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I met my first nuke in person today. He talked in excruciating detail about everything but what I wanted to know. He also mentioned that he was in the Navy about 5 times. He didn't appear to be a brony or an anime lover so I feel let down that I didn't get the whole nuke experience.
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Veins McGee posted:I met my first nuke in person today. He talked in excruciating detail about everything but what I wanted to know. He also mentioned that he was in the Navy about 5 times. He didn't appear to be a brony or an anime lover so I feel let down that I didn't get the whole nuke experience. Bronies and animes tend to be linguists. Nukes are just spergs of all varieties.
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Jun 19, 2013 13:54
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Ask to see his magic the gathering collection.
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Jun 19, 2013 23:17
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Mad Dragon posted:Ask to see his magic the gathering collection. True story I had a cigar box of cards left over from when I was like 14 and sold them in A school for hundreds of dollars
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Jun 20, 2013 03:30
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So I'm just about finishing up prototype in Ballston Spa and I just go orders to the Ford. I guess its still in Newport News being built now. Anyone have any idea what to expect going to a ship that's still in construction? I'm trying to figure out what I'm even going to be doing when I get there. Just qualifying and training briefs? Also everyone is telling me that Newport News pretty much sucks which I assume is true. Did anybody spend some time there and could tell me about it?
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Jun 21, 2013 03:31
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If you're going newcon as a nub, you will spend a ton of time cleaning and doing bitchwork. You will probably also get farmed out to a similar carrier for an underway or two to get basic quals, and also be their bitch.
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Jun 21, 2013 04:22
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do you know ryand_smith???? hes The Black Guy
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Jun 21, 2013 04:37
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mokhtar belmokhtar posted:do you know ryand_smith???? hes The Black Guy Do they have OBNOBs on prototypes?
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Jun 21, 2013 04:50
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Snowdens Secret posted:If you're going newcon as a nub, you will spend a ton of time cleaning and doing bitchwork. You will probably also get farmed out to a similar carrier for an underway or two to get basic quals, and also be their bitch. Awesome.. kind of figured that's what it would be like. Guess I'll be spending the next 3 years or so cleaning in Newport news then. mokhtar belmokhtar posted:do you know ryand_smith???? hes The Black Guy I dunno I might. I'm at MARF so I probably do if he is. I don't know anybody at S8G though really so if he's over there I don't.
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Jun 21, 2013 05:15
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We had two OBNOBs on my boat. 
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Jun 21, 2013 05:29
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Jun 21, 2013 06:02
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Oh man. MARF may actually come back up...so then I can train more students...ugh. This shutdown has totally sucked.
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Jun 21, 2013 10:18
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gurragadon posted:So I'm just about finishing up prototype in Ballston Spa and I just go orders to the Ford. I guess its still in Newport News being built now. Anyone have any idea what to expect going to a ship that's still in construction? Yeah, we're still building it. Won't be delivered to 2016. I've lived in the Hampton Roads area since 2005. What exactly do you want to know about the area other than, Hampton blows and the HRBT (Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel) sucks for commutes?
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Jun 21, 2013 13:56
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DarkSol posted:Yeah, we're still building it. Won't be delivered to 2016. I've lived in the Hampton Roads area since 2005. What exactly do you want to know about the area other than, Hampton blows and the HRBT (Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel) sucks for commutes? I dunno is there anything fun to do around there? I'm from Richmond, VA so I already kind of knew the area sucked but I've never actually been there. What does delivered mean exactly vice when it launches? There is like a three year gap in between the two so I'm just kinda curious what we'll be doing in between for those three years. itsrobbiej posted:Oh man. MARF may actually come back up...so then I can train more students...ugh. This shutdown has totally sucked. Yeah I figured that it would never come back up at this point. Isn't it being shutdown again in late August or September though?
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Jun 21, 2013 14:54
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gurragadon posted:I dunno is there anything fun to do around there? I'm from Richmond, VA so I already kind of knew the area sucked but I've never actually been there. What does delivered mean exactly vice when it launches? There is like a three year gap in between the two so I'm just kinda curious what we'll be doing in between for those three years. Busch Gardens? Water Country USA? DC is three hours away. There are concerts, museums, etc. down here. Depends on what you like to do, I guess? Can always hang out with grover and some of us other Hampton Roads goons too. Delivered is when we formally give the "keys" to the Navy to the ship.
