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Retrowave Joe posted:That’s correct. It’ll hit the Reserve in May. Which, sure whatever. Something I read said it’s to try and deal with the whole Specialist culture but I think that’s about as likely as them having a surplus of Corporal patches in the warehouse. Is there a point to this that I'm missing? I did the (sorta recent) guard program where they promoted me before I had BLC, appointed me CPL and I held an E5 slot until I did BLC (almost a year later). It was a pretty good experience and acted as a stepping stone, but just giving CPL to people with no slots to put them in seems dumb?
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ASAPI posted:Are they maybe planning on slowing advancement? Maybe people are spending to little time as E5 and they are trying to leverage all those SPC's the send to whatever the school is called now? Did they stop sending literally every eligible SPC to school all the time? I can only speak for the guard side but the current solution is to take a promotable SPC with no schooling and slot them as a CPL in an E5 slot as their promotion. Because school slots ($$$) are limited, they'd rather have E5 slots be filled while people wait rather than have vacancies at that level. This is rear end-backwards if you believe BLC is actually a good school that teaches how to do team leader duties (it doesn't, it's a lovely writing course now) but if you luck out and get someone decent then they can more or less figure it out with some assistance and do a pretty good job. They get hosed and get paid the same for more responsibilities until they check the BLC box but it's their slot and they're guaranteed to pin once they finish it. For the RA I'd guess this is somewhat backwards? Too few slots, too many schooled SPCs that then sit as a SPC forever? Seems like they're trying to throw a bone to those individuals by making them CPLs in recognition of their eligibility, probably to try to reduce burden on E5s (as the CPL is supposed to do) but without really restructuring for it? Cyks posted:They can sell it as recognition to soldiers who've completed BLC who have yet to fill an E5 slot while also putting NCO responsibilities on an E4 without having to pay them more. yeah this basically
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Feb 5, 2021 22:34
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spacetoaster posted:Just change the situp event to a crunch and keep the APFT. Do this, and if they REAAALLY feel the need to have a separate MOS-specific "combat test" like the Marines have. I think the whole leg tuck thing was a compromise for pull-ups in the first place. I think it's supposed to come from ARMY CLIMBING DRILLS® 1 AND 2 which are not great, and every time I've ever done it or seen it done it's been questionable with girls getting ever-so-helpfully spotted by dudes grabbing their asses.
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Feb 14, 2021 17:24
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The guard is fun, just happened to check my email and saw an iperms update notification. Apparently I got "promoted" out of my brigade last week. Nobody contacted me, nobody in my chain heard anything, no orders, just a permanent change of assignment in my iperms. Waiting to hear more this week but wtf?
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Feb 16, 2021 22:30
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I remember seeing a CW4's final drill. We had a fire drill before we released for the day and he came out wearing leather biker chaps over his uniform and shrugged at the SGM. It made a better impression than any speech.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:41
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MightyJoe36 posted:I once saw a dude in the airport with an Army Excellence In Competition Badge on his dress greens. I have both the pistol and rifle bronze from doing national guard competitions. I imagine they're far more common in the guard than any other component because most states hold TAG matches that award them for top 10% placement on the EIC rifle and pistol matches. We have an entire program that feeds from the large in-state-only matches to regional matches with other states into the Winston P. Wilson guard nationals held every year in Arkansas (*where the all-guard team shows up and kicks everyone's rear end except California who last time sent a guard SF team that cleaned house). The national guard has a pretty interesting shooting component, generally our teams beat active duty every year for all sniper and machine gun competitions, and our all-guard team takes first in most everything international. The real rarity are the distinguished badges. You only need 1 point to get bronze in the army, but 20 for silver and 30 for distinguished. Once you "leg" at a state match you have to go higher so it gets logistically more complicated and opportunities are rarer. A first-place finish in one of those matches at the national level awards 10 points. Basically if you're not placing in the top 10% on these matches at the yearly national event you're probably never going to get enough points for distinguished. There are less double-distinguished (rifle and pistol) holders than there are MoH recipients. The other fun part is being in the guard I have them on my uniform but my uniform itself hasn't fit since I enlisted and I haven't updated the rank for two promotions because I can't even button it.
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Jun 28, 2021 14:11
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not caring here posted:Huh, I didn't even know EIC existed. I only found out about the president's hundred tab because I was on benning and saw some people rocking them on main post. Found out the army marksmanship unit is stationed there. President's 100 is always like that. No matter where it's held the same tab-holders will always come out of the woodwork to shoot it and take up most of the positions that would have been awarded it. Our regular state team does the same thing in-state with our governor's 20 tabs without trying to; when we have 10-12 shooters rotating depending on availability and only have 10 slots for rifle scores and 10 slots for pistol scores we basically push anyone else out of getting it. Especially because our state match is the one we basically all show up to because we can do it in a SUTA status and take newbies from our units to have fun and learn stuff at it.
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Jun 28, 2021 17:25
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Nice and hot piss posted:Hey guys tell me if I'm an idiot because I may need to hear that from you all. I wrote a huge effort post but decided to just say you're probably an idiot. Do tell us more about why you think the guard or reserves is a good idea for you and we can be more specific with a tailor-made approach about how you are an idiot.
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Jul 9, 2021 03:59
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Nice and hot piss posted:Serious in terms of re-enlisting? sure. The idea that whatever I do MUST involve shooting guns? Maybe 3-4 years ago but now I'm just considering something that I could see myself not hating one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer *terms and conditions may vary* Other than 2020 I've averaged around 2 months in uniform every year I've been in the guard. ATs are never only 2 weeks anymore.. at the least they stick a few drill days on the front and/or back or the orders to extend them. Most units these days won't let you skip an AT if you've done schools or something else, so have fun doing 3 weeks of BLC and then still having a 2+ week AT to look forward to. Oh and the new hotness is to take all the drill days from one month, add some more funding to generate more days, then lump it all together into a "super-MUTA" where you go to the field somewhere for a mini-AT of 7-8 days. From what I understand the reserves are still closer to that traditional view of a weekend per month and a 2 week AT. The guard is not. In fact I have more friends than not that had their world flipped in this past year with state active duty orders for various missions during the pandemic lockdowns, the capitol mission, or in-state rioting. Some of those friends are in a brigade that just got warned for a deployment; most of them came off those state orders around last December and rolled right into doing enough IDT days between January and May to be covered for the FY. Then they did a JRTC rotation for 5 weeks.
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Jul 10, 2021 14:55
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I'm strangely proud of doing 6 in 6 in the guard and having no awards aside from freebies and one NCOPD. Not a single AAM. The joke is forever on me though, because I enlisted.
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https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/12/08/death-drugs-and-a-disbanded-unit-how-the-guards-mexico-border-mission-fell-apart/ Pretty good article on the border mission. Some stuff in it that might get you pretty pissed off like leaving a soldier to die alone of covid in a hotel room.
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