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maffew buildings posted:I'm going to give her power of attorney, because I'm going to be deployed and in case anything important happens I need her to make the decisions for me. don't get fleeced
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She's got this great friend Jody, I know he'll be able to look after her while I'm gone 
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orange juche posted:Q: get out of navy yes/no, ive got a year left in my contract, any orders i take i will need to obliserv for. my teacher orders got cancelled, and I haven't obliserved yet, so I am at that wonderful part of career where all options are open. well you can't really criticize ol maffew here if you don't get out yourself
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krispykremessuck posted:well you can't really criticize ol maffew here if you don't get out yourself It's not really a question of what do, more a question of when do.
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Mar 30, 2015 04:38
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So when it's okay to be a lady-boy or a boy-lady in the Nav can a male say his hair identifies gender-wise as a female and thusly be permitted to grow it long?
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Mar 30, 2015 04:44
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maffew buildings posted:I'm going to give her power of attorney, because I'm going to be deployed and in case anything important happens I need her to make the decisions for me. Make sure it's a general power of attorney.
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Mar 30, 2015 06:33
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maffew buildings posted:No need to advance when you die in a training accident though gently caress the dumb poo poo ruin your career in New Orleans. Also learn how to Ocean fish in the gulf. Best part of the country for eating if you ignore the various health implications of eating from the same waters that deepwater happened in.
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Dingleberry posted:So when it's okay to be a lady-boy or a boy-lady in the Nav can a male say his hair identifies gender-wise as a female and thusly be permitted to grow it long? Give it a year. I'm sure one will slip by in MEPS.
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Mar 30, 2015 08:44
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Dingleberry posted:So when it's okay to be a lady-boy or a boy-lady in the Nav can a male say his hair identifies gender-wise as a female and thusly be permitted to grow it long? God I hope not. Then someone will try and hold me accountable for my high fade that I don't cut very often. Or make me go to the salon instead of the barber (where they look at me like I'm crazy because I have boobs) and I'll have to pay literally 3x as much for the same haircut.
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Mar 30, 2015 10:36
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Null Integer posted:Give it a year. I'm sure one will slip by in MEPS. Had an admitted preopp transgended whore in my boot division. He was on hormone treatment, grew boobies and was turning marine tricks (they knew) in TeXas. Decided he wanted to see the world. Went off the treatment and shrank up. All good for MEPs.
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Mar 30, 2015 11:50
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Checking into the Navy thread after 30 days of freedom. Feels good, mang. Got my first retirement check, and realized just how bad a deal that Survivor Benefit Plan turns out to be. I should have just purchased a large $1mil term life plan for the same amount of money.
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LingcodKilla posted:Had an admitted preopp transgended whore in my boot division. He was on hormone treatment, grew boobies and was turning marine tricks (they knew) in TeXas. drat marines, why am I not surprized, look at their wives ffs.
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Mar 30, 2015 13:13
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Dingleberry posted:So when it's okay to be a lady-boy or a boy-lady in the Nav can a male say his hair identifies gender-wise as a female and thusly be permitted to grow it long? "Chief, I'm a nocturnal otherkin sloth stuck in a human body, and these watches are triggering me."
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Angry Fish posted:Checking into the Navy thread after 30 days of freedom. Feels good, mang. So 20 years, worth it?
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Howard Phillips posted:So 20 years, worth it? He got medically retired for being broke as poo poo. Speaking of medical things, my sleep apnea test came back positive. I hear that's 50%. I'm absolutely okay with that.
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PneumonicBook posted:He got medically retired for being broke as poo poo. Keep using the machine if they give you one, some people get the machine and never use it again. It logs your usage which a lot of people don't know. The mask is bulky at first but they can upgrade you after a while for a more comfortable one.
