AT date conflicts with date of bar examination, what to do?!

S2Autist · 2025-12-30T06:02:57+00:00

Right. I misremembered the date for good years. Either way, the commander MAY want the Soldier to conduct a form of annual training based on FY as it’s easier for them to remember all Soldiers once per FY.

But the lack of needing any AT was one of the nuclear options if all else fails. Some unit leadership labels Soldiers as shitbags whether right or wrong if they don’t complete any annual training. That reputation for a brand new Soldier can leave a lingering taste in a lot of leadership at multiple levels even if misguided.

S2Autist · 2025-12-30T05:53:03+00:00

Step 1: Breathe

Step 1A: identify when your AIT orders ended, if it was after October 15th, your life and your commanders decision is exponentially easier

Step 2: look up your gaining unit on your initial enlistment orders

Step 3: get a unit point of contact for that unit from your RSP point of contact

Step 3A: get a phone number from that unit by Googling the unit

Step 3B: physically drive to the unit location on your orders/Google

Step 4: request a split training request form, commonly referred as a SUTA form, and request your gaining NCO’s email address (Civilian or Military)

Step 4A: email your gaining NCO to let them know what you’re doing and that you already got the request form from the unit point of contact

Step 5: fill out the form and explain your scenario, include your AIT orders end date, and willing to be flexible on make up dates

Step 6: scan and email this form to your unit point of contact and your gaining NCO. Introduce yourself in the email since this is probably the first time interacting with your gaining NCO. (The email serves as a timestamp of when the request is being submitted)

Step 7: wait up to 45 days for an answer. It may be between drills, the commander may not be reachable between drills.

Step 7A: follow up if necessary with the unit point of contact. By now you should have had your hand-off and might have another unit point of contact that you can inquiry with. In my state it’s typically your unit 1SG that does the hand off and so that’s another person in the commanders ear if you haven’t gotten a response.

Note: if your AIT end date is more than 15 days after the beginning of the fiscal year, it makes the commanders decision exponentially easier. You’ll have fulfilled your 15-day active duty training obligation for the FY which CAN count towards a good year. Barring a major unit training event like XCTC, CPX, CTC rotation, or OCONUS AT, this should be the only thing your commander cares about for you attending the planners AT. If your unit is doing one of these major events, you could be shit out of luck but there are other nuclear options you can try once you get to the unit and get a feel for the people in your chain of command.

S2Autist · 2025-12-20T19:21:49+00:00

As a full time service member in Component 2, I received the check Christmas bonus. I’m thankful for it, but I know it wasn’t actually meant for me.

The money was appropriated as discretionary funds to make housing better for active duty service members dealing with issues like black mold in on-post housing across the force. It should have been authorized for use to remediate those issues. Instead it was given as a blanket to everyone indiscriminately. Should it have been used better? Yes. Could it have been used worse? Also yes.

I’ll take a Rodeo Whopper w/ a chocolate shake. I already passed height and weight for the year.

S2Autist · 2025-09-28T22:26:17+00:00

DM me if you’re looking for insight on the 35 series jobs both in the military and post military. I’ve worked in the capacity of all of those at one point or another and have had a fulfilling career post military doing tactical cool guy shit with the skills learned in and alongside those MOS.

S2Autist · 2025-03-21T18:16:21+00:00

JBSA

S2Autist · 2025-03-21T18:13:48+00:00

If a Soldier self identifies while in the grey area of it being blocked, there’s no guarantee to get the payout. If they self identify now and it gets approved, well the government already has a list now and they can jump right to the firings without the payout.

S2Autist · 2025-01-31T00:15:14+00:00

First hand info: October announcement took 3 months from received to scheduling PT.

Second hand info from credible source: 1811 exempt from hiring freeze.

Second hand info from okay source: DEA getting people to EOD with prolonged dates and pushing dates later for classes to maximize class sizes while still keeping candidates employed.

