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Pandasmores posted:Wasn't autocorrect. I expected a bit more responsibility from them before they head out to their volunteering bake sales. I would sooner chop my dick off than apply anything to it that was prescribed by a corpsman.
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LingcodKilla posted:Strangely enough it looked to be about 50% boy/girl with a good mix of races representatin! Brought a tear to my eye that alcohol abuse in the navy really knows no race/gender lines. United we keg stand.
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Camouflage uniforms and anything with subdued rank insignia should be no-salute situations. You're intentionally obscuring your shiny status, don't expect every person walking by to have laser salute-o-vision.  I once walked past a Seabee chief wearing the green NWUs (I was in a flight suit with a ball cap), and we just stared at each other awkwardly because neither of us had any idea where to look for rank insignia. He actually turned around, apologized, and saluted (very  ) and we had a laugh about it.Working Rimpac with all the foreign military guys was even weirder. I just saluted if I saw three or more of anything (stripes, stars, bars, maple leaves, whatever).
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germskr posted:Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhsCBFYNw0 found the one for the nobles. I assume the "right" way is equivalent to a Navy guy shouting "HOOYAH SHIPMATE, FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS!" That reminds me of a while back when all the right-wing fart sniffers got spun up over the president giving a half-assed salute while holding a coffee cup. Ignoring the fact that the president is a civilian who doesn't need to salute anybody (thanks, Reagan, for getting that started), I was thinking that if you followed someone around with a camera 24/7, you could get photos of anybody giving a goofy salute here or there. I know I've certainly had a few. It doesn't mean I hate America, it just means sometimes I was distracted or had something in the wrong hand.
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Red Crown posted:Newport question: If I'm flying in to OCS the day before my class convenes, am I on the hook for lodging the night before? My orders say no, my recruiter gave me a non-answer, the website says yes. I'm almost positive that you do get reimbursed. Especially if your orders say so. Also, if there's no room on base, don't stay at the Pineapple Inn out in town. Wingnut Ninja fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Grody posted:Anyone ever been stationed in lemoore? is it as bad as it looks? I've been TAD there a few times and it was as bad as it looks (and smells) each time. A lot of the fighter guys that I talked to there led off with something along the lines of "you lucky motherfucker, you don't have to live here". I was talking with one guy about good places to go for dinner, and the high point was "well, there's a Chili's in town..." Not to say there aren't some hidden gems to be found, but if there are, you're gonna have to dig for them.
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I don't know about the other groups, but I'm pretty sure all you need for a Unitarian service is a coffee maker and a DVD of Cosmos.
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Apr 24, 2015 01:09
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vulturesrow posted:You've actually witnessed that? That is beyond doucebaggery somewhere into the realm of pathetic. That sounds like something JOPA would do to a hinge-to-be who left his computer unlocked. Like when we changed a guy's GAL title to "Squadron Morale Officer".
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May 12, 2015 06:19
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vulturesrow posted:e: The sad thing about this post is that I'm forced to agree with buttplug. The true measure of how hosed up SWO land is. The only place I can think of in aviation where you sometimes get [verbally] abusive people is flight instructors. Everyone can remember That One rear end in a top hat who always yelled at you and made you feel like an idiot. And they don't get called out on it, since the targets are poor little ensigns who are just trying to make it to the next syllabus event. But I'd like to think that even a CO would get shitcanned pretty quick for the kind of physical incidents that you hear about from SWOs.
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May 16, 2015 16:10
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US Navy Ship Struck USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii Eh, it's had worse things happen to it.
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May 28, 2015 01:23
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Tropical White was an official uniform up until, like, four or five years ago. Same Service Dress Blue Yankee (blue jacket, white pants). Our JOPA would still bust out the SDB Yankee for special occasions. I think enlisted guys had to suffer with pants for everything, though.
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Jun 3, 2015 05:34
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Geizkragen posted:Anybody ever lived in Fallon? On base or in town, doesn't matter. I PCSed there a few months ago, living out in town. Boon posted:Posting from Norfolk. Desk chair floated away. Send rafts. One of my friends posted a video from the flight line there this afternoon. Did not look pleasant.
