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Booblord Zagats posted:Navy Thread continues to be the chillest service thread. 
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May 28, 2014 03:26
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Pluto is the Vas of the dog world.
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May 28, 2014 03:27
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Mr. Nice! posted:Pluto is the Vas of the dog world. 
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May 28, 2014 06:27
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The whole Goofy/Pluto thing really creeps me out. I mean, Goofy is a dog who owns a dog. But in the Disney world of anthropomorphic animals with human intelligence, is Pluto just a dog? Or is he is Goofy's retarded little brother who Goofy keeps as a pet? The whole thing just ain't right.
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May 28, 2014 07:06
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Goofy's a better fit for Vas than Pluto
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May 28, 2014 07:33
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I keep hearing that same joke about Vas, but at this point I am unable to tell if it's true or not.
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May 28, 2014 11:44
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vulturesrow posted:The whole Goofy/Pluto thing really creeps me out. I mean, Goofy is a dog who owns a dog. But in the Disney world of anthropomorphic animals with human intelligence, is Pluto just a dog? Or is he is Goofy's retarded little brother who Goofy keeps as a pet? The whole thing just ain't right. All the mouse and dog talking toons are modeled after black faced mistrals. Don't look too deep into Disney stuff.
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May 28, 2014 13:07
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ManMythLegend posted:I keep hearing that same joke about Vas, but at this point I am unable to tell if it's true or not.  its not
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May 28, 2014 13:15
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Our CO called up a sailor last Thursday to personally congratulate him on advancing to E6. 6 hours later he flipped his truck over and was charged with a DUI. Now he isn't going to make HYT. What does this all really mean? Easier quotas when I'm up for advancement. Keep it up everyone 
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May 28, 2014 14:34
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Sir Lucius posted:Our CO called up a sailor last Thursday to personally congratulate him on advancing to E6. 6 hours later he flipped his truck over and was charged with a DUI. Now he isn't going to make HYT. What does this all really mean? Easier quotas when I'm up for advancement. Keep it up everyone So it's the CO's fault.
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May 28, 2014 14:36
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How does someone become a doctor on a submarine? I have an MD and PhD and will be fully licensed in a year in internal medicine. I'm still wondering what to do with my life, working in a hospital can be great, but also really pointless at times. Military service has always really interested me, especially naval service. I almost joined the military, but just got on a different tack during and after college. Are there ways for fully trained US doctors to jump into a naval career through some accelerated path? I'm in my 30s already and more years of school doesn't sound really that interesting. What does a doc on a submarine or other warship do? How often are people sick or injured?
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May 28, 2014 16:42
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Blind Rasputin posted:How does someone become a doctor on a submarine? I have an MD and PhD and will be fully licensed in a year in internal medicine. I'm still wondering what to do with my life, working in a hospital can be great, but also really pointless at times. Military service has always really interested me, especially naval service. I almost joined the military, but just got on a different tack during and after college. You wouldn't have to go through any more medical training. Essentially, you'd be given a commission, go to Newport, RI for a little while to learn military stuff and then off to your first duty station. You wouldn't see time on a sub, the "doc" on a sub is what is known as an Independent Duty Corpsman. For shore duty you would most likely go to a hospital considering your specialty. For sea duty your most likely assignment might be to a carrier medical department or the medical department of a big deck amphib. You might also go to an overseas hospital or clinic, or an expeditionary medical facility. e: forgot there are two specialized hospital ships you might serve on as well. More info here: Navy Physician vulturesrow fucked around with this message at 16:55 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 16:47
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Most Doctors in the Mlitary aren't even "fully trained" yet and won't do residency until after their first command There's definitely an accelerated path especially if you're already an MD. You'll do some bullshit 2 week OCS or whatever they call it to learn how to salute and wear a uniform and you'll come in as an 0-3 I believe. Again, no Doctors on subs. They're IDC's which serve as providers and like to call themselves on par with a PA. Same goes for the smaller ships. Bigger ships definitely have a ton of MDs. I was on an LHD (smaller carrier) which was also supposed to serve as a hospital if needed. There must have been 8-10 I believe including specialty Docs. Had lab, surgery, ICU, x-ray, the whole bit. Only 1 IDC which came along for the ride from a Marine unit. There are 2 hospital ships (Mercy and Comfort) but from what I understand they're mostly contractors and I'm sure it's a hard billet to get regardless. There's a lot of places you can go. Hospitals, clinics, flight surgeon with an aviation unit (Navy or USMC), any kind of Marine unit, bigger ships, etc. It's not exciting as you'd think it'd be. Just normal aches and pains that come with the job and people trying to get out of work. Usually it's you and Corpsmen who will do most of your work for you anyways. Nurses aren't too common outside of a hospital. You'll usually diagnose and decide on the treatment and the Corpsmen will carry out the procedures and write the notes. Yeah if you're in the middle of the ocean and poo poo hits the fan you and your Corpsmen are it and you'll have to do whatever is necessary until a medevac is possible if at all. You'll probably just end up in a hospital anyways though.
