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To be clear, I wasn't asking because I thought you were in the wrong. I know you know what's kosher and what isn't. Just didn't want to share with my co-workers without having a better idea of the source.
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Jun 20, 2017 03:15
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I'm not a ship dude but from what I've heard from my friends who are, and what I've seen in my current job, Hawaii is basically cancer for ships. Obviously a lot of strategic importance in having ships based there but it seems like a drat poo poo show.
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Jun 20, 2017 05:03
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Pretty sure -1 has precisely nothing to do with it. 2 is pretty much the right explanation.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:46
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The Valley Stared posted:LORs stay with you, but depending on when you get it, it can vary as to how it will impact your career. Generally, don't expect to get much further though. Circadian is great but changing it every week pretty much defeats the purpose of it.
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Jun 28, 2017 14:30
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Happy 4th from the throbbing tip of the spear.
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Jul 4, 2017 16:25
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Geizkragen posted:Not in aviation at the moment. They shuffle you from painful URL job to URL job (all no flying) until you tap out. I'm coasting on prior time to hit twenty before my first O-5 look (assuming everybody doesn't bail to the airlines and bump me up early as gently caress). You can get flying jobs, I'm proof of that. But mostly you are correct, I got lucky. TErminal O-4 ain't so bad though.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:16
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maffew buildings posted:Gents, someone here has probably dealt with this. I'm being sent TAD for two weeks out of state, I live in the BEQ. I do not recieve BAS, should I have BAS activated, is there some kind of missed meals provision? I know the standard is "gently caress you" and "that's what per diem is for" but gently caress that, there has to be something in black and white addressing how not to get further hosed monetarily. Yes you should get BAS for the time you are TAD, if I properly understand what I just read in the DoD Financial Management regulations. And hey, I have a Financial Management subspecialty code so I must be right! e: I keep reading this and I'm not sure if I'm right or not. Maybe DustyNuts will show up with the right answer. e2: After talking to my LPO I'm reasonably confident I am correct. vulturesrow fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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Jul 7, 2017 18:30
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I am currently experiencing what is easily the worst port call I've had in my almost 20 years. If you're ever told you are going to India, just go ahead and lower your expectations, especially if you are on a carrier (and thus have to anchor out).
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Jul 12, 2017 09:36
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In terms of sheer volume of bad things happening, absolutely. I can't say there is any one event that can top that in of itself though.
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Jul 12, 2017 18:16
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CMD598 posted:Didn't even get off until I had slg the last day. Didn't realize you were out here. This happens pretty much every time we bring a strike group to India so I can't fault the ship too much. Doesn't make it suck any less. I have at least one Sailor who didn't make it off either.
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Jul 13, 2017 20:06
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CMD598 posted:Given its showing so far, it's just too unsurprising for me to not assume it played a part. Nearly all the issues were caused by one of two things: Indians not having services in place when we arrived, and having to anchor so far offshore (in waters that are known to be rough, combined with some intermittently sketchy weather). The ship has no control over any of that. Also, you really can't compare FDNF anything to stateside. Completely different OPTEMPO and way of doing business. Also don't forget you are on the oldest aircraft carrier in the entire Navy. I'm down for being critical where it's warranted but it really isn't in this case.
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Jul 14, 2017 07:20
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orange juche posted:Wait, you went from oldest ship in the navy to the oldest ship in the navy? Wow you got hosed. My first deployment was on the JFK. I've also cruised on GW and Stennis. Never the Enterprise though. JFK was pretty fuggin' old and not a nuke.
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Jul 14, 2017 10:35
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Anita Dickinme posted:I definitely lost some hearing running holdback on those F35s for a month straight back in August. Hook me up with them bluetooth hearing aids. They didn't give you special ear pro for that?
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Jul 16, 2017 07:53
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I know that was a dumb question. FWIW developing new ear pro for flight deck personnel and the LSOs was supposed to happen. But I guess box of earplugs it is!
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Jul 16, 2017 17:33
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THey tell me I need to rebaseline my audiogram. I have no idea wtf that means other than it sounds like they are trying to cheat me out disability. Someone please explain.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:09
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Vriess definitely wins the battle of worst India visit. I guess maybe we did learn a few things from that experience. I know they treated the water onboard and to my knowledge the cases of GE are limited to those who did dumb things like drink water in town. We only had one night where Sailors were forced to sleep on the pier. The real kick in the balls was when we dropped anchor on day 1 and then realized we didn't have a single service ready (thanks India!) whereupon we weighed anchor and drove further out to get away from the shitwater. His description of the place is highly accurate though. The first night I went out I saw a dude sleeping naked on the sidewalk. The only place I've seen that had more out and out poverty was Djibouti. The Indian officers I met all pretty much told me in their polite Indian way that they thought Chennai sucked as well.
