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Nimmy posted:Most want Finance and no one wants Infantry? What the hell? Is this common? Apparently OCS classes these days are a bit different with almost everyone being college option and over 50% being national guard or reserve. Most of the people in my class already know their branch since they aren't active duty. I just want to hurry up and get my branch so I know what I'll be doing for the next 3 years. Hopefully I'll find out what unit I'm going to towards the end of OCS or early on in BOLC.
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Mustang posted:I just want to hurry up and get my branch so I know what I'll be doing for the next 3 years. Hating your life and wishing you never joined the army.
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Apr 26, 2015 19:16
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not caring here posted:Who in their right mind would want to be responsible for a bunch of combat arms retards for garrison life? I understand that, but for some reason it still seems like most people who join want to be combat arms retards. I'm one because I'm a stupid retard.
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Apr 26, 2015 19:16
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Mustang posted:Apparently OCS classes these days are a bit different with almost everyone being college option and over 50% being national guard or reserve. Most of the people in my class already know their branch since they aren't active duty. Pick the one with the most sexy ladies lol Don't get caught
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Apr 26, 2015 19:41
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Zeris posted:Cool have you tried any of the other ones yes, and theyre really bad, ada is the worst
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Apr 26, 2015 19:59
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suicide bi cop posted:yes, and theyre really bad, ada is the worst No way ADA is worse than FA. Just no way.
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Apr 26, 2015 20:07
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Nimmy posted:No way ADA is worse than FA. Just no way. ADA have their head up their own rear end so far they think they are actually the best the army has to offer. They also haven't actually been used in war time (effectively) since like, 91. What I'm saying is, gently caress ADA FOREVER.
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Apr 26, 2015 20:36
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Carteret posted:ADA have their head up their own rear end so far they think they are actually the best the army has to offer. But they're the "First to Fire!" According to their motto on Wikipedia lol this forum makes me feel better about my military everyday lol. Wait they have those patriot missiles so that's cool. Can anyone comment on the ratio of hot chicks to dudes though? son gay. so what fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Apr 26, 2015 20:39
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not caring here posted:Who in their right mind would want to be responsible for a bunch of combat arms retards for garrison life? 
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Avoid CM (I speak from experience) and ADA like the plague. There are literally no redeeming qualities to these branches Finance, Signal, MI and the Logistic (ordnance, transportation, and quartermaster) branches suck, but you have the opportunity to parlay that into a decent career. Although Signal and MI stand much higher than the others. Medical Services I'd imagine are pretty chill and have some connections for hospital admin work on the outside. I don't know anyone in it though so that's all conjecture on my part. If you plan on staying in and trying to get as much rank as possible combat arms has the most mobility. It is also the most soul crashing, particularly given the wind down.
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Apr 26, 2015 20:43
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Nimmy posted:Most want Finance and no one wants Infantry? What the hell? Is this common? It's more common for people to make sane branch choices in OCS because you have more prior service. Most of them know better. In ROTC and the Academies, you have combat arms-heavy cadre pressuring kids to keg-stand the Koolaid. Almost all of them want to be Special Forces Ranger underwater Delta divers. I've seen a kid literally cry over getting Ordnance. Yes, I lold. Mustang posted:What's you all's opinion on good officer branches? Everyone seems to be competing for MI and Engineer and a surprising number of people want Finance and ADA. After talking to recycles and people in company's that have already branched apparently infantry slots take up a quarter to one third of the available slots so a lot of people that don't want it are getting it. Do they do branch detail in OCS? If so, you may wind up being a combat arms Lieutenant for the first few years with some of those branches. Detailing aside, MI is awesome because you get a TS. Medical Service is pretty chill, but I don't think you can choose that in OCS. Finance is rare, but another good pick because on staff all you do is manage the unit's budget. Signal is good if you want to break into IT after the Army. The Logistics branches are a pretty safe bet too, but tend to have a lot of meatheads because they have a lot of slots that young dumb hooahs don't want to fill because they'd rather be jumping out of airplanes and eating snakes. Infantry and Armor and all that jazz are great if you want to stay in the Army forever and become a General. You will never be a General. Whipped Buttcheeks fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:It's more common for people to make sane branch choices in OCS because you have more prior service. Most of them know better. In ROTC and the Academies, you have combat arms-heavy cadre pressuring kids to keg-stand the Koolaid. Almost all of them want to be Special Forces Ranger underwater Delta divers. I've seen a kid literally cry over getting Ordnance. Yes, I lold. They do branch detail but those go first on the OML then MI/Infantry. If you made it to intermediate phase you should have done the branching ceremony by now... Branch QM then go CA. Best way to be. Also: rigger school is the only school I want to go to. Shyeah.
