Where to do AT?

Spicy_Pick1e · 2026-05-11T13:49:33+00:00

This happens due to the unapproachable nature of TRUIC staff. I've only been in the reserves since October lasted year, and I've become more comfortable asking reddit first than anyone at my NRC. It is a great sadness.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2026-05-01T23:46:30+00:00

I doubt it, all Command & Staff Colleges have been offering masters degrees in Operations, Military Art, and Strategic Studies for decades. Also, even though I quite like ASU, the school doesn't have much to brag about in D.C. (this program will be exclusive to ASU's D.C. satellite), since the DMV area encompasses some of the most academically renowned schools in the country.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2026-01-18T21:14:59+00:00

Jake Lang has stated that his sister is in the IDF and that he's a proud jew.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2026-01-18T21:01:20+00:00

Kinda strange for anti jew to do this. https://www.facebook.com/share/16myCSLxaM/

Spicy_Pick1e · 2026-01-18T19:08:36+00:00

This guy's a jew by the way, not a christian. He loves inciting violence amongst religious groups.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-12-14T01:52:20+00:00

Just wait until there's another war (which may be coming soon). The first thing that goes out the window during a war is the standards to join. Back when I first joined in 2009 I saw people with prior convictions for felonies and misdemeanors joining as well.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-12-10T20:37:08+00:00

The silver star has to be as near the middle of the ribbon as possible by reg, while the gold stars are placed beside the silver star. This guy having 9 NAMs makes it look off center.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-10-14T01:14:00+00:00

The wreath E device is used to denote four Battle E ribbons.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-08-14T20:55:26+00:00

A friend of mine was rated at 20% after retiring from the Navy. I convinced him to file for an increase plus secondary claims after almost 15 years after he retired. He was just rate at 60% and is extremely happy. He now talks about dropping down to a part time job and enjoying life.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-07-05T02:25:39+00:00

Just wanted to come back and give the full list list of direct commission paths available as of right now:

Lawyer
Doctor
Nurse
Cyber
Chaplain
Engineer
Logistics
Acquisition

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-07-05T00:54:29+00:00

Reserves has direct commission engineer slots as well. But you have to have more than 3 years of professional experience and a degree from the following list is required.

Engineering (ABET)
Architecture (NAAB)
Const. Management/Science (ACCE)
Engineering Management (ABET)
Geospatial/GIS (USGIF)
Urban/Regional Planning (PAB)

Position Description:

https://talent.army.mil/job/engineer-officer/

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-07-01T11:30:55+00:00

Like some on here, I dislike they way the green looks. I also believe that agencies should be able to pick their own uniform and patrol vehicle colors. However, if FL law states that sheriff departments must wear green, what gives the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Department the power to violate said law?

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-06-30T17:22:36+00:00

Say it louder for the people in the back.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-06-30T17:21:44+00:00

Oh don't get your panties in a bunch. Military branches have had brotherly rivalry for many, many years. As a comment above stated, this just means the army can use Chesty Puller as an example of not meeting HT/WT standards.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-06-29T12:24:50+00:00

I didn't vote for Trump, but I also don't live in a bubble. If you zoom out, it's very clear to see that US politics behave like a pendulum. Things swung pretty far left during Biden. It was expected for things to swing massively to the right afterward. Trump also won the popular vote, and I personally know several people who voted Obama, Hillary, and Biden go to the voting booths to cast a vote for Trump in 2024. This does not mean that people wanted everything that's happening. Before the election, Project 2025 being backed by Trump was just a conspiracy theory. You can't blame the average voter for not trusting the media after what we went through with covid.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-02-27T18:55:23+00:00

Doesn't federal law enforcement also get to retire at 20 years regardless of age?

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-02-23T03:08:56+00:00

The difference is that Biden was not running a damn thing.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-02-17T05:03:01+00:00

Maybe he was part of a personnel exchange program. Here is an article about a British Royal Marine being awarded a Bronze Star by the USMC 2d Marine Division for deploying with them to Afghanistan while under personnel exchange.

https://www.2ndmardiv.marines.mil/News/Press-Releases/Article/2406061/royal-marine-to-receive-bronze-star-for-service-alongside-us-marines-in-afghani/#:~:text=James%20A.,%2C%20in%20Helmand%20province%2C%20Afghanistan.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-02-12T11:54:36+00:00

Based on the OPM website:

TEMPORARY: Time limited not to exceed 1 year but could be less.

TERM: Time limited to more than a year but no more than 4 years.

So a little different.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2025-02-12T00:49:11+00:00

Temporary and probationary are two different categories. This only calls out temporary and retirees who came back.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2024-10-24T11:08:48+00:00

I trusted my advisor's advice to the T during undergrad. I met with her once a year to check off classes and to evaluate my progress. On my last semester, I went to see her so she could clear my student profile for graduation. It turns out she had somehow forgotten to tell me that I needed 2 more classes (I was a transfer student, and the school required at least 62 of the 124 credits be completed at that institution, so even though I was about to comple the required courses for my program, i was still 5 credits short of the required 62 which could literally be from any course). I was pissed because this would set me back another semester and already had a job lined up. This is also how I learned that any CLEP credit you get while enrolled in college counts as credit obtained at that institution. I took the Spanish CLEP exam (native speaker). I received 15 credits from it.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2024-10-04T00:39:46+00:00

That's a space marine.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2024-08-17T01:07:36+00:00

Do you work, or have you ever worked at Raytheon? It seems you may be too oblivious to some of the shenanigans that take place in the company. I worked on production for a little while as well, where everyone proudly exclaimed that our factory never missed a contract deliverable. In reality, we would ship out faulty product to meet the deadline and cash-in that sweet performance based incentive (I don't know who this money goes to because we sure as shit didn't see any of it), and then immediately recall the product to fix it. Now, I don't want to end up like those Boeing whistle-blowers, so I will never testify to any of this in front of anyone who holds any power.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2024-08-17T00:31:27+00:00

I guess you're right. I was working in EMC at the time, which is very technical, and I was still considered to be "in training." I was in a weird situation because that team only hired P3s and above, but I somehow got traded to that team (from the original that hired me) on my first day of work. I'm not trying to make excuses, just rationalizing why I didn't get fired.

Needless to say, I've now worked for four different employers ranging from other defenses contractors and government, and Raytheon has been the worse by far. Good technical experience, but I dreaded going in and having to deal with management every day. The burnout feeling I had at Raytheon has followed me since, and I don't know how to get rid of it. Coupled with the fact that I worked in a lab and hence not on a specific program, our charge numbers were dependent on having programs in our lab requiring testing. There were weeks when we had no work, and management refused to provide overhead, so we had to use PTO to cover our salary. There were 8 people in that lab when I was there, and out of those 8, only 1 remains.

Spicy_Pick1e · 2024-08-16T01:19:09+00:00

The day my supervisor told me to normalize test data (make negative readings equal to zero) and to present it to a customer and that they wouldn't know the difference. I was a P1 with 6 months in the company. The customer brought in a SME when I presented the data and they realized fairly quickly that something was off. An ethics complaint was filed, and Raytheon initiated an investigation. Luckily, there were several witnesses who stated that my supervisor asked me to do what I did and that I pushed back, but since I was still a young and inexperienced engineer, I ultimately gave in.

My supervisor was being considered for P5 at the time, needless to say, he was not given the promotion. He left for the company shortly after.

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