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11B: Infantryman
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PV2 J M Finally! Congratulations on signing on the dotted line!
Strive to go to every or any school you might be able to attend! Have fun and enjoy !
You have been on Rally Point for 3 1/2 years?
I could not find your member number.
Strive to go to every or any school you might be able to attend! Have fun and enjoy !
You have been on Rally Point for 3 1/2 years?
I could not find your member number.
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CSM Charles Hayden
PV2 J M When you were on Rally Point earlier you had a RP member number that might have been in the 700,000s range. Once you closed that account and opened a new one you now have a RP member number in the 1,300,000 area.
SSG Carlos Madden Community Manager Carlos, could you restore PV2 Jordan Masters’s original member number and account from 3-1/2 years ago? Similar to 1LT Sandy Annala’s brief re-instatement?
Now that he is a Soldier, I expect to see more posts from him on Rally Point. Thanks, Chuck
SSG Carlos Madden Community Manager Carlos, could you restore PV2 Jordan Masters’s original member number and account from 3-1/2 years ago? Similar to 1LT Sandy Annala’s brief re-instatement?
Now that he is a Soldier, I expect to see more posts from him on Rally Point. Thanks, Chuck
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Part of my initial counseling for all Soldiers was the five Soldier rights:
Right time
Right place
Right uniform
Right attitude
Doing the right thing
Those last two are more important, IMHO, than the first three.
It's OK to make an honest mistake. I always preferred a Soldier who took initiative, tried hard, and screwed up 10% of the time over the one who never screwed up because he always waited to be told what to do and never tried to exceed the standard.
Right time
Right place
Right uniform
Right attitude
Doing the right thing
Those last two are more important, IMHO, than the first three.
It's OK to make an honest mistake. I always preferred a Soldier who took initiative, tried hard, and screwed up 10% of the time over the one who never screwed up because he always waited to be told what to do and never tried to exceed the standard.
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1. Become a PT stud
2. Listen and look for those with a CIB and/or a combat patch
3. Don't get caught up in your feelings when you get criticized
4. Be smart with your money, and don't just blow it of frivolous stuff
5. Chow hall food is actually not that bad...don't continually waste money eating out when you have the chow hall made available to you
6. Constantly work to improve yourself and learn your role as an infantryman. Once you do that, learn what the role of an assistant squad leader or a squad leader. Always seek to learn about the job you want.
2. Listen and look for those with a CIB and/or a combat patch
3. Don't get caught up in your feelings when you get criticized
4. Be smart with your money, and don't just blow it of frivolous stuff
5. Chow hall food is actually not that bad...don't continually waste money eating out when you have the chow hall made available to you
6. Constantly work to improve yourself and learn your role as an infantryman. Once you do that, learn what the role of an assistant squad leader or a squad leader. Always seek to learn about the job you want.
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SGT Cory Blissitte
OP is likely to be on Schofield. If he is in 2nd Brigade, I really hope the chowhall has changed since I was there. I threw up my breakfast at least every other morning.
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1. OSUT was only the beginning. Learn everything you can, good and bad, from those in your unit. Pay attention to who has a CIB and combat patch.
2. Keep up the good habits you learned in basic. Right place, right uniform. ALWAYS wear a watch and have a notebook/pen. Find out early if your unit has a uniform and equipment SOP. The earlier you have that squared away, the easier your life will be when it comes to field exercises.
3. Make good financial decisions now. Don't buy that Mustang off base at 35% interest. Eat at the chow hall. Don't marry that stripper because you think she told you her "real name."
4. Boredom is a choice. You will have lots of down time. Go to the gym, run a track, study your warrior tasks. After you hate all that stuff for the day, then play video games with your buddy.
2. Keep up the good habits you learned in basic. Right place, right uniform. ALWAYS wear a watch and have a notebook/pen. Find out early if your unit has a uniform and equipment SOP. The earlier you have that squared away, the easier your life will be when it comes to field exercises.
3. Make good financial decisions now. Don't buy that Mustang off base at 35% interest. Eat at the chow hall. Don't marry that stripper because you think she told you her "real name."
4. Boredom is a choice. You will have lots of down time. Go to the gym, run a track, study your warrior tasks. After you hate all that stuff for the day, then play video games with your buddy.
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Do what you are told with speed and intensity until someone tells you to chill out
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Be better than everyone else in your job and you will rise faster than anyone you graduated AIT with
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Buy better gear... keep all records..especially medical... report all injuries... medical issues.. for VA disability action..
Keep safe.. training kills more than combat....
Keep safe.. training kills more than combat....
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Keep your mouth shut... learn all weapons systems.. learn how to drive all vechelics learn..first aid...and all communication devices... marksmanship..MMA..knife..bayonets...Pratice and train...ACFT. Don't get married..avoid drama.. bring doughnuts to admin..avoid Officers and top NCO'S. Obtain all manuals for MOS... if possible walk the VA hospital and talk with Disabled vets... walk a National cemetery. Start studying Iran..North Korea...
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Try to get issued uniforms with the low Silhouette buttons. The fatigues in '68 held us way too high off the flat paddies.
Good luck on that first posting. Seems the first and the last posting are always the most memorable.
Good luck on that first posting. Seems the first and the last posting are always the most memorable.
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