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Hey guys. I found this cool new hip website for us active duty and vet folk. It's called the buying up your fellow veterans forclosed misery site! http://listings.vrmco.com/ Seriously, get a house from foreclosed properties that the VA is selling. I think I'm going to move to the south side of chicago into my $6,500 dream home.
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Also, this guy: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/14/google-glass-user-treated-addiction-withdrawal-symptoms US Navy servicemember gets addicted to using Google Glass, and thus kickstarting some academic's career writing about his poor apparel electronics addiction. quote:He said he was “going through withdrawal from his Google Glass”, Doan explained, adding: “He said the Google Glass withdrawal was greater than the alcohol withdrawal he was experiencing.” How would you deal with this sort of SARP case? Firstly, he is an alcoholic. Then he comes up with yet another excuse to be at SARP: he can't live without his Google Thing! A Bad King fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Analogical posted:So I'm TDY somewhere there's no Navy, or even any DoD, for six months. Obviously my PRT was bound to be an issue. Talked to my chain and told them about it, they say its cool, so naturally I'm skeptical as poo poo. Find another sailor who's also going and found out he put in an SRC and a copy of his travel orders. I do the same and turn it in. "Oh, thanks." Should've hosed each and every one of them so they don't look as good as they're trying to make themselves look. This is how irresponsible people eventually become responsible over naive juniors and continuously gently caress up until retirement. One of the LPOs here used to ask the BJOQ/BJOY, the JSOQ/JSOY, or any sailor that looked motivated (loving retarded/stupid) enough to help her out with paying for her two kids while her baby daddy ran around. Came out when one of the dudes that's on his way out asked me if this was normal at this command and one of the newer dudes from overseas who gave her a grand heard him asking. Chits just piling up on her desk, requesting new ones when she knew they would ask questions about the length of time between submission to approval and the shredding of some to pretty much cover her own rear end until retirement.
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In jury selection today we had a venireperson who told us she couldn't be a juror because she was going to visit her fiancee in north carolina who is "in the navy" during the trial dates. As she walked out of the courtroom, we noticed she was wearing his dogtags as a necklace. Will take the Vegas odds she has one of these before this time next year. God I hate Navy Wives. Not necessarily wives of people in the Navy...but Navy Wives (TM). ActusRhesus fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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ActusRhesus posted:Will take the Vagas odds she has one of these before this time next year.  how convenient
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MancXVI posted:
well yeah, I mean when the ship goes out you can't be broadcasting that Mrs. poo poo, right? PS I know someone who actually has one of these hideous creations. Every time I see it I want to light it on fire.
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ActusRhesus posted:Every time I see it I want to light it on fire. Do it.
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Helldump Immunity. posted:Do it. I only get to see it on facesbook. 
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ActusRhesus posted:well yeah, I mean when the ship goes out you can't be broadcasting that Mrs. poo poo, right? Every hambeast in Yokosuka has one. And yes, they broadcast that shizz. I can always tell the carrier schedule based on the wife FB page. I finally took myself out of there because they called me a "mean girl" for posting instructions and debunking "he said, she said" BS.
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poopkitty posted:Every hambeast in Yokosuka has one. And yes, they broadcast that shizz. I can always tell the carrier schedule based on the wife FB page. I finally took myself out of there because they called me a "mean girl" for posting instructions and debunking "he said, she said" BS. You're in Yoko? I miss it there. Since you seem like a decent mug, will let you in on a secret: Have you ever been to Romani? Go to the J side of blue street, up towards the (I think it's a) hospital. it's a little restaurant down a really terrifying set of stairs. Seriously, you will feel like you're about to be asked to put the lotion on its skin. Excellent food, (lamb chaps [sic] in particular) not complete dicks to gaijin, in fact rather friendly, and Shin-san is a kick rear end bartender. Most importantly, you will probably be the only Navy there, so you don't have to deal with honch drama. It was our most closely held secret. After I PCSd my husband pretty much became their resident "Norm." Awesome place. Tell no one. Or at least no one who will gently caress it up.
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ActusRhesus posted:You're in Yoko? I miss it there. Since you seem like a decent mug, will let you in on a secret: Have you ever been to Romani? Go to the J side of blue street, up towards the (I think it's a) hospital. it's a little restaurant down a really terrifying set of stairs. Seriously, you will feel like you're about to be asked to put the lotion on its skin. Excellent food, (lamb chaps [sic] in particular) not complete dicks to gaijin, in fact rather friendly, and Shin-san is a kick rear end bartender. Most importantly, you will probably be the only Navy there, so you don't have to deal with honch drama. It was our most closely held secret. After I PCSd my husband pretty much became their resident "Norm." Awesome place. Tell no one. Or at least no one who will gently caress it up. Nice. I generally avoid Yoko like the plague, (outside of work, obvs) but I will check it out.
