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Apparently I look too poor to buy my own dinner. I should have ordered a dozen oysters instead of the half.
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LingcodKilla posted:Apparently I look too poor to buy my own dinner. Did you get a boyfriend?
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Sep 10, 2016 03:42
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If only. So lonely. 
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Sep 10, 2016 04:11
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Does anyone else find the Navy's releasing of relatively standard or inconsequential poo poo kind of troubling? I'm referring to IRGCN encounters, a video today on LCS shock trials, and other sword rattling bullshit?
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Boon posted:Does anyone else find the Navy's releasing of relatively standard or inconsequential poo poo kind of troubling? Meh, considering we're still the largest force and there's only been a few decades of our existence where we weren't at war it doesn't really matter.
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Sep 11, 2016 04:33
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Oh man, how I missed AFN commercials.
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Sailor onboard the Ike reports to sick call with abdominal pain; gives birth. Talking about this at the office, we're surprised that they didn't send her away with some motrin and tell her to come back the next day.
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Sep 14, 2016 04:44
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Sailor onboard the Ike reports to sick call with abdominal pain; gives birth. The baby was assigned to deck division,and was verbally counseled for crying and making GBS threads themselves during quarters.
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Sep 14, 2016 05:28
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First deployment as a Seabee wrapping up soon. We are a giant waste of money as a community, but at least it isn't a ship. namaste
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maffew buildings posted:First deployment as a Seabee wrapping up soon. We are a giant waste of money as a community, but at least it isn't a ship. namaste The navy doesn't have the heart to cut a bunch of morons loose in this construction economy
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Kawasaki Nun posted:The navy doesn't have the heart to cut a bunch of morons loose in this construction economy Based on quality of work and construction knowledge most personnel would be unqualified and fired quickly anyway. Also the whole being able to show up to work on time and actually work thing
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Sep 14, 2016 07:36
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idk why Seabees and hell half the Mil aren't just a reserve force
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Sep 14, 2016 09:34
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Seabees do not have a capability that isn't replicated by the other services, and basically no true combat engineering capability. Unless WW3 breaks out the community will keep being reduced in all likelihood
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Sep 14, 2016 10:05
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Sailor onboard the Ike reports to sick call with abdominal pain; gives birth. We had that happen on the Reagan right around the time I left. I asked the doc how on earth that happens and she said a combination of obesity and the power of denial.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:The navy doesn't have the heart to cut a bunch of morons loose in this construction economy But enough about the Marine Corps...
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I just had a fine Navy day. I know the forums are all burned out and jaded, but this much concentrated patriotism can burn through that. Start this morning with PFA weigh-ins. The CFLs say "we're adding an inch to everyone's height, and taking one away from the tape." Good deal, guys. Then everyone changes into dress whites for the Chiefs' Pinning. That's a good, old-fashioned ceremony. Thirty-two year Command Master Chief (retired) gave the speech, and he was so full of pride it shone through and infected everyone.The Chiefs and selectees were all running on at most 3 hours' sleep and looked rough. Still, they made a really good show of it, and everyone looked good in their whites. Then a tasteful catered lunch of nothing messy, since the CO knew we'd all be in whites. Then a Change of Command. Of course the incoming and outgoing COs, but also the region CO. Both the COs are Academy Graduates and pilots, so they checked EVERY block on the ceremonies. We got a full combined Marine and Navy color guard. We got a Presentation of the Flag like you see at funerals, with all due Honors and Ceremony. We had a few Captains for guest speakers, both retired and not. They talked about family, honor, country, duty, and did it from the heart. Then the CoC reception was catered, with coolers of beer at the ends of the tables. Just goes to show, folks, the Reserves aren't all bad, and a little bit of hundred-year-old tradition can rekindle (or kindle) that sense of pride and professionalism into pretty much anyone.
