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KetTarma posted:Ket's Guide to Why the Reserves Are Silly and You Should Not Care That's uh....wow. Amazing distillation of the Navy in general I think. Remember they used to fly the ETs from Yokosuka to San Diego for a one day class then fly them back the next day. 6000 miles, 2 nights in a hotel, taxis and per diem for something they probably didn't need anyway aside from a check in the command box. The thing that bothers me is it's evals and those can screw people over. I don't want to have a bunch of new sailors get derailed, no matter how short a time or degree of derailment, because I messed up. If it were me alone on this yea sure counseling chit and move along with my day but there are other people in on it.
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You know what's worse than being stuck at White Beach for reserve duty? Having a typhoon come through when you're supposed to fly home. What's even worse? Finding the stray cat that hangs around housing dead, knowing that she has four kittens who are also going to be dead because of this. Godfuckingdammit. 
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Jun 13, 2018 10:01
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KetTarma posted:I ended up meeting grover during this adventure and got to go inside Groverhaus. It didn't collapse on me so that's a win. Way to bury the lede!
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Fangthane posted:That's uh....wow. Amazing distillation of the Navy in general I think. Remember they used to fly the ETs from Yokosuka to San Diego for a one day class then fly them back the next day. 6000 miles, 2 nights in a hotel, taxis and per diem for something they probably didn't need anyway aside from a check in the command box. I dont think your derailing anyone's reserve career by loving up the e4 evals. I could write a book about how lovely doing reserve evals are, and I'll probably edit this post when I get to work.
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Jun 13, 2018 12:43
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E4 evals can be bottom lined by chiefs. They do not matter.
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Jun 13, 2018 13:23
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Mr. Nice! posted:E4 evals can be bottom lined by chiefs. They do not matter. Exactly. When they give poo poo next month for e3 and below evals keep in mind that they matter even less.
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Jun 13, 2018 16:19
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But also loving  at being concerned about damaging a career with an evaluation. If a sailor gets a lovely eval and/or gets dropped in ranking from a previous one, it's not a failure of the leadership to protect his career but rather the sailors.then again, i'm looking at the navy with pie eyed dreams of it as a meritocracy and not just a federal jobs program for poor people from rural and conservative states.
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Jun 13, 2018 16:28
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The command I was in was small enough that I'm almost certain that the chiefs were rotating the EPs throughout all of us E5s to try to get everyone promoted as fast as possible. It generally worked too, with most people hitting promotion within 1-2 periods of being eligible.
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Jun 13, 2018 17:42
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I'm finally figuring it out now that I've served at a NOSC. The reason why NOSCs are so hit or miss is because the regional commands that direct the NOSCs are mostly staffed by people who've never worked at a NOSC and they're directed by RESFOR which is mostly clueless about how their policies ripple out into waves that ruin your average reservist's drill weekend and create impossible to enforce rules at the NOSC which creates insurmountable training obstacles for the region which turns around and asks RESFOR to change things which sets the whole ridiculous cycle off. But why don't they just mirror the active component policies and tweak them to make them work for the reserves? Because that would be admitting that the reserves aren't a special force that is absolutely essential to the defense of the nation! To drive home how stupid the construct of the RESFOR RCC NOSC reserves really is pay attention to the next TNR magazine you get. There's more than 1 FTS for every 5 selres. That's a seriously high ratio of fts to selres. Shockingly few of those people though are engaged in actual reserve management. The rest are basically filling active billets. Cancel the reserves, replace the whole thing with ten-fifteen thousand active billets and stop trying to make intel nerds, doctors, and lawyers play officer because they loving suck at it. Tldr: the entirety of the reserve force exists to keep Djibouti and gitmo from having too many real billets to fill.
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Jun 13, 2018 18:05
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gently caress I don’t miss brag sheets
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Jun 13, 2018 18:18
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Well it is easier and faster to get a reservist in place than a sailor. I’m actually doing stuff a NMCI field tech should be doing with the infrastructure but it’s what the site needs. They usually have to wait weeks to months to get any work done. I actually feel kinda useful here. Also I’m making fat stacks because pay is great for orders under 140 days.
