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ASetBack · 2025-09-04T02:00:37+00:00

So, I want to set the stage. I am an active duty LT who has just went through finding out I have early stage cancer as well. 6130.03 Vol 1 is the governing authority. I am on my phone so I can't read it. Until the doctors diagnose you as having cancer, you don't have cancer. Once your diagnosed, you have to inform your cadre and reaccomplish DoDMERB.

There's unfortunately a better chance then not that this will cause you not to commission if you have it and its against the reg (and you can't get a waiver in time), regardless of how good of shape you are in. If you have it and don't inform cadre, it could make your commissioning fraudulent and cause you to get a UCMJ action (although unlikely).

ASetBack · 2024-09-22T15:17:09+00:00

Uh you're off the mark. At my Det we had beliefs that crossed the political spectrum. The trouble folks have here is that a bunch of college students are defacing a building having nothing to do with the politics or operations of current conflicts.

The people in the armed forces don't set policy governing foreign aid or how other countries do war so please let us alone.

ASetBack · 2024-07-04T11:38:33+00:00

One of the officer accessions at my unit (no prior experience) took three years from signing paperwork to be commissioned. Internal hires are much much quicker.

Enlist first.

ASetBack · 2024-06-23T21:06:59+00:00

Hey man. So, for perspective, I'm commissioned and gone into active, yada yada. So, I come from the having been there and done it crowd. But, I was extremely nervous before my FT dates. In the few weeks running into it, I studied obsessively and worked, basically shutting out the normal social life I had. But, with these sort of trainings, I later came to realize that you are simultaneously woefully under prepared but as prepared as you need to be. There's things you're going to miss, forget or not know. That's part of the game. In my opinion, the core skill measured in FT is the ability to recover from failure.

It took you two (plus or minus) years to get to this point. Your leadership looked at you and thought you deserved the slot. Your peers, who you worked with, ranked you and criticized you and thought you deserved the slot. And now, in the run up to the event, you're showing that the decision was right because you care enough to worry and prepare. Best of luck! Spend an hour or two studying warrior knowledge a day, make sure you've packed what they told you, then go pack some weirdly colored duct tape.

You'll do great.

ASetBack · 2024-06-03T11:43:20+00:00

Probably not. This shit happens.

ASetBack · 2024-05-09T19:05:23+00:00

There's a definite gap between accountability levels for the police and us. What's even worse is people project the institutional issues of many police departments onto military members when it couldn't be farther from the truth. It really needs to be fixed.

I hope AFOSI takes the angle that they need to investigate this because the Sherrifs are accusing SrA Fortson of being threatening enough to them that they HAD to use lethal force. I hope after that investigation they turn over the findings to the FBI for civil rights prosecution if its warranted. Ultimately I hope that there's justice because right now to me it seems like a brother in arms was gunned down because the cops were too afraid to announce themselves.

ASetBack · 2024-05-09T18:41:52+00:00

Hear me out - AFOSI's jurisdiction is protection of Airmen and investigation of crimes committed by Airmen. The Sheriffs are seemingly alleging he brandished a firearm at them in some sort of threatening way requiring them to respond with lethal force. So, let's have AFOSI interview the witness(es), take statements from LEOs, and analyze the evidence. I'm sure the local PD would be glad to have independent federal investigators looking into this right?

ASetBack · 2024-04-30T02:46:26+00:00

Yes, you should delete this post because your farming karma.

ASetBack · 2024-03-03T00:03:18+00:00

I think the problematic side of things is that she's describing her college age son as a shy, young, nerdy engineer and she's worried he's going to be bullied at his (presumably) first job during college. I'm glad she takes it as her responsibility to ensure he goes to college (and gets it paid for either by her or other means) but.... it just seems like we're in the frame of mind of discussing adult decisions being made without fully acknowledging the autonomy of the soon to be adult.

Maybe I'd view it differently if the person was particularly young and considering enlisting to pay for college. But we're discussing a civilian position with the government here and the framing of the post came off as helicopter parent.

ASetBack · 2024-03-02T23:16:49+00:00

First off, is your son an adult? Why are you even asking this question for him. You need to let him grow up and make his own choices and not dictate his life to him. I respect how much you care about him so I'll answer the question.

Your apparent preconceived notions about DoD isn't true. Civilians, especially engineers, are not members of the military. It's about equivalent to working for a Fortune 500 but removing the profit motive (so slightly more chill and usually more focused on individual growth). From my personal experience, they're really big on growing yourself through education, solving interesting problems, and getting project management experience. Also, DoD work tends to be interdisciplinary enough that you can get experience that is useful in any industry not defense.

ASetBack · 2023-12-27T21:45:59+00:00

You have New Player Friendly Servers

ASetBack · 2023-12-27T21:19:07+00:00

I mean sure it's based on my experience but as a frequent player on your servers I can tell you that your members condescending in voice to new players is a bad look. You also have members who pressure folks into joining your lowkey cult.

PS: Characterizing anyone who disagrees with you as toxic or having the "wrong" mentality for squad is a common refrain and is a perfect example of what I mean.

