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KetTarma posted:hth He's a victim in an abusive relationship. "But things will change! The Navy will change! I just have to pick a better rate."
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I dunno, I would still love to see a Change of Command benediction and prayer done by an Imam Chaplain. Don't even list him as being Islamic at all, make it a surprise. Invite the Roman Catholic one as a guest to really fool it. Arrange things so all the chairs are already facing Mecca.
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Oct 2, 2014 18:16
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Save money now or trade a car in or sell the house. This is your second bid right? If you don't have any equity to take a loan against to get a job while you are out then the Navy might be what you want. You won't have time to find work unless you're on shore duty but by the end of your third contract you might as well stay the course. How much terminal leave do you have saved up? On the other hand, if he stays in, then we can continue having actual Navy Threads, since 80+% of us are out.
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Oct 3, 2014 13:43
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Reposting because gently caress y'all
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Oct 6, 2014 01:53
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DownByTheWooter posted:Putting "Intend To Separate" is a real rookie move. 1 - Never tell your chain of command you plan to get out, and save yourself a lot of hassle. 2 - if the Navy decides to downsize you out down the road (which is a possibility for an HM considering they're overmanned), then they don't have to pay you severance. Intend to re-enlist, and if your C-Way doesn't get approved, boom, severance pay. If you select "Intend to Separate" even once in C-Way, that's it, no chance of severance pay for you. I was PTS-Approved I had orders to my next duty station I had done check-out. I had done everything, except the Re-enlistment paperwork. Then, 4 months before, I got a job offer. Shredded the re-enlistment and put in for 2 Weeks Leave + TAPS/GPS + 60 days Sep Leave. That's how you do it.
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Oct 7, 2014 15:08
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Nick Soapdish posted:being an IDC person and Nick Soapdish posted:production does not compute
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Oct 8, 2014 05:50
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Sir Lucius posted:Hey, I'm very productive! All week I get to play around in metasploit on a pretend network for a dog and pony show exercise in Las Vegas! I'm sure all that REDACTED you do is very important.
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Oct 8, 2014 17:51
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Sir Lucius posted:I did a board for idw. if I never do a board again I will be happy. I dont know what it is, but I really don't give a poo poo about navy awards. gently caress 3M on a loving IDW Board man.
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Oct 10, 2014 14:16
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Gecnan posted:Y'all here about the ships stuck in PI? ftfy Oooh it's Japan all over again.
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Oct 14, 2014 23:30
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So about five years back, the office needed to send someone TAD to get a return on their investment in a new E-2 so this Seaman Apprentice could be trained and get up to speed on his duties, because the workcenter didn't want him going to his first Advancement Exam in March empty-handed. He spend most of the work-up detachments in S-2, which is colloquially known as Team Food Service (TFS), where FSAs worked pretty much bussing tables and cleaning the mess decks. They decided to put me in his place in the next TAD Turnaround cycle, around October. "Just 30 days," the chief told me. "We're going to try to get them to remove that requirement from the department." It was with great glee that they saw me leave for TAD. Not so much because I was not respected, but because they believed it would be very amusing to see me with one of those white classy caps in a scullery or placing bowls of salad here and there. Things didn't work out that way, because instead I was sent to S-5. S-5 has three workcenters: 03 Level (where I was), 02 Level, and 2nd & 3rd Deck. The purpose of S-5 is the general cleanliness and maintenance of Officer Staterooms and Heads. I was there for 2 months. I was working the night shift from 1800-0600 until I transferred in February. During this time, I was, for the most part, completely without the use of a computer, much to the dislike of my then girlfriend. She called it "janitor duty," although it was more housekeeping than anything else. Very routine work, somewhat medium-level of sweat and grease involved during heavy maintenance on heads during zone inspections, but nothing really out of regularity or stress-inducing. I didn't mind the work. The people I had to work with left quite a lot to be desired. Best part of being there was first dibs at chow, as well as discovering all the pornography magazines that the male pilots kept in their staterooms. Good stuff. In the Spirit of Festivus, I shall air my grievances to these individuals. All proceeds shall be donated in your name to the Human Fund. The Human Fund: Money for People. ATAN: The last name rhymes with Fail, and that's exactly the kind of person this individual has come to epitomize. Having spent the regular three months TAD to S-2, his squadron pulled their personnel from S-5 after his three months only to transfer him to S-5 for three additional months of TAD. He’d already been to NJP once, and his lack of effort to maintain his spaces or to even show up on time garnered several written counselings and even being put on report for his skating off (dereliction of duties). Suffice to say, his own