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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > Navy OCT Thread 2014: Navy day balls
 
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TheQuietWilds
Sep 8, 2009

Pandasmores posted:

Holy poo poo thats loving metal as gently caress.


According to my LPO, it isn't total bullshit that some E-3 getting bluejacket/stopping to check if anyone is hurt at a vehicle accident in a shore command gets a NAM but an E-3 saving a life on a battlefield under fire just gets a pat on the back in some cases.

Is it just hospitals that give NAMs away like crazy or do sea going commands do it as well?

It's like a curve. In places where everybody is doing serious war stuff, it takes an outrageous amount of effort to really stand out, where in a place where any doofus that runs a bake sale is America's hero of the day the bar is pretty low. You have to do something special to get an award. What defines special is how special the people you work with are.

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TheQuietWilds
Sep 8, 2009

Pandasmores posted:

Commands have a weird sense to what the people within them want. Prime example:

Sets up retarded barracks clean-up when the barracks are already cleaned by broke dicks from base commands.
Regardless of if the patient is wrong, the patient is always right.
Sets up watch in an empty building because "you never know when the cleaning people are going to collapse", has automated fire alarms/boiler gauges/immunizations locker monitor but they must be checked in such a way that the duty driver checks them and not someone that's actually in charge of that equipment and trained on its maintenance.
All clinics mandated to have people answering phones at the same time as central appointment hotline, because you never know when they may transfer the patient to the clinic directly. This would be fine, if some of the clinics on the list weren't referral only clinics and closed off to the dependents that usually are awake at 5 AM to get their narcotics.
Having what appears to be rank favoritism, where an E-3 is held and punished to a higher standard than someone at E-5.

:chiefsay: "But why are you guys hating the Navy so much? Don't worry it's different at other commands!"

I got my master chief to admit that the only reason we still had watch sections is that the chief's mess felt like sailors should stand duty. We sat at a desk and transferred people to a nursing advice line or the ER depending on what was wrong (which could be easily and more efficiently handled with a phone tree), did an hourly wander around the building (which was also externally patrolled by USMC base security and contract base police, whatever they were called) and recorded numbers off a bunch of gauges (all of which were automatically recorded by a computer system that would call the contract maintenance people if they were outside of the normal values). Three people at a time, 4 hour watches (plus two hour long duty musters and overnight on-call) every six days. Obviously, this is an absurdly easy duty, but still. The whole point of the duty section existing was to have people be on a duty section. Boggles the mind how anybody ever reenlists.

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