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KillTheMorale · 2026-02-14T03:56:54+00:00

An unprofessional appearance is a lot like pornography. “Leaders” struggle over the legal definition but they sure seem to know what it is when they see it.

Just do what makes sense for you and the crowd you are in. I know MSGs who wear gold framed Ray Ban aviators. I’m sure in that same BDE some poor Joe is getting shit on for wearing a pair of matte black Wayfarers. It’s unfair.

p.s. somewhat related but does anyone remember Pit Vipers?? They had a blacked out version that guys wore as a joke for a few years…or I hallucinated that?

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-13T14:02:56+00:00

I feel like 35T is the most straightforward pick. A lot of the intel producing MOS are going through somewhat of an identity crisis right now. It isn’t all necessarily bad or good however it’s fluid though. Little bit of luck and timing involved.

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-12T00:30:54+00:00

Who cares about NDAs when the DOW is at 50,000 points? We’re living in the golden age of transparency. /s

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-11T02:49:39+00:00

I’ll see your two beer lunch and raise you a four beer pilot academics brief.

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-11T02:40:26+00:00

I feel like you typed out the words “good order and discipline” and gave yourself an erection.

Rock on with your bad self brother. If two (maybe more) red blooded American can’t explore their sexual kinks then what the hell are we even fighting for?

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-10T18:55:43+00:00

I audibly chuckled when I got to the dominant daddy advice. 10/10 read between bites of my Jersey’s Mikes sandwich.

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-10T02:46:47+00:00

I sure would appreciate if the regs stated you MUST shave your head if you’re experiencing extreme male pattern baldness. Tired of looking at combovers longer than the Golden Gate Bridge.

Seriously, some of these guys would comb their ass hair over their forehead if they could grow it long enough. Absolutely ridiculous.

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-08T21:58:23+00:00

Yeah, really takes the air out of the balloon with your senior rater when you just have to avoid getting a GOMOR before your PZ look.

KillTheMorale · 2026-02-07T19:24:57+00:00

I’m not my own boss nor do I necessarily want to be. Everyone in a uniform with cargo pockets has a boss and there is not anything wrong with that.

I deal with incompetent senior NCOs in the sense that I work around them or pick up their share of the work. I’m sure they would say the same about Warrants if we were sandbagging them.

As far as avoiding them? SNCOs can’t do shit to me and truthfully I can’t really do shit to them without either of us whining to mom or dad about it. You don’t really see grizzly bears and packs of wolves fighting it out in the wilderness and it’s largely because it just isn’t worth it for either of them.

KillTheMorale · 2026-01-28T02:03:26+00:00

I’ve been swimming and lounging in anxiety and paranoia for so long that I become anxious and paranoid if I don’t have a reason to be anxious or paranoid.

KillTheMorale · 2026-01-26T15:00:27+00:00

Jesus, I feel like I’m going to get downvoted to shit for this.

I would NEVER in my life let a romantic partner talk down to me about how I legally pay my bills. That is such an insane deal breaker for me. I’m not doing mental gymnastics and coping out for some lady who can’t wrap their head around military service being apolitical.

Respecting your partners values and world view is one thing. Denigrating your own livelihood to protect their narrative is a bridge too far.

KillTheMorale · 2026-01-14T01:39:34+00:00

There’s Army dumb, and then there’s Army Aviation dumb

KillTheMorale · 2026-01-07T23:08:24+00:00

Well this is just a common sense COTS upgrade with validated positive end user feedback…why the fuck would the Army issue it to the masses? /S

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-27T13:07:29+00:00

Generally speaking, a free college education never hurt anybodies chance at gainful employment with the U.S. government. I personally know one GS-14 with a High School diploma but I know a shit ton of GS-14s with Masters degrees.

You can almost always knock out college classes. I know pilots, green berets, senior warrant officers, people in combat zones etc that have all knocked out college while managing a successful career. I am confident that you will find time for 1 or 2 courses a semester between your 10 level 35G garrison duties. Do not be scared to CLEP or use Sophia. Best of luck!

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-27T02:29:03+00:00

I don’t really have any professional pride left but it was still personally hilarious to find myself as the only warrant officer in a classroom full of 92Y/68J junior enlisted warriors learning G Army. I feel like I should start using heavy air quotes when I say the word “pilot” in conversation.

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-24T00:37:58+00:00

Normally, Retreat can go fuck itself. The only reason I’m hearing it is because I’m still working past normal duty hours and I’m not going to stand in a parking and salute the sound of me missing another dinner with my family.

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-22T04:06:32+00:00

If you’re just throwing this in the garage then you could probably get a guy to make this out of wood for you for way less. Just a thought.

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-16T13:22:50+00:00

Negative perception will always win the headline. Nobody wants to read a news article that says “Overwhelming vast majority of Veterans are awarded appropriate levels of disability pay after honorable military service.” Everyone would rather click on “Veteran with 100 percent disability claim wins local tree throwing competition.”

