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I wonder wtf Little Rock sailors are doing for their extended port visit. Montreal isn't cheap, they didn't bank on an extended stay, families in Mayport expected them weeks ago.
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LingcodKilla posted:Drinking? gently caress. Imagine if they were getting per diem for this (they are not getting per diem)
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Jan 23, 2018 22:50
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I know a LT at LCSRON 2. I should call her tomorrow if I remember. Will report back if I remember.
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Jan 23, 2018 22:52
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:In my defense I got told like a million times not to gently caress the students and I don't think I was ever specifically told not to take apart my M9 while on watch. When I was precomming New Orleans we had a topside rover disassemble his M4 on watch because " I have an AR-15 at home and do it all the time!" He was the source of immediate rear end pain for the rest of us. I was an in port ood and it was like every screw tightened up to the nth degree. Don't remember what his mast ended up as. Anyways, 16 months left til 20. Woot!
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Apr 19, 2018 00:45
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ded posted:Grats on your sweet O retirement cash. Naw, it's Chief pay so I'll use my resources to get a GS job doing nonsense and making it sound important.
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Apr 19, 2018 02:51
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Apr 20, 2018 21:18
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Fellow sailors just remember this quote and adjust accordingly. "Somewhere down near the lowest level of this coordinated organization I run are people who get the work done when it reaches them, and everything manages to run along smoothly without too much effort on my part. I suppose that's because I am a good executive. Nothing we do in this large department of ours is really very important, and there's never any rush. On the other hand, it is important that we let people know we do a great deal of it. Let me know if you find yourself shorthanded. I've already put in a requisition for two majors, four captains and sixteen lieutenants to give you a hand. While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it." Read Catch 22 at least once a year.
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Apr 20, 2018 22:46
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VA nominee admiral getting poo poo for handing out teddy bear packs. Amongst other things too but Lol.
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Apr 24, 2018 23:13
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Had he undergone suicide prevention training Lol
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Apr 25, 2018 20:39
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Godholio posted:That really is one of the best posts in the history of GIP. Maybe the internet. That and the marrying a JO post are wisdom. Fuckin nail on the head.
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Apr 26, 2018 23:13
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Yes, for us please ask for help. It's really taken seriously and is more of a good reflection on you than bad. The only time I've seen it weird was a guy lost his clearance and was made a BM and made Chief the next cycle because he was a badass to begin with. BMC is so much cooler than what he would've been.
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Apr 29, 2018 03:29
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On the tail end of the med board (PEB) process. If anyone has any questions about the process feel free to ask or PM. I'm in a small community with a year and change til 20 so I won't dox myself, but I'll answer as best I can.
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May 18, 2018 16:05
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Apparently, a retiring CMC friend told me this, if you're retiring from a med board you can request 75 instead of 50 pension since you could've technically gone all the way to 30 years. Looking into it and will update.
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Jun 15, 2018 00:15
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maffew buildings posted:He visits my station next week. I'm on leave. Sucks to suck for everyone else If he's even around next week. I know a guy who quit his staff and they asked a buddy of mine to fill that billet, they could probably hear the laughter all over Millington. I've never seen such a vapid AHC until I saw one of his, and that's saying something.
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Jun 16, 2018 21:43
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Welp. MCPON gone.
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Jun 21, 2018 23:26
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I'm just over my third back surgery, a pile of head issues and other crap. I just got approved for permanent limited duty to ride out my 20. Id probably be 200 percent VA if there was such a thing. What it all means is I retire next year with about 6-7k per month for the rest of my life. All I had to do was absolutely destroy myself.
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Jul 24, 2018 01:12
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vulturesrow posted:I also got a 0 percent for hearing loss. My wife was pretty stunned by that. I ended up with a 70 overall rating. Debating whether I want to go through the trouble of appealing the 0 percent I got for anxiety crap. I got a 0 as well for hearing loss, I guess the tests can't decipher my inability to decode speech if there's any background noise no matter how mild. So, I hear speech just fine, it's just a garbled mess and I'm forever saying, "what?". I did get 10 for tinnitus though. 
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Jul 24, 2018 13:01
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I think we just have Navy brain damage and everyone sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher, a coping mechanism from too many all hands calls.
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Jul 24, 2018 14:40
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vulturesrow posted:I went through in March at Warner Springs. Just warm enough in the day to soak your clothes with sweat and then as soon as the sun went down you were freezing. They actually pulled a guy out for a couple hours when we were in the camp phase because he was shivering so badly. Same except August. We were all shivering at camp until a ninja in our group disassembled the camp spigot and threw the pieces over the fence. Lol.
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Jul 30, 2018 10:37
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LingcodKilla posted:What did getting rid of the spigot do? What was the spigot to? I can't tell you, but there's one way to find out! 
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Major Minor posted:I’m going in a couple months, presumably to Warner. Can’t wait to spoon with my friends under the stars Friend of mine got a hot female pilot buddy. I got a recon marine. I had easy land nav, he had nice nights under the stars.