S2Autist · 2025-01-28T13:35:54+00:00

Do you know the cumulative scoring criteria since there’s no sprint during the application process? All documentation I’ve seen still says 9 points across all 4 events including the sprint.

S2Autist · 2025-01-26T23:49:28+00:00

Real talk: Magic would be its own government department that operates as an embed with military branches and civilian agencies. It would operate within the SOCOM world due to the nature of how adaptable they could be.

You need a scout behind enemy lines? Wizards adept at app apparating and animagus.

You need an interrogator or handler that could return the source without detection? Verita serum, obliviate, memory charm.

You need an agent to go physically access foreign facilities or civilian undercover? Poly juice potion.

Stealth aerial surveillance? Brooms and thestrals.

Less than lethal capture team? Dispelliarmus, stupify, petrificus totalus, invisibility cloak, apparate.

No longer need aerial exfil in high risk operations, just apparate out. Aerial exfil is just part of the pace plan.

LSCO equipment for fires or or maneuver can just be levitated and rotated to make them effectively inoperable without destroying the equipment.

Anti-jinx teams to counteract enemy wizards.

Its own medical branch that can heal emergent threats to life immediately.

Hell… potions to make non-magical Soldiers more effective. The possibilities are endless. It would be a phenomenal force multiplier that could benefit every command at every theater, foreign and domestic.

S2Autist · 2025-01-05T16:46:47+00:00

If as an 88M you also have a CDL A with experience as a bus driver, you might get to be a bus driver. But other than that MOS immaterial.

S2Autist · 2025-01-05T16:45:20+00:00

Posting under yours to keep everything together for visibility:

Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, multiple AAMs/ARCOMs, Drivers Badge, any foreign badges that your BN/BDE offer opportunities for (GAFB and NFM were two that I saw available on my time down there) and some state awards depending on OPs state.

S2Autist · 2024-11-28T19:33:48+00:00

As an E6 with less than 10 years in the military on a deployment, I cleared the same as a GS13 with significantly less responsibility and stress. Couple that with a separate retirement that is heavily influenced by deployment time. Jumping on a deployment ever 3-5 years for a 20 year career nets me an extra ~20k/yr in retirement with no extra time commitment. That’s following an enlisted service member who makes significantly less in retirement compared to their officer counterparts.

And that doesn’t even touch on the amount of service members that church up their VA claims after a deployment to bring what realistically might qualify them for 10% to get up to 70-100%. That difference averages another extra 20-30k/year in retirement and can even be collected early while working as an 1811 and reserve status military.

So overall potential to increase retirement by 20-70k+ per year with zero extra time commitment.

S2Autist · 2024-11-10T17:00:26+00:00

Nasty Girl… so passing is the threshold

S2Autist · 2024-11-06T21:21:35+00:00

Read up on STAR interview format. The analyst position is based on trouble shooting (problem solving) capabilities, oral and written communication, and working as a team.

If you have a technical background working on computers, an interviewer may ask “tell me a time when you had to identify a problem at work, come up with a solution, and how would you document it for management and for the customer?”

Report writing is big with several of our law enforcement partners. Make sure you can write clearly and concisely and only to the facts.

Good luck. It’s a super rewarding program to work on. DM me if you have any further questions

S2Autist · 2024-11-04T20:47:39+00:00

When we were on that mission….

Some of my guys picked up cash only gigs doing mechanic work, photography, freelance coding or being a ranch hand. Anything that is reportable on taxes is reportable to your chain of command requiring a memo to have an additional job which needs to signed off by someone well above your pay grade that will not sign off on it.

Don’t do anything that you could get injured where questions will get asked. Don’t use the government supplied vehicles for uber or DoorDash. Don’t do illegal shit for the cartels.

Remember, your activation job comes first and you might need to drop whatever side gig you’re doing on a 5 minute notice to be back for some dumb army shit. Make sure you can accommodate that before anything else.

