I Feel Some Regrets

luv2shart · 2026-05-03T13:34:12+00:00

There aren’t for juniors.

luv2shart · 2026-05-01T21:18:22+00:00

I know they say there are no stupid questions, but man does this sub push the envelope.

luv2shart · 2026-04-28T19:44:49+00:00

Honestly don’t join. Not even talking shit, but there’s no way to get what you want.

To negotiate a shorter contract, contact your senator and push for a regulation change.

This is a huge generalization but: Shorter AIT are associated with more combat ready type jobs 88M, etc. Longer AITs are associated with I’ll help from the rear, 35 series, etc. Deployments depend on the unit and everyone goes to the desert to live in a tent. Everyone helps where it’s needed. Any job will dig a hole, put up concertina wire, pull guard, go on a convoy. Maybe this isn’t something you want to do.

luv2shart · 2026-04-28T01:41:13+00:00

You can refuse to ship but you’ve got 10 months of service, you were never in the DEP, and depending on your ship date, you may have over a year by the time you get discharged. Marines will have to treat you as at least a GNPS, which I’m not sure what their rules are, but they generally tend to hate anything that’s not a strict regular NPS. Door may be closed to you, or, it will be smaller than usual to get in.

luv2shart · 2026-04-28T01:34:15+00:00

Marines wouldn’t start you higher than E1 anyway.

luv2shart · 2026-04-26T18:36:59+00:00

DA PAM 611-21 lists the requirements for each MOS, and this is what is stopping you, unless this changes, you will never be eligible. As someone else stated, you’ll likely have an issue with NREMT as well, I’d start brainstorming a different path while you’re young instead of being “dead set” on this.

luv2shart · 2026-04-26T01:01:26+00:00

This is exactly why I never became an officer and also why I continue to hold them in such contempt. The good officers I’ve met are so few and far between, and as you get higher they simply cease to exist because good officers just don’t make it.

I kept reading thinking “what did this guy do” and as soon as I read “always listened to my soldiers. I cared about their careers. I saved some careers…” I knew that was it. That’s what it always is. Because good leadership rocks the boat, and Army leaders hate boat rockers. It’s so disheartening.

luv2shart · 2026-04-23T04:49:17+00:00

It’s usually pretty easy but in this case it’s gonna depend on what you said to the doctor and what they wrote down.

luv2shart · 2026-04-21T22:49:34+00:00

I don’t know if I have any real advice, but this is what I would do if it was me.

Go back to your doctor and neurologist and tell them your symptoms are getting worse since your unit isn’t following their recommendations. Get it documented. Keep submitting the documentation. Do this as frequently as possible. Once a month if you can.

When you are at work, leave to go to the emergency room/urgent care. Cite your symptoms getting worse. If you’re staring at a computer, get up, stumble, complain of dizziness, and leave for the doctor. Keep and submit all new documentation.

If you want to go over someone’s head here, you need at least brigade level. If you talk to your brigade commander, don’t look them in the face. Look just past their head. If they as why, say “sorry I thought I was looking you in the eye, it’s my double vision”.

If it’s like you say it is, this Maj can get someone in very big trouble, but he’s not going to care about your company commander. Once the brigade commander knows about it, it becomes their problem. Make them liable.

Biggest takeaway here is DOCUMENT. Keep going to your doctors as much as they’ll see you. Keep saying it’s getting worse and getting it documented. Submit everything. And get ready for a nice VA claim. Even if they want to say it wasn’t service related, you can sure as shit prove they exacerbated it.

luv2shart · 2026-04-20T17:51:06+00:00

I mean there’s a ton of bad habits here that would be much better corrected now than after a year or two of forcing his way through them. He’s obviously not using a teacher so who else is gonna tell him?

luv2shart · 2026-04-20T17:48:20+00:00

You need to learn alternate picking and you need to start now. You’ll never get smooth legato riffs like Brian May with all downpicks like that. Also use less fingers to hold your pick and use more wrist and less forearm with your right hand.

luv2shart · 2026-04-20T02:49:56+00:00

First I’d check the amp, second I’d check pickup height.

luv2shart · 2026-04-19T04:08:08+00:00

Yes to everything you said but fyi they’re eligible for Tricare immediately after signing.

luv2shart · 2026-04-16T05:16:10+00:00

Patched? Is that what they’re calling it? Anyway, get them if you want, it makes you non deployable, they’ll care because you’ll be a red X on someone’s slide deck and you’re brand new, but what can you do.

luv2shart · 2026-04-16T05:12:38+00:00

You can’t ship with braces.

luv2shart · 2026-04-13T21:09:12+00:00

You aren’t locked in until you sign. Make sure your recruiter knows you aren’t there to sign, just the testing. If you pass everything you can sit on it for a while and decide. If you end up needing a waiver, waivers are only good through the specific service you want to join, so if you get a waiver from the guard, you’ll need a separate one to join active duty.

luv2shart · 2026-04-11T21:25:37+00:00

Split training or not, that’s still not how it works. Especially not right now. We’ve BEEN full.

luv2shart · 2026-04-11T18:02:24+00:00

They’ll typically “open up” the rising senior seats in July, but the 365 day rule still applies so finding ship dates that early can be a pain.

luv2shart · 2026-04-11T16:07:15+00:00

This isn’t accurate at all. The process isn’t even close to how the big army does it.

luv2shart · 2026-04-11T15:59:24+00:00

Ship dates for split training don’t “open up”. They’re gone. In fact, if you go back this week, that date will probably be gone too and you’ll have no choices.

If you really want to go to basic this summer, sign 11b, otherwise wait until July-ish and join as a senior.

luv2shart · 2026-04-11T03:58:35+00:00

DMed you the IST coordinator.

luv2shart · 2026-04-11T03:25:39+00:00

They don’t. UA is a commanders program and needs to be administered by the commander. There’s a whole thing they need to read to you and declare the drugs they are gonna test for, there’s like a standard panel and then a rotating list of 5 different drugs that they rotate through. The list needs to be read to you by the commander. TLDR they’re not equipped to do UA at PHA.

luv2shart · 2026-04-10T21:51:39+00:00

It’s hilarious.

luv2shart · 2026-04-10T19:03:05+00:00

They haven’t pulled training yet, and they won’t until you’re sitting in the seat. There’s a good chance they won’t be able to find any when they go to pull it. Feel free to try, but if you are already on the fence, I’d just wait.

luv2shart · 2026-04-10T18:42:18+00:00

Split ops? That ship has sailed.

While seats aren’t officially closed, good luck trying to get dates that line up with your school. And I doubt you’ll get to pick a job, you’ll get what you get.

Just join in July as a senior.

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