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Anybody here have any experience with Cat 3/4 EFMP? Everything is mental health related and I'm trying to figure out my options. I'm already remote duty and may have to leave early.
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Feb 13, 2017 05:01
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Haven't done a coast to coast pcs somehow in my entire career. Waiting on orders. How long can I expect the hhg shipment to take? The only numbers I can find are for oconus moves.
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Apr 12, 2017 14:37
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Did funding for posting dry up or do all you reservists post here only after you get paid?
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May 16, 2017 06:14
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Well that blows. We've got a pile of people who aren't getting paid for a det that happened right over the budget bill nonsense. I know our people love working for IOUs. The active duty side managed to underpay me for two years and I only caught it when I saw a negative number show up on an les and I stopped getting paid completely. They decided to claw back $30k in OHA and cola because one idiot changed my country code when she caught a 'mistake'. She didn't realize that postal abbreviations and the pay codes don't always match up. In the end I went over everything with a fine tooth comb and found out all those Page 2 updates I sent when I got married and spawned had been piling up on some admin desk. The Navy ended up paying me $27k in back OHA and cola, instead of literally paying me $0.00 for months on end for that imaginary $30k overpayment. Fun fact though: when you get a random rural area of China on your les, DIA calls all sorts of people to ask why you were there.
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May 16, 2017 07:02
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maffew buildings posted:I'm on the third week of a field exercise with my seabee battalion. This is the kind of stupidity you can't make up Now my imagination is making poo poo up. Thanks. Share so I can see how far off I am.
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May 24, 2017 06:37
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Enjoy the port calls. See some sites. Take some pictures. Bring your kids some cool trinkets. Keep remembering it's the last one then you get to choose what you do next. Doing a shooter tour or something?
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Jun 1, 2017 05:49
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Alright I finally have to wear the type I nwu after years of avoiding it. Any suggestions on boots because I have no desire to give up $130 for a Bates product.
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Jun 3, 2017 00:59
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$180 for two years of wear? I might look at the redwings at least they are lifetime guarantee?
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Jun 3, 2017 02:03
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Second NWU question (yes I've worn a flight suit for the last 14 years): is there something better than those terrible Soffee shirts?
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Jun 3, 2017 05:06
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We suck at uniforms. I'd like to think a bunch of retired admirals are making beaucoup bucks off all of the changes we constantly make, but it's probably just incompetence.
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Jun 4, 2017 07:20
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Mr. Nice! posted:There won't be NJP because he's brokebrained and hiding was his way of tapping out. Had a similar story on the Big E. Sailor hid in a head for two days. Days of surface search and no poo poo PSAs 24/7 trying to get said sailor or an acquaintance to come forward with the truth.
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Jun 15, 2017 18:06
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Anybody know if you can claim TLE while staying with family?
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Jun 24, 2017 22:43
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That's a good gameplan. Basically mine from last year and working so far.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:55
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Not in aviation at the moment. They shuffle you from painful URL job to URL job (all no flying) until you tap out. I'm coasting on prior time to hit twenty before my first O-5 look (assuming everybody doesn't bail to the airlines and bump me up early as gently caress).
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Jul 6, 2017 20:03
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vulturesrow posted:I am currently experiencing what is easily the worst port call I've had in my almost 20 years. If you're ever told you are going to India, just go ahead and lower your expectations, especially if you are on a carrier (and thus have to anchor out). Get back to us next week when everyone on the ship has the runs because the ship is pulling water out of that harbor and nothing can kill what's in Indian water.
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Jul 12, 2017 14:59
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vulturesrow posted:My first deployment was on the JFK. I've also cruised on GW and Stennis. Never the Enterprise though. JFK was pretty fuggin' old and not a nuke. I was on the second to last Enterprise cruise. I 'missed' the last one. At least they got a poo poo ton of port calls. We had as many beer days as port calls the time before.
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Jul 14, 2017 17:52
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Yeah the best part of that Chennai visit that nobody told you was that the aircrew secretly got a stash of super anti diarrhea meds and Cipro to safely fly. So not everybody was making GBS threads themselves. (No kidding it happened in late night meetings in the wardroom.)
