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"You too can be the best of what's left!" 😄 Painfully apropos these days....

You have leaders of key formations within SOCOM fielding questions like “why don’t you have more African Americans in your organization.” Real talk... that was flat asked of the Seals, and when the command master chief pulled the national statistics on swimming ability and how key that is an early discriminatory factor on anybody, not just blacks people he was basically ignored. Showed them the numbers and how they line up with national demographics and was full stop ignored. The problem was obvious to the people asking the loaded question, it was a built in racial bias, and the final representation of racial demographics is then used to justify their position of the military harboring institutional racism. These are the same people screaming “why aren’t their more female and minority generals” while failing to understand that the intake from start to finish on a General Officer is 30 years. We only started letting women into certain positions within the military capable of fielding a decent population of Flag rank officers 20 years ago. Combat Arms (the majority of Army/Marine upper echelons), 3 years ago... Its gonna take some time to see what they view as an epidemic of old and white men taper off. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You can carry over leave from AD to ARC. I separated to become a DSG and transferred about 40 days. It took 3 months for a CMS case to go through. The leave just hangs there in the ether until you have a long set of orders to attach it to. Save that final LES! The bigger issue in the future is going to be using it. If you become a long-term AGR, no big deal. As a part-timer: most units aren’t going to give two months of orders to burn 2-3 weeks of leave that was earned on AD. It’s absolutely an earned entitlement, but in practice what I’ve seen is an attitude of - use it where you earned it. Also, takes the same ~3 months for said leave to show up on any set of orders (same CMS case process), so if you’re on a 31-day stint of orders that leave isn’t even really available to you.

Military Watchdog 4 days ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Important article, important book, pay attention. Amazon Reviews: ( initially 66% 5-star, 33% 1-star, nothing in between). Book now 5/17 rated # 1 by Amazon for all book categories, not just military, and 75% 5-stars, 22% 1-star. There is so much more: Concerned Veterans should article search for "SOCOM's Richard Torres-Estrad" and also DOD's "Meet Bishop Garrison: The Pentagon’s Hatchet Man in Charge of Purging MAGA Patriots and Installing Race Theory in the Military." "Pentagon's operation against Trump supporters, conservatives, opponents of globalism is worse than imagined." DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, now a propaganda agency, recommended a brand new suspicious-soldier category called “Patriot Extremism” which occurs when a citizen believes the US government has become corrupt or “has overstepped its constitutional boundaries.” Garrison, a Veteran and West Point graduate, is defended here: "Human Rights First by Bishop Garrison." My point is this: make sure you understand what is really going on inside the military. You read, you decide. Oriana Pawlyk and Milcom did a good job with this article. Pentagon may have started fire it cannot put out.

When Reckless Military Training Creates Preventable Deaths, Accountability Must Go to the Top | Military.com Military Watchdog a day ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Seemingly every day we read stories like this. Today we pay the price for the principally Obama administration changing the long established and at least more successful, if not perfect, promotion criteria selecting senior officers and NCO from peer-superior ranked evaluation and performance rather than political fidelity and ideological servility. The result is philosopher and compliant generals more like Senior Executive Service (SES) than Lee and Grant, Eisenhower and Patton .......... Here we go again, lots of luck fighting the Chinese and Russians with the Austin-Garrison purge.

The internet has allowed what we’re otherwise hidden bits of insanity to group together into movements. Flat Earth is the best example of something completely absurd gaining enough traction as to almost call it a popular opinion. 50 years ago if you believed the Earth was flat you either knew to keep that S*it to yourself or you were crazy and homeless. Now you can connect to a whole group of idiots who believe the same dumb ideas as you. Hooray for technology. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

it's obvious what's going on within the DOD. in fact its so obvious it's hidden in plain sight. vote with your feet.

Are you saying that everyone signed on - knowing "the rules" were going to be changed, based on wind direction and political ideology, and we're okay with it, and need to live with it?

Far too slippery of a slope to even venture down, yet here we are. Does following an account constitute restricted actions? A like? A share? Who is to determine if something is a joke? Oh, but nuance and context no longer matter... At least the fighter pilot meme pages on IG are having a field day... For now. From the Army cartoon recruiting commercial advertising a woman who grew up with "two moms" who "marched for justice" to this... The leadership at the top has forgotten the reason we f***ing exist. Pathetic.

Hawaii is holding another board this year. Apps are due July 15th for those interested. They posted this on their FB recruiting page.

I applied a few days before the deadline and got a confirmation that my application was received for the LA ANG UPT Application

the CDC has lost all credibility on the COVID issue

Years of service don’t apply to a reserve retirement. Points are the only thing that matter. Years of service will be the top of the pay chart because your clock keeps running for pay chart purposes while in the grey area. Rank matters more for a reserve retirement than an active duty retirement bc the rank you take into the retired reserve is the rank that you will be paid at. As an example: I need 3 yrs TIG as an O-5 to retire as an O-5. If I fail to get 3 yrs TIG while actively serving (ie before I transfer to the retired reserve aka grey area) then I will retire as an O-4 and my high-36 will be the top of the O-4 payscale. If I do get 3 yrs TIG, I will retire as an O-5 and my high-36 will be the top of the O-5 payscale. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Alright, it's not obvious to me. What's going on within the DoD (serious question).

Here's the catch though. You volunteered to be in the military and signed on the dotted line agreeing to be subject to a different set of rules above and beyond your average civilian. You can be sent to jail for all sorts of things that aren't illegal for regular people like desertion, adultery, insubordination, fraternization, and conduct unbecoming just to name a few. And the UCMJ does have specific limits on speech for military members already. You are correct that the implementation of this policy is going to be messy and difficult. And as always the devil is going to be in the details. But acting like this is some gross overreach that is new and different from the restrictions you've already agreed to is a bit alarmist in my opinion.

Man, wait until you learn SECDEF, SECAF, and many other Air Force civilian leadership are are also political appointees...