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It's still completely stunning to me that I had such a vastly different experience in the Navy compared to most everyone else. Maybe that's why they started hiring more civilian dental assistants, they realized DTs were just too happy and they had to kill our spirit by making us miserable HMs.
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Well NSW, medical and aviation all kinda sorta acknowledge the fact that their people are actually people, some of the time anyway. Surface Navy would rather have shiny brass and pampered Officers then combat effectiveness or morale.
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Oct 17, 2018 01:34
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That's solely because they're more difficult to replace than the average dude who guessed his way to a reasonable ASVAB score after tying his own shoes like a big boy.
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Sarah posted:It's still completely stunning to me that I had such a vastly different experience in the Navy compared to most everyone else. Maybe that's why they started hiring more civilian dental assistants, they realized DTs were just too happy and they had to kill our spirit by making us miserable HMs. Kind of makes me think of when they jammed all the SK, PC, DK, and AK into the new LS community. Had a guy cross-rating into Intel from PC who absolutely loved his job when he deployed IA just running mail at some random FOB. Same with CTA -> YN and CTM -> IT, you are taking these people with very specialized skills and jamming them into these overmanned generalist communities and who would guess that everyone in those communities is garbage.
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Oct 17, 2018 01:45
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I want to know why they are having dudes on a submarine yell out stupid loving marine bullshit like HOORAH!!!
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I've been kicking this around since they tried to axe ratings. Is it dumb? How could it be better? Return the old rates, sailors can hold multiple ratings at a time, but each one has specific qualification requirements (like ESWS). You get to wear the one you want that's relevant to your current job. Instead of relying solely on NECs and schools for billet elligibility, personnels ratings and their qualification level within determine what they can apply for, so a PC can still exist, but if there's not enough PC jobs because we closed all our bases in the 90s, he can My thought is that you may retain espirit de corps and tradition of ratings, allow personnel to pursue and communicate areas of preference or expertise, and provide the flexibility the Navy needs when it's clear it no longer needs lithography or it needs to place personnel in skill-adjacent billets. Ideally, it would provide validation to the ETs performing IC work and HTs performing DC work. I'd love to hear where this idea falls apart before I proselytize too much.
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Because a lot of folks seem to have no identity beyond their rate and any challenge to this, regardless of positives, breaks their brain
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Oct 17, 2018 05:22
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Cerekk posted:Guess who has tickets to the on-base sneak preview showing of Hunter Killer this Saturday. My third CO (the bad one) was there, he was an advisor to the film.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://news.usni.org/2018/10/15/navy-hopes-film-hunter-killer-boosts-recruiting-star-wants-movie-to-reinvigorate-submarine-movie-genre The dude who made Das Boot made another sub movie? Could be good tbf.
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Saw a sailor from the Nimitz I swear was no taller than 4,6”. Thought he was a child at first in a costume but he had a really terrible mustache so it checked out. Didn’t think they did height waivers.
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Syncopated posted:The dude who made Das Boot made another sub movie? Could be good tbf. I just hope they have a scene with an incompetent SWO who thinks he can take down a sub and loses badly. Also want someone to say something like, "If we didn't get rid of the Viking, none of this would happen." or at least something to throw a bone at MPA/ASW community.
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Oct 19, 2018 20:21
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gently caress it. I'm done with this. I'm getting out in July. What do I do now?
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Oct 24, 2018 07:53
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Enjoy life?
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Not be up at 4am to find out the event was cancelled?
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Null Integer posted:gently caress it. I'm done with this. I'm getting out in July. What do I do now? Work 40 hours a week and get a reasonable salary?
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Null Integer posted:gently caress it. I'm done with this. I'm getting out in July. What do I do now? Go back to school on Uncle Sam's sweet juicy tit. The GI Bill is amazing.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Go back to school on Uncle Sam's sweet juicy tit. The GI Bill is amazing.
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My first orders came in! I'm going to be a link maintenance technician on a DDG out of Norfolk. I wanted Japan, but Europe's cool too. I don't really know what to expect, but I'm excited that I got decent orders. Any tips for an ET3 fresh out of A-School?
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Do not let anyone dampen this enthusiasm you have going ever
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maffew buildings posted:Do not let anyone dampen this enthusiasm you have going ever Stay safe. Don’t start drinking.
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Don't marry anyone unless you've been shacked up for at least a year. Get a cheap car and a cheap place to live away from the Navy. Do your quals and don't get fat or drink too much. Start a savings or brokerage account to save for when it's time to Get Out. Take a lot of photos. Not in your classified spaces.
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LingcodKilla posted:Don’t start drinking.
