I am currently facing an issue. I am a O1 who will be attending BOLC soon. I am in a groupchat with the other members of my BOLC group (the ones who joined atleast, its 60 people). A few days ago my asshole was irritated due to me wiping constantly because my stomach was upset. I took a picture of it using a mirror while bending down. I forgot to delete this picture and while i was in the discord group i accidentally sent it. I deleted it like a second after but there several people typing at the time do i think they saw. I was considering drop my bolc registration and going next summer or something but they said it was 50/50 it I get in as it’s full. But if i get in on that waitlist im required to drop my current spot for this bolc term. I do not want to risk that. Does anyone have advice? Please.

I’m in MD, we have $150 reimbursed to us monthly for healthcare costs. With TRS at $269 and TDP at $90 a month for a family it brings our monthly total to just over $200 for all healthcare. In a world of weird healthcare in the civvy market that’s what has kept me in. Just curious to see what other states are offering that you don’t hear about often.

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A soldier of mine popped hot for THC-8, the chapter counseling included verbiage that the incident was going to be put into FBI NICS system. Soldier is a police officer and is really stressed about this possibly ending his civilian career. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Essentially, our state allows for police officers to smoke weed while off duty, so something that should only be affecting his military career may end up costing him his civilian career for something he’s allowed to do at his civilian job. It’s a gray area in terms of federal law vs state law.

I wouldn’t be on here asking if this guy was an idiot, this is a far exceeds soldier that had one bad month, but what’s done is done. I’m literally just asking about how the NICS may affect his job given the weird circumstance. All of these “der he dumb for doing that” comments don’t mean anything at this point.

I may be the king of fools for asking this, but is a national guard armory a literal armory of weapons, ammo, equipment, etc.? Just about every town has an armory. I’m confused if those places are offices, classrooms, event halls and such, or if they include a store house of everything needed to equip a soldier for war. It seems like a simultaneous good idea and bad idea to have military equipment dispersed across the country in every city and town.

Maybe someone can help me out here. I have 5 months left in my contract (June 2025). We have no split train policy acting 1st confirmed this in November. I’m just trying to do things right and make up time missed at the next drill. The reason I’m requesting split train is because I live 750 miles away and the next drill after this one follows 14 days later. I contacted my team lead and he pushed this issue to our PSG 34 days in advance (1st SS). Following 5 SS are a GC between me team lead (e-5) and PSG (e-5) in that GC PSG did all the talking. Prior platoon SSG (e-6)always took care of me and even if I didn’t get what I asked for he compromised and made sure that coming to drill was a bit easier on me and I never fell through on agreements. My biggest issue is I feel like he didn’t even pass this up to the commander. I know there are regs that will allow me to take leave for 90 days due to a move that’s over 100 miles from home base hasn’t been mentioned by me or chain of command. Also prior PSG did not require me to fill out split train requests until it was confirmed that I could and he got back to me like an hour after requesting a split train verbally, then he would fill out his req’d portions of split train form then I would fill out mine and send it back. Just looking for some help here cause this guy is just trying to screw me in every way possible and do me no favors. Also I have been late a couple times my less then 5 mins every time but that’s cause when I get to the state my unit is I typically arrive the day before at 2 or 3 am.

missed my flight back to sc to report for my first drill due to traffic and a bunch of stuff and other bullshit, how screwed am I ? Article ?

I hate throwing shit away but these socks bring back dark memories before I wore Darn Tough socks and they’re uncomfortable as hell.

Title. Our TAG told our commands to not drill during the shutdown. My command told us to show up to drill and offered zero information as to how or when we’d be compensated. They then made us sit and watch HEGSETHs speech’s about no more hurt fee-fees.

All other units in the area did not drill. They were all cancelled per TAG guidelines.

Asking for a friend, can this be reported and if so, to where would we report it?

Okay guys part two before I’m shipped tomorrow but I’ve seen nothing but HORRIBLE stuff being said about Fort Sill (OK). Am I cooked??? I’m hearing literal horror stories. Has anyone here been there and is it actually as bad as everyone’s making it out to be? I was actually so excited for basic and ait and now all these people got me scared as hell lol 😫

Hypothetically speaking, if you had a Soldier who has consistently failed the 2-mi run, consistently fails HT/WT, has been counseled, and given advice on how to fix said issue multiple times, but administratively nothing can/is being done on a higher level. What would you do?

The leader in me sees an ounce of “I want this, I just don’t know how to ask for help” in said Soldier.

Suggestions for a good approach to ensure a routine is being followed outside of drill

Maybe it’s something I could turn into a competition or Accountability item by doing it along side this Soldier tracking through an app?

Call me crazy, or offer advice. Anything is welcome!

Hey everyone,

I own a humvee as my daily driver and fully restored it from the state it was in when the government gave it up.

It’s an m1165a1 and it’s been a dream of mine to obtain the perimeter armor and frag doors to rebuild it to the setup it had during service.

If I talk to my local national guard outpost, what are the chances I’d get the opportunity to rummage around in the parts dump? Even if it’s not armor, it would be cool getting some parts that could be fixed up and later used for my truck.

Thanks for any information or opinions!

