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ManMythLegend posted:How long ago did you submit it? Submitted my waiver on 11Sep to my command. Wouldve earlier, but was told that our ISIC was super backlogged and to wait. Set to transfer from a ship to shore command, I do have a school en route that classes up on 03Jan, but it's Instructor School at the same base. Our BBD is all kinds of hosed up, and we're gapped a few billets(none of which I have, mind you). I suppose nothing is certain, but it makes planning a huge pain in the rear end. Last I heard, my waiver was at CNSP, but people do say theyve been getting theirs back very close to when they leave. I guess we'll see what happens. Barnacle Snatcher fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 23, 2020 |
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Barnacle Snatcher posted:Submitted my waiver on 11Sep to my command. Wouldve earlier, but was told that our ISIC was super backlogged and to wait. Set to transfer from a ship to shore command, I do have a school en route that classes up on 03Jan, but it's Instructor School at the same base. Our BBD is all kinds of hosed up, and we're gapped a few billets(none of which I have, mind you). I suppose nothing is certain, but it makes planning a huge pain in the rear end. Last I heard, my waiver was at CNSP, but people do say theyve been getting theirs back very close to when they leave. I guess we'll see what happens. Hopefully the new navadmin that dropped will help push that forward, if it's sitting waiting for the first flag in the chain, possibly talk with your chain to pass it to the first O-6 in the chain to get it signed and approved. 277/20 https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/messages/Documents/NAVADMINS/NAV2020/NAV20277.txt which may help push it faster. Once submitted to Millington it usually gets turned around in 2-3 days.
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My squadron that I just left in January. Absolutely heart breaking.
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If we assume the worst here, some poor guy on duty lost his whole family in a fire.quote:A statement from Capt. Matt Baer, Commander of Sector North Carolina, "This morning, a fire took place at a commercial residential complex in Buxton, North Carolina where several active duty Coast Guard members live.
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https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/P...2VImFpBTXXGwoM/ I went through most of flight school, the 60S FRS, fleet squadron, and was an instructor at VT-2 with LT Rhiannon “PALT” Ross. She was the Naval Helicopter Association’s pilot of the year a few years back for saving a helicopter and crew that most pilots would have ditched into the Persian Gulf. Real loss for Naval Aviation.
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Reading these never gets any easier. Nor should it.
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TidePods4Lunch posted:She was the Naval Helicopter Association’s pilot of the year a few years back for saving a helicopter and crew that most pilots would have ditched into the Persian Gulf. Real loss for Naval Aviation. Do you have a link for this, sounds like a good read.
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TidePods4Lunch posted:https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/P...2VImFpBTXXGwoM/ Sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself
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TidePods4Lunch posted:https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/P...2VImFpBTXXGwoM/ Sorry for your loss.
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Sorry for your loss. Never easy to find that out.
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Elendil004 posted:Do you have a link for this, sounds like a good read. I don’t have the write up unfortunately. Long story short, the tail rotor had been rigged wrong and no one from maintenance to the FCF pilots caught it. While coming into a hover over the back of a DDG to practice fast roping, the helo entered an uncommanded yaw that couldn’t be countered by the pedals. The bird rotated something like 540 degrees before she managed to fly it away without hitting the DDG. I never saw the FLIR video from the other helo but apparently it was nuts.
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TidePods4Lunch posted:I don’t have the write up unfortunately. Long story short, the tail rotor had been rigged wrong and no one from maintenance to the FCF pilots caught it. While coming into a hover over the back of a DDG to practice fast roping, the helo entered an uncommanded yaw that couldn’t be countered by the pedals. The bird rotated something like 540 degrees before she managed to fly it away without hitting the DDG. I never saw the FLIR video from the other helo but apparently it was nuts.  Edit: https://twitter.com/chadgarland/status/1320718142373568520?s=20 Seabees gonna Seabee Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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TidePods4Lunch posted:I don’t have the write up unfortunately. Long story short, the tail rotor had been rigged wrong and no one from maintenance to the FCF pilots caught it. While coming into a hover over the back of a DDG to practice fast roping, the helo entered an uncommanded yaw that couldn’t be countered by the pedals. The bird rotated something like 540 degrees before she managed to fly it away without hitting the DDG. I never saw the FLIR video from the other helo but apparently it was nuts. Helicopters thirst for the blood of their passengers
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Nick Soapdish posted:
Just be glad that was all he was arrested for.
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TidePods4Lunch posted:I don’t have the write up unfortunately. Long story short, the tail rotor had been rigged wrong and no one from maintenance to the FCF pilots caught it. While coming into a hover over the back of a DDG to practice fast roping, the helo entered an uncommanded yaw that couldn’t be countered by the pedals. The bird rotated something like 540 degrees before she managed to fly it away without hitting the DDG. I never saw the FLIR video from the other helo but apparently it was nuts. I had one emergency close-in to the carrier like this: fuel valve failed open, engine shut down with a max trap load (flying ordnance aboard) and I thought I would snag an inflight engagement for sure. I remember every word, and every action of that day. Crazy part is from the error to when I arrested my descent rate in my brain was at least half a minute it took less than two seconds to go to full ab on the tapes. To arrest a spin like that, loving amazing. I genuinely miss being part of the active aviation community now that I'm out but goddamn I don't miss the loss. I'm at the point where I hope I'm so old I don't recognize the names anymore, but it's crushing to think of the community and families.
