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Kawasaki Nun posted:Make those pinless swabbies call you petty officer and order one to get you a mcflurry. They're probably new enough to not know you're a reservist puke who deserves only scorn Shhhh I’m a contractor on base. I always deserve scorn no matter what hat I’m wearing.
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ManMythLegend posted:It's more that your story conflicts with everything else I've ever heard over the last 15 years with respect to MPRA NFOs. That doesn’t quite mean that life is better as an MPRA NFO, just that the jet pipeline is that much more miserable. You get three failures for all of flight school in Pensacola, if you hang around for two years doing jet stuff for that much longer you are in the crosshairs to get booted. It sounds very similar to when I did it all 10 years ago. They get your whole class in a big room at the end, you confirm your requested platform, and they crunch the numbers in another room. Like an hour later they come back, say who got what, and the MPRA guys go home and wait for orders to Jax. The rest of them start ground school immediately and are miserable. One guy in my class cried when he didn’t get MPRA. Quality of life once you are in the fleet probably varies, and MPRA is notoriously full of uptight jerks, but I’ve heard the same hornet and growler anecdote as well. In conclusion, the navy is a land of contrasts.
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FrozenVent posted:You crossed the loving line, get over it. *casually takes down ditch-digger and sailor of the spanish main certificates* I actually have my shellback cert on my wall at work because it's a fun conversation piece and the way it's written people get a chuckle out of it, but that's about it. The Valley Stared posted:
CO thought it was a drill nobody told him about and sauntered up then realized what was up real fast. XO tried to talk him into ransoming back the helo and crew to the ship they were deployed to, but figured it was better to have an IOU from them instead.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Odd discussion time for my fellow sailors - My dragonback ceremony was the CO on the 1MC giving a speech. Hazing was outlawed a long long time ago and I don't understand how it is being allowed now.
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Our Shellbacking was actually fun. It just involved a lot of lore and some events where pretty much everybody just got soaking wet and exhausted before diving into the ocean at the end. This toned down version was arranged by my LPO who was lucky enough to be on the Topeka for the unique New Years Eve Y2K Dragonbacking, and his poo poo sounded ridiculous
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Mr. Nice! posted:Odd discussion time for my fellow sailors - You sit in the stateroom from the off, then I think you are justified in junking the thing. You go through with the thing and have a lovely time? Post the the thing. Maybe one-line King Poseidon's sig in red with KP initials if you really want to be Navy about it. e: I greatly enjoyed both Shellback days. Minus cleaning up berthing. FrozenVent posted:You crossed the loving line, get over it. Wait what? How is this not a fun dumb thing to have hanging around in your office? SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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ManMythLegend posted:It's more that your story conflicts with everything else I've ever heard over the last 15 years with respect to MPRA NFOs. Keep in mind Jimmy has had his wings all of about 2 minutes. I feel pretty confident in saying that the MPRA community is overall a more miserable place than jets. Of course there are always exceptions and it's fair to say that jets probably aren't quite as fun as they used to be.
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vulturesrow posted:Keep in mind Jimmy has had his wings all of about 2 minutes. Very fair point, I'm still at the FRS so I'm probably talking out of my rear end. 
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Very fair point, I'm still at the FRS so I'm probably talking out of my rear end. Some of the things you said aren't necessarily wrong, the jet pipeline is more of a slog but once I got to the RAG it got a lot better. I just know a lot of my buddies really hated their time in VP. Let's just say your perspective needs some seasoning 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywZevdHW5bQ Them interviewing on the mess deck the BM in whites, probably having to do colors, was probably the best part
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Nick Soapdish posted:Them interviewing on the mess deck the BM in whites, probably having to do colors, was probably the best part You can really see how motivated that Sailor is!
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Mr. Nice! posted:Odd discussion time for my fellow sailors - Since my only knowledge of crossing ceremonies is from JAG and that 10-part Carrier docu, I'm not really in a position to judge, but this almost would have made sense to me if you hadn't completed the course. But you ran through the course in its loving entirety, and then, 8 years later, you were second-guessing yourself because a 50+year old man in diapers, a mop-beard, a fishnet-shirt and lipstick, wielding a paper-mache trident said you couldn't join the clubhouse of ~YE OLDE ORDERRE OF THE DEEPE~ ?
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywZevdHW5bQ this poo poo brings back memories cold half cooked hashbrowns soaked in texas pete
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Eggs, that's cute.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Eggs, that's cute. "eggs" Too bad I didn't take pictures of dehydrated egg chunks floating in yellow water that they called eggs. That poo poo was great
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Since my only knowledge of crossing ceremonies is from JAG and that 10-part Carrier docu, I'm not really in a position to judge, but this almost would have made sense to me if you hadn't completed the course. Yeah I’m terminally broken.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Yeah I’m terminally broken. I have a medal that I got at a pretty low rank that my non-deployed chain of command threw such a poo poo fit over I didn’t even get a medal presentation or anything just because they felt like E-4’s shouldn’t be getting that high of a medal. I still don’t display anything about it in my office with all my mil stuff, because I’m broke brained enough to think I didn’t deserve it after their levels of bullshit about it. Something I should feel pride in, is like.. toxic to my mind now. I feel ya Mr. Nice, I’m broken too.
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I got a compliment from the Vice President in my NAM and it wasn’t for my equine beauty.
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Wow, he definitely thought you were white
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maffew buildings posted:Wow, he definitely thought you were white It was impossible to tell since he saw me covered in wet grass clippings.
