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Null Integer posted:Here's the new video with our "New Catchy Tagline" that will last for a generation and not die in 2 years. No Gator Navy  When Global Force For Good first came out, I had submitted an award for one of my Sailor's and used that since, you know #branding, and my N2 refused to believe I wasn't just loving with her using that phrase.
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When our 2013 deployment got canceled thanks to sequestration, my air wing made up "A local force for good" non-cruise patches.
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This should be the real recruiting video. https://youtu.be/1TlOD2anqOU
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70's recruiting videos were the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhioeOeOHsA
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ZekeNY posted:70's recruiting videos were the best If that's legit you gotta give it to them for honesty.
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LingcodKilla posted:If that's legit you gotta give it to them for honesty. It's not. "SNL "The Navy" S4E15 1979"
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Seemed legit to me.
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Yeah, it’s a Saturday Night Live parody, but if you were watching the legit ones that aired around the same time, it would be a while before you spotted it
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Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months!
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Fred Dawes posted:Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months! Boot Camp is gonna suck, but have fun in Tech core. Make friends, do some fun stuff, don't get scammed.
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Fred Dawes posted:Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months! Get ready to shovel snow, boot.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Get ready to shovel snow, boot. If they give you black boots get extra polish, salt from de-icing chewed mine up bad.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:If they give you black boots get extra polish, salt from de-icing chewed mine up bad. Yeah, salt will gently caress up those black boots. Back in 2010, getting off an LCU to Haiti through the salt water caused me to have to actually use some boot black for the first time in years.
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Fred Dawes posted:Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months! Write down the lyrics to a few of your favorite songs on the back of a family picture or two in your wallet. The religious services are good for a break from routine. Talent divisions are cake. Don’t rape or sexually assault anyone. Shave really good before you go to boot. You may get to use Facebook once or twice so make sure your password is something you can remember. Don’t buy any of the division gear. You will be embarrassed to wear it once you get out. You will never see 98% of those people again. Try not to get too angry with anyone. It’s not worth it.
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Fred Dawes posted:Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months! oh dang i might see you there i think? i leave monday i went STG tho good luck LingcodKilla posted:Write down the lyrics to a few of your favorite songs on the back of a family picture or two in your wallet. thanks for this
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As a CTI I ended up being stationed with two of the guys in my boot camp div for my entire 6 year contract. Likely? gently caress no. But you'll hang on to or build a base of support where you can. Keep your head down, don't volunteer for poo poo, don't say anything. The late-night standup poo poo where a bunch of guys try to soliloquize about what the division needs to do to improve after the RDCs shouted about how bad you are? Ignore em and sleep. Once again, super don't volunteer for anything, especially early on. It only makes you a target for later grief. Getting on ship staff after week 4 or 5 is fairly chill though. I used it as an excuse to return to the compartment late a bunch of times to avoid division bullshit. Quick edit: Really the whole thing is about makin you feel afraid of stuff. It's all a load of crap. Eat, sleep, walk around, follow simple instructions, and you'll look back on it as some of the easiest time in. It'll drag a bit more than usual since you're there during holidays, which kinda sucks, but you'll have some easier holiday routine to make up for it. Black Balloon fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Dec 13, 2017 |
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Marine boot camp is a little different but one thing I took away from my time was to keep it in my head that a lot of the times the stupid games we played were rigged against us and there was no real way we could win. We were supposed to fail and it's all designed to stress you out. Try to accomplish the things you can but don't lose any sleep over messing things up or getting told what a piece of poo poo fuckup you guys are.
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I’m fairly sure they started issuing Type III’s in October so enjoy looking like marching vomit.
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appreciate the tips, thanks after boot camp is san diego for a school which I'm excited for, especially after all the snow and poo poo
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Black Balloon posted:As a CTI I ended up being stationed with two of the guys in my boot camp div for my entire 6 year contract. Likely? gently caress no. But you'll hang on to or build a base of support where you can. My last duty station I was stationed with another FC from boot, it happens, especially depending on rate, small Navy and that. Fred Dawes posted:Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months! If you end up being an FC let me know and I can give you the lowdown on the 30 different C schools. If you end up being an ET try not to look at kiddy porn.