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Jul 19, 2017 09:45
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I'm an aviator and I would take orders to a USNS ship in a heartbeat. That's all you need to now.
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Jul 25, 2017 14:21
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LordNad posted:This man does not speak for VP aviation. Nor would I want to.
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Jul 25, 2017 21:29
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Yes ignore all the ports that aren't India and doing actual fun flying so you can brag about getting per diem while you deploy.
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Jul 30, 2017 06:06
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Geizkragen posted:All this SWO bonus talk just made something apparent to me: for all the poo poo talking about swo-life, it might suck more to be an aviator now. I don't think it sucks more. I think whats driving it is the much lower O4 selection rates combined with the borderline insane rate at which airlines are hiring right now. If those two things weren't a thing, I think VFA aviators would find their lives much more palatable. There is one thing on which SWOS have an advantage on in the detailing of officers and that is the fact that woe unto any aviator that steps as much as a toe off "the path." I did and and it screwed me. SWOs don't seem to be nearly as rigid about what you do on your shore tour as long you don't completely fong it away. Granted their career timing is slightly different than ours since we spend a 2-3 years getting trained before we set foot in a fleet squadron and that does matter.
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Aug 13, 2017 14:02
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ManMythLegend posted:Yep, this checks out. It's good to see the LCS program hasn't changed. Seconding all this. Not a SWO but its good general advice. Leave yourself as many options as possible. Futureproofing yourself makes a lot of sense.
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Aug 14, 2017 10:12
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FrozenVent posted:Why the heck is the navy having the same people stand OOW/OOD and EOW? Because generally speaking they want the officers to be generalists not specialists. Its a redundancy thing.
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Aug 17, 2017 06:23
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Coincidentally I just finished reading "No Higher Honor" which if you don't know is the story of the Samuel B. Roberts mine strike in the Persian Gulf. The LoD report really reminds me of the story of the DC efforts on that ship. Both teams saved a situation that was very much in doubt. You done good. I know it sucks to lose shipmates, I've lost my fair share along the way. But you certainly have nothing to hang your head over. And don't worry about the dick thing, eventually we'll get around to making fun of you for being a girl  We've had lady posters in the past, its seriously no big deal. This is a pretty chill group.
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Aug 19, 2017 14:25
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McNally posted:I wonder if that admiral wants to change his answer. Nah standard play here is to double down on your previous answer. Oh, I'm sure they'll mandate an "operational pause" or other such nonsense. But they won't admit there are serious, systemic issues in the surface navy. vulturesrow fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Aug 21, 2017 |
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Aug 21, 2017 05:44
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ManMythLegend posted:Yeah, I think that DESRON 15 is going to pay for this one too. Agreed.
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Aug 21, 2017 06:23
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ManMythLegend posted:Being a sitting C7F CO during the poo poo show that has been 2017 has been a very interesting perspective. Granted I'm not in the big boys club in Yokosuka, but I've got my sources and methods. I've got my own view and opinions on that root cause of this rash of tragedies is, but I'll wait until I'm past and opening on this tour and the dust has settled on these investigations before I open up about it. That said, I don't think OPTEMPO is really as big a factor as you guys are thinking. All friendly aviator vs SWO joking aside, I think this is a sign of SWO culture catching up with itself combined with the onerous demands placed on a ship's crew from above that have nothing to do with getting better at driving or fighting a ship. I think the other issue is the is so little time is given to ships between deployments to actually just go out and train. In this respect I sort of agree with you in that its not an OPTEMPO issue really because as an FDNF you are still out there doing the the thing and if you are doing the thing, you should get more proficient at it in theory. Aviation had its own issues in this regard which was the genesis of the NATOPS program followed by CRM (ORM for aviators). We were crashing the poo poo out of airplanes until we got serious about standardization and safety and the class A mishap rates plummeted within a relatively short amount of time.
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Aug 21, 2017 10:01
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vulturesrow posted:Nah standard play here is to double down on your previous answer. Oh, I'm sure they'll mandate an "operational pause" or other such nonsense. But they won't admit there are serious, systemic issues in the surface navy. Nailed it. 
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Aug 22, 2017 14:51
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ManMythLegend posted:From what can see coming down the pike I wouldn't be so fast to say the won't be some major changes to the SWO community. Stand by for heavy rolls I think. I'm not sure if it will be enough to address all of the issues though. Yeah I was more referring to the operational pause piece, which really wasn't that hard of a prediction tbh. I hope you are right because I want it to be better for all my SWO buddies, especially the ones that are trying to make things better, but I'm certainly not holding my breath.