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Hi Navygoons. I have a little less than a year left so I'd like to ask advice about what I should do, what I should look into, etc. I'm stationed overseas and before I joined I came from a poor junkheap family so I don't have the faintest clue about how college works or anything. At least I'm going to leave with no debt and a good amount of savings, so I don't feel bad about it. I don't have any certs or anything though I'm in a technical/computer-related rate, and I've been studying Python/C++ in my spare time. I'd like to get into programming related work afterwards but I really have no idea how any of this works, since I don't have programmer nerd friends or family. Thanks for any advice you can spare.
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My sister did the boot camp route and is now a project manager in fintech, but that requires doing lots of research to find a good one, some money plus a pretty brutal few weeks. USAjobs has a lot of what looks like decent computer toucher jobs that you could probably get with entry level certs you could do before you get out though like 75% of them seem to be for DHS, which personally I couldn’t justify to myself. Some people had good advice in this thread as well as in software hardware crap’s IT thread for me if you look at my posts in this thread.
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cubivore posted:Hi Navygoons. I have a little less than a year left so I'd like to ask advice about what I should do, what I should look into, etc. I finished a degree in software dev earlier this year. There is a great Cavern of COBOL discord full of smart men and women that helped me through my classes when I was struggling. Phone posting now but I can link the server after work tonight. If you are in a spot where you can afford to go to school and get your degree, I’d recommend that route. That said, tech is not very dependent on academia at all. If you can prove you know what you are doing, no on gives a poo poo about your degree. Getting your foot in the door is the hardest part. If a four year degree isn’t an option, I’d recommend looking at a language other than a python for a boot camp. I say that because if you learn another programming language first, the switch to Python is stupidly simple. I spent a couple of years with Java before playing with it and it took me a day or two to get syntax down before I was jamming out Python scripts without needing to reference documentation. However, Python is so high level, it automatically does a bunch of poo poo that other languages don’t. So if you start with it, the transition to a lower level language is uncomfortable because you are used to all the nice things Python does for you.
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cubivore posted:Hi Navygoons. I have a little less than a year left so I'd like to ask advice about what I should do, what I should look into, etc. One thing to keep in mind for the GI bill is that to get the BAH you must attend at least one class in person. The kicker is that class only needs to meet once. So, what you can do is look at colleges that have "Hybrid" classes like that. For example, I go to Washington State University's Vancouver campus once a semester for the first class of my anthropology courses and take the rest of my school 100% online, because I live in central Oregon. The 2 hour drive once a semester gets me 2409/month BAH, so it is really worthwhile. While this is an extraordinarily bad time for travel, if you (in the future) you don't mind travel that can open up a lot of avenues as a field representative or engineer for various companies. I spent a few months when I was with Mitsubishi flying around and updating IP addresses on PLCs for them, and that was a pretty good gig. If you are desperate for work a headhunter group like Bradley-Morris will almost assuredly get you a job, but be warned they are tasked with filling positions with the highest caliber candidate for the lowest cost. I found my first post Navy job with them, and it was a good transition step while I did a little bit more thorough job hunting and figuring out what I wanted to do. If you have not been reading the thread I would also recommend a job at a data center if you can swing one. They tend to be really great. Below is a link to that sort of position: https://www.google.com/search?q=dat...A:1603810243507
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I'd like to go to school, I think, less because of "it's a necessity" and more for the general education, but I'm really completely clueless about if it's a good idea for me, etc. I have no obligations and I think I have enough of a buffer to go, but what would I go for? How does any of it work? Like, in an ideal world I'd love to work in machine learning/AI/robotics. Should I go to school for that? Sorry for being so completely ignorant of all this.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:One thing to keep in mind for the GI bill is that to get the BAH you must attend at least one class in person. The kicker is that class only needs to meet once. So, what you can do is look at colleges that have "Hybrid" classes like that. For example, I go to Washington State University's Vancouver campus once a semester for the first class of my anthropology courses and take the rest of my school 100% online, because I live in central Oregon. The 2 hour drive once a semester gets me 2409/month BAH, so it is really worthwhile. You get BAH regardless, just at a reduced rate.
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cubivore posted:Hi Navygoons. I have a little less than a year left so I'd like to ask advice about what I should do, what I should look into, etc. If you decide to not go down the programming road, throwing at a link for DOS FS gig: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/565821000 based on your .mil experience. You do mostly spend your career OCONUS, and occasionally you may find yourself working in such gems as Benghazi, so buyer beware. But, you can also get 3 year gigs in London with paid housing so...