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Jun 22, 2013 01:05
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gurragadon posted:So I'm just about finishing up prototype in Ballston Spa and I just go orders to the Ford. I guess its still in Newport News being built now. Anyone have any idea what to expect going to a ship that's still in construction? my ford brother, and I'm S8G so I don't think he would know me (and there are 30? black people on site I think?)
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Jun 22, 2013 12:40
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gurragadon posted:Yeah I figured that it would never come back up at this point. Isn't it being shutdown again in late August or September though? I dunno. They don't know what they are doing right now. I heard more problems came up last night.
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Jun 22, 2013 14:23
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gurragadon posted:I dunno is there anything fun to do around there? I'm from Richmond, VA so I already kind of knew the area sucked but I've never actually been there. What does delivered mean exactly vice when it launches? There is like a three year gap in between the two so I'm just kinda curious what we'll be doing in between for those three years. There's really not a single redeeming quality about newport news. Uptown towards Yorktown/williamsburg is pretty cool, suffolk owns in a sit out back and get drunk around a bonfire kind of way. There are a few private beach areas that you can do the bonfire/booze thing at as well. This has been a pretty interesting thread to read as somebody going through the article 108 process. We've got a fair amount of navy guys that have to go the same school to get the qual and it's always a ball sitting around shooting the poo poo with them and hearing stories.
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Nothing gives me more satisfaction as a civilian than getting a job operating gas boilers and realizing all the bullshit they have you do in the nav is just that. Bullshit. Step by step procedures? HA! I push a button and for the most part just go sit on my rear end. Just thought I should share this.
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Jun 26, 2013 06:08
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Noeland posted:Nothing gives me more satisfaction as a civilian than getting a job operating gas boilers and realizing all the bullshit they have you do in the nav is just that. Bullshit. Step by step procedures? HA! I push a button and for the most part just go sit on my rear end. Just thought I should share this. to be fair i think a lot of their crazy rules helped the fact that we haven't had a pretty bad reactor incident yet v0v but a whole bunch of it can still gently caress off yea
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:Thanks Mr. Meowlins. I am going to take what you said and file the fep for sat rumor as plausible. i am a bout a week late but I just wanted to say that this was command policy at NPTU Charleston when I left. You required a good-low to not be on FEP. newport news: loving sucks. i get bored typing up all of the reasons so ill just say that pretend that youre walking down the street and about 50% of the people you see are either military or dependent. everyone else just glares at you. welcome to norfolk. bums suddenly ask you for money. Newport news was pretty nasty and crime-ridden. command policy was females had to have e-5 or above escort to leave the ship after dark, no one walks off of the shipyard alone after dark, and my shift had mandatory musters to walk to the parking lot together due to stabbings/muggings targeting sailors. my personal experience with that was nearly getting robbed by 4 dudes at a gas station at midnight right off the yard. NN is not a good place.
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Jun 27, 2013 03:43
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More Nuc baby ink! Find the mystery shape.  Ta-da! 
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Jun 29, 2013 23:11
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The 'fish' should be spitting out some 'water'. 
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Jun 29, 2013 23:31
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Daring tattoo for a kid without his fish, nub
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Jun 30, 2013 01:41
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It's not even the right kind of fish.
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Jun 30, 2013 02:53
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Yo, what's going on at NPTU Charleston? A bunch of our Chiefs and First Classes got their orders changed from NY to SC due to some sort of investigation, but no one knows what it's about. Any info you can share?
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Nptu is kickin rad. We got our bus taken away by the Air Force. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to have prefill students drive it. Now it takes forever to get to the parking lots.
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gurragadon posted:I dunno is there anything fun to do around there? I'm from Richmond, VA so I already kind of knew the area sucked but I've never actually been there. What does delivered mean exactly vice when it launches? There is like a three year gap in between the two so I'm just kinda curious what we'll be doing in between for those three years. What rate are you? I am also heading for the Ford, but I have been in the yards for 4 years doing this poo poo. Some minor poo poo is going to happen and there will be kneejerk reactions and make everyone do extra training and work longer hours. I heard they might be going to shift work at the end of the year. If you are not married or getting BAH, I am sure they will put you up in the barracks they maintain in Downtown Newport News or at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Either option blows. There is stuff to do around here. Depends on what you like.
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Assuming you are phase 3, you'll go to PCU school with me for 2 months, then the quals start while system turnover goes on, is the plan, but I'm the ~fresh from prototype~ type.
