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Cole posted:Call the community college you're looking to go to. See if they accept tuition assistance for distance learning (they probably do; they'll take money however they can get it). Knock out your two year degree before you even get out of the military. 1000x this great idea unless you want to do something with a lab requirement(chem, bio, nursing).
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I thought my unit was the black sheep of the Army but it just goes to show that all you fuckers appear to have it worse. Fuel for the win.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:How long is DS school? Assuming a month of terminal that leaves 6 months to PCS, go to school, then start a tour before getting out of there which is not a whole hell of a lot of time. Sounds like somebody hosed up or is trying to pressure him into reenlisting. I believe that DS school is the same exact length at BCT(9 weeks).
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Mar 24, 2015 17:07
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I highly doubt that weekend passes will be had but if so don't drink and drive. Although they changed the rules when we left back in '12. Oh memories.Mustang posted:Shipping to OCS tomorrow, not sure what to expect, can't seem to find any concrete info. Hoping to get a weekend pass this weekend before the class actually starts.
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Mar 26, 2015 22:57
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Spicy Guacamole posted:I hear that if you shoot the moon and receive a reprimand from everyone in your CoC up to the first GO you get an automatic promotion to O3 and you get to bang the post commander's wife. In OCS we don't even qualify or touch live ammo except for blanks and artillery sims...
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Mar 27, 2015 15:50
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Also we are (lol) scheduled for a 33 day JRTC rotation, the second one of two back to back rotations. I don't think that they will keep the days with NYC BAH for most of my Soldiers, but I could be wrong. What are the chances of them cutting it down to 21 days? Likely? Unlikely? This is after the first change in dates to support the mission. The first one is 21 days
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Mar 28, 2015 21:12
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TMustang posted:HHC at OCS is weirdly chill, candidates ordering pizza and going out to subway and using their phones yet I have a sense of impending doom for when we class up. the first week is serious also land nav is a mofo where half the class fails out. Other than that it is not so difficult if you have your poo poo together.
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Mar 29, 2015 06:05
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Kiryen posted:Regarding the OP and excessive requirements: That is truth right there. And there is no money to fix it either, is there.
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Mar 30, 2015 01:37
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This is why I always bring sunflower seeds on a field OP. Always.
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Mar 30, 2015 02:10
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Has is ever not been? Every IBOLC LT is supposed to get a shot at ranger school. Meanwhile QMBOLC we started with 6 slots and ended with 2, oops sorry no reservists/guard...jk lolscravius posted:Is IBOLC basically pre-ranger now?
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Mar 30, 2015 11:08
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Kiryen posted:I have a little over a year left as Battalion XO and then I plan to move to some training unit that goes around OCing and doing exercises for other units and getting a break from this poo poo. After being an HHC commander and now XO I've had more than enough ov being "involved" all the time. My latest hobby is refereeing between captains that cannot get along with each other. New thread title.
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Mar 31, 2015 10:47
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Burlington community college is right there and you can get a start at the most military friendly school in Jersey. Or so my friends from South Jersey lead me to believe.
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Apr 6, 2015 19:17
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Whipped Buttcheeks posted:JBLM is Fort Lewis, not whatever they're calling Dix these days. JBMDL.
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Apr 7, 2015 10:35
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/16/army-survey-morale/24897455/ This is probably it. 274 million? Really? I could have done that with like 200K and been way more scientific about it.
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Apr 17, 2015 12:42
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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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Apr 26, 2015 20:58
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ManMythLegend posted:Is the normal size, or one of the larger ones? Larger ones I believe. Don't really take a sharpie to it but that would be hilarious.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:32
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Now I am doing my annual"so you have been selected to go to ECT(JRTC)" speech to my Soldiers as if it was a surprise that when they don't show up to battle assembly or answer their phones that they don't get to pick their ECT dates from the three sets dates that we have been given for our two JRTC missions this year and the little BS mission to Fort Dix that we are not sending people to. Oh you didn't know that you had to do AT? Well let me tell you something, you signed a contract. Some people don't get a chance to choose between a 21 day mission, a 33 day mission and a 2 week one, and we gave you options, you never gave us anything so now you are going away for 33 days... But seriously private, show up for BA and you will probably get a better chance of the dates you want than otherwise, especially in a huge unit like this of 204 people.
