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Enable the developer tab / ribbon thing and pull up the actual code. I apologize in advance, because Visual Basic for Applications is awful, cancerous stuff.
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Naked Bear posted:Enable the developer tab / ribbon thing and pull up the actual code. Draw a circle of protection around your chair before you do this. Doesn't have to be blood, a Sharpie will do.
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Apr 7, 2018 21:31
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Is it a giant tracker that pulls a list of problems from a few dozen spreadsheets? I made one of those for a major inspection on a ship 7 years ago that is still being used by a bunch of people in the navy and i’m curious what yours looks like.
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Apr 7, 2018 22:38
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Naked Bear posted:Enable the developer tab / ribbon thing and pull up the actual code. Also the Data tab and there may be a "Data connections" button that will bring up the other sources. Poweryquery is my poo poo and is great to learn for regular office work if youre dealling with portals and web pages with tables.
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Apr 8, 2018 00:15
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Mr. Nice! posted:Is it a giant tracker that pulls a list of problems from a few dozen spreadsheets? Yeah, kind of. Makes me wish I was better at excel or took a class on it because it's pretty crazy how much easier a good excel document can make keeping track of things.
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Apr 8, 2018 03:35
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If you want to learn how to do something in excel literally type whatever you want to do into google and almost certainly someone has done exactly what you need and there will be details to explain how.
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Apr 8, 2018 03:37
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Stack Exchange is approximately one thousand times more comprehensive than Microsoft's own documentation.
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Apr 8, 2018 03:48
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Mustang posted:Yeah, kind of. This, I had numerous opportunities to take Excel courses as a civilian and didn't, that program is actually legit useful beyond how we tard it up in the service,
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Apr 8, 2018 23:23
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Mustang posted:Makes me wish I was better at excel or took a class on it because it's pretty crazy how much easier a good excel document can make keeping track of things. i dont know excel at all really and really need to change it
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Apr 9, 2018 00:07
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Learning excel is literally what saved me from bullshit at my first unit. I could make the numbers work so I was “important.”
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Apr 9, 2018 00:14
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This is not strictly Army since the man is a civilian, but imma tell a cool story of a man who gives no fucks. And if some of you have been medics who worked at Caserma Ederle Health Clinic, you will surely recognize him from this. An italian gentleman in his early sixties working as Local National for the US Army, who to this day remains extremely charismatic, witty, and well dressed, has worked here for over 34 years since he was just a medical resident. He is now a Nephrologist and A Physician Nutrition Specialist with almost 20 years of medical colleges under his belt from University of Padova. Dude is a legend in having many, many, many, adverntures with pretty army wives, nurses of the clinics and such from back in the day. Three years ago he decided that he isn't gonna come to work every day at 0730, and informed the clinic commander to ensure that he shouldn't have patients booked for him before 1100. Ever since, so it has been. He is often seen around the area with various sports cars and younger ladies, plural, that accompany him. The dude tells full bird colonels to be less fat if they complain of ankle pain, and dislikes american dependents who associate skill in english with skill in medicine. He told a patient who complained about not getting an american doctor that "it's not my fault that your family tree has like combined four intact teeth total''. He also frequently takes hour and half lunches at random times, and drinks espresso by the boat load in his office. I deeply admire this dude.
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Apr 9, 2018 11:54
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That’s what I want to be like tbh. It’s also crazy loving hard to fire a LN. I had one who worked for maybe 3 months combined the entire three years I was in Germany. Never fired. She got paid for all of it.
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Apr 9, 2018 18:05
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Everybody thinking of joining the Army should read the review for this bag: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Alpha-Computer-Messenger-Camouflage/dp/B004VRH1ZU/quote:It's okay. The main compartment is sort of oddly designed and considerably less capacious than you'd think for a bag this size. Not too well organized, in my opinion. And you have to undo the main flap to get to the laptop storage, which can be an inconvenience. Its hardware is serviceable but not confidence-inspiring. All in all, it's not bad but it's not great.