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Jul 31, 2018 00:49
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Sarah posted:The endodontist I worked for when I got out was a Captain. He only had one elbow (he lost part of his left ulna and some muscles after a motorcycle accident) and couldn't bend his left arm without pulling it up with his right first. Permanent limdu is a thing. I'm on it. I only do BCA and who gives a poo poo about that with the new policy. Not that I'm fat, but drat I could be so fat if I wanted to. As a chief I only got it because I'm close to 20 and out, but hell any actual important bperson could probably have it forever.
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Stultus Maximus posted:There are always waivers. My perm limdu was a granted request "to achieve 20 year mark" and retire normally after a med board found me unfit to deploy any more. It's a thing you can request when you have over 18 years and the med board puts you on the permanent disability retirement list. (I've been told you can also request 75 vice 50% pension because who's to say you couldn't have done the 30 years if the Navy hadn't hosed you up. So I'm researching that) For important people and specialists it's probably a duty status for the needs of the Navy and at that level no one gives a poo poo about your fitness.
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Aug 6, 2018 15:47
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I don't get this. Is it boot camp as a career?
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Aug 8, 2018 00:46
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maffew buildings posted:Just one more weekend of making a school kids do a car wash fundraiser and infidelity charge and I'm there Chief season is great.
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Aug 11, 2018 22:10
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My HQ in Norfolk just closed shop and flew the coop. Guess who now gets to track down and do daily muster for 75 people scattered all over the North East and Midwest now? This guy. Protip. If your command is in some sort of evac zone have a really solid EAP and evac locations, rosters and recalls already set up. Don't wait until the day before.
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Sep 11, 2018 18:35
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"I dunno XO, I think they're all dead. Welp, good luck up there, Ill be fishing this weekend. Let me know if you need anything else." *Turns off cell phone* 11 months until terminal leave!
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Lol. Yeah. Come to find my entire HQ who bugged me three years ago for my detachment evac plans for hurricanes never made one themselves. I made a bomb rear end plan. Since then I've done two hurricane evacs (my personal 5th and 6th) under them and dutifully report my AARs with suggestions for improvements. Those improvements were of course ignored because they had no plans at all. Lol.
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Sep 11, 2018 23:07
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Cerekk posted:Anybody find some brown NWU boots that work with wide-rear end feet? I normally wear a 4E and Belleville/Bates/Rocky all only go up to 2E. Did you try the Rocky 2E? Rocky's to me have always run wide to begin with. I wear the 2 comfortably but usually need a wider size in other brands.
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Sep 30, 2018 18:48
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Anyone know if Pensacola closed the base and evacuated?
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Feel free to ignore my recommendations. I have just been doing this long enough to have witnessed several folks get burnt. I am far too close to retirement to risk anything myself. Ditto. I'll let lose my general geographic location and that's about it. Thats like picking out a specific needle in a needle stack around here. Anyhoo, I just sent some folks to NSA Panama City early this morning. They're stuck in Tallahassee waiting for some roads to get better. I hope they packed a poo poo ton of spare tires, plugs and compressor. Lol, of course they didn't.
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Oct 11, 2018 18:56
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Get the keys and ditch him when you go to lunch. "Sorry dude, couldn't find you."
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 STAFF SPEAK ALERT!!!This new phrase has been spreading like e. coli through my upper chain: Slap the table. As in, "Once we have these spreadsheets done the CO can slap the table and we can get started" I've first heard it multiple times in a phone conference with the CMC a few weeks ago and have heard it or read it a billion times since from the rest of the staff. Every day is a struggle.
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Im so glad I only worked staff once and very early in my career. "What do you think senior, can we slap the table on this?" Me: starts projectile puking all over.
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Lou Takki posted:What the hell does slap the table even mean? Seems to mean finalize or finish something. It makes me irrationally angry. Or rationally I suppose.
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Loling while crying
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Oct 31, 2018 20:08
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I've known Bill for many years and can vouch that he means every word of that straight from his heart. The chief initiation seasons I've been in that he ran were hands down the best I'd ever seen and actually wished he'd have led mine.
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I hear ya. *writes a novel about my frustrations, deletes it* Hope he can get the buy in with the CMCs that aren't too far up their own asses. Dim hope.
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I don't think there's any secret to the egg division. If you can't take care of a dozen eggs (who don't lie, show up late, steal, beat or get beaten by their spouse, get arrested or friggin die on you) and their basic sailor needs like muster reports and evals, in addition to your other tasks that need managed, you are really going to struggle in your new role. Explaining to the mess why you can't take care of eggs is simple compared to explaining to the CO why your division is hosed up and his ship failed an inspection.
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A SOF Marine posted:The CO that told some guy to scrape the pirate stickers of their trucks has the best idea on how to unfuck, uh, “The Mess”. That was brilliant. That wank poo poo needs to be secured. The only other people who do that across the services are dependas.
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