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The U.S. Navy has tossed out a man suspected of recruiting for the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi terrorist network that has been connected to numerous murders and planned terrorist attacks. I know a couple of guys at 41, I can't wait to hear about how much of a shitstorm this was. At least we were able to kick his rear end out.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/USNavyEurope/status/1257300933546917890?s=20 One of the senior O-6s at my command wears an Imperial patch and I have to admit I respect that he acknowledges we're the Empire and has embraced the power of the dark side.
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May 7, 2020 17:10
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piL posted:
Scene: near future, fitrep debrief for an O-2 ***UNLIMITED POSTING POTENTIAL*** Effortful Poster. Dedicated to spreading platitudes online. Frequently blogs about leadership experience with a readership in the dozens of unique hits per month. Followed by over 100 accounts on Twitter. Successfully engaged 2 flag officers in threads without being dunked on this reporting period. Led local JOPA GroupMe in number of messages posted. ...really though, this seems like it might actually be okay. I wonder what guidance they'll put out on whether someone's AMU masters work in criminology or "military history" is as valuable as a real university.
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Dorstein posted:Here's the report Thanks for the link. Holy poo poo. The idea that you can physical distance on a carrier is insane, it's an enclose space with mediocre ventilation at best. As if the 6ft distancing works anywhere but very large spaces or outside. If anything they should get kudos for using the flash hoods as masks, that probably helped more than most of the other efforts. There's a part in there where the XO says they had a "10,000 foot screwdriver from [Blue Ridge]" and I'm sure seeing it. It must have been a nightmare having 3 or 4 bosses at various echelons throwing grenades of "guidance" from across the ocean. I think I marked TR getting direction from C7F, CCSG-9, SecNav, N3/5 (3 star) in there...small wonder trust eroded between them and up-echelons. Obligatory "this is just like, my opinion man"
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Jun 21, 2020 19:58
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I combed over the FRAGO and it feels like it's back to April rules for off base stuff but everyone still works and the train keeps moving forward (since the off-limits is a "shall" and telework/postponing major events is "encouraged.") I can't wait to see how this goes over on joint bases where one side's people are able to do whatever and the Navy people are sitting around fuming.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:13
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BIG HEADLINE posted:There's a guy down in the comments who claims the 'near crash' is bullshit and that he was the plane captain for the Tomcat in question, and posted an imgur album of his "Final Countdown" det: https://imgur.com/a/STGdsg2 The internet was mostly a mistake, but occasionally it enables awesome moments like this. That's such a cool album.
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Aug 3, 2020 02:06
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maffew buildings posted:do chiefs fleet wide just attempt to cut officers out of everything so they can be broke brained idiots that abuse personnel due to their own ineptitude? Super late to this but I've been amazed at how many officers are more than happy to let this happen to them. Navy officer selection screens for time management and basic initiative, not for spines. Nick Soapdish posted:At my last active command almost a decade ago, my N2A did this and he was a frat bro from the Academy. I hate this phenomenon so much. It gets everywhere. On every post-deployment oubrief, then it gets suffused into the senior N2's expectations because whoever was bragging made it seem like their normal output. After my cruise I did a retrospective on our analysis shop's assessments: they (we for a while) were wrong 83% of the time, meaning we were doing worse than if we'd just flipped a coin every day. Not that it stopped our leadership from claiming victory and winning awards.
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Sep 27, 2020 18:12
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Coming up on six years. The Navy has yet to gently caress me over, but it keeps up with the papercuts. Slice by slice. I feel like I'm in a bad relationship: "just think of the good times," I tell myself at 3AM being force fed Fox News on watch. "I'm sure things will be just like the good old times soon!"
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Oct 16, 2021 21:19
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Grip it and rip it posted:You're not allowed to watch TV on watch I'm ashore. And believe me, I don't have a choice in the matter. Laranzu posted:Be careful. Next thing you know you're at 10 or more years and considering getting kicked in the balls for 10 more years just for the medical /retirement. I'm sunk costing hard even right now. I tried looking at the normal people insurance marketplace and immediately felt grateful for the warm, if constricting and oppressive embrace of TriCare.
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Oct 17, 2021 00:06
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PneumonicBook posted:Ive reschedded the rest of my drills and will never set foot in a NOSC again, Inshallah. Some days I think about dropping into the reserves, then I read the horror stories. If all I want out of the reserves is the healthcare, how much of a pain in the rear end is it?