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Apr 9, 2018 23:53
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Any recruiters in here? My kids want an army backpack for school (and I don't want to buy one) and our recruiter guards the goodie room like it's the room with the holy grail or something. What do I need to say, or who do I talk to?
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Apr 10, 2018 00:12
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have your kid sign on that dotted enlistment line
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Apr 10, 2018 00:14
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Tell the recruiter that it's free advertising. That's what that poo poo is for.
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Apr 10, 2018 00:20
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Nice and hot piss posted:have your kid sign on that dotted enlistment line I tried. They're not taking 9 year olds. Yet.
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Apr 10, 2018 00:48
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We only ever had the cinch bags. Some of the nicer stuff would be used for bigger stuff like school fundraiser raffle poo poo and not handed out very willy nilly. The only ppi/rpi i could get consistently through the ordering system would be like SF pamphlets in Spanish and maybe pencils and pens on a good month
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Apr 10, 2018 01:39
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And stickers!!!! Edit : but yeah a lot of the nicer stuff was for people that depped in or special events
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Apr 10, 2018 01:39
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This summer the Army is testing a new infantry IET course, 21 weeks long What was it before? 12 weeks?
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Apr 13, 2018 17:59
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OSUT was 14 weeks.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:02
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why does an infantry Private need half a year of training
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Apr 13, 2018 18:10
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Mustang posted:why does an infantry Private need half a year of training Mustang posted:infantry Mustang posted:Private
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Apr 13, 2018 18:12
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Mustang posted:why does an infantry Private need half a year of training To reinforce in them how poor of a decision they have made.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:17
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What in God's green earth are they going to jam pack into an extra 7 weeks of training? I mean I guess I can see it, more time with maneuever exercises, probably more familiarity with strykers or w/e...
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Apr 13, 2018 18:26
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Talk is to get people more competent when they get to their units. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some dick waving at the USMC SOI as well since their program is about that long.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:32
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That's gonna kill pass numbers. The biggest factor for dropouts in my basic company, you know, after the big weed out in the first 3 weeks, was home sickness.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:54
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I went through OSUT, and if I had a dollar for Everytime I heard "You'll learn this at your unit" or some similar variation, I probably could have bought a BMW in cash. There were whole things I didn't learn there. I never got to family fire a 50 or Mk. I didn't get the class on anti armor weapons (besides the AT-4). Nothing on ID'ing enemy equipment, enemy weapon capabilities, or tactics (I know we fight everyone, but nearly everyone we would fight are based on Soviet poo poo). Nothing on Uniform wear, military courtesy beyond parade rest and salute officers. Nothing on thermal sights, laser designators, or night fighting. I didn't even see a pair of NODs there. The only battle drill we were taught was squad assault on fixed postion. No call for fire training, no 9 line. I wasn't taught poo poo on a Bradley or Humvee. I know I went through loving forever ago, but none of that poo poo, and even other important poo poo- that's just off the top of my head- was ever taught to me. I ended up deploying within a month of getting assigned to my unit, and was in combat within two months after finishing leave. I am completely ok with making our dudes more effective with longer training.
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Apr 13, 2018 18:56
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If they're gonna spend that long in training they might as well come out of it with a tab as well, jfc
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Apr 13, 2018 18:57
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TRADOC isn’t known for competency. Hell, they have a huge investigation going on over the first women going through OSUT. The Drill Sergeants were under a microscope and couldn’t keep it in their pants. To avoid the double post; I went through in 03 and they have changed it substantially from my understanding to be less Vietnam era and more contemporary. That being said, there is defiantly things they could add to make infantrymen more competent, but outside of SWCS I’ve heard and observed very little good from TRADOC. Oxygenpoisoning fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 18:59
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I hope it's really lovely and bad because I'm out and i don't give a fuuuuck
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Apr 13, 2018 19:01
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Mustang posted:why does an infantry Private need half a year of training says the man who constantly cleans up after infantry privates
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I think it would be better if SGTs time training was actually protected each week. In a year and a half I think we actually had SGTs time training maybe 6 times. When you have 200+ dudes getting trained at the same time it becomes more of a check the block kind of thing. Guys coming to us licensed on whatever vehicles their formation uses would have been nice though.
