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I can think of worse views to have on your walk from dorm to class...  She's gone mostly quiet, very very busy doing in processing stuff. Few updates: -She's evidently been selected the leader of the in processing group and is really enjoying the role. -They moved her to a nicer room (She said the first building was trashed and pretty nasty, evidently the prior occupants were Marines. Her current room is single occupant, and evidently the vast majority of dorms are single occupant, so likely no roommates. -Farsi is not 100% guaranteed to be her language, just likely at this point, she'll know more the further into in processing she gets. For her mom and I this is almost worse than BCT. At least then we KNEW we wouldn't be hearing from her, she has her phone all day now, but is so busy running from place to place (And evidently herding cats on top of it) we're just getting tiny snippets of info here and there... If anyone's REALLY bored or just curious, I found the student handbook for incoming students. It's from 2016-2017 but appears to be the one they're still handing out: https://www.dliflc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DLIFLC_Student_Handbook_20170104_FINAL-RSS6.pdf |
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She's evidently been selected the leader of the in processing group and is really enjoying the role.
-They moved her to a nicer room (She said the first building was trashed and pretty nasty, evidently the prior occupants were Marines. Her current room is single occupant, and evidently the vast majority of dorms are single occupant, so likely no roommates.
Being selected leader is good. It would be nice to see her BCT written evaluation, but you can't, but the school probably can. Leadership may have been recommended for her.
Her own room is great. That's not real common for brand new soldiers in any service.
My roommate freshman year in college was my best friend growing up. But he was a complete slob, didn't care if the room or bathroom was ever clean, and a puss hound (morning noon and night), and my own room would have been so much better that year. RAs got their own rooms (the next three years), and my grades and performance went up.
They may have some preliminary language testing that indictes who does better in certain languages than others. And mission needs will come first.
When I went to USAF squadron officer school we had to play sports (two of three.. soccer, touch football and volleyball, and they kept you out of your best sport if they could, with pretesting). I figured this out, and intentionally did poorly in the football test, but they still stuck me in soccer, which I hated with all the non stop running and no scoring. We were still running 5 miles every single day, for 6 weeks (no days off).
They will keep her busy. I might suggest you guys try to pick a weekly time for telephone talking (most convenient to her schedule). This will allow her her independence, and still provide for at least one good talk a week. Or something like that.
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I can think of worse views to have on your walk from dorm to class... She's gone mostly quiet, very very busy doing in processing stuff. Few updates: -She's evidently been selected the leader of the in processing group and is really enjoying the role. -They moved her to a nicer room (She said the first building was trashed and pretty nasty, evidently the prior occupants were Marines. Her current room is single occupant, and evidently the vast majority of dorms are single occupant, so likely no roommates. -Farsi is not 100% guaranteed to be her language, just likely at this point, she'll know more the further into in processing she gets. For her mom and I this is almost worse than BCT. At least then we KNEW we wouldn't be hearing from her, she has her phone all day now, but is so busy running from place to place (And evidently herding cats on top of it) we're just getting tiny snippets of info here and there... If anyone's REALLY bored or just curious, I found the student handbook for incoming students. It's from 2016-2017 but appears to be the one they're still handing out: https://www.dliflc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/DLIFLC_Student_Handbook_20170104_FINAL-RSS6.pdfThat part of the CA coast is beautiful... and since she doesn't have to pay CA taxes, she's golden!! She probably got that leadership recommendation bc of that gift to her DI.  If she's going to have any weekend free time, she'll probably need that Valk. |
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« Reply #325 on: October 05, 2021, 04:21:20 PM » |
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Being assigned a leadership role in training is both a good thing and not so good.
It will increase the chances of promotion somewhat but, also carries a whole set of responsibilities for other folks while trying to succeed at the training. When I arrived at Ft. Sill, OK for the Artillery Officer's Basic Course, due to my previous Marine Corps time I was selected as Platoon Leader.
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« Reply #326 on: October 06, 2021, 12:04:23 AM » |
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If she's going to have any weekend free time, she'll probably need that Valk.
I wouldn't be surprised if they restricted new soldiers from POVs (personally owned vehicles) on-base.
Many colleges do this for freshmen, not only because of campus congestion, but mainly to cut down on the foolishness, trouble and non studying.
Keeping something off-base can be problematic.
If she can keep something on base, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 (SSCRA) (later amended), lets her keep TX as her home of record, so TX plates and no CA inspections (or other compliance) is the rule.
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« Reply #327 on: October 06, 2021, 05:38:46 AM » |
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Also Driver's Licenses. However, that one does NOT apply to spouses. And a service member should get their vehicle insurance based on their location, not home of record.
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From what we've read we want her to keep as many ties to Texas as possible (Registration, driver license, etc) since your taxation status is based on your state of residence, and CA evidently loves to find any excuse it can to sink it's $$$hooks$$$ into someone...
I'm not sure if this is a CA thing or a Army thing, but she said to ride a motorcycle she'd have to retake the MSF course, even though she has a motorcycle endorsement on her Texas license.
