It's easy to spend hours searching even one website to find just the right thing for what you need. Sometimes that's the best pouch to carry your 40mm rounds while deployed, and others it's the flashlight you use to light up your life. Finding what you think is the perfect whatever , only to find out that it isn't as useful as you thought, is always disappointing. I'm taking on the task of doing a lot of the digging for you. I am one of you, after all... Much of the issue st

The whole time I was in the Air Force, the joke I heard was "you're going to get out and be homeless." I doubt I was the only person to...

There was a saying within my group of friends while I was in. Whenever something would come up last minute that absolutely had to be done...

I was playing around with ChatGPT earlier and when I asked it "What do I do when I retire from the military", it wrote me an article. I...

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I am just a newly minted dirty civilian, and I didn't know what else to do with the knowledge I've gained over the last few years, so I'm...

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If you are in the MEB process, some of this will be old news, but from someone who recently went through this, hopefully you pick up a...

If you are like me and feel like the internet isn't the most dependable thing right when you need it, you probably want to have your...

The final out was about as mundane appointment as I'd had in my decade in the service. There was a desk in the back of the office in the...