I want to enlist into the military later this year, but I am not sure what branch. What I want (career wise) is to work in terrorism. My s/o is in the army NG and says the best way to get involved in counter terrorism is to join the military. He said the best opportunities will present themselves in the military. What branch would be best for this achievement?

numbers from here
https://dwp.dmdc.osd.mil/dwp/app/dod-data-reports/workforce-reports

Army: 353,326 / 92,014 = 3.84 enlisted per officer

Navy: 272,792 / 55,144 = 4.95 enlisted per officer

Marine Corps: 151,755 / 21,341 = 7.11 enlisted per officer

Air Force: 251,412 / 60,508 = 4.15 enlisted per officer

Space Force: 4,872 / 4,574 = 1.07 enlisted per officer

Coast Guard: 30,602 / 8,880 = 3.45 enlisted per officer

Ranking from highest to lowest enlisted-to-officer ratio:

1. Marine Corps: 7.11
2. Navy: 4.95
3. Air Force: 4.15
4. Army: 3.84
5. Coast Guard: 3.45
6. Space Force: 1.07

The Marine Corps has the highest ratio with about 7 enlisted personnel per officer, while the Space Force is nearly 1:1.

What's the cause for this discrepancy. Why is the Space Force like 1 to 1 ratio? Forgive my ignorance

I have 1/2 inch stretched ears... I don't know how small they will shrink after I take them out.. I did once and they stretched down to a 00 gauge.

I want to join the Air Force or Army in 2026 and I don't wanna be turned away because of it.. HELP

I'm a twenty-one-year-old American guy. I'm wondering how units are organized (teams, squads, platoons, companies, battalions, brigades, regiments, divisions, and corps)? Also, who leads these groups? Is it the same as here in the States (corporals and sergeants lead teams, staff sergeants lead squads, lieutenants lead platoons, captains and majors lead companies, lieutenant colonels lead battalions, colonels and brigadier generals lead brigades and regiments, major generals lead divisions, and lieutenant generals and generals lead corps)?

Hello friends. I'm looking for advice on getting temporary in home care for after an upcoming spine surgery.

I'm 100 percent, surgery is with a local hospital in maybe two months or less.

Anyone ever had temporary in home help and if so how did it go?

Does anyone have suggestions on the process?

In 2012/2013 i was assigned to camp casey, south korea, medical battalion (prior medic) and worked the clinic thst my platoon ran.

Half way thru my year I'm working in the Immunizations Department. Our job was to give vaccine, then document it. This went on for about 3 month to this point.

We had a MAJOR clinical inspection due in like a week. I'm talking VERY importat people with high pay grades, who come thru the clinic, and literally establish if the clinic is meeting the minimum standards.

As a result of this, a lot of house work had to be done. Army rotations in korea are typically 13 months. We had to basically validate months of previous medical data that was being documented correctly, and signed off my doctors.

Come to find out, our Immunization depart was not getting their charts signed by any doctor for over 6 months prior. Over 2k medical encounters sitting in history, open, awaiting signiture. This was due to a loss in communication with the people going amd the people coming in.

The solution to this problem was me (E3) and my other immz battle had to forge over 2k doctors electronics signatures on electronic medical charts. This took around 6 hours. Since the inspection was happening very soon, they made us stay really late for it. From like 1800 to 2400

Our PS got us pizza for it.

Somewhere backed logged is thousands of medical records i signed a doctors sign for illegally so we could legally pass inspection.

Our clinic CO was the one who came up with the idea.

I find it soo funny how army logic can sometimes be.

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"Reporting from various media outlets indicates that non-government personnel have gained access to my personally identifying information covered by the Privacy Act.  I'm requesting that any such data breach be reported to me so that I may take further action in accordance with the law."

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Have an airman (navy) who wants to get a tattoo removed already active duty. He got it during A-school a few months ago but regrets it’s. How would he go about doing that? Would he have to speak to his chain of command so some paper work gets routed for him to get the okay or would he just be able to go out of his own way and dive and get it lásered off and come back the next day? Yes I know laser takes multiple sessions but it’s not going to put him on lim du

My husband recently died on active duty, and I rely on the survivors benefits to provide for our young child.

I’m hearing/reading a lot of people saying that survivor benefits are likely to be taken away/reduced?

I get DIC & SBP and this is literally my only source of income. I plan to retrain using my husbands GI Bill but right now I’m just trying to survive raising a young child alone (I’m a foreign born US citizen with no family) while grieving the loss of the love of my life.

I’m terrified at the thought of losing these benefits. Does anyone have any insight into whether this is likely to happen?

I am not sure where this is going but Elon is a malignant narcissist and has no good intentions.

This looks like a coup.

I’m a 19 year old male with AEMT my certification and almost done with my associates degree. I don’t have much financial stability but that is not my concern, I have a girlfriend who I care a lot about and happens to be the first girl I’ve ever gave a fuck about. I wanted to enlist out of high school but college was paid for so I went to college, just for me to realize I don’t want anything to do with any job college has to offer. I don’t think actives is a good fit for me considering I like my family, girlfriend, and life with no real real need for enlistment. But have always wanted the lifelong discipline, experience, and benefits the military has to offer. Debating on AF reserves or marine reserves, Air Force for the firefighting certifications and obviously the easy benefits, or marines for the training, discipline, and I think it would overall suit me better. I have always wanted to enlist and looked up to those who are soldiers and don’t want to regret it in 20 years if I don’t. Considering I am lucky enough to have the opportunity at a normal civilian life, do you have any advice.

