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Goodpancakes posted:How do you guys like Seal Beach for a base? I always drive by a bunch of 18 year olds dressed for the club coming off a boat. Where are they going? Leisure world? It's awful. Ships go there for ammo onload during the day and at night everyone walks up the road to get hammered before more ammo onload the next day.
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King of Bees posted:First appointment for my VA rating is a general exam and.....the VA outsourced it to a loving chiropractor out in town instead of a Dr at the VA clinic down the road. Lol. Just lol all day everyday. There are no less than 3 Walmarts in the town I live in, each one has a vision center 
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Goodpancakes posted:How do you guys like Seal Beach for a base? I always drive by a bunch of 18 year olds dressed for the club coming off a boat. Where are they going? Leisure world? Edit: nvm. People are just annoyed and desperately hope to find something fun. piL fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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Jun 19, 2019 03:29
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PneumonicBook posted:It's awful. Ships go there for ammo onload during the day and at night everyone walks up the road to get hammered before more ammo onload the next day. So, better than Yorktown.
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Gray Matter posted:They had me drive 2 hours away to a Walmart for my optical exam. Each vision center is actually an independent doctor’s office. Not all of them do C&P exams. It’s not the VA having you do screwy things. It’s the cheap contractor hired to send you to private doctors that just chooses the first available regardless of distance.
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Stultus Maximus posted:So, better than Yorktown. I prefer Seal beach, even though my uncle got hospitalized by a bunch of skinheads there in the 90’s. Ironically, he’s now the family right wing chud.
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Jun 19, 2019 12:52
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DTS voucher for last month's AT routed successfully through my NOSC, then was rejected by wherever it goes after that for payment, SABRS maybe? Rejection email I got just said "Insufficient Funds at Appropriation Level / Living Lapsed Appropriation". All I could get outta the NOSC travel po over the phone was "DTS is having issues" and confirmed that yes, I'm gonna have to come out of pocket 3 grand to cover my travel card balance due in 10 days if I don't want late fees or interest charges. gently caress me I'm still in.
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Jun 21, 2019 07:10
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DTS travel cards are the brainchild of people who wanted money and already had enough money to bribe the system to their favor. The whole thing is a way to bilk the military on credit card fees and interest.
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Jun 21, 2019 15:12
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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1142228785678475269 Some good navy history on a Friday. And the GTCC is terrible and happy I don't have to deal with it for another year
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Jun 22, 2019 01:38
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Local AT sucks. No per diem and that stupid BAHII. Now I gotta wait who knows how long for my company to pay out the $800 difference in pay for the two weeks. I don’t think I’ll ever do short term local orders again.
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Huh, I had no idea Dillinger was a Troop. And GTC is the biggest crock of poo poo since the VA. I cannot believe there isn't a fraud/waste/abuse racket to be uncovered there given the government's ability to obligate funds on the card without any obligation to pay them back and leave the individual on the hook for them.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Huh, I had no idea Dillinger was a Troop. I’ve been outta Fed service for a year plus and they just sent me a new travel card- I hadn’t used it since 2015; it’s like $800 a year for the gubbmt just to maintain acct with Citibank I had gotten off active duty in 2006 When I returned to fed service with the navy in 2011 my email was still active I sent a lot of read receipts for fun Nmci charges per acct per year too Lol
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Jun 22, 2019 03:21
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DEOCS time at my command during our deployment that is going stellar. This should be fun. GTC talk, one of my guys took a credit score hit because supply didn't pay it due to not informing him of the voucher they forgot to tell him to do until after the period it hosed his credit
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Is refusing the credit check and issuance of a GTC still a NJPable offence or do they now just override all your finantial rights and issue one in your name whether you want it or not? Also is refusing the GTC by saying your religion is against accepting any line of credit realistic.
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I'm not pleased about having to do it, but I can come up with 3k to pay off the card for now without putting a strain on day to day finances. Is there a realistically nonzero chance that I pay this and then DTS never unfucks the problem and I never get paid the 3k for expenses + 2k per diem from my completed orders?
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Gray Matter posted:I'm not pleased about having to do it, but I can come up with 3k to pay off the card for now without putting a strain on day to day finances. I would like to tell you no however I have gotten screwed over both on active (rental car) and mobilized (foreign hotel) so may the odds ever be in your favo(u)r
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Gray Matter posted:I'm not pleased about having to do it, but I can come up with 3k to pay off the card for now without putting a strain on day to day finances. It happened to me to the tune of 4K. Basically they put me in a hotel for 4 months but didn’t tell me it was up to me to negotiate a lower rate when they reduced me housing to 75% after 30 days. So at the end they calculated it up and hosed me over really good. Worse part was I didn’t even realize that since I moved to government lodging half way through they shouldn’t have reduced my rate.
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I dodged getting a GTC for as long as I could, but got stuck doing the paperwork for one during some bullshit. They told us that we couldn't use the barracks as a billing address for it, and to use someone we knew with a real address, which means the card would also be sent to that address. Since I don't trust people in the military, I sent it to my mom who lived halfway across the country. Took her a few months to remember to tell me she got it and then whoops it got lost in the mail when she finally sent it to me. Just kept doing what worked whenever I had to travel: made them pay for it up front because they couldn't order me to.
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LingcodKilla posted:It happened to me to the tune of 4K.
