Army BS (Warning, Naughty Word!)
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desertvixenSo to expand on my issue with getting a class date:
Surprise, surprise. The reason no one told us about me being in the system (ATARS) for a class that started on Thursday was because I showed up on Tuesday. Obviously, not going to work out. I still think they should have *told* us. We (as in my platoon sergeant and myself) have been wondering what the hell is going on. Now we know why all the blank looks.
Maybe they can get me a March class date. Probably a TDY and return, which suits me fine, as that would give me the chance to get promoted out of my unit. There are a lot of people here that I would want to have see me get pinned on as E-5. There's a lot of people that have helped me get to this point - and I'll admit that there are a few people I'd like to have see me get it for less mature reasons.
So the infamous W (if you read this regularly) had a little discussion with me. About how they really need a date so they can write my award, but they can't release the writeup until I have a date and it needs time to go up the chain and get screwed with and they can't write it early because 1 time in 3 damned years that I have been here, 1 person has had their orders cancelled after the award was given. HE needs me to have a class date and HE needs notification... FUCK!! Trust me, he'll be one of the first to know. I won't hesitate to let everyone know. I may pin a sign to my BDUs with a tear-off countdown, okay. I won't be shy. There may be daily announcements.
It's not that this place is the seventh level of hell, but after 3 years, it is wearing really thin. I have outlasted so many people it's not funny, and I'm getting burned out on my mission. That is not a good thing.
Now I get to head in on my day off, hopefully to get comped on Friday before the ball.
DV
Surprise, surprise. The reason no one told us about me being in the system (ATARS) for a class that started on Thursday was because I showed up on Tuesday. Obviously, not going to work out. I still think they should have *told* us. We (as in my platoon sergeant and myself) have been wondering what the hell is going on. Now we know why all the blank looks.
Maybe they can get me a March class date. Probably a TDY and return, which suits me fine, as that would give me the chance to get promoted out of my unit. There are a lot of people here that I would want to have see me get pinned on as E-5. There's a lot of people that have helped me get to this point - and I'll admit that there are a few people I'd like to have see me get it for less mature reasons.
So the infamous W (if you read this regularly) had a little discussion with me. About how they really need a date so they can write my award, but they can't release the writeup until I have a date and it needs time to go up the chain and get screwed with and they can't write it early because 1 time in 3 damned years that I have been here, 1 person has had their orders cancelled after the award was given. HE needs me to have a class date and HE needs notification... FUCK!! Trust me, he'll be one of the first to know. I won't hesitate to let everyone know. I may pin a sign to my BDUs with a tear-off countdown, okay. I won't be shy. There may be daily announcements.
It's not that this place is the seventh level of hell, but after 3 years, it is wearing really thin. I have outlasted so many people it's not funny, and I'm getting burned out on my mission. That is not a good thing.
Now I get to head in on my day off, hopefully to get comped on Friday before the ball.
DV
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ATRRS
Date: 2004-12-15 05:40 am (UTC)Maybe I'm slow... You're just trying to build points, maybe?
~Off to pt.....
Re: ATRRS
Date: 2004-12-15 09:27 am (UTC)No, already did PLDC, long ago and far away. PLDC is, actually, required to become an E-5 (or within a year of pinning on).
It's my date for 96B school, so that I may reclass and be in an MOS that does NOT have stagnant promotions, and that I may recieve a 15,000 or so bonus under the BEAR program.
DV
Re: ATRRS
Date: 2004-12-15 05:22 pm (UTC)What was that you said about reading MILPER messages? ;)
Re: ATRRS
Date: 2004-12-15 05:28 pm (UTC)AHRC-MSP-E
PROMOTION PROCEDURAL GUIDANCE FOR SUSPENSION OF CONDITIONAL ENLISTED PROMOTIONS-SERGEANT THROUGH SERGEANT FIRST CLASS
...Issued: [11/25/2003]...
https://perscomnd04.army.mil/MILPERmsgs.nsf/2480aa93d689ce6f85256992005747b7/8df5eb0a1dc746cf85256de9005d76be?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,pldc
Re: ATRRS
Date: 2004-12-15 06:43 pm (UTC)Thanks, although it seems like with what's going on, that some of the stuff you learn at PLDC is EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. Granted, a lot of it is total BS.
We lucked out, and sent a ton of people while everyone else was deployed, but now we're really behind. Our people have to go up to Fort Hood for the class.
I'm tired of dealing with E-5s who've never had any practice being E-5s, and never had any examples other than the ones in their units - and I'm sitting in a strategic billet. I can only imagine it's worse in a tactical unit.
Working on building points, of course, but I'm already over the minimum required for 96B to E5. Now we just wait for the date and wait for the E-6 points to come out on the 20th to find out when I'll be sleeping with an E-6... :)
DV