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Fred Dawes posted:My first orders came in! I'm going to be a link maintenance technician on a DDG out of Norfolk. I wanted Japan, but Europe's cool too. I don't really know what to expect, but I'm excited that I got decent orders. Any tips for an ET3 fresh out of A-School? There are places in Norfolk that aren't 110% Navy dudes, more like a mere 50% max, root them out and hang out there incognito
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Fred Dawes posted:My first orders came in! I'm going to be a link maintenance technician on a DDG out of Norfolk. I wanted Japan, but Europe's cool too. I don't really know what to expect, but I'm excited that I got decent orders. Any tips for an ET3 fresh out of A-School? The link school is in Damneck and is super chill, I think the students there are on 30 section duty lol. Pay lots of attention to CDLMS for fucks sake. You will go cranking, if you can try to do your time in port instead of at sea. Try not to forget entirely how to ET. Like everyone else said do your drat quals ASAP. No one likes an unqualified noob, get your watch stations and 3M done. Keep in mind as an ET on a small boy you will be expected to work on far more systems than whatever system you got a school for. I was a link and satcom tech on a CG and a LSD, stationed in Norfolk. Now I'm a contractor for SPAWAR still in the Norfolk area so if you've got questions feel free to PM me.
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Dorstein posted:Don't marry anyone unless you've been shacked up for at least a year. Calendar or cumulative?
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Thanks for your helpful tips! I'm not much a drinker, so my main focus after getting qual'd is finding a high-achieving peer group and learning as much as I can about my job(s). In the mean time, I need a new phone. What carrier is best for Europe / South-West Asia? The Google Pixel 3 looks really nice right now... e: Went with the Pixel 3 128GB / Project Fi. Will arrive next month. Fred Dawes fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Oct 25, 2018 |
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McNally posted:Calendar or cumulative? getting married on new years eve #soblessed
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maffew buildings posted:you never ask if you should enlist with a degree, you just do it because patriotism and then your XO walks around the woods naked and drunk and your branch transfer gets nixed because Trump wants a bigly Navy, so then you babysit fat kids, to include one who doesn't hide they watch hentai 
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Fred Dawes posted:Thanks for your helpful tips! I'm not much a drinker, so my main focus after getting qual'd is finding a high-achieving peer group and learning as much as I can about my job(s). Just buy an unlocked phone directly from the manufacturer. International models come with more than one sim card slot. I just bought cheap sim cards when I pulled into random ports. Otherwise the Google Fi thing isn't a terrible idea.
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Fred Dawes posted:My first orders came in! I'm going to be a link maintenance technician on a DDG out of Norfolk. I wanted Japan, but Europe's cool too. I don't really know what to expect, but I'm excited that I got decent orders. Any tips for an ET3 fresh out of A-School? Get your pin, don’t drink the koolaid, try to keep positive and find some hobby you can do while at sea. And don’t drink.
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Fred Dawes posted:My first orders came in! Okay... Fred Dawes posted:I'm going to be a link tech Oh no... Fred Dawes posted:out of Norfolk Unfortunate. Fred Dawes posted:I wanted Japan I wonder why? Oh right.
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Fred Dawes posted:Thanks for your helpful tips! I'm not much a drinker, so my main focus after getting qual'd is finding a high-achieving peer group and learning as much as I can about my job(s). T mobile military plan offers overseas 3g data and voice in 210 countries. E:. My pixel 3 xl just arrived at my house on Monday. I'm impressed, but my last phone was a 2013 moto x.
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google fi is nearly any country you will end up at the same flat rate https://fi.google.com/about/faq/#international-usage-2
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If you don't want the absolute top phone check out the Moto G6. I can't speak highly enough of this thing. It's a 95% solution with a bit worse camera It has a headphone jack, works on Fi and I can buy 3 of them for the price of 1 pixel 3.
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Fred Dawes posted:My first orders came in! I'm going to be a link maintenance technician on a DDG out of Norfolk. I wanted Japan, but Europe's cool too. I don't really know what to expect, but I'm excited that I got decent orders. Any tips for an ET3 fresh out of A-School? Get ready to stand ESS all night while the OS’s gently caress up link every hour.
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Dorstein posted:Don't marry anyone unless you've been shacked up for at least a year. Make sure that year includes a deployment.
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As said, get your 3M quals, the higher you can the better, CSOSS too, it's a good deal to have CSOOW Qual whether or not you stand it.
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Thronde posted:As said, get your 3M quals, the higher you can the better, CSOSS too, it's a good deal to have CSOOW Qual whether or not you stand it. CSOOW on a DDG is endgame content but yeah that's definitely the goal. Nthing the don't drink the coolaid bit. It's a job not an identity.
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Understand regulations to the letter, know their article numbers and be able to quote them like the Bible, and be well stocked for any underway or deployment. Do dry runs to determine the poo poo you need on cruise, find out if the ship has it, and if not, get to stocking. First rule is salt, pepper, and hot sauce, branch out from there. Learn to skate without loving the people that actually do work in your shop. Get in quick with the people that actually get work done and distance yourself from those that don't. Learn the 3M and DC regs and procedures as quick as possible. Get qual'd as quick as possible. Depending on when you get to your shop this won't be possible. Be patient and focus on learning the manuals.
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