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Gray Matter posted:Are you talking Tricare Reserves Select, or Tricare Prime? Because despite the misleading naming scheme, they are very different animals. TRS actually results in much better medical care in my experience. You can go out to any civilian provider without getting your visit pre-approved, and you aren't forced to see "doctors" in military clinics. whatever the active duty one was.
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ActusRhesus posted:whatever the active duty one was. Yeah that's Prime. TRS is a PPO plan with low deductible and low catastrophic cap. The downside is the reserves are on fire and no one's at the wheel
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https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1208255619851046916?s=19 Thanks The Navy Reservist for these great tips. I hope you let the NOSCs know how to do their jobs when Sailors follow this process and still don't get paid. Took me 4 months and escalating to apparently someone in Norfolk who is now over all of respay or something to get paid for my E-AT this summer
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Is there a Step 7: Make the appropriate sacrificial offering to ensure that Congress can figure out how to pass legislation? Not that I would ever make a possibly contemptuous implication that they don’t care about us.
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Step: 8 take orders at the nosc and learn who all the shitbags are to avoid. This is extremely tedious but you can at least get a ribbon after a month or so. It’s stupid but it worked for me.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1208255619851046916?s=19 Some RCC Captain was at our reserve center last drill. His first talking point was "Navy reserve pay is messed up. Sorry about that. We closed all the PSDs to afford a new pay system, so we're implementing that. That's why everything sucks." So straight from RCC: Pay sucks right now, and they know. And they're fixing it? Probably?
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Hell yeah the loving never stops FTN
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1208255619851046916?s=19 Step 7: Become the command CPPA.
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Long time lurker, capable sailor, first time poster- ProPublica wrote up the McCain disaster, and while I know it’s been discussed at length in here, this article was very informative for those of us who aren’t acronym fluent. https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-installed-touch-screen-steering-ten-sailors-paid-with-their-lives/
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Our Navy serves a vital role in executing the fleet's mission. That said the DON has a LOT of systemic issues that are in no way being addressed. I am being the change I wish to see by getting the gently caress out. Granted my community is even more hosed up than a lot of other parts, but, whatever. Namaste.
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I'm a professional mariner and I say touch screen steering is about the dumbest thing I can think of
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When you have to periodically reboot your steering wheel, something is very wrong.
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The fact that there are soooo many arguments against the system, but saving money was the main thing leading to it’s selection kind of shows how messed up some folks’ priorities are. Hell, the dude who made that call probably even has some stars right now. Oh quick plug for Pentagon Wars (both the movie and the book honestly). The stories of the book and some of the case studies give a peak into why some of our current acquisitions structure is the way it is. Alot of the bullshit that was exposed back then wasn’t regulated/legislated away but rather just changed into a different flavor of wrong.
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First time seeing more details about the system, it seems a lot more janky and weirdly complicated than any civilian bridge automation I've ever seen, even DP systems on vessels with more complicated propulsion arrangements. Sounds like there's a physical wheel, but touchscreen throttles???
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It's that stupid loving TSLA attitude of the future being touchscreens and shoehorning them into applications they shouldn't be used for
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shovelbum posted:First time seeing more details about the system, it seems a lot more janky and weirdly complicated than any civilian bridge automation I've ever seen, even DP systems on vessels with more complicated propulsion arrangements. Sounds like there's a physical wheel, but touchscreen throttles??? This is true of every command and control system in the fleet thats been developed over the last decade despite enormous pushback from the technical community. I mean after all Im only a 13, maybe if I was an SES in DC theyd listen to me.
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So some of the folks that work alongside my robotics lab group developed an app by which they can use waypoints and other commands to control USVs. There was definitely part of me that wondered how long until an admiral pushes for systems like that to control the strike group from his ipad.
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Kalessin ofSelidor posted:So some of the folks that work alongside my robotics lab group developed an app by which they can use waypoints and other commands to control USVs. There was definitely part of me that wondered how long until an admiral pushes for systems like that to control the strike group from his ipad. Just tell him he can right click ->Dock an entire strike group at whatever dock is best for grifting. Easy sell.
