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Elviscat posted:Holy poo poo, I just got permission to blow off the Chief's exam, that's a first for me. I did that for four people this time around, all about to go on terminal and gtfo. No need for them to come in to just Christmas tree it and bail.
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Laranzu posted:Wow. You either turbo pissed someone off or have someone decent in charge. I've got some decent people in charge now. I'd go take it just to take a long lunch and gently caress off if I wasn't surprise acting Chief for a loving cooldown. The E7 exam has improved 1000% since they've split it up by rate post-Covid, pre-Covid it was a 3 hour poo poo show just to get seated. I'll always remember my last boat making a 20 year 1sr take the exam, who was retiring in 3 months, he tried deliberately to answer every question wrong, and scored in like the 20th percentile, lol.
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Looks like i'm reenlisting this weekend. They got us a decent outside venue in Bremerton last minute. I'm sitting in my camper at JBLM because i didnt want to drive back and forth every day since we are doing a Thursday to Sunday drill. Sheesh.
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ded posted:People Always heard it as civilian life is preferred. We had a first who'd get real angry when most of the division was walking around with paperclips attached to our coverall pockets.
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Crab Dad posted:Looks like i'm reenlisting this weekend. They got us a decent outside venue in Bremerton last minute. Why would you ever do that? Checks posting history Fair enough, carry on.
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FrozenVent posted:Why would you ever do that? I really hope Crab Dad continues his streak because he keeps rolling the hard 8 and being fortunate.
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Crab dad makes me want to join the US Navy and I’m not even American. (My last interaction with a Canadian navy recruiter is when they got laughed out of the cafeteria at boat school.)
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Nick Soapdish posted:I really hope Crab Dad continues his streak because he keeps rolling the hard 8 and being fortunate. Crabdad for MCPON.
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PneumonicBook posted:Always heard it as civilian life is preferred. Every time I saw that it came back to a lovely rear end lcpo who lived to make people miserable. I dont know why I repeated myself, could've just left it as "they had a chief." I have a retired reserve master chief at work who cannot stand that he has to do what I say and I was just a lowly first when I got out.
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PneumonicBook posted:Always heard it as civilian life is preferred. It was both really. I preferred this one. Anyone who had a paperclip on their dungaree shirt or poopiesuit would get it ripped off by any chief who saw it.
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I wish I had known about paperclip when I was in. I was already hated because I wanted to get out by a school so it wouldn’t have made any difference for me.
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We had folks who made the "short timers" belt out of paperclips that would slowly become the "short timer's" bracelet as their fly off date approached.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:We had folks who made the "short timers" belt out of paperclips that would slowly become the "short timer's" bracelet as their fly off date approached. I did that with 31 cans of rockstars and their was mild concern for my liver. Explained it was just the days I had left. Then I extended for 6 months whoops.
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I had a flight suit where one of the zipper pulls snapped off and I replaced it with a paperclip. I'm gonna laugh if I was accidentally repping some junior enlisted gang symbol.
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Crab Dad posted:I did that with 31 cans of rockstars and their was mild concern for my liver. Explained it was just the days I had left. A MEDEVAC 4 months in for heart tremors and kidney stones really messes with deployment math.
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I once caught a guy flying to site for a 21 day hitch with 60 lbs of red bull. Dude was like 50 so we gave medical a heads up, they told us to go gently caress ourselves, two weeks later we flew the guy home because he had arrhythmia.
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bringing that much water with you in your rack is stupid. Gotta pack out the powdered energy drink mix they sell at wal-mart and monster shooters (which seem to be discontinued?) which you can mix up with some water and drink on watch. Tasted just like squeez-its
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Grip it and rip it posted:bringing that much water with you in your rack is stupid. Gotta pack out the powdered energy drink mix they sell at wal-mart and monster shooters (which seem to be discontinued?) which you can mix up with some water and drink on watch. Tasted just like squeez-its I had 6 racks to myself. We didn’t have a very big crew due to going into dry dock in Croatia.
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Nick Soapdish posted:I really hope Crab Dad continues his streak because he keeps rolling the hard 8 and being fortunate. If Crab Dad were in Vegas, Bobby DeNiro would have him escorted to a backroom for some polite conversation and glad-handing.
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lol went to my 4 day drill and chief said if you have any symptoms go get tested at madigan. So sure I got a hacking cough from my throat. Well they gave me a 24 siq chit and then a positive result with 5 days of isolation so I’m “drilling” from my camper all weekend. Have to reschedule my reenlist now. loving can’t believe I travel all over the med in a covid pandemic with lovely masks and now working everyday with kn95 masks I catch omnicron.
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They say that the new substrain of Omicron is 1.5 times as infectious, and Omicron was like 5 times as infectious as Delta, which was some order of magnitude more infectious than the one before it, so I imagine that the lovely masks during the med might have had better results. Like, I look back at the infection numbers and the first "wave" is almost imperceptibly small, especially compared to now. Like now would be the time to do an aggressive lock down and enact all the precautions we can, but no one has the willpower to do such. I think by the end of the year everyone will have either had it, regardless if they know it or not, or their immunity successfully fends off infection.
