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    What the Pentagon Has Learned from Ukraine. Adapt or Die: The Future of War

    Soldiers better not be bringing their cell phones into battle...
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    Officer interview

    1. Turn your cellphone off or, 2. Depending on which service you are interviewing for, set your ring tone to (a) Anchors Away (b) Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, (c) When the Caissons Go Rolling Along - and have a friend call you 10 minutes into the interview. However, under no...
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    IBOLC Graduation

    Make time for the abovementioned National Infantry Museum. Also, if it doesn't interfere with the graduation schedule, try Minnie's Uptown (i.e., downtown) Restaurant for the best cafeteria-style fried chicken lunch ever.
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    The Defense Secretary's Curious New Year's Hospital Stay

    An insightful post with which I fully agree except for one item. Acuity. As the great swordsman Inigo Montoya said; 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.' Vacuity seems a tad more apposite.
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    AROTC website down?

    Do not check more than once every 15 minutes. Otherwise, you will drive yourself crazy and overload the internets. Find a useful task that will require your attention to occupy the interval, like sharpening your chain saw or grating lemon zest.
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    Tattoos before R-Day

    How are you with a harpoon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queequeg#/media/File:Friedrich_von_Ledebur-Richard_Basehart_in_Moby_Dick.jpg
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    Help with ROTC, applying, and SMP.

    Also, many AROTC battalions have Facebook pages, though not all are well-maintained. (Is Facebook just for us old people these days?)
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    Taxes on ROTC scholarships?

    Based on the statements above, I can assert that approximately 50% of the advice you receive on the internet is incorrect. The challenge is to figure out which 50%. And now my contribution: For AROTC, tuition paid by the Army, as well as stipends and book allowances, are not taxable. You will...
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    Recruiting Shortfalls

    Here's an article published on Bloomberg this morning by James Stavridis, retired U.S. Navy admiral and former supreme allied commander of NATO. By James Stavridis July 4, 2023 at 8:00 AM EDT 5:23 America’s armed services are failing to meet their recruiting goals, with the Army in...
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    How West Point makes over 13 000 meals a day (if you ever wondered)

    I specifically ordered the pasta al dente. Can I see the manager, please?
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    Using and AFROTC 4year scholarship with a Post 911 GI Bill

    And let's say she decides to attend U of Chicago Law School or Harvard Business School. The 2023 BAH for E5 with dependents (which I believe is the GI Bill allowance) is 40% more in Chicago than Charlottesville and over 100% more in Cambridge, MA.
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    Using and AFROTC 4year scholarship with a Post 911 GI Bill

    To add to Aglahad's prudent advice, if after serving the period required under the ROTC scholarship, she were to decide on a big ticket law school or business school, the financial benefit of having the GI-Bill/Yellow Ribbon Program benefits could be a large multiple of the money you may now be...
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    School Senior awards ceremony

    My son's school refused to permit the scholarship check to be presented or even mentioned at the awards ceremony. I was furious. My son, however, was delighted. It never got to that point, but as I think about it now, even if the school had allowed a check presentation, the local PMI might...
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    Important matters concerning the existence of Humanity - BACON

    The statue of Galatea, as imagined by the sculptor Pigmalion. Later, the subject of Offenbach's unfinished operetta, Galatea au Jambon
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    Important matters concerning the existence of Humanity - BACON

    Following a surfeit of white chocolate as a child, I've been a lifelong abstainer. Recently, my brother brought back from Spain a bar of white chocolate. It was amazing. Why come, you may say. It was filled with tiny bits of torrezno de soria - pork belly that's marinated, dried, cut into...
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    Share Your Current Top Two Go-To Quotes That Inform Your Choices

    Lost time is never found again - Benjamin Franklin I wasted time and now time doth waste me - Richard II (..just realized that Rick's own name contains a time reference)
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    How far to go to "bubble wrap" our kids?

    Statistically speaking, the most carefree time of a college-bound kid's life is the period between the graduation ceremony and July 5, with peak fun time on weekends. Conversely, this is the time when parents are most likely to be woken up by a phone call after midnight from the police station...
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    Final Semester Scholarship Cadet

    Much obliged for the algebra lesson. With a 3.35 GPA, you'll want to ace the LSAT. https://lawschooli.com/newest-lsat-gpa-medians/
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    Final Semester Scholarship Cadet

    A word of advice to those in your last semester. You already know your branch and will soon get your duty stations and BOLC assignments. It's time to party, right? Not exactly. Do not treat this like the last term of high school. In a few years you may find yourself competing for admission...
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    Army ROTC drug test

    At a gap of 11 years between posts, I'll bet this sets a new SAF record for a revived zombie thread. The subject, however, remains relevant. Though one of these days it may have to be updated for a new marijuana exception.
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