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May 28, 2014 17:30
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Depending on experience and specialty there, MDs come in up to O-6 in rank and used to be able to get decent bonuses. I don't know the current status on the bonus stuff off the top of my head anymore because I just don't care to look.
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May 28, 2014 17:57
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Working on a carrier would be pretty gratifying to me. There would certainly be a larger patient base, and the excitement of being deployed would be there. Anyone here work on one that can chime in with what it's like? Most of the posts here make navy service sound pretty lovely. I'm sure serving and being on an aircraft carrier is rewarding in some regards, right?
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May 28, 2014 18:10
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The bigger the worse it is generally. Haven't been on a carrier but I've only heard bad things.
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May 28, 2014 18:14
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Christoff posted:The bigger the worse it is generally. Haven't been on a carrier but I've only heard bad things. The entirety of bad things I've heard of carrier medical was from my friends complaining about how lovely the corpsmen and doctors on board were. I have one friend that's getting discharged because something got dropped onto her foot and now she has drop foot because the MD on board, as well as the corpsmen, didn't even bother to do an x-ray regardless of the number of times she went in to get it seen since it just kept getting worse. Can't feel/move anything below her knee. Another dude dropped a hammer on his face and just got gauze put on without a suture. God help you if one of those idiots needs to draw blood from you.
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May 28, 2014 18:24
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Christoff posted:The bigger the worse it is generally. Haven't been on a carrier but I've only heard bad things. This is utter horse poo poo. In on my phone so I'm not going to make a big effort post but life is much better on carriers, especially for someone who is going to be a doctor on said carrier.
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May 28, 2014 19:30
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Blind Rasputin posted:Most of the posts here make navy service sound pretty lovely.
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May 28, 2014 20:00
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The most moto officers I've ever met have been officers that have very little to actually do with navy stuff eg. doctors, lawyers, nurses.
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May 29, 2014 02:40
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May has been a slow month for the Navy thread...
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May 29, 2014 04:10
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Blind Rasputin posted:Working on a carrier would be pretty gratifying to me. There would certainly be a larger patient base, and the excitement of being deployed would be there. Anyone here work on one that can chime in with what it's like? Most of the posts here make navy service sound pretty lovely. I'm sure serving and being on an aircraft carrier is rewarding in some regards, right? The 4 things you will see: STDs, depression, malingering, and foreign ports. Also, on the carrier I was on, our PsychO and one of the dental DivOs were both having an affair with the (married) XO. Dental divo found out about psycho, and told the CO. Good times.
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May 29, 2014 04:20
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Noeland posted:The 4 things you will see: STDs, depression, malingering, and foreign ports. So they would have rather cut off the supply of sexhaving than just throw down in a threesome? Navy officers are weird.
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May 29, 2014 04:37
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Noeland posted:The 4 things you will see: STDs, depression, malingering, and foreign ports. Boring and unrelated to sexhaving, but PsychO? Do carriers really have enough mental problems that they need a dedicated medical officer to handle them?
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May 29, 2014 04:42
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Octopode posted:Boring and unrelated to sexhaving, but PsychO? Do carriers really have enough mental problems that they need a dedicated medical officer to handle them? Mental health is probably a reasonable concern onboard a giant ship powered by nuclear fire with a billion dollars worth of aircraft capable of dropping enough bombs to erase a small country from Rand McNally's collective consciousness
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May 29, 2014 04:48
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Honestly, it sounds good. I've read up on it some and think that after I get licensed I'll look to applying. Foreign ports sound awesome, std's, depression, sore joints, whatever, is easy doctoring and I get to use all these skills I've amassed over the years for the military. What are doctors like on smaller ships? I imagine destroyers and smaller have docs aboard too. Are there circumstances where you are one of only a few doctors on board? I come from a very rigorous training program and like that level of responsibility. How often is a doctor deployed at sea? It would suck to be on a boat for only six months out of a four year stretch. I was imagining being out there a lot more than that. I'm fine working in military hospitals between deployments. Also, how often do I get to drink scotch? Like, all day?
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May 29, 2014 07:12
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Blind Rasputin posted:Honestly, it sounds good. I've read up on it some and think that after I get licensed I'll look to applying. Foreign ports sound awesome, std's, depression, sore joints, whatever, is easy doctoring and I get to use all these skills I've amassed over the years for the military. The doc on the Enterprise had his own private reserve in his quarters, but he was a captain. If you recieved a commission as a captain for already having your doctorate in medicine, then I don't see why you wouldn't be able to sneak some scotch on board. Now as far as being drunk while on call, dunno if that's wise really.
