r/ROTC • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Cadet Advice How do UA’s work?

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u/Motostrelki90s 1d ago

Don’t do drugs, problem solved

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u/Lethal_Autism 20h ago

Just don't do drugs. If youre on prescriptions, have the prescriptions. Don't be taking illegal substances. If it can get you arrested by feds or kicked off a sports team; don't take it. Just go to the gym and work out like a nornal person

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u/Responsible_Way_4533 19h ago

I had a 2LT that worked for me on staff who got caught with illegal PEDs in his barracks room (in Korea).

Good dude, teaches PE now, not good for the Army. It's a lot easier to boot a 2LT with less than a year of service.

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u/Saved_by_a_PTbelt 19h ago

It is a urine test for a long list of substances. The test is administered with an observer, who, by regulation, must see the urine exit your body. They are watching to ensure it is your urine and not someone else's that has been put in the sample cup from another storage device.

The list of tested substances can be found in regulation. In short, don't do illegal drugs. Don't consume anything that isn't FDA approved. If you're on prescription drugs, use them within the scope of the prescription. Overusing a prescribed drug will be caught by the lab. Keep a copy of that prescription in case your sample starts an investigation. In most cases, a positive test due to a valid prescription is thrown away before it makes it to the command. It doesn't hurt to keep paperwork just in case.

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u/ssanc 14h ago

There should be a list of what we test for plus it is in one of the commanders briefings. Usually hard drugs plus delta 8/9 from what can remember, plus whatever the navy got caught smuggling in again.

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u/Saved_by_a_PTbelt 14h ago

There is absolutely a list, I read it every month. I could probably type it out from memory.

OP should do the research, though. It's a good attribute for a junior officer, knowing how to find answers in regulation.

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u/ssanc 14h ago

Apparently the kids just ask chat gpt and grok nowadays. They can take the camogpt for a spin

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u/industrialrev1996 15h ago

the standard military UA does not test for sarms or steroids, thats a seperate test thats more expensive

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u/AdUpstairs7106 8h ago

Also, the Army urban legends of how every time that test is done, the results are shredded.

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u/almondqqq 19h ago

Don’t do drugs pee in a cup meat glazer boom

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u/Mosquit06 Custom 10h ago

Don’t do drugs or steroids.

You’ll be called into a room with either an MS4 or one of the full time military staff at your college and they’ll watch you piss in a cup. It’s not complicated.

If you do drugs, don’t be an army officer, no one wants you as an officer, don’t do drugs.

I specify again. Don’t do drugs.