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babyeatingpsychopath posted:There's a guy in the unit down the hall that started Army and went Marines because he couldn't go on deployment often enough. Marines wouldn't keep him overseas enough, either, so he joined the Navy Reserve to just Keep Going On MOB with whatever seabee unit is going out now. Yeah but if he is a reservist he isn't gonna get paid until he's 60ish
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:There's a guy in the unit down the hall that started Army and went Marines because he couldn't go on deployment often enough. Marines wouldn't keep him overseas enough, either, so he joined the Navy Reserve to just Keep Going On MOB with whatever seabee unit is going out now. Sounds about right. There’s ways to making it work.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Yeah but if he is a reservist he isn't gonna get paid until he's 60ish His plan is to activate for his last two years directly into a sea tour. His TSP account is fully bonkers.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:04
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:His plan is to activate for his last two years directly into a sea tour. His TSP account is fully bonkers. Navy doesn’t like to let you do that. Guard will though.
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Oct 17, 2023 03:07
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Army -> Marines doesn’t happen all that often because USMC makes all other service enlisted go through boot camp and will only make them an E-2 after graduating. Why would you give up whatever rank you earned in another branch of service and subject yourself to another basic training pipeline when you could just transfer to another branch of service and avoid all that bullshit?
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Hekk posted:Army -> Marines doesn’t happen all that often because USMC makes all other service enlisted go through boot camp and will only make them an E-2 after graduating. Because the EGA adds inches to your dick.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:His plan is to activate for his last two years directly into a sea tour. His TSP account is fully bonkers. I'm no admin person just a Chief that dealt with a lot of dumb poo poo before I tapped out but if he is truly a reservist and not AD or FTS/TAR/AGR/whatever other active but reserve poo poo, he is gonna get presented with a P13 that says "yo, you're entering sanctuary but you cannot do that," and then told don't do any active time until you hit 20 years and can retire. I wish him the best of luck in trying to game the system, truly I do, but I've seen a number of them try it and fall flat on their face. But hey, what do I know, I've been out for 3 years and didn't know Israel moved from EUCOM to CENTCOM which I can't imagine made the Israelis happy to move to as I was told by an Israeli officer "the Arab command"
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TheWeedNumber posted:Because the EGA adds inches to your dick. on account of getting barrel-checked by doc every time you come back from libo
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If the Marine Corps wanted you to have a venereal disease it would have issued you one.
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orange juche posted:on account of getting barrel-checked by doc every time you come back from libo Look, its a very sound scientific idea.
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Nick Soapdish posted:I'm no admin person just a Chief that dealt with a lot of dumb poo poo before I tapped out but if he is truly a reservist and not AD or FTS/TAR/AGR/whatever other active but reserve poo poo, he is gonna get presented with a P13 that says "yo, you're entering sanctuary but you cannot do that," and then told don't do any active time until you hit 20 years and can retire. I never said it was gonna work, just that it was his plan. Apparently "I was active already" means it's some kind of easy-mode to go BACK to active. I try not to get stuck next to him in the chow line anymore because it's conspiracy theory sea lawyer at 10000 RPM nonstop.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I never said it was gonna work, just that it was his plan. Apparently "I was active already" means it's some kind of easy-mode to go BACK to active. I try not to get stuck next to him in the chow line anymore because it's conspiracy theory sea lawyer at 10000 RPM nonstop. That's fair, I think we've all had someone like that in our work center https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/1714237120796144084 Looking back to post-9/11, I would like to know the comically low percentage of big decks that actually departed and returned as scheduled. I know when I did my Bataan afloat in 2011-12, we left early due to Arab Spring and Libya and returned on the scheduled time.
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Nick Soapdish posted:That's fair, I think we've all had someone like that in our work center When I was with Kearsarge in 2005, our deployment went as schedule. Same on Reagan 2006, but this was followed by a surprise 90 day deployment at the start of 2007.
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Speaking of Reagan, we were moored in Pearl Harbor the night of the Fukushima earthquake on our way back from Deployment 2. Woke up the next morning and everyone assumed we were getting extended. The deployments before and after I was on board were 10 months.
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Ok looks like I’m gonna be in Hawaii for all of Jan and the first half of Feb. Hit me up if you like to swap stories with a fat old kinda-sailor.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Speaking of Reagan, we were moored in Pearl Harbor the night of the Fukushima earthquake on our way back from Deployment 2. Woke up the next morning and everyone assumed we were getting extended. The deployments before and after I was on board were 10 months. This isn't an attempt at a burn, but what would a CVN have to offer in a disaster like Fukushima that something like a hospital ship, supply ship, crane barge, or floating dry dock wouldn't offer?
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A CVN is an incredible piece of SAR, Disaster relief, and emergency coordination manpower. It's an airstrip, a power plant, a fresh water source, a decontamination station, and a communications hub all in one.
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M_Gargantua posted:a power plant, Ironic.
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Crab Dad posted:Ok looks like I’m gonna be in Hawaii for all of Jan and the first half of Feb. I would pay your bar tab just to hear you talk for three hours.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Speaking of Reagan, we were moored in Pearl Harbor the night of the Fukushima earthquake on our way back from Deployment 2. Woke up the next morning and everyone assumed we were getting extended. The deployments before and after I was on board were 10 months. I was on 76 for the Fukushima response as a rider out of Pearl harbor. I thought they caught it heading out to a Westpac but honestly I might have my disaster responses mixed up with the other earthquake on Vinson Edit: aside from signing the thing did they ever tell you nobles how much radiation we absorbed?
