RallyPoint as a first impression maker.

By allowing any potential leadership to see how I think.  I have a very slim chance of actually saving my military career, and I'm looking to boost that chance any little bit.  I want future leadership to know that it eats at me having failed an APFT for any reason, and that I know what I need to do to fix that, and a couple other loose ends I can't tie up before leaving Monterey.

SPC, there is nothing covert about what I'm trying to do.  I screwed up pretty bad, and I've been trying to make up for it since.  I've also been updating information on my profile as I've been able to verify it.  I try to be tactful on this site, realizing I'm conversing with a lot of sr leadership, but I'm pretty blunt about how I think and feel about things.  Any leader on here who really pays attention will know in about 2 or 3 days of actually meeting me if I'm disingenuous or sincere.

I reenlisted for 35P while I was in Iraq.  Shortly after, my battalion transferred to Afghanistan.  After Afghanistan, my unit redeployed to Ft. Carson.  I inprocessed, outprocessed, and PCSed to Presidio of Monterey for language school.  I started Pashto about 64 days from redeployment.  I had significant physical and emotional problems. I was placed on two med holds while I was here, and on my second med hold, medications were changed around.  Over a period of 6-8 weeks, I started sleeping less and less, and didn't tell anyone.  To emphasize the point, one of the other soldiers I worked with has a Masters in Psychology and clinical experience, and I had no reason to not trust her advice and judgment.  I reached the point I was only sleeping 2-4 hours a night.  When I finally went into a manic state, I started missing appointments, breaking medical profile and lying to NCOs about it.  I was entirely paranoid about my leadership.  A short synopsis doesn't convey the full situation, but suffice it to say that I had plenty of opportunity to inform someone something wasn't right, and the medications can't carry full blame.  I am also responsible for my attitude earlier in my career, when I accepted a 200 PT score, and rarely did anything more than just sustain that.  There are a lot of things I should have done differently over the last 8 years, and I possibly would have been an E6P by now.  Instead, I'm facing my retention control point, and one possible chance for rescuing my career.

<div>"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."</div><div>- Eleanor Roosevelt</div><div><br></div>SPC Goforth, I hope everything goes well for you at your new duty station.&nbsp;

The S-1 cannot tell you what any given Soldier thinks about any given subject or topic.&nbsp; In most cases, the S-1 cannot put a face to a name before that person signs into the unit.

<p>SPC P K:</p><p><br></p><p>It depends on how much information any given command team wants to have on an incoming Soldier.&nbsp; If they want to find out about a new Soldier, the potential is available.</p><p><br></p><p>Having worked in a BN S-1, I can tell you that we did NOT have the time to research or otherwise check out every new inbound Soldier.&nbsp; Our BN command team also would not have asked us to do so.&nbsp; Yes, every now and again we would be asked to pull up information about a single NCO, but we were not expected to do an informal background check on them.</p><p><br></p>

SSG Maravi, I would point to the content of people's posts. &nbsp;A critical reader can learn a lot from someone just from what they post on a forum such as this. &nbsp;