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IncredibleIgloo posted:words After you've paid up to your family cost-sharing cap for the year which is something like $1100, you don't come further out of pocket for anything but monthly premiums. We've hit this cap about 2/3 of the way through the year, every year since I've been a reservist. So our max annual medical expenses are something like ballpark $3600 and as much as I dislike the inconvenience of still technically being a sailor, I expect that will be tough to beat in a private plan.
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Gray Matter posted:Tricare Reserves has the ~$210/mo premium, and some kind of cost-sharing or copay structure each time you are seen or treated. I took a look at the Tricare reserve select plan and I do think it will be hard to beat that with most plans. It seems reasonable to think your total cost with a good employer provided coverage would be 3-5k more a year. But if you land a job as a SWE making 150+, then I would imagine shelling out 2-3k extra year would be more than worthwhile to get the 10% of your life back from the Navy. Although I have never been in the reserves, so I don't know how cheesy/easy it is, but I like having long hair and the occasional edible, so no reserves experience for me.
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The va isn’t the best, but i appreciate that i have free healthcare. I wish everyone had as little worry about medical costs that I do.
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Mr. Nice! posted:The va isn’t the best, but i appreciate that i have free healthcare. I wish everyone had as little worry about medical costs that I do. Same
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https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/09/26/manimal-farm-a-scene-out-of-the-famous-orwell-book-revisitedArticle posted:The next day, each of the commanders went back to speak to their crews.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/09/26/manimal-farm-a-scene-out-of-the-famous-orwell-book-revisited Captain Cordle, who was the Reactor Officer onboard the Bush when I was there for commissioning was just about the best officer I think I ever had in my chain of command. I have tons of respect for that guy. The Rx department goat locker certainly hated him though; he was "ruining the Navy" and "Not letting Chiefs run their divisions like they should be". We had this rotational staffing schedule for our commissioning, at his insistence, instead of being stuck in 3 or 4 day duty rotation. Of course being on shift work was kind of a drag, but for 18 months there were no duty days and at least one 4 day weekend a month. He was always looking out for us where he could. Unfortunately that just made the goat locker try twice as hard to gently caress us, but those are the breaks!
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Captain Cordle, who was the Reactor Officer onboard the Bush when I was there for commissioning was just about the best officer I think I ever had in my chain of command. I have tons of respect for that guy. The Rx department goat locker certainly hated him though; he was "ruining the Navy" and "Not letting Chiefs run their divisions like they should be". We had this rotational staffing schedule for our commissioning, at his insistence, instead of being stuck in 3 or 4 day duty rotation. Of course being on shift work was kind of a drag, but for 18 months there were no duty days and at least one 4 day weekend a month. He was always looking out for us where he could. Unfortunately that just made the goat locker try twice as hard to gently caress us, but those are the breaks! That sounds awesome and imagine takes a huge set of brass balls in that political climate.
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https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1178576439479808006?s=19 Good Navy leadership on display
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lol some admiral with a tiny baby dick is seeing red right now from their hurt fee fees
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Can I maybe get a PM link to the discord I’ve heard about? Things are looking more probable that I’m gonna have to learn about the whole DES, med board, and sep board process many years before I had planned.
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Kalessin ofSelidor posted:Can I maybe get a PM link to the discord I’ve heard about? Things are looking more probable that I’m gonna have to learn about the whole DES, med board, and sep board process many years before I had planned. I posted in the discord chat but I'm on mobile and can't send the invite link. Someone should reach out soon to get you setup c
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:I posted in the discord chat but I'm on mobile and can't send the invite link. Someone should reach out soon to get you setup c Thanks bud
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Sent you a PM
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://blog.usni.org/posts/2019/09/26/manimal-farm-a-scene-out-of-the-famous-orwell-book-revisited Yesssss, I heard about this when my CHENG who had no billeted top snipe nor any division officers came back from a call with a characteristic cynical grin and a head shake.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1179112501847482368?s=19 Can I get the barista NEC in my contract?
