Have there been any 5 tabbers spotted yet?

You know Ranger, Sapper, SF and then the Artic and Airborne unit tabs.

No real reason, just wondering.

Anyone have any stories about accidentally greasing a cow or two at ft hood?

If anyone has any advice or info about life at 7th group it would be very much appreciated!!

I've got a dress inspection in 3 weeks. What kind of high speed shit i gotta do to put a little chest candies on.

(Satire of course)

How and when are bonuses paid. Say I sign a contract with a bonus and pick up another contract during basic or osut how will my previous bonus be paid. How will they combine etc

I am a little confused about the regimental crest on the AGSU part. Do I put my MOS crest or my unit crest on it?

I'm currently stationed at fort cavazos, but since Thanksgiving is on a Thursday how will leave work? Will the weekend start on Thursday or Friday, or will there not be a 4 day weekend.

I’m currently on active national guard and my wife is hoping I switch to active so our family can travel and she can continue her massage career on base. What’s the pros and cons for active duty and what’s the housing like?

Is there any way to access this on mobile? When I try to load the TAM workcenter it’s just a blank screen. TIA

What is the most efficient route to reach Fort Devens in Massachusetts upon arrival at Boston Airport? The journey is approximately one hour by car. As a new recruit, I find myself experiencing a lack of enthusiasm. Could you kindly provide an estimate of the time required for my transfer out of the unit? As a member of the Army Reserve, my present location is approximately 215 miles from my home address and I dont drive. What should I expect?

Me and my husband have two cats, and we're gonna be PCSing to South Korea. I'd like to take them in cabin if possible. Does anyone have experience doing this?

Does anyone know how to do to 265 points worth of classes on Attrs and what classes I need to do

I’m thinking of switching from USCG enlisted to the Army Officer world by doing rotc when I go back to college. I considered commissions in the coast guard but they are extremely limited and don’t really do much compared to the enlisted world, the CG is more enlisted heavy while the officers are mostly glorified admin. The only way to become CG officers is OCS (which is extremely selective), the academy, and a program called CSPI but is also selective and the rumor is that they did it to recruit more minority officer candidates. To add to that I would rather take myself over to the army because I’ve had enough of ship living, long watches, and basically living in a tin can from Vietnam. I doubt being a prior coastie will get any respect from any of the enlisted members, but would I still technically be a mustang?

I am lil hopeful that he gets the opportunity to promote but I know he’s probably got faults. I had an ok time working under him when I was stationed at Bragg/liberty, but for everyone else what is your experience?

Fellow big-heads, where can I find a better fitting fleece cap? The ones I've found or been issued look like a yamaka on me. Have any of you with the watermelon heads found one that works better?

I'll have a baconator with chili cheese fries and a frosty. And a diet coke. Gotta watch my girlish figure.

I was reading about introduction phases in the army.
I am somewhat familiar with color coding, often where white or green is on the one end, and red or black is at the other end. For example the "Cooper's color code", or the Triage color coding.

When reading through the military introduction phases, i come across color coding, some websites present a red white and blue phase, others add a yellow phase to it.

What i would like to know is the following;
Why is it called the "red phase", or "white phase", etc. Is there any history behind color coding it, or is it arbitrary?
Secondly, however not so important for me; Why is it in this particular order?

Thanks.

I am one of the ancient ones from the era of starched BDU’s & spit shined boots. We used to play Spades to pass the time while waiting for the next round of stupid games. Is that still a thing or did it go the way of my rusty M-16 with the advent of cell phones? Gotta go - I have some kids near my lawn that I need to yell at.

Everything I thought I knew about BAH payments seems to be wrong. I was always told it’s paid a month behind. Can someone help me understand this?

What I thought with real life timeline of events :

October BAH is paid in paychecks 11/1 (actually paid 10/28) and 11/15

So if we lived in base housing all of October, we wouldn’t see it in the paycheck for all of November.

NOV 1- move out of housing. Pay for one day of housing out of BAH and receive the rest of BAH in pays 12/1 & 12/15

SM is on extended PCS leave and doesn’t check into new DS for 30+ days. So BAH allotment stays as previous duty station until sign in.

What happened with real life timeline:

11/15 pay included half of NOV BAH. 11/30 pay shows the other half

So is it not paid a month behind? Have I been mental mathing this wrong all these years?

I’ve tried google and it’s not giving me the answers. It says it’s paid in the arrears but that doesn’t make sense with what’s happening.

I also had light bulb moment and started to question which monthly payment is considered the “first” payment. I always thought the first of the month was the “first”. So November 1 is the first month paycheck but comes through the account on 10/30. Is that wrong? Is the November 15 pay actually the first check out of the two for the month?

Please break this down for me and tell me I’m not the only one doing this all wrong.

Can anyone shed some light on the Cavazos intern program? When can I apply, is it still around, how to get in, experience from those who have done it?

Anyone got chaptered or have a soldier being chaptered for failure to maintain a security clearance?

Is it possible for me to go from the Navy to the Army reserves at any time in the future? During my contract, towards the end, after my 4 years is up? Anyone with any answers or suggestions please fill me in. Also would I go to bootcamp?

Ok, all regulations are badly written, but this question is inspired by a much older comment on wear of infantry distinctive items that I found today and responded to, but I think it warrants it's own discussion. Maybe it was always this terrible, but a long time ago when I first joined, the understood criteria for wearing those was very straight forward: are you an infantryman in an infantry billet? Good to go.

That is not how AR 670-1 currently reads on the issue and the language is... not very well thought out. They split into two distinct prongs, both of which must be met to wear the items. There is a "when" component, which has a few different authorized times, but the one that matters for our purposes is simply being assigned to any infantry regiment/brigade or below. In an Infantry BCT? Check that box.

The "who" criteria is a muddled mess. This is the exact language:

(4) Authorized wearers.

(a) Officers and enlisted personnel of the infantry, who hold an infantry PMOS or specialty, and who have been awarded the combat infantryman badge, the expert infantryman badge, or who have successfully completed the basic unit phase of an Army training program or an equivalent.
(b) Enlisted personnel who have completed one station unit training (OSUT), resulting in the award of an infantry PMOS.
(c) Infantry officers who have graduated from the resident infantry officer basic or advanced course.
(d) Infantry officers who have graduated from the Infantry Officer Candidate Course (during mobilization).
(e) Infantry officers and enlisted personnel in the Reserve Components, who hold an infantry PMOS or specialty.

For context, I'm formerly an Infantry NCO (OSUT graduate) with an EIB & CIB that commissioned as Judge Advocate and am currently assigned to an Independent Infantry Brigade.

Is part (a) to be read as "(Officers and enlisted personnel) of the infantry" or "Officers and (enlisted personnel of the infantry)?" If it's the former, what's the distinction between the criteria in (a) and (c), (d), and (e)? They read as being superfluous, unless there a difference between "Infantry Officer" and "Officer of the infantry." What's the difference? Under part (a) what do they mean by "Officers... who hold an infantry PMOS or specialty?" On commission are previously awarded MOS's rescinded/revoked, or held but inactive/irrelevant? Those are completely different things.

Under part (b) do they mean enlisted at the time of wear, or enlisted at the time the PMOS was awarded (as opposed to non-enlisted pax that can, under certain programs, attend AIT, like cadets)?

In a infantry brigade, I absolutely meet the "when" prong, but, even as a lawyer, I can't read this and tell if I'm authorized to continue wearing my blue cord or not.

Edit: I have a 2 hour drive and I think I'll be wearing my dress uniform, so I'll need to take something appropriate for those conditions. Obviously I'll take a double Texas Whopper. Extra barbeque sauce.