Posted on Jan 31, 2019
Since I only have 4 work days to clear, what should I do?
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I'm currently at Camp Atterbury for gunnery, I will be attending MSSA starting 15th Feb. I'm stuck here untill the 9th because my platoon want me to help out load. With that said I have not turned in or cleaned my gear(since I needed it for this training event), I have not attend my 90 day out appointment (which was schadueld to be right after the training, but my time got extended here to outload trucks). Still need an dental appointment and lab for final physical. I also have not gotten my ETS order yet(S-1 already got it, just back at Bragg). Anyone have some tips to clear as soon as I get back to Fort Bragg? Thanks in advance.
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You could cancel your mssa so that you have plenty of time to clear.
Or, you could stop complaining since you got a sweet deal to be on permissive TDY while attending a civilian School. You are going to be on your units books the entire time until you ETS.
You can clear the entire Post in 3 days if you need to. The army it's going to pay you as a full-time Soldier while you go to this course. Time. If your unit once squeeze a few more days of work out of you oh, I think it is a fair trade but what you were getting out of this
Or, you could stop complaining since you got a sweet deal to be on permissive TDY while attending a civilian School. You are going to be on your units books the entire time until you ETS.
You can clear the entire Post in 3 days if you need to. The army it's going to pay you as a full-time Soldier while you go to this course. Time. If your unit once squeeze a few more days of work out of you oh, I think it is a fair trade but what you were getting out of this
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SPC Samantha Stapley he's posted on here repeatedly before with similar questions about how unfair it is that he has to go to the field and that his command hadn't yet approved his CSP for MSSA. He has had months to plan and schedule, based off his previous posts. Ninety percent of the paragraph he wrote was a complaint. One single line was a question.
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Yea, stop bitching and start planning. Yea, it sucks but it is what it is. Your days are going to start really early and end really late. Plot and plan everything you need to do and where you need to do it. Get your big boy pants on and get to work.
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SPC (Join to see) - Once you get back on base, you should receive your clearing papers. This is the checklist of all locations and places you will need to visit to outprocess the unit and base. You can also start here to begin your homework and plan:
https://home.army.mil/bragg/index.php/my-fort-bragg/all-services/out-processing-section
https://home.army.mil/bragg/index.php/my-fort-bragg/all-services/out-processing-section
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LTC Jason Mackay
SPC (Join to see) - you'll have a DA Form for Installation Clearance, a local clearing checklist, and a unit checklist. Read them. They'll usually have them in the order you need to clear them. They'll also say if one I see dependent on another. CIF is your biggest concern, then medical, the rest is a scavenger hunt.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SPC (Join to see) - the power of google, start wargaming your plan. Note that they pre-clear you from some of the places. https://home.army.mil/bragg/index.php/my-fort-bragg/all-services/out-processing-section
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Start calling people to see if you can make the appointments now. Explain your situation.
Your unit screwed you over one last time. The clinic on Pope does walk-in same day physicals.
Your unit screwed you over one last time. The clinic on Pope does walk-in same day physicals.
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I'm thinking about that right now. One of the most worrying thing to me is final physical. Since dental is busy. I don't know if I can get an dental appointment before my ETS day now.
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LTC Jason Mackay
SPC (Join to see) - VA will give you a one time dental appointment within the first six months you are out if you can show you couldn't get there before ETS.
I would tell you the single largest clearing obstacle is CIF. Get an appointment, pull an all nighter and clean your stuff as soon as you roll in. Once CIF is done, the rest is a scavenger hunt. Medical is the exception...if you think you are going to have a VA claim, and your injuries and conditions are well documented in your record, work with a VSO, do your claim with them, and go direct to VA. The VA will take your records and conduct an exam. Do this before you ETS so there is no break between your claim and service, so you have a direct service connection. They don't care about terminal leave etc. your last day is your ETS date. If you aren't filing a claim, schedule your Phase II before you ETS.
CIF is the 800 lbs gorilla in this. Without it you can't clear finance or any of the final out final out things.
I would tell you the single largest clearing obstacle is CIF. Get an appointment, pull an all nighter and clean your stuff as soon as you roll in. Once CIF is done, the rest is a scavenger hunt. Medical is the exception...if you think you are going to have a VA claim, and your injuries and conditions are well documented in your record, work with a VSO, do your claim with them, and go direct to VA. The VA will take your records and conduct an exam. Do this before you ETS so there is no break between your claim and service, so you have a direct service connection. They don't care about terminal leave etc. your last day is your ETS date. If you aren't filing a claim, schedule your Phase II before you ETS.
CIF is the 800 lbs gorilla in this. Without it you can't clear finance or any of the final out final out things.
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SPC Tim Thompson
I had previously commented about a soldier that had to report for an AFPT test the day before his ETS date. Because of the grief our unit had unnecessarily given him his CIF appointment was also the same day as the PT test. Everything that was rejected he simply left laying on the parking lot outside the CIF building. This happened in April 1995. By the time I PCS'd to Johnston Atoll in November 1996 I had witnessed several other ETSing soldiers enduring unnecessary grief while clearing post.
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