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Can you contact VA prior to getting out to determine exact Post 9/11 GI Bill eligibility? This would help me a lot in planning so I'm not wasting a year waiting to "school up" after separation.
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Yes. That's a part of the process. Request your letter of eligibility online through eBenefits (specifically VONAPP, I think).
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Apr 1, 2015 12:04
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Howard Phillips posted:Can you contact VA prior to getting out to determine exact Post 9/11 GI Bill eligibility? This would help me a lot in planning so I'm not wasting a year waiting to "school up" after separation. Are you an officer or enlisted? Have you served more than 36 months active service since 9/11/2001? If you're an O and they paid for your school, your 36 month counter doesn't begin until after your obligation is up (4-5 years typically). If you're enlisted and have been longer than 3 years, you've got 100% so long as you get honorably discharged. Like dustynuts said, you can request your eligibility letter through ebenefits.
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Apr 1, 2015 12:21
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Anyone in Norfolk? Might get sent to "fleet familiarization" out there, where I learn how to polish knobs for two weeks.
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Apr 1, 2015 13:35
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In our community we call that sailors to sea. I'm guessing it's 2 weeks of cranking and standing watches. Though I'm not sure you'd have enough time to get qualified for watches. One of my Navy career goals is to never become OOD qualified.
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Apr 1, 2015 13:42
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vulturesrow posted:SBP is almost as good a deal as CSB/REDUX ahahahahahahahaahah Hey, it would be a better deal if it were, say...2%, or 6%, much like medicare or SS. Even then, 55% of 50% base pay isn't even enough to justify hiring that boogeyman your spouse'll have to grab to end your life prematurely.
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Apr 1, 2015 13:48
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Mr. Nice! posted:Are you an officer or enlisted? Have you served more than 36 months active service since 9/11/2001? If you're an O and they paid for your school, your 36 month counter doesn't begin until after your obligation is up (4-5 years typically). Well I'm an officer but also prior E. My DD214 has 2 years and 11 months of service, then I got commissioned through USNA. I also paid the 1200 for Montgomery GI Bill when I was enlisted. I know the va.gov says that prior Es are eligible for Post 9/11. However, am I fully eligible cause I paid in full for Montgomery GI Bill or am I going to have to stay in 1 month past obligation to reach 100% benefits?
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Apr 1, 2015 16:30
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Ignore the montgomery GI bill. I'm not sure that 35 months enlisted will be enough for the post 9/11 at 100%, but I can't say for sure. USNA, iirc, has a 5 year obligation. The best I could figure is you'll need 5 years 1 month as an officer to get the full amount, but I am by no means certain of this. If you don't already have an ebenefits account, go make one https://www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/homepage EDIT: I say ignore the MGIB because it's nowhere near as useful as the post 9/11. You'll get your $1200 back after you've exhausted all your post 9/11 benefits. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 17:17
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Sir Lucius posted:In our community we call that sailors to sea. I'm guessing it's 2 weeks of cranking and standing watches. Though I'm not sure you'd have enough time to get qualified for watches. One of my Navy career goals is to never become OOD qualified. Is getting qualified OOD something you're worried you might get forced to do? That only happens to dirtbag SWOs
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Apr 1, 2015 22:02
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Happy birthday to all current and future Navy Chiefs! Hoo-yah!
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TsarAleksi posted:Is getting qualified OOD something you're worried you might get forced to do? That only happens to dirtbag SWOs Some ships try to make the dissociative state sea tour flyboys qual. e: spelling Stultus Maximus fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 22:12
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Stultus Maximus posted:Some ships try to make the dissociative state sea store flyboys qual. That's true, which helps explain why the CVN seems to always be trying to run over it's escorts. But I don't think its a big risk for a CTN...
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TsarAleksi posted:Is getting qualified OOD something you're worried you might get forced to do? That only happens to dirtbag SWOs OOD in my navy lifetime has been sitting at a desk and answering phones.
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TsarAleksi posted:That's true, which helps explain why the CVN seems to always be trying to run over it's escorts. But I don't think its a big risk for a CTN... Doubtful. Making decisions at 20 knots isn't that hard when you're used to doing it at 420 knots. 
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Apr 2, 2015 02:14
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Sir Lucius posted:OOD in my navy lifetime has been sitting at a desk and answering phones. Here they have a POOW watch where you sit at a desk and answer questions/have to explain why the closest ER is in a town 15-20 minutes away. OOD is mainly roving the building once or twice. CDO is covered by some dude during the day for maintenance stuff and is passed on to someone that'll go home at 8 with a pager that may or may not work. Duty driver is basically everyone's bitch for runs around, regardless of if their workspace has enough bodies. Some idiot during the ladt Captain's call asked if we could just not have watches because everything we look at is automated. That went over nicely.
