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The reserves is fun. I get calls from Chiefs from different units wondering where the hell I've been for the past few months, and that I need evals and that my NOB 1 day eval isn't good enough. That sorta(???) gets figured out. Then saturday some IS1 is asking where I was and that I was transferred to IDC Southwest the day prior. Cool I totally knew that man. Find out my Senior Chief knows their Senior Chief and he has me in their unit for ~reasons~ and also I can't change EDM because their drill date already happened. So I get to call the magical RESPAY department and figure out what the gently caress is going on. Apparently when I came to my unit straight from A-School, some PS2 hosed up and threw me in the wrong unit, and my Senior Chief was "on it." YEAAAAAAAH reserve life. Also super cool of them to only give me lodging for 13 out of 14 AT days and Citi bank to not tell me until 3 months later so I had to pay a stupid amount of late fees. Also a bunch of people get to go to Molesworth for a year to do IT/CT work but not me because I haven't gone to Opelint classes, and neither have the other 3 people and it's not even necessary. At least they were cool with me leaving in the middle of the PRT for my babies birth and my CO likes to talk to me about Doctor Who.
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squarerandom posted:Words, words, words I could write you a long post about the reserve side, and active side since you mentioned Molesworth, but my give-a-gently caress is at 0.1 with drill weekend just completed. All I can say is, welcome to the reserves, it only gets worse. PS - With the Citibank problem, you learned a valuable lesson that no one cares about you and that if you don't look out for yourself you will be hosed money wise. PPS - If your CO's favorite Doctor is a modern one, spit a nice one in his face. He'll know why.
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So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake.
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Zotix posted:So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake. lol
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Zotix posted:So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake. You're probably going to be one of the guys I have to counsel about what to go RC->AD. Enjoy!
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Zotix posted:So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake. Why does noone ever ask before they do this poo poo.
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Almost every reservist I talk to loving hates it and is trying to go AD and I never understood why. Always seemed like a decent gig especially if you caught any deployments/IAs (assuming you were making a poo poo wage if you even worked) which is probably true for most
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orange juche posted:Why does noone ever ask before they do this poo poo. Because the MEPS guy had all the answers!
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Christoff posted:Almost every reservist I talk to loving hates it and is trying to go AD and I never understood why. Always seemed like a decent gig especially if you caught any deployments/IAs (assuming you were making a poo poo wage if you even worked) which is probably true for most Ehh... It's not that bad. I've found that it's been a pretty good way to get affordable healthcare while being a college student. I couldn't imagine doing it if you had a regular job though.
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Hekk - for seasickness: get dramamine or whatever you prefer and start taking it the day before you get underway. Whenever you're seasick go topside and look at the horizon.
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Bring all your porn for deployment. Or workups. Or whenever visiting. Always bring your porn with you.
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Vriess posted:Bring all your porn for deployment. It is morally reprehensible to not bring your porn/movie/tv collection with you on a 15TB NAS setup these days.
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Zotix posted:So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake. You didn't make a huge mistake.  I'll always be here if you need to talk to someone about the terrible experience you've opened yourself up to <3
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Mr. Nice! posted:Hekk - for seasickness: get dramamine or whatever you prefer and start taking it the day before you get underway. Whenever you're seasick go topside and look at the horizon. LOL if you think he is going to get sea sick on an LHD.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:LOL if you think he is going to get sea sick on an LHD. I saw an Air Force colonel turning green on an aircraft carrier off of San Diego.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:LOL if you think he is going to get sea sick on an LHD. Some people get sick on carriers. 
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Well I hope he eats rice and eggs for breakfast on his first underway then.
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Yeah, we had our flight doc out on the carrier for a week and he was miserably seasick.
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Angry Fish posted:Some people get sick on carriers. Jesus Christ, Kaffee, you're in the loving Navy.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:LOL if you think he is going to get sea sick on an LHD. He said he'll be on an LPD, not an LHD. It's a significantly rougher experience in any real sea state.
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Best sleep of my life on the boat was periscope depth in a tropical storm. Strap in and get rocked to sleep like a baby. Then wake up to the sound of half the ship vomiting in every bag or bucket they could find.
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Octopode posted:He said he'll be on an LPD, not an LHD. It's a significantly rougher experience in any real sea state. Still not a small boy.
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What was the mistake? Aecf, the reserves, or both?
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Enlisting in the navy was the mistake.
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Zotix posted:What was the mistake? Aecf, the reserves, or both? To be fair, if you're enlisting in the Navy, there's probably a long string of them leading up to this point.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Enlisting in the navy was the mistake.
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Zotix posted:What was the mistake? Aecf, the reserves, or both? I would be willing to bet a small sum of cash that your assignment after bootcamp/a/c school has nothing at all to do with the AECF field. The Reserves severely misrepresents how important your rate is to what you actually get assigned to do.
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Zotix posted:So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake. With FCs in the reserves now I can't wait to get them in A school and deal with new exciting problems.
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God drat, for my HM3 to take OCONUS leave to Canada he needs our COs thumbs up. For him to have left Sicily and head to Scotland he just needed his department head's nod. Poor dude, America bores the hell out of him. Last time he asked to go on Leave to some places he had visited before, everyone just sat on it asking him a million questions about why he was going and he had to cancel it after several months of waiting because the tickets got expensive. Not like everything is going to fall apart without him.