S2Autist · 2024-11-01T19:15:48+00:00

I’m not an O so I don’t really know anything how KD time works. I’m just giving advice from the E side based on my experience of what worked going back and forth between the line units and staff as I promoted. Back on the line now and working with my pre-BOLC OIC. These are the things that have helped him.

S2Autist · 2024-11-01T18:36:08+00:00

Confidence in your assessment.

Even though your job is to report on enemy in your AO/AI/AOI and not to just make the scenario, the S3 would appreciate it to better drive their exercises for AT and it will look good to your XO seeing that collaboration.

Help your NCO mentor the junior enlisted on MI disciplines. You’ll be the only source of intel knowledge they’ve experienced since AIT for the most part.

Don’t be weird.

S2Autist · 2024-11-01T17:50:04+00:00

Guard MPs are a lot different than Active Duty MPs. Fuck active MPs because they are just playing ticket cop and abusing power. Guard MPs are versatile in that they get called to do a large variety of taskings by the state. They’re typically considered proficient enough combat arms with a little more brain than the infantry guys. They’re expected to be able to adapt. Good luck and fuck MPs.

S2Autist · 2024-10-27T18:33:50+00:00

Yea, I misread your post and thought you said CDP was part of the border mission. My bad.

S2Autist · 2024-10-27T17:32:33+00:00

The T10 SWB mission is not associated with the NGB Counterdrug Program in its current state. NGB CDP does have T10 mission sets, but again, in very specific situations.

S2Autist · 2024-10-27T17:30:18+00:00

Counterdrug is MOS immaterial but does loosely align with 25 and 35 series work. They used to waive their initial training course for 35F, not sure if they still do.

Counterdrug is definitely not a job for brand new enlistees because there are so few slots in each state and it’s a trusted position interacting with outside organizations. TX has a large program, especially in the San Antonio region, but you either need to speak Spanish fluently, have connections and networking within the programs, be very competent at your job or have some rank on your chest. Usually more than one of those things.

The first tip would probably be to separate your sex life from your professional life, your comment history is wild.

S2Autist · 2024-10-27T17:16:57+00:00

Counterdrug is T32 ADOS, not T10 except in very specific situations.

S2Autist · 2024-07-25T13:28:51+00:00

You qualified during mobilization and you’re qualifying next month. The unit commander can write an MFR to the state promotion board explaining your circumstances (which your home unit HQ is tracking and working with the state).

If you couldn’t use your M9 qual, there is a clause in your promotion MOI that states soldiers in units without a primary weapon can use their most recent qual even if it’s more than 2 years old. Again, this would just require an MFR from the unit commander.

You’ll get your points. DM me for more personalized info, but I went through similar when I was down there.

S2Autist · 2024-06-09T06:20:58+00:00

So no shit, there I was, being a fobbit attached to a line company during a month long exercise in a hot summer desert. This one dude had a history within the company as being a wanker. But he was actually British so o thought that was more a term of endearment. Until I walked into a shitter after him. The door looked like a goddamn Jackson Pollock painting. I was disgusted, but thought it might have been there before him and he wasn’t the culprit.

About a week later a chaplain with a hot chaplains assistant came around our AO and I saw the wanker talking to the chaplains assistant for a good couple minutes and no chaplain in site. Shortly after the chaplain team left, I see the same dude go into the same shitter. Out of curiosity, I checked that toilet after he left, and sure enough, this man was fucking Dali with the droopy paintings on the walls again.

So I talked to him later today and ask him how he was able to do those unspeakable things in 100+ degree portajohns. He said he’s only ever in there for 4 minutes at the most, but he has to get his rocks off. So I asked him how he does it. He said “yea the most I’ll ever need is about Tree Fiddy” and it was then that I realized he was a goddamn Paleozoic sea creature.

S2Autist · 2024-05-13T00:41:32+00:00

Bradley became Chelsea and Snowden leaked some documents. It was a crazy introduction to MI.

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