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Pandasmores posted:Anyway: He looks like a bad-touch uncle.  edit: also, apparently if you sexually assault or harass dozens of women it is considered worthy of an informal counseling session and, finally, a stern two counts of article 92. As long as you're a CMC. gently caress the Navy quote:In his endorsement of the investigation’s finding, he wrote that the victims’ willingness to come forward was a testament to the command’s willingness to investigate SAPR issues.  Maybe this command should have done something the first incident? Maybe somebody should have physically restrained this fuckwit the first time he tries to use the line, "haha you're my property," or reached in for a bit of kissy kiss? What the loving gently caress? A Bad King fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Hekk posted:Serious question, does seasickness go aware with exposure? I get airsick as gently caress on helicopters for some reason and it's a pain in the rear end what with how much we move around via helo. I can fly in jets and prop planes all loving day but helos aren't natural. This has me a little concerned about being on ship. It's not like I can ask the waves to stop or whatever so I imagine it'd be pretty miserable if you get seasick and it doesn't go away. Seasickness does go away with exposure time. If you're typically getting sick on Day 1 at sea, by Day 2 or 3 you will likely be okay until the next two steps up in sea state.
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Octopode posted:For the love of god, don't forget your shower shoes.
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Hekk posted:Next question: Over the years I've seen the shellback certificates and hear there is a hazing ritual/ceremony for those who have never crossed the equator. Is this something worth going through? I have heard stories from dudes that have been on ship before about crawling around in food slop and grease and having to eat something out of some fat chief's bellybutton or whatever. Just trying to figure out if this is a thing that people actually do or if it's just a way to gently caress with the new guys. The "hazing" ceremony for becoming a shellback has been so diluted by Big Navy fears of any one getting their feels hurt that failing to do it would mean missing out on an early morning wake up and possibly getting sprayed with cold sea water. It's about as harmless as a child hitting your arm after seeing a VW Beetle before you could react.
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orange juche posted:Why does noone ever ask before they do this poo poo. Because the MEPS guy had all the answers!
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Vriess posted:Bring all your porn for deployment. It is morally reprehensible to not bring your porn/movie/tv collection with you on a 15TB NAS setup these days.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:LOL if you think he is going to get sea sick on an LHD. Some people get sick on carriers. 
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Russia apparently is sending some ships down to Australian waters, in order to express their butthurt about the ruble crashing another 4 points as the G20-without-Russia convenes. It got the Australian Navy all up in a tizzy. 6 ships coming out from Vladivostok oh noooooo...
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ITT bubbleheads justifying their vocation. "Sounds sounds sounds BAD DRAGON DOT COM PURCHASES sounds" "Sounds sound SOOOUND soundssssssssss MY PENIS WON THE POPULAR VOTE sounds piiiinng piiiing"
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 Russian flagships always impress me with their 80s supervillain vibe. Less so their layout, the quality of life on board, their missile tech that is essentially boiled down to "Hey, we got this airframe when we developed our jet fighter, let's just throw out the cockpit (the wings...) and put some inertial guidance + explosives in there", and their AAW/ASW FCS suite that was obsolete by the 1970s.
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 I just got my prospective rating back, and they're throwing permanent retirement at me for a problem that should have been rated TDRL. The lawyer essentially told me to sign that bitch right now, but the QA process might catch it (and if it doesn't, praise baby jesus). If everything clears, I'll have forever-TricareRetired, forever-Dental, forever-head-to-toe-no-copay, forever-Gym, and forever-50%basepay after only 10 years. I'm okay with that.
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DownByTheWooter posted:Temporary Disability Retirement List They really shouldn't have rated my problem permanent and it has me extremely paranoid that they're going to take the offer away in three months or something. 
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I signed, but then there is that 30 + 90 days of bureaucratic mess I potentially have to wait for before I get my discharge orders cut.
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Pandasmores posted:If some kid with an adjustment disorder can get TDRL'd because they're a treatment failure and their command is too lazy to admin sep them, then you can get PDRL'd. This makes sense. I'm not terribly worried, but I was expecting less and was extremely surprised by the fact I'm getting out like a bandit here. I was expecting a get-out-of-contract-free card and a quick $70k from severance, and I'm getting almost $1mil over a life time plus health care. A Bad King fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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PneumonicBook posted:Angry Fish is an enormous pos so really no one should be happy about him getting those bennies. I'm really glad we can have a flame war over the gray forums where you wouldn't dare to have the courage to spew your feces to my face without the anonymity. A Bad King fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Every Navy thread, PneumaticBook has to make his every other post a "guys, guys guys...huehuehue! this POSTER is a shitbag! guys! this IDIOT sucks at life," shouted into the echo chamber. I'm kind of sorry for responding to it.
