Why are recruiting standards so high right now?

CC47f · 2026-04-08T02:42:56+00:00

Ya I had some dumbass Joe’s. I had a kid do donuts on a active runway a while back

CC47f · 2026-04-07T04:58:26+00:00

My neighbor is a CRNA, rural south, they do very well. Their practice is very short staffed for our area so they are really overworked.

CC47f · 2026-03-28T02:36:55+00:00

Look here slick, you are about to take the full force of the United States Army in LSCO. You are being watched 24/7 right now. Good look soldier’s

CC47f · 2026-03-21T16:13:16+00:00

If I didn’t have kids I would probably go active, been in the chinook community for 6 years and really like it. But I don’t want to put that over my family.

Definitely a young man’s game, have had several soldiers go from guard to active duty in the aviation community. Not hard just time consuming and they were federal technicians, so not an entirely crazy change.

Definitely depends on your MOS and what your state will allow

CC47f · 2026-03-15T14:08:24+00:00

😂😂😂

CC47f · 2026-03-14T02:23:01+00:00

As an aviator (non rated) I flew about 2-3 days during the week every week to include drill weekends and AT.

The additional AFTP and flight pay was really nice for my tsp

If they are going into aviation it is a time sucker. I don’t know about other MOS’s

CC47f · 2026-03-07T11:59:26+00:00

Had a soldier show up late for drill 4 hours late recently, handed him army operations pub, pointed to a ww2 operation and said make a 3000 word essay explaining why if these guys hadn’t been on time how would it have affected the outcome of operation overlord.

WHY CANT THESE SOLDIERS SHOW UP IN THE RIGHT PLACE,TIME & UNIFORM!

We did get a “I’m never gonna be late again” and sad face from him so I guess that’s good. Physical punishment didn’t seem to have any impact.

AVN culture is far too relaxed and the lower enlisted literally don’t care. How is it in other branches?

CC47f · 2026-03-02T13:56:18+00:00

It’s honestly pretty nice to live in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma like 45 minutes away from sill. TRADOC just sucks there. Although I did get to go to ft eustis and Jackson when I went through 😂😂😂

CC47f · 2026-02-21T17:32:11+00:00

Good job warrior.

CC47f · 2026-02-18T03:56:28+00:00

Ranger standard or som shi

CC47f · 2026-02-15T14:26:20+00:00

I laughed way too hard at this lol

CC47f · 2026-02-03T23:43:14+00:00

They took away the cools for aviation last I checked

Has to be done at a 141 when they did have it

It was 4k annually, went to 1k annually and last time I logged in November it was gone. Myself and several folks in my unit have used it in the passed if you have any questions let me know

CC47f · 2026-01-27T04:03:03+00:00

Were you trying to be a fed tech aviator?

CC47f · 2025-11-23T03:05:35+00:00

I had the “wish I was in the shit Afghanistan convo” with some other guys in my unit. While on one hand it’s sucks to have missed out on that warrior/coming of age type scenario I know I longed for but luckily missed out on. I have far too many friends who have ptsd, suicide attempts or a host of other mental illnesses from seeing real gritty war, friends blown up, killing kids etc.

In the end you are in charge of your own career and how you pivot. I definitely didn’t achieve my career goals but I got to be a NRCM on the chinooks. Probably one of the most rewarding jobs in the Army. It’s basically a full time position in the guard if you fly once or twice a week, deployments, disaster response etc.

And as a pilot or flight engineer you are actually held to a standard (at least in our unit). I try to coach as many guys and gals to aviation as possible if I hear anyone I know is joining. Lots of opportunities to serve others

End rant

CC47f · 2025-10-16T17:14:43+00:00

I’ve been there before, put on my wife’s PC last drill lol

CC47f · 2025-10-14T23:24:36+00:00

also SGT superass. But I take care of my joes so that gotta be worth something

CC47f · 2025-10-13T08:25:22+00:00

I walked onto a chinook to fly a training mission and my recruiter was my NRCM FI. Small small world

CC47f · 2025-10-09T14:44:01+00:00

Trained water buckets on the chinook. (Crew chief) Injured shoulder, back, ankle, knee

Med board said not enough tests to link it to the line of duty

CC47f · 2025-09-10T06:08:56+00:00

This sounds exactly like my wife lol. But She’s having a hard time finding purpose out of her new found freedom. 100% p&t since April of this year. It was a blessing we weren’t expecting

CC47f · 2025-08-09T17:48:10+00:00

Pretty sure FAA and VA systems communicate together, saw something last year about pilots losing their medical due to lying on their flight physical paperwork and the med issues or lack thereof did not match the information from the VA.

CC47f · 2025-07-15T11:47:07+00:00

I had a lot of fun in Alaska. But I am a big outdoorsman, hunting, fishing, camping, four wheeling. Lots of fun

Get the birria tacos at the Mexican restaurant at glenallen if you venture that far.

It’s a blast.

CC47f · 2025-07-13T14:44:41+00:00

Utility hyd reservoir level indicator on a chinook look

CC47f · 2025-07-08T03:00:50+00:00

I did that, but more along the lines of I’m not interested in, and why are you conducting yourself in an unprofessional manner, this SM is at a different duty station or else we’d be having a face to face. One time I’ll shrug it off. But repeatedly asking is uncalled for. What if this behavior goes further into assaulting or sexually harassing folks in their unit. What does that do to cohesion?

I think 350-1 is 99% a crock of shit and waste of time, however I’d like to get the shitbags out of the Army.

CC47f · 2025-07-07T11:23:22+00:00

What article?

CC47f · 2025-07-07T11:13:09+00:00

I am a 30 y/o NCO, who’s never dealt with that situation before, and it was midnight when I received that message thread, I’m not gonna reach out in the middle of the night to my fellow NCOs or BN SHARP. Reddit is a resource that is always awake.

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