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Apr 28, 2015 15:54
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Wasabi the J posted:Except if you're in my loving conniving unit. Did I mention that one was bookended by a 3 day BA and that ECT starts on the 3rd day of that BA do everyone going then has to RST at some point in time. psydude posted:Yeah that's technically illegal, but good luck finding anyone at your Brigade or command who cares. How would you fight this? A lot of my Soldiers are having problems because they signed up for 2 weeks a year not 3-4 weeks every year. Not even worth it?
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Apr 28, 2015 19:09
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psydude posted:Most of this fuckery takes place at the brigade level, because they're usually the ones who process ADOS tours and they want to hog all of that poo poo so they can jack off in the office for 2 months at a time. You're a company commander, so your senior rater is the brigade commander. Go to him/her and explain what's happening. Yeah, you're only a 1LT so the brigade staff is probably going to tell you go shove a stick up your rear end, but O6 is like the first rank at which full-time DA civilians working in headquarters start to actually pay attention and get nervous, so as long as the BDE CDR is on your side you should be good. Yeah I am a PL again but I will have to get my Commander who seems sympathetic and is trying to get the second rotation cancelled to get on this. I just hate that it is always hurting the best Soldiers- the ones that need the time the most, and when they announced the change we had a heart to heart and this guy has to take care of his family and all of this time away is going to hurt him really badly with his civilian salary being so much more than his military salary.
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I thought that the new boots were the same as the old ones...?
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Apr 30, 2015 19:34
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Suntan Boy posted:"The basic pair are the only ones available for the next year, are essentially clogs, and cost $600. Make sure you buy 2 pair." They said coyote brown, right? Can we wear USMC boots? Their shits are already the right color. Or does it have to be the issued ones....
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May 2, 2015 14:39
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psydude posted:Does anyone know the process to transition to the IRR once your obligation is up if you're a reserve officer? I heard you have to submit paperwork 60 days out. I believe you have to submit a packet and then it's up to the higher echelons. That or resign your commission.
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May 5, 2015 16:30
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Kiryen posted:Yeah, it's going to take at least 60 days and make sure your obligation REALLY IS up. I have a Lieutenant trying to go through this process who managed to rules-lawyer himself out of 2 years of obligation in his own head. He (but no one else) was surprised when the CG did not sign off on his exit packet. I thought that FOB mayor was always AGR because they are not going to be on orders for the whole time. Or maybe they were just punished.
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Androies posted:This everytime. It was funny today when our battalion commander told us that the entire 18th Airborne Corps was getting tomorrow and the next day off except for my section of like 14 people because we had the misfortune of scheduling training this week with contractors, but that it's ok because they'll find time somewhere else to give us two days off, and then first sausage told us immediately afterwards that we were poo poo out of luck and that it's our fault for scheduling training this week. I like the honorific "first sausage" I think I will start using that more often.
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May 7, 2015 12:36
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Paradise Lost posted:My former BDE commander's grandfather had his WWII training there. When he found out he was heading there next gramps told him he'd rather go back to Guadalcanal and he wasn't going to visit him until he PCSd. Tell me what I should know about JRTC because I may be there for two rotations. One as XO one as the Commander back to back with 2 days in between
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May 11, 2015 00:00
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Kiryen posted:How the gently caress does that even happen? Year 5 on the Arforgen cycle. I'll take it over a deployment that we won't get.
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psydude posted:Nope, wasn't an 11A! My desire to go to ranger school is getting to be less and less the longer I am in and the closer I get to O3. Edit: Also my general Army motivation. Maybe it will perk up in the Civil Affairs land I go to next. Dream Weaver fucked around with this message at 03:59 on May 18, 2015 |
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May 18, 2015 03:53
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not caring here posted:Just remember, your schools can gently caress you pretty bad. If you've got airborne you can end up at Fort Bragg quicker than gently caress. Same with ranger. And air assault as well I think. If I could go active I would have already. Much love for the reserves though.