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Aug 22, 2017 15:10
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M_Gargantua posted:My suggestion. Grab a bunch of submarine O-3 who have no preconceptions about what surface life is supposed to be like, have them spend a week on a ship, observing watchstanding and auditing maintenance & paperwork, and write up reports on what they saw. That outside persepextive will notice some critical flaws. I'd guarantee it. Identify those flaws then a few months later come back and use the same system to go shop by ship and retrain and audit. Id almost rather leave the SWO Navy the way it is rather than turn them into a bunch of submariners.
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Aug 22, 2017 22:28
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Boon posted:[Citation needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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Aug 23, 2017 00:27
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Mr. Nice! posted:Why is it crazy? AIS is cool and all but it isn't everything. No vessel is losing track of a warship just because they aren't broadcasting AIS. There are armed gunners to deal with suicide boats. Anyone driving a ship around them in the strait shouldn't be paying attention to AIS over looking at the ships on the water anyways. Insane might be a little hyperbolic but he has a point. Why not broadcast your AIS in that scenario? You literally lose nothing by broadcasting AIS in a strait transit.
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Aug 24, 2017 00:41
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buttplug posted:False. Depending on the AOR, ships *do* broadcast AIS, especially when under restricted maneuvering. When I was in FDNF we'd flip it on when entering TSS or entering a foreign port. Yeah this was already nitpicked to death.
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Aug 24, 2017 01:05
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Stultus Maximus posted:Harbor pilots always dock warships and control the tugs, therefore no naval officer ever gets practice doing it alone. My buddies that did frigate tours said they docked alongside without tugs. Granted, it's a frigate but still. Also, speaking of frigates, a tiny bit of inside baseball I got today would seem to indicate that reactivating some frigates is all but a done deal. Also, maybe its just me but it seems like some of our SWO brethren are being a little too defensive about perfectly legitimate points that Frozen Vent is making...
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Aug 24, 2017 01:49
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PneumonicBook posted:loving lol. Do they plan on modernizing them at all or are we sending out some more uyk-7/43 ships? And who's manning them? I don't know the answers to those questions. That all said, I'd like to ride one and I'm an Air Wing guy. All my SWO buddies that did frigate time loved it though.
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Aug 24, 2017 11:48
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FrozenVent posted:Had the rudder and it's supporting arrangement been properly designed? Dude, first off let me tell you that I do appreciate your perspective and I think you've raised some good points in this discussion. And I have been beating the drum about sleep deprivation in the Surface Community for a while now but unfortunately my drum is not very big. THAT all said, a merchant ship is not a loving warship. Do I think that the surface Navy could stand to adopt some best practices from civilian maritime world, absolutely. But there is a lot more going on a warship than on a merchant. That doesn't excuse the sleep deprivation problems at all. But its sort of disingenuous to go "oh merchant ships can do it, why cant the US Navy?"
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Aug 24, 2017 12:25
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"those things happen!"
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The Valley Stared posted:Destroyers have a lot of redundancies for steering, but it comes down to if the systems up and were the right people in the right spaces to make use of the redundancies. Right now we don't know, and we probably won't for a while. NPS has an entire website devoted to circadian based watch rotations. One thing it says is that 5 and dimes are the absolute worst watch rotation and that if you are going to do circadian you have to commit to it fully. It also says you should not rotate often. Your body needs time to acclimate to the cycle. Changing the rotation every week defeats the whole purpose of doing a circadian watch rotation.
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Aug 24, 2017 13:14
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LordNad posted:Jesus christ how bad is your maintenance when 3/4 (71!) of your jets aren't "airworthy" Old airplanes, flown constantly, contract maintenance not funded to a proper number of maintainers...
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Aug 26, 2017 05:37
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LordNad posted:Ah I see the problem now I'm not sure what you are trying to say here?
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Aug 26, 2017 09:46
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LordNad posted:Exactly what babyeatingpsychopath said. P-3s are older and flown constantly. Hell we had a wing structural problem fleet wide for awhile. Underfunded and contract maintenance though? That explains it. I think you are underestimating both how often these aircraft are flown and the type of flying. That leads to a much tougher maintenance problem. IT seems as if you are trying to handwave away the signficance of those factors. Also the number you cited wasn't just down aircraft, they didn't have enough pilots either. So you've never been in a situation where 1/3-1/2 of a P3 squadron's complement was down for maintenance?
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