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germskr posted:My old roommate told me some horror stories about that place- granted he was an E-1 at the time living in the barracks, but I hope you enjoy nothingness and a few local dive bars. The best story was the time some guy went over to another guy's house belligerently drunk and the homeowner stabbed him in the neck with a knife and got away with self-defense or something like that. Well, like a lot of places, if you don't have a car, it's gonna suck. If you do have a car, you're an hour from Reno, and two hours from Lake Tahoe. If you feel like it, you can go skiiing/biking/hiking/whatever every single weekend, surrounded by the glory and grandeur of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Even by itself though, Fallon is way better than, say, Lemoore. I know that's not exactly high praise, but as long as you're not dead set on a banging night life scene it's actually not bad.
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germskr posted:You can do all that plus surf and hit the beach in San Diego, which is LOADS better than Fallon. Also, what's the BAH rate there? For E-5 and under, it's under 1k and while I'm sure housing is cheap out there, it kind of says a lot about the area. Well, yeah, nobody is saying it's better than San Diego. But not everyone can do their entire career in SD. All I'm saying is Fallon is far from the worst place you can end up.
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Boon posted:Does anyone have any information on Fallon? I'm try to negotiate a reserve billet out at NSAWC (NADWC now) and I don't really know a whole lot about the place. Most of the time it's hot and dry. Small town charm with only a moderate amount of meth. There's a pan-Asian restaurant with an all-you-can-eat sushi option for the brave at heart (also a curiously good Vietnamese place). We were just discussing it upthread; you can PM me if you have any specific questions.
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Adbot has a sense of humor...
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I'm loving the irony of awarding WTI patches to people who don't wear uniforms that you can put a patch on.  That being said, in all honesty it sounds like a fine idea. Not to get all Kool-Aid about it, but the NSAWC weapons schools and WTI model is pretty drat useful at developing and disseminating tactics to the fleet.
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You're always on the clock, shipmate. Overtime is authorized.
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Top Gun grad offered China secrets for help with jailbreak I guess when you're already in jail for kiddie porn, treason isn't that big a deal.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Any way you could find out what his call sign was? Yeah, it showed up on Facebook, it wasn't anything hilariously prescient like Diddler or McFeely.
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Jul 10, 2015 23:18
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Boon posted:I thought the joy of callsigns was that you get to call them a new one whenever the gently caress you want. Well, that's true, but it's kind of predicated on still being in an active squadron to hand them out. One could make the argument that he no longer rates a callsign, and that he's no longer technically a pilot since he now has the same future chance of flying a Hornet as, say, Charles Manson. I'm sure his new cell mates have given him some amusing nicknames, though.
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Jul 10, 2015 23:57
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DownByTheWooter posted:Ventura co and central coast CA in general owns, but god drat Oxnard is a hole Yeah, Oxnard in particular is kind of a dump, but the overall area is pretty awesome. Ventura and Camarillo are nice, Santa Barbara is great, and you're an hour from LA if that's your thing. Delicious burritos abound, and the weather is more or less perfect all the time.
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Sir Lucius posted:Hunted down my boot post in the archives: Oh god. What did I find? Oct 17 2008 Wingnut Ninja posted:Well, I guess I forgot about this thread until the last minute, but I'm off to Navy OCS tomorrow, to hopefully become an NFO in two years or so. Naturally, after months and months of waiting, I've been running around all day getting my stuff together and getting all the paperwork and forms I need, but I'm pretty much all packed and ready to go now. A bit nervous, but overall I'm glad to finally be getting on with it. With luck, I'll be graduating in late January. I hope winter in Newport isn't too bad. Winter was loving awful.
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Yeah, the NFO gig has worked out fine so far. Really glad I didn't get picked up for Information Dominance.
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maffew buildings posted:Do they bother retrieving wayward sailors? If you're UA for more than 30 days, you get labeled a deserter and they put out a warrant for your arrest. Thus if you get pulled over for speeding or murdering a hooker or something, it'll pop up in the system. As far as I know that's about all they'll usually do. We had one guy who went UA, and we called his mom and told her that he'd be listed as a deserter if he wasn't back within 30 days. He showed up again on day 29.