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Ask away man! Basically you find a college that you can live at, and has the program you think you want to study. Then you sign up and declare a major. Don't worry about getting this right, it's easy to change, and the first year or so is taking general classes not associated with a major. You register for classes, get yourself an apartment, buy some books, and start showing up to classes. The first few semesters are generals you need as prerequisites to your final degree. poo poo like English, speech, and some entry level math (among others). If you are going for computer programming/engineering/sciences you'll probably be on the treadmill to Calculus. During this time it's probably a good idea to slip in a class or two you might find interesting and chat up professors to expand your world view and dip your toe in other subjects. Maybe you'll find something you really love, maybe you'll just pass through on your way to a programming degree.
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Hekk posted:If a four year degree isn’t an option, I’d recommend looking at a language other than a python for a boot camp. I say that because if you learn another programming language first, the switch to Python is stupidly simple. I'll echo this as a former enlisted that went through college for Computer Science. Over the time of my classes, we went from C -> C++ -> Java. I picked up Python at the end at the recommendation of my brother, and that's mostly all I do nowadays. Most places you apply to will want you to have professional experience in whatever language you're listing, but if you can speak to and answer their language-specific questions, you can most of the time get by. C++ is great for anything that needs speed in execution, Python is great for anything that needs speed to market. There's a wide array of options though, don't feel like those are your only ones. College class specifics (like operating systems, networking, algorithms, etc) are mostly irrelevant for the work you'll end up doing. What you'll learn from these classes is problem solving, and a degree will show that you can do that to most employers. I recommend college if you can swing the cost, I also recommend a light-ish first semester if you go straight from Navy to University for various reasons. Don't really stress certifications too much. Most people ignore certs, unless they're specifically targeted by the company (think Networking or Testing certs).
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PneumonicBook posted:You get BAH regardless, just at a reduced rate. Yes, that is true, but the reduced rate is so low it makes being able to go to school full time without working pretty much impossible. The rate is half of the US average of E-5 with dependent BAH, or $850 a month. Considering that most metros have a BAH of 1800(Olympia) to 4500 (San Francisco), it really leaves a lot of money on the table. One thing he could consider doing is working and going to school part time, especially if he could do one of those classes in person. I believe you can use GI Bill in half month increments, so that might be a good way to get some BAH money and school done. Right now I am doing 15 credits and working 50+ hours a week, so I am *very* stressed. I might not recommend it to anyone.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Yes, that is true, but the reduced rate is so low it makes being able to go to school full time without working pretty much impossible. The rate is half of the US average of E-5 with dependent BAH, or $850 a month. Considering that most metros have a BAH of 1800(Olympia) to 4500 (San Francisco), it really leaves a lot of money on the table. One thing he could consider doing is working and going to school part time, especially if he could do one of those classes in person. I believe you can use GI Bill in half month increments, so that might be a good way to get some BAH money and school done. Oh yea for sure. I was working part time so online pretend school was the best I could get, although now our state schools have online masters so Ill probably get one that route. Only have like 9 months left of BAH but Ill absolutely drive a couple of hours once for an extra 800 bucks.
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Wanted to echo easy course load first term. Unless you came from part of the Navy where work flow efficiency and time management were practiced (yes this is a joke) it is good to just ease in to managing time and work flow and prioritization, etc.
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PneumonicBook posted:You get BAH regardless, just at a reduced rate. At a 50% reduced rate, so it's worth whatever hoop you can negotiate with the school to get that one in-person class.
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There was British SF insertion the other day to remove stowaways in the English Channel the other day. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/25/uk/isle-of-wight-tanker-nave-andromeda-intl/index.html I heard about it because of this Operations Room video which details the insertion: https://youtu.be/CRme_HlPN-Y Seems professionally accomplished. Hope that, if the aims were peaceful attempts for asylum, the stowaways do alright.
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Love the Operations Room youtube channel, the video they did the other month about the first day of the air war in Gulf War 1 was nuts, all the moving parts that were in play was really something. This guy this guy has some pretty cool naval history videos, he did a an awesome two parter about the debacle/real life Coens Brother movie that is the Russian Pacific Squadrons hilarious journey to the Battle of Tsushima
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Alright, going to need help with understanding how SRBs work if anyone can care to explain. SRBs for ITs have been non existent for the last 6-8 years I want to say. I'm an IT2 ( with 4 years in ) with 746A (sysadmin) & H09A (CANES) NECs. Not sure how to calculate on reenlistment bonus if I want to sign for 4 or 6 more years. Also, am I reading this right: quad 0 ITs get a 45k bonus?? 
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I need to pull the message because I can't see the headings on your screenshot. It's the multiplier ( that's the 1.0/1.5/2.0) times your base pay times months you are reenlisting for. Up to the cap (probably that 45k/30k number) Edit: They made that spreadsheet terrible but I was right. Laranzu fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Al Capwn posted:Alright, going to need help with understanding how SRBs work if anyone can care to explain. SRBs for ITs have been non existent for the last 6-8 years I want to say. I'm an IT2 ( with 4 years in ) with 746A (sysadmin) & H09A (CANES) NECs. Not sure how to calculate on reenlistment bonus if I want to sign for 4 or 6 more years. looks like Zone C ITs get 30k if they max out the SRB.
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