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Analogical posted:My buddy just left his IDW board, eight hours long. Hahahahaha what?
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Sep 2, 2015 03:35
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ManMythLegend posted:Hahahahaha what? Captain Post: HURR DURR, THEY THINK IDW IS A JOKE, WE'LL SHOW THEM. Analogical fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Sep 2, 2015 04:07
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Analogical posted:Captain Post: HURR DURR, THEY THINK IDW IS A JOKE, WE'LL SHOW THEM Jesus Christ. It's almost as if they don't realize that having an 8 hour board makes it look like more of a joke...
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Sep 2, 2015 04:09
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ManMythLegend posted:Jesus Christ. It's almost as if they don't realize that having an 8 hour board makes it look like more of a joke... In 2011/2012 boards were almost a whole shift and only two people in my division had EIDWS and none of my leadership. Next CO says he'll halve the length of the boards and suddenly it's russian roulette if your board will be 3 hours or 6+ hours. Latest CO tried something new where they did this weird loving "50 sailors stand in a circle facing outwards and Chiefs go person to person asking a question" that ended up with everyone passing and the command going "IT'S TOO EASY NOW" and because of that we're back to stupidly long boards in a never-ending cycle where the only thing constant is that most other NIOCs only board you on book 3 and don't have three separate pass/fail boards on the same material. And gently caress whoever decided AGs are part of the god drat IDC.
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Sep 2, 2015 04:12
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lol Just lol the whole way down.
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Sep 2, 2015 04:28
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CYBERRRR WARRRFAAARRREEEE
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Sep 2, 2015 04:32
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ManMythLegend posted:lol SRSLY. Is there a question about how to get Mrs. Dependa to stop putting everything on FB because if not you're missing an untapped resource.
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Sep 2, 2015 05:21
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Remember that stuff I said about cyber being the future and how we were really part of the real Navy? I lied. 
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Sep 2, 2015 08:29
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Sir Lucius posted:Remember that stuff I said about cyber being the future and how we were really part of the real Navy? Cybercom finally set up near us. Looks pretty sweet, it's at least six Conexs connected together. (Not a joke) Your future is in good hands.
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Sep 2, 2015 23:25
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These boards are longer than my senior in rate board was Jesus Christ what are they making you define information warfare from the beginning of computers?
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Sep 3, 2015 01:34
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Yes, the on the roof gang and enigma trivia could be potential qualification questions.
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Sep 3, 2015 01:45
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Sir Lucius posted:Yes, the on the roof gang and enigma trivia could be potential qualification questions. They are always qualification questions. When you get one of the 8 hour boards, they go through every single line item. Most of my friends funneled through when they were doing that stupid circlejerk-of-sailors thing, it was impossible to fail that one but it only lasted about two months. My roommate went through a three hour board last month though so getting your board info is the most deciding factor in "how many hours after shift am I going to spend in the SCIF each day studying before I can go home". You can't even take unclassified IDW material out of the building per CO policy, technically. Half of GA is people who weren't offered quotas (9ARBs) and couldn't give a poo poo about IDW. I got it before I didn't get a quota and now I wish I hadn't bothered at all. It's such a retarded thing that I can't stop getting heated whenever I hear about it.
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Sep 3, 2015 02:15
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8 hours is normal for IDW boards?
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Sep 3, 2015 07:47
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That's an absurd amount of time for a meaningless pin.
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Sep 3, 2015 13:55
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My friend's reading all your posts about boards for pins and he's laughing because he got his FMF pin after several firefights that led to his purple heart and combat action ribbon. 8 hours of telling dudes poo poo about information warfare? Why?
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Sep 3, 2015 16:25
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Probably because technical jobs require you to demonstrate technical knowledge... That said the boards are probably full of random bullshit that isn't applicable to poo poo. On my 5-hour SWO board I got grilled on quite a bit of physics and detailed, in painstaking detail, how the AEGIS system works.
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Sep 3, 2015 17:20
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Boon posted:
What kind of detail? I can imagine a SWO board on an AEGIS cruiser or destroyer would intentionally ask a lot about it since that system is kind of the reason for that ship existing.
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Sep 3, 2015 17:35
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Basically, the caps/lims. How the system works overall, what sub-systems in and outside of AEGIS interact with it, how and to what extent, where the pieces are located, how a loss of X will effect the overall system, etc... The largest part of it was spent on SPY and it's various subsystems which is a pretty fascinating system, frankly. The best part is that I've only been away from AEGIS for about 3 years, but most of my knowledge on it is probably obsolete by now. No wonder reservists don't know poo poo.
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Sep 3, 2015 17:48
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My SWO board was short, sweet, and to the point. Our skipper cared primarily about the job of being a divo. He wasn't the type to drill down into pointless minutia unless you hosed up and kept digging yourself a hole.
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Sep 3, 2015 18:06
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E6 exam was interesting. Nailed every technical question and then I hit alphabet soup answers. My favorite question: If today is tuesday, 1000 days from now assuming there are no leap years, what day of the week will it be? 1. 142 weeks 2. 144 weeks 3. 144 weeks and 5 days 4. 144 weeks and 6 days
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Sep 3, 2015 18:30
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Sir Lucius posted:E6 exam was interesting. Nailed every technical question and then I hit alphabet soup answers. 
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Sep 3, 2015 18:33
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Sir Lucius posted:E6 exam was interesting. Nailed every technical question and then I hit alphabet soup answers. What are you, a Calendar Maker's Mate?