command has written him off, and plain doesn't want him around. He’s a lost cause and an unworthy gain. ABFAN: A short, scrawny kid with more porn than brains. His belligerent attitude and argumentative nature is only matched with his disrespect for anyone telling him to do anything, regardless of paygrade, save the workcenter supervisor directly. His belief that anyone who works on the flight deck is superior to anyone who works below fails when contrasted to the fact that his rate dictates that he’s little more than a self-glorifying gas station attendant. He routinely sleeps during working hours by only checking half of his rooms every day (rotating the half so rooms are checked once every two days). He attempts to validate his overall pathetic effort by convincing himself that being TAD to S-5 is a vacation from his department, and he chooses to treat it as such. His three counseling chits in 2 months illustrate just how this is seen. He wasn't very bright, and asked me, of all people, to defragment his personal hard drive using my laptop. After copying everything he had to my own library, I discovered quite a lot of pictures sent to him by his fiancée. They were nice. I was a sociopath. EMFN: A good-working electrician who tends not to take direction well from anyone on any equal paygrade to himself. His refusal to do his in-rate work on top of his normal duties as VIP custodian due to the many electrical problems in a number of staterooms (bad wiring on some light fixtures mainly) had become a sore point to the S-5 chain of command that would see him in the scullery. ABFAN: A honest worker, but had issues with punctuality. If the man can find himself a goddamned watch he’ll get through the Navy fine. He’s one half of the O-5 team, who is in charge of O-5 Staterooms and took care of a Head additionally when EMFN was in a week-long indoctrination classroom without complaint. GM3: The blood cousin of the workcenter supervisor. The coincidence is astounding. As such, there’s a bit of nepotism at play because he is consistently backed up by the Workcenter supervisor. His attitude towards those he doesn't consider his friends is usually snide, backed up with sarcastic comments. He is compelled to tell everyone around him every event that has occurred, with every hope being the outward embarrassment of the individual. Despite what can be viewed as a conflict of interests, he was made “head FSA” when I left S-5. ABHAN: The token woman of the workcenter, and thus the OB. Her routine duties included logging laundry to ensure quality control that everything sent came back, and ordering supplies to keep our store rooms stocked. Besides doing that, she’s taken a great deal of interest in cheating on her boyfriend (An AO in NAS Lemoore) with someone in my command (Another AO; I don’t know the deal between some women and their fetish for AOs). This is where things get interesting, mostly because I was a nosy bastard and I liked to know as much as I can about the people I work with. I don’t mind a lot of things. I’m pretty centered and pretty apathetic about most things. Two things get on my mind and somehow weasel their way through my emotional stability to frustrate me. One is substance abuse -- namely people who get drunk and become idiots; the other happens to be infidelity of any sort, but especially when it’s underhanded. So ABHAN became a person to be on my bad side. No one spoke up about it in the office. No one claimed that her e-mails between the Boat AO, turning from friendly to flirtatious to overtly sexual, while still claiming about her “boyfriend” in Lemoore, were wrong at any moral level. So I became obligated--morally obligated—to intervene. Using NKO, I was able to isolate the boyfriend’s e-mail, because I knew his name. I sent an e-mail to the guy, got a reply from him, and entered into a short correspondence, gauging his own feelings concerning his relationship, before spilling the beans about everything that had been going on between his girlfriend and the dude on the ship, and left it at that. I got frocked like one week later to PO2, and got transferred back to my command and never looked back at the mess I left. Hell, I left the ship a month later, so I never even got to see the fallout at all.
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Oct 16, 2014 19:09
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krispykremessuck posted:if you have your heart set on joining either of the maritime services, choose a really loving dumb rating like YN or LS where breathing without reminders and speaking english sets you ahead of the vast majority of other people. then abuse TA and get out after 4/6 years and use your GI bill to do something cool. YN actually requires a clearance. The Filipinos hit up PS (formerly PN+DK), the dudes who gently caress up your pay and leave balance. I used to be a YN for 4 years. Horrible existence and boring work.
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Oct 23, 2014 06:29
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germskr posted:Hollywood ruined my expectations- you see giant-fireball-explosions and then you get to the range expecting to see that only to find out it's a huge disappointment. My first NAM was my last. Got it 7 days into Separation Leave.
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Oct 25, 2014 05:47
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I kind of enjoy end-of-tour awards boards. Not so much slap fighting over who gets a NAM for being a CFL or whatever, but once you get to the bottom of the list and the suggestions come out for the shitbags. Handshake of appreciation? Maybe a Chief LOC? We don't want anything printed on the fancy paper, normal printer paper is fine. EOT FLOC represent.
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Sir Lucius posted:If you go CTN reserves you'll spend the 6 months in JCAC. Then you can probably drop your resume off at the NSA and easily get a job there. pfffttt. With what experience?
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