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Apr 2, 2015 06:29
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Stultus Maximus posted:Some ships try to make the dissociative state sea tour flyboys qual. OOD Underway qual is a career milestone requirement for pilots on command track. This is because pilots will eventually become COs of amphibs and then big deck amphibs (helo pilots) or careers (fixed wing). I've seen senior LT pilots in my 60 detachment and every single airboss (LCDR) qualify OOD Underway. Also saw a EA-6B pilot get attached TAD to us for a month just to qualify OOD. The EA-6B guy was on shore duty as admirals aide, I guess the admiral called in a few favors. Must have been strange for his community managers to see an OOD Underway qual on a destroyer for a completely land based pilot. He was super smart and being a pilot helps a lot in quickly learning the fundamentals. On amphibs and carriers majority of the pilots that are ship's crew will qualify OOD as long as they are "due course" as in due course for career progression.
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Apr 2, 2015 12:18
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Yeah you gotta know the basics of ship driving at a minimum before you can really be in command of one. Although it is funny to think of pilots driving, it's a necessary evil. Granted, I don't think any ever will actually ever do it much after qualifying, it isn't at all crazy for them to do it.
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Apr 2, 2015 19:16
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Mr. Nice! posted:Yeah you gotta know the basics of ship driving at a minimum before you can really be in command of one. Although it is funny to think of pilots driving, it's a necessary evil. If you're on the ship that controls the formation, the job gets a lot easier. The Bravo det I deployed with never did any time on the bridge, but I did see an IW officer (TAD) qualify, as well as a BMC and FCCS. I think a lot of that depends on whether the CO is expecting them to actually stand the watch-- there is a big difference between that and 'qualified.'
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Apr 2, 2015 21:26
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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: Email me. No, seriously. buttplug fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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Apr 2, 2015 21:36
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It's true. There are no pureblood CTNCM's in the fleet.
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Apr 2, 2015 21:51
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buttplug posted:Email me. No, seriously. Mind if I PM you about this also? One of my guys is trying to get some certs that aren't covered by his NEC according to Navy COOL.
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BP: I'll shoot you an email tomorrow or Saturday, not back in Georgia until Tuesday. He wasn't that bad over the phone, but I said some key DoD classes I feel like he should have known about. I've got over 600 hours of classroom instruction in just networking and even a little bit of C instruction, but he didn't seem to recognize any of the classes I mentioned which seemed weird since they're pretty well-known and he was skeptical a CTI could pass JCAC with all it's crazy port numbers and acronyms, because if there's one thing I'm incapable of doing, it's memorizing things. شنق كل الكاكي Analogical fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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Apr 2, 2015 23:12
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From what little I know about you, you would graduate top of your class in jcac, and could probably pass ion as well.
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Apr 3, 2015 00:31
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PneumonicBook posted:Mind if I PM you about this also? One of my guys is trying to get some certs that aren't covered by his NEC according to Navy COOL. I don't have plat and my credit card isn't nearby...email me: m0tbaillie@gmail.com (that's a zero...just cut and paste it). Let me know their rating/NEC/job title/etc. and I'll see if I can flex the 8570 to help.
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Apr 3, 2015 01:46
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yo there's this guy i know from the internet. he's good people.
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Apr 3, 2015 01:53
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Fart Sandwiches posted:yo there's this guy i know from the internet. he's good people. 2 or 3 of these guys are at my command and work in the same building I do.
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buttplug posted:2 or 3 of these guys are at my command and work in the same building I do. goons
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Howard Phillips posted:goons You know what's goonier? I've never met any of 'em. One works/worked the graveyard shift and the other is TDY elsewhere. edit: in fact, in 15 years I've only ever met 3-4 people from SA (one of whom I'm still good friends with and regularly go get beers with). *shrugs*
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buttplug posted:You know what's goonier? I've never met any of 'em. One works/worked the graveyard shift and the other is TDY elsewhere. I was just giving you a hard time. I've met several goons who are here for school or whatever and it turns out only a few of us are 100 lbs overweight with no social skills.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:I was just giving you a hard time. I've met several goons who are here for school or whatever and it turns out only a few of us are 100 lbs overweight with no social skills. its you, you're the guy
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Apr 3, 2015 03:52
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krispykremessuck posted:its you, you're the guy 
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Apr 3, 2015 03:53
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rude
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Apr 3, 2015 03:54
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The only other Navy goon I've ever known IRL was bluesquares, when we were stationed in Sigonella. He was a good kid, he just needed to figure some poo poo out.
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Apr 3, 2015 03:55
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ilu
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Apr 3, 2015 03:57
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I'm not the only goon here on Corry but I'm not really worth meeting since I'm just a dirty old boot. Honestly though you guys have been a font of knowledge and understanding on why some petty officers and chiefs act the way they act.
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Apr 3, 2015 05:03
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I know a handful of goons or former goons that are all mostly normal off the internet. I don't know any fat goony spergs.
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Apr 3, 2015 14:38
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Mr. Nice! posted:I know a handful of goons or former goons that are all mostly normal off the internet. I don't know any fat goony spergs. I have knowingly met one goon offline, back in 2006 before I joined the forums. He was morbidly obese and did the "stairs" thing. It put me off registering for three years.
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Apr 3, 2015 14:43
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I've met a decent number of goons in my time. Most of them are good people.
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Apr 3, 2015 15:41
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I've met three goons. One was a Nuke that failed out in the first phase, another was Christoff and the last was an ET3 on some ship in San Diego that taught me what a plank owner was since he is one.
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I knew one goon he was a nuke and went sad.
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