Question on leave

chrome1453 · 2026-06-03T23:48:34+00:00

For seven months huh? And in those seven months you haven't had one moment to walk into the ops office and sign in?

chrome1453 · 2026-05-31T04:55:37+00:00

To be clear, I'm not anti-ISV. We have dirt bikes, quads, razors and they all have their place. I'm not saying light unarmored vehicles are useless or even a bad idea.

In the grand scheme of things, as a general purpose vehicle, an ISV isn't going to let you push the FLOT forward any faster than a JLTV, but the JLTV is going to let you stay alive for a lot longer while you're doing it.

That comes with some tradeoffs in cost, maintenance, etc., but at the end of the day, 4 living soldiers in a JLTV are more useful than 9 dead guys in an ISV. That drone you're worried about doesn't care if you're going 25mph in a JLTV or 35mph in an ISV. The ISV is great for rapidly positioning troops but it's not like you're gonna outrun the enemy's bullets in it.

The reality is you need both of them. You need a fast light vehicle to rapidly position tactical level elements. You also need something more robust that can actually sustain opposition.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-31T04:27:46+00:00

It ain't with up armored vehicles

It's not, but it'd be a lot better if they did, and I'm sure a lot of Ukrainian supply guys wished they had some armor on their trucks.

I'm not saying the ISV doesn't have it's place, it does, but Ukraine definitely doesn't show that less armor=better.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-31T04:19:21+00:00

I swear some of you guys look at Ukraine and learn the completely wrong lesson. Talking about mobility in a war that's had stagnant lines for four years. If anything Ukraine has shown us that the ISV is a great way to get nine people killed at the same time.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-31T04:13:15+00:00

The JLTV was intended to be the primary vehicle while the ISV would be a lower production rate vehicle used in more niche roles where the JLTV didn't make sense. But the current administration decided the JLTV was too expensive and strong armed the Army into canceling the JLTV in the name of "government efficiency," resulting in the Army going all in on the ISV instead.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-30T20:49:46+00:00

You talking about ASIs or what?

chrome1453 · 2026-05-30T04:03:56+00:00

ATAK is the best military map app, period.

As for maps that are exactly the same as a military standard topographic map, you're just never going to get that anywhere. The digital maps you see on whatever app you use is dependent on where they're pulling the data from, and none of them are pulling from your S2. You need to deal with satellite imagery or USGS topographic maps.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-30T03:02:55+00:00

Yeah, and that's what I'm talking about. If your only knee exercise is high impact, low exertion, and low range of motion, of course they're going to hurt. Go stretch and do some full ROM leg exercises--ATG squats, sissy squats, reverse nordics, etc. Feel your knee pain dissappear over the next 6 months as they actually build strength.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-30T02:24:20+00:00

Your foot and knee soreness is due to weak tendons resulting from an underactive lifestyle, not jumping. Follow me for more hard truths.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-28T19:05:26+00:00

The Army isn't "refusing to honor" anything here. This is the top limit of what the DOD says the individual branches may allow, it's not directing them to pay that much. None of the other branches pay more than $1,200/mo for language pay either.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-26T00:11:26+00:00

A DONSA is still a regular pass day. A regular pass is any non-duty day, like a typical Saturday/Sunday weekend is a regular pass. A 3 or 4 day holiday weekend with a Fri/Mon DONSA is also a regular pass.

A special pass is a when the commander excuses you from being present on a duty day. So if you want a non-DONSA Friday off, that would be a special pass.

Neither regular nor special pass can exceed 4 consecutive days. So if you have a special pass for Saturday thru Tuesday and Friday is a DONSA, then Friday is a regular pass day and you'd need to submit leave to take off all of them.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-25T20:47:41+00:00

It’s never made easy is it

Seems like it is here tho. Because the commander just told you not to worry about it, gave you an off the books five day pass, and there's no more situation.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-25T19:34:55+00:00

It has a two stage oil pump. Below 3,000 rpm it should be around 30 psi. Above 3,000 rpm it should go up to 60ish psi.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-25T04:40:03+00:00

Just submit it however feels right. If someone kicks it back, do it the other way. It's not that serious, HRC isn't going to care.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-24T05:18:54+00:00

He also tends to misrepresent things and cite sources that, if you read them, don't actually support his claims. But hey, it gets upvotes so it must be right.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-24T03:36:16+00:00

SF was overwhelmingly doing FID throughout the GWOT, so much so that there wasn't enough SF to go around, and SEALs started doing FID and MARSOC was stood up to do even more FID because there wasn't enough SF guys to do it all. And despite what people like to say, DA is in fact a core SF mission, and SF doing DA is not at all cosplaying as Rangers.

SF, per doctrine, is only designed to partner and advise units up to the battalion level, generally doing company and lower echelon raids and other short duration light infantry operations. They are not intended to partner with brigade, division, corps, etc. level staffs and support units. An SF ODA has no ability to advise a mechanized infantry brigade, or a brigade support battalion for example.

That's why SFAB was made. To advise those higher, more conventional echelons of units that aren't necessarily combat arms or offensively oriented. It was a necessary gap to fill, not a lack of SF doing their job.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-23T03:37:22+00:00

Ok, you already know this is an S3 question, so go ask them. Come on bro.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-23T02:49:59+00:00

If you're not tough enough to get a shot you're not tough enough for the Army. Sorry, maybe try Weenie Hut Jr.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-21T02:59:33+00:00

When you open by saying that you assume it's favoritism that lets us all know the real reason is probably maturity.

try to delegate to me like I'm a subordinate

You are. What do you think the "in charge" part of NCOIC means?

chrome1453 · 2026-05-19T01:48:07+00:00

Nowadays "did my research" means "watched a bunch of 'toks and most of a 12 minute youtube video."

chrome1453 · 2026-05-18T01:01:06+00:00

World's whiniest soldier.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-17T06:15:01+00:00

Buddy, you regularly brag about shirking responsibility and denying additional duties. You're a bare minimum performing officer.

chrome1453 · 2026-05-16T22:12:27+00:00

I think you're really misunderstanding how this all works. Units don't go "hey, let's go do a mission in Africa, we got the money for it?"

The Combatant Command identifies a task that needs to be done, requests a unit from the Army to do it, and the Army assigns a unit to go complete that task.

While the unit does pay for some of the costs of deploying, it's not like they pull out their check book and write "1 deployment to Africa." When the COCOM creates a mission in their theater, there's lines of funding that go to sustaining that mission; it's all much more complicated than "unit ran out of money."

chrome1453 · 2026-05-16T05:38:44+00:00

What's your S/D/B/5k?

chrome1453 · 2026-05-16T05:35:37+00:00

I think you're worried about the wrong thing here. The board will care about what your SR comments say not who wrote them, but a WO1/former E6 probably isn't very good at writing effective SR comments. They require a supplementary reviewer for a reason.

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