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In that vein, somebody mentioned a while ago that they were impressed by the quality of mental health in 29, and I can confirm that they're still excellent. Sometimes there's a great dane service dog in the waiting room. I'm comparing my experiences with them with my experiences with the rest of Navy Med, though, and in that regard I've been off of full duty for an entire year and I still have to get a second CT scan of my hip before they'll decide if they're going to give me the labrum repair surgery that I need if I want my hip joint to stay in the socket when I walk.
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Internet Wizard posted:In that vein, somebody mentioned a while ago that they were impressed by the quality of mental health in 29, and I can confirm that they're still excellent. Sometimes there's a great dane service dog in the waiting room. That was me, and I'm glad to hear that. I hope your physical experiences are good. How long do you think you'll be there?
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PathAsc posted:That was me, and I'm glad to hear that. I hope your physical experiences are good. How long do you think you'll be there? At 29? I EAS in July. Considering looking in to seeing if the Army is accepting prior-enlisted in my field, but it's going to depend on whether I have a working hip or not.
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Internet Wizard posted:At 29? I EAS in July. Considering looking in to seeing if the Army is accepting prior-enlisted in my field, but it's going to depend on whether I have a working hip or not. gotcha, I'm planning to go out there sometime after February. Can't imagine how much fun a hosed up hip is. What happened? I don't recall reading it here.
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I have a cam deformity in my right hip and probably also my left, so the head of my femur isn't perfectly round. Whenever I flex my hips the soft tissue holding the joint together gets squeezed and has started getting torn up. If I don't get treatment for it, it'll eventually lead to osteoarthritis, and even with a repair surgery now I'll probably need one or both of my hips replaced before my 30s are over, depending on my lifestyle. The way it presents now, I have limited range of motion, and if I run for more than a half mile or so it starts aching pretty badly. When I do squats there's a sharp pain in the joint if I go below parallel (the only way to do it, I'm a man of principal). Also if I have a pack on my hip pops mid-stride, and a couple of times a day I have to pop the joint like a giant knuckle. I had a friend who had a similar issue and got the same surgery I need, and they're on the 15 MEU now so recovery can be pretty close to full function. I just need them to actually get around to approving it.
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Internet Wizard posted:I have a cam deformity in my right hip and probably also my left, so the head of my femur isn't perfectly round. Whenever I flex my hips the soft tissue holding the joint together gets squeezed and has started getting torn up. If I don't get treatment for it, it'll eventually lead to osteoarthritis, and even with a repair surgery now I'll probably need one or both of my hips replaced before my 30s are over, depending on my lifestyle. Fucks sake, I'd say "what's the holdup" but I already know. Hopefully they push it soon.
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Light duty in October, limdu in April, MRI in April, first appointment with ortho surgeon in June, first appointment with hip specialist surgeon in September, CT scan done here in September but it was the wrong kind of scan so I have to go to Balboa for another one this week, and then the surgeon will decide if he’s going to operate.
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Oct 14, 2017 20:50
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I remember that I got a phone call months after a PCS to start some process near the last station. That was funny. The appointment mail got there two weeks later. Good show.
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I'm also broke brain as I would rather go back to 29 than end up extended here at lejeune
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Lejeune is a loving shitpile and I'm glad I was only physically there ~8 months
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One of my better memories was when I was TDA in 29 palms for a month. Got left alone on weekends and enjoyed Joshua tree national park.
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     Just got back. Figured I'd share a few shots just to give you guys some palpable realism of how much it loving sucks to be in.
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Oct 17, 2017 21:36
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yeah but at least you're a pilot right
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:yeah but at least you're a pilot right yeah, but notice that last shot from the LCU? not even we can avoid all the poo poo
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You’re the pilot that was out here last fall right? If so, Bob A Feet once had the chance to crash his bird and kill me, so I guess some nobles aren’t the worst 
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drat, y'all could have been known as the cool Marines
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Pilots on MEU are high maintenance drama queens. However, Osprey guys on the big deck get worked like dogs. They fly those things almost non stop for the entire deployment. Every day they fly to all of the ships in the ARG ferrying Lts around for planning conferences and LCpls who lost ID cards. They work during ops too but so does everyone else. It's the times when the rest of the MEU is loving off that Ospreys are still flying day and night.
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Man I've got this bad headache but I'm not allowed to buy motrin
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Headaches are cured by changing your socks and drinking water debbel doughnut
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If there's a DXM problem on post then I get cough syrup being banned, but restricting all OTC is one of those retarded noble decisions
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Some dude probably ended up in the base ER from tripping too hard and it’s the knee jerk reaction
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Yeah we pulled like 38 bottles of Robitussin out of a Marine's rack during our last patrol. I thought they kept track of how much of that medicine people buy specifically because idiots like to robo trip for some reason. Not justifying the knee jerk reaction but having spent this long around the military, I am not surprised at all.
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A major died choking on his sandwich while huffing dust-off during my first deployment.
