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That's probably easier than getting a copy after you submit.
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Getting to E5 like ASAP is pretty neat. gently caress slaving away in the barracks your entire enlistment. That's why advancement rate matters
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Fart Sandwiches posted:CTN is where all the anime weeaboos go. As a CTN, this checks out.
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Ryand-Smith posted:In about 30 days. I'm about to do the transitory things. Nice, I remember you and panda being new boots around the same time I was joining. It's nice to see so many people making healthy life decisions by not reenlisting.
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Updawgs posted:Hey yall, That pdf isn't really for new accesions or anything that would be realavent to you for at least a few years. It's mainly used to convey cross rate opportunities in and out of the community. Score good on your ASVAB, have a clean record, and have a little bit of luck and you should be able to get CTN. Your recruiter can't guarantee any rate or contract, only MEPS can do that, while his advice may sound good, don't let him sell you on things he doesn't have the power to guarantee. Also, don't join the Navy.
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I was a QM on a National Call to Service contract. It was pretty slack. 4/5 stars wouldn't reenlist.
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Dorstein posted:I was a QM on a National Call to Service contract. It was pretty slack. Yeah this teacher in my bootcamp class was doing that. 18 active and like 30 reserve and full GI bennies right? Made me right jealous as soon as I explained my 6 year commitment with potential 2 year kicker
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Ryand-Smith posted:don't be a nuke We tried to warn you. You didn't listen!
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Updawgs posted:Hey yall, Hello friend, do you like PowerPoint? Do you like pretending to be the smartest person in the room? Do you like knowing random and not so random knowledge? Then sign this 6 year contract and become an Intel Specialist. Don't be a weird anime, brony CT*, just be a plain old weird IS. And remember, would I steer you wrong 
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ISes are actually pretty alright, they're not weird like CTs and you don't have to deal with a lot of the bullshit that other ratings deal with, you have different bullshit.
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:ISes are actually pretty alright, they're not weird like CTs and you don't have to deal with a lot of the bullshit that other ratings deal with, you have different bullshit. IS seems super chill from the two weeks I spent in makalapa. Glad I'm an IT though. Also lol reserves.
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Yep. Then the reserves released me halfway through when I ended up with VA disability compensation for sleep apnea. Good thing they sent me to medical instead of mast for falling asleep on the chart table.
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Mr. Nice! posted:With all that said, pick a cushy job where you get to sit in the AC all day. If you wanna sit in the AC all day BE an AC (air traffic controller). After you get a qualification you will be treated like you are made of glass. Everything you do medically is some sort of 'soft down' like if you get the flu shot you can't work for 12 hours, if medical draws blood? 24 hour down, sleep it off somewhere. Get an advanced qualification like Local or Approach and you basically can do whatever the gently caress you want and your command will tickle your balls while you do it. That rule about needing a certain rank or barracks being a percentage full to get BAH? Naw man that doesn't apply to you, you are a special snowflake. One person I know left the country with no request chit and got caught, spent a month on duty voluntarily before anyone found out (what a hard charger! Attaboys all day) and when Big Navy did find out the sentence at mast was a month's duty, time served. But God help you if you get a hard down medically. It's like the long dick of the Navy keeps score and holds grudges and is waiting behind a curtain to yell 'gotcha motherfucka!'.
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Or if you like air conditioning but don't want the stress of making sure airplanes land on your tiny floating runway, be an AT (avionics technician).
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OS seems like a pretty fun rate for sitting in a quiet air conditioned space, but I've only ever seen the AIC side of it. I assume there are some bullshit parts as well. MancXVI posted:Or if you like air conditioning but don't want the stress of making sure airplanes land on your tiny floating runway, be an AT (avionics technician). I don't know if the stress of EKMS (crypto management) is any better.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I don't know if the stress of EKMS (crypto management) is any better. It's not that stressful, just either a) don't be an idiot and lose the thing or b) don't get EKMS qualified and skate off whenever someone mentions it. edit: you rarely need it in most shops regardless MancXVI fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Jun 16, 2016 |
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Just don't be an ABE.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:OS seems like a pretty fun rate for sitting in a quiet air conditioned space, but I've only ever seen the AIC side of it. I assume there are some bullshit parts as well. The AIC is the only good part of that rate and very few do it. Any job that you sit at a scope in air conditioning is a good job, but this is one of them that straddles the line and I frequently felt sympathy for. It's also one where if you are an idiot you have the ability to make everyone quickly aware of it and catch a lot of ire from the aviation side of the house.
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ETs put up with some bullshit, buy honesty I had it good on ship. Hell, I think sea rotation might be even easier to skate than shore. But as others have said, pick something that translates on the outside regardless of what sounds cool. Because whether it's in 4 or 20 years you'll be out, and that retirement isn't much anyway. Also, don't marry the first thing you gently caress.
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Blackchamber posted:It's also one where if you are an idiot you have the ability to make everyone quickly aware of it and catch a lot of ire from the aviation side of the house. Well, that's true of anything where you talk on the radio. "302, say side number."
