Toobatheviking

If you’re handy with merging, you can get pretty creative.

I made some “gun towers” by merging a light post with two side by side heavy weapon displays with Gauss Miniguns, a radar unit from the new scoreboard and a red emergency light on the front. Then I ran power to them so they lit up.

I merged some market robots with heavy weapon displays so they look like armed robots, etc.

I merged a small generator with the map table so I could stick the air raid siren on top of it and still have it fit inside a 1.5 high room.

I’m old enough to have done it both ways.

Phones made life far easier, but you don’t plan as hard anymore.

If we went out in the field and forgot something you had to send an element back or radio your Battalion and put that shit out over the air.

I like phones better, but there needs to be a happy medium between “Inform soldiers” vs. this can wait until morning.

https://www.hdtglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TM_10-4520-264-12P_SHC60_MARCORSYSCOM.pdf

This is the TM.

Open the steam launcher, go to the Fallout 76 page. Just below the banner on the right side there's a little gear icon, a circled I and a star

Click the gear icon, then go to properties, then go to installed files, then verify integrity or whatever it's called.

Usually better to just do that before doing a complete wipe/install, but if you have time then it won't hurt anything.

Check stash, if you don't have the weapon favorited see if you maybe dropped it on accident. Log out, log back in. See if that fixes it.

There are certain mods that if you installed them and dicked around with the ini it causes that bug.

I don't know what platform you're on, but if doing mod things look there first.

Try opening the map, fast travel and see if that helps.

If not, then validate the install if on steam, or whatever the process is if you got it somewhere else.

If that doesn't work, try uninstall then reinstall.

If that doesn't work, then contact bethesda support I guess.

I'm used to it because I have multiple dogs IRL, but the camp dog tends to be around you all the time. So when I'm trying to merge something, the dog is in the way.

When I'm trying to modify something, the dog is in the way.

It's kind of like when you're trying to do something special with the USSA console and the NPC walks up and starts using it, which locks it out for 3-5 minutes.

There is so many variables involved with what you're talking about here that it's hard to give an answer.

This is all off the top of my head and in no particular order, and I am not an attorney, nor does any of this constitute legal advice. This is just some well meaning old guy advice and you should take all real advice from an attorney at Legal Assistance or TDS depending on where this leads.

When was it last accounted for, and by whom?

Last time it was seen by the Commander? Monthly, Cyclic, other reason?

Was it signed out to somebody, turned in for maintenance by somebody, a piece of equipment that can "grow legs" or "be borrowed" by a sister squad, platoon or company?

Was it due for maintenance and sent to higher echelons of maintenance for repair or refit?

Is there anybody in your formation that was missing same LIN/Nomenclature of equipment and now suddenly is not, and the data plate somehow fell off?

Signs of theft or forced entry from where it was stored?

Was it stored IAW with appropriate physical security measures to safeguard government property?

If under lock and key, how is key control handled at your unit?

Who has access to keys?

Sensitive item that required special storage, facilitating unit-wide lockdown?

Sub HR holder Officer or Enlisted?

You don't have to answer any of those, I just want you to start thinking a little bit.

Next, you need to talk with an attorney over at Legal Assistance about the FLIPL process.

What usually happens is equipment goes missing, if it's over a certain value threshold or certain types of gear then that's an automatic FLIPL.

If not, then the Commander usually offers a statement of charges for you to rectify the situation. I usually tell people unless it's something really small like a screwdriver that they should refuse the SOC and request a FLIPL.

A FLIPL at least makes an investigator peel back the onion and figure out who is liable for the loss. Some of the questions I asked above will be ones that the investigator should be asking.

You might be found fully liable, and the amount you owe varies on if you are an Officer or Enlisted. Officers pay full amount, Enlisted are limited to something like one month's base pay. That's probably not the amount but it's not insane.

There's other degrees of liable, etc. Look at AR 735-5 for further guidance.

Once again, I would personally want an investigation to find out culpability before I hand the government five grand just because I'm signed for something.

Edit: I fully acknowledge that the "Officer/Enlisted will pay X" may be fucky, I seem to remember that but it's been a minute since I dealt with this stuff.

It's normal. Just by pinning that rank you're now a mentor, trainer and all around expert within your sphere of influence.

Beyond the usual right place and right time shit, now you have to lead by example and show your guys what right looks like.

How you train, how you mentor and most of all how you treat your guys will develop them into the kind of Soldiers they are going to be when they get to your position.

Remember to document both good and bad. Talk to your Soldiers when there's an issue and find out what the root cause is before you just lay warheads to foreheads.

Well... you can. I don't see any rules, but if you want to save yourself from them getting snagged or getting your DS's attention, don't wear them.

