MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR SITREP: If you’re smart, you’ll use these 3 financial planning tools This is it boys. The only programs you need to make your financial independence dream come true. I have used dozens of planning tools and investing platforms throughout the years, devoting hundreds of hours to research and it all boils…
What is the secret to being rich? Buy things that make you money. How do I do that? Step #1: Get a job that makes money. Step #2: Live on less than you earn. Step #3: Invest the difference. What things should I buy that make me money? Stocks. Specifically, an S&P 500 index fund…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: BETTER NOT TELL NOBODY) SITREP: Withholding Policy: A leader’s way of saying you can’t be trusted “Command me harder, Sir,” said no Battalion Commander ever! Yet when they become a Brigade Commander they’re all like, “I need to make sure all punishments and decisions are held at my level, because…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: NOT REALLY A SECRET) SITREP: Your unit is trash at shooting, here is a solution to fix it Perhaps the most important skill in combat is knowing how to run a range. In combat you need a good Range Safety Officer and a tower in which both good guys and…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL) SITREP: Why everyone asks you things you already briefed in the OPORDER and why your brief sucked OPORD briefs usually suck, BUT THEY DON’T HAVE TO! The Army has created a fantastic system of delivering information known as the operations order (OPORD). In it, the OPORD…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: SUPER SECRET SQUIRREL) SITREP: Why you are burned out with the Army and how you can fix it for you and your subordinates Burn out in the military is real. Every day you are expected to go, go, go. You get leave but you can’t really take it because of…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: TRIPLE STAMP CLASSIFIED) SITREP: Train to Time, Not to Standard Did you even read my article title? What sort of “cotton headed ninny muggings” would say such a thing? Of course we must train to the standard. After all, the Army defines a standard as “the way things should be.”…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: TIPPY TOP SECRET) SITREP: The Army has a LARPing Problem (That’s Live Action Role-Playing for all you non-nerds out there) You want to drive your POV onto an Army range, but you can’t. An evil troll known as Range Control has cast a spell onto the parking lot of the…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY) SITREP: Why your subordinates suck at taking the initiative and how you can help them There are 10 minutes left in the second quarter of a tied basketball game in the NBA finals. Lebron James steals the basketball and begins his fast break, but instead of…
MISSION REPORT: FORT FUBAR (CLASSIFICATION: SUPER SECRET SQUIRREL) SITREP: Selfish Service: The new Army Value The law of unintended consequences has been in full effect since the army unveiled its “People First” initiative. The noble goal of this initiative was the understanding that soldiers do a lot, work very hard, and that the OPTEMPO and…