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I'll keep this brief but QTCs days are numbered.

Received an email yesterday notifying us that the USAR is yet again pivoting back to LHI and abandoning QTC.

I cant post some of the details because for some reason the attachments came out as CUI.

By the end of the month the QTC portal will no longer be accessible.

This is so stupid. I’ve never used this program a day before in my life and if I have to, and I have to remember, I forget about it cause I rarely go anywhere.

But why do I have to do this shit myself? Why can’t the S1 in my unit do it? This stuff is so complicated

I was just offered an opportunity to deploy as my units S4 OIC. All my experience is at the company level and I don’t believe that’s going to be enough to float my way through this deployment. Any and all tips would be VERY appreciated.

Is there any government computer labs near Fort Hood or around Rock TX? I need to do some stuff but AVD is a pain and yes I call the help desk 💀

I know the USO has computers but you can get on email or teams bc of the commercial wifi.

im about to sign my contract and i would like a mos that is fun, easily looked at for deployments and it can help me at the outside with a career. Any advices ? Im becoming a cop so i guess the only jobs that help me on the outside are combat jobs, somebdoy with experience on 12B or any other one? Deployment opportunities for me is important.

Hey everyone, looking for some honest advice from people already in the Army Reserve.
I’m currently working in cyber/IT on the civilian side with a long-term goal of getting deeper into Azure/cloud security. Since I’m a green card holder right now, I know a lot of cyber/intel jobs in the military are limited because of clearance requirements.
My recruiter showed me a few Reserve jobs available around me, mainly:
88M (Truck Driver) $30k bonus, $350 kicker, and up to $50k student loan repayment
12N (Horizontal Construction Engineer) same incentives
Now he just texted me saying a 12M Firefighter position opened up about 2 hours away from me. From what I understand, firefighter slots are pretty rare, so now I’m wondering if this is something I should seriously consider.
My long-term plan is to eventually reclass into an IT/cyber MOS once I get citizenship, ideally 17C or 25B.
I mainly want to know which MOS would be the most useful or smartest choice before eventually reclassing into IT/cyber later on.

I know every fat shitbag has the same story. They fucked me.
Everything was going great until coming back from my first deployment.

Platoon leadership pencil whipped an ACFT with all 60s and sent us home.

Squad leader at the next unit didn't know how to build a packet, all he knew was how to slap an ACFT on a blank packet and submit that.

Looked it up myself and learned what iPerms is. Talked to S-1 and they turned me down for my awards and civilian education. "It isn't necessary" she said. "You don't need points." "Everybody is getting promoted." Well guess what.

In the mean time, a couple of NCOs who never deployed decided to get tough with me. I don't take that shit, so I called them out. They waited for me outside the latrine with a knife.

Some other kid SHARP'd me. Reported that asshole. Company had to cover their ass, so they "promoted me" into another unit a million miles away.

But they didn't. They never completed the transfer. I was stuck between two units for almost a year, with both telling me that I belonged to the other. In the mean time, my clearance expired. So I was flagged.

Except that nobody would tell me WHY I was flagged, only THAT I was flagged, and that it was "probably" my clearance expiring. No definitive answer.

I'm still fucking flagged. Even if I got unflagged today and was green across the board tomorrow, they wouldn't promote me because my ETS date is too soon.

Fuck me.

Hello! Please forgive me if this isn’t allowed, but I’m having trouble making sense of pay during OSUT. I’m about to graduate high school, so I need to start budgeting for housing once I get back.

Everyone says to check the tables, but it always seems to contradict what others experienced. Could any math whiz’ help me calculate my pay?

I’ll be leaving June 17th and returning October 15th. I know the pay cycles are set, which is probably what messes with my calculations. I’m an E3!

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m expecting $1500-$2000 a month, but I just need a second opinion!

• We Are The Mighty published a personal essay by Adam Gramegna, an Army infantry veteran, about military life as seen through his mother’s experience rather than his own.
• The piece argues that parents of service members, especially mothers, often carry a quieter version of military stress: fear, waiting, guilt, and helplessness without a uniform or official role.
• The essay uses moments from basic training, duty-station assignments, deployments, care packages, and brief phone calls to show how military moms experience service from the outside.
• Gramegna describes three deployments: Iraq in 2004–2005, Afghanistan in 2013, and Afghanistan again in 2015. The focus is less on combat itself and more on what it meant for a parent waiting at home.
• A major theme is that military moms build their own support systems, including online groups and communities such as BAMM, because the military-family conversation often centers more on spouses and children.
• The takeaway: military service affects more than the person wearing the uniform. Parents may not deploy, but they still live with the fear, uncertainty and emotional cost of war.