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suicide bi cop posted:aviation is still better than any other branch ive encountered (tied maybe with amedd) this is one of my all-time favorites
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Apr 26, 2015 20:59
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Branching is at the end of intermediate phase now, each phase is roughly 4 weeks. The week after FLX is branching and the senior phase inspection.
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Apr 26, 2015 21:03
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Can officers reclass like enlisted can? I never understood the hate for ADA, like cavalry squadrons/19Ds I can understand because they are gay as gently caress about everything ever and deserve their reputation, but ADA is so universally reviled it's kind of funny. (disclaimer: never worked or interacted with ADA outside of gawking at an Avenger calling it a mechwarrior)
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Apr 26, 2015 21:48
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White Chocolate posted:Branch QM then go CA. Best way to be. Also: rigger school is the only school I want to go to. Shyeah. We had like one dude get sent to this school out of BOLC. Won't lie, I was jelly. Are there staff gigs in aerial delivery that can land you at this school, or is CLC3 my last bite at the apple to attend? Justin Tyme posted:Can officers reclass like enlisted can? Yes, we can. It's called VTIP, but mainly it's for Functional Areas. You stay in the same branch, but you go to a different career field like Space Operations or Foreign Area Officer. Changing basic branches probably ain't gonna happen these days. In the Guard and Reserve I think you can just go to a different Captains Career Course and change units if you want a different branch, but it's probably more complicated than that. Whipped Buttcheeks fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Apr 26, 2015 21:58
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:We had like one dude get sent to this school out of BOLC. Won't lie, I was jelly. Are there staff gigs in aerial delivery that can land you at this school, or is CLC3 my last bite at the apple to attend? Most staff positions coded for AD are warrants. If your basic branch is QM you have a shot at going after CLC3 but anymore the few CPTs who get it are just the ones going to take command of a rigger unit. Beyond that it's knowing someone that works there and getting a slot through the begging/hook up system. HRC's perspective has been why should they pay for it if you aren't going to "use" it.
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Apr 26, 2015 22:32
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brains posted:don't branch aviation if you want to be a pilot. just go warrant. seriously.
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Apr 26, 2015 22:58
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I know ADA is poo poo from the 16 months I spent working for those assholes. No redeeming qualities. Patriots are pieces of poo poo that cost an insane amount and require secondary and tertiary launches because they are unreliable. Don't tell that to them, however. They are a literal symbol for the boners they have over their jobs.
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Carteret posted:I know ADA is poo poo from the 16 months I spent working for those assholes. No redeeming qualities. Patriots are pieces of poo poo that cost an insane amount and require secondary and tertiary launches because they are unreliable. Don't tell that to them, however. They are a literal symbol for the boners they have over their jobs. And that's all I got to say about that. 
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This is going to be almost funny and sad. I was active duty Army (95B) which I hear is 31B now 2000-2004 and I'm losing my job in May and I'm currently 34 years old. I have been seriously thinking of possibility re-enlisting for the National Guard (lol) and I'm wondering does my prior service even account for anything? Would they even take me at this age?
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:This is going to be almost funny and sad. I was active duty Army (95B) which I hear is 31B now 2000-2004 and I'm losing my job in May and I'm currently 34 years old. Don't do it.
