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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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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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Mar 2, 2024 01:55
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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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Mar 3, 2024 01:38
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I randomly remembered the time we got served canned peas that had a bunch of grasshoppers in it them on deployment. Man I miss the Navy.
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Mar 9, 2024 22:14
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Laranzu posted:I'd kill for the grasshopper protein after a month of only canned beats for midrats I fuckin' love canned beets, it's the only thing I could get a full plate of after our freezers broke a week into a 2 month+ mission and we were getting <1000 calories/day.
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Mar 9, 2024 23:58
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Hekk posted:Starves its junior enlisted sailors. I sat in the Chief’s Mess for 3 years and let me tell you, no one on the ship eats better (or more) than them. It was a Good Time watching CSC make his own, substantial, meal before going on watch, while we were rationing. Motherfucker would stand in front of us and tell us we were getting plenty of food and to stop whining about it. E: he got made fun of so hard he started doing it before the prewatch brief, and scuttling down to Chief's quarters to eat, instead of sitting in crew's mess. E2: same (loving fat, of course) CSC was big on portion sizing even when we were just loving around off the coast and could get food any time. We were restricted to half a waffle (he had the irons back in the galley instead of self-serve on a table like most boats) he, of course, would get a full waffle. We were getting the poo poo kicked out of us at cribbage by the CO one day, and one of my buddies ratted the CSC out to the CO, who demanded to know if it was true, and then ordered CSC to serve a full waffle to all sailors at breakfast. CSC smashed the loving waffle irons in the trash compactor rather than allow us full waffles. The next CO made the CSC go through a full NR-style command-level critique for running out of butter on deployment (the "I can't believe there's no butter" critique) and it made the CSC cry actual adult man tears, lol. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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Mar 10, 2024 23:51
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ded posted:why didnt the skipper mast him for smashing the waffle irons? that is some hosed up poo poo I dunno, fuckface was some Admiral's pet cook and advanced him directly to E7, the other Chiefs didn't like him either, and would call him a non-selectee all the time. CMD598 posted:It's Air Force brain leaking into other branches. Probably think calling everyone warriors will help with recruiting and retention and not just be a fuckin joke...kinda like the half year or so they replaced rates with numbers but more ignorable. One of my CO's loving loved the warriors thing, we'd have to respond to it with "HOOYAH!" on the pier and stuff. He flew a flag with an outline of professional wrestler The Ultimate Warrior's eye makeup on it, also bought us all PT shirts with that design. He was a weird dude.
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Mar 11, 2024 05:18
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Nick Soapdish posted:I don't think you become a senior officer in any service, let alone the Navy, without being weird Cobra Commanderson is Built Different though. Nothing like hearing him calling the OOD the R-word, from crew's mess, while he's in his PJs in Control. "If Jesus was on board, I'd still have the Deck and the Con" -something he actually said.
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Mar 11, 2024 16:18
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Aww, gently caress yeah. That STS2 is a good dude besides the heroic deeds too, glad to see him get that recognition, that'll be a big career driver for him at this point too.
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Mar 22, 2024 00:12
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I dunno what got the 22's CO confined to being a yard officer, but I had a really good impression of him when I left, seems to give a poo poo about the crew.
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Mar 22, 2024 15:32
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M_Gargantua posted:Sometimes maybe you'd want to put a good CO into a yard to try to save morale during a normally decimating period of a ships crew turnover cycle? I mean, yeah you would, but I think it's generally the mark of death for an officer's career. I could be wrong on that, I never payed much attention to the O games. Crab Dad posted:Yeah he awarded roughly 40 NAM’s to the crew and today he is handing over the ship to his replacement. That's good, because his interim predecessor, straight up blamed the crew for the collision which is loving bullshit. "Sometimes bad things happen to good boats, that's not the case here" Is not something you need to say to a traumatized crew, after the individuals responsible for the incident have already been removed. Still makes my loving blood boil. Current skipper, OTOH, came in at 4AM to bring us fresh homemade cinnamon rolls for a RX cooldown brief 
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Mar 22, 2024 16:50
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Grip it and rip it posted:i wish I had been smart enough to drop out of powerschool I remember pulling in because Nav Div poo poo broke, and watching them walk off the boat right after trash off, because they can't fix their own poo poo and need contractors to do it. We were stuck standing underway watch rotation because they wanted us underway the second it was fixed and wouldn't let us shut down.
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Mar 24, 2024 07:04
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Mr. Nice! posted:For chief, they're going to look at his whole package Heheh Good point about LDO though, if you're looking to retire out, and you don't want to pick up a job when you've done your 20, LDOs the only way to go. Mr. Nice! posted:Would it be good to include in his letter the comm he got for that sailor? I think that the board would eat that kind of poo poo up - looking out selflessly for a junior sailor. They SHOULD see it in his record, but that's something you have to review for your board pack. For example, I have one out of 7 NAMs in my service record because Yeomen are lazy fucks, and I'm pretty sure that torpedoed my chances at making it when I was in.
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Mar 29, 2024 21:04
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Oh, duh, I'm good at remembering things.
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Mar 29, 2024 22:53
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Additionally, you need to take into consideration the difference in base pay, and how that's going to effect your retirement. A larger proportion of enlisted salary is allowances and bonus pay type stuff.
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Mar 30, 2024 23:22
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Mr. Nice! posted:poo poo I didn’t realize this was just a board announcement. Maybe my av update was premature.  Cerekk posted:Well in that case, now is prime time to stock up on skull bumper stickers for your truck before the NEX runs out of them I see one of those at least once a day, I need to move closer to work. E: $20 on CPOdad making it first time up.
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Apr 16, 2024 04:37
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MonkeyFit posted:Depends on the rate. At least a few are just, "stay in long enough and outlast the others." The MMN(SS) community is like this now, and it makes for the loving worst Chiefs. It's all 10 year turbo-nerds that have only been to training commands and precoms, and lack any relevant experience whatsoever, or the absolute laziest gently caress 16 year firsts who have sucked poo poo their entire career, but finally got enough sympathy EPs to make it.
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Apr 17, 2024 02:08
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Mr. Nice! posted:I mean, do coners really need to be that smart? I think we're the only navy that has officers that do everything instead of specialist tracks. Yeah, from my recollection, which is hazy due to all the Scotch I drank while talking to the British nukes and playing darts, the RN has their senior enlisted run the reactor and ER, and have nuke officers that only do nuke poo poo, usually drawn from the enlisted ranks (?). Also, aren't all the PLA(N) nuke boats ancient shitheaps?
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Apr 18, 2024 21:45
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Legion of Merit or bust.
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Apr 19, 2024 11:13
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All the dudes I trained who are still in are putting on anchors, and I'm just here chilling and using a shower that's not pointed directly at my nipples, and which almost never rocks back and forth really violently while in in it.
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You get an EoT for spending a week in NYC?
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