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I LOVE COCK SALAD posted:A major died choking on his sandwich while huffing dust-off during my first deployment. I know a colonel died doing that the year before I deployed. Allegedly another one (or at least another field grade officer) died while I was deployed huffing that stuff and so they banned the sale of it to anyone E4 and below.
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McNally posted:I know a colonel died doing that the year before I deployed. Allegedly another one (or at least another field grade officer) died while I was deployed huffing that stuff and so they banned the sale of it to anyone E4 and below. Maybe it was a col
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Pilots are high maintenance drama queens. Fixed. I highly regret not going flight contract, or better yet, joining the army as a WO Heli pilot. poo poo like this is half the reason I don't get a long with a lot of my fellow officers. I guarantee the person who did this is the kind of person who complains every day about the over reaction culture in the Marine Corps... TheArmorOfContempt fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Just finished my final re enlistment package. I have two years and change before I can collect a retirement check. I am mostly just bumping this thread because I don't have any friends to share my unexciting news with.
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two years until every conversation begins with WELL WHEN I WAS A MARINE
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OORAGH GUNNY HEKK
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No shame in going for that check. All money is good money.
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Just finished my final re enlistment package. I have two years and change before I can collect a retirement check. How many of your fellow SNCOs know you are a deviant who spends time on this forum?
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Uroboros posted:How many of your fellow SNCOs know you are a deviant who spends time on this forum? I've never told anyone I work with that SA is a thing or that I am a member. Keeping my work life separate from my personal life is one of the ways I've managed to stay sane long enough to make it this close to retirement.
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I’m the ACE embark officer and I try not be a poo poo bag gunny, honest, I just don’t know what I’m doing. Can you tell all your friends
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Bob A Feet posted:I’m the ACE embark officer and I try not be a poo poo bag gunny, honest, I just don’t know what I’m doing. Can you tell all your friends You should have a SNCO 04 type that does all the day to day poo poo. He should have embarkers that work in your S-4. No one honestly expects you to do anything more than longer range big blue arrow type planning and agree with whatever your gunny or ssgt says about executing the plan. If the execution keeps getting hosed up you are either not listening to your log chief or he is bad at his job and should be replaced with someone who is less bad. Hekk fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:I've never told anyone I work with that SA is a thing or that I am a member. Keeping my work life separate from my personal life is one of the ways I've managed to stay sane long enough to make it this close to retirement. give your account to a young boot on your way out the door
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I'm trying to lat move into intel. Tried to go 0211 but didn't pass the board because I wouldn't be a good fit. They strongly suggested I look at 0231 or 0241 instead and I'm just wondering if anyone could clue me in to the differences in the two? I'm going to talk to a PSR on Friday but I'd rather get a first hand perspective if I can over whatever smoke he's going to blow my way.
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DaNerd posted:I'm trying to lat move into intel. Tried to go 0211 but didn't pass the board because I wouldn't be a good fit. They strongly suggested I look at 0231 or 0241 instead and I'm just wondering if anyone could clue me in to the differences in the two? I'm going to talk to a PSR on Friday but I'd rather get a first hand perspective if I can over whatever smoke he's going to blow my way. I am no expert on intel stuff but I've been around long enough to see all of these guys. As best I know it: 0211- HUMINT Specialist - These dudes love to travel ahead of the MEU to foreign ports a week prior to the ship and pretend like they are super badass spies in tucked in polo shirts and moto haircuts. They will read all of the security threat information the US Consulate gives them like they went undercover and discovered all of the info themselves. I am sure they do more poo poo than this but I see the same 6 dudes over and over looking goofy as poo poo in their cheap rear end wrinkled khakis and tucked in underarmour polo shirts pretending they are way more important than they are. 0231- Intel Specialist - Depending on the unit, these guys read a lot of stuff on the high side that gets compiled into daily briefings. On the MEU they usually pair up with the blue side intel guys to give powerpoint presentation showing current events in the area of the world we are operating in. Deployed with an infantry bn they analyze some intel gathered by the company intel cells and provide daily briefings to the Bn Commander and his staff. They'll reach back to higher and push up trends and contact reports so they can compile data into larger reports. During the surge there were massive bonuses for intel guys because everyone was getting out and getting paid twice as much to deploy as an intel contractor. This led to hilarious things like an O-3 Intel Officer making less money than his Corporals. 0241- Imagery Analysis Specialist- You might get one of these guys in an infantry bn but they are usually with units that can capture imagery or sitting at a higher level. They look at pictures and try to process the information to assist with all kinds of intel. This can be everything from spending days pouring through satellite imagery to update national databases to scanning through recon photographs aircraft took before a raid somewhere.
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0231s are the guys you think of when you hear intel analyst. They compile a lot of Secret level stuff into briefs and reports and whatnot. Sometimes they’ll work with TS stuff at the high side but that’s usually stuff the collectors work with instead. Promotions are fast but I dunno what kind of civilian jobs there are. You’ll have a TS so that’ll help, but the NSA won’t want you, the CIA or FBI might I dunno. 0241s are imagery analysts so you’ll spend a lot of time watching drone footage and satellite imagery.
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