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The CO of the Antietam was my first CO. We called him Explosive Joseph. I would have payed good money to see his reaction when this happened.
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So I woke up this morning to find out that my last ship lost someone over the side. https://www.navytimes.com/articles/cruiser-normandy-sailor-reported-overboard-near-north-carolina-massive-search-underway They're still at River City. I've been on shore duty less than a year, so it's almost certainly someone I know.
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http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20170608/coast-guard-navy-searching-for-sailor-from-ri-who-went-overboard It's one of my guys. 
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Now make warfare pins voluntary, too, and we get to actually select people who genuinely give a care. So within a month of me getting back to Great Lakes to instruct, a bunch of senior E-6s left the command, so the percentage of MTS qualified instructors dropped like a stone. The Chiefs knee-jerked into mandatory after work MTS training Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The best part is that they have a policy that you aren't even eligible to board for MTS until you've been at the command for 6 months. Because of course. Edit: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=100975 They called it. Mr. Bad Guy fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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Great Lakes is under water right now. By some miracle our place didn't flood, but we're like the 1 in 4 that can say that. Cars floating away, classes being canceled. Good stuff.
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Jul 12, 2017 16:42
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Hey guys remember that Transgenders in the Military training we had to do a few months ago? edit: Lol I always forget about my red text.
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Jul 26, 2017 17:30
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Aug 21, 2017 02:50
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LordNad posted:I'm going to hope they are found alive. Not to be... I don't know, pessimistic, but I remember be confused at how 7 sailors could be missing on the Fitz just from a collision, then being horrified when we found out it was because they were still on the ship, in the flooded birthing. I really really loving hope that this isn't the case again, but like Apraxin said, this is looking like a near-exact repeat. Kind of sick to my stomach.
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At quarters yesterday they told us to stand by to lose a training day because of a potential safety stand-down about the JCS. I'm an instructor in Great Mistakes. 
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LingcodKilla posted:Oooh got any stories about the current crop? Had a kid in the 3M lab, where we teach them how to run tags. There's a station with lights and valves and we assign you one to tag out. If one of the lights is out, well, that's the one you need to tag out. This dude sees the light out and just starts flipping breakers like they are light switches. Set the land speed record for getting sent to Chiefs office to get yelled at.
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PneumonicBook posted:Oh? FC. I've only been here a year, so I doubt we crossed paths.
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Basically the same story as the Fitz. http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=102156
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Driving home from Walmart in Great Lakes, saw a dude on the street corner with a cardboard sign. He was wearing an army digi blouse and his sign said : "Homeless veteran. USS Patriot DD-214" What. My wife won't let me drive back to get a pic.
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Oh, I know, the reason I couldn't get a picture is that I was googling that poo poo at the red light.
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Omfg if I get called to the Chiefs' office and told not to make jokes about dolphin rape in front of the students one more loving time I swear to god, it was like nine months ago, and all I said was that it's racist to assume that all dolphins are rapists. They students were having their own conversation about dolphin rape that I interjected moderation into and I'm never going to hear the loving end of it.
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Gifs don't automatically load when I'm browsing on my phone. I just get a gray square that says gif, and I have to manually tell it to play. I was 100% certain what this gif was going to be when I clicked it.
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What's this poo poo about going AECF and choosing ET or FC? Is that like having the new guy clean the launch window?
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My bootcamp division was like 80% AECF, and about 2/3 through our redropes came in and rattled off all of our names and told us if we were going to be ET or FC, the end.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Anyone remember a gaming bookstore right outside the Great Lakes base? Looking at some maps, it seems that there's been some big changes to the landscape, but that place was like Nerd heaven while I was in A School. The NEX on TSC side has a pretty legit nerd setup now. Comics, MTG, a pretty nice electronics section. Also for the soon to be booters, no you do not love that girl you met in boot or A school. Oh, she hates marching in the snow too? Golly, you too have so much in common, must be true love. Yeesh. You just went through the same traumatic(lol) experience. You have mutual Stockholm syndrome, it will pass. I loving hate students.
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Hurr durr guy we don't have to go to work on Monday, right? Because we're not getting payed, hurr durr?
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LogicalFallacy posted:Alright. Headed to Chicago tomorrow. Hopefully I don't die or piss off my RDCs. Make an effort to learn your RDCs rates and address them by their rates as opposed to "Petty Officer", they will be impressed.
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As of 0645 this morning I'm clocking volunteer hours for my next eval, lol!
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I'm the guy at the commissary trying to self-checkout $30 worth of 79 cent microwave dinners because my ASF shift starts today. Good evening sir, welcome aboard Naval Station Great Lakes, the Quarterdeck of the Navy. edit: I just realized I'm actually looking forward to going on shift because my wife's mother has been staying with us for almost a month and honestly you guys I think one of us is not leaving Illinois alive. Mr. Bad Guy fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Feb 11, 2018 |
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I passed my final board for Master Training Specialist today so now I can tell people how important it is to get MTS and also chief stops bugging me. The only reason to get any qual ever. Passed my murder board on my dinq date lol #Tomahawkers
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So the Secretary of State just got fired... Countdown until Trump tries to fire Mattis and gets told "No."?