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Lurker here: As someone who went to Orlando for boot camp back in the day, who the gently caress would got to Great Lakes in Dec? Give me drilling in our peacoats in 80 degree weather over snow and poo poo all day. And yes, went in as Nuke, played dumb in A school and managed to get sent to OS school in Dam Neck instead. Kept E-3 to boot, but was the only one with red stripes in class.
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Meydey posted:Lurker here: As someone who went to Orlando for boot camp back in the day, who the gently caress would got to Great Lakes in Dec? It's the only camp left. Should have kept San Diego instead.
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LingcodKilla posted:It's the only camp left. Should have kept San Diego instead. Orlando is weird. Its a housing complex now, but the street names are all the same. Wonder if the titty bars had to close. Edit: Just checked a map and the only thing referencing RTC is "Bluejacket Park". They should have left the old "USS Bluejacket" as a playground toy. Meydey fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Dec 13, 2017 |
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Meydey posted:Lurker here: As someone who went to Orlando for boot camp back in the day, who the gently caress would got to Great Lakes in Dec? Could you point out on a map where exactly you remember living and going (landmarks, paths, etc) when you were at boot camp? I live pretty close to where it used to be and I’m curious which areas and buildings are still original. I sometimes walk around Lake Baldwin and I feel like that would have been prime real estate for running recruits.
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Going by my super hazy memories: 1. USS Bluejacket 2. Barracks row 3. Nuke barracks 4. Nuke A school 5. Nuke chow hall, credit union Baldwin park was the 2 big concrete pads we called the grinder. Also where all ceremonies and graduations were. Area 3 might have been bigger. Here's a good comparison. This only shows the rtc part though. Not the nuke area. I was there in '88. http://usscanopus.homestead.com/rtc1.html Meydey fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Dec 13, 2017 |
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Anyone remember a gaming bookstore right outside the Great Lakes base? Looking at some maps, it seems that there's been some big changes to the landscape, but that place was like Nerd heaven while I was in A School.
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Meydey posted:Lurker here: As someone who went to Orlando for boot camp back in the day, who the gently caress would got to Great Lakes in Dec? Not sure if they still do it but the kick in the dick was that winter boot camp around the holidays was 10 weeks. Two extra weeks of folding for the holidays
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Not sure if they still do it but the kick in the dick was that winter boot camp around the holidays was 10 weeks. Two extra weeks of folding for the holidays I recall something along this line but instead of delaying us they rushed us out a week early.
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Any nerds have NAVADMINS regarding NECC commands and the new uniforms? We're trying to get in black and white a defense for not having to replace the tan fleece we're all issued/wearing. Otherwise, we all get to fall in line and that will suck nuts because no more frog shirts on mission and all will suck.
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It’s still command by command no? My unit just OKed tan boots instead of black so yeah that’s not normal.
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Sort of. Tan fleece isn't authorized for anything but OCONUS wear anymore as of 01 October turns out. Same for Frog shirts and booney caps.
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So you gotta wear dark blue tee shirts with the guacamole? Or do you mean something else by frogskin?
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Stultus Maximus posted:The key is being in a command where nobody with authority cares. The command, the myth, the legend, where authority cares about you Hence: gently caress you if you're still in.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Anyone remember a gaming bookstore right outside the Great Lakes base? Looking at some maps, it seems that there's been some big changes to the landscape, but that place was like Nerd heaven while I was in A School. The NEX on TSC side has a pretty legit nerd setup now. Comics, MTG, a pretty nice electronics section. Also for the soon to be booters, no you do not love that girl you met in boot or A school. Oh, she hates marching in the snow too? Golly, you too have so much in common, must be true love. Yeesh. You just went through the same traumatic(lol) experience. You have mutual Stockholm syndrome, it will pass. I loving hate students.
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Stultus Maximus posted:The key is being in a command where nobody with authority cares. The key to getting them to not care is to convince leadership that this is somehow useful training or tied to operational readiness.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Also for the soon to be booters, no you do not love that girl you met in boot or A school. Oh, she hates marching in the snow too? Golly, you too have so much in common, must be true love. Yeesh. You just went through the same traumatic(lol) experience. You have mutual Stockholm syndrome, it will pass. dont put your danglies in your fellow sailors. I committed nukecest it was great through prototype since dating/living together and getting freaky etc. it was not so great when i graduated and broke up with her I assume that to this day she still has my couch, TV, and bed.
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M_Gargantua posted:dont put your danglies in your fellow sailors. Anchors away shipmate.
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