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Sep 3, 2015 18:40
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Testing for autism seems a bit late by e6.
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Sep 3, 2015 18:41
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Sir Lucius posted:E6 exam was interesting. Nailed every technical question and then I hit alphabet soup answers. That's not even right, I mean technically it would be either friday or saturday depending on where you cut your week off, monday or sunday, but none of those answers are right, its 142.5 weeks.
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Sep 3, 2015 18:47
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Pandasmores posted:My friend's reading all your posts about boards for pins and he's laughing because he got his FMF pin after several firefights that led to his purple heart and combat action ribbon. my board for my fish was like 2hr or so. i got off really god drat easy since they only asked me to draw 1 system. most people have to draw at least 4 or 5.
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Sep 3, 2015 19:12
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Those tests make me irate and always have the most off the wall poo poo. Like I imagine a bunch of master Chiefs or whatever sitting around drinking beer in the GOAT LOCKER laughing at how ridiculous they can make the questions I like how everyone was excited for the increase in GMT questions or whatever and then it's all about sexual harassment and rape with 4 right answers pick the best one
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Sep 3, 2015 19:20
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Boon posted:Basically, the caps/lims. How the system works overall, what sub-systems in and outside of AEGIS interact with it, how and to what extent, where the pieces are located, how a loss of X will effect the overall system, etc... The largest part of it was spent on SPY and it's various subsystems which is a pretty fascinating system, frankly. Yea I wouldn't say any of that is off the wall and is all pertinent, especially once you're sitting TAO. Most SPY and FCS baselines are very similar, the only thing you're probably out of the loop on is the ACNT/Computer/Display side.
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Sep 3, 2015 23:21
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ded posted:my board for my fish was like 2hr or so. i got off really god drat easy since they only asked me to draw 1 system. most people have to draw at least 4 or 5. Non-nuke for us was 1 in rate 1 nuke and 1 whatever with an in depth run down of in rate typically. For nukes it was 4 non-nuke systems and how they might effect the plant if they could. Other than that alot of casualty run through scenarios and locations of essential DC equipment
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Sep 3, 2015 23:34
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So on my NFO board...
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Sep 3, 2015 23:39
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Man I never did fleet Navy but all these quals and poo poo seem like a headache. Or can you buy your way out of it with dip and monsters?
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Sep 3, 2015 23:43
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PneumonicBook posted:Yea I wouldn't say any of that is off the wall and is all pertinent, especially once you're sitting TAO. Most SPY and FCS baselines are very similar, the only thing you're probably out of the loop on is the ACNT/Computer/Display side. Oh I agree, thats why when I see 8 hour birds talking about Enigma I 
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Sep 4, 2015 00:11
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Boon posted:Oh I agree, thats why when I see 8 hour birds talking about Enigma I We just got an ET1 who was in charge of the IDW program from wherever he came from and was just talking to me about how serious IDW is as a qualification and how he turned it around after too many people got it 'too easy'. 
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Sep 4, 2015 01:25
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What do these guys do, set network passwords? Lame
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Sep 4, 2015 01:27
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maffew buildings posted:What do these guys do, set network passwords? Lame There is no technical questions or discussion in IDW. They ask why a virus is different from a worm, why a cold front matters, all you wanted to know about satellite orbits. Books 2 and 3 is naming every intel UIC, task force and obscure organization in the IDC and pointing to it on a map so you know how many opportunities you'll never have. People take IDW so seriously that they've made it even more of a joke. I didn't wear it on my NWUs and would tell people it's because it was a joke until DIVO ordered me to sew it on. I'm out in <1 year and I've got a job already, whatever.
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Sep 4, 2015 01:37
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Friend of mine was on the development committee or whatever it's called for IDW and the original thing was super technical and only encompassed one book so they decided it needed to have all that uic and damage control bullshit to make it take longer to get and seem like a real warfare pin.
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Sep 4, 2015 01:41
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maffew buildings posted:What do these guys do, set network passwords? Lame
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Sep 4, 2015 01:47
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Man I never did fleet Navy but all these quals and poo poo seem like a headache. I bought a lot of qual sigs with soda, including the WEPS. The board (for sub qual) are a little tougher but if you aren't an rear end in a top hat they don't go hard on you but you do need to show some competence.
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Sep 4, 2015 02:08
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Fart Sandwiches posted:Friend of mine was on the development committee or whatever it's called for IDW and the original thing was super technical and only encompassed one book so they decided it needed to have all that uic and damage control bullshit to make it take longer to get and seem like a real warfare pin. The requalling when you transfer from NIOC to NIOC is p. funny.
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Sep 4, 2015 02:26
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Analogical posted:There is no technical questions or discussion in IDW. They ask why a virus is different from a worm, why a cold front matters, all you wanted to know about satellite orbits. Books 2 and 3 is naming every intel UIC, task force and obscure organization in the IDC and pointing to it on a map so you know how many opportunities you'll never have. METOC being in the IDC will never not be hilarious to me.
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Sep 4, 2015 03:45
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ManMythLegend posted:METOC being in the IDC will never not be hilarious to me. Best METOC portion of a morning brief was when the weather guy swore the waves were going to be awful and it was going to be rainy and windy the entire day so flight ops were going to be hard. Went out on the catwalk and it was sunny and calm. Intelligence professionals.
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Sep 4, 2015 04:38
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