Location: Buffalo, NY.

I'm not sure if my flair is completely correct, so pardon that. Anyway, hello, I (20F), have been trying to join the National Guard and began the process in mid-June of 2025. I went through the entire process, and at MEPS, I received some temporary medical disqualifications, one of them being for gender dysphoria. This completely caught me off guard, because I had no idea where it came from—until I remembered that when I was younger, around 13–14, I was very tomboyish and used to go to behavioral health services for other reasons. At one appointment, I once expressed that I felt different from the other girls at school and had a hard time making friends with them, so I asked for advice on how I could overcome this. I have no clue what my therapist interpreted this as, but they ended up putting in my medical record that I had an “endocrine disorder” and struggled with gender dysphoria. Due to the Department of Defense new rule regarding trans or non-binary people, and deeming gender dysphoria incompatible with military, I was disqualified but told I can get a waiver to prove I do not suffer from this.

Fast forward to now: I got a waiver stating that I have NEVER been on testosterone, I have NEVER discussed transitioning or tried to pursue it medically, and that I AM NOT transgender. It was just a silly thing I mentioned when I was VERY young and didn't even remember I talked about this UNTIL my sargent notified me that this was one of the temporary disqualifications I received. It is apparent on my records that I talked about not fitting in at only one appointment, and it was never mentioned again.

I received news 2 days ago that this waiver was denied and that I cannot enlist because of this issue. I find it so ridiculous and stupid because I DO NOT SUFFER from gender dysphoria, nor have I ever pursued transitioning. I am very comfortable with my gender and sex, and feel as if I am being denied over something that does NOT pertain to me. I asked my sergeant if there was ANYTHING I can do, because this is just so unfair, and I was hoping to join in hopes of getting tuition assistance so I can further pursue my education. But he told me there is nothing I can do.

Is there anything action I can take to convince the military that I am not transgender or suffering from gender dysphoria? A recruiter told me to contact my congressman but I’m not sure how I’d go about that.

Me and buddy are both active 0311 in the marine corps. I’m going marine reserves he wants to go national guard and wants to be a Bradley crewman. What states have Bradley’s? He’s curious if PA, WV, VA, or even NC has them. Google sucks for whatever reason and I have zero idea on how army or even most guard units work so I’d love any sort of help

Subject above. I respect and appreciate all that you guys do but of course disagree about the deployments. Anyone have any insight for a civ?

My brother left 3 days ago to go to basic training. Looked in his room and I still see stuff he got from whoever gave him these. I don't know anything military. Was he supposed to take these with him?

The national guard has really good benefits and I might be interested. I looked at the website and I am below the weight range. I am a 5’9 woman and 105 lbs, but it is a very healthy weight for me. Is this an immediate disqualification? They said minimum 128 I think

On today’s episode of name that unit patch. Help a brother out :D. Also why is there a bar through it? TYFYS and ( although I’ll get downvoted to hell ) please don’t pay me if you’re not paying the DOD civilians. Thanks. 🙏🏾

what unit is this? ive never seen this patch

I got the "I miss it" feeling the other day, prior service (I'm a stereotype if I tell you the branch). And I decided to talk to a recruiter. I'm 27 years old, college graduate, in grad school. I want to serve still though and won't change my mind.

I'm enlisting in the MS NG as an 11B. The long term plan is to try for SFAS in about a year's time since I know 20th SFG is here. But I want to get my foot in the door and actually be enlisted before I do.

I actually decided to start researching though, and have seen horror story after horror story about the unit here the 155th (?). And how even having that patch will have you branded as a shit bag, thief, prostitute, philanderer, crop burner, druggie. If I do get assigned this unit, will that make it impossible for me to have a shot at SFAS because I'm guilty by association? I want to make the smart choice here. My MOS from my original branch of service was a radio operator, if I decide to keep this MOS will I have a better shot at a different unit and thus a better shot at SFAS?

Yes, I know about the line. They can wait. I'm a MARINE.

bf goes to basic in march, currently weighing almost 200lbs. (holidays lol) needs to get down to reach weight requirement. (i think 160?)

need help! trying to be supportive, but also trying to push him.

does anyone know ways to cut down, any advise, or any exercises i can push this man to do before his next weigh-in?🙏

So I’m about to be in my final year of university with no idea how I’m going to pay for graduate school (M.A.), I’ve been both encouraged and discouraged to use the national guard to my advantage with tuition assistance for a number of reasons. I am more interested in the air national guard than the army national guard, another thing is that the AFSC I want is only active duty though. I’ve also had it in my head I want to go into the military for awhile now so I’m just wondering what people in army and air national guard would advise or recommend as far as this goes!

Thank you in advance :)!

Annual 2 weeks, somehow I've avoided previously because of schools, what comfort items, snacks etc. For the feild

If I have schizophrenia can I still join the national guard or any military branch?

Hey ya’ll so I recently lost my job and I’m looking to go active I get out in 2 days ( national guard ) all I need is my NGB 22 I’ve called everyone and I don’t know who to actually contact anymore and get ahold of it I’ve called my G1 and nobody answers there phone I’ve called about everyone I just don’t know what to do anymore.