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Crab Dad posted:I have faith that I’m gonna fail it. The amount of questions dealing with recall of publication numbers and not actual IT issues was staggering. I simply can’t recall them if im not using them. No one remembers the pubs. Charlie out!
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It's all graded on a curve, you don't have to know poo poo, just answer more questions better than the next guy. I got like 7/12 QA questions right on one Chief exam, which netted me like an 85th percentile. E: What section of the JFMM covers o-ring reuse requirements? 4.13.(b) 4.12.(a)(ii) 4.11.(d) 4.12.(a)(i) Normal things a normal human has memorized. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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I imagine there is at least one quota for a new reservist ITC. Let me tell you about all of the years that FCC was zero! Thanks for letting me keep my rate fuckos!
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PneumonicBook posted:I imagine there is at least one quota for a new reservist ITC. Reserve FCC: 18 chiefs in 11 billets for the third year in a row!
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While looking at quotas I noticed every single year there are like 60 ITC quotas. Lol. Looks like FCC and FCAC finally opened up though with 6 and 3 respectively last cycle. PneumonicBook fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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If I make it the fun is over…. Noooooo.
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Up or out mothafuckaaaaaa!
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Up or out mothafuckaaaaaa! I don’t even have gold chevrons yet! Let me enjoy this for another decade before I get serious.
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What is it that you think selres chiefs do?
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PneumonicBook posted:What is it that you think selres chiefs do? More than I currently do. I’d feel obligated to try harder or something.
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PneumonicBook posted:What is it that you think selres chiefs do? There's a reason I left at 14 years with 6.5 of them as a Chief in the reserve
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Crab Dad posted:I don’t even have gold chevrons yet! Let me enjoy this for another decade before I get serious. lmao you're going to the goat locker
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they will try to give crab the chief initiation poo poo and he will blow them off
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They'll try to get Crab Dad to do the donut sale and he'll end up with a daiquiri in a deck chair while  are doing the work
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Back in the day my dad did 2 years, got out for 2 years, then went back in for 23 years and retired as an e5 with like 3 gold service strips lol
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ded posted:they will try to give crab the chief initiation poo poo and he will blow them off They'll just give him a star to put on his anchor, as retribution.
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Crab Dad posted:I don’t even have gold chevrons Hey, me neither!
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Hey, me neither! Let's deconstruct that, shall we
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Nick Soapdish posted:Let's deconstruct that, shall we It's a complex issue, but if you break it down to its constituent parts...
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I don't know if  but the Navy doesn't consider NJP for gold anymore, only reason I had gold chevrons for my last few months in.
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Elviscat posted:I don't know if I can’t be bothered to check but gold just denotes more that 12 years of service now. Too many master chief’s with NJPs were big mad they had to rock red.
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Crab Dad posted:I can’t be bothered to check but gold just denotes more that 12 years of service now. Too many master chief’s with NJPs were big mad they had to rock red. Back in my day ... [storms off and dies thinking of hands in pockets]
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Well we got snow overnight and the old Marine next door beat me to the sidewalk shoveling again. He told me that he knew I needed my beauty sleep as a sailor and that I wasn't getting any younger. Then he told me how excited he was that he was chosen for an honor flight. He's a Korean War vet and they get second priority after WW2 vets. Told me he hoped to see some old buddies but they wouldn't recognize each other. I told him to just pick one guy and go up to him like he knew him during the war. At least it would give that guy something to talk about. Anyway he was super excited and I hope he lives long enough to make it.
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Crab Dad posted:I can’t be bothered to check but gold just denotes more that 12 years of service now. Too many master chief’s with NJPs were big mad they had to rock red. Man, having that red rocker would be something to brag about in my junior enlisted opinion. Making Chief despite having had a spicy career. It'd depend on what the NJP(s) had been for, of course - something lame and stupid like DUI would suck.
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the Chiefs with red stripes in the Seabees were pretty much always the guys who did everything they could to take care of/provide top cover for their people. glad they won't have that issue anymore
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Man, having that red rocker would be something to brag about in my junior enlisted opinion. This is me. Lemniscate Blue posted:something lame and stupid like DUI would suck. ...
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LOL, if you have a disciplinary action when you’re an E-2, and then stay in for twenty years, you’ve got to wear red hash marks the whole rest of your career? As a kind of scarlet letter? Am I understanding this correctly?