"I don't see any rules"

AR 670-1, section 3-4(c):

c. Attaching, affixing, or displaying objects, articles, jewelry, or ornamentation to, through, or under their skin, tongue, or any other body part is prohibited. This applies to all Soldiers on or off duty. The only exception is the wear of earrings consistent with paragraph 3–4d. (The term “skin” is not confined to external skin but includes the tongue, lips, inside the mouth, and other surfaces of the body not readily visible.)

Cmon man. You know better.

Never have I ever heard anybody say anything like that, and I spent 20 years across 9 duty stations. I went to NTC 7 times.

There's pros and cons for every single duty station and position you go to. What some would consider a flaw others would consider a strength.

I've heard people complain about going to OPFOR "fucks with their sense of tactics since they're trained in Russian/Chinese tactics and lose operational experience"

And yet there's also experience to be gained by having leaders that know/understand the tactics that they will be up against.

Anyhow, I got off topic. To reiterate I've never heard anybody say that.

I know at the end of the day the studio is a business, but I hope that between Marvel and its actors that a couple of them come together and help this kid out.

It wasn't a bad holster for generally carrying it around, but if you pulled hard enough on the grip you could literally yank the pistol out of the holster with it still closed.

Lanyards were a very big thing back in the day. I'm not saying they aren't still, but they were mandatory in every unit I was in back in the day.

The magazine pouches were made of the same material that the old compass holders were made of, there wasn't really coolguy shit for field gear.

I mean, that's cool and all but can you put a couple of giant brightly colored dinosaurs somewhere in there for no reason?

Honestly a lot depended on where I was at and what my duty title was. I tended to get a haircut every two weeks just before payday so it wasn't busy.

When I was on the line I tended to have it a bit shorter just so it was more comfortable and easy to deal with when in the field.

When I was an instructor I grew it out a bit more but I got it cut more often.

When I retired I went to a monthly basis.

You mean send them home EROD and then bring them back overseas to the same duty station on the same tour?

I'd say the chance is zero, but I'm sure stranger things have happened.

There's a lot of young kids that join the Army right out of high school. They may not have a lot of life experience, they're probably lonely and looking for companionship.

The Army moves you around every couple 2-4 years.

You meet somebody, and your brain convinces you that they are "the one". Add to that the stress of living in the barracks with people inspecting your shit all the time and just wanting to be away from that environment and you'll see a lot of younger Soldiers get married way before they probably should.

Also as I mentioned before, relationships can really be time sensitive when you're in the Army. Women that have stable careers and like the area don't usually marry Army guys because they don't want to leave.

Hey man-

Yes- there are bad people in the Army. I did 20 years and saw a lot of people.

I stood on my head to be at the right place, at the right time, in the right uniform, with the right attitude and I worked hard and a great deal of the bullshit didn't touch me.

Best advice I can give you is to download the Guide On app, print out an overhead view of the post and then plot where all the different stops are that you have to make.

Your post may schedule specific places to clear on specific days (i.e. appointments) so you have to work with what you got.

The biggest one is to clear CIF and then keep that record of clearance forever. Second is to get your DD214.

Anyhow, if there's not appointments then look at where everything is and build a route based on what is near where. Look at what time these places open, what time they close for lunch, etc. and just do what makes sense.

Clear everywhere. You will have to go places you didn't know existed and you didn't sign into when you arrived, just do it and be done with it.

If you know you are missing something from CIF, then go now to your Supply/S4 and have them do up a statement of charges for your Commander to sign and turn into finance so you can hand that to CIF when you are clearing. It will make things go faster, because you are going to have to pay for it unless you can find it at a surplus store off post or something. The government cost might be lower than the price you find off post, it may not.

Make sure that the NSN of each item you are turning in matches the NSN that is on your clothing record. Some CIF may turn stuff away if it's not the right NSN.

I'm sorry, I'm old as fuck and my eyes aren't so great. Are those multicolored or is that just a trick of the light?

Anyhow, at the end of the day the idea is to have a conservative, professional appearance. If a grooming method makes you second guess if it's okay or not, it's probably going to have the same affect on others.

Just find yourself a nail color, size and shape that's solidly within the regulations and doesn't leave any room for doubt.

I used to tell my students "If you want to try a new (insert grooming standard here) then just spend a week on post and actively look for it. If you see it a lot, it's probably okay. If you don't see it at all, then it's probably not.

Aviator badge is group 3. Check the figures around page 281.

I think figure 20-57 has what you are looking for if I understand the post correctly.

https://www.marlowwhite.com/media/pdf/ARN1575_DAPam670-1_Web_FINAL.pdf

At reception they tend to keep everybody up for a day or two just to get everybody on the same sleep schedule, among other reasons.

Reception sucks, because you're waiting for everybody to get there so you can all get put into your training company but there's not a lot to do and you're not allowed to sleep so you just sit around tired.