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May 18, 2015 17:58
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Can confirm NG at federal OCS, thats how I met a lot of my NG buddies. Also most Nobles are lovely regardless of commission source but I prefer OCS>DC>ROTC>USMA personally.
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May 18, 2015 23:42
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Duzzy Funlop posted:E7 takes his wife to Berlin for their anniversary, gets hammered, beats her, tries to drown her in the toilet of the 5-star hotel, leaves her for dead, drives home 3 hours, hits 3 separate cars in the last half hour, ditches his ride after the last hit, has a police chopper look for him, dead-reckons the last 10 miles home on foot, opts to go straight to a club and brag about his great day to his buddies, buddies try to talk sense into him, dude gets picked up by courtesy patrol. He could have just passed out and called it a day but nooooooo
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May 28, 2015 13:13
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psydude posted:My buddy just PCS'd to Hood and was notified that he has an upcoming 30 day FTX, followed by an NTC rotation, followed by another 30 day FTX, followed by another NTC rotation, followed by two weeks of block leave, and then a 9 month deployment to Korea. A buddy of mine has had three NTC rotations since I met her on my first one last summer, she is on her third one now. Oh yeah and reserve...
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May 28, 2015 16:20
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psydude posted:I feel like I missed out on a good deal of classic army stupidity by not deploying to Korea. Wait you are in my guess is a reserve signal brigade that is supposed to rotate through korea? I didn't know that Reserve units did that. Sounds terrible.
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May 30, 2015 06:10
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Mustang posted:Only some posts will have them on July 1st but you will be able to wear the ACU tan shirts, boots, and belts with the new uniform while they're phasing it in. How long will I be able to get away with ACUs as a noble hmmmmmmmmmmm. I don't want to buy any new anything for the Army.
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Way off topic but I'm buying all the stuff that I am going to pack for JRTC and here is my list: Sunflower seeds(I don't dip or smoke) A case of kill cliff(energy drink) Beef Jerky Baby Wipes What else should I bring for the wonderful summer weather? (I'm assuming that I may be able to get ice at some point in time.) To be clear I am in the brigade support element as far to the rear as the exercise gets Dream Weaver fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 21:00
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Justin Tyme posted:If your unit isn't led by loving assholes and lets you use it there's actually a decently stocked PX there with a Pizza Hut and barber. The PX even has beer iirc. Also there's an MWR with TV and internet just down the road, and next to that a big civilian-run DFAC where Geronimo eats. Normally they don't like it when rotation dudes eat there but we slipped in a few times, it's lightyears better than the dfacs you are supposed to eat at. I am pretty sure the poo poo they serve at those "dfacs" are the same rations they serve out of MKTs, despite also being ran by civilians. Yeah there will be no PX runs we are locked down the whole time, no cell phones, nada.
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Jun 4, 2015 22:51
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NTT posted:The last time I touched a gun that shoots bullets was last time I qualified a year ago and my ~31~ outshot every other soldier in the company except one last weekend. Tell me this is the Reserves man, please don't be AD
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Jun 16, 2015 03:57
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Got an award for shooting, the first time I shot with my newly lasik'ed right eye which is baller 15/20. I hadn't shot for like a year and a half prior because I was always in the tower running the range. OIC 4 lyfe. Yes it was a paper target. I really want to shoot a regular target but something tells me that the next time I fire it will be an M9..
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Jun 17, 2015 05:12
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Dr. Josef Mengele posted:I would literally loving cripple my children if I could prevent them from becoming involved in the endless loving quagmire that is american foreign policy in the middle east
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Jun 27, 2015 01:05
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We hard a three day drill lined up just prior to AT now it was moved a week earlier so better but yeah. At least night driver training is now a priority for the company now that it is on our mission for summer.
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NTC is like grad school. JRTC is like middle school. Also more humid and with gators. These are my observations.
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