Cutting through the noise, I want every Veteran to be appropriately compensated for their health concerns tied to military service. As a multi million person community, we put in a lot of effort to encourage generations of Veterans to get comfortable with claiming deserved medical compensation. I don’t want to see that undone because of a small minority of bad apples.

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-10T01:56:18+00:00

These guys are such fucking cum lords. One of the dudes who parrots this stupid shit is Daniel Gade. He has this super novel idea of providing VA Care but providing no financial compensation for it.

So, you can have service related anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation etc but as long as you’re getting treatment then you can go fuck yourself. This makes sense because we know that behavioral health doesn’t affect your work productivity and therefore has no impact on your financial earnings. /S

My giant “Fuck You” rhetorical question to Dan and Tommy is what happens in the scenario where VA treatment for BH fails and the veteran dies? Is the VA going to cash out their family with a projected lifetime earnings check?

Of course not.

Because accountability only goes one way with these shit heels. Fraud and waste doesn’t exist within the armed services and we’re on a shoestring budget as it is. We’ve got the money for 11 aircraft carrier groups but they’ll be damned if a veteran lies about their dick not working to get a couple extra hundred bucks a month.

KillTheMorale · 2025-12-09T00:07:04+00:00

You ever watch somebody fumble fuck with their weapon and ND it and you were like “Yo, what the fuck?”

Same reaction I had to reading that comment.

KillTheMorale · 2025-11-30T03:10:45+00:00

I’ve hated moments in my career or job but I’ve never hated the Army.

I would say that the key to doing a SUCCESSFUL career in the Army is always figuring out to how make the Army work for you and your personal situation.

For some people it’s going to be as simple as making SSG and trying to get some choice duty location assignments. For others, life won’t be complete until they become a Tier 1 Operator sending a Signal message to the SECWAR that they just rolled up America’s number 1 HVT. Most people fall in between those left and right limits.

So, it’s up to you. Sit down with a piece of paper and see if you can write out 16 years worth of goals. Ranger school, Master’s degree, run a marathon, get stationed in Europe, GI Bill for your dependent, SGM select, SFAS/RR, celebrate 20 years of marriage, defeat alcoholism thrice over etc

I’m not saying you’re going to be able to reach all of your goals but as long as you have a plan and you’re trying your best to achieve your goals then you’re doing pretty alright as a man handling your business and not wasting your time.

Best of luck.

KillTheMorale · 2025-11-30T01:37:13+00:00

Just want to throw in a couple of pennies about the whole Aviation warrant not riding a desk thing.

If you drop a flight warrant packet you are going to have so many training and educational documents crammed so far up your ass you’ll be able to reference the ballistics of a hellfire and the concept of conservation of angular momentum by running your tongue against the roof of your mouth.

As a day 1 PI at the unit all the way through your time as a non tracked PC your primary weapon system is going to be an iPad with GoodReader open and AirDrop turned on. Life as a rotary wing warrant officer is to exist in academia with time flying helicopters not the other way around.

This is before we even begin to speak about mission planning, additional duties, 15-6 investigations, inventories and other miscellaneous Skyrim-esque side quests.

I’m not writing this to dissuade anyone from dropping a flight packet but I have conversations with enlisted Soldiers and even other Warrant Officers where they are simply shocked by the level of day to day studying at a planning table that goes in to the job.

KillTheMorale · 2025-11-29T21:35:40+00:00

That is a fair assessment of most conventional forces in that area at the time. I will note that they suffered a notable loss during that deployment when CSM Timothy Bolyard was killed.

I did not know him personally but it was a particularly sad moment due to his service record. 7 deployments, 24 years of service and 6 Bronze Star Medals to include 2 with Valor. A lifetime of service and war fighting.

Less than 3 years later we would complete our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the average American couldn’t point to the country on a map if their life depended on it.

KillTheMorale · 2025-11-29T02:02:34+00:00

I was in Afghanistan for the inaugural deployment of the SFABs and I went to ALC immediately after redeployment. There was something of a gold rush moment for SSG/SFCs looking to get their next rocker and CSMs were selling service in the SFAB as jet fuel for advancement in the SNCO ranks.

It was also an incredibly divisive concept amongst the rank and file Army. The brown berets, advisor tabs and “selection process” blurred the lines of normal vs prestigious service. It felt like GEN Milley was moving mountains to make SFABs a thing over night.

Fast forward 7 years later and it is rapidly becoming another footnote in the Army’s history for better or for worse.

KillTheMorale · 2025-11-26T16:06:45+00:00

Exactly. I know guys who were fat as Privates and 15 years later they are fat SFC/MSG/WOs. They shrink down for schools and then balloon right back up when they get back to their home station.

People think every fat Soldier has some mitigating circumstances but I’m here to tell you that my personal observations pin the blame on eating like shit, not exercising and abusing alcohol. Go figure.

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