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poopkitty posted:Nice. I generally avoid Yoko like the plague, (outside of work, obvs) but I will check it out. yeah...no good comes of the Honch. Oh, and matchpoint in zushi is decent also. Tuna avocado bruscetta omnomnomnom. It's a shame my command were such toolbags, because there was a lot to like about Japan...that was all overshadowed by my overwhelming desire to stab everyone around me. Where are you specifically, and how long have you been there? I can give you some other things worth checking out...but really Romani is my #1 recommendation.
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ActusRhesus posted:yeah...no good comes of the Honch. Oh, and matchpoint in zushi is decent also. Tuna avocado bruscetta omnomnomnom. Matchpoint French toast is divine. Been here a few years now, we get around pretty well.
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poopkitty posted:Matchpoint French toast is divine. Been here a few years now, we get around pretty well. OK, then I won't bore you with a map...but Sugis in Roppongi is also great for gigantic american breakfasts.
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Thank god I only have until August in Japan, I really tried to like the place, and it was pretty cool, but gently caress if everyone in the chain of command isn't super loving uptight. It doesn't help being one of like 3 E-5s here out of around 100 people. There's 4 people lower ranked than me I think, 6 first classes, and other than that it's all CPOs and up.
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orange juche posted:Thank god I only have until August in Japan, I really tried to like the place, and it was pretty cool, but gently caress if everyone in the chain of command isn't super loving uptight. It doesn't help being one of like 3 E-5s here out of around 100 people. There's 4 people lower ranked than me I think, 6 first classes, and other than that it's all CPOs and up. Yeah...it could be an awesome place and it is, in cycles, but the liberty policies, especially for junior people, suck depending on who's in charge. I used to play rugby with the USS [REDACTED] and it killed me that we had really stand up, smart, non shitbag guys on the team who I had to play taxi for because god forbid we let an E-5 drive (unless he gets married to a buy me drinkie girl, moves into base housing, and now gets TWO cars.) The curfews etc. are really infantilizing.
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Look at these anime loving shitbirds.
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So about five years back, the office needed to send someone TAD to get a return on their investment in a new E-2 so this Seaman Apprentice could be trained and get up to speed on his duties, because the workcenter didn't want him going to his first Advancement Exam in March empty-handed. He spend most of the work-up detachments in S-2, which is colloquially known as Team Food Service (TFS), where FSAs worked pretty much bussing tables and cleaning the mess decks. They decided to put me in his place in the next TAD Turnaround cycle, around October. "Just 30 days," the chief told me. "We're going to try to get them to remove that requirement from the department." It was with great glee that they saw me leave for TAD. Not so much because I was not respected, but because they believed it would be very amusing to see me with one of those white classy caps in a scullery or placing bowls of salad here and there. Things didn't work out that way, because instead I was sent to S-5. S-5 has three workcenters: 03 Level (where I was), 02 Level, and 2nd & 3rd Deck. The purpose of S-5 is the general cleanliness and maintenance of Officer Staterooms and Heads. I was there for 2 months. I was working the night shift from 1800-0600 until I transferred in February. During this time, I was, for the most part, completely without the use of a computer, much to the dislike of my then girlfriend. She called it "janitor duty," although it was more housekeeping than anything else. Very routine work, somewhat medium-level of sweat and grease involved during heavy maintenance on heads during zone inspections, but nothing really out of regularity or stress-inducing. I didn't mind the work. The people I had to work with left quite a lot to be desired. Best part of being there was first dibs at chow, as well as discovering all the pornography magazines that the male pilots kept in their staterooms. Good stuff. In the Spirit of Festivus, I shall air my grievances to these individuals. All proceeds shall be donated in your name to the Human Fund. The Human Fund: Money for People. ATAN: The last name rhymes with Fail, and that's exactly the kind of person this individual has come to epitomize. Having spent the regular three months TAD to S-2, his squadron pulled their personnel from S-5 after his three months only to transfer him to S-5 for three additional months of TAD. He’d already been to NJP once, and his lack of effort to maintain his spaces or to even show up on time garnered several written counselings and even being put on report for his skating off (dereliction of duties). Suffice to say, his own command has written him off, and plain doesn't want him around. He’s a lost cause and an unworthy gain. ABFAN: A short, scrawny kid with more porn than brains. His belligerent attitude and argumentative nature is only matched with his disrespect for anyone telling him to do anything, regardless of paygrade, save the workcenter supervisor directly. His belief that anyone who works on the flight deck is superior to anyone who works below fails when contrasted to the fact that his rate dictates that he’s little more than a self-glorifying gas station attendant. He routinely sleeps during working hours by only checking half of his rooms every day (rotating the half so rooms are checked once every two