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May 29, 2014 12:38
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Blind Rasputin posted:Honestly, it sounds good. I've read up on it some and think that after I get licensed I'll look to applying. Foreign ports sound awesome, std's, depression, sore joints, whatever, is easy doctoring and I get to use all these skills I've amassed over the years for the military. Nope. Actual MD's are only on Carriers and larger amphibious ships. Just like on subs, CRUDES ships only have an IDC and maybe 1 or 2 junior HM's. Also, no drinking on board. Unless you're the captain. 
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May 29, 2014 12:39
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ManMythLegend posted:Nope. Actual MD's are only on Carriers and larger amphibious ships. Just like on subs, CRUDES ships only have an IDC and maybe 1 or 2 junior HM's. MML our doc had his own little private stash of scotch in his cabin, but he was also like 60ish, a captain, and came in after getting his doctorate and was more civilian than military it seemed.
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May 29, 2014 12:42
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orange juche posted:MML our doc had his own little private stash of scotch in his cabin, but he was also like 60ish, a captain, and came in after getting his doctorate and was more civilian than military it seemed. Yeah it happens, and honestly no one is going to ask questions to, or stop, that guy because he is clearly a responsible adult who can make sound decisions. That said, I definitely would not recommend trying anything like that to anyone posting here.
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May 29, 2014 12:54
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I agree with what MML said. Those guys that come in as an O-6 have already been practicing for decades and are almost entirely left to their own devices to do their job. No one is going to really ever say anything to them so long as they're not doing something actually harmful.
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May 29, 2014 13:18
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Octopode posted:Boring and unrelated to sexhaving, but PsychO? Do carriers really have enough mental problems that they need a dedicated medical officer to handle them? A carrier strike group is twice the size of an Army brigade and is a self-contained deployable unit so yes.
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May 29, 2014 13:34
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We got one a couple months into deployment on an LHD to serve the 3 ship ARG. I was a bit surprised too to and when I asked he said it was a new thing. I know the smallest ship, LSD, had at least one MO. There were a ton of SI's and it seemed like there was always someone in the ward for SI. A lot of psych medevacs Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 14:09 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 14:06
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Christoff posted:We got one a couple months into deployment on an LHD to serve the 3 ship ARG. I was a bit surprised too to and when I asked he said it was a new thing. Yeah, on an LSD we had a dedicated Medical Officer and another Dental Officer, along with the Docs attached to the Marines, but we didn't have a dedicated Psych anywhere in that ARG or in my second one. I guess it must be something that's rolling out.
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May 29, 2014 20:55
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Octopode posted:Yeah, on an LSD we had a dedicated Medical Officer and another Dental Officer, along with the Docs attached to the Marines, but we didn't have a dedicated Psych anywhere in that ARG or in my second one. I guess it must be something that's rolling out. Carriers have had dedicated psych officers for at least a decade now, probably longer.
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May 30, 2014 08:59
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Noeland posted:Carriers have had dedicated psych officers for at least a decade now, probably longer. Yeah but he was referencing my post talking about an LHD. The psych Doc came on the ship a couple months into deployment and when I asked he said it was a new thing they were trying/implementing with having a psych onboard. There was a behavioral health tech HM as well. Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 09:04 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 09:02
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It's the weekend, and the May Navy thread is terminal! EDIT: btw, I hate reddit, but this is why I read it, this was in the "so_my_neighbor_nursed_a_sick_crow_back_to" thread: quote:The CIA proposed a plan to kill American citizens to gain support for a foreign war. Kennedy rejected it. Kennedy gets killed. Country gets handed over to surveillance agencies. CIA trained terrorists attack American citizens. The US government lies through its teeth about the attacks to gain support for a foreign war. All of these happebed. Sir Lucius fucked around with this message at 14:22 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 13:50
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Sir Lucius posted:It's the weekend, and the May Navy thread is terminal! My god. There is so much weirdness going on in that post... Who actually thinks like that? There seems to be more and more coming out of the woodwork. We had that poo poo in paranormal/conspiracy, but that forum is dead as nails.
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May 30, 2014 14:37
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I don't browse reddit but every now and then someone will link a real gem http://www.reddit.com/r/casualiama/comments/24va90/im_an_idiot_who_drove_across_the_country_to/ The girl he's talking about is in some a-school. quote:Backstory: For the pictures you actually have to click through but it is one of the most pathetic things I have ever read. Fart Sandwiches fucked around with this message at 15:04 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 15:01
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I was hoping for the ending where she's loving an E7.
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