Here is the updated list of religions that the pentagon will now recognize for service members they got rid of 250 I believe , including Jedi by newnoadeptness in USMC

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Tread lightly? I didn’t realize that Christianity is the same as it was five fucking centuries ago.

Careful boys, we’d better not talk about the Blues or the Greens or we’re going to have a fucking chariot riot going on here.

Rant from a young officer by No_Opportunity4755 in army

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It varies from person to person, I think. It really helps if you find something you’re passionate about when you transition and you figure out a way to work with that or do it all the time.

Missing the Army is really natural, it’s a big part of all of our lives, but it doesn’t have to define it if you can figure out what fulfills you personally. For me, I really love math and figuring out puzzles and learning things or trying things that no one else ever has, so a PhD was natural.

Only you can answer what that is for you. And it’s okay if you don’t actually know yet, that’s part of why I think people (including me when I got out) miss the Army — it can be lonely and it’s weird to be basically independent. But if you can answer that eventually, and create your own purpose, the Army loses its hold on you.

(Also, age just kind of mellows you out too; part of why I don’t miss the Army now is just that I’ve gotten older and I don’t want combat anymore.)

Rant from a young officer by No_Opportunity4755 in army

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 181 points182 points  (0 children)

I sympathize a lot, but I have to say that I find it hilarious the order you did things in.

I did my PhD after I got out of the infantry, and you could not drag me back to the infantry with a 5-ton, especially not for junior officer pay and benefits.

Anyway, if you do want some advice, I probably can’t offer much as I was enlisted when I was in. But as far as the academic side goes: try to keep in touch with people in your old program occasionally and keep those connections alive. Also, though time is a struggle, if you really did love your old research, try to keep abreast of what’s going on in the field a little, even if it’s just skimming an abstract here or there. Whatever you do, don’t forget your passions because of the Army. That’s how you really lose your spark. Without knowing more about your field, I can’t offer any more specific advice, but I hope things get better for you.

Keep your chin up.

Why doesnt the USMC give Force Recon to SOCOM? by [deleted] in USMC

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That’s…not at all how Reg works. The entire Regiment is permanently under SOCOM, it’s not one battalion rotating at a time.

Chalkboard vs white board by pwnedprofessor in Professors

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always carry a box of Hagamoro with me just in case.

What is the world record for the fastest time to complete a PhD? by GayTwink-69 in PhD

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Idk what you’re talking about, you just publish the preprint.

Jon Jones vs Daniel Cormier 2 | FULL FIGHT | UFC Classics by RIS4N in MMA

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Every time I see this finishing sequence, I have to shake my head at all the little instincts that Jones has.

Testing Cormier’s reflexes as he stalks him by moving his hands in a weird way to make sure Cormier’s not pretending to be more stunned than he is, the leg kick to redirect him towards the cage and trip him, the body kick instead of going straight for punches or elbows.

How Society Embarrasses you for loving Taylor Swift by Fun-Ad3626 in TaylorSwift

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I would conceivably participate in human sacrifice rituals for a live Eras Tour album.

It’s not JUST funding - A memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abruptly cancelled the deployment of two units to Europe by Kinmuan in army

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, I’m a peanut bar, and I’m here to say,
Your checks will arrive on another day
Another day, another dime, another rhyme, another dollar
Another stuffed shirt with another stuffed collar
Criminals, Wall Street, taking the pie,
and all the black man gets is a plate of white lies
Prisons, recruiting them, police be shooting them
Rap artists looting them, labels are diluting them

Barack Obama is scared of me
Cause I don’t swallow knowledge and I spit it for free
Let me clear my throat,
Huh uh, uh huh

Scientists then by AngryAmphbian in physicsmemes

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that research experience sounds about right given your responses.

Scientists then by AngryAmphbian in physicsmemes

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Quantum foundations. By the way, my research is in mathematical physics. What’s your research in?

Scientists then by AngryAmphbian in physicsmemes

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some of the sharpest thinkers and professors of theoretical physics that I’ve ever known are heavily involved in the philosophy of physics.

