Any self posts regarding the 2024 election should be posted in here. For clarification on what should go here vs its own post, see [this thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1eu639u/clarification_on_political_posts_moving_forward/).

And tell me what branch you serve!!

Thank you Sir(s)!

Hey. Sorry in advance for the profanity. I’ve been out of the FFL for about 4 years now. Landed back home just before the Covid pandemic and for some damn reason I still can’t seem to get my shit together.

I average 4 hours of sleep, haven’t been able to keep a steady job longer than a few months and I find myself getting super angry and overwhelmingly sad for pretty much no reason. It’s ether that or I’m bored out of my mind.

I figured I’d be dealing with a bit of ptsd after multiple combat engagements but I thought I could handle it. But I’m fucking slipping.

Just today it took conscious effort to stop myself from forcing a dinner fork into some assholes jugular. All he did was ask me to leave a table at a cafe with a high customer volume. I’m scaring myself with my own thoughts and moods and I don’t know what to do about it.

My fiancé says I’ve been distant lately. Earlier this week she asked if I was having second thoughts. I reassured her that I’m not but the truth is I am. It’s not because I don’t love her. I really do. Just don’t want to be her burden. But I don’t want to loose her ether. She’s one of the only bright spots I’ve got in my life right now. But I’m not getting any better. If anything I’m getting worse.

I can’t afford a therapist and can’t go through VA because my military service wasn’t in my own countries armed forces. Don’t think I’ll be getting a pension for the same reason.

Any advice would be appreciated. Sorry to just paint the post with my bitching but I might have just needed to vent. Anyway if you made it this far, thank you.

London has prepared another package of military aid for Ukraine. This time, the package will be based on 650 LMM Martlet missiles in the anti-aircraft modification.

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The UK Ministry of Defence says the first batch of LMMs will be sent to Ukraine before the end of this year, with the remainder to follow in 2025.

At the same time, the British prudently indicate to Kyiv how much such a delivery will cost - 162 million pounds. The British media write that such a decision was made "after the Russian strike on the training center in Poltava." This refers to the military communications institute, where Ukrainian military personnel were trained, including by NATO military instructors. They were taught how to use Western communications systems and electronic warfare.

LMM Martlet is produced in different classes, including air-to-air and ground-to-air. It is claimed that these are the modifications that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will receive.

Most often, specialized modifications of such missiles are used as standard armament of attack helicopters. A missile launcher is used to launch surface-to-air missiles. The maximum speed of the missile is Mach 1.5, the range is 8 km, and the warhead weight is 3 kg.

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I’m a M22 senior in college. I’ll join the military soon.

Because contracts are 4-6 years, what does your wife/husband do as a job? If I’ll be the one on active duty, my wife needs to agree to moving a lot, right? Should I look for my future wife in college who’s going to have her own career path? Or should I look for a wife in military?

What if she wants to be a doctor (any important job with degrees) but has a contract longer than mine? What about having a kid? Are we going to constantly move? Will my wife be able to work comfortably? Maybe I can provide enough for all of us so she won’t have to work?

I have an old photo of my brother who passed away from several years ago but am curious what all the ribbons are. Any answers would be appreciated. He was in the 82 airborne division if that helps.

So I was getting together my awards and such to get a shadow box with a flag that was flown on my ship on deployment and noticed the last two awards I received are not on my DD-214. I have the awards in my office and the paperwork for them all, wondered if it was worth the time to submit to get them added to my record. If so, where do I go about doing this? Thanks!

Im getting out. I’ve been let down by the military and I can’t handle another extension let alone another reenlistment. I’ll keep this short so maybe it will gain some traction on here.

I was failed by my leadership 9 months ago when I was being sxly harassed at work. I went to an NCO I trusted and was immediately brought to SAPR. The case was taken all the way to Legal, I was interviewed by OSI but Nothing came of it. Multiple people in the squadron corroborated what I said and witnessed it, people I didn’t even know at the time. But ultimately it was left up to my commander what happened to him. He was put on a no contact order against me and I was put in a different squadron for the time being. I was falling behind in work with everything going on (divorce, this situation, and most people at work doing the whistleblower shame shun) Because I was failing at my job at this point, my supervisor decided that I should be brought back into the same environment with this individual.

The same supervisor also made sure to explain to me during my annual feedback session that it was my fault that this situation happened. Why? Because I closed my door at work which “no pun intended” -supervisors words, opened the door to this type of behavior from men. Ever since this situation, it has been constant banter from male coworkers making a joke of what I’ve been through. Nobody taking me serious. And I just found out that this certain member had plans to come to the squadron and.. I’ll just say he was trying to recreate what’s going on in American schools right now. I was never alerted and I don’t feel safe anymore. This member is still on base and is still in the military. He no longer works with me but knows where I work.

I’m not sure how he’s still in but he is and I thought by voicing my troubles that I would be helped. No. I no longer trust to go to leadership because it only hurts the situation, I’ve learned to just stay quiet and keep it pushing.

Is the BIG 10 network on AFN?

Hello everyone I (17M) am looking into and leaning toward joining the military in the upcoming year or years. I have family in every branch, but my dad is dead set against me going to the Marines (he was a marine) and the Army (his dad was in the army during the Vietnam era). Is there any reason I shouldn't pursue these branches? I've spoken with an army recruiter about what I'd be able to do with a 25 ACT and 91 ASVAB, and it doesn't seem like anything is our of the picture option wise. Thank you all for your service and advice!

I'm from India and blog about current conflicts incl. Ukraine.
I'm trying to figure out what Ukraine's casualties (irrecoverable) might be, based on how many were recruited and the strength of their armed forces now.
From what I see from open sources, the standing army and national guard of Ukraine numbered some 300,000 people before the war. Ukraine then mobilized about 600-700000 people. Various sources give the number mobilized by 2023 as between 800,000 to 1 million (lets say 900,000).
Earlier this year there was a fresh round of mobilization with the lowering of the minimum age and other criteria. While there was talk of mobilizing an additional 400-500000. I understand that this was reduced to 300,000.
So a total of 1.2 million may have been mobilized so far.

The Russians in Ukraine are about 600,000 strong (figures from the Ukrainian general staff and Putin, are between 520,000 and 620000). There have been a lot of
reports of Ukraine currently being outnumbered to a point where they are forced to
give up ground.

Ukraine has around 110 brigades, which are probably at a reduced strength of 2500 men per brigade now. Assuming there is 1 person in a rear area (support) role, for the 275000 men on the front, that's a total of 550,000.
It implies 650,000 irrecoverable casualties, which seems way too high, even considering: Dead, Seriously wounded, Missing, deserted and prisoner.

The site Ualosses.org lists about 60,000 KIA - as does the site wartears.org
Assuming two seriously wounded for every KIA, along with missing etc, with 60,000 KIA, we'd probably have no more than 220000 casualties. That's a third of the 650,000 `missing' people who were mobilized. Russia's Ministry of defense, whose numbers I believe to be inflated, does not suggest that Ukraine's irrecoverable casualties are so high. (They cite 700k total casualties, of which, by their definition, the majority of wounded will return to combat within 3 days.

What am I missing ? How can these numbers be reconciled ?