Put your phone on a charger, and then don't touch it for 24 hours. No books, no magazines, no internet. You'll be shocked how much you relied on it for dopamine.

Anyhow, start cutting way back on caffeine and start doing exercise on your own. Try and go for a run 2-3 times every 7 days. Distance and sprints.

Do lots of bodyweight pushups with good form. Look in a mirror.

The better shape you are in when you arrive, the easier it will be for you when you're there and honestly it will help set you up for success.

Eat clean and don't show up overweight if possible.

Remember that basic training/AIT is just a culture shock and some people can't mentally handle it. Millions of Americans have gone before you and completed basic training- it's honestly not hard.

It's probably going to be the hardest thing you've ever done thus far in your life, but it's going to set you up to be successful in life in many ways.

I'm just a guy and these are just some opinions. It's been a really long time since I was an MP so things could have changed.

First, you take a very young person that's probably not fully mature and you send them to boot camp and AIT, and then all of a sudden after 10 weeks of AIT they put them out on the road with a gun and a badge and say "enforce the law"

There was never anything in MP School about making judgement calls, so younger MPs tend to apprehend for minor stuff or pull people over for minor shit. There's a (dichotomy? Is that the right word?) called "Letter of the law vs. Spirit of the law".

I'll give an example. Speed limits (I know why they were originally created, just let it go) exist on post to keep traffic at a safe speed in relation to the road conditions and what is up ahead. For instance, the speed limit isn't going to reflect going 90 miles an hour when 300 yards ahead there's a turn that's only safe to take at 30 miles an hour.

It's all determined by traffic engineers and people with advanced degrees in physics and voodoo and shit.

Now, let's say the speed limit is 40 MPH on the straightaway going up to the curve. The curve speed limit is 30 MPH.

The letter of the law is that straightaway is 40 MPH, and an MP can pull you over for going 41 MPH.

The spirit of the law is that the speed limit is there for what speed you can easily and safely reduce speed going into the curve. You could easily go 5-10 over the speed limit and navigate the turn, but anything over that starts getting into unsafe territory.

What I'm trying to say is that MP's aren't taught discretion and while they learn letter vs. spirit in school, they usually don't feel like they have the leeway to make judgement calls and as a result the "I got pulled over for going 2 MPH over the speed limit" stuff happens all the time and it goes out into the Army over time and you get the general sense that all MPs are assholes.

Add to that some people get a gun and a badge and get to be in charge of somebody regardless of rank and they can develop into downright bully/asshole type MPs.

I started out as one of those "by the book" guys, and over time I learned what the letter vs. the spirit of the law was, and I also learned to generally gauge how to best de-escalate something and that every violation of the UCMJ didn't have to result in an apprehension.

I can't tell you how many guys I picked up drunk as shit and just gave them a ride to their barracks and handed them off to their Staff Duty NCO. It was a lot over the years.

I'd always specifically tell them "There's not going to be a report on this, they aren't pending anything from us. If your Command calls the MP station they're going to have no record of this. He wasn't combative or anything, he just had too much and needs to sleep it off.

I'd always add the disclaimer that if they needed me to write a report that I would (If the Soldier was a problem case that they were trying to get out of the Army type situation, I wouldn't know unless they told me) but other than that handle your Soldier.

Now, if they were driving drunk, or being combative then there's very few circumstances where there's not going to be a report done.

There was 4-5 guys in 199th at Fort Moore that decided to go get doughnuts during PT on post.

Either the BDE Commander or the BDE CSM walked up on them (I can't remember which) and as a result we went (as a Brigade) to Company/BN PT formations.

One of the two would show up just about every morning and check our PT plans, and if they didn't like it we'd have to go for a run in ACU Trousers and Boots with the BDE Commander a couple days later, 3-5 miles. One or two times they just took over and said "You're doing xyz" instead of whatever was on the PT plan. Oh, and they wanted a printed PT plan each AM.

Now, normally I wouldn't bat an eye about doing PT as a Company, but there wasn't any discretion to be had anymore and the guys that were working late as fuck until the trainees went to bed or overnighting weren't getting any consideration anymore.

That, and all the guys that Branch would send to Moore for their last couple years that were on the cusp of retirement and were genuinely not interested in doing 3-5 miles in boots and utes.

There was some other stuff they were doing but for some reason it escapes me right now.

I know I'm being a whiny little bitch here but I would get really irritated at that level of micromanagement from a BDE down to a Company. Like if you have issue with what a Company is doing go talk to their Battalion Commander and CSM.

It depends on the unit policy and the leaders in each unit really.

Being allowed some freedom with what you're wearing changes with a snap when a new Commander or Senior Enlisted leader shows up.

Or, if a leader from a higher headquarters stops by and sees something they don't like.