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White~Mage posted:What rate are you? I am also heading for the Ford, but I have been in the yards for 4 years doing this poo poo. Some minor poo poo is going to happen and there will be kneejerk reactions and make everyone do extra training and work longer hours. I heard they might be going to shift work at the end of the year. EM3 just finishing up prototype right now. I'm single so I assumed there wouldn't be any BAH going around unless I STAR which I don't plan on doing. Whats shift work like? The same at prototype shift work or do they have locked shifts? Yeah I know hopefully I get down there in time to go to bush gardens this year. Ryand-Smith posted:Assuming you are phase 3, you'll go to PCU school with me for 2 months, then the quals start while system turnover goes on, is the plan, but I'm the ~fresh from prototype~ type. They have phases again at the Ford? Figured after two years in the navy they wouldn't start doing that again. Or do the different phases mean something else there? Also your saying that we don't even start quals right away? I guess it would be cool go to PCU school whenever I get there but I head that electricians don't go. I'm also the fresh in prototype kinda guy, should be out but MARF being MARF and all. Grad date was July 12 so hopefully this week I can just go to board and go on leave if they don't end up taking it away.
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gurragadon posted:EM3 just finishing up prototype right now. I'm single so I assumed there wouldn't be any BAH going around unless I STAR which I don't plan on doing. Whats shift work like? The same at prototype shift work or do they have locked shifts? By phase he means when people show up at PCU. Initial manning is done in phases with phase 3 showing up in September timeframe. Phase 2 showed up in March. This has nothing to do with liberty.
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White~Mage posted:By phase he means when people show up at PCU. Initial manning is done in phases with phase 3 showing up in September timeframe. Phase 2 showed up in March. This has nothing to do with liberty. Haha ok good I was kind of freaking out for a minute about that then. I kind of figured it was something else though. Thanks for clarifying.
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A question: I've been talking with my recruiter, but I just want the forum's advice on this. I'm deciding to either go for the NROTC scholarship or to go into the enlisted Nuclear Field. I have the requirements for the NROTC and a 99 AFQT Score on the ASVAB, 271 on NUC.
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Blackbird Fly posted:A question: I've been talking with my recruiter, but I just want the forum's advice on this. I'm deciding to either go for the NROTC scholarship or to go into the enlisted Nuclear Field. I have the requirements for the NROTC and a 99 AFQT Score on the ASVAB, 271 on NUC. NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC NROTC
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The forums have spoken. Thank you.
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Take loans. Don't serve. 420 errday
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Ron Jeremy posted:Take loans. Don't serve. 420 errday
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Blackbird Fly posted:No, sorry. I don't like massive debt. Whatever your field is, you can take whatever the loans would cost you(plus interest) and plus the salary from the Navy and still come out ahead by getting a job in your field. Not to mention you won't be incredibly miserable for several years to start with. However if you're super-duper-let-me-join-the-military, there is a cake job that will fulfill "pay my debts" as well as "pay me while I'm in college" and ends up in a "I'm in the navy but been to sea" job: http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php?topic=3730.0
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Blackbird Fly posted:No, sorry. I don't like massive debt. If you really want to go Navy, remember that Navy hires a shitload of civilians and contractors, too. Last numbers I saw, the Navy workforce was actually about 1/3 military, 1/3 civilian and 1/3 contractor. Signing away many years of your life is not a very good option. Also, DO NOT NOT NOT NOT ENLIST WITH A DEGREE!
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I'm going to be That Guy and say that going NROTC may provide you with the minimal structure and concrete goal that some people need to get through college successfully. In retrospect it's the path I wish I'd taken. This is very personality dependent, though, and I have no idea if you can really tell when you're 17-18 years old. I'm assuming you're not in college yet. Similarly, enlisting for the GI Bill is an option if you really feel you need it, but it's still only going to put you in a state school. It's really only the right path if, again, you suspect you're going to turn into a screaming fuckup failing out a year into college without some structure and life experience under your belt. If you DO enlist just for the Bill, don't go nuke, it takes too long and will burn you out. Figure out the slackest job you think you can tolerate the idiocy of with the shortest commitment (this is often something like aviation electronics technician) and do that; the tech skills will be completely eclipsed by your college education so it's really just a matter of staying out of trouble and building human capital with life experiences.
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