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Flyinglemur posted:Uh, Apollo 13 was a movie. This is real life. Oh sure, break my heart and crush my dreams. My God - did we even land on the moon or was that just Hollywood too? How high up does this go?!
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Not 238,900 miles, I'll tell you that much!
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Noble here. Most of the women I know don't want command. I think I know two men who want it. Since arriving in Spain I've lost 20 lbs due to stress. DH sucks. Why would ANYONE want this? I knew that I didn't want command after what the Navy did to Bryce. I sure as gently caress don't want it now. The PTSD doesn't help of course, but the DH job is terrible. Just glad that I have a CoC that understands my sailors cannot fix the problems we have in Engineering right now. Also got to meet another Goon a few weeks ago! That was actually pretty cool.
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TVS you are S Tier Navy person and if you are that hard up that is a thing to be said.
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The Valley Stared posted:Noble here. Most of the women I know don't want command. I think I know two men who want it. Since arriving in Spain I've lost 20 lbs due to stress. DH sucks. Why would ANYONE want this? I knew that I didn't want command after what the Navy did to Bryce. I sure as gently caress don't want it now. Always kinda wanted to know what happens when you get asked to do something that is literally or physically impossible and actual tell the CO that it's impossible. Cuz most leadership seems not say that. Seems yours at least understands a bit
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In the corporate world, you have to be positive about it and steer their thinking in such a way that they have a brilliant idea that is what you wanted to do the whole time. It’s a thorough pain in the rear end.
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FrozenVent posted:In the corporate world, you have to be positive about it and steer their thinking in such a way that they have a brilliant idea that is what you wanted to do the whole time. This is why I never went into the private sector because gently caress if I'm going to waste brain power trying to make my boss feel good about themself.
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Found something cool on Facebook marketplace last night: Someone's qual notes for the USS G-1, 1918. There's about 12 pages of notes and diagrams.           Lots of interesting stuff in here, like how surfaced speed is higher than submerged. My wife asked if I was worried that any of it was classified so I reminded her that it's over a hundred years old. I looked the boat up and it has a very cool history. After WW1 it was turned into a teaching vessel and was used for, among other things, training STSesses. $40 well spent.
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What an awesome artifact.
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Man, they really used to teach the hell out of handwriting.
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Flyinglemur posted:Lots of interesting stuff in here, like how surfaced speed is higher than submerged. Yup, that's a feature of submarines until towards the end of WWII when the Germans introduced the Type XXI, which were arguably the first true submarines in that they were designed to operate submerged most of the time rather than being a surface vessel that could submerge.
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Flyinglemur posted:Found something cool on Facebook marketplace last night: Someone's qual notes for the USS G-1, 1918. There's about 12 pages of notes and diagrams. Better notes and drawings than I had to do. The writing is super similar to how my grandpa wrote as well. Nice stuff.
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FrozenVent posted:In the corporate world, you have to be positive about it and steer their thinking in such a way that they have a brilliant idea that is what you wanted to do the whole time. One of the most tangible improvements to my career was when I read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Feels slightly scummy and manipulative, but poo poo, can't argue with results.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:One of the most tangible improvements to my career was when I read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Feels slightly scummy and manipulative, but poo poo, can't argue with results. I gotta finally finish that book.
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One day left in Hawaii. So happy to be done for the year with my requirements. Think I’ll rock a mohawk for the rest of summer.
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There's 1 easy step to never having to worry about Reserve requirements ever again...
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Elviscat posted:There's 1 easy step to never having to worry about Reserve requirements ever again...  ?
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Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of my retirement (ceremony) and the pictures that popped up on my memories for it made me smile because I had Pittsburgh Penguin liberty cuffs sewn into my Blues. I'm a loving badass.
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You don't even have to do that, you can just stop showing up to the reserves. Just hit da bricks. Acrually I dunno if that'd be smart for a GS to do, but for non government workers it works, and I think you can just opt-out of the reserves any 'ol time you want? I had an AF reserve guy who I hot-potatoed to another supervisor the second I could, that dude converted some of his active duty time to reserve time, then just went AWOL, they 100% could have recalled him to active and NJPd his rear end, but no one cared enough.
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Elviscat posted:You don't even have to do that, you can just stop showing up to the reserves. After a few months of no contact they just ADSEP you.
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Stultus Maximus posted:After a few months of no contact they just ADSEP you. Yeah, I had to finally get a junior Sailor to get back to me as I left the message saying "I don't care if you want out of the reserve, I just need to know you aren't dead," and he finally texted me back
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I mean I guess I could but I still enjoy this stuff. The command is so top heavy I’m doing mindless work I’d normally entrust to an e1-3 because there simply a giant backlog of labor. Just need to bring my family out next time.
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Spending a month in Hawaii on the Navy's dime. What a life
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Also I can confirm that TVS is at least three times as cool as you already think.
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M_Gargantua posted:Also I can confirm that TVS is at least three times as cool as you already think. Three times zero... (Just kidding)
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M_Gargantua posted:Also I can confirm that TVS is at least three times as cool as you already think. TVS?
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Crab Dad posted:TVS? The Valley Stared
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TheWeedNumber posted:The Valley Stared Goddamnit I knew that. >.<
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Evil SpongeBob posted:Three times zero... Look, we all can't be cool like M_Gargantua (who is awesome!)
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im probably gonna be in DC for grad school so putting out the all hands notice enlisted or officer, USN or UMSC, need that tricare while I get a doctorate, holla holla e: also a power of attorney so i can spend all your poo poo on legos or something
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I was the LegalO on my first two ships, and I’ll never forget one of my A-gang ENs coming to me before deployment looking to get a general power of attorney for his wife. The same wife that he told me was divorcing him 3 months earlier. “Oh. She’s a lawyer and promised to make sure all my stuff gets put into storage.”  That was fun having to sit down a guy 12 years older than me and explain how bad of an idea that is.
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AlternateNu posted:I was the LegalO on my first two ships, and I’ll never forget one of my A-gang ENs coming to me before deployment looking to get a general power of attorney for his wife. Bro just find me a Lieutenant or a petty officer 1st class with this type of energy. I need love.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUX-HYRtUA
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AlternateNu posted:I was the LegalO on my first two ships, and I’ll never forget one of my A-gang ENs coming to me before deployment looking to get a general power of attorney for his wife. Had he never watched AFN? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghxZzWVO7A
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Had he never watched AFN? loving lol. Never saw that one.
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 Nuke CrabDad. Rest of the replies are along the same lines.
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AlternateNu posted:loving lol. Never saw that one. I've been fleeced is canonical. I gave someone a loving Av of it.
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Elviscat posted:
sounds like a job for my new avatar Need a sip crab dad?
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God those were the glory days of "we don't give a poo poo, have some memes before their time" ads on afn. It could also be nostalgia about hangover fueled workdays in Japan.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Great job PACFLT PAOs Did they mess up the ship silhouette again
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