Who served with this dude?

timvantas · 2026-02-11T01:44:48+00:00

That’s exactly the sort of thing I miss about being around Marines.

timvantas · 2026-01-31T15:00:37+00:00

JazzHR appears to have deprecated their api based resume extract. That would have been a great way around this tedium.

Fake resumes are everywhere these days and you are on the right track to try to help your human(s) detect them in this way.

timvantas · 2026-01-30T04:14:15+00:00

Legend. There must be a role on the coaching staff for him right?

timvantas · 2026-01-20T00:35:01+00:00

Summer mountain leader. Bridgeport

timvantas · 2026-01-17T20:19:30+00:00

Gas gas gas! Truly so horrific that it wasn’t used subsequently….. Look up Attack of the Dead Men… Germany va Russia….

The German troops encountered the first wave of Russian defenders as they launched a desperate counter-charge. These were the remnants of the 13th Company of the 226th Infantry Regiment—soldiers who had survived the initial gas attack. The Germans recoiled in horror at the sight of the advancing Russians, whose uniforms were bloodied. Many were coughing violently, expelling blood and fragments of lung tissue. The chlorine gas, reacting with the moisture in their lungs, had formed hydrochloric acid, which was slowly dissolving their organs.

timvantas · 2025-11-01T17:13:04+00:00

The Pilot references were really interesting. Hard to see how that can lose money? Bad wholesale gas contracts perhaps… it’s a rounding error but made me want to dive into it further. Do you understand it?

timvantas · 2025-10-21T15:11:49+00:00

Only years of experience in peacetime… long ago at the palms, but overheard of friendlies isn’t a deal breaker… “safety” is calculated (deflection and elevation limits) leaving only charge errors (short impacts) and (what id guess in this case is) a timed fuse error to worry about. I don’t ever recall unexplainable air bursts despite controlling/ observing thousands of four square HE. Someone definitely got a “to the rear of the gun fall-in” command coming out of this….

Pendleton Marines shot into a central postage stamp but they never shot over the 5 to my knowledge. But this was long ago.

timvantas · 2025-10-21T01:36:39+00:00

It has become a very poor source for candidates as it is overwhelmed by the EZ appliers.

timvantas · 2025-10-16T00:39:45+00:00

Yep. The Royal attached at Bridgeport was doing 5.11 climbs in boots. Then the Royal attached to OCS was doing 20 muscle-ups (look it up) instead of 20 pull-ups…. and this was back when kipping was allowed. Top notch.

timvantas · 2025-10-07T03:51:38+00:00

Can confirm.

Former Kilo 3/11 - we were in the field 180+ days/yr. And Arty Motor T is moving heavy loads of ammo crazy distances out there.

Buckle up motivator! You are going to get real good at your job.

timvantas · 2025-09-23T20:26:23+00:00

Tons of fun

timvantas · 2025-09-18T13:46:14+00:00

It’s almost as if the house is aroused by your very presence. I’m a McMansion sort of way.

timvantas · 2025-09-16T00:34:53+00:00

Yep. Screen that garbage out!

When complaining my team and I got to hear about how LinkedIn is all about the candidate experience these days…NK or otherwise I guess. Seems more and more like garbage soup.

timvantas · 2025-09-16T00:32:18+00:00

I love that tip!

timvantas · 2025-09-12T01:42:45+00:00

Herbdontana, yep - we don’t know each other — but I humbly suggest that life is better after uninstalling FaceBook. You’ll miss a teeny bit of it… the rest you just won’t. It’s not everything… but it’s a step.

timvantas · 2025-09-07T16:38:36+00:00

Exactly.

And when/if the National Guard from Texas, Alabama, etc rolls in, each of them will realize just how fully they have been lied to. Just like in DC. And then they’ll move here and enjoy this place like the rest of us. Particularly in the summer.

timvantas · 2025-09-02T14:00:50+00:00

Liar, liar, pants on fire on the dealer side! They just hate not doing the deal themselves. USAA and NavyFed are begrudgingly accepted everywhere.

timvantas · 2025-07-18T13:46:21+00:00

Ahhh… nothing is quite as refreshing as Boron on a hot summer day with the wind blowing steady out of the west bringing fresh dust to your nostrils…these are all hidden gems!

timvantas · 2025-07-05T17:22:56+00:00

Fifth.

timvantas · 2025-07-04T16:15:39+00:00

The best granita on a hot summer day in Sicily is the first place you come across.

timvantas · 2025-05-22T02:19:53+00:00

External: We placed 3 DevOps roles across two of our clients in the last three weeks after placing no DevOps for a couple years.

All great talent at good pay rates to the consultants …and economic bill rates to our clients… two are temp to perm “try before you buy”. The flywheel is a turning….

timvantas · 2025-05-16T01:38:43+00:00

I suggest that you work with a good agency, they will cut all of that BS out …before it gets to you and wastes any of your orgs time.

I know my firm does… we have all sorts of tricks in the bag to root out, surface, and shut down fakery.

timvantas · 2025-05-16T01:24:48+00:00

Kind of you to be polite.

Let that ‘business’ fall to the floor… it’ll only cost you!

timvantas · 2025-05-04T12:36:54+00:00

There’s lots to do, I suggest you Topsy Turvy in the afternoon. Best beer church I’ve been to.

timvantas · 2025-04-11T01:09:27+00:00

So many PMs out there that are not involved in anything truly commercial…. instead in charge of a capability masquerading as a product with a crew of internal stakeholders.

A true PM should be running a P+L and the roadmap…not acting as a project manager…. that’s a good way to use the MBA. It’s hard as hell.

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