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Quote: Originally Posted by 2000 Man I am a 47 year old MS I and have applied for the Navy HPSP. After doing some research I managed to contact the Navy HPSP program director and was told that my age was waiverable as long as I could complete my obligation by age 62. So I am waiting to hear back from them. I was curious if the Army would be similarly open to waiving age for their HPSP. Has anyone heard of this happening? I am prior service (3...

Quote: Originally Posted by Perrotfish http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573469,00.html We now apparently also have AD officers talking to the media. I wonder if LtCol Val "Lookit Me" Finnell will be the subject of any disciplinary action for going to the media like this. Despite the disturbingly attention whorish nature of that LtCol's exclusive interview with Fox News, the statements made in that article just...

Thank u and im sorry 2 bother u all with my shorthand. I am not on a keyboard im on a cheap cell phone. When something or someone annoys i bypass them. I feel bad 4 some of u if your life is that pathetic that readn shorthand urks you that much. At least i have the answer 2 my original question. Happy Veterans Day and Thank You 4 servn.

Quote: Originally Posted by Old Grunt If you don't want to be a statistic (and the divorce rate among junior officers is amazingly high), you won't treat your spouse like a ruck sack. And please, if you do end up in the Army, don't be one of those officers who views their subordinate's family time as the lowest priority on the totem pole, because that will only make you universally despised by your soldiers, ostracized by...

Quote: Originally Posted by pgg I also keep coming back to the fact that a board selected him for a fellowship, despite allegedly poor performance in residency and creepy behavior. Perhaps he was the only applicant. There are consequences to being an organization that is set up in such a way that 90%+ of your talent leaves at the first opportunity. So what does this say about the chances for my fellowship application?

Quote: Originally Posted by pgg He's in the Army, so I guess you could say any location on the base was his "workplace" ... but that's a generous interpretation. His workplace was the hospital or psychiatry clinic, not the deployment center. According to some reliable news reports, he did pre-deployment screenings at that center which had other non-psychiatric clinical activities in support of deployment medical...

Quote: I get a dog. An animal that you can interact with and cuddle with etc, but you're not chewing up prime rib and spitting it into your dogs mouth. But you're right. Pets can be an important part of someone's life. I do think that it shows that he was lacking in human contact and placing a great deal of emphasis on that connection. You're right on two points for sure, I haven't had a pet, and I may have spoken to...

The thing all about the Army mental health taskers was the Marine Corps needed the mental health officers way more than the Army. It seemed like we had 1/10th of the mental health assets that the Army had. At the same time the Navy leadership supported pulling what little mental health assets we had to support the Army compounding the problem. For example, one of the social workers who got murdered in Iraq was pulled from Camp Lejeune...

Great reconstruction of his life story today in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/us...struct.html?hp

It was my impression that utilization tours (in between residency and fellowship) are less common in the Army than they are in the AF and Navy. Am I wrong?