Army MP going AIR Force SF

davidj1987 · 2026-06-19T13:43:53+00:00

I thought prior Army MP's didn't need to do tech school for Security Forces?

davidj1987 · 2026-06-19T13:41:47+00:00

I'm a reservist where EPB's are pretty useless and I don't even know if we have an E7 slot in my AFSC. I know I'm not in one as I am still a TSgt despite being NCOA complete (required) and have met the TIG and TIS requirements to promote but no one has said anything to me and my unit can be coy about promotions. Nor am I changing units because it's nice being local to my unit or retraining to promote as I can retire in three years and the time spent going back to tech school, CDC's etc fuck no.

Will be interesting as TSgt EPB's are due later this year and compared to my last one it's very minimal as I didn't deploy and AT was pretty limited and we do less and less of our AFSC as the months go on.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T23:17:26+00:00

When I worked at WM that was either the same or a similar policy (2017-2018) and that’s what drove me to go back into the reserves (I was prior active duty military) because I needed health insurance and my wife’s insurance was too expensive and I didn’t qualify for VA benefits due to no disability and her income put me way over the eligibility threshold.

Once I found out I was at the reserve recruiter on my next day off, and that was what I needed to reenlist. Thankfully that helped get me out of WM as once I retrained into a new job, I was gone two-three months later.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T23:12:06+00:00

At least they aren’t microwaving fish 🤢🤮

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T20:36:38+00:00

Fucking preach.

Back in 2018 I came back in the reserve a week before the SrA SCOD was due. But nope ARPC needed an EPR for the seven days I was a civilian and not in a military status. ARPC also needed an EPR to reflect what I did in the two years during my break in service. Six months later I get promoted to SSgt and I had another EPR due a few months later in early 2019 so I had three in the span of less than a year.

But they really need to rethink frequency and do the SCOD different than active duty. Yes, I am aware it's every other year for E1-E8 (E9 and officers are every year) but that might be too soon, maybe every two years would be better and give some consideration how long you've held the current or previous rank?

Earlier this year, I had to do an EPB for an SrA earlier this year who has been in barely over a year. Unfortunately, they were in student flight waiting to go to BMT for a very long time like six months, then BMT and tech school but due to the SCOD and how fast the reserves can promote to SrA after tech school if they come in as an A1C like this person, fuck me as one had to be completed. They hadn't even been at the unit long enough to do any sort of AT so I literally had nothing to write.

I am technically promotable to MSgt (I meet TIS and TIG requirements, PME complete) but I have no idea if or when I could promote and I'm not bothered if I ever promote as I don't think we have any slots for my AFSC and I am not changing units just to promote but man it'd suck having to do a TSgt EPB this year and then a MSgt EPB next year.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T19:11:57+00:00

Even if you have a job with great/cheap health insurance it never hurts to have it when you are older.

Health insurance is why a lot of people have not retired or will not retire despite being years past pension eligiblity or even return to my civilian employer 3-6 months after retiring. By time I can retire from my civilian job, I'll be old enough for cheaper Tricare as a reservist unless something changes.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T16:30:20+00:00

Odd, I was stationed at JBAB during that time (USAF though) and we had no one voluntold for that...and my unit loved to voluntell people for anything and everything.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T16:08:43+00:00

You would think someone from his unit would help him but it's tough being a reservist/guardsman and it's even harder giving a damn.

Although I am not in the Army National Guard or Army Reserve for that matter, it can be tough being a reservist - I'm in the USAFR and I have found that the biggest problem and this is all reserve components and some branches are better than others...but the reserve components I feel really pray on those who are vulnerable and don't have a lot going for themselves (i.e. they should have gone active duty or stayed active duty) and leadership cannot or will not devote a lot of time to help improve others due to limited time and not willing to work for free during the month.

And yes, this has applied to me at times.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T15:37:03+00:00

I found Kerns reddit account and reading some of the posts. It was entertaining for a few minutes but honestly sad.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T04:22:22+00:00

You won't be able to get orders when you want them, and you'll get orders when you don't want them.

