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LingcodKilla posted:Oh right. I met a guy at MEPS who actually signed up specifically to get SH so he could get his barber license. Planes on opening a shop after getting out. I'm not gonna bag on anyone who thinks that being a self-employed barber is a good life.
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Christoff posted:Yeah but I mean SH is so broad there's a chance he'll never cut hair? They get a license out of that? Yeah, there is that chance but only the dumbest senior leadership doesn't try to get an enthusiastic (non-retarded) guy an NEC, especially if it has direct CO visibility like haircuts or captain's mess.
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Jul 6, 2014 01:47
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Christoff posted:Yes a lot of people still fall for going in as an undesignated seaman or airman. I think there's also some kind of "open" contract were you'll get one of a handful of jobs decided for you at boot camp. And only the dumbest of that group decide to strike BM because they just love paint scraping and sludge cleaning that much.
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Jul 6, 2014 01:53
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ManMythLegend posted:In other news, I just got back from an Irish Catholic wedding with an open bar and I am drunk posting like a mother fucker. I think that's still cool in the lounge threads. department of redundancy department
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ManMythLegend posted:I'm not Catholic, but if there's one thing I've learned about them it's that these mother fuckers love to party. If you ever go to a Catholic wedding without an open bar, tell the assholes to just go Methodist or something already.
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Jul 6, 2014 04:30
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SPACE HOMOS posted:Always take terminal, this shouldn't be a question. I didn't take terminal because I was starting classes a month after EAOS so it wasn't like I had a job lined up that was paying more. Might as well get full pay and allowances until the last day and then get a bonus check for a month's base pay.
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Jul 10, 2014 17:21
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Schlabbalabba posted:The $10 I spent for this forum membership paid for itself many a year ago when I was told NOT to go nuke. If only there were enough people to tell me to not go subs back then. How was it not obvious that subs suck? krispykremessuck posted:~70% of a month's base pay you mean It also helped that my EAOS was at the end of December so nobody expected work done during holiday leave periods anyway.
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Jul 11, 2014 01:05
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Christoff posted:Good conduct medal should be automatic. People freak out about making sure their ribbons are in the system. I could care less as long as I absolutely know I "rate" it but I haven't had an issue with it not showing up yet. I've never seen someone asked to show proof of their poo poo but I'm sure it happens The system is pretty terrible. My Battle E doesn't show up and it's for a whole loving aircraft carrier.
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Jul 13, 2014 20:03
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Octopode posted:Make sure you're looking at the unit awards section of NDAWS for these and other unit-wide awards. They won't ever show up on your personal awards list. I was. It listed some subsequent unit awards for the ship but not the first E which definitely happened.
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Jul 13, 2014 21:38
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Snowdens Secret posted:Maybe 1/3 of my awards showed up in NDAWS, and now I think it can't even find me. The command has like an eight year window in NDAWS where no unit awards are recorded, including several deployments where at the least GWOTEX would've been automatic. What's also awesome is that PERS no longer will let you send in the 1650. It has to come from the awarding authority.
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Gunktacular posted:Well, that particular rule would make sense at a 90% advancement rate. "probably"? quote:Would you get severance pay if you missed advancement twice? lol
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Jul 16, 2014 00:51
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SpaceJustice posted:Does SWO generally have decent advancement to O-4? It's better due to attrition rates.
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Jul 16, 2014 01:09
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poopkitty posted:Its usually a black guy, so I feel like this is progress. We once had a fat white CMEO for some reason. He was also  as gently caress.
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Jul 16, 2014 02:24
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not black enough posted:So I'm driving from san diego to norfuck soon for a 4 months of school. Never made the trip before. Anyone have any suggestions/ tips? (like don't stop in Gary, Indiana) How much time are you taking to do the trip?
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Jul 17, 2014 23:18
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Snowdens Secret posted:I spent a few months shipwrecked in Portsmouth. If you're in Norfolk for a non-permanent stint and you're bothering looking for fun outside of a bar (or the beach) I don't know why you're in the Navy True, the Mongolian BBQ places in Norfolk were better than in San Diego but San Diego compensates by literally everything else about San Diego. Especially that in San Diego you have to try to find sailor joints whereas in Norfolk it's the reverse.
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Jul 18, 2014 01:50
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Mr. Nice! posted:Yes, but not always. The XO is often an O-5 as well, and you don't call it for the XO. Usually it's O-6 and up. In my experience, it's called for the CO (of whatever rank) and anyone above him in the chain - commodore, admiral, etc. But not for random O-6s.
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Jul 22, 2014 02:16
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Mr. Nice! posted:If your ship has a bunch of random O-6s on it, then of course you wouldn't call it for all of them. On a DDG or FFG where O-5 is the top, yeah you usually do anytime an O-6 actually is onboard. When I was on a small deck the only O-6s who bothered to show up were VIPs and I assume that's normal on shooters too?
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Jul 22, 2014 03:10
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buttplug posted:CO/XO on carriers is an O-6, generally the CAG is an O-6 as well. AFAIK CHENG/medical officer usually is too, I'm sure there are some other floaters. Yes, I know. I was on one. I was talking about other ships.
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Jul 22, 2014 03:43
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buttplug posted:Then why the stupid question? Shooters are cruisers, destroyers, and frigates. Small deck is LPD/LSD.
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Jul 23, 2014 04:14
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vulturesrow posted:Imma beat this horse some more but I have heard the term in reference to VLS equipped surface ships. Usually though its not used in a generic sense but when specifically asking what ships are available with VLS when doing some sort of tactical planning. But TLAM is a special breed. I've heard it used to refer to AD capable ships which today is synonymous with VLS equipped but used to include the MK13/26 equipped CGs and FFGs. Whatever.
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Jul 23, 2014 15:44
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Boon posted:My office is probably the most bougie office in the navy when it comes to coffee. We have three different kinds of expensive beans and a couple of grinders, all for eight people. On USS FIRSTSHIP one of the officers was TAD to Colombia and brought back some high quality coffee for the wardroom. The first day, the LDOs were spitting it out and searching for the "good stuff" (5 pound can of Hill Bros).
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Sir Lucius posted:This is an intel command. No one isn't fat. Jeez, tell me about it. I'm unit CFL because I'm the only one who can score high enough. Last cycle I had 6 failures, half of them nobles.
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