Patient: “I think I’m having a heart attack.” Nurse: “You are! Let me get you our best Doctor to do Surgery.” Patient: “No! I want the one who barely passed. Who just minimally meets the standard. Is he in?” This might as well be the majority of Soldiers I have come across conducting the ACFT…
I want my money, and I want it now! Or at least have access to it when I retire… The military is a young man’s game. Humans were not made to conduct battle drills in their 60’s. That’s why the military still allows for a 20-year retirement with pension. It encourages you to get out…
You should get paid more if you do more. Apparently, this rational view is a seemingly hot take. The Army just published new physical fitness standards, renaming the test from the “Army Combat Fitness Test” (ACFT) to just the “Army Fitness Test” (AFT). And in the AFT, it raised the minimum standards for those whom…
In 1999, the U.S. led a NATO air campaign to stop Serbian forces from the ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians. For context, Kosovo was a province of the country Serbia. However, the majority of the people living in Kosovo where ethnic Albanians. The Serbian government at the time, wanted to restore Kosovo (which holds religious…
Without a doubt, the best Sergeant Major of the Army we have had in the last three decades has been Sergeant Major Daniel Dailey. He was a Soldiers’ Soldier. Why was he the best? Simple, he increased morale, productivity, and efficiency by giving Soldiers what they wanted, all while costing the Army no money. Want…
I had a job once (or still have this job, either way it’s not important, so stop asking!) where I had to read a lot of AR 15-6 investigations. And believe you me there’s a lot of garbage investigators out there. And now for some rare empathy from FUBAR 6, it’s not entirely their fault….
Did you know the purpose of the physical training (PT) test is for commanders to assess the physical fitness of their units!? That’s it! It’s not for promotion points or rankings on some OML. It’s not for (insert any other reason here). And to that, the Army has established training guidance known as AR 350-1….
People say to me all the time, “Hey FUBAR 6, you’re a man of limited intellectual capabilities, with little to no potential. How did you manage to have such a successful military career?” Well, it was by pure chance that I just happened to join the military in one of the most efficient ways to…
What is the TSP? The TSP is an employee sponsored (deferred compensation) retirement plan for federal employees. That’s fancy talk for saying that the TSP is simply an account that you can put money into to save for retirement. It acts just like a 401k (named after section 401k of the IRS code) but is…
In a shocking yet brilliant move, the Adjutant General has changed the name of the Kentucky National Guard headquarters from the “Boone National Guard Center” to “Fort Nite.” “We need to attract the next generation of soldiers and since we can’t seem to get these youngsters off their phones and into MEPS, we may as…