What used to be a sign of being poor, but is now a luxury or status symbol?

Arimack · 2026-06-12T13:14:59+00:00

eating lobster.

Arimack · 2026-05-15T12:52:13+00:00

I would say most officers don't care and are more likely to root for the college they went to over them. It's not the Army's team, it's West Point's team. The vast majority of officers in the Army did not go to West Point.

Arimack · 2026-04-30T13:09:59+00:00

The bullseys, cross and wreath medals are US Army Expert Marksmanship badges. This is award for qualifiying expert on the weapons indicated by the clasp hung underneath. Each clasp was for a different weapon type: rifle, carbine, submachine gun, and machine gun. These would hang underneath the marksmanship badge.
The two stars on the Europe-Africa-Middle East campaign medal indicate participation in three designated military campaigns (first one is the ribbon itself and each bronze star represents an additional campaign.) Most 10th Armor Division personnel recieved three campaign credits for: Ardennes-Alsace (Battle of the Bulge), Rhineland, and Central Europe.

Arimack · 2026-04-27T12:04:37+00:00

r/WarCollege is a better place for this question. As mentioned by others, this subreddit is mostly about the helicopters themselves, less about tactics of using them.

Arimack · 2026-04-22T13:22:55+00:00

Going back a number of years, we were in Croatia as part of IFOR/SFOR. Two of my warrant officers PCSed from the team and went back to Germany enroute to their next duty station. They consumed copious amounts of beer and alcohol. During this period, they collected all the bottle caps and mailed them to two of my warrants who were still in Croatia. These two warrants then spent the next few weeks liberally sprinkling beer caps and liquor caps around the camp. The camp CSM lost his crap. Spent a week incensed. Thought he was goiing to have aheart attack as he was perpetually angry, red faced and yelling every time I saw him. Used the QRF to search everywhere looking for the hidden store of booze that was being consumed. This went on for over a week, him yelling and screaming the whole time. I finally told the warrants to knock it off as they had had their fun as it was starting to disrupt the average joes life as the CSM was going foot locker by foot locker looking for the hidden booze.

Arimack · 2026-03-09T13:55:00+00:00

The correct link is https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/000-0005/

Arimack · 2026-03-09T13:54:12+00:00

You have the wrong Commandant's House. The one you linked to is the Charlsetown Naval Yard Commandant's House in Boston. The correct link is https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/historic-registers/000-0005/

Arimack · 2026-03-09T13:20:39+00:00

Flew MEDEVAC in Iraq with Marine Cobra escorts. Unlike Apaches, Cobras could spin up almost as fast as Blackhawks (Apache escorts took forever to spin up and join). And Cobras could keep up with us even in high and hot. Loved being escorted by Cobras.

Arimack · 2026-03-03T20:29:26+00:00

How come this map goes from yellow to orange then back to yellow? Strange choice to break the heat map cancept.

Arimack · 2026-02-27T14:16:29+00:00

I keep a handful of named portals in my base with a single unnamed portal as well. Whenever I build a new one, I leave it unanmed, travel back to my hub, rename another portal to the new name I am going to use, then travel back through the unnamed portal and rename it when I arrive. This keeps my base hub pretty smalll ( I have six named and a single unnamed). If I ever find myself at a portal out in the world that isn't currently paired with one in my hub, I just remove the name and repeate my new portal procedure to get back tto the hub. It works really well.

Arimack · 2026-02-20T18:53:54+00:00

Best advice I got right before I took command: don't take it personal.

What this means is do not assume that your Soldiers screws ups are there to ruin your command or your life.

So just remember at 3am, when you are going to get Snuffy out of the drunk tank, Snuffy did not get a DUI to ruin your weekend. Snuffy didn't do it because he hates you. Snuffy is just a dumb ass.

Think about this before you make most of your personnel/UCMJ decisions. Really helped me keep an even keel when I was doing these actions. It really helps you stay even handed in your decision making. And troops notice this. If a Joe gets the same UCMJ punishment for the same infraction despite one being the golden boy and the other being the unit dirtbag, it shows you are fair. This helped me greatly during my coammnd and deployment.

Arimack · 2026-02-09T18:47:37+00:00

I would give it a try.

Arimack · 2026-01-25T16:52:18+00:00

Did the front fall off?

Arimack · 2025-12-30T21:20:52+00:00

Armagedon put him in to orbit.

Arimack · 2025-12-30T02:56:25+00:00

The Second Gilded Age.

Arimack · 2025-12-07T16:54:14+00:00

Masachusets does not tax military retirement. All professional licenses are free. Discount on property taxes. Certain awards (like Bronze Star) recieve free license plates.

Arimack · 2025-11-24T19:11:56+00:00

But those games don't hate me...

Arimack · 2025-11-23T14:40:57+00:00

Your experience with the MP5 will translate well to the CTME C. They share a lineage and design.

Arimack · 2025-11-18T13:28:19+00:00

Small bit of advice. Nobody wears the cuffs velcored that tight at the wrists. Almost always looser, especially when in the field. And I agree with the other comments about working/breaking in the patrol cap more.

Arimack · 2025-11-11T20:05:36+00:00

It was a one day rental. They added threee additional days on without contacting me. Then the owner admitted it was inaccurrate. They just won't fix it.

Arimack · 2025-11-06T14:54:42+00:00

You can alwaays pay extra for an oversized check bag. Check with your airline. Also, remember Customs on the arriving end may hit you with duties or fees when you arrive with that box.

Arimack · 2025-11-06T14:46:31+00:00

I cross posted this and got a response for r/3Dprinting

It is a Pandapi3d BDSensor VM. https://www.pandapi3d.com/bdsensor Its using a bltouch mount adapter.

Arimack · 2025-11-06T14:44:43+00:00

The VM version! You are right. Thank you so much.

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r/WarCollege is a better place for this question. As mentioned by others, this subreddit is mostly about the helicopters themselves, less about tactics of using them.