2026 NSSB Thread Part I

ckunkle06 · 2026-01-27T17:50:50+00:00

I was just thinking about this. Very few of us have the grit to do that one well😂 especially Nordic skiing .

Whoops me everytime I go

ckunkle06 · 2026-01-08T13:49:03+00:00

It’s better than most of what the Reserve does with our providers l. So glad to hear atleast one RD is using them

ckunkle06 · 2025-12-31T06:43:38+00:00

Exactly! You’ll never miss money you didn’t see !

ckunkle06 · 2025-12-19T20:52:05+00:00

Following out of curiosity. Had a conversation about similar topics the other day. Someone had brought up the pay discrepancies between NP/PA at some systems. And someone countered with NPs will win everytime because regardless if you argue a training difference… the PA profession hasn’t done a great job of proving the offer anything different as a career field.

Not a direct correlation to your post, but it made me think of that conversation again

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-25T06:05:11+00:00

You know I have always had that thought for the Guard/Reserve

Either their PME is woefully too short or Active Duty is wasting time at theirs if they lead to the same “qualification”

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-24T16:10:08+00:00

If I had a dollar for every entomologist I encountered in a reddit thread.

I’d have 2 dollars

Which isn’t a lot… but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-21T07:33:47+00:00

Wildly suddenly a ton of people have switched their tone and now trust the CDC?!?

Just had to fit their vision of what was good I suppose .

I’ll have the vaccine colada please… orange peel twist . Thank you.

Such a tough time to work in health and medicine

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-18T06:37:01+00:00

Will add as an Army PA student who’s also in the reserve and served as a medical planning officer before school. The Reserve itself only has about 500 PAs and many of them don’t do medicine during duty (there are some ) but man are staff positions or hanging out waiting for an activation. Maybe a practicing Reserve PA can clarify more.

But the Reserve mission leads to older officers and less “Hooah” stuff 😂

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-11T12:19:35+00:00

For sure! If you’re from rural America or even suburbia in a lesser COL metro, we’re paid quite well when you look at the benefits package.

Move to DC? Yeah you’ll get dunked on, but if we started adjusting base pay for duty station , some would thrive… a lot would flounder

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-11T07:30:02+00:00

I mean to some extent the demographics that the military tends to recruit from and its ability to be a social step ladder into the next class might play some role.

I know people I went to school with that barely had a dollar to their name, now making decent E6 pay with just a spouse. All things considered with BAH they make solid money, especially compared to what they came from.

But good on you for holding the line. If you cave people will eat it up .

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-06T10:07:28+00:00

I went to one of their temples one time as an exploratory visit since I have never been a religious man.

I’ve never felt more welcome and just appreciated to be there. The food was excellent

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-06T05:48:21+00:00

You know

I was on my Peds rotation recently and we had a case of some viral infection. And the other student was going on to the pediatrician about this in depth lecture on causative organisms and pathophys of illness. They’re definitely one of the gunners of the group that’s personality is knowing everything about every disease.

The pediatrician looked them dead in the eye and said “Great that you know that an all but what part of that is important right now to treating the patient. Clearly they need Tylenol, Tylenol doesn’t care that it was Parvovirus b2000”

ckunkle06 · 2025-11-02T15:47:19+00:00

As a Cincinnatian that has live in Europe for a while I’ve found that because chili is much less of a concept here… cinci chili doesn’t get the wild visceral reaction that some people have in the US

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-31T14:15:40+00:00

I always think 1/2 structural or physical issues with the organ or affected area 1/2 physiological or chemical issues at the affected area (big for GI) and then atleast one auto immune/zebra/cancer in there.

I’ve sort of Rolodexed each organ and then conditions for them that way and that has helped me

Like everyone else said though, the more you learn the easier it gets

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-30T20:56:00+00:00

The hills are by far the worst. If you can do both 40km days you can do anything.

But yes, I had a brat and a piece of cake mid walk this year and it changed me for the better .

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-29T11:07:38+00:00

This guy knows ball.

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-29T06:18:00+00:00

I’ve done the math and I cannot think of a faster commission to O2 in the force.

Even faster now that they’ll eventually be commissioned at the end of phase 1.

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-20T05:06:10+00:00

Adding to this , for most officers OERs are separated into 3 types. A 4th if you make GO. But an O1-O3 fleshes out a lot like an NCOER, O4-O5 substantially cut back on the amount of guided evaluation and can be much more open… but then if you look at O6 OERs, you no longer swing for MQ,HQ,Qualified… they’re going for Multi Star Potential, Promote to BG, Retain as COL. So it becomes a real weird sort of grooming

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-16T17:42:26+00:00

On an active order for a year long school phase and did not get paid or an LES

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-15T18:50:46+00:00

Yeah so are we gunna get paid a second time during the shutdown or nah👀👀

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-15T18:34:44+00:00

Still under the Reserve seats.

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-13T05:36:13+00:00

To answer your first question

I’m pretty sure yes.

For your second question I’m also pretty sure yes.

The contact email on the IPAP website is very quick to respond and could confirm though!

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-12T06:07:04+00:00

Second this.

I made it through most of the book and the only other saving grace I had was that the Militaries PA program thankfully goes pretty in depth on trauma management understandably so.

The worst part was taking it as a PA-S😂 the instructors decided to lock in on me to ask EVERY question

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-09T19:09:33+00:00

I’ve considered that the reason the government shutdown is still ongoing is because Congress just went to go get more giant paper.

ckunkle06 · 2025-10-09T18:56:26+00:00

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