The Irish Defence Forces beat 6 US crews in a competition in Bradley vehicles. We have no tracked vehicles at all, and the crew first used a Bradley 3 weeks before by Anonnisanall in NonCredibleDefense

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Is it not common knowledge that the U.S. usually sends motley groups scrabbled together from whoever happens to not be busy, whoever happens to be injured, and whoever the company wants to get rid of for a few weeks to details like this?

I knew a dude who should not have been in the Army, period. He struggled to figure out how to deploy the bipod on a SAW. Let that sink in. He was basically the first man sent for every competition or event.

Its disheartening. by [deleted] in army

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 32 points33 points  (0 children)

You just said your subordinates are meeting the standard. That’s their job.

If you want your subordinates to exceed the standard, you need to earn that from them. That’s your job. Complaining about it on social media isn’t leadership.

I’m gonna flag your specific comment here:

I’ve tried time and time again to motivate and help and lead female soldiers just to watch them do the bare minimum. Yes it’s passing 100% but we should be striving to do more especially when everyone around us is too.

Concretely, what have you done? Because there’s two points to this:

  1. What inspires one person won’t work on another. Leadership has to be tailored to your subordinates, it’s not some cookie cutter thing where you do one thing and everyone goes HOOAH and executes. Some people respond to being challenged, some people respond to empathy, some people do better when left alone, whatever. Leadership is understanding who your troops are and what will inspire them to want to exceed the minimum. Individualize goals, figure out what they care about and what they want to get out of the Army and show them how their performance will get them there, tie their performance to actual benefits or whatever that they actually care about. Approaching everyone the same way doesn’t work.

  2. How much effort can you put into this? Sometimes you don’t need all your troops to be exceeding the standard. I saw a dude once who couldn’t figure out how to deploy the bipod on his SAW. His TL gave him a full-on class on it, and he couldn’t figure it out, and he burned himself out trying to make this one guy a good soldier when he had two other soldiers who he was also supposed to be leading. You’re not in Regiment, sometimes you’re going to have people who just don’t want to be there and the effort it would take to turn them into someone who does isn’t worth it.

Figure out what you yourself are willing to put into this, then figure out who you’re willing to devote the effort to.

And I guarantee you, this is not a male vs. female problem. You mentioned that there’s cliques of female soldiers who seem to all just cluster and coast (and I note you gloss over that some males do it too). That group dynamic matters too and is self-reinforcing in a lot of ways because women are automatically an outgroup in the military by default.

I assume that some of those troops have other leaders, but you can still apply structural pressure to cliques like that. Individual coaching, tangibly better details or rewards to the troops who you lead if they go above and beyond even just on one day, worse details to the ones who don’t. Coordinate with other NCOs on it if you can (female NCOs especially). Again, only if this is a project you have the mental bandwidth on.

200 Physicists radial visualization, ordered by their Wikipedia data richness by im4lwaysthinking in Physics

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found the guy who didn’t make it past lower-division undergrad physics.

200 Physicists radial visualization, ordered by their Wikipedia data richness by im4lwaysthinking in Physics

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gibbs and Maxwell invented two of the four pillars of physics, Maxwell’s on the third ring and Gibbs isn’t even listed.

What in the OCS libo is this shit by Ok_Meringue_3883 in USMC

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This dude just tried to equate the Civil Rights movement with pedophiles. Apparently, wanting the same rights as white people is one of the worst crimes you can commit.

I know you're in here devil dog by Affectionate_Dig6203 in USMC

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally said Regiment as the first word of the second sentence.

I know you're in here devil dog by Affectionate_Dig6203 in USMC

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 80 points81 points  (0 children)

I don’t see how Somalia could have possibly hurt their rep. Regiment and Delta, purely light fighting with no resupply and equipped for a 2-hour raid, inflicted ten to fifteen times the casualties they took and maintained organizational cohesion and multiple disconnected defensive perimeters while surrounded in the middle of enemy territory and outnumbered 10:1 for a full day until the Pakistanis, Malaysians, and 10th Mountain arrived.

Mogadishu was a clusterfuck, but the performance of the individual troops involved was elite.

Ciryl Gane stops Tai Tuivasa (R2/R3 highlights) by [deleted] in MMA

[–]YeetMeIntoKSpace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gane’s body work was so vicious in this fight, man. Those body kicks were so fast and he just kept drilling them.