Hi!

I’m considering enlisting and one of my biggest concerns in my hair. I’m mixed race with very curly, medium length. My hair is too short to put in a bun, but too long to leave out. Was that a challenge that you have faced?

What about hair care? I understand I can’t have the luxury products, but i do wonder what that looks like. Especially in basic.

Thank you so much!!

Going through a divorce right now. Will be 35 next month. A buddy of mine is telling me to join & see the world. I feel that I am right at the age cut off…

So I'm in Canada and I don't think I can quite find any good milsurp around me and my Christmas list this year is including foreign MRES somehow me and my friend got our hands on some USA MRES and really liked them so I was wondering if there are any suggestions for foreign MRES in general particularly I would really like to try australian or german ones what would be really helpful is if anyone seeing this would happen to have experience with this and could give some suggestions on which countries have the best MRES of maybe even menus by country thanks

Hihi! i’m a 16 year old, and i’m here to ask some questions about the ASVAB? It’s coming around to my school again soon, so I thought I’d ask about it.

I took it last year, as a 15 year old (sophomore year), and got like… 74-76?? I believe? I don’t know if that’s like, average? But anyway, that was with no studying beforehand so take that into account.

I remember getting my worst score on the mechanics/engineering part, but I really wanna do good on it this time, so do you guys have any advice? Any sort of resources or tips that I can use to score better on that part??

Thank you kindly!! (PS, I take the ASVAB just to see what I’m good at and what I need to improve. I am in JROTC but have no intention of joining the military. I thought I would ask this subreddit since a lot of you have probably already taken and passed this test with very good scores.)

I think it’s a Paladin, sorry for the poor quality, my phone is slow.

I want to clean residential houses on base to contribute to our family finances. What steps if any do I need to take to make sure I'm legitimate to provide services on base and not get shut down?

Edit: not seeking to contract with the base. I'm just a spouse living on base looking to make some extra cash. Was hoping I can have a handshake agreement with my customers but I don't want some Karen tattling on me so I will get LLC if needed. Just need to know if that's required or not. I know how to procure the LLC and insurance was just hoping I wouldn't need to. That's why I'm asking.

I've got an old button that says tonanti on, I googled it and only one page came up with something like it from the 1950s. However, tonanti is on a lot of old stuff like buttons medals n stuff and I'm curious to what it means as nothing kind of gives an answer to it. Thanks

Rába is a Hungarian vehicle manufacturing company. Hungary itself uses them for its army. Do other armies use them as well (for example the Slovak army, the Czech army, the Polish army...)?

Or are their additional positions?

What are some reasons someone may stay promotable for so long?

I have been working on my grandpops' life history and am currently working on understanding his enlistment record. He was originally drafted into the US Army in March of 1943 at the age of 20. It looks like he started out as a T-5 grade and served with the Medical Department. In 1945, a bunch of demobilization occurred and he reenlisted with the Regular Army. He was promoted to SFC E-6 on 24 Dec 1947. All of his subsequent Reports of Separation show his rank as E-6 (P) from 1947 to his 20 year retirement in 1963. From what I gather, the (P) stands for promotable?

Please excuse any mistakes in terminology use. I have zero military experience or knowledge and am just trying to understand my grandfather's experience as a complete layperson. I would appreciate perspectives on this as to whether it could be a personal choice thing not to be promoted, or if it's a staffing thing, or a work politics thing, or something else.

Also, I don't know what specific information matters in terms of promotion, but he was an Orthopedic Specialist and stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Newton D. Baker General Hospital, Walter Reed General Hospital, Tripler Army Hospital, and Valley Forge General Hospital. My grandfather was a pretty well liked guy and started his own business as an Orthotist after retiring from the military, so he enjoyed what he did quite a bit.

Found this picture in an old Stars and Stripes my dad had kept from his time in Korea in the early 1951

My grandfather was born in 1901 and apparently in 1917 at the age of 16 he lied about his age and joined the US army he arrived in France early in 1918. We don't know if he ever saw combat this photo was taken in 1919 at Saint Nazaire, France where he was a guard. He returned the United States in 1920 bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle in New York City and drove it all the way to Los Angeles

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/).

I keep hearing a about a recruitment shortage but I get told no I can't join the navy after I had already gone through meps got all these documents they wanted me to get for them my recruiter tells me I'm basically all good to go that they accepted my waiver. And then all of a sudden they say oh nevermind he can't join
Why do all that just let me ducking join I passed the physical I did reasonably well on the asvab what gives?

Found this patch while rummaging through my father’s old military stuff. Looked up the Russian (Единство по причине) but could not find a military unit for it. I’m confused.