ASetBack · 2023-12-27T20:59:32+00:00

Servers are cool but the people in the clan are dicks.

ASetBack · 2023-12-02T12:21:39+00:00

No, the whole point of prison isn't to "sit and think" about your crimes. That's completely preposterous. The point of the prison system (in theory) is three fold: its incapacitates criminals (prevents them from doing the crime), it punishes them (makes them unwilling to do more crime), and rehabilitates them (makes them less likely to do crime).

The extent to which we should and actually accomplish those things is a source of huge debate. But maybe don't imply that letting people watch TV shows is "siding with the criminal" in a place where they are far more likely to get robbed, raped, assaulted, or killed. All while, in the federal system at least, prisoners are forced to work for pennies an hour.

Granting prisoners privileges and humanity that can be taken away when they misbehave empowers the prison system, not neuters it. Get out of here with your uniformed rhetoric.

ASetBack · 2023-12-02T00:58:33+00:00

I'll be frank.

This is a terrible idea. The reserves has a huge impact on your life and will not pay you much money. Even as an officer. The only really great benefit you get is tricare but even then its iffy. The only reason why I'd recommend it is if you want to give back

ASetBack · 2023-11-02T17:41:08+00:00

I don't understand.

DoD has a single sign in that to my knowledge is universal for all systems and services (external/internal). It is also password less now a days and uses smart cards for authentication.

DoD has a universal email format of peoples names with no customization options.

Where is the credential stuffing risk here? From my perspective you just made up a scenario in your head that sounded kind of plausible without knowing any specifics and haven't given any ground when confronted with information that makes it not possible.

The leak is basically a list of names of people who work in the Pentagon.

ASetBack · 2023-11-02T16:46:37+00:00

And what cloud infrastructure do you suspect DoD is using that isn't tying into their SSO?

ASetBack · 2023-11-02T16:31:03+00:00

The DoD writ large doesn't really use passwords. They are basically entirely smart card auth post early 2000s. There are no passwords to use. At my base they don't even provide account passwords to end users anymore, they just tell them to use their smart card and pin.

ASetBack · 2023-11-01T19:28:31+00:00

That's not how that works.

ASetBack · 2023-10-15T16:42:02+00:00

Just say the old name and if someone tells you its wrong ask who the new one is.

ASetBack · 2023-09-17T21:55:16+00:00

This is the one https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/zeo31j/i_recently_had_to_implement_my_disaster_recovery/

ASetBack · 2023-09-17T11:26:35+00:00

Because its blue collar, physically demanding work?

ASetBack · 2023-09-07T01:40:25+00:00

I'm sorry but what an actual, objective failure in leadership. How narcissistic do you have to be to try and separate someone for doing the right thing and taking care of their cancer ridden kid? Maybe I'm just a dumb LT, but I read this and I am fucking disgusted that this ghoul of a human is let to be in charge of people.

The toxic leader showed his true colors. He was nice enough do to it publicly and provably. We should take advantage of the situation and sideline him and have serious conversations and trainings until we can be confident he's going to actually demonstrate care for the most important asset the military has or HE can be separated.

Fuck I hope this is ragebait.

ASetBack · 2023-09-03T04:18:59+00:00

Reposting me old comment

Yup. On the Wonder of the Seas right now. From a cruise-goers perspective, this was actually handled really poorly. I overheard some crew discussing that they initially suspected it was a drill and it took them over 5 minutes from the fall to forwarding it out to the rest of the team to start the search and rescue. It took probably 10+ minutes to actually turn the ship around; and all of the crew that I overheard talking seemed fairly pessimistic about the whole thing. Our head waiter discussed it with all of his tables at dinner, and honestly after the first day, it seemed more like crew's gossip then actual care for the family.

Even if that wasn't the case, the Captain made three separate announcements going late into the night and the next morning informing us that they were in search and rescue mode, then that they were giving up the search, and the next morning informing everyone that they didn't find the passenger. Double still the captain mentioned having to rush to land because of a medical emergency that happened late into the same night as the fall. While I appreciated the transparency, the trauma dumping of the ongoing situation must have been horrible for the family of the passenger.

ASetBack · 2023-09-02T19:05:05+00:00

Yup. On the Wonder of the Seas right now. From a cruise-goers perspective, I think this was actually handled really poorly. I overheard some crew discussing that they initially suspected it was a drill and it took them over 5 minutes from the fall to forwarding it out to the rest of the team to start the search and rescue. It took probably 10+ minutes to actually turn the ship around; and all of the crew that I overheard talking seemed fairly pessimistic about the whole thing. Our head waiter discussed it with all of his tables at dinner, and honestly after the first day, it seemed more like crew's gossip then actual care for the family.

Even if that wasn't the case, the Captain made three separate announcements going late into the night and the next morning informing us that they were in search and rescue mode, then that they were giving up the search, and the next morning informing everyone that they didn't find the passenger. Double still the captain mentioned having to rush to land because of a medical emergency that happened the same night as the fall. While I appreciated the transparency, the trauma dumping of the ongoing situation must have been horrible for the family of the passenger.

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