I’m writing this cause I want to speak out and write about it

So it’s clear to me today that mass punishment seems to be a thing that older generations still like doing, despite it hurts moral by a wholesome, and there’s never really “true accountability.” First things first is that apparently we too many people failed the fitness test. But instead of talking to them about it, now higher up deems it necessary to have “everyone re-run” because we can’t maintain fit. But how is that everyone’s fault that they failed? It’s on them to do it on their time, not ours. But we pay for their actions with quite a bit of risk.

The second thing is that we had someone decided to be a complete imbecile and decided to drive recklessly. Because of him, we all have to pay for it. Yet they caught it was him, the high up saw how he talked to them which was nothing but excuses, and yet they want us to pay for cause “one team, one fight”? They said it was our fault that we didn’t do anything about it. They want to put the lesson on us that it was on him. Yet as he was getting chewed out, they stated they had nothing but problems with him from quite some time now. But we have to pay for it cause he can’t get it through his head and his stupid actions. And it’s “one team, one fight” that’s always the term. Well now the team is mad, and top of that, everyone now switches up both lower and higher up. The lower cause they are so built up of anger cause why are they getting the shit end of the stick for something they had nothing to do with, now they don’t want anything to do with the organization, especially if it’s their first impression. Higher up cause they not only carry that powered mindset and setting authority when “necessary” that they redact everyone and want the situations as high volume as possible. They want there little “fog of war” at it highest. So they switch up without considering that maybe it’s not the only approach. They just jump to the first reaction approach and hit everyone as hard as they can. That mindset, my opinion, loses trust in everyone and I won’t depend on them with my life. Now I’m not justifying what that guy did. He fucked up pretty bad. But why does it have to be us that’s punished as well? Let diving to this. Say we “tried”; HOW DO WE STOP HIM ? We talk to him? That won’t work cause of excuses he makes. So he doesn’t listen in that department. Or do you want us to jump in front of the vehicle to stop him? No cause that cause injury or worse, death. I’m legit curious of how to stop that? As if we expected it to happen like that. But we have to pay to price “cause we failed”

I need a second opinion on this.

I am by no means an expert on anything, but veterans protections falling under DEI is simply just plain wrong. And that bit of misinformation is causing a lot of stress and fear among my friends and family. If you would like please take a moment to read below. If you think it would help, copy and send it around to the people who may need the references.

There has been a lot of confusion lately about the end of federal DEI programs, with those confusions comes a lot of misinformation. I am a huge believer in Hanlon’s Razor. Though I would not use the word stupidity, I think ignorance is better suited, but that is just my opinion. I took some time, looked things up and typed up a quick synopsis of what I found regarding veterans and federal service. I have added the links to official federal government websites in case someone wanted to learn more or had questions

Veterans preference during the federal hiring process and protections veterans receive while in federal service are not covered under DEI. They are covered under the below laws. These laws are separate from DEI programs. A sitting president would need to specifically address and repeal the below laws in order to affect veterans in the federal hiring process and during their federal service.

The below links are not the only laws in place protecting veterans, however these are the ones that I know of regarding federal service.  

Veterans Preference Act of 1944: establishes veterans preference in the federal hiring process in order to help them secure federal employment. This has been amended and changed a lot since then, the link gives the main points. The below link also touches on some of the other resources for veterans in or looking to join federal service.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/veterans-services/vet-guide-for-hr-professionals/

Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) of 1974: requires that federal contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to hire, retain, and promote protected veterans

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/vevraa

Civil Service Reform Act of 1978: gave new benefits for veterans that are 30% or more disabled as determined by the VA. Since this covers more than just veterans, the section that establishes this is 307

https://www.eeoc.gov/history/civil-service-reform-act-1978

Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994: protects veterans rights to return to their civilian jobs after their military service, this covers federal as well as non-federal jobs

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/programs/userra

Trying to speculate about my great grandfathers medals in WW2. He was wounded a week into combat deployment at the end of the war in May 1945, so he never physically received anything other than a purple heart.

But anyway, if a soldier is wounded before their deployment ends, assuming they never had any disciplinary problems, would they be awarded a good conduct medal, even if they didn't fully complete a tour?

Just curious. I did my 4+2 in the 80s and REMF was a common derogative for certain individuals.

Bangladeshi dude thought he’s going to Russia to work as a chef only to find himself in the battlefield after being deceived. Now wounded by shrapnel and claims he was sold off to Russians. Seems to be authentic as he shows his tags and some other belongings from frontline.

I am (your full name) from (your address) here by wish to apply for EMERGENCY LEAVE on behalf of my fiance squad leader ssgt; (UN/US ARMY 009/16770/UNAMIL) ;MOS-18E\OFS. Who is currently stationed in Aleppo Syria on operation freedom's sentinel mission. I' want him to come home and prepare for our marriage rites which is schedule to take place this month. I will be grateful if my request could be granted.