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I used to go to Dam Neck pretty often. It's not like it's in the middle of nowhere - VA Beach is like 5-10 minutes away (which may actually be bad, Norfolk is the way better city IMO)
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I thought of all the Navy bases in the Tidewater area, Little Creek was the best to commute to. Loved when we were working from there. As everyone knows, NOB was the worse since a 10 minute difference can have you either at work 45 minutes early or late by 30 minutes. Also, Dam Neck was occasionally weird with gate traffic backed up almost to Gen Booth Blvd.
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Mar 28, 2018 15:33
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The cottages at dam neck are very nice and I would stay there again if I ever happened to get trapped there in nonhurricane season.
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Mar 28, 2018 15:35
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Is Yorktown NWS still the anal polyp it once was? I went there for pre-dep training in ‘04 for a day or three.
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Mar 28, 2018 17:00
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Boon posted:I used to go to Dam Neck pretty often. But it's far enough from anywhere and not physically attached to Oceana which means no one gives any attention to it. This makes it one of the premiere military installations IMHO. It's like Everett if Everett didn't have ships, had a bowling alley, and had waters you could actually swim in. Apparently the gate traffic sucks in the morning though.
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Mar 28, 2018 23:16
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I stepped on what I thought was the worlds biggest cockroach outside the bowling alley but it turned out to be a really lost crab.
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Mar 28, 2018 23:50
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For lunch, there should be a BBQ food truck that posts up in the affes parking lot, never did try it as usually on there for prt weekends.
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Mar 28, 2018 23:59
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Nick Soapdish posted:For lunch, there should be a BBQ food truck that posts up in the affes parking lot, never did try it as usually on there for prt weekends. Buckley in Colorado had a pierogi truck show up a few times. loving fantastic idea.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:03
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I've been on Dam Neck for 3 years now and can say that as far as coastal Virginia bases go, it's the best one I've had anything to do with. Once you figure out the timing on the front gate, you're golden. I'm out of my front door and at work in about 13 minutes. It's full of students that don't get in your way. The facilities are decent. It has a private beach.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:23
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Little creek base is pretty good for traffic compared to NOB. Camp Allen has some really nice beaches.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:28
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Corey had a bar within stumbling distance of the barracks. Uh.... Yeah that’s about it. poo poo was garbage.
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Mar 29, 2018 06:04
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Lou Takki posted:Little creek base is pretty good for traffic compared to NOB. getting punched in the face for no reason is pretty good compared to having your fingernails pried off with bamboo shanks
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Mar 29, 2018 14:12
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For some reason Damneck was always my favorite base to run on. Maybe its because I went from the furnace of China Lake before and the 8000% humidity of Japan after, but I liked early morning runs there.
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Mar 29, 2018 15:14
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Othin posted:For some reason Damneck was always my favorite base to run on. Maybe its because I went from the furnace of China Lake before and the 8000% humidity of Japan after, but I liked early morning runs there. I once saw a squad of runners at DamNeck in sweats and garbage bags running really late in the evening with someone on a bike yelling at them. Was very confusing. Guess it could have been marines.
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Mar 29, 2018 15:57
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Cerekk posted:getting punched in the face for no reason is pretty good compared to having your fingernails pried off with bamboo shanks I laughed.
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Mar 29, 2018 18:29
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Cerekk posted:getting punched in the face for no reason is pretty good compared to having your fingernails pried off with bamboo shanks enlisting is the start of a string of bad choices
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Mar 29, 2018 19:24
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M_Gargantua posted:enlisting is the start of a string of bad choices After five or six bases, you really get to appreciate the little things. NS Jax traffic uses clean fishhooks to rip off your eyelids, but NAS Jax uses rusty ones, for example. Then you go to an Air Force Base.
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Mar 30, 2018 00:20
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Once Hickam and Pearl Harbor became a joint base the only thing separating them was an old (long) fence and pipeline and a little unused guard shack. One side was an ill-maintained concrete hellscape, the other had lots of vividly green grass and tons of fancy barracks and MWR facilities. edit: Spot the line 
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Mar 30, 2018 05:53
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Well on one side of the line you have a residential area where people live. On the other side you have the industrial side of a naval shipyard. I mean it makes sense that one side would be more welcoming than the other.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:25
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Mr. Nice! posted:Well on one side of the line you have a residential area where people live. On the other side you have the industrial side of a naval shipyard. I mean it makes sense that one side would be more welcoming than the other. San Diego's wet side/dry side looks exactly like that.
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Mar 30, 2018 14:45
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Stultus Maximus posted:San Diego's wet side/dry side looks exactly like that. Exactly. Of course a shipyard is not going to be friendly and residential looking. An actual comparison would be say Ford Island housing vs Hickam housing and they look quite a bit the same.
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Mar 30, 2018 15:19
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The new VA head Trump is trying to appoint, the one they're calling "the President's personal doctor", is actually a Rear Admiral. Is it likely he got there without substantial management experience? (This has nothing to do with whether he's actually competent to run the VA.)
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Mar 30, 2018 16:55
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They needed an administrator. From all reports that’s not what his specialty is.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:03
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If he gets to a confirmation hearing, I want a Senator to ask if he lied about DJT's weight
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Mar 30, 2018 17:06
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Not really, He’s a medical officer and they start at a high rank and get promoted to oversee other doctors and medical staff. The largest group he’s ever managed I would guess was around 500 staff.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:09
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Medical officers do not start off at a high rank generally speaking. There are exceptions of course. It really just comes down to what his assignments were along the way.
