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I am taking notes thanks. I got a lot a stuff on my plate though. Getting the witness statement may be difficult. Also I got a side gig! I applied to be a worker-driver for the bus driver program and I start my CDL training next month. Vroom-vroom!
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gently caress yeah my unit approved me going back to fleetweek. Hoping to bring my wife with me this time to help fend off all the NYC cougars.
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Feb 28, 2024 02:03
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Took my chiefs exam and I was actually quite surprised that the test felt like it was 40% IT, 40%crypto,15%publication memory and barely if even 5% radio questions. Big difference from last year. Totally stupid test for reservists ultimately. Had like 30 CANES question s. I could count on my dick how many reservists I’ve heard of being sent to a platform with it. I don’t believe they actually ask reservist IT what they do and just copy the active duty test, which would be fine if we actually ever supported them on ships.
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Feb 28, 2024 15:02
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Nick Soapdish posted:Fleet Week is gonna be very interesting for you if you're going through season during it 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. I’ve been an E6 for over 4 years now and in the reserves for 9 years. I’m pretty ok with being a decent E6 reservist whenever I show up. Would be funny if they actually had questions on setting up your commands print queues or connecting nmci computers to the wireless or DTS or anything at all to reserve work.
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Feb 28, 2024 17:12
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If I make it the fun is over…. Noooooo.
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Feb 28, 2024 23:24
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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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Feb 28, 2024 23:30
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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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Feb 28, 2024 23:49
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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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Mar 1, 2024 00:10
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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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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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Nystral posted:Da fuq is a warrior sailor? Dunno whatsa warrior-sailor with you?
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A chief told my fire fighting e5 buddy paper work is being shuffled around and it looks like he may be getting a Nam after all.
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Mar 11, 2024 21:11
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Mr. Nice! posted:It's not a Navy & Marine Corps Medal, but a NAM is still good nevertheless. Glad he got something out of it. I did not submit myself in anyway. It would have to take the submarines command noticing my mil email below my civ email to do anything and I purposely omitted that detail in my letter and talk to the CO because I got plenty of good navy karma.
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Mar 11, 2024 22:29
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:DUI or hosed a Crew Member, get your votes in now! Not sure what’s worse for different reasons.
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https://imgur.com/a/YRg1rJG Without a doubt the best feeling thing I’ve done for another sailor.
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Mar 21, 2024 23:03
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King of Bees posted:You're doing this all wrong crab dad. You rise to master chief on the wings of the blue falcon. You should've put yourself in for a bronze star w valor and just told the guy you routed his paperwork and it's held up somewhere in the chain. That's the kind of moxie senior leadership knows and respects. How do you know that’s not my next step? J/K however I am forwarding the original letter and outcome to my chain of command now. I was terrified that the sailor might not be recognized and I would be and I would have felt like a heel. But now that he got the best result possible I’ll look to myself now. Solid LOA material for me to add to the stack!
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Elviscat posted: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. Yeah he awarded roughly 40 NAM’s to the crew and today he is handing over the ship to his replacement. The crew seemed to really like him. See what happens with the new CO. Also the mahu story is used as an example for me telling younger sailors to never trust other sailors with information you can just google first.
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Mar 22, 2024 16:12
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Speaking of… I doubt I passed but I should start getting my package together… Anyone want to mentor me in putting that together? I don’t really have a chief in my unit currently.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Where is dustynuts when we need him? Oh no poo poo didn’t realize he was a NCC.
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For the record I know how to “make chief” what I don’t know is how to present a package of what is relevant and to who.
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Anathematic posted:"Holy poo poo, a COM? What the gently caress, did you walk into a burning building and rescue people or some poo poo like that?!?" Active duty command might actually award their sailors better at this point. My command received the info and it’s potentially withering on the vine. Oh well. Never gonna pass the chiefs exam anyways.
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Apr 9, 2024 00:14
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FrozenVent posted:Motherfucker you better make chief on the first try, you have a reputation to uphold. I tested a year early and failed by 1% last year. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Apr 9, 2024 01:41
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Funny story. The last two printers I “fixed” in PSNS and Camp Smith involved the same issue. Stuck paper so the engineer/officer ripped it out and managed to make the return rollers in the tray dislodge and both times they rolled under the desk. Now the printers rollers won’t feed straight. I knew what the problem was right away and discreetly found the rollers and slapped the machine a few times, inserted the rollers back in and abra cadabra I impressed a nuclear engineer team. Kinda scary.
