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maffew buildings posted:Did they hide all the really fat Seabees for that event? Did they make you head bee guy?
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Aug 11, 2018 17:32
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That’s the whole command. It’s a tiny shop.
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Aug 11, 2018 17:38
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Stultus Maximus posted:Did they make you head bee guy? Just one more weekend of making a school kids do a car wash fundraiser and infidelity charge and I'm there
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Aug 11, 2018 17:42
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LingcodKilla posted:That’s the whole command. It’s a tiny shop. Head bee guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFoIETy0dw
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maffew buildings posted:Just one more weekend of making a school kids do a car wash fundraiser and infidelity charge and I'm there Chief season is great.
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Aug 11, 2018 22:10
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maffew buildings posted:Did they hide all the really fat Seabees for that event? They built a wall around them.
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Aug 14, 2018 22:19
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Null Integer posted:They built a wall around them. And made the Army pay for it
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Aug 14, 2018 22:25
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Nick Soapdish posted:And made the Army pay for it You mean hired contractors to do it
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:You mean hired contractors to do it (I was going for a play on "And Mexico will pay for it") Yes, of course, no actual military unit builds things CONUS...or OCONUS.
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Aug 15, 2018 02:29
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Nick Soapdish posted:(I was going for a play on "And Mexico will pay for it") Yes, but you'll need to come at 4 anyway since we're just going to re-do the focsle 12 times so we can look busy while the contractors do all the real work anyway. Oh and Saturday and Sunday. God I wish this wasn't something that literally happened last time I was on a ship.
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i mean just get rid of Seabees already tbh I remember we had a Seabee officer at our command, engineer or whatever those are. Chill dude. I asked him why they don’t do any form of maintenance or upkeep on base aside from the mud run and annual haunted house and he pretty much said they’re just garbage at building or doing anything other than absolutely temporary installments I’ll just always laugh at Djibouti having local nationals working hard in the grueling heat laying asphalt and such while the hundreds of Seabees chilled in the big a/c room drinking beer. They did build the platform for the Xmas tree though
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Aug 15, 2018 02:50
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:i mean just get rid of Seabees already tbh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPFoIETy0dw
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Aug 15, 2018 02:52
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Hello Navy goons. My son (in the navy) is assigned to shore duty. He recently was temporarily assigned to a ship for an exercise or training or something (45 days). He's just found out that they're considering deploying him on the same ship (7 months). He'd like to know if there's any way to decline this gracefully. My gut (I was in the Air Force) tells me that he's boned.
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Aug 15, 2018 04:43
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Oh yeah. Your son is likely hosed if he's filling in a critical gap on the ship and his shore command doesn't have him as a 1 for 1 billet. Has he been in for long, or will this be his first deployment?
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Aug 15, 2018 05:23
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This would be his first deployment. He's been in for less than 2 years,
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Aug 15, 2018 06:50
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Davethulhu posted:Hello Navy goons. Yup. The Navy will count this sea deployment against his shore duty time too! Yay! #lifeaccelerated I’m not bitter I swear
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Aug 15, 2018 07:45
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I thought y’all joined because you liked botes, you ought to be overjoyed and feel honored when this happens
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Aug 15, 2018 09:03
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MrMojok posted:I thought y’all joined because you liked botes, you ought to be overjoyed and feel honored when this happens The best QOL ships by miles to be on are owned by the Army and the Navy's ground combat units treat their guys somewhat like adults. The secret to the military is to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, that way you're left alone with the freedom to actually just do your job.
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Aug 15, 2018 10:53
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Wait navy ground combat treated like adults? Do you mean marines, seabees, or SEAL/EOD? Cause i don’t think you have a good idea what goes on in the navy’s army if you think marines are treated like adults, and you definitely haven’t been reading any of our local seabee posts if you think that about the bees.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Wait navy ground combat treated like adults? Do you mean marines, seabees, or SEAL/EOD? Cause i don’t think you have a good idea what goes on in the navy’s army if you think marines are treated like adults, and you definitely haven’t been reading any of our local seabee posts if you think that about the bees. Pfff, being restricted to walking around with five liberty buddies at a time and only permitted to consume one alcoholic beverage a day is just the cost of being such bad rear end shock troopers.
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Aug 15, 2018 13:37
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The Seabees attached to the USNO seem happy and content while rehabbing our lounge area. Kinda slow but they gutted the building and are doing everything themselves. Apparently also redid the veeps hoops court but nobody cares about that.
