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Fart Cannon posted:You brought me a birthday cake. Thanks! Happy belated 
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If there was an option for civilian medical at a couple hundred bucks a month while AD I would never consider walking
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maffew buildings posted:If there was an option for civilian medical at a couple hundred bucks a month while AD I would never consider walking Don’t be such a baby. Now bend over so we can inspect your sinus cavity infection.
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Apparently one of the individuals killed in the Syria attack was one of us. https://news.usni.org/2019/01/18/sailor-among-killed-isis-attack-syria
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gently caress. Poor family.
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vulturesrow posted:Apparently one of the individuals killed in the Syria attack was one of us. Two https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/syria-suicide-bomb-manbij-victims Scott Wirtz was killed too, he was a DIA civilian who was an ex-SEAL, deployed in support of OIR in Manbij.
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So I got an approval for an MRI and scheduled with the local provider tricare authorizes (scheduled before approval went through). It just got approved and is telling me go to a site 350 miles away at my home of record. Anyone else had this issue, feedback on quickly correcting?
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maffew buildings posted:So I got an approval for an MRI and scheduled with the local provider tricare authorizes (scheduled before approval went through). It just got approved and is telling me go to a site 350 miles away at my home of record. Anyone else had this issue, feedback on quickly correcting? I’ve had it happen across town, not something as extreme as yours. You should be able to call the tricare referral line and have them switch it. I don’t know the specific number for it, but you should be able to call the main tricare phone number and navigate phone tree hell to connect to them.
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Thanks for feedback. It's extra special because AD is auto enrolled at point of duty with a facility. Good work, tricare.
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Mr. Nice! posted:
That DH choke point. I'm the only second tour on my (albiet small) ship to sign, though all were selected so I don't think the problem is licked quite yet.
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I continue to espouse that most of our problems come down to failure in communications. It seems that demand on and supply of time are not in concert. Requirements are not tiered so that commanders can focus on the 'important core parts' of requirements to get the plates spinning and then move to elevating programs. It's all or nothing, which leads to everything being little kid soccer and very little sustained push in any one area. An SSI article from 2015 illustrates a relationship between overwork/excessive requirements and degradation of quality of training, honesty and reporting. Meanwhile, the GAO reports as early as 2010, that the Navy has no institutional knowledge of what goes into an in-port work week. GAO, Actions Needed to Address Persistent Maintenance, Training, and Other Challenges Affecting the Fleet, Sep 2017 (1), emphasis mine posted:To ensure that the Navy’s manpower requirements are current and analytically based and will meet the needs of the existing and future surface fleet, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness should direct the Secretary of the Navy to have the Navy update guidance to require examination of in-port workload and identify the manpower necessary to execute in-port workload for all surface ship classes. GAO Navy Needs to Reassess Its Metrics and Assumptions for Ship Crewing Requirements and Training (2), emphasis mine posted:While best practices require that valid and reliable data are used to assess workforce requirements, the Navy has not tested the validity of its assumption for excluding in-port data. [...] Additionally, we were told by shipboard personnel that in-port workload is increasing, which raises questions about the Navy’s assumption that workload while a ship is underway exceeds in-port workload. [...] Although in-port workload has varied over time, the Navy has not collected information to estimate such changes and determine whether it should adjust its assumption. From 2010 to 2018, the Navy still doesn't seem to know what we're doing on a daily basis and what the costs/benefits of changes in requirements or manning may be. SSI Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession (3), emphasis mine posted:It has been fairly well established that the Army as an institution is quick to pass down requirements to individuals and units regardless of their ability to actually comply with the totality of the requirements. In 2001, the Army Above - an etiology for reporting, watchstanding, and ethical failures from too many requirements and incentives against communication. One of the first lesson sets I learned from Officer Candidate Schools is as follows. Immediately the following conditions were set: I was to sleep between the sheets every night, my bed would need to be made by reville, no one would enter my room without announcing themselves, and that we would not be issued alarm clocks. This teaches you a few things. One, that you're on the hook whether the matter was directly within your control or not--this is essential for honor cultures(4), and likely a requirement for an effective military fighting force. It taught you to work together at the unit in spite of and not necessarily with your governing doctrine (i.e. when a section leader was permitted an alarm clock, find a way to rouse the group without exiting any individual room and work together as a group to pass that action). But finally, that you would be tested on your end product, and that there was a willing and seemingly intentional ignorance of the actions that you may have to take to get there. This last one is a dangerous lesson that takes active engagement to counter, and if it were countered at all levels, I'm not sure the Navy would continue to function without radical restructuring. (1) John H. Pendleton, Diretor, Defense Capabilities and Management, United States Government Accounability Office, GAO-17-809T Actions Needed to Address Persistent Maintenance, Training, and Other Challenges Affecting the Fleet, September 2017 (2) United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees, GAO-10-592, Navy Needs to Reassess Its Metrics and Assumptions for Ship Crewing Requirements and Training, June 2010 (3) Leonard Wong, Stephen J. Gerras, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, Pub 1250, Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession, Februrary 2015 (4) Tammler Sommers, Ingram Publisher Services US, Why Honor Matters, May 2018
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One of my buddies who did some private sector admin work before joining has a good take on this. In the private sector, broadly speaking, if you want to implement a project that will take 20 man hours, you need to make the case that it's worth 20 hours of wages. The military is happy to say "you just stay here until you get it done" without having to account for any of that in a concrete way. The only real constraint is a commander's judgment on what an appropriate workload is. A great example that I've recently been dealing with is the base-wide SAPR watch. Someone decided that the best way to prevent sexual assault is to have a bunch of CPOs and LTs roving the barracks all night watching out for rapists like they're in a loving Batman comic. If they had tried to do this with hired security guards it would have been shot down immediately as a blatant waste of money, but khaki time is effectively free, so now it's one more bullshit duty we get to stand.
