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Justin Tyme posted:Yeah, I suppose you're right, my bad. I was thinking that table was strictly talking about BAH payout since a lot of the other stuff was talking about BAH rates. I had no idea your actual time was also prorated, that's really interesting. Yeah I agree totally but I know personally I wasn't ready to do that right out of the army. I guess my point was if you want to ease into it, there is no harm. At least not in terms of wasting your Post 9/11.
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If you need / want to get your feet wet after the military just go do some time in a local community college, assuming your state actually gives them money and they're not all hosed up. Can be a good way to transfer back, the population is all sorts of ages and levels of weirdness, still has yoga butts and if you were a gently caress up like me in high school you can get your GPA nice and padded in order to get into a real school. Also it's cheap and you can probably afford to pay out of pocket if you saved any of your deployment money at all.
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Don't forget your JST either. I got like 40 credits towards my associates in arts because of that. Also there is sometimes something your college can offer but often has a different name. They have a class called Prior Learning Assessment or Life Experiences or some poo poo that you take, are super loving easy, and help you write a resume based on poo poo you did in the Army. Squad Leader? Leadership. S6? Introduction to computers and a slew more I'm sure. It costs less to get a credit that way and counts as credit (so it won't hurt your GPA if you have ok marks) in your transcripts, not a letter grade. They evaluate your poo poo and give you credit based on what your portfolio says and then they say "give us x amount and we will put this on your transcript as done." X amount usually is manageable. I think my school offers the first 12 credits for 600 bucks and then in incriminates of 6 credits for 400 or something later. Either or, I did and am doing the above. I'm not done with my PLA class yet, but I'm sitting pretty after doing 4 online classes towards my AA, and I'm more than likely going to skip it and go right for my BA.
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Update: seven soldiers from my company retook PT test, three passed. Even got the E6 lady that hates my his to pass by one in each event. Released on Sunday at 1430 !! 1SG: I need all E4 and below and their squad leaders lined up outside my office for counseling on promotion boards. If you failed a PT test in the last eighteen months you're ineligible for promotion. If you don't have 2 years as a specialist you were ineligible for five. He wanted to tell each individual this "behind closed doors" instead of trusting his squad leaders to handle it. Didn't leave the goddamn armory until 1900.
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Wasabi the J posted:Update: seven soldiers from my company retook PT test, three passed. Even got the E6 lady that hates my his to pass by one in each event. That's what you get for being in you dummy.
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:That's what you get for being in you dummy.
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Wasabi the J posted:Update: seven soldiers from my company retook PT test, three passed. Even got the E6 lady that hates my his to pass by one in each event. I want you to know that the suffering you go through does serve a noble purpose. Every so often some dumb fucker wanders in here and thinks about going back in because they've got serious rose colored glasses going on. Your suffering shows them that roses were for other people, all they dealt with was the poo poo that gets spread around to fertilize them. It also lets me laugh at your pain because I'm free mother fuckers!
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If I were to reenlist because for some reason it's either that or be a hobo, it'd be for 18x, and if I were to fail I'd go AWOL and be a hobo rather than stay in
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SumYungGui posted:It also lets me laugh at your pain because I'm free mother fuckers! My only hope is that sometime in the next year or so, someone will post asking about the 35T MOS and I can laugh at them when they join.
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Aranan posted:My only hope is that sometime in the next year or so, someone will post asking about the 35T MOS and I can laugh at them when they join. This could probably go for any MOS in the MI field.
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MightyJoe36 posted:This could probably go for any MOS
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This thread is more depressing than any thread in e/n but at the same time makes me happy because it reminds me that being out rules.Icon Of Sin posted:Everything about this is true. Take at least 12 hours, and the GI Bill will also pay for whatever health insurance I want to touch on this. My school offers health insurance. You can only turn it down if you have your own health insurance. The GI Bill pays for the health insurance. I also have a disability rating of 30%+, so I have tricare. My school accepts tricare, which means I basically have two health insurance plans. The school's health insurance for the fall semester is around $1400. After the GI Bill paid my tuition -- which included the health insurance premium -- I signed a waiver declining the school's insurance plan and received a $1400 refund in my student account, which meant $1400 in my pocket. The GI Bill has hidden money everywhere. I'll crosspost this to the education thread.
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Alternatively if your school has a decent health plan you could just keep it not have to worry about going to the VA for that time. I'd pay $1400 / yr to avoid that poo poo.
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My school accepts tricare. I don't ever have to step foot in a VA and I still can use tricare.
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Wasabi the J posted:
how much misery do you think is the result of dumb rear end privates getting married for the benefits and then staying in long enough to make 1st sgt I always assumed bs like that was just the result of leadership just hating the idea of going home because their personal lives were poo poo.
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Cole posted:My school accepts tricare. I don't ever have to step foot in a VA and I still can use tricare. This is a dumb question but I am over your disability rating, post-9/11 and all that; am I qualified for tricare? I've always used the VA.
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Zeris posted:This is a dumb question but I am over your disability rating, post-9/11 and all that; am I qualified for tricare? I've always used the VA. If you have a minimum 30% rating you should be eligible. It's mostly just about finding doctors that actually accept Tricare. I found out my school accepts Tricare when I had to get some mandatory vaccines. Hep B and stuff like that. I thought I was going to have to pay full price for it. The school let me skate on paying anything until we figured out if Tricare covered it. Several weeks and a lot of VA bullshit later I got a bill for under $8. I never paid it because I got it just as Summer started and planned on handling it when I got back for the Fall. When I asked about it they said I didn't owe anything. Tricare covers me 100% at my school for booster shots at least. I'm going to see if I can ditch the VA psych doc and see if Tricare covers psych care at the school.