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My former XO got drunk and wandered around the woods on Oki naked and got the triad fired. And our old CMC who spent a lot of time talking about how rape keeps him up at night got retired early due to allegations of sexual harassment. These are not atypical stories. Ask those Seabees about: battalion life, stupid people they met, stupidest things they saw and general quality of construction they were a part of
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Aug 15, 2018 14:55
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Mr. Nice! posted:Wait navy ground combat treated like adults? Do you mean marines, seabees, or SEAL/EOD? Cause i don’t think you have a good idea what goes on in the navy’s army if you think marines are treated like adults, and you definitely haven’t been reading any of our local seabee posts if you think that about the bees. Yeah I'm sure he meant marines.
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Davethulhu posted:This would be his first deployment. He's been in for less than 2 years, Tell him to make sure he's got his favorite games/books/hard drive filled with movies ready to go then. If he's really motivated and he does end up going, he can get his ESWS pin while on the ship. If is a ship with an air detachment and they allow it, maybe even his wings. Hopefully people help him out and get him ready, but it's the Navy. Semper Gumby. And Maffew? I can't lie, the fact that it was your old XO who did that still makes me shake my head.
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Yeah we weren't even all that surprised overall, it was like "ok this is a logical progression for our general stupidity". It's a high bar but I expect it cleared before my EAOS.
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maffew buildings posted:My former XO got drunk and wandered around the woods on Oki naked and got the triad fired. And our old CMC who spent a lot of time talking about how rape keeps him up at night got retired early due to allegations of sexual harassment. These are not atypical stories. Operation “Ask a Bee” is a go. I’ll go find one in their natural habitat the smoke pit.
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Some cats are super about it and will talk up all things NCF, over overstate construction abilities so be advised, but generally personnel are decently realistic about how things go down It'll go better than when I told you to order mahu, promise
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maffew buildings posted:Some cats are super about it and will talk up all things NCF, over overstate construction abilities so be advised, but generally personnel are decently realistic about how things go down gently caress, that was the first time a teenage girl laughed in my face since high school.   Emptyvilles. Nobody home. Finally ran into a skinny tall Bee. “Shore duty rocks but im not gonna make Chief here” as he ambled away for a smoke break. He seems pretty happy.
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The Valley Stared posted:Tell him to make sure he's got his favorite games/books/hard drive filled with movies ready to go then. If he's really motivated and he does end up going, he can get his ESWS pin while on the ship. If is a ship with an air detachment and they allow it, maybe even his wings. Thanks everyone for the advice, I passed this one on specifically.
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Davethulhu posted:Thanks everyone for the advice, I passed this one on specifically. She’s the best btw.
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Aug 15, 2018 16:50
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LingcodKilla posted:She’s the best btw. Not an empty quote
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Dude in for less than 2 years was on shore duty? Wow. edit : hope he enjoys cranking during his deployment as a much needed slot.
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I always feel bad for the kids sent directly from imagery “C” school to NGA headquarters in Springfield. The billion +++ dollar building with its massive foodcourt, ultra modern design, and systems and software that are a decade ahead of the fleet may not be preparing them well for their eventual follow on sea duty. They will have a baller resume though.
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Better than a AT being sent to a NOSC as an office drone straight from A school.
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Davethulhu posted:Thanks everyone for the advice, I passed this one on specifically. No problem. This is stuff that should be common knowledge, and yet people don't think to pass it on. Movies and books are sometimes the only thing you have to take a little mental break from the ship. The only other thing I have is make sure to get his address on the ship if he does go on this deployment. Getting a package is one of the best things when you're out to sea, and getting snacks from home or photos is huge. Also, ded is right in that your son will probably have to undergo a rotation through the galley, affectionately called cranking. We're not supposed to call it that anymore. It's considered derogatory and hazing, but that's still what it's commonly called. If this happens to him, tell him to wear his goddamn ear plugs when in the scullery, because the dish washing machine is loud as gently caress, and people get in trouble for not wearing them. Also make sure that he learns how to operate the thing if he's forced into that position.
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If he’s going TAD to the ship for cruise then he shouldn’t be cranking.
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Davethulu: what’s his rate? Is he stationed at an FRC and going to a carrier to work somewhere in AIMD?
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MancXVI posted:If he’s going TAD to the ship for cruise then he shouldn’t be cranking. Tell that to the Imagery dude that got sent cranking. I still feel bad that those ONI and Fallon Get guys got hosed since they checked into the ship and not the PHIBRON. Too bad I was the senior enlisted for N2 as a IS1 and the ship had a Senior Chief.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Tell that to the Imagery dude that got sent cranking. I still feel bad that those ONI and Fallon Get guys got hosed since they checked into the ship and not the PHIBRON. Too bad I was the senior enlisted for N2 as a IS1 and the ship had a Senior Chief. Dang, that sucks. When I was SEAOPDET we were given explicit instructions to notify our shore command if the ship tried to gently caress with us.
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