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The navy implemented people soft 8-9 years ago. It'll be ok.
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If you can't find it, grind it!
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Nov 20, 2017 14:46
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The Navy has been helping people stay soft for years
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I LICK APE PUSSY posted:"McNally, the system fired your wife for being a no-show even though she's dead. It automatically cut all your survivor benefits and cancelled your ID. We'll figure this out in five, six years tops." Yeah, that sounds about right.
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So by some bizarre twist of fate I’m no longer getting switched out as PL with the guy I thought I was, he’s going to another platoon. Weirdly every PL right now that’s switching out became a PL several months after I did so I have no idea what’s keeping me here for so long. Whenever I ask anyone above me where I’m going next nobody knows for sure. So for the time being I’m going to be going forward as a PL doing things I’ve already done before, like team live fire, squad live fire etc while all the other platoons do them with new PLs.
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Nov 22, 2017 04:56
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6 months later...Mustang posted:WHAT THE gently caress IS THIS BULLSHIT I'VE BEEN TO NTC, JRTC, AND 3 TIMES TO YAKIMA
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Mustang posted:So by some bizarre twist of fate I’m no longer getting switched out as PL with the guy I thought I was, he’s going to another platoon. You’re going to be training them before your journey into XO hell. Abandon all hope, ye who enter 
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Nov 22, 2017 05:10
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The thing is all the next crop of XOs has already been identified and I'm not one of them Unless something changes anyway
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Nov 22, 2017 05:11
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Which of you were loving those vietnamese hookers? Huh? Just own up to it.
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Mustang posted:So by some bizarre twist of fate I’m no longer getting switched out as PL with the guy I thought I was, he’s going to another platoon. The most important thing to remember about being a PL is that it's just bonus practice time and literally nobody cares as long as you don't get a DUI or kill the wrong person. If you get more PL time, try and take on some commander-level poo poo. Learn about the METL, the QTB, read AR 600-20 and the supply regs. Non-KD jobs are all equally unimportant in the eyes of HRC, so get the most out of it.
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Nov 22, 2017 06:18
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Cheer up sir you get to set a new record for most times sent to Yakima
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:The most important thing to remember about being a PL is that it's just bonus practice time and literally nobody cares as long as you don't get a DUI or kill the wrong person. If you get more PL time, try and take on some commander-level poo poo. Learn about the METL, the QTB, read AR 600-20 and the supply regs. Non-KD jobs are all equally unimportant in the eyes of HRC, so get the most out of it. Why are you telling him to do more work?
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Nov 23, 2017 02:03
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As someone who was enlisted, getting officers to do more work is okay with me!
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spacetoaster posted:Which of you were loving those vietnamese hookers? Huh? Just own up to it. Me
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Cheer up sir you get to set a new record for most times sent to Yakima
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its curtains for Kevin posted:Cheer up sir you get to set a new record for most times sent to Yakima There's nothing like baby-wiping your balls as the sun rises over the horizon.
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Nov 24, 2017 02:37
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I knew it! Report to my office in the morning (and bring pics). Hope you all had a great thanks giving.
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IPPS-A trip report: after three days of alpha testing, I can say that right now it’s a flaming shitpile that has potential. I hope I can come to more of these. It does feel good being able to direct changes to the system, so anal people like myself can enjoy things like standardized phone number formats. I would’ve appreciated it too if the lead instructor didn’t get so goddamned defensive of his baby. That said, for something they keep touting as a 21st century HR system, it sure as poo poo feels more like 2002 than 2017.
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2002 is the 21st century 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkhKn6hZONY
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love to be referred to as employee in the army with a job code and department
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We got an answer on that too. Congress mandated we use a commercial off the shelf product, which we can tailor to some extent, but any customization, like employee to Soldier, would run us “somewhere around $700,000” every time PeopleSoft got a patch. That’s not to say it can’t happen down the road, but any changes of that nature have to be approved by the 3-Star over the project. They’re going to make a handout with the actual costs soon. Sidenote: This was only the third user jury they’ve done, and they’re focused on the Guard right now, as they’re supposed to go live next summer.