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ded posted:WHY ARE YOU loving DINK NUB??? GO GET ME A GOD DAMNED SWEET TEA YOU STUPID DINK NUB CRANK! Shipmate, swearing is not quality leadersh-BAHAHA FUCKIN GODDAMN HOW DO YOU EVEN GO DINK HOW LAZY ARE YOU YOU loving STUPID gently caress HAHAHA
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Well apparently people get all in a tizzy if you allegedly disassemble your M9 on watch because you're bored. loving students running their mouths. Wish me luck!
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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. Seriously though, I know I hosed up. I can only hope that an otherwise clean record and a willingness to own up and take my licks gets me some leniency. Maybe they'll be impressed by how quickly I can disassemble and reassemble a pistol?
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A couple of points, since there's a lot of discussion going on about it: This happened in Great Lakes, where I am an FC A school instructor. The gates are manned by a combination of MAs, civilian Guards, and ASF (Auxiliary Security Force) which is what I was. The security forces here have been comically undermanned for a very long time, so they started putting students awaiting orders through the command's version of SRF-B and putting them on the gates with us. It was one of these students, a fellow watch stander, who casual conversation at the clearing barrel was overheard by the next shift's Watch Commander, a civilian. Things were pretty much on auto-pilot from there. They had the kid sign an official statement, scaring the piss out of him in the process. I'm not about to play "he said, she said" with a junior sailor who did the right thing when I hosed around, so I when they asked me if I wanted to make a statement, I owned up. So we'll see. DownByTheWooter posted:honestly I hope dude's command is chill about all this Elendil004 posted:Yeah it's fun to dogpile the guy and he certainly didn't show great thinking ability, but this could be solved with a removal of weapons quals and some extra duty helping the GMs or firearms instructors teach weapons safety and associated rules/regs. I really appreciate the encouragement. I've been freaking out pretty bad the last few days as I wait to hear how this is going to play out. Nick Soapdish posted:Depending on marital status, my GiP xlsx is out of date (nonexistant), I could see 45/45 with both pay and reduction suspended. Crossing my fingers and doing my R checks on my knee-pads. Mrs. Bad Guy gotsta get payed. krispykremessuck posted:Comedy option: KetTarma e-mails the thread to the Command, gets referred to NCIS and he ends up processed for a General after NCIS refers his finger loving of his M9 PDW to a summary court martial as criminal negligence.
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My DRB was today. I'm going up, but the base CMC remanded it to my Schoolhouse CoC, which is... a good thing? I've never even met the CO of the base, that would have been a poo poo show for sure (not that today wasn't.) Then I got to spent three hours at dental. So I'm drinking tonight. Hooyah.
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After my DRB (and three hours of dental work) I went home and slept for 14 hours. When I woke up my wife had thrown away all of our pain medication because she thought (probably correctly) that I was coming down with the sadbrains. I laughed and told her that I wasn't bitch-made, it was gonna be my safety razor if it ever came to that. So then she threw that away and now I have to use a loving Gillette. I'm gonna point to that as the last straw in my suicide note just to gently caress with her, lol. I am not going to kill myself, I wouldn't do that to my kids.
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Just got out of mast. Suspended bust, extra duty, half months pay x2 which my wife will take out of my rear end. Best case scenario, is what everyone is telling me. 
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Reduction in rank to E-5, suspended for 6 months. So I'm still an E-6, but I have to walk on eggshells for 6 months.
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The underlying issue will be addressed in about 18 months when I get the gently caress out of Great Lakes. For real though, this was a singular moment of complacent stupidity, my head is on straight.
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LingcodKilla posted:While I have faith in sailors to gently caress poo poo up I’m rooting for you due to your honesty about how dumb you are. #Tomahawkers
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One of our FC A school students got their smoke deck secured by offering his vape to a female to try the flavor, but neglected to mention that his juice was 50mg. She had a seizure right there. There's talk about getting him court marshalled lmao.
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orange juche posted:considering a lethal dose in humans is 40-60mg, a seizure and then living is getting off easy. How in the gently caress was this dude able to take a drag on his vape without dying himself? As I've had to tell my class about a thousand times since the incident, I wasn't there, and neither were most of the people telling stories about it, so literally every single aspect of the story is up for debate, including the potency of the juice, whether or not he told her about it/she knew about it beforehand, whether it was a seizure vs. getting dizzy and falling down. I even told them that I could make up a clearly embellished version that only an idiot would believe, and that it would be making the rounds by Monday. I stopped just shy of giving an example because of course it would. loving students. At least when I do stupid poo poo is only affects
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Another was that there was a feud between the FCs and STGs over whether the book 100 Years of Solitude, or Cry the Beloved Country was better and that it had culminated in a fistfight. Man, my brain tells me that this is way too specific for anyone to believe, and yet after 9 years in the Navy I have no doubt that if I heard it, I would believe it.
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I love Memorial Day weekend. I love that somewhere, someone just found out they made rank and is going to go out and get stupid and go to mast and get busted down. DustyNuts posted:I'll just post this in every related thread This is amazing.
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Just submitted my reenlistment paperwork. Last month they upped the multiple for non-aegis FCs from 0.5 to 2. So yeah.
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