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USS The Sullivans Damaged After Missile Explodes After Launch Whoops. You know, it seems like this has just been a lovely year for launching rockets in general.
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Null Integer posted:Today is the day GIP died as instructions where quoted in the Navy thread. Not the first time. Won't be the last time.
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Squadron Duty Officer Log Records Events of Forrestal Fire Interesting read. Today is the anniversary of the fire and this was posted on the Naval Aviation Museum facebook feed. Things I Hope I Never Have To Write In A Log Book posted:“Magazine warning. Officers and SDO abandon Ready Room Three and moved forward and up to hangar deck.”
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Well, I notice they didn't post full pictures of the pages on their site. I assume the thought process went something like: "Okay, we've got a priceless piece of Naval Aviation history here. There's just one tiny problem. The opposite page from the previous day has what appears to be a drawing of, let's be honest, a truly magnificent cock poking Jane Fonda in the eye. I think we need to go with just the cropped photos."
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germskr posted:I think there was talk about getting a sticker similar to the half/full marathon? Someone here must have taken this to production.. There are a ton of places that sell these online if you Google it. I was really tempted to get one too, but now I just do the bike.  buttplug posted:A Sailor will pass the BCA if abdominal circumference is less than or equal to 39.0 inches for males and less than or equal to 35.5 inches for females. That sounds even more hilariously unequal than the old (now step 3) method. gently caress it, one number for everyone! If you're 5'1" you can be drat near spherical.
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LingcodKilla posted:Doesnt this allow the really ripped dudes with huge necks to not get hosed? Having a huge neck is good for the old system, it's a skinny neck with a big gut that makes you fail.
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I was really rooting for one of my former LPOs to make chief. Glad to see he picked it up this cycle! Great guy, model , we were all a little shocked when he didn't make it last year.Godholio posted:Monday I start work at Fallon as a dirty contractor. Anybody there now?  Where will you be working? If it's BC3 or anything C2 related, I'll have to start leaving
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Chuckle posted:As an enlisted I will never be allowed to grace the O-Club and am stuck with the flightline grill/bar or subway "Silver State Dining Facility" or whatever is the right side of the o-club building, but it's the all hands galley replacement. Mongolian is every couple of weeks, and the rest of the time it's relatively good galley-style food. On base you also have the bowling alley, which does decent pizza and extremely "meh" sandwiches. VN Pho is good Vietnamese. Azteca is good for burritos and other Mexican staples. Courtyard Cafe has good breakfast and lunch. And it's a bit farther west up highway 50, but Squeezy's is a little diner literally attached to the livestock exchange and it's got great, greasy diner fare. And if you want all-you-can-eat sushi in the middle of the desert, look no further than The Wok on main street.
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vulturesrow posted:Please don't tell me Mean Gene's is no longer. It may be, I definitely haven't heard of it.
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CMD598 posted:Wow Fallon is even smaller than I imagined. The total population goes up by about 20 or 30 percent when an air wing comes to town.
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vulturesrow posted:Mean Genes was a burger place inside the E-club. Yeah, it's an MWR-run Flightline Cafe now. Burgers and sandwiches with absolutely zero character.
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CMD598 posted:I guess someone was all Navy'd out and cancelled the last event after everyone had already sent their planes off. Also got to wipe walls in Hanger 1 today, yay me. Probably the smoke from all the wild fires around, it's bringing visibility down to gently caress-all. That's what canceled my FCF today, not surprised they canceled the strike as well.
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Speaking of ridiculously Joe Navy, that reminded me of this gem that I discovered through the POW a few weeks ago: Navy Releases New Mobile Game quote:The Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention (NADAP) Office released a mobile game March 3 as part of the Keep What You've Earned campaign. Quite possibly the saddest thing ever produced by the Navy. I genuinely wonder how many people have downloaded it non-ironically or without being told to by their chief.
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LingcodKilla posted:I'll bite. What's a false Asian.  
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ManMythLegend posted:The problem is about supply (of aviation JO's) vs demand (total DH slots in the community) and where MSR, the O4 board, and the DH board all fall in the aviation pipeline. Yeah, there's talk about literally not having enough O-4s to fill the necessary DH billets. It was a problem after last year's board, and it sounds like this won't be making it any better.
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