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Nope. But if they're going to do something, they might as well go full retard.
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I'd rather have a sub with 8" guns than an LCS.
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Sep 15, 2014 02:42
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Seqenenra posted:I'd rather have a sub with 8" guns than an LCS. The LCS will get better by ship #8 I swear.
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Sep 15, 2014 14:25
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Angry Fish posted:The LCS will get better by ship #80 I swear.
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Sep 15, 2014 14:52
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seriously u guys the lcs is good just give it a shot jeez la weez. ok we cuttin it by 20 is that good enuff 4 u? - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
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Sep 15, 2014 15:47
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Phew think I may just make it 5 years without going to the Navy ball
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Sep 15, 2014 19:49
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Hey maybe I'll -- wait I have to buy medals for that? Nevermind then.
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Sep 15, 2014 20:12
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Think they're making it a "requirement" here
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Sep 15, 2014 20:13
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Christoff posted:Think they're making it a "requirement" here NIOC Maryland's used to be Mini-Medals. Those things are expensive as gently caress. Doesn't matter though. At long as you're wearing some medals you won't get hassled because enlisted are going to be enlisted and claim ignorance. even then, one or two assholes will just show up in ribbons and be like :iamafag:
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Sep 15, 2014 20:39
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Christoff posted:Think they're making it a "requirement" here I'm aiming for five years without the Navy or HM ball. So far so good.
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Sep 15, 2014 21:09
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Pandasmores posted:HM ball please tell me this is real
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Sep 16, 2014 03:38
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MancXVI posted:please tell me this is real Yeah around June 17th. Lots of history/pride/etc. They make it a big loving deal and it's usually a voluntold event. (and mini medals!) Haven't gone to one yet
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Sep 16, 2014 03:43
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Christoff posted:Phew think I may just make it 5 years without going to the Navy ball it's been 18+. Never been and will not. 'They' (whoever is 'making it mandatory' cannot make you buy "optional" uniform items or tickets.
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Sep 16, 2014 08:29
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I think they always make the "You're going or you're on the working party!" threat. But then it's always at a catered venue 
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Sep 16, 2014 08:31
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It's mandatory shipmates. Ok if you didn't buy tickets you're on duty tonight Ok everyone that's not normally on duty can go home Repeat for 4 years Rx_dept.txt
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Sep 16, 2014 10:57
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MancXVI posted:please tell me this is real Usually leads to people having to get a hotel room too, which isn't fraternization because the HM2s and HM1s you're cool with drinking with you for the night are working on sailorization. Also lol at the fact that the CO just put out that NOFFS isn't mandatory for the command after work, but the LPOs have made it mandatory. This is laughable. Apparently it only becomes an actual workout at the higher levels, the ones we're doing aren't even causing us to break a sweat, just looking at each other in confusion because the exercises have you go into weird positions a lot of believe will break you after a while because we're bending in ways we don't think the human body is meant to bend during exercise. The gently caress is this poo poo meant for? Ship life?
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Sep 16, 2014 15:14
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KetTarma posted:It's mandatory shipmates. I always just told people I bought tickets from someone else. Nobody ever checked up on it. Then I got out. 6 years - no Navy Ball, no HM Ball, no MC Ball. All of which were at one point 'mandatory.'
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If you didn't show up to one of the functions you were expected to, you'd get a one on one sit down with the captain the next day typically. If you make an rear end of yourself at one, just a chat with the XO. If you were there for five minutes and bounced out, you'd get a bit of poo poo in the wardroom the next day but ultimately nothing else. If I had enough of a scowl on my face people just ignored me and I could slip out easy, but skipping any dinner events in the admirals backyard was definitely not an option. Heaven forbid if you weren't in loving crisp aloha as well. I miss driving ships. I don't miss that type of bullshit.
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Sep 16, 2014 16:41
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Well if you spent your whole life making horrible decisions you'd tell people to be your mando-friend too.
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Sep 16, 2014 16:45
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SPACE HOMOS posted:Well if you spent your whole life being making horrible decisions you'd tell people to be your mando-friend too. During one of my first fitrep debriefs as an officer I was told that I was failing in my officer development because I didn't socialize more with the wardroom.
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Sep 16, 2014 16:52
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Mr. Nice! posted:During one of my first fitrep debriefs as an officer I was told that I was failing in my officer development because I didn't socialize more with the wardroom. lol
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I was a Corpsman, there's far too many of us for anybody to care individually on that level.
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Mr. Nice! posted:During one of my first fitrep debriefs as an officer I was told that I was failing in my officer development because I didn't socialize more with the wardroom. 