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Kalessin ofSelidor posted:So some of the folks that work alongside my robotics lab group developed an app by which they can use waypoints and other commands to control USVs. There was definitely part of me that wondered how long until an admiral pushes for systems like that to control the strike group from his ipad. Last shipping company I worked for, the CEO showed up this video and told us to prepare for this to happen ANY DAY NOW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALwx5VP8kWA
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FrozenVent posted:Last shipping company I worked for, the CEO showed up this video and told us to prepare for this to happen ANY DAY NOW. Oh god.... that video... literally those folks have been begging one of my advisors constantly to try to get him to help them debug their poo poo to try to make that actually happen.
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FrozenVent posted:Last shipping company I worked for, the CEO showed up this video and told us to prepare for this to happen ANY DAY NOW. Seems like a Star Trek type of fantasy. Marine engineering and navigation will always be a human endeavor. Sure, some things will get automated but at the end of the day nothing can replace human beings being there to make decisions. Semi attractive blondes in high heels making maintenance decisions without walking spaces and inspecting poo poo, yeah right.
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K so just realized I didn’t plug this resource (and if I did sorry, literally just pulled up my post history and didn’t see it) https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Big time wealth of knowledge that I’ve passed onto folks to help them get an extra edge for interviews as well as to be better prepared for going to schools for degrees. Feel free to hit me up on PMs if you or any of your peeps want insight to some of the courses, but also I’ve done some in person and some just working through materials so may not be able to weigh in.
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I'm really thankful ProPublica is putting this stuff out.
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FrozenVent posted:Last shipping company I worked for, the CEO showed up this video and told us to prepare for this to happen ANY DAY NOW. i wonder which excites CEOs more, all the holographic displays, or the thought of firing everyone
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today marks two years in and i wish i could time travel to slap the piss out of me two years ago i remember a poster here who i think was a STG, do they still post? ive got STG related questions and my current division is in the middle of an upheaval (senior guys leaving/left, mostly juniors here, nobody really knows whats going on except oh poo poo time to cap the dome because shits busted)
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boy are my arms tired posted:today marks two years in and i wish i could time travel to slap the piss out of me two years ago Questions like: "Does anybody know what an Ohio class submarine sounds like? Asking for a friend."
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:i wonder which excites CEOs more, all the holographic displays, or the thought of firing everyone I mean the holographic displays are foreplay, the thought of firing everyone under them except for 3 people paid barely a living wage while they pocket everything that they don't have to pay to investors makes them paint the walls of their mansions with jizz. The real endgame is finding ways to automate those 3 people in the commercial because you don't have to pay AI, and drones can't go on strike for better wages and living conditions. orange juche fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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piL posted:Questions like: "Does anybody know what an Ohio class submarine sounds like? Asking for a friend." lmao, as if they dont already have a hundred cuts of that no, more like shore duty questions and advancement stuff. im still a few years out until my window opens but im not sure what all my options are, including however the hell people manage to swing a contractor job teaching ops to a-school scrubs
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maffew buildings posted:Our Navy serves a vital role in executing the fleet's mission. That said the DON has a LOT of systemic issues that are in no way being addressed. I am being the change I wish to see by getting the gently caress out. Granted my community is even more hosed up than a lot of other parts, but, whatever. Namaste. This is likely interesting only to me, but after the poo poo show that was the Gallagher trial a full review of the JAG corps was ordered. And not an internal “we’ll figure out what’s wrong and get back to you as long as the people responsible aren’t too well connected.” Bringing in outside lawyers with zero ties to DoD. I’m cautiously optimistic.
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Howard Phillips posted:Seems like a Star Trek type of fantasy. Marine engineering and navigation will always be a human endeavor. Sure, some things will get automated but at the end of the day nothing can replace human beings being there to make decisions. Slow speed two strokes are so much more fuel efficient than any alternative that they more than offset the cost of maintenance anyway, and once you have the engine room guys on board you don't need to do any high reliability engineering of auxiliaries you can just slap stuff together and the engineers will fix it
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boy are my arms tired posted:today marks two years in and i wish i could time travel to slap the piss out of me two years ago SPACE HOMOS is a former STG, but both of us got out of the navy closer to 2010 than today.