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If they're looking to prevent these incidents why are they sending khakis
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maffew buildings posted:If they're looking to prevent these incidents why are they sending khakis Well if the foxes are too busy guarding the hen house they won’t have time to eat the chickens.
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piL posted:Ships CO, my CO and my XO at the time didn't know this, but I almost merc'd a fishingnbboat on my first unsupervised OOD watch while TAD on another ship Well I loving know now.
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ManMythLegend posted:Well I loving know now. He said "almost"
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ManMythLegend posted:Well I loving know now. lol
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Y’all have no idea how happy I am the most serious thing I could gently caress up is an NMCI asset I drop because I’m trying to hold it and my rockstar while walking.
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ManMythLegend posted:Well I loving know now.  Learned a lot that TAD, and I thank you for it.
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ManMythLegend posted:Well I loving know now. poo poo like this and weapon disassembly tips are why I keep following this thread.
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piL posted:
We'll I'm glad that if you were going to crash a ship you had the decency to not make it mine.
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Did you guys really cruise together because omg
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One time I almost ran down a fishing boat because the wheelsman “thought I’d already seen it.” I chewed him out after that. Welp that’s my fishing boat story.
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Good to know as I was working in EXPLOT and FLAGPLOT that ship's company was trying to kill us all
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FrozenVent posted:One time I almost ran down a fishing boat because the wheelsman “thought I’d already seen it.” Was it a Chinese flagged boat? Because if so ehhhhhh
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LingcodKilla posted:Did you guys really cruise together because omg Yes, I was really his XO/CO.
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ManMythLegend posted:Yes, I was really his XO/CO. Much better than I deserved. Would have been better if he didn't wait until after I left to hold MTG tournaments, but then again maybe the detox was healthier.
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LingcodKilla posted:Was it a Chinese flagged boat? It was off the coast of Algeria and wasn’t really flying a flag. Spy trawlers don’t give no fucks about 30 y/o bulk carriers in ballast.
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I like to assume from the safety of my engineer's lair that everything on the deck side is being handled with professionalism and utmost skill.
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I once chewed out a confused lookout who didn't report a helicopter 30 yards off the bridge wing because he figured we'd seen it. It wasn't our helicopter. We looked out, and the crew chief had a big sign that had a HF freq on it and was gesturing wildly to it. Turns out they were running on fumes and couldn't find the TACAN for their ship, saw us and figured it was better than ditching. Since we didn't have a helo on, nobody was listening to guard. Boy we set flight quarters so fast it wasn't even funny.
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Elendil004 posted:I once chewed out a confused lookout who didn't report a helicopter 30 yards off the bridge wing because he figured we'd seen it. 
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piL posted:Much better than I deserved. Would have been better if he didn't wait until after I left to hold MTG tournaments, but then again maybe the detox was healthier. That’s cool. So far I’ve had dinner with a bitter bee but he’s a cool cat.
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I don't read any of the other service threads because gently caress them, but I assume we have the best stories hands down
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Elendil004 posted:I once chewed out a confused lookout who didn't report a helicopter 30 yards off the bridge wing because he figured we'd seen it.  I'm uh, going to guess that the CO, XO came up to the bridge right quick.
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ManMythLegend posted:We'll I'm glad that if you were going to crash a ship you had the decency to not make it mine. C'mon everybody knows that if you run over some tiny rear end boat and kill everyone while doing basically no damage to your own ship, you just retire with full pay and benefits and then make some more money writing a book about it that puts all the blame on your crew.
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Cerekk posted:C'mon everybody knows that if you run over some tiny rear end boat and kill everyone while doing basically no damage to your own ship, you just retire with full pay and benefits and then make some more money writing a book about it that puts all the blame on your crew. drat that’s peak SWO right there.
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Cerekk posted:C'mon everybody knows that if you run over some tiny rear end boat and kill everyone while doing basically no damage to your own ship, you just retire with full pay and benefits and then make some more money writing a book about it that puts all the blame on your crew. A merchant captain would probably still be in Japanese prison lmao
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Cerekk posted:C'mon everybody knows that if you run over some tiny rear end boat and kill everyone while doing basically no damage to your own ship, you just retire with full pay and benefits and then make some more money writing a book about it that puts all the blame on your crew. lol. What a loving fucker.
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Luckily in the years following Greeneville kept being bad and then eventually turned itself around for a brief few years where it was one of the less hosed up pacflt boats.
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