days). He attempts to validate his overall pathetic effort by convincing himself that being TAD to S-5 is a vacation from his department, and he chooses to treat it as such. His three counseling chits in 2 months illustrate just how this is seen. He wasn't very bright, and asked me, of all people, to defragment his personal hard drive using my laptop. After copying everything he had to my own library, I discovered quite a lot of pictures sent to him by his fiancée. They were nice. I was a sociopath. EMFN: A good-working electrician who tends not to take direction well from anyone on any equal paygrade to himself. His refusal to do his in-rate work on top of his normal duties as VIP custodian due to the many electrical problems in a number of staterooms (bad wiring on some light fixtures mainly) had become a sore point to the S-5 chain of command that would see him in the scullery. ABFAN: A honest worker, but had issues with punctuality. If the man can find himself a goddamned watch he’ll get through the Navy fine. He’s one half of the O-5 team, who is in charge of O-5 Staterooms and took care of a Head additionally when EMFN was in a week-long indoctrination classroom without complaint. GM3: The blood cousin of the workcenter supervisor. The coincidence is astounding. As such, there’s a bit of nepotism at play because he is consistently backed up by the Workcenter supervisor. His attitude towards those he doesn't consider his friends is usually snide, backed up with sarcastic comments. He is compelled to tell everyone around him every event that has occurred, with every hope being the outward embarrassment of the individual. Despite what can be viewed as a conflict of interests, he was made “head FSA” when I left S-5. ABHAN: The token woman of the workcenter, and thus the OB. Her routine duties included logging laundry to ensure quality control that everything sent came back, and ordering supplies to keep our store rooms stocked. Besides doing that, she’s taken a great deal of interest in cheating on her boyfriend (An AO in NAS Lemoore) with someone in my command (Another AO; I don’t know the deal between some women and their fetish for AOs). This is where things get interesting, mostly because I was a nosy bastard and I liked to know as much as I can about the people I work with. I don’t mind a lot of things. I’m pretty centered and pretty apathetic about most things. Two things get on my mind and somehow weasel their way through my emotional stability to frustrate me. One is substance abuse -- namely people who get drunk and become idiots; the other happens to be infidelity of any sort, but especially when it’s underhanded. So ABHAN became a person to be on my bad side. No one spoke up about it in the office. No one claimed that her e-mails between the Boat AO, turning from friendly to flirtatious to overtly sexual, while still claiming about her “boyfriend” in Lemoore, were wrong at any moral level. So I became obligated--morally obligated—to intervene. Using NKO, I was able to isolate the boyfriend’s e-mail, because I knew his name. I sent an e-mail to the guy, got a reply from him, and entered into a short correspondence, gauging his own feelings concerning his relationship, before spilling the beans about everything that had been going on between his girlfriend and the dude on the ship, and left it at that. I got frocked like one week later to PO2, and got transferred back to my command and never looked back at the mess I left. Hell, I left the ship a month later, so I never even got to see the fallout at all.
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Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:Look at these anime loving shitbirds. Pot, kettle.
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You remind me of me when I was on the boat. I enjoyed your stories, and look forward to more.
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Navy for the win: my kid was hospitalized a week ago and was there for five days total. The command said they were gonna try to send me home, but didn't feel like coming in over the weekend to actually care. So yesterday they tell me I am going home today even though he's out of the hospital and I told them there was no point of me going. So here I am at Jax Intl waiting on a plane. I did get to ride an Osprey back to Mayport though.
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Anybody ever been stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling? I got orders there and need some advice on where (not) to live in the surrounding area. I heard Alexandria is nice, but pricey. Single E-5 BAH for price reference.
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germskr posted:Anybody ever been stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling? I got orders there and need some advice on where (not) to live in the surrounding area. I heard Alexandria is nice, but pricey. Single E-5 BAH for price reference. All I know about Annacostia is my old rugby team used their park for matches and had to cancel more than one game due to the presence of corpses.
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ActusRhesus posted:All I know about Annacostia is my old rugby team used their park for matches and had to cancel more than one game due to the presence of corpses. What club did you play for in that area?
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ActusRhesus posted:All I know about Annacostia is my old rugby team used their park for matches and had to cancel more than one game due to the presence of corpses. Sounds like the perfect timing to go there with Halloween coming up and all.
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ActusRhesus posted:All I know about Annacostia is my old rugby team used their park for matches and had to cancel more than one game due to the presence of corpses. Yeah, SE part of DC has a reputation. How long ago was this?