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Flat rate was a legit great way to scam tons of money on long-term. I see it from a different side, but my experience leads me to believe it’s less a lack of education on it and more a bunch of crybaby civil servants that don’t want to make their arrangements. Let’s be real clear, the only reason that flat rate went away was the 2014 change that made it apply to employees. Active duty bitching doesn’t have poo poo on AFGE/IFPTE and definitely doesn’t move the rock at DTMO.
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A SOF Marine posted:Flat rate was a legit great way to scam tons of money on long-term. I see it from a different side, but my experience leads me to believe it’s less a lack of education on it and more a bunch of crybaby civil servants that don’t want to make their arrangements. Oh are long term orders no longer flat rate? I made a good amount of money on it last year and it made up for everything that went wrong fiscally with the navy the prior years.
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Jun 23, 2019 23:39
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Long term per diem rates ended 13 Aug 2018. For whoever asked: you have been able to refuse the credit check for years, the only thing that happens is you get the restricted card vs the normal one.
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The Billings ran into a Canadian cargo ship getting underway over the weekend. Montreal must love LCS.
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PneumonicBook posted:The Billings ran into a Canadian cargo ship getting underway over the weekend. Oh for gently caress’s sake.
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https://twitter.com/JournoGeoffZ/status/1143582474124967936 Great job PERS
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I hate this branch so much
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Jun 25, 2019 22:51
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Welp of course there’s pictures. Man what I wouldn’t give to hear the VHF recordings.
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It’s more or less official now, I got MOB tagged today but it’s not until late December. Got that spot on a USNS ship I was hoping for. Plenty of lead in time to prepare at least.
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FrozenVent posted:Welp of course there’s pictures. Theres a better one. The AIS plot makes me think the CO let the tugs off too early for the current. The freedom class has a hard enough time turning going 2 knots in calm water.
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LingcodKilla posted:It’s more or less official now, I got MOB tagged today but it’s not until late December. Got that spot on a USNS ship I was hoping for. What kind of ship? Did you volunteer for it?
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LingcodKilla posted:It’s more or less official now, I got MOB tagged today but it’s not until late December. Got that spot on a USNS ship I was hoping for. Congrats on picking a MOB instead of letting Big Navy give you a spin of the roulette. Always great to get reservists out to sea. Coming back from that as an ESWS qualified and perhaps even EAWS (if the UAV det is allowed to run it) will give you nice shiny things to wear for the rest of your career. How long is your time aboard? Also, it is hard to do but if you can get some I-stops (intermediate stops) between ECRC (coming on active duty) and the ship for training that should help you out.
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PneumonicBook posted:What kind of ship? Spearhead class fast transport And yeah I volunteered. 270 days boots on deck. My orders start in December but I don’t join the ship until February. Crab Dad fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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LingcodKilla posted:Spearhead class fast transport And yeah I volunteered. 270 days boots on deck. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearhead-class_expeditionary_fast_transport Neat ship, enjoy having a full stateroom as an IT2 lol Wouldn't want to ride on it in anything higher than sea state 3 though. Highest that I've ever been in that I know of was sea state 9 (might have been higher, wasn't driving, didn't care) on the carrier, and waves were breaking over the flight deck and the ship was pitching really bad, which is remarkable for a carrier. I'd have hated to be on one of our escorts during that. orange juche fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jun 27, 2019 |
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One of my friends was a mate on the Swift or something when MSC was running it between Japan and Korea. She called it the "Vomit Comet". Have fun.
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PneumonicBook posted:Theres a better one. The AIS plot makes me think the CO let the tugs off too early for the current. The freedom class has a hard enough time turning going 2 knots in calm water. The current is reeeeeally loving bad in that area. You can watch chunks of ice spin around in circles in the spring.
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I was on swift for an SPS and it was the worst riding/berthing ship but the funnest deployment ever. Where the Houthi missle hit when the UAE had it was the smoke deck. I guess it's a Greek ferry now?
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King of Bees posted:I was on swift for an SPS and it was the worst riding/berthing ship but the funnest deployment ever. Where the Houthi missle hit when the UAE had it was the smoke deck. I guess it's a Greek ferry now? Well at least that was the previous class but same job. The sailors I met who served on her or the ships said it wasn’t bad by any means. As for seaworthiness oh well it is what it is.
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PneumonicBook posted:Theres a better one. The AIS plot makes me think the CO let the tugs off too early for the current. The freedom class has a hard enough time turning going 2 knots in calm water. FrozenVent posted:The current is reeeeeally loving bad in that area. You can watch chunks of ice spin around in circles in the spring. That's a Littoral Combat Ship right? One of the ones that are supposed to fight in close to shore in rivers, harbors, and tidal areas? Huh. How about that.
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The LCS is the Navy's Bradley IFV.
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Ceiling fan posted:That's a Littoral Combat Ship right? One of the ones that are supposed to fight in close to shore in rivers, harbors, and tidal areas? Haha they arent supposed to fight at all, and it seems like the littoral idea was more or less dropped. The best use for them at this point is throwing half of them in the gulf to run into mines and have the other half to shoot at drug runners and pirates. They cant even act as decent Intel ships because the comm suite is gutted in the name of speed, and the waterjets are noisy as hell. But guess what? We're going to keep sending them the Navies way and the Navys going to keep accepting them!
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