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Life imitates art - much like it is in Mario games, getting stars makes you invulnerable to everything but falling down a hole.
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Laranzu posted:All he did was get involved in one of the biggest scandals in a long time resulting in not being able to do the job he was appointed to do for 5 years while still getting paid. I'd like someone to punish me by paying me six figures not to do my job and then retire and half pay.
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Mar 13, 2018 23:07
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So the Secretary of State just got fired... Countdown until Trump tries to fire Mattis and gets told "No."?
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Mar 13, 2018 23:20
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I'm not sure if there's ever been a decision that would be LESS popular DOD-wide.
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Godholio posted:I'm not sure if there's ever been a decision that would be LESS popular DOD-wide. We talking hypotheticals? Mandatory cheese and vegetable MRE's for a month, with the skittles taken away and given to Fat Leonard while you have to come in during the 96 to implement a new pay system that will not pay you for 2 months? Jimmy4400nav fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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Mar 14, 2018 03:10
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Combine them and we're guaranteed a coup.
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Mar 14, 2018 03:34
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been out for 8 months now. Buying a house. Not giving a gently caress. If you're in you should get out. If you've been in for 14 years and figure you can stick it out you should still probably get out. Life is so much better on the outside, you should join us.
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Mar 14, 2018 22:44
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There’s always Reserves!
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LingcodKilla posted:There’s always Reserves!
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Mar 14, 2018 23:50
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Ah yes, the reserves. Good idea, give up my weekends and vacation hours so I can shave and do computer based training. I don't know why anyone would ever actually want to do this.
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Sir Lucius posted:Ah yes, the reserves. Good idea, give up my weekends and vacation hours so I can shave and do computer based training. I don't know why anyone would ever actually want to do this. Cheaper insurance than through my job, and also the extra money lets me keep working at a place that I like instead of having to get a higher paying job somewhere I don't want to be.
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Also, if you're in an IWC rate, which I can't remember if you're some favor of CT or not, you can actually do real world work that the gaining commands appreciate. The cheap insurance is nice and is better than either my or my husband's insurance. Plus I might go back as a full-time student again to change careers. I'll never begrudge anyone getting out. I just couldn't understand the old timers who were shitheads to anyone not doing 20+. Only thing I always told my Sailors or Airmen who worked for me was to have a plan and not just go back to Dead Rustbelt, OH.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:16
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The insurance alone with its very low catastrophic cap has already saved my family twice from disaster. Things may have changed with the latest change but not having my insurance linked to my main job makes job hopping as a contractor much easier.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:59
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God dammit, not again. Two Aviators Killed After Super Hornet Crash off Key West
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Mar 15, 2018 03:36
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Wingnut Ninja posted:God dammit, not again. gently caress
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Stultus Maximus posted:Cheaper insurance
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Mar 16, 2018 06:05
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Welp back in Japan. Here's to another 3+ years of vomiting on China's doorstep.
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Mar 17, 2018 12:27
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Woohoo. Just got out of boot camp and headed to Connecticut. Any subs here that can let me know any important poo poo I should know before I get there?
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Mar 17, 2018 13:36
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Get qualled, nub.
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Mar 17, 2018 15:26
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Mr. Nice! posted:Get qualled, nub.
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LogicalFallacy posted:Woohoo. Just got out of boot camp and headed to Connecticut. Any subs here that can let me know any important poo poo I should know before I get there? WHY ARE YOU loving DINK NUB??? GO GET ME A GOD DAMNED SWEET TEA YOU STUPID DINK NUB CRANK!
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Mar 17, 2018 19:18
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ded posted:WHY ARE YOU loving DINK NUB??? GO GET ME A GOD DAMNED SWEET TEA YOU STUPID DINK NUB CRANK! Shipmate, swearing is not quality leadersh-BAHAHA FUCKIN GODDAMN HOW DO YOU EVEN GO DINK HOW LAZY ARE YOU YOU loving STUPID gently caress HAHAHA
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There's this thing called a career LaDR, and if you do all the stuff on it for your rate and the grade above you'll probably promote fast and be decent at your job. PQSs have 100s and 200s that most people will tell you that you don't have to do, but which contain almost all of the questions you should be able to answer and where you're supposed to find the answer with roughly 80% accuracy. Qualify for maintenance and qualify for a watch as soon as humanly possible so people get out of your grill, then your pin. I'm surface so this might all be useless, which brings me to the next point: you're going to be told how to do your job twenty different ways by ten different people. Focus on what builds you personally and professionally. Focus on what you get to take with you. Study for your tests and be able to get every question right. Support your chain of command. Be able to justify any action with your COs philosophy and higher doctrine and you're generally untouchable. Practice organisation and learn how to preempt direction so people leave you alone. Don't waste other people's or your own time. Edit: ask if those PQS prerequisites are really optional or n/a. If they're other PQS, they're probably not, work all of those too. Edit: initial here if you plan to submit a statement and sign that you've received counseling. piL fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 21:40
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Buy lots of stuff from the chiefs fund raisers but pay in all nickels.
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Mar 17, 2018 21:42
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Mr. Nice! posted:Get qualled, nub.
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CMD598 posted:Welp back in Japan. Here's to another 3+ years of vomiting on China's doorstep. Sasebo or Yokosuka? If it's Yokosuka, head over to Belgium House Brews if you like beer. Prices are higher, but keeps the Honch crowd out. Jazz night happens once a month. Enjoy vomiting on China's doorstep! Enjoy all the new training you're supposed to be getting out there! Hopefully you don't have another no drinking month!
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Mar 18, 2018 03:18
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Iwakuni (the lodge is inconveniently far from anything that matters.)
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Mar 18, 2018 03:24
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Well, uh...it'll be quiet? Looking at the map, you're not super close to anything except Hiroshima.
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LogicalFallacy posted:Woohoo. Just got out of boot camp and headed to Connecticut. Any subs here that can let me know any important poo poo I should know before I get there? lol Connecticut sucks but you missed the winter. Keep your head down for the next two years until you have your fish. This will probably be the period where you’ll be most depressed and motivated to drink a lot. Resist, if you avoid acquiring a bad whatever habit in the dark months of nubness and cranking you’ll be fine once you’re qualified. It will suck but you’ll come out of the worst of it having finished faster and with hopefully a few tens of thousands banked. Then you can start doing stuff again.
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Can't you no consequences bail first 180 days after shipping out? Do that.
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maffew buildings posted:Can't you no consequences bail first 180 days after shipping out? Do that. Yes you can but then you miss out on the wonderful experience that is the US Navy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGuy0jievs
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Yeah dude loving bail for sure
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orange juche posted:Yes you can but then you miss out on the wonderful experience that is the US Navy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mpve4VvJV0
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Doing some global good there!
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Doing some global good there! It is Forged by the Sea now, shipmate
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My pqs signatures were forged by the sea too.
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Nick Soapdish posted:It is Forged by the Sea now, shipmate God drat, they actually changed it An advertising agency took several millions of dollars from the government to give the idiot teens filtering into Great Lakes something to make fun of
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if the Navy really wants to improve recruiting they should just bring back prize ships
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Cerekk posted:if the Navy really wants to improve recruiting they should just bring back prize ships The problem with that is most pirate vessels aren't worth poo poo.
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Cerekk posted:if the Navy really wants to improve recruiting they should just bring back prize ships Getting a share of all the heroin and meth would be pretty sweet.
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