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:Would they even take me at this age? who cares you're dumb for even considering it. it is NOT what it was even five years ago, much less a decade or more ago.
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Thanks, you guys made up my mind. I'm re-joining, HOOAH!
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:This is going to be almost funny and sad. I was active duty Army (95B) which I hear is 31B now 2000-2004 and I'm losing my job in May and I'm currently 34 years old. They won't bat an eye about your age. 34 is young in the guard.
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Mustang posted:Apparently OCS classes these days are a bit different with almost everyone being college option and over 50% being national guard or reserve. Most of the people in my class already know their branch since they aren't active duty. Since you're prior service, you're probably not going to stick around long enough to make O6. If you're going active duty, pick a branch that translates to a real civilian job - signal (transfer to FA24 or 53 ASAP), transportation, quartermaster, medical service. Engineer is kind of hit or miss, since if you don't have an engineering degree they'll force you into combat engineering roles at O3 instead of letting you continue on the construction track. If you're going USAR, signal and EN allow for some neat deployment opportunities (even in peacetime), but EN reserve officers can have way too much of a hardon for all of the gay combat arms type poo poo, so maybe pick a logistics branch and enjoy working with normal people who just so happen to be officers. If you're NG, idk, start sucking dick to get positions locked down because apparently they rely heavily on nepotism and can and do literally hold KD positions vacant for people so they can get promoted to O6.
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:Thanks, you guys made up my mind. I'm re-joining, HOOAH! thats some motivating trash right there rah?
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:It's more common for people to make sane branch choices in OCS because you have more prior service. Most of them know better. In ROTC and the Academies, you have combat arms-heavy cadre pressuring kids to keg-stand the Koolaid. Almost all of them want to be Special Forces Ranger underwater Delta divers. I've seen a kid literally cry over getting Ordnance. Yes, I lold. Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:
If you want to be an Army Reserve General - as in yes, you're a general that comes to drill like any other reservist - just make sure you have 4 years active duty, stick around long enough, do your military education on time and be willing to do Army work for free on your own time. You'll be a general, near guaranteed, you just have to have another job as well. Also, if you don't like getting talked down to by CW3s and SFCs that know a lot more than you, wait to become a 2LT until you're 33 and in the Reserves. Then you can experience a SFC your own age and CW3 who is 55 and works in a dog food plant for 30 years trying to talk to you like you're 21 and haven't had a job more complicated than lifeguard at a local pool. Really, the Reserves are awesome if you want to be an officer. It's about the only place where you can be a 2LT with more years of service than the E6 lecturing you and more years of service than the CSM as the BN XO.
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If you had to choose between these two assignments what would you pick? 1)Desk jockey occasionally doing what you're trained to do, with a bunch of idiots under you and a lot of assholes above you 2)training detail dealing with a bunch of idiots, but at least they can't boss you around like officers can.
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MegaJoe89 posted:If you had to choose between these two assignments what would you pick? i'm out of the mil so i think your question about two bowls of poo poo is stupid
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Cole posted:i'm out of the mil so i think your question about two bowls of poo poo is stupid
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Cole posted:i'm out of the mil so i think your question about two bowls of poo poo is stupid
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Cole posted:i'm out of the mil so i think your question about two bowls of poo poo is stupid
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Cole posted:i'm out of the mil so i think your question about two bowls of poo poo is stupid
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Cole posted:i'm out of the mil so i think your question about two bowls of poo poo is stupid
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Hey, Army nobles, do you guys still use the shiny rank pins for anything anymore? I've got a bunch of O-3 and O-2 stuff laying around and I would like to give it to my little brother but gently caress if I know what your uniform regs are like and I can't be assed to look them up.
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ManMythLegend posted:Hey, Army nobles, do you guys still use the shiny rank pins for anything anymore? I've got a bunch of O-3 and O-2 stuff laying around and I would like to give it to my little brother but gently caress if I know what your uniform regs are like and I can't be assed to look them up. Just on the beret.
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zharmad posted:Just on the beret. Is the normal size, or one of the larger ones?
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