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Sep 17, 2016 23:45
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Just lmao if you're still in
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That was a reserve function? Yikes. I uh.... started class early and we finished up in two hours. Dam Neck seems kind of layed back. Went to bar and got buzzed. Friday's are nice at school.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:30
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You uhh..like giant waste of time ceremony? Get out.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:35
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God I hated retirement ceremonies of chumps I didn't even know
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:God I hated retirement ceremonies of chumps I didn't even know I preferred them because when they listed the person's accomplishments and all that "in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service" stuff I could maybe fool myself into believing it was true and that maybe they weren't a piece of poo poo like all the people I worked with. odds are though...
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:God I hated retirement ceremonies of chumps I didn't even know Last drill weekend went to our unit LCPO's retirement. Sitting through yet another reading of "The Watch" and being in SDBs in early September was worth it because afterwards he had many pounds of pulled pork and about $300 worth of beer, in addition to the engraved bottle of Jack Daniels that he insisted several of us pass around until it was gone.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:57
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I just checked into my new NOSC and did accounting and statistics homework on my laptop during indoc. It was pretty cool I guess.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I just had a fine Navy day. I know the forums are all burned out and jaded, but this much concentrated patriotism can burn through that. loving lol Last drill weekend I stood through a 3 hour long retirement ceremony, I made a horrible mistake. This drill weekend Ive been doing homework and trying not to pass out, although if I did...would anyone care?
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:God I hated retirement ceremonies of chumps I didn't even know Why the gently caress would you go to a retirement for someone you didn't know?
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ManMythLegend posted:Why the gently caress would you go to a retirement for someone you didn't know? uhh
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ManMythLegend posted:Why the gently caress would you go to a retirement for someone you didn't know? The one I went to was because they wanted service members standing in the back and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I imagine most people go to retirements on a similar voluntold basis.
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Sep 18, 2016 12:25
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I've never seen seen a voluntold retirement. Sorry you guys worked with people so lovely they couldn't find anyone to volunteer to read "The Watch" or whatever I guess.
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Yeah, getting voluntold to go to one of those things is pretty common on my boat, even if you're not on duty that day.
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ManMythLegend posted:I've never seen seen a voluntold retirement. Sorry you guys worked with people so lovely they couldn't find anyone to volunteer to read "The Watch" or whatever I guess. Our problem was that they were always scheduled at like 9 or 10 AM in our building (which had the command auditorium). Unless you had medical or something, you'd get snagged by a SNCO trying to fill seats. Hell, we'd get pulled for people from other squadrons.
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ManMythLegend posted:I've never seen seen a voluntold retirement. Sorry you guys worked with people so lovely they couldn't find anyone to volunteer to read "The Watch" or whatever I guess. Both at the E and O level many, many times.
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The idea of a 75% empty auditorium representing their empty lives devoid of anyone that cares about them is scary. So they find lower enlisted that weren't looking busy enough.
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Maybe the reserves aren't all bad, but gently caress doing all of those things on a weekend.
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Laranzu posted:The idea of a 75% empty auditorium representing their empty lives devoid of anyone that cares about them is scary. So they find lower enlisted that weren't looking busy enough. This is why I just didn't have a ceremony. Not that folks didn't/don't care about me, but I retired from a place where a lot of the folks who DO care could not attend. Plus most of my friends were underway. I didn't have anyone working for me when I went, so it seemed really unimportant. My husband's Sailors were the only reason he had one. I had to push him into it, but his guys and gals really wanted to talk nice about him. It was a lot of fun. You get a DD214 without a ceremony. 
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Sep 19, 2016 00:47
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No posts in the Navy thread for 6 days. Everyone got out.
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I just scheduled a week of class in a non military facility wearing civilian clothes. The 5 month Civilianesque TAD was too good. I just needed my fix man.
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DustyNuts posted:No posts in the Navy thread for 6 days. Everyone got out. Don't I wish. Actually I'm about to get underway on a big gray thing for the first time since I last deployed (at sea) in 08, not counting a brief stint on an amphib.
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lol can't wait to get out gently caress the Navy *re-enlists for 4 years*
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