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Live fired the 120mm for the first time today, it was cool as gently caress. I can see why tankers love their tanks so much. Next week will probably be the last time I ever get to live fire an Abrams, unless I decide to stay in and they send me to a tank company as an O3 or something.
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That's almost as big as my penis.
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Naked Bear posted:That's almost as big as my penis.
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Geirskogul posted:4.7 inches? Sounds about right.
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Obstacle2 posted:how much misery do you think is the result of dumb rear end privates getting married for the benefits and then staying in long enough to make 1st sgt To be completely honest our 1SG seems happy with his family and is generally a nice guy, but he's 100% old school as gently caress, so half the time he comes up with a plan, he wants it done that way because he said so; any push back from below makes him double down on his retarded good idea fairies. Example: during the AT from hell I posted about, I fought hard and took issues up the chain about a unit coming in and not kicking in their own people for the random details they had us doing,including running the kitchen. I said during a meeting that it was bullshit and that I wanted to know why the gently caress our predeploymemt training was less important than theirs, considering we were doing real life IT certs and running a kitchen for these guys. 1SG found me later, locked me up, insinuated I was refusing to work in the kitchen, and said the answer was none of my goddamned business, and proceeded to further gently caress with our schedules until the CO talked him down after I had my talk with him. Only reason I haven't found a way out of this mission is because my CO is good people, and the other NCOS have my back when poo poo gets stupid.
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loving goddamn Army gods or whatever. Naturally I'd get bedridden with the loving FLU the DAY I sign out on leave.
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Obstacle2 posted:how much misery do you think is the result of dumb rear end privates getting married for the benefits and then staying in long enough to make 1st sgt I had a 1SG who's wife lived at Ft Hood, and he lived at Ft Bliss. The only time we went home at a decent time was when he decided to visit his wife on a 4 day weekend. For real, a month after I got out, I got super shitfaced and talked poo poo to him on facebook. I actually regret it for some reason. gently caress that rear end in a top hat.
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Soulex posted:loving goddamn Army gods or whatever. Are your eyes leaking black fluid?
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The Slithery D posted:Are your eyes leaking black fluid? Arms raised high wgah'nagl fhtagn. I push the scalpel into my ocular cavity and sever the optic nerve. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh. I am blind but for the first time in my life I can see. There is no God in space. Our creator has no face.
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Soulex posted:Arms raised high wgah'nagl fhtagn. I push the scalpel into my ocular cavity and sever the optic nerve. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh. thank u 4 ur servis 
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Zeris posted:This is a dumb question but I am over your disability rating, post-9/11 and all that; am I qualified for tricare? I've always used the VA. You need to have been rated 30% or over by the Army, not the VA. If you have a blue retired ID card, you have TRICARE.
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Alright here is my story. I was rated by the VA to be 70% disabled. I was discharged for substance abuse. It has been ~3 years since I was discharged. I am not going to lie, but I did rely on chemicals not approved by the army or the gov to help my problems.My unit started the chaptering and out processing ~2 weeks before my medboard went through. I lost my DA-214 and even now every request I put through ends up with nada, but I have not selected retired for the paperwork because my chain of command and some douchebag that gave me my original dd-214 said I am not even entitiled to my disability.
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You know you had a "get out of jail free" card right? "Boy top, I sure do gots a problem with cocaine! I need to go to rehab!" And boom nothing mom or dad can do. For a real answer? Sucks man.
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Soulex posted:You know you had a "get out of jail free" card right? "Boy top, I sure do gots a problem with cocaine! I need to go to rehab!" And boom nothing mom or dad can do. that really only works once, and only if you're e-4 or below
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Soulex posted:You know you had a "get out of jail free" card right? "Boy top, I sure do gots a problem with cocaine! I need to go to rehab!" And boom nothing mom or dad can do. That's not how any of it worked. gently caress!!! Act all high and mighty as a pog, but I need a true combat vet answer. gently caress I know none of wannabe gippers have any empathy, but I just need some help. gently caress. old wooden ships fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Lard Goat posted:That's not how any of it worked. gently caress!!! Act all high and mighty as a pog, but I need a true combat vet answer. gently caress Combat vet answer would have been don't get caught. Edit so, what your saying is your chain of command (what?) is refusing to give you your 214? Have you tried HRC?
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Soulex posted:Combat vet answer would have been don't get caught. I don't know what the gently caress you are saying. My life has been hell for years but I am trying to get it under control. Maybe I misunderstood gip. I just want help, and the va is full of fucksticks that see my name on a computer screen but wont help me without paperwork. gently caress.
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Soulex posted:Combat vet answer would have been don't get caught. WHAT I AM SAYING is that I had my dd-214 in thee trunk of my car. Being a 13B I put a paint can next to said DD-214. I got in an accident like a 13B should, and said paint can exploded all over my important paperwork.
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Since you don't have platinum perhaps you have a google account? We have a cool private chat for this stuff
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Teflon Don posted:Since you don't have platinum perhaps you have a google account? We have a cool private chat for this stuff I do have a gmail account: lardgoat. I hosed up, I smoked the gently caress out of spice to make up for the poo poo I went through. At the end I got nothing. I have a problem . i do make a good sum in my current business, but I miss my army bros so loving hard you will never understand
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