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MrMojok posted:LOL, if you have a disciplinary action when you’re an E-2, and then stay in for twenty years, you’ve got to wear red hash marks the whole rest of your career? As a kind of scarlet letter? Nah, you get gold (well, used to) if you've been 12 years with no disciplinary actions. So in your example, if the E-2 got in hot water at their 1-year mark, they'd be eligible for gold stripes in their 13th year and get to wear them for the last 7 of their 20. (I think. If someone knows different please correct me.)
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Nah, you get gold (well, used to) if you've been 12 years with no disciplinary actions. So in your example, if the E-2 got in hot water at their 1-year mark, they'd be eligible for gold stripes in their 13th year and get to wear them for the last 7 of their 20. Yes this is what it use to be.
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Crab Dad posted:Yes this is what it use to be. And now it’s of yo gently caress up you’re stuck with Red?
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Nystral posted:And now it’s of yo gently caress up you’re stuck with Red? Nah, now you get gold at 12 regardless of any other factors. I went to NJP at 4 years, so under the old rules I would have been eligible for Gold at 16 years. Under the new rules I started wearing gold at 12. It's also not really a mandatory thing, and almost no one was ever going to check your service record to make sure you're wearing the right stripes anyways.
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All this talk about navy exams reminds me that my father had to take some promotion test while my mother was in labor in the base hospital.
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The Navy's batshit insane about advancement exams. We had a 20 year first class, retiring before he'd even have been selected who they forced to take it, he tried to answer every question wrong (you'll get yelled at for just bubbling in "A" on everything and leaving after 15 minutes) and he ended up scoring in the 20th percentile. I'm the only one I know who was excused from an advancement exam, and it was because I was the acting M-Div Chief for a reactor cooldown, and I had about a month left in.
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I had a fellow instructor when I was on shore duty who "slept in" and missed the Chief's Exam. At DRB they asked him if he even wanted to be a Chief, and this loving legend said, "Not really." You've never seen a case get sent up so fast. He was an E-5 within the week, it was nuts.
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In my dad's case the instructor knew about my mother and kept slipping him hints throughout the exam to hurry things along. "It's not number one, and it's not number three or number four..."
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I was almost done with my bachelor's while on active duty. I had zero chance making board as I hadn't been an STS for about 8 years and had zero access to any classified study guides. I asked not to take it, even though my paperwork for retirement had already gone through. My command removed me that is I failed the exam I would lose my Navy College benefits. The day the results came in, our senior chief called all the first classes into good office, about 10 of us. He grabbed my profile sheet and made a big dramatic thing about how awful my scores were (I killed the general knowledge stuff and bombed all the sonar stuff). He asked if I was disappointed. I asked, if I had made chief, I would have to obliserve it to put on my anchors and he said yes. I told him I was disappointed that I didn't get to turn that down. I was dismissed, but gently caress you for trying to make me look bad in front of the rest of the first classes. He was at my CRB two months before my retirement and suggested I could look at Liberty University. I had already been accepted for grad school at Hazelden but I thanked him for the suggestion (as per all of my TAPS training).
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Flyinglemur posted:He was at my CRB two months before my retirement and suggested I could look at Liberty University. I had already been accepted for grad school at Hazelden but I thanked him for the suggestion (as per all of my TAPS training). That's a lol from me dog
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Nick Soapdish posted:That's a lol from me dog Yeah, nothing about how I presented myself suggested that THAT would be a good fit for me. I was tasked with leading the guided meditation for the patients since I was a practicing Buddhist. And he knew that.
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Got to take the exam my NRA didn't send to the right place last month. The ESO transferred, the CCC got promoted during maternity leave and transferred, the Admin person doing both of those jobs hit EAOS, and the Command Chief who is normally the fallback for all of THOSE just changed out (YNC -> DCC). So there were zero people in the NRA since January that knew how to: Order exams, verify EAWs... do basically anything at all that wasn't a reenlistment. It's unfortunate that all of the jobs in the Navy are word-of-mouth and OJT only, and that there's no publication or procedure or documented resources on how to do these jobs. No instructions, nothing.
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Elviscat posted:The Navy's batshit insane about advancement exams. I dodged the E-6 test two cycles in a row and successfully escaped. I guess the all-seeying eye took naps sometimes.
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