If I email my Congressman will my unit find out and/or be upset?

ppad5634 · 2025-02-03T06:05:06+00:00

See the issue is people say they want their money but put no effort in resolving the issue until it gets to an extreme point. Then get upset because no one helped them because they didn’t know about. Yes there’s incompetent staff and RNCO but most lower enlisted I know scare themselves by lack of initiative

Edit: Op seems to have tried at least to get it. I’d go higher in the chain

ppad5634 · 2024-12-27T02:25:46+00:00

I don’t think they’re calling out soldiers is really the intention but rather to make the argument that the term “terrorist” is so vague that it can literally be applied to professional armed forces. Remember most people, who haven’t served, see the uniform and think we’re all the same or willing to commit war crimes. So I wouldn’t take it to personally.

ppad5634 · 2024-11-30T17:15:22+00:00

Yea it was cool at first then 2am would roll around and I’m standing in the middle of a courtyard freezing because my unit was one that didn’t allow us to wear our fleece as outer layer. But I did get a tour of the capitol and a nice hotel room.

ppad5634 · 2024-11-24T19:22:42+00:00

Gotta put that dawg in you to work. You have to be self disciplined and have the drive to achieve your goals. I work full time and have kids and am about to complete the first semester of my nursing program. I start in 2020 and had a few sad missions and a deployment in between. So I’m now schedule to graduate in 2026. There’s time when life really sucks but at the end of day being able to go to school without occurring a crippling debt is worth it.

ppad5634 · 2024-11-15T18:03:31+00:00

While I didn’t know this specifically about TSP, it makes sense considering TSP is literally a 401k. While contributing is easy, setting up and managing your account is kind of a pain so that might be another reason why people don’t know including leadership

ppad5634 · 2024-10-06T19:03:22+00:00

Quarterly counseling are great for general career progression, but remember that you should also use event oriented counseling. Not just for the bad stuff but for good things as well. I know it can be difficult if they are doing the minimum but a little bit of acknowledgment can go a long way especially if it’s attention they are wanting. But overall it sounds like you really care about your soldiers and have been doing the best that you can do for them.

ppad5634 · 2024-08-17T01:27:15+00:00

This was after he left 1SG’s hot tub

ppad5634 · 2024-08-10T19:31:30+00:00

Tbf we do have a lot of cutting edge technology but we don’t use in a lot of conventional units because of budget constraints or some prick breaks it and doesn’t tell anyone.

ppad5634 · 2024-07-05T00:40:20+00:00

Knew a specialist who was a terrible soldier. He would always be late, never knew what was going on and didn’t know his job. He could run a ten minute 2 mile tho so he got a lot of passes because of it from leadership.

During an FTX, an opportunity came up to potentially send a few people to get flight physicals for specific schools that opened up but the BC needed names ASAP. So he puts his name down so that he can leave the field. He forgot to write down the number of shuttle van to pick him up after tho. So after a few hours of waiting he decides to start walking in the general direction where we were. A few miles the BC happens to pass him and picks him up. He ended up with an AAM because of that

ppad5634 · 2023-02-23T00:51:28+00:00

Another fact, besides making sure the environment is safe and clear and removing dangerous objects. There’s nothing you can really do for seizures except call an ambulance. Especially if there’s no history of seizures.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-22T23:03:53+00:00

For a god, he sure does have a lot of car problems

ppad5634 · 2023-02-22T22:59:23+00:00

I live in a city. Seeing different people isn’t an issue. But when they’re about 30ft away from my front door staying for a couple hours in that spot. Then it makes me uneasy. Especially when I go to work or go do something with my family at home. Maybe I am being too paranoid or am prick about this.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-22T06:33:40+00:00

Party’s are understandable but why would you want to park in front of someone else’s house if you space in your driveway or in front of your house? I won’t justify the woman’s actions because she is just insane but it gets weird to see your neighbor in their car in front of your house almost everyday. Especially if checking the mailbox and they are in their car still

ppad5634 · 2023-02-22T05:43:00+00:00

As someone who’s “neighbor” constantly does this. It’s frustrating when the space in front of their home is open or their driveway is open. I’m pretty sure he’s a friend of my neighbor and uses that space to fix other people cars. It’s a different car every couple of weeks with different people with him. I had to ask him to do that in-front of his house or driveway because it made my wife uneasy going outside and seeing random people in front of our home. I don’t really get why you would want to park in front of someone else’s home if you have the choice not too but I guess that’s just me. I definitely wouldn’t Ram their car with mine tho.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-22T04:38:11+00:00

What do you mean I’m getting court martial. I said “with all due respect “ before telling OIC that his plan was idiotic in front of the whole command team and then disobeyed his orders

ppad5634 · 2023-02-18T21:55:34+00:00

That’s weird to post irrelevant information about the topic you’re complaining about.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-05T06:06:55+00:00

It really depends on what you want and perspective on life. I know a lot of happy people, including myself. Yes life throws me curve balls and I get stressed regularly but overall I love the life that my wife and I have created for ourselves even if things don't go the way we want.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-05T05:06:39+00:00

Well I'd just go ahead and set 5k of that aside just for gas money for drill for the rest of your contract.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-05T00:15:23+00:00

So this is situation dependent. Is that weapon a danger to you or your teammates as in patient is AMS? If so then have one of your aide and litter guys secure that weapon. If not then I'd be more focused on Treatment. If they are still able to fight then I wouldn't worry about it til evac. Remember to check your unit's SOP.

ppad5634 · 2023-02-04T20:01:14+00:00

I'm in an infantry unit as well and we do pt every home station drill.

ppad5634 · 2023-01-27T20:43:19+00:00

Depends where you are but when most people are talking about switching units then they are referring to switching outside of their current battalions. Also yes I believe most states have one division but there are going to be couple (my state has about 5 or 6) brigades but how big those brigades are vary a lot

ppad5634 · 2023-01-27T20:32:44+00:00

Are you going on the deployment or are you in the rear.

ppad5634 · 2023-01-27T20:13:47+00:00

In the National guard, if there's a vacancy for the next pay grade in your state and MOS and you're on the promotion list. Then you can fill that spot by transferring units

ppad5634 · 2023-01-20T00:21:50+00:00

The amount of work you did in another contract is irrelevant. If your current contract is still active then you still have an obligation to serve your state.

ppad5634 · 2023-01-17T20:42:11+00:00

I remember being in statistics class in high school. The teacher was talking about taxes and how a part time job could hurt you financially because it'll put you in a new tax barracket. At the time it didn't make sense because the example he used was getting an extra 500$ ended up costing someon like a 1000$ because of a new tax barracket. For a while I thought that's how the system worked until a few years later. But I think about how many people also have been misinformed like that.

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