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Pandasmores posted:Keep using the machine if they give you one, some people get the machine and never use it again. It logs your usage which a lot of people don't know. The mask is bulky at first but they can upgrade you after a while for a more comfortable one. Yea I fully intend to. Years of feeling like poo poo in the morning is plenty. PneumonicBook fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Been rollercoastering with the detailer/CCs the past three weeks, not helping that my year group is 126% over-manned for my NEC, I don't qualify for conversion to another language or a DIRSUP billet, and my options were: Re-enlist CTI Crossrate CTN Blue to Green What kills me is the JSOC programs that take 35Ps and 1N3s, but won't take a CTI. None of them know the reason for that either and were surprised when I mentioned it. Two of them were really interested in me because of my training/instructor record but weren't able to take me unless I was a CTN for what I'm good at. The Chief from TIO more or less told me to gently caress myself slowly from behind even though I'm an instructor in classes his personnel have to fly to us to take on a regular basis. Command pushed me to go for CTN, since that's what they basically made me train into anyway sans operations, but the DoD won't pay for any of my certs like Sec+, CCNA or CEH so it's coming out of my pocket to possibly pass, I'm spending 600 this month alone on them. The CTNCM tech advisor said they aren't taking E5 crossrates from any year group but 2009 and 2008 unless I can convince him over email that I know something about cybersecurity and show him some certificates to back it up. So, he said to email once I get CCNA. According to my CC, my options are CTM or get out (For jobs that retain use of a TS and my work experience, arguably my best asset). However, with terminal leave I'm not out until next November. I'm in my PRD window, but I'm also about to fail my last DLPT (You can fail 3 in a row) at which point I'm forced to reclass unless the CO lets me ride out my final 18 months as a CTI. They asked why I keep failing and I was like, I dunno man, I haven't used Arabic in three years and you have me doing this other thing. I was going to re-enlist if I could go CTN, now I'm curious if I'll get sent to CTM until I'm out since it's only a 4 month school or if I'll stay where I am and gracefully fade away. My civilian chain finds it all pretty interesting since they didn't even know I was a linguist to begin with, though it does feel weird to essentially be told I'm getting fired. I wish I was an E4, the CTNs are swallowing up E4 crossrates but I had the misfortune to get promoted to the untouchable caste. tl;dr whatever, at least I've got my post 9/11 and know contractors. I've got savings and it's not the end of the world to be pushed out. Analogical fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Mar 30, 2015 |
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Analogical posted:Been rollercoastering with the detailer/CCs the past three weeks, not helping that my year group is 126% over-manned for my NEC, I don't qualify for conversion to another language or a DIRSUP billet, and my options were: Get masted? Seems to work for a lot of boots over here at Corry trying to go from e3 to e2 or even e1 undesignated. I hear its not so bad because you get to experience all of the jobs before you pick a new one! Actually that sounds like a huge bummer and I hope it works out for you. It's kinda amazing how little some of this stuff makes sense.
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Analogical posted:Been rollercoastering with the detailer/CCs the past three weeks, not helping that my year group is 126% over-manned for my NEC, I don't qualify for conversion to another language or a DIRSUP billet, and my options were: I've got a CTI friend who was in the same type of job position as you. Crossrated to CTN and did fantastically in the school. Having a CCNA is waaaay overkill for the A school. Run the paperwork and see what happens? Navy COOL won't pick up the certifications for CTIs?
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Laranzu posted:I've got a CTI friend who was in the same type of job position as you. Crossrated to CTN and did fantastically in the school. Having a CCNA is waaaay overkill for the A school. Run the paperwork and see what happens? Navy COOL won't pick up the certifications for CTIs? That's not surprising. Navy COOL is in a lot of ways awful, for instance I'm an Aegis Networking Tech, my job is dealing with Red Hat and Cisco Routers. Will COOL pay for a RHSCA or a CCNA or gently caress even Net+? No, of course not, I'm an FC, I explode things. 
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I'm going to grab Net+ and Sec+ next month, I know networking in and out, CCNA will require a lot of intense study outside fundamentals and universal concepts. I did think it seemed like overkill because I've seen the JCAC material and I think Net/Sec should be more than enough to show enough aptitude to pass, especially when I already know Python and C. I think I'm competing for one of ten available E5 billets. I was hoping he'd know the DoD classes I have certificates from, because one of them is a 3000 level 500-hour network analysis course, I'd have thought that'd be enough. I'm sure in some admin-backend way that it makes sense from a big-picture view, or maybe it still doesn't. I just hope I don't go through all these certs to be told to jerk myself off because while they're beneficial to have either way, I don't need them to get a contractor job at what I do. It feels weird that contractors are like "Yeah man we got you!" and for a little more extra cash even after taxes, but I have to pay out of my own pocket to convince the Navy of the same thing. On the bright side if I do get out, it means I can dedicate my attention to finishing my degree and if I want to I could always join the non-scholarship ROTC for reserve or nat guard and still be a weekend warrior in addition to contracting. Might sell my truck though to cut on bills while I'm in school.
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Angry Fish posted:realized just how bad a deal that Survivor Benefit Plan turns out to be. I should have just purchased a large $1mil term life plan for the same amount of money. And when you turn it down they counsel the poo poo out of you. My husband is retiring next month and I have a year left. SBP made NO sense for us. We BOTH had to go get counseled by a PSC with less time than us and a non-working green card holding spouse. We just sat through it, said "thanks, we're good" and walked out with our signature. Stupid.
