u/Mouldygrub3333

Fitness:No you don't have to be insanely physically fit to join, it's a high school program, you exercise less than p.e unless you have overly strict instructors.

Teams:no, you lost likely don't have to join a team, just try to remain active in the program(this includes out of program teams, theyre all optional and don't determine much.

Hair: no guys and gals, we don't have to be bald, in fact most units don't uphold hair standards and I honestly hate that, try to be the cadet that's properly in uniform for males: Id recommend a midskin-highskin fade with finger length on top(size of the barbers finger laying flat on your head) and make sure it's off your ears

Female hair:Bun is generally the go to in all branches, I'm not sure about any non army regs, but I know ajrotc woman can wear ponytails.

Uniform regulations:it doesn't matter "what my unit does" there are regulations, read them, theyll guide you on your uniform wear, if someone in your unit is doing something such as for ajrotc:wearing ribbons and medals together.

They are wrong, and don't listen to them, thats not right and hasn't been for years, the manuals will tell you everything about your units service branch.

Such as army:USACC145-2/AR670-1, The former is the go to for cadets, the ladder is for the unanswered questions.

These are probably my 4 most seen things asked by new cadets in close to perfect order

PLEASE wear your uniform in accordance with your service regulations, and not in accordance with "my unit does it different/like this/our own way" that is not right at all and has never been right.

Thanks new guys! Let yourself have fun!

When doing a ritual with a candle is it really bad to blow the candles out? Would that really "blow away the intentions" I think I have heard it be said before?

I'm trying to like, research this, but I guess Im not understanding, so like, say on the spiritual deity side of this, is there a limit to how many gods you follow? And further more, is there any gods this religion specifically doesn't like?

Also candles, how does candle magic work? I read it's about intention and I forget the other term, but like, what does the candle itself represent? Like I know there's a set of colors like pink is romance, white can be anything, black is protection etc etc, but what does the candle itself do?

On the flip side, what even is that movie famous "black magic" and is it really real? Are people genuinely summoning demonic entities and what not?

I may have more questions in the future, but I'm trying to get into this without people in my life knowing, even my family, I haven't really talked to any of them yet about this, its something that's ran through my family, but I never personally got into it until recently where I got curious

Can someone explain to me what exactly "leadership" actually is, like, how it's actually performed, I can't say "I'm a sergeant major I have X job" because being a SGM in my battalion doesn't mean anything other than CSM.

Our unit doesn't follow leadership with roles unless your battalion commander, CSM, or xo basically, and I'm quite confused because I'm always put in "leadership" positions but I'm also not like, sure what I'm doing wrong, because nothing I do as a leader is right and I'm always getting in trouble for it

Like, say I get told as the S4 to clean 1 area of supply and I have the day to do that, but for drill I also have to re-tape all the rifles, and also get told there's a new tape pattern, so when I try to designate 2 cadets who know how to tape rifles already, then get my job in supply done, I get pulled out halfway through because all I'm doing is "delegating" and I have to be there to do that, but I also have that supply job, and 10 other things I was told to do the day before, it's been like this for 2 years, since I joined my sophomore year, it goes beyond just that, I get in trouble so often for "not knowing how to be a good leader" and honestly, it's made me really consider quitting the program, though I do love drill very much,

I don't like to think I'm over reacting, but I also don't want to like, completely vent to a bunch of random cadets over never/will never meet. I'm just caught up in a place where regardless of what I do I get chewed out over it.

Any help(going into my senior year, 3rd year)

I just unlocked this lake, what should I target and how heavy of line do I generally need? My heaviest bottom rod is rated at 56.2 lbs test line, and my heaviest spinning/baitcasting rod is a 72.5 lbs test, both are dlc, my only other heaviest rod is a Big Alli 13'10 at 18.5 lbs max test line.

I don't want to go in blind, anything helps!

Did anyone ever realise when they played that lorelais fonon frequency is pi, it's litterly pi, 3.12159265 so on so forth, it's litterly pi, how did I miss this in my first 2 tries at this game???

Aside from tales of the abyss, because I'm realising how popular of a game it really is, what is the next best tales game to try?

Iv yet to finish tales of the abyss, ps2 takes forever to load, and I think but don't know if my 3ds cartridge is bugged.

Just curious about the next best to try.

Can any army jrotc cadet describe to me where in accordance with either ar670-1 or usacc 145-2 does it say your sai or ai is allowed to dictate the regulations on your uniform such as wearing ribbons, medals, and marksmanship badge all at once?

For such as stated, in accordance with usacc 145-2:

8-14. Nameplate, Ribbons, and Medals

B. Ribbons and medals may not be worn simultaneously on the C/ASU.

Yet cadets and battalions randomly decide that "because my battalion says its okay, it's okay to wear ribbons and medals at the same time"

Regardless of if you match a medal with a ribbon, usacc 145-2 clearly states that you may not wear both at once.

Can someone describe to me where that whole previously stated "" my battalion says its okay so it's okay" came from?

Edit:quite annoyed that anyone living by the "my battalion says so" arent responding, I wasn't asking for my opinion to be confirmed, I was asking why this started

Iv made it to level 11 now, should I start giving multiplayer lobbies a chance? I'm kind of scared to because talking to strangers is a bit scary, but I know I could learn a lot from the game. What do you guys think?