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germskr posted:Yeah, SE part of DC has a reputation. How long ago was this? 2006. And I played for the Furies, and guest played for the Renegades a few times as the token chick.
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germskr posted:Anybody ever been stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling? I got orders there and need some advice on where (not) to live in the surrounding area. I heard Alexandria is nice, but pricey. Single E-5 BAH for price reference. I work across the street from the base, but yeah Alexandria or Arlington are your best bet as a single guy. There's a lot of girls here, like disproportionately so. Traffic here sucks dick and I know a lot of people who commute 1.5 hours each way. I live in Alexandria and it' a 20 min drive in the morning, 35 in afternoon. I just take the metro back and it's about an hour from the base to Alexandria. It's $3.50 for a one way metro ride. You can find a good 1 bedroom apartment for about 1500 or a studio for a 1000. Expect to pay a $100 more a month for parking. E-5 BAH here is I think about 2100. Trust me, don't commute too far, don't live in northern DC or east of the Potomac, but I like it here as there's a lot of things to do.
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ActusRhesus posted:2006. And I played for the Furies, and guest played for the Renegades a few times as the token chick. Cool. What position? I'm just asking because I played in college and in a men's club when I was stationed at NAS Whidbey for the first time.
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Rbear posted:I work across the street from the base, but yeah Alexandria or Arlington are your best bet as a single guy. There's a lot of girls here, like disproportionately so. Traffic here sucks dick and I know a lot of people who commute 1.5 hours each way. I live in Alexandria and it' a 20 min drive in the morning, 35 in afternoon. I just take the metro back and it's about an hour from the base to Alexandria. It's $3.50 for a one way metro ride. You can find a good 1 bedroom apartment for about 1500 or a studio for a 1000. Expect to pay a $100 more a month for parking. E-5 BAH here is I think about 2100. Trust me, don't commute too far, don't live in northern DC or east of the Potomac, but I like it here as there's a lot of things to do. Awesome info, thanks.
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Of course! I just got stationed here 3 months ago myself. Let me know if you have more questions.
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vulturesrow posted:Cool. What position? I'm just asking because I played in college and in a men's club when I was stationed at NAS Whidbey for the first time. Hooker and Flanker. What team? I was in Bremerton for a bit circa 2005.
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If you refuse to obliserv, do they generally cancel your orders and stick you somewhere else instead? I got my new orders a few months ago and my admin told me I had 10 days to decide and return the paperwork. Due to several factors (not caring, going away to TAD and forgetting about it, wanting more time to decide, etc) I have yet to turn in these obliserve papers and I'm about 2.5 months away from PRD. If I tell them to gently caress off, what are the chances orders get cancelled?
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Doctor Sex Butts posted:If you refuse to obliserv, do they generally cancel your orders and stick you somewhere else instead? I got my new orders a few months ago and my admin told me I had 10 days to decide and return the paperwork. Due to several factors (not caring, going away to TAD and forgetting about it, wanting more time to decide, etc) I have yet to turn in these obliserve papers and I'm about 2.5 months away from PRD. If I tell them to gently caress off, what are the chances orders get cancelled? If the orders have an obliserv component written into them, and you don't obliserv then your chances of getting orders cancelled are roughly 100%. Last minute replacement orders are poo poo too, so think before telling admin to eat all the dicks.
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ActusRhesus posted:Hooker and Flanker. What team? I was in Bremerton for a bit circa 2005. A team a friend of mine from the Naval Academy started up. We were the Whidbey Island RFC but it's since gone the way of the dodo. We actually played in the British Columbia union because it was a lot more convenient travel wise. That was around 01-04. I actually left there in summer of 04.
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ActusRhesus posted:Hooker and Flanker. What team? I was in Bremerton for a bit circa 2005. Rugby's fun as hell, or at least was until it crippled me.
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Doctor Sex Butts posted:If you refuse to obliserv, do they generally cancel your orders and stick you somewhere else instead? I got my new orders a few months ago and my admin told me I had 10 days to decide and return the paperwork. Due to several factors (not caring, going away to TAD and forgetting about it, wanting more time to decide, etc) I have yet to turn in these obliserve papers and I'm about 2.5 months away from PRD. If I tell them to gently caress off, what are the chances orders get cancelled? As orange juche said, if you don't OBLISERV, you don't transfer. They'll cancel your orders, and it's likely they'll just extend you in place until your EAOS, rather than expend funds to move you somewhere else. If you aren't a career guy (and you're heading to shore duty), best option is to reenlist for the minimum amount of time to meet the OBLISERV, transfer, then focus on school or whatever the gently caress you're doing. Oh, or just tell them you want to separate and start the transition process immediately. That'll go over well I'm sure, but whatever.
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