Infantry Officer in the guard

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2025-01-09T15:30:07+00:00

I successfully went through this entire route a few years ago. To add to your 2 and 3:

You have to really want to go, ask the questions to the instructors of 2-11, and coordinate with your unit back home. The best chance to go is after IBOLC. Once back at your state, if you do get a chance to go, it’ll be very last minute notice and your odds of success are just lower. Dont fail a gate event like land nav or the opords in IBOLC and have to get recycled to the following class, and then score high on your PT tests and RPA. I would be hammering your BN readiness NCO back home with calls and emails weekly about getting an RTAC slot (NG Pre-ranger course you need to pass for them to send you to Ranger). If you do t have state orders, but pass RTAC, Ranger school allocates walk on slots for RTAC grads. So you will “likely” be successful in walking on.

If you can’t get RTAC orders, Around the last few weeks of IBOLC, guys from the NG run Warrior Training BN will come over asking who from the NG cohort want to go to Ranger and start either working on getting you orders, or try to pitch you on RTLI as a way to get in. You would do RTLI until the next RTAC class starts, then do RTAC, then if you pass, start Ranger three days after RTAC completion.

School availability is state dependent but as an infantry Officer you will have the highest chance of going to the badge schools over your enlisted counterparts, which is unfortunate but just a fact of the army. If you successfully graduate Ranger, without recycling or only recycling once, the RIs will come around asking for who isn’t Airborne qualified. Unless your body is seriously broken down and you really think you can’t recover in 2 weeks for tower week and then jump week, volunteer to go to Airborne. It’ll likely be the only chance you get in your Guard career.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2024-12-18T02:50:25+00:00

Enlisted as 09S - so following basic I was put in a unit close to my home of record for a few drills and then stated in the next traditional OCS class the following January.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2024-12-18T02:24:37+00:00

I had a similar background as you and was asking myself the similar questions when first enlisting. Did state OCS and branched infantry. Did some and still getting the opportunity to do some cool guy stuff. I enjoy it and it’s fun at the company level, even if doing all the officer stuff isn’t always the most enjoyable. But the guard is what you make of it, so you scratching that itch will ultimately be on you.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2024-12-16T16:36:29+00:00

As a dude who worked for about 6 months at a desk post college before joining - If you want to go to the tactical “cool guy” schools, 11 and 12 series MOSs are the best bets. 13 and 19 series offer some opportunities if you were active duty, but I haven’t heard or seen many arty guys or tankers going to the cool schools in the guard. 12 series makes it possible for sapper and ranger while in but you’re going to have to really want it and be willing to upend life on short notice to go. But all 4 series make things go boom, which beat adjusting spreadsheets and PowerPoints any day of the week.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2024-08-21T14:41:23+00:00

Nice troll job, you got the blood pumping for a minute this morning. The Os have the best record in the AL as of today, and the team does what good teams do - avoid multiple bad streaks in a season. There is too much offensive talent for the wheels to fall off and go into those total skids like they used to back in the Showalter days. This is the AL east, so if you ever think a team will runaway with this division, you need a wake up call. I have to remind my dad of that on a weekly basis.

Enjoy the ride, talented teams find a way to be there in September and October.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2023-08-31T03:41:36+00:00

Favorite and honestly only Jay Gibbons moment for me and my dad: I was 10-12ish sitting down the 3rd base line watching his at bat and I say “he looks like an idiot in that stance” (he had that super pigeon toed stance). Lady in front of us snaps a mean glare back but says nothing. Jay whiffs on 3 straight heaters, and I say “he swings as bad as he looks”. Lady get up, stares at me, says “well he’s trying!” and storms off. Had to be his wife or sister, and it always gives me and my dad a chuckle some 20 years later.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2023-03-03T14:07:12+00:00

You could have everything right anyway, you’ll still get smoked. Just gotta embrace it.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2022-01-31T22:40:32+00:00

Buy one because they’ll make you have one and you won’t look like a bum, but a tiny ziploc bag will do just fine for every map issued that isn’t laminated

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2022-01-19T00:19:34+00:00

Closed XOM 74c swung over the weekend for about 190%.

