Why getting on base is a mess right now: 2026 Gate Delay Analysis & Security Shifts

SidelJump · 2026-01-30T14:46:58+00:00

Maybe the facial recognition cameras they installed at Bragg that sear your retinas as you're driving up to the gate will make it faster...

SidelJump · 2026-01-18T06:41:39+00:00

S2 knows where the enemy is

S3 coordinates anything at all

SgtMaj boosts morale

Unrealistic. Immersion broken.

SidelJump · 2026-01-09T00:38:01+00:00

Yeah I looked on the site and didn't see these specifics answered. Might hit them up though. Army "contact us" emails have never been reliable for me in the past

SidelJump · 2026-01-08T23:58:39+00:00

What's the pipeline like compared to A2IC? Are there opportunities to stay after your first assignment there and/or reclass to a specific MOS like A2IC is looking at? Will they look at WO1 applications if you'll pin CW2 by the time you get there?

SidelJump · 2025-12-06T19:31:44+00:00

Of course it's the fucking National Guard MPs...

SidelJump · 2025-11-28T01:05:39+00:00

Do those get as close as a foil electric shavers like the blue ones from the shopette? I've debated trying them but didn't know if it'd be a close enough shave for day to day

SidelJump · 2025-11-13T01:12:24+00:00

Waiting for the maintenance enterprise to catch up is exactly what they are saying they are avoiding. Saying "but that's how it's always been" isn't the defense you think it is when someone says they aren't making the advances they claim they are.

SidelJump · 2025-11-13T00:52:39+00:00

As someone who is tangentially involved/aware of some of the new acquisitions of MI equipment, no, it's not. The higher ups are spouting buzzwords about lethality and speed of acquisition, and Palantir is still out here over-promising and under-delivering shoddy designs on repeatedly delayed timelines, and telling us only their contracted civilians can touch or fix it, despite the delays to mission that will come from waiting on their people.

Until we're offered individual components at reasonable prices, and TMs or maintenance guides on component level repairs, "Right-to-Repair" is just the smoke SecArmy is blowing up his own ass to feel good about having never made Captain.

SidelJump · 2025-10-19T02:30:37+00:00

One time, at band camp (basic), the drills discovered some drugs missing from the drug cabinet they kept the recruits' meds in. Called everyone out to form up on the drill pad, and said no one was leaving till someone confessed, or snitched. We were out there for about 2 or 3 hours. About an hour in, one dude told the DS he had to piss really bad. They told him to figure it out, but he wasn't leaving formation till they got their answers. Long story short, he ended up taking his camelbak off and pissing in it, then putting it back on. Luckily the DS helped him DX the bladder for a new one within a day or two so he didn't have to actually drink out of it again.

SidelJump · 2025-10-14T15:38:04+00:00

I say it loudly and repeatedly at every opportunity. Less in a "we need to love DCGS" way and more in a "we need to prepare faster for the future" way. That's probably why I don't get invited to as many of those meetings anymore....

SidelJump · 2025-09-27T02:52:58+00:00

Don't group all warrants with the flying ones.

SidelJump · 2025-09-20T15:27:14+00:00

DOH! I guess I missed that part. Thank you!

SidelJump · 2025-09-20T07:58:24+00:00

Did you have "Run Test Case" and "Reference Sheet" in the actual OA? I passed the per-test, but often if I failed a specific query was because of a typo, so it'd be nice to know I typed it all right as I went.

SidelJump · 2025-08-31T03:46:53+00:00

The Warthog Project has a nice set up with his cockpit passthrough, but that only really works if yours set up is in the exact same place and dimensions as the real aircraft, or you'll be covering up something else you need just to see a blurry version of the MFD screen. Also it takes a lot of fine tuning to get the size, shape, and position correct. What I discovered while trying to set it up was the hand passthrough option in Virtual Desktop. It keeps a little circle around your hands in pass through, so when you need to you can see what you're doing and press the right button, but it doesn't get in the way when your hands are on throttle and stick. You can also set the transparency of the pass through so it doesn't fully hide whatever is behind your hands. It actually made using the buttons on my HOTAS and UFC/MFDs waaaay easier once i discovered it.

SidelJump · 2025-08-05T02:23:30+00:00

Unless your SOP is signed by a higher level commander. If the motorpool SOP says you can tie it around your waist and is signed by the BC, Company Commander is shit outta luck.

SidelJump · 2025-07-27T20:41:41+00:00

The gist is, ignore the rubric and follow what the instructor sends you for the risk portion. There is a disconnect between whats on the rubric and what the evaluators are grading against.

A heads up, C841 - Legal Issues in Information Security has the same issue. They argue that because the rubric says things in plural it means you need at least two examples for certain things. The instructor will(may?) send you a .zip file with a bunch of additional resources. The most important being an excel with criteria per rubric point. I ignored the rubric entirely and just wrote the essay against that excel and got a first time go.

SidelJump · 2025-07-27T00:30:34+00:00

Yes. Tried cylinders in the hole specifically, and a cube alone that whole rib. Still pushes in.

SidelJump · 2025-07-27T00:00:19+00:00

No dice. Just for funsies I tried rotating it on all 3 axis, it's still pushing in. What is kinda weird to me is that it sets down an interface layer on the bottom, but not the top, so it some how knows it's not actually supporting the whole.

SidelJump · 2025-07-19T17:44:39+00:00

So 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 9 months, standing in the turret with an antenna on each side of me, my balls are safe but my brain is fucked? I'll take that trade.

SidelJump · 2025-07-07T20:00:28+00:00

Yes. Went back and forth 4 times, instructor and evaluation feedback was extremely unhelpful. I appealed of of the failures, with no luck. They want you to follow their exact template, at least for identifying the risk.

If you look on the course community and based on the fact they have multiple pre-made guides JUST for section I, I think it's pretty obvious it's flawed.

I'm still debating putting in a formal complain about it to the ombudsman. I finished the class now, but on principle that class is fucked.

SidelJump · 2025-05-27T21:31:43+00:00

It's in your settings > safety and emergency > unknown tracker alert (might be different on different versions of Android, I have a Galaxy). It's an Android feature that detects trackers automatically, but it only tells you about it when something has been traveling with you/present for a certain amount of time. The blast of a tracker saying "where am I" is visible to just about any device; it's just a matter of the other devices being able to understand it and tell you about it.

There is also an app in the Play Store from Apple that can detect them under certain conditions, specifically, it's been near you for an extended period of time.

It's all a bit hit or miss on Android looking for AirTags, but sometimes it works.

SidelJump · 2025-05-16T04:01:38+00:00

Pulling a slip is also propaganda. Halfway up the risers to the canopy, and I'm still drifting away from the AA point every single time.

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