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Crab Dad posted:lol went to my 4 day drill and chief said if you have any symptoms go get tested at madigan. So sure I got a hacking cough from my throat. Well they gave me a 24 siq chit and then a positive result with 5 days of isolation so I’m “drilling” from my camper all weekend. Have to reschedule my reenlist now. But you already had your hotel room on site
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SquirrelyPSU posted:But you already had your hotel room on site Lol no I don’t get a hotel I live 49 miles from my drill site. I decided to just bring my camper and spend $30 a night to not have to drive back and forth. Full hookups so it’s not bad plus it’s on JBLM so I got like 50% less meth heads to deal with. 100 miles a round trip plus bridge toll adds up quick.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:They say that the new substrain of Omicron is 1.5 times as infectious, and Omicron was like 5 times as infectious as Delta, which was some order of magnitude more infectious than the one before it, so I imagine that the lovely masks during the med might have had better results. Like, I look back at the infection numbers and the first "wave" is almost imperceptibly small, especially compared to now. Like now would be the time to do an aggressive lock down and enact all the precautions we can, but no one has the willpower to do such. I think by the end of the year everyone will have either had it, regardless if they know it or not, or their immunity successfully fends off infection. It's been like wildfire here in Virginia especially at my job. Luckily only one person in my crew actually got symptoms and he was fine after a couple days. So it seems this may be the most contagious but the least threatening.
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Anita Dickinme posted:It's been like wildfire here in Virginia especially at my job. Luckily only one person in my crew actually got symptoms and he was fine after a couple days. So it seems this may be the most contagious but the least threatening. For people fully vaccinated. Doc was kinda specific on that point.
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I mean the one guy that got sick was vaccinated meanwhile everyone else, the unvaccinated included, were completely asymptotic.  My daughter and grandfather, who’s 89 with every medical problem you could think of, both caught it and while my daughter had a runny nose for a day my grandfather was completely fine.
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Crab Dad posted:For people fully vaccinated. Doc was kinda specific on that point. Yup. Vaccinated with booster out here are basically not sick at all. I had like 5 days of mild sniffles or so. Vaccinated without booster has slightly more symptoms but generally not bad and no fever to speak of. No vaccine regardless of prior infection gets loving rekt just as bad or worse than prior variants.
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Crab Dad posted:Lol no I don’t get a hotel I live 49 miles from my drill site. I decided to just bring my camper and spend $30 a night to not have to drive back and forth. Full hookups so it’s not bad plus it’s on JBLM so I got like 50% less meth heads to deal with. You don't have to convince me, I moved from Everett to Silverdale for 9 months to duck that bullshit. (also, I was insinuating that your camper was your hotel) e: Also goes without saying, hope you are feeling better. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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Former minesweeper CO becomes meth dealerquote:[The] Judge['s] sentence in part after finding him responsible for distributing nearly 10 pounds of “ice”...“He also had loaded assault rifles positioned just inside the front door,” according to the release. “The investigation revealed significant additional quantities of meth, other narcotics and firearms at storage units and vehicles Esswein controlled. They found a total of 36 weapons, including stolen firearms and firearms with missing serial numbers.” Lil' reminder that your career in the Navy is just one part of the journey  accelerate your life!
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Red Crown posted:Former minesweeper CO becomes meth dealer Meth sure accelerates people
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ACB2 triad fired for being rapey/covering up for being rapey.* *allegedly** **but come on, we know how Navy is
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Stultus Maximus posted:ACB2 triad fired for being rapey/covering up for being rapey.* Completely believable.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Completely believable. The most unbelievable thing about it is someone is getting relieved of command.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:The most unbelievable thing about it is someone is getting relieved of command. Fair point.
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My old unit is in the field right now and had live ammo go missing for over a day and no pause-ex was called or weapons pulled or anything, just M4 ammo missing and everyone wandering around with M4s. Word is the ACB here on the west coast also had live ammo go missing, a full auto ND in a tent and patrol end up on a hot sniper range during their field training exercise. What a community. Lengkeek was my CO when we had the CMC who later was removed from his posting at the Regiment level due to being rapey. He faced the worst consequence of all, being moved to another command and then having it suggested he retire a little early after being drunk on duty (allegedly) maffew buildings fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Feb 6, 2022 |
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maffew buildings posted:2/3 COs I served under in the Seabees have been relieved of command now Never had a problem with any of the CO's, but the last CMC came with an advanced warning of my buddy on the Peleliu. Shipyards, INSURV, and Deployment 2. (e: Previous CO was also notoriously hated before I showed up) SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Feb 6, 2022 |
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The Seabee museum at Port Hueneme is surprisingly well done and promotes two main messages: 1) The Seabees have a long, proud, noble heritage, which occasionally involves running over Japanese troops with an armored War Bulldozer. 2) Seabees loot the everloving poo poo out of anywhere they go. Seriously, about 1/3 of the items in the museum are stuff that Seabees brought home with them after deployments. Like a 6 foot long U-Boat model that some guy lifted from a Nazi shipyard, or Uday Hussein's gold-plated sniper rifle.
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