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poopkitty posted:And when you turn it down they counsel the poo poo out of you. My husband is retiring next month and I have a year left. SBP made NO sense for us. We BOTH had to go get counseled by a PSC with less time than us and a non-working green card holding spouse. We just sat through it, said "thanks, we're good" and walked out with our signature. Stupid. I be never actually looked at it because I've never thought to I guess. Whys it terrible?
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PneumonicBook posted:I be never actually looked at it because I've never thought to I guess. Whys it terrible? It's a considerable amount of money lost. It's a percentage, so YMMV, but basically you're giving the Government a cut of your retirement money on the off chance that you die before your spouse. Then your spouse will get 50% of your retirement for the rest of HIS/HER life. If you retire at 40, and live until 70? Terrible deal. But the military requires that your spouse sign the form acknowledging that they understand that you are turning down SBP.
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Analogical posted:Been rollercoastering with the detailer/CCs the past three weeks, not helping that my year group is 126% over-manned for my NEC, I don't qualify for conversion to another language or a DIRSUP billet, and my options were: I doubt sincerely they send you to a school even if you do cross rate. You won't satisfy the minimum time on station obligation to take any follow on orders. I don't think you go anywhere without an extension/re-enlistment. With that said, 
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poopkitty posted:It's a considerable amount of money lost. It's a percentage, so YMMV, but basically you're giving the Government a cut of your retirement money on the off chance that you die before your spouse. Then your spouse will get 50% of your retirement for the rest of HIS/HER life. If you retire at 40, and live until 70? Terrible deal. But the military requires that your spouse sign the form acknowledging that they understand that you are turning down SBP. PneumonicBook posted:I be never actually looked at it because I've never thought to I guess. Whys it terrible? It's actually 55% of your retirement pay, which amounts to more-or-less $800 a month. You are "fully vested" after 35 years of paying 15% of your entire retirement savings for your spouse, plus another 10% per kid. Your divorced wife can still be the beneficiary of this plan unless and until you remarry. If you sign up for it, you cannot sign out of it unless two years have passed and that is your only window for signing out of this bad deal. The only way to avoid this bullocks is to listen to the counseling session on why it is such a great deal; afterwards, you need to bring a notarized affidavit from yourself and your spouse stating that you both do not want to sign up for this money grab. You both must then sign another document in front of the PSD witness (which means your spouse needs to take time off work, as PSD isn't going to be open at reasonable hours) stating the very same thing your notary states: that you don't want them to take $100+ dollars out of your retirement savings every month on the off-chance you die. You can use that $80 a month they withdraw to buy yourself a term life insurance policy that would pay out far more than the government ever would. The only reason I signed up for it was because I knew that the VA compensation was greater than the permanent retirement pension, so it wouldn't matter. The VA pension would kick in +/- 60 days after my retirement date and replace the retirement pay.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I doubt sincerely they send you to a school even if you do cross rate. You won't satisfy the minimum time on station obligation to take any follow on orders. I don't think you go anywhere without an extension/re-enlistment. With that said, I'm really just going with the flow at this point, I still have time until PRD and 18 months on contract since I had six year. The rumor mill is that 9ARBs that are subpro will be filling spaces at DLI for French/German/etc if they're willing to re-enlist for it, I'll just keep weighing my options as they come and go.
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This will be the Navy thread from here on out. No need to close and start a new one tomorrow
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But we've always done monthly threads! We've always done it that way!
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Finally proof that N4I is a true Navy leader
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Sir Lucius posted:But we've always done monthly threads! We've always done it that way! It is what it is.
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Blue Angels are doing cool stuff. Oh to be a majestic air sea-knight.
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LingcodKilla posted:Blue Angels are doing cool stuff. Stay strong, keyboard centurion.
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Analogical posted:Stay strong, keyboard centurion. Keyboard Centurion. I like it. Better than printer-bitch in any case.
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Angry Fish posted:(which means your spouse needs to take time off work) I don't think this is much of a concern for most
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krispykremessuck posted:I don't think this is much of a concern for most I would wager that 95% of the folks who wish to opt-out of SBP are dual-working or dual mil couples. VERY few folks with stay at home spouses will be opting out. It is MUCH harder to opt out than it should be, and it's blatant robbery. It's offensive.
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poopkitty posted:I would wager that 95% of the folks who wish to opt-out of SBP are dual-working or dual mil couples. VERY few folks with stay at home spouses will be opting out. It is MUCH harder to opt out than it should be, and it's blatant robbery. It's offensive. it was a joke
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