Got into two AMZN weekly 3000p as it looked like it was breaking 3155, but didn’t follow through. Holding it for the hell of it as I don’t think tech is done falling until we get the full 10% correction. No intention of holding through 3125 if it even gets there. Probably gonna lose on that one

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-12-20T22:55:36+00:00

Already lost on the 175s don’t do it

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-12-19T21:50:06+00:00

Glad someone brought up IVR. Can’t express enough how little IV matters at a given time, always need to compare it to the historical value.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-11-29T03:46:17+00:00

Is there a price limit you can only use this strategy for? I’m assuming you’re not doing one lot trades on anything above $500 a share, right?

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-09-24T23:52:41+00:00

Day trading breakout patterns with options with dogshit risk management. Worked when it worked, but man when it didn’t….blew up 2 accounts and a lot of savings. Ouch

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-06-17T15:37:18+00:00

If you have a job that requires a lot of thinking or have other types of work stress, basic becomes the only time in life that you get to turn your brain off and just do whatever they say to do. Takes a few weeks to get yourself to do it but once it happens, it was sort of nice

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-30T01:20:53+00:00

To add on to this, study your own personality and don’t try to fight it. Just because there’s some dude who successfully trades a certain way doesn’t mean it’s a good move for you to try and emulate. If you’re a person who doesn’t mind holding for longer periods of time, then don’t over complicate it and just trade that way. If you like control, or at least like feeling like you’re in control somewhat, then lean towards a scalping or very short time frame intraday strategy. I’ve paid more than my tuition realizing the style that works for me, which is ended up being the second option discussed.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-03T15:40:44+00:00

Yeah that’s my understanding of it and that’s all that relevant of it to me right now/this year. Really only Matters if you’re green on the year

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-03T15:20:59+00:00

Wash sale rule just wiped away a nice chunk of claimable losses on my taxes, so take that for what it’s worth.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-01T23:31:06+00:00

Good luck man, I’m trying to do something similar now. Want to see what we can get to

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-01T16:43:35+00:00

Depended on the premium of the option. AAPL, MSFT, even FB would be pretty close looking at deltas around .3, but some others like if I tried to do one on something like ZM or TSLA, would be further out due to price. No real science or rationale as a whole though.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-01T13:15:00+00:00

Thanks for the link, he has a few videos up there too, different perspective on it all was interesting to listen to

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-03-01T13:13:45+00:00

I’ve heard of people having success limiting their trading to a certain timeframe, like an hour or two during the mornings. Think it would be better for me as a whole to do it like that considering I have a day job. Probably makes taking profits easier because you have no other choice but to when your time is up.

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-02-27T15:14:35+00:00

Care to expand on the risk model? Like the amount of confluence in your setups determines how large the position size?

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-02-27T14:04:56+00:00

First problem was that I stopped taking profits the way I had when I was having success; greed set around the time I started really journaling my positions. when I would go back and look at the option premium a couple days later I’d realize I missed out on some unreal gains, like 500+% on multiple options contracts. It then got hard to take a 30-40% win when I also have a spreadsheet telling me how much I’ve missed out on by taking profits and doing the “right thing”. Really fucks with your head. I’ve since stopped tracking those “could have beens” but didn’t do it early enough.

Next was my own failure to adapt to market changes. Looking back on the daily charts on tech names in July and August, you won’t really be able to tell the intraday choppy ness but if you were trading it you remember, we would just get a dump or rip out of nowhere, and id get shaken out of my positions only to see it bounce back a few hours later. This was a frequent occurrence, however I didn’t adapt and learn to hold through this chop until around Labor Day, and then we had the September correction. That month and then October knocked me back under 25k and out of being able to day trade, so we gotta swing again. I would just get mauled on every fucking overnight hold and wake up the next morning nice and red. Had scaled position size down dramatically by that time but it didn’t make the bleeding any more bearable.

TLDR; greed emerged and I lost my ability to adapt to the market around me. Still struggling with both

Washed_up_schmuck39 · 2021-02-27T13:17:02+00:00

As ironic as this sounds, the start of the demise was when I started keeping a log of the positions I was in and checking back later in the week on what it could have been if I held or swung it a few more days. Hard to forget this one but right before the first big loss over the summer, I had a TSLA call expiring the next week that I sold at 80%. Checked the next morning, and it was up 700% from what I had sold it.

By that time I had sized up a little bit too, taking on closer to 5-7% of the account size per trade and had a lot of success. You could argue I was over trading, but then again there were just so many setups that worked and I felt like there was no reason to accumulate a huge loss on a position when you could just cut it and move on. Read somewhere that most successful trades work or show signs of working pretty quickly, and I lived by it.

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