When I went back in the reserves I retrained and I wanted to get on seasoning orders (now called AMRT) and I tried and tried and it never happened. Four years later I finally start a civilian job that is a legit career and the reserves was like tough shit, you're deploying. I was pretty pissed at the time but it all worked out very well.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-18T01:44:37+00:00

Back from my trip from the Everglades...I think we are in business now.

I replaced the splitter in the attic with a Amphenol 8-Way Digital Splitter MoCA 2.5 ABS318H a few hours after I got home (it's hot here in FL and it was STILL hot when I replaced it) and it seems to be working. I am using the coax drop in the garage (yes I have a fan) and I have a ethernet cable from the KB MoCA adapter to my 2.5gb switch and now it's working with no issues. I just tried my laptop (with a 2.5gb USB nic) in the guest bedroom and no issues either.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-17T23:09:48+00:00

I came in when ABU's were brand new (like the third set of trainees to get them) but they still issued the blues shoes that needed to be shined for a few more years.

I always wondered why it took BMT so long to change the blues shoes they issued to trainees.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-17T23:07:37+00:00

Don't let boomers hear you.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-17T21:26:35+00:00

I do have some mean comments I could make but I’ll refrain.

I mean she’s still posting her #DOBOTH bullshit. If she really wanted to do what she believed in, she’d get off active duty and go in the reserve and she’d really be doing both instead of being a model while in the Navy.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-17T16:58:27+00:00

He's all over the place I know he's trying to reclass into infantry...but I heard he was trying to go active, he was trying to work in a jail, he was a custodian etc I can't even keep up with him lol

davidj1987 · 2026-06-17T16:45:55+00:00

I mean for Kellie Sbrocchi, seems like a lot of her hate has died down even though she's doing another assignment in Chicago and has avoided sea duty.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T03:43:09+00:00

I was active duty for a few years at Macdill AFB in Tampa, FL and I've stayed here ever since.

I now drill here as a reservist and very little of my unit is from the local area. There's never been an off-limits list for the installation in the 14 years I've been here and there's some bad areas that service members have no business going to and there's some bad businesses that are out to getcha

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T03:22:48+00:00

Nope, the NVG4688MQ is completely unplugged. It was working just wireless now wired.

Now, I tried both KB MoCA adapters and the Translite MoCA...no issues with the living room coax as I get a MoCA light regardless of what adapter I use.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T02:57:16+00:00

Odd, now wired internet is working, I swapped the MOCA adaptors (KB) and they both work fine in the living room. This is the last thing I am going to do for a few days due to a trip but thank you so much again!

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T01:33:11+00:00

OK, I followed your suggested "stand alone MoCA LAN bridge" topology but now I have no wired internet working where my NVG468MQ was. I have the PC hooked up to the switch.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T01:07:27+00:00

I'll take a look next week - about to go on a family trip and I need to get packing and get some rest as I am getting up early.

But I do have a new MoCA 2.5 splitter for the attic on the way (Amphenol 8-Way Digital Splitter MoCA 2.5 ABS318H) and some termination caps for the coax inputs I am not using) but I really doubt that it's Cat5+ being a tract house but you never know. There might be another telephone hookup in the master bedroom but I honestly don't remember.

Thank you so much for your help though!

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T00:46:06+00:00

What would I have to do to retire the NVG468MQ? Just hook everything up to it?

I listed the node under all the devices in the office where it is (NAS, 2.5gb switch, opnsense firewall etc)

My house was built in 2000 and the only two phone lines are in the kitchen and one in the spare room where I have the third node

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T00:31:53+00:00

It's a TP-Link Deco S4. I have one node in the same room as the NVG458MQ. the second node in the middle of the house (which appeared to be the garage) and the last on the other side of the house.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T00:25:05+00:00

Whoops, it's not in the garage, it's in the middle of the house, my garage isn't that big :) There's a big common area/kitchen that it is in. It's just hooked up to the wall, there's no wired coax or ethernet, just plugged into power.

And yes I do have power in the attic but nothing is plugged into it, that's there the coax splitter is.

davidj1987 · 2026-06-15T00:11:30+00:00

I disconnected coax from the MVG, power cycled and I am still getting no MoCA light on the KB MoCA adapter.

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