Platoon Sergeant
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Laptop from the exchange. Walmart. Etc one that works and will let me do counseling’s no problem or access jko,ako,alms etc without problems. For active duty army. Disclaimer. I don’t care if you got out and retired and what you did &didn’t have back in the old days because I don’t care and it obviously doesn’t apply to this question.
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My Government Laptop is a Dell, my civilian laptop that I barely use is a HP. It all depends what you want to do with it. Don't get a chromebook, or Mac, because they arent really CAC card friendly, just stay with a windows bassed system.
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Well is that all you want to do with it? Then just go to Wal-Mart and get a $80 computer, and be done with it. All of that stuff you listed is password enabled as well as CAC enabled. And you can download all the forms fill them out, print sign, and scan them in. So just saying what systems you want to access are pretty vague.
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Whatever you get make sure it can run Adobe PDF. Almost everything is PDF, excel, or word driven. Most PDFs don’t load or aren’t editable on the mobile or not the full version of the program. A built in CAC reader would come in VERY handy as well. Having to worry about having an external reader can become a nuisance.
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For my duty position I am issued a Dell laptop by the government. However, my personal computer is an HP. I have installed the needed software, such as Adobe and the CAC reader stuff that I am able to access all the websites that I need to, barring those that require a .mil domain for access. Nearly any Windows compliant computer should work for what you have listed there.
Second, your disclaimer, I get it, but have show a little courtesy and perhaps you should have re-worded that to be a little respectful.
Second, your disclaimer, I get it, but have show a little courtesy and perhaps you should have re-worded that to be a little respectful.
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Appreciate it and the disclaimer I but it because almost any question I’ve asked before seems to get an answer mainly from their service decades ago which does not pertain to the question I’m asking. Respect their service 1000% . But this time I said it a way that everyone can certainly understand.
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SSG (Join to see) - yeah, I do feel ya on that. "Back in my day Son we had to type with a typewriter that wasn't even powered!"
"That's nothing, we had to carve out orders in stone!"
"Oh yeah, papyrus and pyramids!"
"That's nothing, we had to carve out orders in stone!"
"Oh yeah, papyrus and pyramids!"
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I tell folks that ask that my first computer was a Crown-Zellerbach. After the blank stares, I explain that it was a #2 Crown pencil with eraser tip, and a pad of Zellerbach-brand yellow note paper, legal size. Some of really young soldiers still don't get it...
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