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KetTarma posted:I just want you all to know I have one test, one lab, and one homework assignment until I'm off for a week to celebrate conquering turkeys or something Can we do  , but with 6hr probations? You're going to be stuck having thanksgiving duty day dinners every other year, and you'll normalize this to yourself and your family as being "okay."
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Sir Lucius posted:We had a CMC like that from the air community. "This command isn't Navy enough" is utter bullshit. I've heard people say, "oh you don't go on a ship? You're not even in the real Navy." Is it really so bad that our community isn't completely infected with rule-thumping retards who have never had an original thought in their entire lives? I don't think I want to know what the real Navy is like, because almost everything I've heard and seen that comes out of it has been negative. The Navy is a bureucratic despotism, where the kingdom is ruled by people who really take the law and procedure way beyond the spirit of the law and procedure and into a kafka dystopian horror.
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PneumonicBook posted:There are ways to directly measure the effectiveness of an instructor, the command chooses not to though and keeps doing it the "Navy" way though, which automatically screws our command over. MTS is more important than better educated students. When I first here, the AP RADAR mod had a 2yr historical average in the content tests of a little under 84%. I don't know what it was, but the give-a-gently caress was missing and all it took was some new practice problems and a better-run presentation and that jumped up from 1/24 failures and mid-80s to 1/173 failures and mid-90s in 10 months. My first eval debrief tacked that onto my write up, didn't ask me questions on how to improve practices, because .
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ManMythLegend posted:Yeah, for a sprawling shore command like a school house it's got to be incredibly tough to break out. And they're sort of right about ranking everyone based on their actual job because I doubt you guys are collecting data that would allow differentiation between instructors. In that case I would say just being visibile in anyway you can is the best way to "break out". They do have the data readily available. It's all in CeTARS, our grade and student management system. An instructor can print out his classes' test scores over a given period of time, compare it to a historical average, and then throw it in the command's face with a "here check this out. 34% increase in performance metrics since I started teaching underwater basket weaving." But that takes  , and nobody tells anybody about it because , and when we tried to simplify and eliminate some of that pain by asking all the instructors to record their test score averages for the week into a excel tracker? Few did it, and when we did keep track it came back with a, "Wellphhhuuu, thuuuwhuat aboooout MTS?".
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My wife just joked that if her job eliminates her team's product (and by extension, her and a hundred well-paying e.e. jobs), she'll join the Navy. 
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DownByTheWooter posted:being a dependapotamus sounds dope tho No.
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Mr. Nice! posted:You can go to FRG meetings and just talk relentless poo poo all the time. I'm really proud that it took me half a minute to figure out just what the gently caress FRG meant, and that I never ever had anything to do with the family readiness group and their weird "I am[married to] the CMC," beady-eyed politicking.
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PneumonicBook posted:You...you do tell her about the navy right? She thinks like a person who has gone through the Russian 90s -- stability is the most important thing in the world, especially for families, and the world is not stable. I get it. So far, she's seen nothing good in regards to the job market in the states. She has two grad degrees, and she just saw 80 people get laid off from every division and only 12 of them got picked up by the company for positions in Texas. Then her boss comes up and wrecks her mood with some pep talk, telling her that she was saved from the cuts because she gave a poo poo about her job (she didn't hear this part), and that her work colleague helped save her slot by choosing to go to Poland (she hears only this). It took her 10 months to find this position as she worked lovely lovely $12-18/hr field tech work far below her skill level. It's not happening. She'll find work elsewhere if Nokia decides to self-immolate their only core business left to become a fabless, productless husk with only a name to license out. She has marketable skills. But she brought it up again today and for a moment I'm thinking, "she's not joking...?"
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Are we going to start ironically signing all our posts with bad email sigs? Please. No. Please no stop.
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DustyNuts posted:I'm OK with the way the forums are right now. Except BYOB needs forum cancer.
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orange juche posted:I went over to the galley, saw the line out the door and down the sidewalk, and I walked right back to the building I work at and reheated some cold pizza. Happy thanksgiving, fuckers. That sounds... 
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