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Jun 13, 2018 18:26
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Mr. Nice! posted:
People get real angry when I mention things like this for some reason.
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Lingcod if i knew you were going to have such a great experience i would have said you molested me at MEPs and tanked it because we aren't about having positives in my Navy, hooyah?
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maffew buildings posted:Lingcod if i knew you were going to have such a great experience i would have said you molested me at MEPs and tanked it because we aren't about having positives in my Navy, hooyah? It’s not all fun and games. This morning I was walking by the flag and noticed nobody was ready to raise it at 7:55. I ran in and grabbed the flag, folded it and got back to the flagstaff. I knew there was a risk the VP helicopter would land since the SS was camped out and drat it if it didn’t take that moment to land and blew up a wall of fresh grass clippings on me and some got in my eye. Thankfully he cut his rotors before I started raising the flag. Owe.
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Jun 13, 2018 21:10
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LingcodKilla posted:It’s not all fun and games. This morning I was walking by the flag and noticed nobody was ready to raise it at 7:55. I ran in and grabbed the flag, folded it and got back to the flagstaff. I knew there was a risk the VP helicopter would land since the SS was camped out and drat it if it didn’t take that moment to land and blew up a wall of fresh grass clippings on me and some got in my eye. Look at this go-getter  When my rear end heard the 5 minute warning for colors, I found absolutely anything to keep me from going outside.
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Jun 13, 2018 22:06
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Well speaking of reserves... Based on the recent promotion board results, I am 99.9% officially terminal O4. My unit CO, when giving me my lovely FITREP, said that if I wanted to make O5 it was expected that I put in as much or more work during each week as I do during drill weekends. Well, I guess unlike the majority of reserve O5s and O6s, I actually have to work at my civilian job and can't make Navy phone calls, check Navy email, etc. And I sure as poo poo am not spending that much time outside my 50-60 hours of work a week with Navy bullshit instead of my family. Downsides: Only a few years left of hella cheap medical insurance. My "remodel the house/rainy day/emergency car repair/etc" fund will dry up. Upsides: I am stuck in loving Okinawa doing absolutely nothing and will not get the single qual I was sent out here for because of a tropical storm, meaning I wasted two loving weeks of my life and I won't have to do this ever again. And I'm also dumb enough to be seriously considering a mobilization in order to give my kids a full rear end college fund even though it means spending a year away from them that I really don't want to do. 
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Jun 14, 2018 08:06
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Just submitted my reenlistment paperwork. Last month they upped the multiple for non-aegis FCs from 0.5 to 2. So yeah.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Just submitted my reenlistment paperwork. Last month they upped the multiple for non-aegis FCs from 0.5 to 2. So yeah. Man you know it's bad when theyre giving conventional (scrublord) FCs a decent reenlistment bonus.
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Jun 14, 2018 14:06
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Apparently, a retiring CMC friend told me this, if you're retiring from a med board you can request 75 instead of 50 pension since you could've technically gone all the way to 30 years. Looking into it and will update.
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Jun 15, 2018 00:15
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It took 3 years and five months but I don't even want to be in the service anymore. Seabeeeeees!
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maffew buildings posted:It took 3 years and five months but I don't even want to be in the service anymore. Seabeeeeees! Enlist Reserves, rerate to IS and be happpppy.
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Oh. If any of you guys are working at the Pentagon and see an old rear end E5 with a wicked flattop staring around be sure to say hi. Looking forward to my first trip.
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LingcodKilla posted:Oh. If any of you guys are working at the Pentagon and see an old rear end E5 with a wicked flattop staring around be sure to say hi. Looking forward to my first trip. You seem like one of those weirdo reservists who are constantly on orders. I'm on orders next week and I already cant wait to be done.