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Mar 30, 2018 17:15
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The new VA head Trump is trying to appoint, the one they're calling "the President's personal doctor", is actually a Rear Admiral. Is it likely he got there without substantial management experience? (This has nothing to do with whether he's actually competent to run the VA.) It looks like his largest command was the White House Medical Unit, which has a staff of 25 or so and a (probable) budget of "what do you need?" e: other command duties: det. officer in charge and diving medical officer at Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 8 in Sigonella, Italy ee: 75-ish people? (EODMU 11, not 8) emergency medicine physician in charge of resuscitative medicine for a forward deployed Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq ee: enough staff to treat 150 patients in 45 days? joat mon fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mar 30, 2018 17:17
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The new VA head Trump is trying to appoint, the one they're calling "the President's personal doctor", is actually a Rear Admiral. Is it likely he got there without substantial management experience? (This has nothing to do with whether he's actually competent to run the VA.) There are very few administrators with the background to tackle an institution as big and with as many problems as the VA. This dude is obviously way underqualified
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Mar 30, 2018 19:42
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Was you guys who said to watch out for people who keep a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese”?. Dudes also has Leadership Secrete of Attila the Hun, How to Confuse the idiots in your Life and Arrogance Rescuing America from the Media elite.
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Mar 30, 2018 22:17
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LingcodKilla posted:Was you guys who said to watch out for people who keep a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese”?. Any time that book gets trotted out, someone is in for a bad time.
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krispykremessuck posted:Any time that book gets trotted out, someone is in for a bad time. Should I read it for amusement? In other new my NOSC actually prevented me from getting hosed. I had orders for a 179 days in the pipe and they notified me they wouldnt approve them because it would trigger an permanent change of address after 139 days and I would have to pay for my hotel in DC out of pocket for the balance of my time (though my BAH would go up $600 but that's not enough for a room rental im sure). Contacted the unit who wanted me and they did their own research and realized yeah that would gently caress me over so they changed it to 139 days instead. Really the best of endings because I wont miss my whole PNW summer but I'll still get plenty of time in DC. Thanks NOSC! I'm not use to them actually looking out for me.
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Mar 31, 2018 01:46
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LingcodKilla posted:Should I read it for amusement? For amusement, I guess. Also: it’s a trap.
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Mar 31, 2018 02:26
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I read the first few chapters of How to Win Friends and Influence People and it’s nuts how basic some of the advice is, like “if you treat your employees like people instead of berating them they might work harder” yet apparently this book was super influential. I guess a bunch of bosses back in the stone age thought people *liked* being treated like poo poo at work.
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Mar 31, 2018 03:33
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MancXVI posted:I read the first few chapters of How to Win Friends and Influence People and it’s nuts how basic some of the advice is, like “if you treat your employees like people instead of berating them they might work harder” yet apparently this book was super influential. I guess a bunch of bosses back in the stone age thought people *liked* being treated like poo poo at work. Still happening to this day!
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Mar 31, 2018 03:44
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military leaders should only be given books for people who need to get out of domestic abuse situations/survivors of abuse, maybe we could stop having a system where only the most battered of housewives decides to stay in just kidding, we're going to up your workload and scream at you for not knowing how to do this thing that you've been tasked with that we have no idea how to do and provided no guidance on instead
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Mar 31, 2018 03:48
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maffew buildings posted:just kidding, we're going to up your workload and scream at you for not knowing how to do this thing that you've been tasked with that we have no idea how to do and provided no guidance on instead The master chief walked awkwardly into the hospital room, the combination hat in his hands slowly being turned in circles as he unconsciously showed his nervousness. When he realized what he was doing, he set it on the chair by the door and stepped over to the young petty officer's bed. He took a glance at the notecard in his hand and tried to speak, but his voice caught. He took a breath, cleared his throat, and tried again. "Hey there, shipmate," he said, forcing a smile onto his face. "I heard you're having a rough time." His eyes moved to the bandages on the sailor's wrists, wrapped all the way up to his elbows. Down the block, not across the street, he thought. drat. He glanced at the notecard again. Words from above. The answers he sought. "Have you completed suicide awareness training?"
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Mar 31, 2018 04:13
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McNally posted:The master chief walked awkwardly into the hospital room, the combination hat in his hands slowly being turned in circles as he unconsciously showed his nervousness. When he realized what he was doing, he set it on the chair by the door and stepped over to the young petty officer's bed. He took a glance at the notecard in his hand and tried to speak, but his voice caught. He took a breath, cleared his throat, and tried again.
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MancXVI posted:I read the first few chapters of How to Win Friends and Influence People and it’s nuts how basic some of the advice is, like “if you treat your employees like people instead of berating them they might work harder” yet apparently this book was super influential. I guess a bunch of bosses back in the stone age thought people *liked* being treated like poo poo at work. My GS boss yelled at me the other day for eating a breakfast sandwich on the clock first thing in the morning. 1) I had checked for open tickets, we had none. 2) He was late because he had to go get his morning latte(it was still in his hand). 3) We were told to wait for him in the morning before leaving the office for independent work. I ended up almost throwing my sandwich at him but instead just berated him for a while on how lovely a manager he was. He ran off and went to a division meeting and complained about me eating on the clock and being verbally abusive. I started packing my desk but it ended up getting dropped because his boss thought eating food wasn’t something to get worked up about and he shouldnt raise his voice to staff. I’m still edgy around him. I’m not use to that level of micromanagement.
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McNally posted:The master chief walked awkwardly into the hospital room, the combination hat in his hands slowly being turned in circles as he unconsciously showed his nervousness. When he realized what he was doing, he set it on the chair by the door and stepped over to the young petty officer's bed. He took a glance at the notecard in his hand and tried to speak, but his voice caught. He took a breath, cleared his throat, and tried again. 
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LingcodKilla posted:My GS boss yelled at me the other day for eating a breakfast sandwich on the clock first thing in the morning. show up to work with photos of his house
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