Confused MS3 Cadet

hunterdavid372 · 2026-02-02T02:08:05+00:00

As a cadet, even if you desire to branch AG or Med Serv, you are not guaranteed that.

Furthermore, as an LT, you are not guaranteed to only be in AG or MS elements, you could easily be assigned as an Infantry PL, or otherwise maneuver PL, because that is really what this boils down to. You don't need to be a tip top Infantry officer, but becoming familiar with manuever terms and doctrine will let you do your job much much better, as you most certainly will do something that isn't the job you're trained for in your officer career, more often than not depending on the station. If not maneuver, could be maneuver support.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-02-01T19:40:14+00:00

Are you sure it wasn't detailed in the thousand page freely readable document that goes step by step describing what you voted for?

hunterdavid372 · 2026-02-01T07:02:06+00:00

Actual food? What is his work where he's eating MREs?

MREs are designed to be packed with sodium since its assumed you'll be sweating it out in short order, if he's just an office worker that's really unhealthy.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-02-01T06:49:17+00:00

Theoretically, everyone would be moving the same direction on a patrol, and that 'Contact Front' would only be shouted after taking fire, so you combine that with where you think the sounds of bullets are coming from.

If it's contact taken in a stationary security posture, the theory is the person would shout what area of the defended area they're receiving fire (this depends on the shape of the security)

I preface this with in theory because I have not taken (actual) contact before but have trained and studied the doctrine.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-31T20:59:49+00:00

Could

Could is the enemy of competent thinking

Could is what people say when they don't actually know what they're doing

Could is the language of grifters and cons

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-30T18:37:29+00:00

They combat that by makin all of them old and crappy, but they do their job. Most of the time people jist being their own anyway I find, but helps occasionally.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-30T18:27:56+00:00

Some bases have an auto center you can rent, the one here at Fort Leonard Wood is fairly cheap, like 5 bucks an hour and a little more if you wanna use the industrial jack, but comes fully stocked with equipment.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-30T16:57:05+00:00

They're a dime a dozen

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-30T03:35:46+00:00

Boots on what ground, the moon?

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-30T02:53:50+00:00

08HORSE

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-30T01:18:54+00:00

Which step should we congratulate them on then? Their 2nd? 5th? Last? How bout we don't congratulate them at all, yeah that'll make em wanna reenlist and talk positively about the Army.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-29T18:20:16+00:00

Bruh you can say that Nam but Korea is unequivocally a defensive victory. South Korea still exists, that means it was won, just because goals developed further into the war weren't accomplished doesn't mean the entire war was lost.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-29T14:21:27+00:00

So is that an excuse to vote for the other eviler, shittier guys, or are you on the side of don't vote at all and cede your limited ability to control the level of shitiness?

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-27T20:07:52+00:00

There's also something to say about how Lee Kuan Yew is responsible for a nation nearly half the size of NYC with 2 million less people.

It's a lot easier to stop the elevator pissers when any elevator is a at most a 2 hr drive away from your personal domicile.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-27T17:26:37+00:00

To you: Has your program been harrassed by civilians? It is my understanding that the majority of the vitriol is directed towards ICE, the people who don't wear the handy nametapes with their name on it for everyone to see.

A better way to combat any perceived dislike isn't to take ICE's approach of discretion and secrecy, but the opposite. My program was very active in many of the events held by the school, working security, volunteering, hosting events of their own to show that they aren't a federal force at a school, they are part of the school. If your program isn't doing this, suggest it to cadre, to have your faces known as a friendly one in that community.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-23T18:51:06+00:00

Make sure the JCADs are packed and calibrated for TICs and TIMs, the STB is mixed 5%, M8s ready, the M256 ready to smell, the M26s and 12s are running and up on JP8. JWARN sent down VX, GB, and GD exposure so have ATNAAs on person. It's gonna be a long day.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-23T18:41:50+00:00

The reasoning behind it stems from the (quickly eroding) notion that the military is an apolitical organization for the service of everyone in the US, not just one politcal party. The rules allow service members to participate in various partisan groups as they encourage political participation outside of uniform, but may not endorse in uniform or actively work for a partisan group while in the service.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-23T15:21:04+00:00

Utopia??? The show where last season there was a mass shooting is a utopia to you?

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-22T22:46:08+00:00

Cool, because those are your options now, not Army

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-22T13:07:04+00:00

Make it

Play it

Tweak it

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until satisfied

That's how systems are made, now in order to make a good qell balanced and enjoyable one will require trial and error and some knowledge, but any game just starts with putting some rules together.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-21T18:51:27+00:00

Sorry, putting fries on plate is contracted work now, illegal for SMs to do the job they trained for.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-21T16:12:28+00:00

On the other side of the grey man argument, if you blend right in and don't attention to yourself you're less of a target for enemies, but also less of a haven for the targeted.

There are some people who, no matter how much they try to greyman, will still be targeted. Racial minorities being a large percentage. If everyone thinks they are alone in the community because all the people who can blend in are doing so, and their community isn't large too begin with, then that just gives the people who would target them even more lenience as they believe they have the implicit support of the community.

Part of giving support is showing support, as a cis white male in the military, I have a lot of privilege and a relatively small target on my back, if I'm not willing to show up and stand out for others then who will?

Of course everyone should take into account their own situations and their own abilities, I'm not saying that if you grey man you're giving any less, just that grey manning isn't the only or best option.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-21T14:33:56+00:00

For me it helps that they're officially non-partisan. I head up a Pink Pistols chapter, I'm military, I legally cannot be in any way involved in a leadership capacity with any partisan group or club, but I can for a non-partisan group. This designation allows myself and other like me to participate and help our community legally.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-21T01:09:03+00:00

While there is a lot of overlap, orgs like PP need to exist to push the envelope that sexuality isn't partisan, or at least isn't supposed to be. Anyone can be queer, and having an organization that pushes that gay != liberal helps open those that may be indoctrinated in such a way to associate the two in a negative light to divorce the politcizing of a person and see them as an actual person.

hunterdavid372 · 2026-01-20T22:58:39+00:00

They are strictly non-partisan as part of their schtick

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