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I believe the official response was "less than ambient levels" which I called bullshit on immediately.
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I got called into the wardroom on 21 because my quarterly rad levels were too high. Lots of questions asked and apparently "was I not supposed to drag my sack along the bulkhead in the tunnel?" was not the correct answer. I had been spending time on the stationary bike trying to stay in standards, but otherwise I hadn't done anything different. I asked if I should be concerned and everyone said NO NO, NO NOT AT ALL but like, there was a meeting. I'm just waiting for whatever cancer is gonna get me. And frankly, I'm a little tired of waiting. Not necessarily from that one quarter, but let's all be honest about how unhealthy that environment is for living. That extra $200 a month was totes worth it
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Laranzu posted:I was on 76 for the Fukushima response as a rider out of Pearl harbor. I wasn't on 76, I was on 72. 76 was closer by. Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:Who do I look up for contact information on a Naval base if I am a State, but not Fed, regulator who potentially needs access to the base for my regulatory duties? The base's Public Affairs Officer if I had to guess. That's not something I think you'd need a FOIA for.
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Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:Who do I look up for contact information on a Naval base if I am a State, but not Fed, regulator who potentially needs access to the base for my regulatory duties? As said either PAO, since you're an official, or talk to the base Pass & ID office for getting access to the base
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Flyinglemur posted:I got called into the wardroom on 21 because my quarterly rad levels were too high. Lots of questions asked and apparently "was I not supposed to drag my sack along the bulkhead in the tunnel?" was not the correct answer. I had been spending time on the stationary bike trying to stay in standards, but otherwise I hadn't done anything different. Cancer incidence for submariners is lower than the general population, even among nukes with multi-REM exposure records, so you may be waiting awhile. I don't know how, as you said, that is not a fit environment to have human beings live in.
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GD_American posted:Your predecessor in that job didn't have a contact? No, no Naval facilities have what we regulate (specific wells). However, someone drilled one in the 1920s under our authority and left it to rot and now it's a Navy base and I gotta go look for it.
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Elviscat posted:Cancer incidence for submariners is lower than the general population, even among nukes with multi-REM exposure records, so you may be waiting awhile. Have they figured out why this is a thing?
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Wibla posted:Have they figured out why this is a thing? 100 meters of nature's greatest radiation shield between you and the sun's UV for months at a time? Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:No, no Naval facilities have what we regulate (specific wells). However, someone drilled one in the 1920s under our authority and left it to rot and now it's a Navy base and I gotta go look for it. drat, my sympathies. That sounds like it will suckkkkkkkkkk
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GD_American posted:100 meters of nature's greatest radiation shield between you and the sun's UV for months at a time? Well that makes sense.
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Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:No, no Naval facilities have what we regulate (specific wells). However, someone drilled one in the 1920s under our authority and left it to rot and now it's a Navy base and I gotta go look for it. What base? If it’s Bremerton or Bangor I can get you a number for a human in NavFac.
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Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:No, no Naval facilities have what we regulate (specific wells). However, someone drilled one in the 1920s under our authority and left it to rot and now it's a Navy base and I gotta go look for it. The PAO should definitely be able to point you in the right direction; you'll probably want either the facilities office (NAVFAC) or the base safety office.
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I know I'm going to out myself here, but have any of you found any Vet groups not full of ultra conservative MAGA types? I'm not trying to start anything here, and you can believe whatever you want, but as a non-Christian, Democrat-leaning vet I am having a hard time finding a group where I "belong" and was wondering if anyone else feels this way. I am a member of the semi-local SubVets (for the license plates, as those are definitely Get Out Of Jail Free cards - so far) and went to one meeting but it wasn't a good fit. Also I'm 26 years sober so hanging out at the Legion isn't really a great option.
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Flyinglemur posted:I know I'm going to out myself here, but have any of you found any Vet groups not full of ultra conservative MAGA types? I'm not trying to start anything here, and you can believe whatever you want, but as a non-Christian, Democrat-leaning vet I am having a hard time finding a group where I "belong" and was wondering if anyone else feels this way. I thought this was my support group? However I understand what you are saying and i have a hard time even finding activities that dont seem kinda chuddy in WA. Found a good group of MtG players that I enjoy spending time with. Lot of bubbleheads come to think of it.
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Theres a good leftists organization thread in here, maybe check that? I've never read it so https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4023521&pagenumber=1&perpage=40
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lightpole posted:Theres a good leftists organization thread in here, maybe check that? I've never read it so Wow that thread goes Places.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Wow that thread goes Places. Oh poo poo. I should have read it first. My bad.
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Lol I will go check out that link for the comedy value but I'm not necessarily a leftist or Marxist or anyone that even wants to read or post in C-Spam here. It just seems like everyone I served with and everyone I know that goes to those actual in-person places all dig the hell out of the red hats. And yeah this is the closest I've found to feeling included. So I guess either thank you or gently caress you depending on your position while reading this :-)
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