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Nov 16, 2021 22:26
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PneumonicBook posted:It all sucks but I can't answer any healthcare related questions since Im a Federal Employee and I'm not allowed to have Reserve Tricare, a thing I was not aware of before signing a 6 year contract I appreciate all the reserves bad feelings. I definitely did not know this and it might strongly effect my decision  I'm an IW officer so we don't have things like quals or hard skills. W/R/T reservists, my particular designator cares so little they will put accession level commissions into instructor billets. Wingnut Ninja posted:Not gonna lie, this story was in the back of my mind the entire time I was on the bike. My brain has nothing better to do than constantly extrapolate calorie burn rates every 15 seconds so I know exactly how far ahead or behind pace I am so this was just extra incentive to keep track. I'm at a place that is big and centralized enough to have bikes with little PRT calculators on them. When I finished, it flashed "SATISFACTORY" at me and I almost poo poo myself. Checked the actual app real quick and I had Good High. Dunno what was up there.
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Nov 18, 2021 22:15
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AlternateNu posted:The big yikes was when he decided to open up our DWE last month with a speech about how the beauty of the military is how we leave our politics at the door, then proceeded to authorize “masks down” for the remainder of our morning briefs. That got a lot of stares from the staff. Yep, seen this. I've worked around a lot of senior people this tour (not a humblebrag, a cry for help) and it's astounded me how far pegged to the right a lot of very senior leaders are. They don't view it as such, they genuinely believe they're leaving their partisanship at the door. It goes without saying Fox News is the default option in most spaces.
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Dec 12, 2021 17:59
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Cerekk posted:File an IG complaint. As much as it pisses me off, I also don't think an IG complaint is warranted. I could argue it's unethical because of the inherent endorsement of partisan positions, but that's not a slam dunk and it isn't illegal or immoral. Fred Dawes posted:https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2867908/navy-announces-the-new-detailing-marketplace-assignment-policy/ Advance to Place sounds like a great way for mediocre followers to become first line supervisors. On the other hand, the CA2P actually sounds like a good personnel management tool.
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Dec 13, 2021 17:33
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Former minesweeper CO becomes meth dealerquote:[The] Judge['s] sentence in part after finding him responsible for distributing nearly 10 pounds of “ice”...“He also had loaded assault rifles positioned just inside the front door,” according to the release. “The investigation revealed significant additional quantities of meth, other narcotics and firearms at storage units and vehicles Esswein controlled. They found a total of 36 weapons, including stolen firearms and firearms with missing serial numbers.” Lil' reminder that your career in the Navy is just one part of the journey  accelerate your life!
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Feb 3, 2022 17:14
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/USNINews/status/1494487188267884545?s=20&t=TKJliPDg0mB54RnFmy8sWA People got seriously hurt. Throw the book at them. Hope it was worth whatever clout they got I guess?
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Feb 19, 2022 16:49
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm looking for my next orders as well, I've been told I have a spot at the new MQ-25 squadron if I want it. And maybe even if I don't, our commodore seemed really excited to get me in there. Seems like a cool gig, albeit based in Pax River. Would you actually have aircraft?
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Mar 13, 2022 22:12
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I've been avoiding this thread - I put in my separation papers months ago. I figured I'd come back when I was safely on terminal leave. Now? I'm ready to make a really bad decision. All I have to do is hit the "cancel" button on NSIPS. When times are good, they're great. I can make this work. It's scary out there, I know I can always go home to Navy - the bad times, they weren't so bad, I think.
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Mar 18, 2023 20:59
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Elviscat posted:Don't be a loving loser, get a cool job, go to college with your GI bill, burn your loving uniforms. I'm not going to say you're wrong. I've got job interviews this week, I got into all my top master's programs. Maybe I just needed to prove to myself I could make it outside. Also, as a noble, my quality of life is definitely better than 90-95% of sailors out there. So this isn't as bad of an idea as reenlisting.
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Mar 21, 2023 20:28
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Grip it and rip it posted:Ban this troll plz I probably shoulda led with that, yeah. SerthVarnee posted:Consider this video: Who needs familial bonds when you have the unbreakable bond of Man and the Sea? Well, it's done: my friends pleaded with me. My co-workers looked at me askance, glaring with dead eyes. The thread warned me. I pulled my resignation back, the die is cast.