But, this appears to be a moot point anyway, hills with curves on them terrify her, and Monterey is all hills with curves, she's requesting no Valk be delivered until she's out of there.
(Hills and curves are fun for us, but the last time she rode her Valk was in West Virginia for the dismount, she's wanting to ease back into it.)
I think she can have her car after she gets out of the initial intake phase, the current phase is pretty locked down for the first 3 weeks or so, but after that they open it up quite a bit.
The leadership thing was elected by her cadre, not from above, and is for intake week only, if she maintains a leadership role will be up to her and her cadres, and which language class she ends up.
Speaking of which, turns out she's not 100% in the Farsi course, that's just what was plugged into her paperwork and could change, so we'll see.
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As long as she maintains her "Home of Record" to be Texas, her income taxes will be like she is living in Texas. Same on vehicle registration, property taxes on said vehicle. As I said - she will need to insure per her location. And yes - it has increasingly become a DOD thing to have motorcycle riders have to complete the MSF course. IF she has proof such as a course completion card, she might be able to get by.
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« Reply #330 on: October 06, 2021, 09:57:49 AM » |
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I'm not sure if this is a CA thing or a Army thing, but she said to ride a motorcycle she'd have to retake the MSF course, even though she has a motorcycle endorsement on her Texas license.
I can't honestly speak to current requirements but, the last two posts I was assigned required a MSC that was given on post, I already had my MSF certification but to ride on post had additional requirements. Didn't matter to me, I love taking these courses. Seems like I always learn or relearn something. I agree with her decision to not ride while there. Some challenging roads and less than courteous cage drivers IMHO. Besides that, both Psycho and I would have very long reaction times..........  Rams |
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« Reply #331 on: October 06, 2021, 10:13:47 AM » |
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I'm not sure if this is a CA thing or a Army thing, but she said to ride a motorcycle she'd have to retake the MSF course, even though she has a motorcycle endorsement on her Texas license.
I can't honestly speak to current requirements but, the last two posts I was assigned required a MSC that was given on post, I already had my MSF certification but to ride on post had additional requirements. Didn't matter to me, I love taking these courses. Seems like I always learn or relearn something. I agree with her decision to not ride while there. Some challenging roads and less than courteous cage drivers IMHO. Besides that, both Psycho and I would have very long reaction times.......... Rams Psycho's just 10.5 hours... you, well... |
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Still gone silent? It's been almost a week. In some ways it was easier when we knew she didn't have her phone for long stretches of time... Not a lot outta her, we chat here and there but she's doing her own thing. Think I pissed her off yesterday, had to give her a talking to. My mom, my dad, my wife, myself and Kali all share a cell phone plan with a combined 20GB data per month, after that our speed gets throttled horribly. Kali managed to use 14GB of that 20GB in the last 5 days. I've been... encouraging her... to be an adult and get her own cellular plan... She got quiet after that, but she knows. Evidently they don't provide WiFi to the students, at least not that will access anime streaming sites... Still no 100% confirmation on her language, although Farsi is still likely. During a room examination last week the drill told her she had the 2nd best room she'd seen and was going to be sending other soldiers to see her room as how it should be done. I asked her if they did the "Bounce a quarter" test, she had no idea what I was talking about. I explained it, and she subsequently sent us videos of her successfully bouncing a quarter off of her bed. We do have a physical mailing address, which is good for at least the next month or so if anyone wants to send something, although that's a lot less exciting now that she's got her phone back... |
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She's not allowed to leave base, but she is allowed to wander around base, eat when she wants, etc. It's more of a strict college than a regular military place in many regards... Pic she sent me of the sunrise this morning on her way back from the DFAC after breakfast:  Breakfast from the DFAC:  And Monterey Bay on a walk about later in the day today:  I could eat that - but I wouldn't need any lunch..... and maybe not dinner as well. |
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She's looking nicely squared away.  I see she has the National Defense Service Medal. There was not a period of war when I entered service, so I didn't get one until Desert Shield/Storm (and there has been a period of war every since that time).  But I see no basic training ribbon. I researched this, and discovered the Army Service Ribbon is awarded upon successful completion of their initial military occupational specialty (MOS)-producing course, which I guess is her language course, and not basic.  I received my first ribbon (Air Force Training Ribbon) on completion of my particular basic course, and this may be true for other services, dunno.  I have to tell you that standing up prosecuting my first (special) court martial with only a training ribbon, in front of a jury of officers who all had two to four rows of ribbons makes you a big rookie and there' no hiding it. But we all have to start somewhere. |
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I see she has the National Defense Service Medal. There was not a period of war when I entered service, so I didn't get one until Desert Shield/Storm (and there has been a period of war every since that time).