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My detailer would have me believe I've been selected for orders (To the Lake Champlain in SD, where the Mrs. and I are from) Not allowing myself to get too excited yet. Great Lakes knows when you're letting your guard down. MAKE THE JOKE I BET YOU WON'T
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:My detailer would have me believe I've been selected for orders (To the Lake Champlain in SD, where the Mrs. and I are from) Not allowing myself to get too excited yet. Great Lakes knows when you're letting your guard down. MAKE THE JOKE I BET YOU WON'T  So it looks like there was a computer error in CMSID and multiple people got your billet. You're now Needs of the Navy. Looks like you're going to Norfolk! It is great this time of year.
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Somewhere in the South China Sea, late 2020 TAO: "Sir, we have a positive ID on the pirate vessel. It's closing rapidly on the ambassador's ship." Captain: "Open fire immediately. If they board that ship we'll have no chance to get the research team to the launch site before Xenon Protocol is activated." TAO: "We can't sir, someone has disassembled the 5" gun!" Captain: "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!"
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Nick Soapdish posted:
Can't be worse than Great Lakes.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Can't be worse than Great Lakes. 
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Can't be worse than Great Lakes. How much do you like driving towards base by 530 in the morning because if you're any later then that, you will have to sit in traffic for the next hour?
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The Valley Stared posted:How much do you like driving towards base by 530 in the morning because if you're any later then that, you will have to sit in traffic for the next hour? Oh, I'm no stranger to NAWFUK, that's where I was before GL. The lack of mexican food is the worst part. Like, I'm perfectly happy to eat at Speedy Taco on MLK after two years in Virginia.
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Anyone ever been to Naples? I'll be out there for 29 days for AT this year. I'll take a weekend to go to Rome but other than that I dont really have any ideas of what to do out there.
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I’m so loving jealous. My dumb-dumb unit after two weeks is still ignoring my unit AT request and/or waiver to do it with another unit.
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PneumonicBook posted:Anyone ever been to Naples? I'll be out there for 29 days for AT this year. I'll take a weekend to go to Rome but other than that I dont really have any ideas of what to do out there. 1. Go see Sorrento. It's life-changingly beautiful. 2. Go see Capri - take the hydrofoil just to say you've been on a hydrofoil. It's also life-changingly beautiful. 3. If you must visit Naples proper, stick to the hills - it's a way to avoid the absolute shitpile of scum, villainy, and trash the main city's beset with. Seriously, try to avoid the temptation to go bar-hopping past dusk.
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LingcodKilla posted:I’m so loving jealous. My dumb-dumb unit after two weeks is still ignoring my unit AT request and/or waiver to do it with another unit. Schedule one on nrows with a different unit, make your unit tell you no. At least that will open up comms with them. When I was ops lpo I had to deal with that poo poo constantly. Tons of commands evidently dont give a poo poo about the reservists attached to them.
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PneumonicBook posted:Anyone ever been to Naples? I'll be out there for 29 days for AT this year. I'll take a weekend to go to Rome but other than that I dont really have any ideas of what to do out there. If you can get further north, Florence has a ton of kickass museums and neat stuff to see. Tuscany also has a bunch of really cool towns to take day trips to. Siena was my favorite but I'm biased because one of their districts mascots is a snail.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:1. Go see Sorrento. It's life-changingly beautiful. This. It's basically Norfolk, but surrounded by nice scenery.
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PneumonicBook posted:Anyone ever been to Naples? I'll be out there for 29 days for AT this year. I'll take a weekend to go to Rome but other than that I dont really have any ideas of what to do out there. Don't look down.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:1. Go see Sorrento. It's life-changingly beautiful. Nailed it.
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I was stationed in Naples for two years generally, the city is a real poo poo hole, advice to not really go bar-hopping is pretty good. You definitely can't be drunk around the city center at night, and maybe it's better if you don't be there at all at night. There are some neat castles and piazzas around there, but even during the day it is all pretty run down. Napoli is the kind of place where everybody's apartment has steel shutters that have no means of opening from the outside on all of their windows and porch doors, and there is garbage everywhere during even the best of times. That said, Get a real pizza, from a place where they burn wood in their oven. Nothing else will do for the Neapolitans, so it isn't exactly hard to find. Buffalo mozzarella is another pretty important local specialty and will be the first course of any proper supper in the immediate region. There were a couple of sit-down restaurants that were pretty popular with troops there, a place we always just called "mama's" in Lago Patria which I liked and Country House (maybe?) which I didn't like as much. Ideally, try to get a sunday or holiday dinner at someone's house -- lots of restaraunt owners in Italy are 100% without shame about ripping off tourists lmao See Pompeii. Fuckin amazing ruins, and if you like that, Ercolano is the site of another, better-preserved, less famous set of ruins contemporary to the destruction of Pompeii and the seaside neighborhood there, Portici, is a good place to look for pizza or seafood restaurants Sorrento is a good recommend, but if you get to there, you're right by the Amalfi coast, which is insanely beautiful as well -- if you're looking at a map, it's the region from Positano east to Amalfi. Circumvesuviana train will take you to Pompeii and Sorrento
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oh and if you're living at Capodichino, then you can walk out the front gate and over to the airport terminal and catch a taxi to the train station or anywhere else to eat pizzas and ride hydrofoils. If you are living at Support Activity, you can wait until one of your coworkers takes you to Country House cause you're in the middle of nowhere lol gently caress you if you're still in
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If he's only there for 28 days, though - that's only 6-8 days of leisure in four weeks of work.
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