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Jul 19, 2017 19:50
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All this SWO bonus talk just made something apparent to me: for all the poo poo talking about swo-life, it might suck more to be an aviator now. I don't know poo poo about the non VFA world, but the strike aviation Navy is paying people an extra $150k+ to be fighter pilots and people are still saying nope. We haven't had enough DHs two years running now.
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Aug 13, 2017 08:11
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https://pilotonline.com/news/milita...c4702e.amp.html Impressive initiative. Real self starter.
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Aug 27, 2017 13:42
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In your example at least cag and the csg know their deficiencies (nobody's sugarcoating those debriefs) and how to train to their weaknesses, tactically schedule aircrew, etc. The culture in aviation tends towards brutally honest self-assessment and there are no shortage of reps for aircrew going on deployment. Even fdnf aircrew are getting lots of looks at the full range of missions. I get the impression that the surface force (especially fdnf) is not getting the same opportunities. It also helps that the hardest mission sets that aircrew perform are basically the ones they're performing on deployment. Our biggest problem is how dangerous it is to go from nothing to full throttle training in a month's time. I would be far more concerned about how the ship handles the high stress evolutions than anything I would be doing in the air. In fact I was always happiest when I wasn't on the boat. At least I was responsible for myself, could shoot back or even divert (most of the time). Nothing worse than sitting inside the ship during straits transit...
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Sep 22, 2017 01:51
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Godholio posted:I don't know where you fit into this one, but it was pretty rough compared to most of the others I've seen. But one of wing's O-6s loving gets it. He stood up at the end of a mass debrief and laid it out there...it was not a "hey we're getting through this" or a "you'll do better next time" or even a "hey, it's Fallon amirite?" speech. It was a candid and accurate assessment of where they were as professional combat aviators and how their performance was likely to serve them if the poo poo hits the fan. I wanted to loving applaud when he was done. Other than knowing that you live in the same poo poo hole I just left I don't know where you fit in either. Until recently I was part of the group delivering the asskicking you were describing. Airwings have been having those moments for a couple of years now. I'd like to believe that there's a whole lot of "back in my day" nostalgia going but there is a whole team of outside people contracted to give the Navy feedback on how the fleet is performing and I've seen the raw numbers across the whole work up cycle. It's not pretty and everyone knows it. I think you might be conflating our standard wings of gold bravado with an actual belief that we're good at anything but landing on a boat. Sequestration hosed the fleet and the secaf and the cno aren't lying or engaging in hyperbole when they talk about another round breaking the force.
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Sep 22, 2017 11:25
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Stultus Maximus posted:I've seen a console suddenly show a contact changing course by over 180 degrees for a few seconds before returning to something like the original calculated course. Aircraft radars do this too. You practice, over and over, learning what normal looks like and when you need to reject bad info. You also eventually develop a sense of when you need to do something else because your information is suspect. Like look outside.
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Sep 29, 2017 02:31
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Davethulhu posted:Sky dick pilot was not a lady, but you could have been thrown off by his call sign: "Tess". Cmdr Stickles is all man. That's the squadron CO, not the pilot.
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Nov 25, 2017 02:52
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I heard that one too but was told that it's not true. Sounded like wishful thinking.
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Nov 26, 2017 13:32
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Laranzu posted:All early out programs just got cancelled. Hope you like fighting in Korean war 1.5 No it's because we're in a growing Navy. Nothing to do with terrible retention. Nothing at all.
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Dec 14, 2017 12:56
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Yeah I am pretty sure this is the same across the board for Marines and Navy. It's the first 0-6 in their chain of command that has court martial authority. Most O6s are amateur politicians. Just like our current Congress.
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Jan 1, 2018 09:05
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Mr. Nice! posted:I'm pretty sure we used to have some naval aviators but i can't recall. One left at least.