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That sounds like how GCSS-Army changes a bunch of terminology such that it doesn't fit the last 30+ years of Army-speak regarding parts, services, maintenance, etc. Also the G-Army rollout might have had the worst "interactive" training I've ever taken in my life. It was a practical exercise wherein it just highlighted a block on a page of like 50 possible choices and told you precisely what to enter, which read like UNIX commands or something. It was impossible to do anything other than the right answer or to play around with the system like a training-side site. So it's like riding a bike not only with training wheels, but with a machine doing the steering and pedaling for you on a track and then saying, congratulations and tossing you onto a motorcycle.
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Dec 1, 2017 13:38
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The interactive training site for IPPS-A is about the same. It has modules you can watch, then try, then test yourself, but it’s still super finicky. Like, if you knew you needed to scroll down, and you grabbed the scroll bar button and tried to drag it down, it failed because they programmed it to have you click in the scroll bar underneath the button. Or you have to type something in from memory that’s about as long as this sentence and includes special characters. Most of the UI feedback I gave them was to look at other systems outside the Army and steal them wholesale if needed. I even suggested they look at the goddamn Dominos pizza tracker for the end user to know where their personnel action was at any given moment.
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Dec 1, 2017 13:49
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Do I become a shitbag shammer my last few months in the Army, or do I give it my best up until the day I collapse outside Gate 1?
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spacetoaster posted:Do I become a shitbag shammer my last few months in the Army, or do I give it my best up until the day I collapse outside Gate 1? It's the natural order of things. Once you're on 120-day loss, your troubles are over.
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Dec 1, 2017 16:16
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Appointments. And that stupid transition workshop. Go home and sleep.
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not caring here posted:Appointments. Is is still ACAP? Go do your ETS physical and use that as an excuse to not do PT, then ACAP appoints all the way to the end of the road. or CIF, or whatever else you can make up because nobody you're talking to has been through the process and will know what you're talking about.
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Not necessarily true. ACAP was mandatory before we demobilized in Kuwait. I think it was a recent change. I’m sure there’s a difference between the two but unit leadership could very well understand it.
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The week long ACAP (I think its TAP or something now) is mandatory but nothing else about it is if you decide you want to go to workshops or whatever. Edit: and the ETS physical to avoid pt is kind of bullshit, thats not like a real rule or anything just depends on your chain of command and how much they hate you
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SFL-TAP Soldier For Life Transition Assistance Program
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They wanted some slogan that was as catchy as "once a Marine, always a Marine." So of course what they came up with was SOLDIER 4 LYF.
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#YOSO
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Can’t stay Army strong if you stop doing PT
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Soulex posted:Can’t stay Army strong if you stop doing PT That explains my belly
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I've actually, in all seriousness, lost weight by smoking pot. Opiates can make you fat, and if you don't believe me, stop doing them. I'm high as gently caress off this poo poo I went to last night. It was a thing called Weed for Warriors Project, and I tried it out last night and it was legit as gently caress. I showed up, showed them my rec and dd214 and was pretty much introduced to a party where there were blunts and bowls and dabs just floating around. If you wanted to roll your own, you could with the stuff there which was really cool. Then afterwards they give you this little gift baggy with other cool poo poo like edibles, and I also got some RSO which I really wanted. There weren't any loving weirdos or anything like that, everyone was super chill and I really liked it. I'm probably gonna go back and maybe volunteer for them as a media guy (if they need it because who the gently caress wants to have their picture taken smoking pot?).
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for those getting out: ACAP isn't required, but they don't tell you that. but i believe you have to get someone in your company to sign off on you not going. on the other hand, ACAP is a way to sham the gently caress out. use this information as you wish.
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If you're not doing ACAP or ACAP-related stuff all day, every day for your last several months then you're doing it wrong.
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boop the snoot posted:for those getting out: ACAP isn't required, but they don't tell you that. but i believe you have to get someone in your company to sign off on you not going. Correct. Didn't go to ACAP got my O3 to sign off on not going.
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