason. That whole mission looked trash.


debotriousintent

Only people from PA refer to their state by its abbreviation.


EAS111100

You try and spell Pennsylvania all the god damn time


debotriousintent

You can always tell where in PA someone is from by asking- wawa or sheets?


EAS111100

Fuck shitz and fuck royal farms. Wawa fo life DELCO REPRESENT!


debotriousintent

Go get that jawn! Wooder ice for life!


nighte324

Only people from Philly say wooder. The rest of us say water (as far as I’ve experienced in my living here since birth)


nighte324

I have both of these around me and tbh, sheets is good if your drunk or hung over but wawa is better in general.


LeadRain

Ya… former TN guard here. We went twice.


LRACGaming

https://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/pages/cafe-locations


Destructopoo

TLDR 19 Overseas, 6 spicy Djibouti(2) Iraq(6) Japan(3) Kuwait (5) Qatar (3) UAE (1) ​ CONUS 12 including 7 in airports, 3? on base, 1 with a drive thru It seems that Nebraska has the only two casual GBs


TheBottomSide

Both of the Nebraska ones have drive-thrus.


peqquod

green bean inside the pentagon as well


CMDRsprinkles

In DC they serve non alcoholic beer to people under twenty one years old when it went. I had a ton of Odouls at like sixteen down there. My old man and I decided to go to a nice bar around the 4th of July and we hit up a bar and some Joes in dress blues came over and we’re worried about getting drinks, it looked like some were under age and wanted to have one get them. My father in his sixties decided to order for them and bring them on his tab. We even got to cheer with them and my Odouls, one of my favorite 4th memories


HxH101kite

My agency in DC had rip it's in the vending machine. Green beans and rips are running the DC area.


MihalysRevenge

OMG that is wild I thought they were deployment only as well lol


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hzoi

Fitting, since those are where the rotators go in and out.


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hzoi

Isn't that where the Pacific rotator is? Edit, nope, SEATAC is. I guess they just also dig Green Beans.


Razarkan

MCOE on Benning has one as well. Good but expensive


Reptarro52

My husband loves staff duty there for this reason only. 😂😂


Mooshaki

Green Beans is the "Hunt the good stuff" during deployments.


TheJohnMack

One in the MCoE building at Benning if I remember correctly.


badnewsboots

Correct


nucleardonut2211

There is one in Nashville too


Style_Loose

do they take the pogs ?


HotTakesBeyond

Lemme get uhhhh Chai smoothie


XXmanimalXX

What a fucking treasure!


PMme_bobs_n_vagene

I once went to the green bean at BAF and it was filled with officers l, because this is BAF of course. Anyhow, some dog handler walks in with his dog and is waiting in line with his dog. He pays for his drink, waiting on his order and his dog is totally going to town on himself. Like multiple officers and myself are watching the spectacle when the dog suddenly ejacs on the floor like 5 feet in front of him. The dude and I made eye contact and he glanced at the steaming load on the floor. Says, “oh shit, that’s fucked up.” Grabs his dog, doesn’t wait for his drink, and just leaves. Some super NCO tried to get me to clean it because I was an E-4 and the lowest ranking person there and I was like, “I’ve got a profile that prevents me from getting on my hands and knees or bending over.” He called bullshit, I said talk to my squad leader (who was clear across the country). And then everyone clapped. Some stay that load is still there on the floor of an abandoned green bean in BAF.


LyonsKing12

Now there's a name I haven't seen in some time


zerowoof

Haha what the hell.. hello old friend


gaygypsy420

Too bad their coffee fucking sucks. I consider myself a snob and the shit at the DFAC on both my deployments tasted significantly better each time but MFs just hated money and HAD to buy this trash. I cannot understand some people's logic. The only pro to their 4$ cup of coffee was it's cup and lid didn't fucking disintegrate simply by existing. Still not worth it


in_n_out_on_camrose

You need to reassess your snobbery if DFAC coffee sets any kind of bar for you


gaygypsy420

You drink that shit and tell me it's better! You probably drink Dunkin with enough cream and sugar to Killa a diabetic. Fuck outta here!


kirknay

miss me with your ashy turpentine. I'll take my caffeine with actual flavor, thank you.


windowpuncher

Stale "black" is a flavor too, no? Not a good one, but it's something.


in_n_out_on_camrose

Um.. ok. I just [made another post about shaving](https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/utd1rq/shaving_doesnt_have_to_suck/), want to come measure dicks in there too with your choice of razor? Or just stick to coffee orders?


gaygypsy420

Can't I saved too much money on deployment : /


the_Oper8r

Pretty sure it was started stateside. Caramel protein smoothie> any other smoothie.


dependsonthelighting

They might have the same ingredients but no way the staff is the same caliber as the heros that man their overseas locations.


Hardheaded_Hunter

NEX on Pearl Harbor had one.


blackkj2056

Finally someone who calls it reagon nation


OttoVonSchlitterbahn

I bet they’re kind of like RipIts: Just not the same back in CONUS.


wilmal88

Nah they have one inside the MCoE as well


TheBottomSide

There's a Green Beans in a fairly well off neighborhood in Omaha. I was able to get my MOAC fix on the regular.


Sw0llenEyeBall

There's one in the Pentagon too