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Jan 4, 2018 02:38
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ManMythLegend posted:I'm too tipsy to really want to put in the effort of writing an effort post about the whole mess but what I will say is that the Navy in general, and surface community specifically, are reaping what was sown decades ago when operational command and man, train and equip decisions were separated. Couple drinks in too. Concur.
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Jan 19, 2018 02:01
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LingcodKilla posted:Every single red cent is on my GTC and they can suck my balls before I pay out of pocket for it ever again. I'd have to check again but I think it doesn't show up on your credit report until 4-6 months without payment. The problem is that you can be adsep'd and possibly lose your clearance eligibility for failure to pay a just debt before that ever happens.
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Jan 21, 2018 12:33
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Blackchamber posted:Ok and Teenagers are loving gross.
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Jan 29, 2018 02:33
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Anita Dickinme posted:But there’s also bonuses, right? VFA command is even weirder because despite being a CDR and getting a bonus you're making less than your LCDR department heads with their bonuses.
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Jan 29, 2018 13:11
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vulturesrow posted:Well I got my nifty blue ID card today. I'm officially a retiree. Little more sad about that than I thought I would be. You give me hope that I can grind it out for two more years. Enjoy standing around in the aisles at the commissary.
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Jun 2, 2018 13:30
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In case anyone wants a reminder of why you never go full nuke. Bolded the lesson. https://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/8qdc4k/dont_want_to_be_nuke a redditor posted:Im a month into power school.
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Jun 12, 2018 11:16
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I'm finally figuring it out now that I've served at a NOSC. The reason why NOSCs are so hit or miss is because the regional commands that direct the NOSCs are mostly staffed by people who've never worked at a NOSC and they're directed by RESFOR which is mostly clueless about how their policies ripple out into waves that ruin your average reservist's drill weekend and create impossible to enforce rules at the NOSC which creates insurmountable training obstacles for the region which turns around and asks RESFOR to change things which sets the whole ridiculous cycle off. But why don't they just mirror the active component policies and tweak them to make them work for the reserves? Because that would be admitting that the reserves aren't a special force that is absolutely essential to the defense of the nation! To drive home how stupid the construct of the RESFOR RCC NOSC reserves really is pay attention to the next TNR magazine you get. There's more than 1 FTS for every 5 selres. That's a seriously high ratio of fts to selres. Shockingly few of those people though are engaged in actual reserve management. The rest are basically filling active billets. Cancel the reserves, replace the whole thing with ten-fifteen thousand active billets and stop trying to make intel nerds, doctors, and lawyers play officer because they loving suck at it. Tldr: the entirety of the reserve force exists to keep Djibouti and gitmo from having too many real billets to fill.
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Jun 13, 2018 18:05
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:https://www.navytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2018/08/30/sailor-by-day-performer-by-night-meet-the-navys-drag-queen-harpy-daniels/ I was a JO with that guy's CO. I'm so old.
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Sep 1, 2018 15:33
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orange juche posted:Let me tell you some of the most boring as gently caress guard duty is standing guard in the secondary exit of the ship's brig for 4 loving hours with a Mossberg just staring at a locked gate and the shower/poo poo area of the brig because there's 10 or so pirates in your brig. Were you doing this on the Big E because I spent some time with the guys who took our pirates away and I still don't know who smelled worse.
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Sep 25, 2018 03:24
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Oh so that's probably where I was exposed.
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Sep 26, 2018 01:11
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Ah I was thinking of the other pirates we had on board. The ones that took the Emirate's tanker. Those guys were also smelly but the UAE guys who came on board to get them smelled even worse. They managed to stink out the smoke pit.
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Gray Matter posted:So, what are the consequences of just.. not doing an AT this year, beyond my unit leadership being butthurt? I plan on getting out of selres March of '20 and couldn't give two shits about sat years for retirement purposes. Nothing. Same to you Pneumonic, if you just stop showing up the worst thing that happens is that you get adsep'd. It's a volunteer force after all. If you don't want to get tagged for mob you should probably just stop showing up. Even if you get tagged you can ask for a special cases board for a deferral, which will be denied, and you'll be out anyway.
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