Good morning everyone, hope you all enjoy your Saturday whether it is your #1 or #6...

 

Good morning John and those to follow. Have a good/safe day. We will be gone over night so you folks may have to fend for your selves.

 

Enjoy yourself Chris and be careful out on the roads.

 

Belated Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. 35.4, pea soup fog and wet.........

 

Yup! im home now, the last two days were rough. was up at 0100 our time thursday and going until 2200 our time yesterday. Thursday was a pack up and recover day, 2200 form up for busses to Atlanta, had a wild encounter with a command sergeant major, who stated that I was a weirdo and needed to work on that (I can't post up the full convo; its a little... well all veterans should know what im getting at). went through the airport with no issues, hopped on my plane and arrived at 1215 yesterday, had lunch with family and friends, went to my cousin's wedding, then home to sleep. I can say for sure that I was slumped like JFK in a drop-top Lincoln when the lights went out.

I can say that many things have changed, and some are absolute BS. We have "peer reviews" in the Army now, which is basically a popularity contest. Its one thing for the to critique you, its another to say whether they are combat trustworthy and if they should be recycled or separated from the Army. So far, because im a: hard-a** and stickler for SOP and ways that I have learned to maximize efficiency, not a complete PT stud, and have no problem calling out meat-heads and trouble-makers on their issues that drill sergeants have nailed 'em for, im not a popular man!

It sounds like I may get an AIT recycle, so ill just start black phase over. which isn't all bad. its pretty easy if you ask me. the only downsides are that I may lose my duty station, lose my SBCT status (stryker brigade combat team, so I operate on a stryker platform; to heck with being light or bradley (heavy)) and have to spend more time down there.

there's plenty more I could babble about but i think thats enough, if y'all have any questions for me, I have and answer! just maybe not the one you were looking for.

 

Shape up Private...........
Don't fix everyone......just set a quiet, good example....

Welcome home......

 

Welcome home. And like Roy said, don't be a hard azz and try to fix everyone. Not your job for 3 or 4 more pay grades yet. Sit back, relax do what is needed to get to where you want to go and worry about command and control of the US Army after you make Buck. Then a Senior NCO will come along, sit you down and let you know you are starting all over again and to keep it toned down until you get that first rocker.

When I made E3 and started taking charge of a couple of very minor **** ant things, I was going to save the Navy from themselves and all those nasty little non rated / non strikers coming up behind me in the Duty Section. Then, probably just in the nick of time, I ran into a grown up school they called DWEST immediately followed by SERE - and in those days it was not incremented - you got the whole enchilada no matter what your job description was. You got thrown in with some SEALs being trained up for Viet Nam and other points being taught by SEALs with a nasty attitude and advised by Navy and Army (Green Beret) people that had escaped from POW camps and you shaped up or shipped out in one hell of a hurry! Seventy five people started that class and there was like 30 of us left to graduate. Made me see things from just a little different perspective.
Stick with it and just be one of the "troopers" for now. Just sit back relax and do what you have to do, but leave the NCO stuff to the NCO's for now. You are in the stage where you do have to prove you have your teams back, not run it.

 

That be the truth of it. Nevertheless, 8-count push-ups, power jump, and mountain climbers get real old real fast after 100 counts
There are those that get a sour attitude for any correction, even for something as minor as fix your collar or tuck in your boot laces. Humans are funny creatures. But hey, i'm one of those funny creatures!

Thanks gents, its good to be home for a few days. don't go back until Jan. 2nd

 

Exactly .........NO if's and but's

As an E-5 I tried to correct a E-9........ONCE.....

 

Well, I can't say my crow feathers every grew enough into the Eagle Stage and my head ever out grew my head gear enough that I tried that. Did take on a Chief (E7) once in the Philippines over my .45 and K-Bar. When we walked out of the CO's office I still had my Crow, Air Crew Wings, the E5 chevrons the .45 and K-Bar I walked in with. The Chief had been reassigned from TAD MAA/Customs Inspector to Corrosion Control.....

In the Army NG while on active duty for a period of time and after being appointed 2nd Lieutenant (acting) for a 3 month stretch, I thought it would be a good idea to correct the 1st Shirt (Company First Sergeant) on a couple of issues involving a couple of guys in my Platoon, that had been causing all of us some consternation while at Ft. Ord.

Like Roy, I decided that for my own well being and the desire to eventually leave with an Honorable Discharge and to avoid being the only El Tee (acting) on KP, that it was a one time "learning experience" not to be repeated.

 

Warmed up again today....most of the snow is gone. Wife and I took a drive today...just touring the countryside...Saw some different country that I hadn't seen for quite a while. Went north through the wheat country.....turned around at the Columbia river.

Thanks to all you Military guys for your service!!

 

Good morning everyone, it's happy shovel Sunday here in northwestern Ontario.

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. 39.8° with the mercury running in the wrong direction for the past hour or two. Overcast and rainy, but not too much. Supposed to lighten up around 1000. Heavy Rain (tonight and tomorrow), High Wind and Flood Alerts in effect for tomorrow.
The only shoveling around here is in the horse barn. Since my sister is the only one with horses there now - she sent ours to Montana w/o our knowledge (isn't that something we could hang her for?) - not my job man, she and her hubby are on their own.

 

She saved you some work then Jim, now she's stuck shoveling her own Chit...lol

 

......It would not be safe for me to repeat what my wife has to say about the entire situation....the really censored and cleaned up version: She created the situation so the way we see it, she and hubby #3 can deal with it.