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Mar 24, 2023 12:18
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M_Gargantua posted:He's harming himself for our future entertainment I guess. Kinda like a slow motion Jackass skit, where everybody in the audience says to stop. After 15 years of watching people Post Through It on these forums, I felt the need to contribute. I'll keep you updated.
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Mar 26, 2023 17:05
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Red Crown posted:After 15 years of watching people Post Through It on these forums, I felt the need to contribute. I'll keep you updated. Update 1: I was lied to.
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Mar 27, 2023 19:00
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Not to sound like an rear end, but everyone in this thread knew that would be the case, including you. I have to admit, I thought it was going to be months, even up to a year, before any duplicity or chicanery became obvious.
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Mar 27, 2023 23:21
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:Please tell us details of how the Navy screwed you, it provides us salty vets much entertainment. Keeping it vague because my world is pretty small: last year, big PERS told me "you can't do [thing], we're seriously undermanned." Just now, it's "you can't do [thing], we're too overmanned." Oh well. I don't know if it hurts or helps that it wasn't personal.
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Mar 28, 2023 23:05
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1641423794941341696?t=KGW7o_nVKeGfQMmvRjLJuw&s=19 I'm amazed how much of what E-6+ are supposed to do should be done by an LCSW. Workplace disputes? Degraded performance at work due to personal life issues? Behavioral problems? We're ham fisted brutes compared to actual professionals. The service sponsors TA and degree plans for all kinds of international relations/operations/sTrAteGy degrees, MSW should totally be on the table.
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Apr 2, 2023 19:51
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AlternateNu posted:It's called being an officer. Particularly a non-line officer. Yeah. Life's a choose-your-own-adventure as a non-line. Lots of people milk it for all its worth and manage 5, 10, and even more years doing contractor/GS equivalent jobs. You can do odd "cool" jobs in niche worlds like SOF, high-tech crap, and whatnot. You only have to actually put in the work if you care about retiring as an O-5 instead of an O-4. Laranzu posted:I'm not an IS. I'd very much lose it if I got chewed out because some N2/J2 got peeved the arrows on my PowerPoint went right to left instead of left to right or some dumb poo poo As long as you can grin and bear it through circus acts like this, the bar in the non-line world is really, really low.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/FlightGlobal/status/1683598074868903936?t=9ljEirJk8S4HQf5b_3EijQ&s=19 reject modernity, embrace tradition
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Jul 26, 2023 00:19
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Mr. Nice! posted:On a small boy climate survey, they're senior officers regardless of the fact that they're just LTs. Otherwise that category would literally just be the XO and CO. I'm getting that the key to high DH morale is low DIVO morale
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The longer I'm in, the more I'm convinced that being an officer has been the single most important factor in my getting effective healthcare.
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Sep 3, 2023 16:23
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The P-8 is an ASW and ASuW platform as well as pulling broad-scope ocean SAR and can even pick up where JSTARs is leaving off with a ground-scanning AESA radar they can bolt on near the nose. The magic of JSTARS wasn't the sensor, it was the robust crew stations that allowed it to command and control based on the sensor. P-8 isn't bad on its own, but it isn't extraordinary either.
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Dec 2, 2023 01:32
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I guess we're getting Fat Leonard back from Venezuela? We're either really, really sour about him literally walking away, or he's got some good stuff to spill the beans on.
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Godholio posted:I sent his USS Flagg tweet to a Hawkeye buddy, and he responded "Oh yeah, Chowdah's a great guy, I worked for him back in blah blah" Small world but Chowdah was Big XO on my first cruise and Farva and I crossed paths. Both are solid Posters, but Chowdah's unbothered Tweets about dogs and cookies while the air wing is actively bombing stuff puts him on a whole other level.
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Crab Dad posted:Also fml that would have counted towards my chief test no? The fact that you've made it this far without knowing this is awesome. A solid 80% of IW chiefs I've known have had no skills beyond knowing "how to make chief." Yet you remain focused, unbothered, in your lane, moisturized, flourishing. I look up to you.
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Crab Dad posted:Also how the gently caress does he not know the chain of command? What he probably really means is that he's willing to throw a fit to the CMC to force the issue and count on XO trusting CMC more than their JOs. Works well against weak officers.
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:
Alright that's the wildest Navy hazing story I've heard. I mean. What.
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