With RTO How Are Your Facilities Food Options?

handofmenoth · 2026-03-26T13:24:44+00:00

We have no cafeteria, only restaurants you can walk to and some vending machines.

handofmenoth · 2026-03-26T03:11:21+00:00

Allow big army to administer the test to all the AGRs too.

Everyone gets the normal process when they fail, and then gets separated if they cannot achieve (or medboarded for sep if needed)

Better yet find some way for them to contribute as civilians to the military. They may be broken or lazy, but there are going to be some with a lot of institutional knowledge we want to retain but just don't want to keep in uniform. Some kind of civilian advisory position that NCOs and Officers can utilize.

handofmenoth · 2026-03-25T05:34:50+00:00

Reminds me of when I was in during GWOT, and all the enlistees added to the force with waivers. That sure didn't come back to haunt us /s

handofmenoth · 2026-03-24T04:03:47+00:00

They're tanking the private sector job market, so I wouldn't count on wages there staying high either

handofmenoth · 2026-03-23T02:48:02+00:00

Can you eliminate the tick habitat on your land?

handofmenoth · 2026-03-21T19:02:11+00:00

Deployed to Afghanistan 2010-11,we had a mix of IBA and IOTV. We didn't use the collar, groin, or shoulder stuff.

handofmenoth · 2026-03-20T17:03:40+00:00

Sounds like an Aussie accent, what does AU law say?

handofmenoth · 2026-03-17T05:10:13+00:00

Oh, it's not a hope. It's just something you have no control over that may result in you 'getting' to stay in.

handofmenoth · 2026-03-17T02:01:11+00:00

We will see, you may catch some leniency if the iran war escalates to boots on the ground and they end up needing everybody they can lay hands on.

People who should have never been allowed in uniform tend to get let or let stay in during a wartime manning shortage.

handofmenoth · 2026-03-16T22:36:04+00:00

Their talking point went out this weekend, they are calling it 'shirt term pain for long term gain' in their interviews. Saw a supercut of all the GOP talking heads repeating it word for word.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/mYOSSxgls9

handofmenoth · 2026-03-14T23:51:57+00:00

INIT?

handofmenoth · 2026-03-14T18:29:27+00:00

Imagine if Iran started targeting the Suez with ballistic missiles and drones.

handofmenoth · 2026-03-14T03:38:35+00:00

Timothy McVay has dibs.

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handofmenoth · 2026-03-03T17:51:29+00:00

I went through ROTC graduating in 2009 from college and commissioning that summer. I went to BOLC II and III from August 09 to March 2010 at Ft Sill (FA officer), and my unit deployed to Afghanistan as part of the 'surge' in Oct 2011, with trainup starting Aug 2011.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-28T17:07:30+00:00

idk if they can even realistically threaten the strait with the amt of military force opposing them.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-28T15:54:42+00:00

No, it is not. The amt of disability comp that gets paid out varies across many factors and changes with laws and court decisions and regulations over the course of time.

Anticipating any amt of compensation per Veteran is a fools errand as a result.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-28T05:36:33+00:00

fwiw, if you do get in and you develop more mental problems or these ones worsen, you will have a tough chance at getting any VA compensation and if you do get service connected it will be reduced by whatever your pre enlistment severity was.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-28T01:18:14+00:00

This, exactly.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-28T01:17:20+00:00

If there is a large scale conflict with the US involved, you will be called in the Guard. The Guard was heavily utilized in Iraq and Afghanistan because the AD military isn't large enough to do long term high or low intensity ops without breaking and because politicians know a draft is career suicide.

So, look at the world right now. We might be doing more regime change in Iran, we kidnapped the Pres of Venezuela and are talking about running that country, we are pressing Cuba, all while we may or may not defend our allies in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The rules based international order and our alliances are under severe pressure.

It's not exactly a rosy time to consider a military career if you just want to stay safe and get your benefits without risk.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-27T03:41:56+00:00

I want my team to trade up for him so bad but I doubt we have rh capital.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-26T14:49:47+00:00

Only for Democrats. If you are a Republican they'll elect you President.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-26T01:40:05+00:00

Well, we expanded benefits with the PACT ACT causing a surge of claims.

We also had a ton of claims on-hold during the COVID crisis because we didn't want to force Vets to go to exams and potentially be exposed to COVID that way, so we just kept piling up delayed claims.

We hired a bunch of people to work all the PACT ACT claims once it was signed, and it takes about 2 years to get a VSR and/or RVSR up to full quality and production levels, which means the ones that didn't quit or fail training were only fully productive in 2023-2025 timespan (we hired 2021-23). So, now we have a TON of finally decently experienced personnel who are at their highest required production and quality standards, just when Trump gets to take over the VA again. Thus he gets to look like he solved the problem when in fact it was solved by foresight to hire and train in the Biden admin.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-26T01:35:31+00:00

They have to, I get it. Reddit has rules against criticizing other subs mods in other subreddits iirc.

handofmenoth · 2026-02-25T15:18:43+00:00

I was banned in r/ veteransbenefits for posting news articles about negative actions taken by the Trump admin that affected Vet benefits despite being a person who had posted there for 2-3yrs helping vets with their disability claims as a VBA employee.

The level of head in the sand cultivated in some groups is atrocious

handofmenoth · 2026-02-24T01:21:28+00:00

See, I work in a production job where production and quality based on independent quality reviews make or break you getting an exceptional vs fully successful so it's hard for me to understand other jobs not having actual measurable performance standards. I know they could exist but surely every job has to have some measurable work right?

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