I notice that there is always someone just sitting in their car in those army reserve parking lots.. Fort Totten per se. What actually is going on when someone is parked for hours at those lots? Literally from parking lit to another lot. Can Any military/army reserve person give me details?

To try and keep it simple… 91BH8, 16 year E6, 20 months TiG, no ALC (yet, you know how scheduling is). Extremely limited E7 91B slots for TPUs plus I am just ready for a change of pace. Got to get out of the 310th. GT score is not a problem, no flags, no profiles.

Currently my top two options are DS or Instructor. Have both units in the same reserve center as my current unit. A close third is a reclass to intel. I’m not against it but the family is not keen on more mobilizations. (I don’t have to explain to anyone here how difficult those are with young children).

Feel free to pitch your opinions either way. Anyone who is currently a DS or Instructor please share your feedback.

I don’t know how contracts work in the reserves but signed a 2x2 did 11B 2yrs active and transferred to the reserves same MOS, I kinda like don’t wanna be here in trying to get a 368 passed up but can I go IRR? Or do I need to do 2yrs

Hey guys, I’d like to go to college but I got some aspirations for the Army Reserves. I want to reclass to 42A, go be a Drill Sergeant, and attend BLC/ALC. I’m currently an E5 planning on transitioning over from the NG. I’m just worried all that will get in the way of college and I’m planning on using my Post 9/11 GI Bill. I’m also curious if I can even get all that in my contract moving over…?

I’ll take whatever you got.

Hey there, looking for some advice and opinions. My back story and history, I’m a 35 year old male, single without kids. I’ve been in industrial maintenance and millwright work since I got out of high school. Also did a year as a biomed for a dialysis clinic which I didn’t really enjoy and the pay sucked. I’ve got about 88 college credits through ACE and community college without a degree. Went to military school at 15 and have always wanted to join but never did.
I’ve been communicating with a recruiter for the past few months, made a 78 on the picat and got it confirmed, supposed to go to meps next week. I’ve had some trouble as a kid along with two duis so I’m anticipating waivers and trouble with clearances. The plan has been Army Reserves and maintaining my civilian job. My company hired me from 900 miles away and moved me here, payed for everything. I make between 120k and 140k with a bonus check each year included but I work 5-7 days and between 45-65 hours a week.
The problem is I’d like to move away from this kind of work to something more sustainable where I can have better work life balance and possibly a family one day. Which is where the ace credits come in, I’m interested in moving to management through an b.s in Electrical Engineering Technology, or moving to medicine through BSN and possibly PA later.
I’m in interested in a few MOSs, 38b, 68w, and 68c. I have an inclination to go active duty instead and live that life. Maybe move to reserves after the initial contract and try to get into OCS for RN or stay in 68w and maybe go warrant later as active. I know the post is long and I apologize but I’d like some feedback from people that have been in and possibly taken some of these routes. The idea of being an open book and letting big army tell me where I’ll live next is pretty exciting. I like to travel, put in the work, meet people, and do my best to excel in learning new things. At this point I’m still young enough to create a new chapter with the army despite being grandpa in boot camp.

-Would it be crazy to give up my job to go active duty?
-With what I make now and the potential for investing in retirement at that pay range be at all comparable to what I can achieve being active for 20 years at this age?
-Do you get to scratch that itch by joining the reserves without having been active duty before? Any thoughts or advice is appreciated, if you have opinions on what you would do in my situation that is also greatly appreciated.

I ETSed in Dec25 as an e5 and was given 80% disability from the VA. My question is, i have a little girl on the way and although i have a good paying civilian job there isnt any health insurance. Ive been skimming the internet for the cost of insurance for just one kid and it’s still looking like 2-400 a month plus whatever deductible. Would it be worth it joining the reserves knowing that i’ll basically be volunteering because i can’t collect drill pay and disability pay at the same time?

Also, i have no interest in deploying at all. This might be a dumb question especially for someone who was AD but is there a way to just never be voluntold for deployment?

TYIA

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