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Someone mentioned my name so here I am. I was an EMN1 that got out of the Navy after my extremely fun prototype tour. I was a full-time student and needed medical coverage so right back into the Navy I went. I did Reserves for 3 years then got bored and went IRR the minute my insurance kicked in for my adult job after college. Is the reserves a scam the Navy will use to get the last few drops of humanity out of me? -The Reserves, no offense meant to any USNR people here, feels like a scam that the Reserves plays on the government. I showed up to drill and did homework. I rarely ever did anything productive. I ended up becoming the personal computer repair guy for the unit once they figured out I knew how to do things. I got MPs every year despite not really doing anything. Will the reserves try to move me out of Norfolk? -No. Will it allow me to keep medical insurance? -You get the same healthcare that a military spouse gets. You don't get sick call How often can I expect to go underway/deploy? -Depends on what you do. When I was in, it was competitive to go on deployment. Like, people were fighting for mobilization slots. The thing about the Reserves is that it pays better than what a lot of people's real life jobs are so they want to do it as much as possible. If someone works as a cashier normally but is a BM2, they're going to want to do as much BM2 stuff as possible to make more money. I am currently an MMN how do they choose my rate? -Welcome to MM. Alright, here's my story. I joined the Reserves as a nuke EM1. They put me in a unit that is a cargo handling battalion. I show up and pretty much everyone there works in logistics of some sort handling freight. I'm asked if I know how to drive a forklift or operate a crane. My first AT I go to a school on how to load munitions for UNREP. Apparently I wasn't fully gained into that unit and have to actually apply for billets. I apply to and am accepted for a SURGEMAIN unit. I continue to drill with my old unit just hanging out. SURGEMAIN doesn't have any slots open for me to do AT during that match with my school schedule. I end up doing a two week AT to Norfolk shipyards as an EM1 to.... be on call as a firewatch. Keep in mind that I'm a 9 year EMN1 that's most of the way done with an electrical engineering degree. In my 2 weeks in Norfolk, I'm asked to watch 3 total jobs for a total of about 5 hours of sitting on a ship. The following year, I have decided that SURGEMAIN was dumb and transferred back to my old unit because we'd become friends. Somehow I end up as the ALPO and I just do administrative stuff. I realized that I was not staying in the Reserves so I said I didn't want to do an AT. No one really cared. Once I finished my degree and started grad school while working, sitting at the Reserves center for a weekend was just too much effort so I transferred to IRR and stopped showing up. Overall, the Reserves was a mildly entertaining way to keep health care and I would consider rejoining because cosplaying every month while chilling with a totally different group of people was alright. My unit had a firefighter, paralegal, bookstore owner, various college students, and a merchant marine sailor in it. It was an interesting collection of people.
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LingcodKilla posted:It’s not really that bad across the fleet right guys? The nuke plants on carriers and subs are littered with piss bottles. Usually people threw out their poo poo baggies though.
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Howard Phillips posted:That's awesome. Yeah I would love to go to SRF-Yoko for AT. Didn't know that SURGEMAIN was a good deal. What kind of support work did you guys do? Were you assigned work on your own or merged with uniformed or civilian maintenance people? I once got sent to NNSY shipyard for SURGEMAIN AT. They didn't have any work for me to do as an EMN1 because no one was expecting me. I got sent to the firewatch group. The firewatch group didn't have a lot going on so I sat at a picnic table for a few hours a day to see if anyone wanted anything then left. In the grand scheme of things, it was a pretty decent deal albeit extremely boring.
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Elendil004 posted:I think KetTarma has a story about getting a call from someone trying to report aboard a few thousand miles off course. I'm trying to recall this story but I seem to recall someone trying to report to the carrier after we executed a homeport change. Their orders said Bremerton but the ship was in Norfolk. It's just government money at least. As a C school instructor, lord knows we had some issues with students getting orders. It wasnt uncommon for people to get lost in limbo for months. We had a lot of floor waxing going on, to say the least.
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