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KetTarma posted:Ehh... It's not that bad. I've found that it's been a pretty good way to get affordable healthcare while being a college student. I couldn't imagine doing it if you had a regular job though. Its actually not all that bad, it's just super annoying how dumb it is just for me to check emails and do 'training exercises' to try and want to do cool poo poo but ultimately not able to, and it's a string of dumb-dumb stuff going on at one drill week without me knowing. Nick Soapdish posted:I could write you a long post about the reserve side, and active side since you mentioned Molesworth, but my give-a-gently caress is at 0.1 with drill weekend just completed. All I can say is, welcome to the reserves, it only gets worse. He likes TEN. TEEEEEEEEN. He's never even seen classic Who. As far as Citibank, I was pretty much told the same thing by my CoC, 'Oh that poo poo happened? that sucks, deal with it man.'
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I'm glad that the British version of Dr. Who is doing so well.
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Zotix posted:So I signed for AECF Reserves today. Please tell me I didn't make a huge mistake. Welcome to the thread, we look forward to your bitching and post on how to go AD.
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Pandasmores posted:God drat, for my HM3 to take OCONUS leave to Canada he needs our COs thumbs up. For him to have left Sicily and head to Scotland he just needed his department head's nod. Poor dude, America bores the hell out of him. Last time he asked to go on Leave to some places he had visited before, everyone just sat on it asking him a million questions about why he was going and he had to cancel it after several months of waiting because the tickets got expensive. Not like everything is going to fall apart without him. This was actually a serious factor in my decision to get out of the Navy. I spent two tours overseas, and did as much travelling as I could, but the hassle to do it was pretty ridiculous, some times. When I finally got back to the US and tried to take leave to go on vacation overseas, my chain of command had 0 working knowledge of the process like a command in Italy did, and that made it virtually impossible to use my leave the way I wanted to, and my ticket price window breezed by while we were still loving around with the country clearance poo poo. The worst part of that was that my old command had let me run the requests thru APACS myself - I did trips to Israel and South Africa. These fuckers had me go through some Ensign who had no idea what she was doing. Anyway, the biggest pro- argument the Navy always had retention-wise for me was 30 days of paid leave, but if you expect me to forgo actual vacations and fritter it away a nickle and a dime at a time, the floor falls right out of that argument. Also, while I was going through that, had to explain what the gently caress Machu Picchu is to a series of grown men.
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squarerandom posted:Its actually not all that bad, it's just super annoying how dumb it is just for me to check emails and do 'training exercises' to try and want to do cool poo poo but ultimately not able to, and it's a string of dumb-dumb stuff going on at one drill week without me knowing. The part I dislike the most about the Reserves is how much of my non-military time they expect me to spend on things. I don't mind writing awards and eval stuff in my free time (especially since I'm one of the only people in my unit that's ever done either since most are not prior active duty)... but I do dislike the constant email, text message, voicemail, phonecall bombardment. About 20% of my inbox is related to the Reserves at any given time. I might just buy COBRA healthcare after my next internship ends and say to hell with it. Ride that out until graduation then get a ~real job~
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Just found out that my package is waiting approval at CNRC and once approved I'll be an ET1 again. Can't wait for those sweet sweet Reserve benefits.
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TEMPDU at the Hospital... Why didn't they warn me everyone is retarded? WHY DIDN'T THEY WARN ME!
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Null Integer posted:TEMPDU at the Hospital... Why didn't they warn me everyone is retarded? WHY DIDN'T THEY WARN ME! It's the navy, you really didnt need any warning, that's a blanket statement for anywhere you go.
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Null Integer posted:TEMPDU at the Hospital... Why didn't they warn me everyone is retarded? WHY DIDN'T THEY WARN ME! Lol, if you read all my posts you would have realized how retarded everyone is. Hell, I know dudes that wrote up statements against someone else because they were borrowing money sneaky-like and they weren't allowed to receive copies of those statements. There was a write up for my good conduct award, which are all given to people at command quarters every week and they I only just received it the other day after 10 months of it sitting in a desk somewhere. Some poor dudes give their corpsmen their medical records to make copies of poo poo when they separate to receive care at the VA and are turned away the day before they separate just because someone didn't do their job and they're too lazy to make copies to give it to the dudes continuing care on the outside. You call one person and get passed around, waiting on hold while you're just trying to figure out where you need to go. It still hasn't gotten out to some dependents that the closest ER is 20+ miles away, so they get pissed off when they walk in with a busted lip or they're feeling chest pains and are getting weaker and the dude at whatever desk they walked up to has to call the ambulance. Corpsmen's power to book appointments is taken away so that some civilian can get hired on to book stuff and the corpsmen get chewed out because appointment scheduling is all sorts of hosed up, but those civilians sure do need a job! The Navy is a beautiful place, a sitcom in itself that isn't being aired to the world. And the people in that sitcom leave hospitals and get hired at VAs so that veterans can die slow deaths waiting for care. God bless the world's finest Navy. It's even funnier when you consider people in non-medical ratings get temporary assignments to hospitals when they're non-deployable in some places and their commands don't want to deal with them. So they're added to some clinic or admin position handling and filing paperwork that corpsmen are specifically taught about in A-school, with the temporary duty people not having the slightest clue in some cases that the paperwork isn't even supposed to be handled by them. My favorite are the whistleblowers in some cases, had one that pointed out that results were being smudged by poor protocol controls so she got transferred to another hospital. Started pointing poo poo out at that hospital and people (mostly Chiefs) were trying their hardest to get her kicked out and couldn't come up with anything because she followed everything by the book. She left, not a scratch on her. I loving love the Navy in a Stockholm syndrome kind of way now, the moment the door opens I'm bolting to freedom though. Pandasmores fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Get hosed, Navy Medicine. You force me to hobble on a sprained ankle for 2 WEEKS while you pretend that i'm limping all over the ship for no goddamn reason, then wait until i'm brought back from the emergency room on crutches before you ask me "Well, you can't be on crutches forever, when are you coming back"? I'm done. I literally hope I fail this PRT, AND the next one, and finally get my discharge papers. There has to be life beyond the Navy, there has to be.
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