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Don't do EKMS, ever. It will make your blood pressure rise and make you age at an accelerated rate. If someone mentions anything to do with it just avoid it. I say this as someone who was the ekms manager for a squadron for 8 months, you do not want that ever, because if you gently caress up most jobs you get extra duty and a bit of a pay cut, if you're negligent with ekms and something bad happens, you're going to federal pound me in the rear end prison.
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If you're considering joining the navy then considering staying in the shower until you manage to fit your fist into your rear end. If you're successful then you are ready to collect a qual card and start eating with that hand. Enjoy discussing how terrible fisting your own rear end was until you meet someone that is thinking about fisting their rear end, and let them know they don't have what it takes.
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Man reflections on navy life now that I am close to the end. Holy poo poo the nuclear field as a whole is loving hosed and not in the "lol nuclear accident" way, more in the "they demand the impossible, and when people cheat they act shocked, shocked I say" like how the nuke cheating scandal broke what 2 years ago. Let's face it, it was going to come (and that was literally 12 years of cheating). There are demands that are "hard" and it's understandable, they pay us the big bucks and that's fair, but then there are the impossible things. My command has been amazing and much love to them but the horror stories, the outright fear and climates of literal terror that are out there push people out and make anyone who can get out get out. It also has the typical navy lifer mentality combined with a borderline cult feeling which is to this day almost like a religion. Honestly I still don't understand how the program works to this day. Tl;dr don't make the mistake I did, the program has fundamental long term issues, and the senior leadership is so rapidly disconnected from the new people there is a generation gap which is ironic as senior leadership usually isn't that old.
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Ryand-Smith posted:Man reflections on navy life now that I am close to the end. Now that civilian nuclear is in its death throes, how is the culture on the inside of the Navy nuclear world? Whenever I was still in, nuclear was looking to start booming and everyone thought they were going to walk into 100k/yr jobs after having only learned the bare basics of nuclear theory and qual card blazing.
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KetTarma posted:Now that civilian nuclear is in its death throes, how is the culture on the inside of the Navy nuclear world? Meh, Civilian nuclear is seeing a slight revival. TVA just completed Reactor 2 for Watts Bar, and China is blazing trails with nuclear reactors, Germany is importing a ton of power from France, who is 85% nuclear, and Britain is in talks for new plants. For what its worth too, the nuclear industry is in a slight panic as a lot of the engineers are starting to retire or die, and they don't have enough students coming out to keep up demand yet. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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CommieGIR posted:China is blazing trails with nuclear reactors Not yet, but probably soon.
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Godholio posted:Not yet, but probably soon. Yeah, I should've mentioned, its planned. They plan to do an MSR. I'm excited.
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I should've mentioned, its planned. They plan to do an MSR. I'm excited. I think he means they're gonna catch fire and blow up, because China is the anti-OSHA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEberOX33_Y We'll finally get some modern nuke footage.
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Sir Lucius posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEberOX33_Y Nuclear reactors don't explode. Just burn. Really badly. Especially if you are a badly designed and flawed Russian RBMK that you got cheap out on fixing the flaws. Steam and Hydrogen explosions suck.
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Booblord Zagats posted:I think he means they're gonna catch fire and blow up, because China is the anti-OSHA Of course this is what I mean.
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That's the explosion from last year or whatever in Tianjin. laughable amounts of fertilizer and other chemicals were being very improperly stored in a warehouse by the shore.
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Mr. Nice! posted:That's the explosion from last year or whatever in Tianjin. laughable amounts of fertilizer and other chemicals were being very improperly stored in a warehouse by the shore. China violating safety standards? Say it ain't so.
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China owns because whn you type it in to LiveLeak you get to watch a better version of any given Michael Bay movie
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Syrian Lannister posted:China violating safety standards? Say it ain't so. A lot of the people involved have "disappeared." Safety is ignorable until you blow up a port then you and your family disappear.
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:ISes are actually pretty alright, they're not weird like CTs and you don't have to deal with a lot of the bullshit that other ratings deal with, you have different bullshit. Lol what? Intel fucks - officer and enlisted, regardless of military branch - are unequivocally the most socially maladjusted motherfuckers I've ever run across in the military....and I'm at Fort Meade with a swath of ALL the CT flavors.
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buttplug posted:Lol what? Intel fucks - officer and enlisted, regardless of military branch - are unequivocally the most socially maladjusted motherfuckers I've ever run across in the military....and I'm at Fort Meade with a swath of ALL the CT flavors. Idk, I worked with an IS2 in atsugi, dude didn't even watch anime, had a wife, and loved to do outdoorsy poo poo.
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:Idk, I worked with an IS2 in atsugi, dude didn't even watch anime, had a wife, and loved to do outdoorsy poo poo. Chinese spy over compensating.
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LingcodKilla posted:Chinese spy over compensating. Most not Chinese looking Chinese spy I ever met
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