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1179112501847482368?s=19 This kinda sounds like a downgrade.
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Godholio posted:This kinda sounds like a downgrade. Speaking of which, you should appreciate this: as of yesterday, Hawkeye NFOs are now titled "Air Battle Managers". We previously didn't have a special term like WSO for Hornets or EWO for Growlers and that was clearly a huge problem that needed to be fixed. Now those fighter pilots are sure to respect us! 
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Godholio posted:This kinda sounds like a downgrade. Yeah “retail” in it is bad but so is “SS” by itself.
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“The rating name change is in keeping with the Navy’s tradition of defining a Sailor’s occupation in contemporary terms in order to better illustrate the skills needed to perform their work.” Waiting for the new rates: “Water Sweeping Technician” and “Paintologist” e: on the O side flag staff tours gain new P-codes for “Coffee fetch technician” and “quad-chart administrator” Kalessin ofSelidor fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Oct 3, 2019 |
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Crap. All reservists are going to have (useless) tacked on to our perspective rates at this... rate.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Speaking of which, you should appreciate this: as of yesterday, Hawkeye NFOs are now titled "Air Battle Managers". We previously didn't have a special term like WSO for Hornets or EWO for Growlers and that was clearly a huge problem that needed to be fixed. Now those fighter pilots are sure to respect us!  I'm going to have to ask our exchange
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Speaking of which, you should appreciate this: as of yesterday, Hawkeye NFOs are now titled "Air Battle Managers". We previously didn't have a special term like WSO for Hornets or EWO for Growlers and that was clearly a huge problem that needed to be fixed. Now those fighter pilots are sure to respect us! Isn't this just copying the Air Force though? That makes it especially shameful.
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FCA's are a reserve rate now. Maybe I'll try and get rated back to Aegis land, but if there's more than like, one page of paperwork I probably wont.
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vulturesrow posted:Isn't this just copying the Air Force though? That makes it especially shameful. Yes, very much so.
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It's spelled out in the new version of the wing training instruction that defines the different aircrew qualification levels. I doubt it's been publicized much outside of fleet squadrons, so I wouldn't be surprised if he hasn't heard of it.
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NOSC is cracking down on IDT reschedule requests. They're now apparently being categorically denied without a Navy-related justification, where before they didn't give a poo poo and almost always approved them. Small fries compared to the problems faced on AD, but still a nice little reminder why "gently caress you if you're still in" is a thing.
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Oh well I just put in for a bunch of them due to my unit not being on the same schedule. Yes my UIC are all correct.
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Gray Matter posted:NOSC is cracking down on IDT reschedule requests. They're now apparently being categorically denied without a Navy-related justification, where before they didn't give a poo poo and almost always approved them. I am so happy I am only 6 months left on my contract and a replacement for me is already in the works
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Gray Matter posted:NOSC is cracking down on IDT reschedule requests. They're now apparently being categorically denied without a Navy-related justification, where before they didn't give a poo poo and almost always approved them. Ours did that last year but I still approve everything that comes my way and no one gives a poo poo.
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Gray Matter posted:NOSC is cracking down on IDT reschedule requests. They're now apparently being categorically denied without a Navy-related justification, where before they didn't give a poo poo and almost always approved them. loving asinine. Why do they care how you or your unit do work?
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Back from "deployment". I feel like we owe the American taxpayer a huge explanation and loving apology.
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maffew buildings posted:Back from "deployment". I feel like we owe the American taxpayer a huge explanation and loving apology. Thank you for your service, shipmate
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maffew buildings posted:I feel like we owe the American taxpayer a huge explanation and loving apology.
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maffew buildings posted:Back from "deployment". I feel like we owe the American taxpayer a huge explanation and loving apology. I spent three years on an amphib as Combat Cargo. Six months out of the year I was home by lunch and that was after working out for an hour. I almost felt bad about how little work I was actually doing until I thought about how many times I'd been hosed over in the previous 15 years.
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