She's about to have a formal command inspection, so hopefully she's properly put away. The really funny bit about the National Defense Service Medal - I had to look up what it was, she had no idea. She thought THAT was the "Participation Trophy" you get for finishing basic training, was a bit taken back when I explained what it really was. And yeah, she won't be getting the the Basic Training Ribbon for quite a while, she's got about a year of language instruction, and then several months of further training on signals intelligence before she fully is doing things. |
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« Reply #339 on: October 19, 2021, 02:43:24 PM » |
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National Defense Service Medal goes to everyone in uniform during a period of war (and not necessarily a fully declared war), no matter what they do or where they serve. (The current war on terror continues, ever since Desert Shield-Storm)
When I went on active duty it was called the.... I was alive in '75 ribbon (but that was for Vietnam era service, which had since expired as a period of war).
Well, I misspoke. Desert Shield/Storm (for National Defense Service Medal purposes) lasted from 1990-1995. Then the war on terror kicked in on 911, and ever since.
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Got my N D S M I believe right outa Boot. 1964. And later in 1964 I Was drawing combat pay. And a bit later besides combat pay also drew half set of flight skins. When I made E4 tween E 4 pay combat pay and half flight skins I played Poker Acey Duecy and Craps in just about any game I could find on ship. I even played poker with The Chiefs-E 7 E 8 E 9-cuz I neither complained when I lost nor did I gloat when I won. No booze and No wimmin aboard had to do Something on those LONG line periods! RIDE SAFE.
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she looks more chiseled and fit in the face for sure and am sure her entire body more fit/stronger, looking good for sure.
As far as the cell phone thing, still remember my daughter when age 15 getting her 1st cell phone was a slider phone and luckily I got UNLIMITED TEXTING some 7 years ago she did 16000 texts in first ONE month, WOW. Needless to say that 1 year warranty on the phone did not last the sliding mechanism failed and had to fight it out with US Cellular to replace it under warranty for free after 8-9 months of heavy use. Seems my boy uses a lot of our unlimited data plan vs. us 3. Heck, I rarely use just a smidge per month is all I can live without a cell phone glued to my hip like they do. I have an old 8 year old samsung S6 or s7 I think wife had that battery if used somewhat will be dead after 3/4ths of the day if somewhat used vs. the other 3 have newer apple iphones vs. my old samsung android.
Also, both my kids been bugging them now age 20 and 22 to either pay us 50 per month for their cell phones or go on their own plan costing them tad bit more am sure. Both live where US Cellular, our carrier, has NO cell phone towers and share them with other providers like Verizon which is much better in their area for sure surprised they have not switched, but free is free right? Ohh, do not get me started on them also not paying their 6 month premiums on car insurance (free cars we bought also) one ONLY 120 the other 190 every 6 months is all full coverage under my policy which is a heck of a lot cheaper vs. them on a stand alone policy under age 25. Not like it will break our bank account, but something is better than nothing right especially since so dirt cheap.
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Sandra appears to be a redhead. Thinking back in my wayback machine memory, I dated two redheads in my life. First a strawberry blond girl on the U swim team, who filled out her swimsuits so magnificently that it could bring tears to any male's eyes. Despite my very best efforts, I could never talk her out of her virginity, short of marriage and children (and way too early for me). And many years later, a pure carrot top who had no such compunctions or moral reservations of any kind. Wilma, and Gretchen..... who I will always fondly remember as..... Thunder and Lightening. (sorry for the small detour in the thread) I've dated several red heads in my life. I still find red headed women to be very attractive most of the time. And Yes, the ones with little to no moral reservations were a helluva lot of fun! |
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« Reply #357 on: October 31, 2021, 01:11:55 PM » |
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Sorry to trigger repressed memories. They said they'd send her off post, not necessarily that it wouldn't be an off post military surgeon, so no idea yet... Knowing government I wouldn't be surprised if they sent her to a veterinarian (Hey, she's active duty, not a vet yet! ) Chatted with her a little last night, yesterday was her first full day of "Just do what you want" since mid July... She said it was surprising to her how quickly Private Ecton reverted back to just Kali again. She helped set up a haunted house (She worked in one of the biggest ones around year before last), played with dogs, played with kids, just in general got to be a "kid" for a few hours... She did comment "I don't think most people's AIT is like this though..."   (She loved hugging the pup, but really made her miss our three German Shedders all the more.)     And doing all this with this as her back yard doesn't hurt any... (Although she's already come to the realization that California is pretty, but she wants the (*$#)@$ out of that insanity as quickly as she can get out. They had a long lecture about the limitations of a pocket knife due to California laws, and how insanely restrictive even that is.)  |
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« Reply #358 on: October 31, 2021, 01:45:10 PM » |
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Having successfully completed basic training, she is now officially a veteran for USDVA purposes.
IF she was later (during this enlistment) separated for cause administratively with a UOTHC, or by court martial with a punitive discharge (DD - BCD) then she would lose that status, but barring that, she is a veteran now.
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« Reply #359 on: October 31, 2021, 04:05:19 PM » |
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too bad you or wife cannot be there AFTER the wisdom teeth are pulled. The kids say the darndest things when coming awake acting all goofy like. We recorded our daughter when wisdom teeth out age 16 or so on our cell phones blabbering relentlessly about funny stuff she had no idea what she was talking about.
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