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PneumonicBook posted:You seem like one of those weirdo reservists who are constantly on orders. I'm on 139 day orders. Gonna make enough to put a huge down payment on a car by the time I'm done. Go back home at the end of the fiscal year then immediately go on my AT to Hawaii (take the wife). Chill at home until Janurary then go back on 139 day orders to save up some more money. That's the plan anyways. So far I've been saving up pretty good. There's a risk I may just get mobilized here. Serious manpower issue but it's not due to a lack of funding. Oh well.
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If you see a
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Re: reserve talk- Does anybody know how to request some reservists? I'm going to be gapped a billet, and it seems like there's this organisation that I should be able to just tap into.
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LingcodKilla posted:Enlist Reserves, rerate to IS and be happpppy. Enjoy being temporarily in the rate since it will take 2+ years to get your TS which is required for C School and becoming permanent to take the exam. I think he retires in a year or so due to not being able to test for Chief -Source: Our IS1 who is super Navy savvy but obviously not IS trained stuck doing admin work piL posted:Re: reserve talk- Does anybody know how to request some reservists? I'm going to be gapped a billet, and it seems like there's this organisation that I should be able to just tap into. Shooting from the hip, which is not what to do in Real Life but this is SA, I think whoever is your OSO (Operations Support Officer) is the one who can put in reqs for reservists
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Nick Soapdish posted:Shooting from the hip, which is not what to do in Real Life but this is SA, I think whoever is your OSO (Operations Support Officer) is the one who can put in reqs for reservists This is exactly right. Go through the chain of command, of course, and also recognize that there are some good OSOs but there are also some total wastes of space.
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Coming from MCM to LCS, I've never heard this title before, but it's a good direction to look and I'll send some investigatory emails. Thanks for the help!
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piL posted:Coming from MCM to LCS, I've never heard this title before, but it's a good direction to look and I'll send some investigatory emails. Thanks for the help! I swear to god if I get pulled to cover a gapped billet on an LCS...
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PneumonicBook posted:I swear to god if I get pulled to cover a gapped billet on an LCS... 
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Jun 15, 2018 12:27
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PneumonicBook posted:I swear to god if I get pulled to cover a gapped billet on an LCS... Needs of the Navy shipmate.
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piL posted:Re: reserve talk- Does anybody know how to request some reservists? I'm going to be gapped a billet, and it seems like there's this organisation that I should be able to just tap into. There's an office at SURFPAC that specifically handled this. It won't be fast though because nothing about the Reserves is fast. Unfortunately I don't remember the office name, but if you have contacts over there they should be able to hook you up with them. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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LingcodKilla posted:Needs of the Navy shipmate. See I'd be fine going on deployment on an actual ship, like a DDG or CG. Of course no LCS' are ever deploying so...
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MCPON Giordano is under investigation by the Navy IG. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...oxic-workplace/ Seems pretty bad, but kinda what you’d expect if your leaders are taking leadership lessons from their current commander in chief.
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PneumonicBook posted:See I'd be fine going on deployment on an actual ship, like a DDG or CG. Aren't all the Ticos floating dumpster fires held together by baling wire and duct tape at this point?
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Jun 15, 2018 15:56
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Aren't all the Ticos floating dumpster fires held together by baling wire and duct tape at this point? HOW DARE YOU!? Yea they're all hosed but they've been hosed for literally decades. When we brought the MOB into the yard in 08 she had like a 3 inch crack around the entire superstructure. Like you could look out of the qm shack into open air. We had a ton of 30 year old pipes burst right over load centers too my last deployment, which was fun.
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Hell the port royal is still running around and she's got a permanent list thanks to her adventure on reef runway. I've got a picture somewhere from a RAS in the arabian gulf where the port royal just cut in front of us and everyone else like "gently caress all y'all we do what we want"
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My Port Royal story is the time they called us up on BTB to inform us they'd be "standing by to receive passing honors" even though a) submarines aren't required to participate in passing honors in the first place, and b) it turned out our CO was senior to theirs.
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Oooh I worked on the hatches and doors of the Port Royal a few years back and quite a few of them failed the line test, the chalk test and the “can’t be dogged down at all” test.
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