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Slim Pickens posted:If they're gonna spend that long in training they might as well come out of it with a tab as well, jfc Shhh, the Infantry is addicted to flair.
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Apr 13, 2018 19:49
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:Shhh, the Infantry is addicted to flair. Anything to make us feel worthwhile
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Apr 13, 2018 19:51
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Mustang posted:Guys coming to us licensed on whatever vehicles their formation uses would have been nice though. That comes from a fight a long time ago when the operational force and beancounters said the generating force took too long, had too many people (instructors/maintainers), too much equipment, etc and needed to make cuts. Driver's training was about the first thing to go when cuts to equipment and personnel hit TRADOC, outside of some specially protected MOS's. It varies by MOS a lot, but one of the other really common operational complaints is asking how come AIT graduates or new LTs don't do X process, and the answer is generally either that it's a collective task outside the scope of AIT/IMT or what they want trained is actually a unit, theater, or operational process used somewhere on the Earth, but existing nowhere in doctrine or formalized technical manuals, TCs, etc.
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Mustang posted:I think it would be better if SGTs time training was actually protected each week. In a year and a half I think we actually had SGTs time training maybe 6 times. It would be nice if SGT's time wasn't structured to gently caress and back and not pocketbook bullshit. I had SGTs time every loving week and it was bullshit. Serious loving bullshit. There were few times I learned something, or the instructor wanted to be there. Learning things that were relevant to my job and not "how to call a 9-line." Things like "how to properly prepare and send a press release," or "improv" . Improv helped me so loving much as a dj, and we only did it once. It would be like getting valuable CPOF training when your commander keeps going "I hear you need CPOF or BFT training, but we'll send you to armorer school instead. Oh, and call in this 9-line." My crazy idea? Use SGT's time for poo poo like driving tests for vehicles, weapons qualifications, and other bullshit the military actually requires you to do. Like cool, you can call in a 9-line at the motor pool but you cant drive an LMTV. SGT's time for working with soldiers on getting their ASU's ready for whatever inspection is going to happen. SGT's time training on how to properly conduct PT. Make SGT's time training not regimented to the point where everyone makes appointments on Thursdays. Do it when it is appropriate. SGTs time training on how to raise a flag at 1000? gently caress that, do it at 600 and let them watch and practice the real thing. What the gently caress do I know though, I was a piece of poo poo SGT.
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The most effective use of SGT's time I ever saw was when the BN CDR and S3 took over SGT's time entirely and turned it into MOS proficiency time. That wouldn't work for all MOS's, but in a formation that almost exclusively operates as a BN, having the whole BN spin up their equipment, emplace, do simulated combat ops, then recover back to the motorpool once a week is a pretty effective way to utilize drat near everyone in the BN, including low density MOS folks. But if you did that to an infantry BN, they'd probably very rightfully say "stop micromanaging my SGT's time, you assholes."
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Apr 13, 2018 19:57
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Soulex posted:
This is how we ran SGT's time in my unit. If there was nothing pressing we turned it into MOS specific training/cross training the other signal guys. For the cross training, I would put one of my middle of the road guys in charge with a more senior guy to help him out, that way the teacher was reinforcing what they just learned by teaching and making the other guys better. The key is to "say" you are doing 9-line training, but actually do what makes sense.
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I had a section sergeant that became platoon sergeant that would have everyone in the platoon learn something from a relevant TM or FM, then give the platoon a class on it. If it wasn't taught well enough or the person clearly didn't know what they were talking about he'd step in and teach it right. Then we'd go out and practice whatever we learned as well as we could with whatever was available. It was some of the better training I did and I just heard that he's getting picked up for E8 now. One of the few excellent NCOs from my time in the infantry
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