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Apr 9, 2024 18:34
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gently caress. gently caress. gently caress. IT1, Congratulations on your selection to Chief! Cycle 114 Reserve SBE results… Crabdad ITC
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Nick Soapdish posted:From talking to folks, isn't it just board eligible out today not results? Yes you are correct. However my records are in order and I’ve done an awful lot of extra stuff that’s there.
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Apr 15, 2024 19:11
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orange juche posted:Crab Dad going to somehow find himself appointed CNO through a series of unfortunate events Having to get summer whites is going to financial break me right now. They better have the 0 interest rate star card offer still going on. I got an appointment with my NRC CMC to review my package before it gets submitted and another chief will hit it up first just in case.
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Cerekk posted:Congrats on making board but only ~30% of board eligible get selected for CPO so maybe hold off on taking out a line of credit until you're sure you need it Oh I ain’t buying poo poo until I pass board but my record is very strong so things are looking bad for me being a skater anymore.
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Apr 15, 2024 22:44
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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’d sooner get it tattooed on my rear end than spoil my Tacoma.
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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. Ohhh yes sorry about the confusion. The bottom of my initial post was the actual email about just being board eligible but my CO jumped the gun a little early.
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:I'm related news, once again I didn't make board The testing process is awful but the reserves are a special beast all by themselves. I don’t need to be the best I just got to be less awful than the rest. Active duty has to really be good in most rates it seems to get ahead. Good luck.
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PneumonicBook posted:It just depends on the test and how relevant it is to you that year tbh as far as ad. The first time I wa sup for first I studied my rear end off, used the bibs, etc. We were on deployment so what else was I going to do? Got like a 43 or something, next time I didn't study at all and got a high 80s and made first by like 30 points. Almost all radio and CANES questions. Two things I have never worked with in person as I have never served on a proper warship. Not a single printer question! Unfair! However I noticed something kinda of funny on quite a few of the questions. They appeared to do the ol “one answer was so wrong it blatant” like a radio answer in a network question. Once I saw that I swear it noticed it a ton so my guesses with stuff at least was bit less random on stuff that really stumped me.
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M_Gargantua posted:Do they still do that thing where they make you go through everything, "Pin" you, but your pay doesn't start at the new grade until like 4-6 months after your promotion? You need to get paid for it to count toward retirement. I believe so. However I’ll get around that by buying back my military time since I’m a GS11 and I got 15 years till I can retire. No way my mil rank will ever earn me more than what I should end my civ career as.
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MarcusSA posted:So drat you are like a captain. I’m a IT specialist who assigns projects to a team of contractors while not actually supervising them. I’m a glorified cat herder who can’t even smack his cats.
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lightpole posted:You back in HON anytime in the next 42 days? Nah I only got NYC on my plate at the end of May.
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A little birdy told me they putting me in for something before board package deadline for my Girl Scout cookie delivery kitchen fire adventures. >.< at least I hope they don’t actually write it up like that but beggars can’t be choosers
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Apr 18, 2024 23:24
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Welp orders are official. I’ll be in lower manhattan May 20-28.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:A savant at the game. Eh I may have slightly outplayed myself because they requested I be acting LPO for the Staten Island tour site. However they promised to bump up my end of tour award and gave me my own hotel room. So we gotta ride over every morning and ride back but it’s not that big of deal. Still have easy access to Broadway and of course I’m arriving early to help with whatever they need.
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Elviscat posted:You get an EoT for spending a week in NYC? 
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AlternateNu posted:You have to drive to and from Staten Island from Midtown every day? No they got us a hotel near the ferry terminal in lower manhattan.
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Yeah it’s gonna suck if don’t make it to Broadway by theater time. Sigh.
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Nick Soapdish posted:LTB for Reservists is due 14 May, better get crackin' Crab Dad Meeting with my CMC on Friday to review. I’ve already made sure my evals and awards are all squared away.
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