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boy are my arms tired posted:lmao, as if they dont already have a hundred cuts of that So for shore dug the first thing you need to do is deny your c way window get the gently caress out and go to college, hth
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piL posted:Questions like: "Does anybody know what an Ohio class submarine sounds like? Asking for a friend." Sounds an awful lot like one hand clapping.
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shovelbum posted:Slow speed two strokes are so much more fuel efficient than any alternative that they more than offset the cost of maintenance anyway, and once you have the engine room guys on board you don't need to do any high reliability engineering of auxiliaries you can just slap stuff together and the engineers will fix it Preach. I have an undergrad in EE and a master's in Computer Engineering. Have worked as a senior systems engineer in the defense industry in my post Navy life and a certified geek who loves to mess around with computers and tech in general but even then I don't believe in technology improving the fundamental needs of human life. Improved means to unimproved needs. Warfighting, on land, sea, air, or space, is inherently about decision making and using violence to further political goals. Yes, engineering (running propulsion and electrical distribution) is about technology. Yes, there are ways to automate things and improve certain processes but at the end of the day machines and computers break. Human beings must be there to see to them. Simplicity and high quality parts that increase reliability are what we need to aim for. Simpler systems last longer and are easier to maintain.
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Is it the Navy brand to go simpler and/or logically lower tech? Like I always feel the admirals’ discussions about dwindling recruitment or increased attrition always have one junior dude pitch improving quality of life only to be met with chorus of laughs followed by demands to reduce manning requirements on ships with more unproven automation. I feel like maybe we could just trick the crusty old white guys in charge thinking Battlestar Galactica is an advanced simulation into the dangers of high tech and lower manning. Maybe once I caffeinate I’ll think about that punctuation nonsense on my posts.
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Howard Phillips posted:Simplicity and high quality parts that increase reliability are what we need to aim for. Simpler systems last longer and are easier to maintain. Counterpoint: Simple systems don’t generate Gigabytes of diagnostic data for a highly paid team of contracting consultants to run through an excel and tell you with pretty graphs about impending failures that the mechanics already knew about. Why don’t you want to create more jobs?
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Howard Phillips posted:Preach. and this is why you will never lead your field
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shovelbum posted:First time seeing more details about the system, it seems a lot more janky and weirdly complicated than any civilian bridge automation I've ever seen, even DP systems on vessels with more complicated propulsion arrangements. Sounds like there's a physical wheel, but touchscreen throttles??? I can confirm that the system does have a physical wheel that the sailors use for steering. We had the same set up on my first ship, and while I won't get into detail, by the time I left, we started to have problems with the system too. I'm still reading the ProPublica article now, but I'm glad that they got both this and the Fitz piece out in the same year. I think that the work they've done highlighting the problems we had is important. The other articles they've published have also been really good, from the structural problems that contributed to the collisions, to the long term issues of the Minesweeper fleet, they've done some incredible work. They also published one on CDR Benson not too long ago on the ongoing struggles he's had. I need to reach out to him again and see how he's doing.
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shovelbum posted:Slow speed two strokes are so much more fuel efficient than any alternative that they more than offset the cost of maintenance anyway, and once you have the engine room guys on board you don't need to do any high reliability engineering of auxiliaries you can just slap stuff together and the engineers will fix it Wait until you sail 1st and deal with all the poo poo the company does to push for that extra dollar while you struggle to get any maintenance done cause your port stays are 6-10 hours since you're always behind schedule because the company doesnt realize you're running around in a 40 year old ship with the wrong prop. They will yank humans off ships the second they get regulatory approval, whether or not the system actually works. We solve climate change by washing all our exhaust gases into the rapidly acidifying oceans, take an hour to change fuel before ECA/CARB zones because someone decided that was all they wanted to wait, get all sorts of environmental and safety exemptions because this industry is about as crooked as it gets. gently caress ships.
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