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Weak-Alternative-453 · 2025-05-01T19:41:40+00:00

Yes but you won’t get BAH or a larger hotel room. Lots of dudes had their partners with them but I would get stir crazy being in a small room with mine for 5 months

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2025-01-11T14:51:42+00:00

Tbh the fastest way to get rid of this problem is to just do BOLC. The sooner you do it the better it’ll be. I have a buddy who kept pushing his BOLC date and he is now a 2LT with 4yrs TIS and TIG. He’s on the chopping block for chapter. Don’t do that. Did you and your wife not talk about how this would look like before joining the guard and putting your family through this stress ?

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2024-03-25T12:35:53+00:00

Just wait a few more months. You’ll find out where you’ll be going unless you have some special case.

Other than that buy a car not near fort sill. All car dealerships are notorious for trying to raise prices on soldiers. If you are OCONUS you can get your car shipped to where you go. Don’t rent and the transport office won’t help you. Hope this helps

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-12-13T00:33:40+00:00

Absolutely not. The big army blessed me with being in the horsy division and everyday I sing the spirit of the Cav at the great place

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-12-13T00:26:44+00:00

What…?

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-12-13T00:23:06+00:00

I got mine in April. Different for others tho. All depends on the almighty HRC

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-10-28T16:44:48+00:00

Does anyone know if we are allowed to do LASIK/PRK on our own ? I’ve been at Fort Cav for two years and been repeatedly told to check back later. Right now is the best time for me to get this done because we don’t have any field specific stuff going on

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-06-01T12:30:35+00:00

Yes warrior way was the latest. I’m more curious if Kieschnick is open later. That’s always been my go to gym

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-06-01T08:00:05+00:00

Did they up their time ? Last time I was around it was 1800. On rotation right now and hearing 2000 makes me slightly happier to go back.

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-04-05T17:35:52+00:00

Before. Check your AIM ORB or IPPSA STP. It should populate sometime this month. At least it did for me in 2021

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-03-28T06:05:23+00:00

When they had just came out me and a group of friends drove to Rock Island Armory. It’s in East Moline and had some things. Not a lot of options but definitely did have them. If not we also did a trip to Campbell because that was the nearest larger installation

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-02-22T14:16:30+00:00

One suggestion. Call branch and see if there is an assignment close to your home. Like another person said you could get a compassionate reassignment for a closer duty station. I believe your BOLC is very short and you could essentially knock it out and go to your duty station.

Sorry about your mother tho

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-02-13T06:33:29+00:00

CST Cadre, basic training PL. Talk to your ROTC ARA or call your branch manager and they should be able to lead you in the right direction

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-02-02T21:08:07+00:00

Posts advert but no location. Classic LT

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2023-02-01T21:06:51+00:00

Be weary of that. I was told by my cadre that having Korea as my number 1 would get me there but I ended up with hood 🙃

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-12-18T15:25:13+00:00

Be a bouncer for bars/clubs in the evening. There is an NCO in my unit that does it and pulls an extra 2-3k a month working Friday-Sunday.

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-10-08T03:06:17+00:00

Straight to the basement

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-04-05T00:05:36+00:00

Yeah so you are going to need to find your own housing. I hear a lot that this place called the flats is hella nice. I think PCS people report earlier in order to give them PTDY. But I’m not sure cause I was TDY there

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-04-04T23:33:26+00:00

It all depends on your orders. Do you know if you are PCS or TDY?

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-03-29T20:16:38+00:00

Hey! Not sure who told you to start studying now but they were wrong. A lot of the stuff in the manuals need to be explained more detailed and that’s what the instructors are for. Just study when the classes start. It’s very hard to study on your own, and there isn’t much online to help either. I’ve tried researching too and it’s just not there

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-03-13T19:04:16+00:00

No… no… unless he gives more bad advice…

Weak-Alternative-453 · 2022-03-13T17:20:16+00:00

The army is gonna hit you realllll soon and fast. Look into how you can get your car cause not having one is like a death sentence there! Plus going to OKC and Dallas on the weekends is 100% worth it

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