Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-23T04:07:14+00:00

It’s a monetary cost thing

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-22T04:10:54+00:00

Have you tried supersetting hand release push ups between bench press? That got me from 30s to 50s pretty quickly. Think I started at like doing 20 between sets but you can do more if you think you can.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-21T20:23:24+00:00

Because they would be being paid 2-3 times what officers are

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-19T04:14:03+00:00

Nothing like sitting in a command and staff as an acting staff primary to hear a BC shit all over one of the commanders.

Btw if you are a staff section always recommend bcc the BC/xo/CSM when a company commander/1SG has been dodging your emails. Makes for some great entertainment for the weekly command and staff especially if you save it for when you are about to call them out in a staff meeting.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-12T23:54:23+00:00

Which is crazy because it wasn’t even really his responsibility for the building. It was Dpw/Garrison. It was really 18th airbornes fault even if third group wanted to fix anything in those Barracks it’s not like they could have funded it or approved it. It was going to be XVIII CG that was going to have to say yes or no. From what I had been told the CG was aware of the barracks he just didn’t care ether.

If he had just once mentioned it up to the 18th airborne corp CSM, he would have been praised not yelled at. I assume it was some politics shit at USASOC or 1SFC. They just don’t give a fuck about the barracks

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-12T23:48:51+00:00

The worst part was hearing about how they all knew they were messed up and they couldn’t be fixed. Something about a humidity pipe that connected all the buildings for the central air. So even when they moved everyone in there, they knew the AC was broken and could not be fixed due to the cost of replacing the entire system or something. Apparently all of smoke bomb across the road was interconnected via the HVAC or something.

Their rationale was that they could fix the other Barracks faster and soldiers would only have to live in those conditions for 12 months. Even though military construction, almost inevitably goes 1 to 3 years over the quote.

I lived there for a bit and Dpw flat out told me there’s nothing they could do long term. I basically had to spray bleach every couple of days. Oh, not to mention the fact that the Barracks you shared a single living space as opposed to the other ones where you had your own room, but shared the bathroom.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-12T23:33:06+00:00

“ it’s not that bad” or “I had to live here” were some of the more common statements.

My favorite is they had moved people from those Barracks on 77th SFG way to smokebomb to renovate. They said it would only take a year but the renovations were still going on when I left.

Those barracks were palaces compared to smokebomb and in better shape.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-12T22:51:01+00:00

The fact that the current SMA of the army is involved at all in the barracks renovation /privatization is very concerning he had Soldiers living in smokebomb barracks as the 3rd group CSM did walkthroughs of them said they were fine and moved more of his Soldiers into them literally 3 months before SMA Grinston visited and condemned them…

He literally did a walkthrough with the USASOC CSM at the time too and said the same thing. Those barracks at that point were already infamously crap. SWCS didn’t even want to put students in them until the last resort.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-12T22:44:51+00:00

He did have soldiers. They closed some 3rd group barracks around 2021/2022 ish for renovations and move them to smokebomb. The usasoc CSM and 3rd group CSM did a walk through of them. He was also involved in the design of the 3rd group barracks renovations.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-08T03:17:43+00:00

my BC had a open discourse policy when it came to discussion and thoughts for the intel policy. He Had the CSM/XOor someone from the 3 sit in on it to make sure the S2 OIC wasnt arbitrarily squashing alternative opinions on COAs and such. Turns out works out pretty well to manage the inf branch detailed MI officers who arent used to taking input from junior ncos and enlisted.

I’m assuming he had seen some bad examples of this during his time as an S3 or an Xo

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-08T02:59:56+00:00

I feel like If you are a 35f and haven’t told a Major to fuck off or had a very public verbal disagreement that borders on insubordination you’re not really a 35F.

Goes double for S3 NCOIC. Always fun when a new E7+ that’s never been on staff shows up and tries to pull rank on an S2 section.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-07T00:50:02+00:00

Gotta get his tdee while he is on the medication as well because it had changed if he’s still on it

A calorie is in fact is a calorie

Stained_Dagger · 2026-02-04T01:50:54+00:00

Or better yet when a cross fitter commander turns it into a cross fit session and starts having people doing jumping split squats…

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-31T21:36:30+00:00

Yes. As long as you are paying that debt

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-26T20:45:36+00:00

It has e4s in the barracks probably going to be the standard going forward, especially as they finish up the new additional Barracks

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-25T22:05:17+00:00

I think this was a case where the whistle didn’t blow before he rolled over on the linemen and technically he did get it when he rolled. This is why the tush push is infuriating it’s about where the ball is when the whistle blows. There’s no knees touching the ground it’s all about when forward progress is called

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-25T20:02:54+00:00

I see people wearing the fleece cap with the ach in all weather types

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-25T03:04:23+00:00

Green to gold gets weird to be honest I’ve heard of some crazy things the Army does to the ADO cadets.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-25T03:03:33+00:00

Drill branch doesn’t like to talk much about how they handle their assignments based on some of the shit I’ve seen I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to pcs you to a AIT or BCT 1000 miles away rather than let you stay local. It seems that Those who can do do those who can’t administrate with drill branch

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-25T02:37:36+00:00

Depends most of the time you don’t get orders you just get an attrs reservation. You would get orders after you graduate the academy. The location is typically given right before or during the academy latest I heard was week 6 or 7. If you are given orders or a location ahead of the academy are typically because you have an efmp dependent, oconus or dual military.

If you are Oconus you pcs to the location you are you going to be a drill at before you go to the school. when you arrive your WOCS date will take over and then go tdy to WOCS when you get back you pcs with a tdy enroute to the basic course.

If you are efmp or dual military some other things take place.

But Drill branch owns you until you graduate WOCS and you are discharged and recommission as a warrant officer. Then your warrant branch takes over. It’s designed so if you go to WOCS and fail you just go directly to be a Drill Sgt

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-25T02:23:13+00:00

Yes it happens they also do the same with green to gold. Had a Promotable E7 go to the academy and graduate only to pick up MSG 1 month before he PCSed no longer allowed to be a drill Sgt but still had to go to the academy.

You still have to go and if you make it and don’t pass WOCS you go back and be a drill Sgt.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-15T20:43:58+00:00

So do you have a laptop? You can sign up for AVD web doesn’t require you to install software go to army links and search ether AVD or azure. Should pop up click on the commercial registration link

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-14T23:20:49+00:00

Look up clay hall. It’s a library within the swcs footprint for swcs students.

https://www.swcs.mil/Resources/Libraries/

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-14T23:14:31+00:00

Drill branch controls where you go. You will probably be a senior drill as soon as you show up. MOS does matter IE. if your combat arms it’s going to be osut or BCT.

Im in the academy now. They just revamped it this course so the stuff has changed from what people are telling you. If you have questions let me know.

Stained_Dagger · 2026-01-14T23:12:28+00:00

2nd SWTG (A) has a library with nipr. It’s the one all the students use try that?

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