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re: Pentagon is Ending Tuition Benefits to Reservists
Posted on 1/2/16 at 5:53 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Posted on 1/2/16 at 5:53 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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I had no desire to be an S3/XO or field grade officer for that matter. I led soldiers at the level it matters the most and left on a high note.
There's nothing wrong with that, but when you come on here and act like you do it says a lot about your maturity, integrity and character. Frankly I'm disappointed that the Army gave you a commission.
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Posted on 1/2/16 at 5:54 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Just did
Posted on 1/2/16 at 5:55 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Yeah, Hooah. Congrats.
We got this.
We got this.
Posted on 1/2/16 at 6:06 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:
GeauxxxTigers23
Do you have my number? I don't think I have yours...
Posted on 1/2/16 at 6:07 pm to unbeWEAVEable
No. I'll email it to you
Posted on 1/2/16 at 6:08 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Posted on 1/2/16 at 6:17 pm to CPT Tiger
CPT Tiger
Emailed back
Emailed back
Posted on 1/2/16 at 6:46 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Yeah I know him.. I don't blame him for wanting out though.. The Corps has been pushing me hard to go Officer and they couldn't pay me enough to leave my job now. Besides I have seen some of the guys they have sent to OCS and the stupidity they have to deal with. Frick that I'm fine with what I have accomplished as a reservist and leading the Marines I'm over.
This post was edited on 1/2/16 at 11:49 pm
Posted on 1/7/16 at 4:43 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A 30-year-old staff sergeant and father of a 3-month-old son has been identified as the American soldier killed this week in Helmand province — the latest servicemember to die by hostile fire more than a year after the end of the NATO-led combat mission in Afghanistan.
Staff Sgt. Matthew McClintock, of Des Moines, Wash., joined the Army in 2006 and served as a Special Forces engineer sergeant, the Washington National Guard said in a statement.
“On January 5th 2016 the greatest man I know, my husband, the love of my life, Matthew was killed in action,” McClintock’s wife, Alexandra McClintock, wrote in a Facebook post. “Matthew always wanted to be a father and I’m blessed to have been able to give him a son who he got to meet and loved with all his heart.”
Green Beret killed in Afghanistan was new father
Posted on 1/28/16 at 9:23 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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OleWarSkuleAlum - Also the NCFA findings will not be positive for the ARNG. Again when I'm right I would like you to come on here and eat crow.
Ruh roh.
Army Force Commission Calls for Apache Compromise, More Troops in Europe
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WASHINGTON — A US Army force of 980,000 is “minimally sufficient” for maintaining national security and the National Guard should keep some attack helicopters, the National Commission on the Future of the Army declared in a new report.
quote:Looks like it is crash and burn time for OleWarSkuleAlum.
Aviation Restructure Initiative
While the Aviation Restructure Initiative planned to take all 192 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters out of the National Guard, the commission is recommending the Army provide four battalions worth of Apaches to the Guard.
“ARI, however, results in a lack of strategic depth, providing for no wartime surge capability in the Army National Guard. It also does not support the Total Force Policy. In response to the ARI, the National Guard Bureau (NGB) formulated an approach to aviation restructuring that would retain six Apache helicopter battalions in the Army National Guard (two of which would be in multicomponent aviation brigades). The commission found the NGB Alternative would provide a significant wartime surge capacity for the Apache force, and it would likely reduce the peacetime stress on Regular Army Apache units. But wartime capacity declines under the NGB Alternative, and costs increase.”
How do you like your crow served?
Posted on 1/28/16 at 9:48 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
We now have a seven page thread over this:
I am trying hard to be concerned but just can't ssem to muster up the bile.
quote:
But the program is considered redundant now in light of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which offers education benefits to most troops who spent any time on active duty after September 2001.
REAP represented a little more than 1 percent of VA education payouts in fiscal 2014
I am trying hard to be concerned but just can't ssem to muster up the bile.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 9:50 pm to cave canem
quote:Naw breh. It went only one post before it went off the rails. Just had to give it a bump for OleWarSkuleAlum.
cave canem
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:30 pm to Champagne
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There are a lot of KIA "Reservists" who died in combat whose ghosts would object to the bashing of "Reservists" on this message board.
I posted this on 2 Jan 16, only 3 days before, SSG Matthew McClintock, a Washington National Guardsman Special Forces Soldier, was KIA on 5 Jan 16.
Let those who like to bash the Guard and Reserve learn something from the recent history of our Armed Forces. An ignorant comment about the Guard or Reserve doesn't make anybody look better, it just makes them look ignorant.
Rest easy, SSG Matthew McClintock. We'll see you on the other side in the not too distant future.
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:37 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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Pentagon is Ending Tuition Benefits to Reservists
GOOD. Instead of playing Halloween or dress up one weekend a month actually make the commitment and EARN the perks.
I personally played Halloween dress up three times on two continents over four years of my life. It's earned and you are a stupid fricking troll dressed like a bitch
Posted on 1/28/16 at 10:42 pm to JJBTiger2012
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I support the military 110% but this is a good move. I've know to many reserves who think that they deserve the respect of full timers.
I support any man, active, reservist, or guardsman, that deploys to another country of combat. I think they deserve a college education, at the very least.
Many guardsman lost their lives in Iraqi Freedom because they had shitty humvees and improper equipment. Dude lays down his life and family for that; a college degree is the least he's entitled to.
Posted on 1/29/16 at 5:58 am to Champagne
quote:Well said sir.
Champagne
ETA: To La Sapper, thank you for your service and sacrifice, to Errerrerrwere, thank you for your understanding and support.
This post was edited on 1/29/16 at 7:26 am
Posted on 1/29/16 at 11:27 am to Wolfhound45
I do think that the military squanders $ on useless education benefits. I've watched it plenty and I've been pressured to partake.
The whole Active vs ARC is different in my sliver of the Air Force. ARC crews generally have thousands of hours more than their Active counterparts. The ARC are the experts who've been there, done that, wrote the book.
The whole Active vs ARC is different in my sliver of the Air Force. ARC crews generally have thousands of hours more than their Active counterparts. The ARC are the experts who've been there, done that, wrote the book.
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