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Mr. Nice! posted:During one of my first fitrep debriefs as an officer I was told that I was failing in my officer development because I didn't socialize more with the wardroom. what a shitbag, not wanting to spend your very little free time away from the navy pretending to give a gently caress about worktalk and terrible unfunny jokes. or maybe this is just the fellow swos I know. something about it attracts very particular levels of douche.
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Triad relieved on the USS James E WilliamsBusiness Insider posted:The three top leaders of the guided missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG-95) have been removed and reassigned halfway through the ship's deployment pending the outcome of an investigation into "command climate," the Navy said in a news release Tuesday. I would like to think there is a rather pedestrian reason but, another part of me really wants a hosed up reason for this to have happened.
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So, for a normal change of command, they usually make a big ceremony out of it (at least ashore), where the outgoing and incoming COs read their orders and give speeches and there's cake and all that. What do they do in cases like this? Do it at morning quarters? All hands email? Not say anything and suddenly there's just the deputy commodore up there driving the boat one day?
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Wingnut Ninja posted:So, for a normal change of command, they usually make a big ceremony out of it (at least ashore), where the outgoing and incoming COs read their orders and give speeches and there's cake and all that. What do they do in cases like this? Do it at morning quarters? All hands email? Not say anything and suddenly there's just the deputy commodore up there driving the boat one day? Note it in the log, pass it at quarters that the people were relieved, and then pretend like it didn't happen and go nuts when the spouse association starts posting random details from whatever incident started all of it
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Sep 18, 2014 04:22
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Must have been some shady poo poo reported in the command climate survey would be my guess.
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krispykremessuck posted:Note it in the log, pass it at quarters that the people were relieved, and then pretend like it didn't happen and go nuts when the spouse association starts posting random details from whatever incident started all of it Friend on the Cowpens said the new CO got on the 1MC in the morning and said he was the CO now. This was after Graf.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:So, for a normal change of command, they usually make a big ceremony out of it (at least ashore), where the outgoing and incoming COs read their orders and give speeches and there's cake and all that. What do they do in cases like this? Do it at morning quarters? All hands email? Not say anything and suddenly there's just the deputy commodore up there driving the boat one day? They didn't do poo poo cept for the CO saying 'bye' on the 1mc and the new CO saying 'Hi' on my boat. Also the CoB quietly left.
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Sir Lucius posted:Must have been some shady poo poo reported in the command climate survey would be my guess. Nope. Sailor suicide. Also the "XO" in the news story in the Navy times is in no way involved. By all accounts JSW is one of the best ships on the waterfront. The report message reads MUCH differently than the Navy Times Article.
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If the XO was truly innocent, then they probably would have just accelerated his taking command. There was something that implicated him as well that we're just not seeing.
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poopkitty posted:Nope. Sailor suicide. Also the "XO" in the news story in the Navy times is in no way involved. By all accounts JSW is one of the best ships on the waterfront. The report message reads MUCH differently than the Navy Times Article. How in the gently caress did Enterprise have 2 successful suicides and 2 attempted on deployment and Mewborne not get relieved?
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Mr. Nice! posted:If the XO was truly innocent, then they probably would have just accelerated his taking command. There was something that implicated him as well that we're just not seeing. They're still conducting the investigation and they don't want him on board until it's over.
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poopkitty posted:They're still conducting the investigation and they don't want him on board until it's over. That makes sense.
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Mr. Nice! posted:If the XO was truly innocent, then they probably would have just accelerated his taking command. There was something that implicated him as well that we're just not seeing. The XO on my boat was passed over for command because of our incident. The whole thing pretty much went down on his watch because the CO was on leave.
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I think it's a god drat shame that the Williams' trigraph isn't JEW instead of JSW. Missed opportunity for a good chuckle on various message traffic, imo
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DownByTheWooter posted:I think it's a god drat shame that the Williams' trigraph isn't JEW instead of JSW. Missed opportunity for a good chuckle on various message traffic, imo It was a deliberate decision, I assure you. That didn't stop me from listing them as such on all internal items when we were discussing their TLAM cert though.
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ded posted:The XO on my boat was passed over for command because of our incident. The whole thing pretty much went down on his watch because the CO was on leave. That sucks, especially since the whole thing pretty much falls on the person's coworkers looking for signs and stuff, and even then you can't quite tell if someone's going to kill themselves just by affect alone. Some people keep that poo poo secret, especially when they don't want to be seen as some whiney broke dick just trying to get out of work. CO/XO/CoB probably don't even know the dude(s). I'd imagine if there's places to hide and gently caress there's most certainly places to kill yourself, and hell you have all of the ocean to jump into.
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Pandasmores posted:especially when they don't want to be seen as some whiney broke dick just trying to get out of work This seems like the sort of thing that might result from a poor command climate.
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