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Crab Dad posted:Meeting with my CMC on Friday to review. They're gonna give you a NAM for being on top of all of this.
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McNally posted:They're gonna give you a NAM for being on top of all of this. Y’all silly. Just got out of my meeting. Big take away is I’m a dummy for forgetting to include my civilian occupation in the package. Apparently it’s a big deal for reserve boards and kind of important since I’m an gs IT. Anyways only got two small gaps that are being addressed and a few additional inclusions and gtg.
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Crab Dad posted:Y’all silly. That's funny because officer boards don't give a poo poo about your civilian life. They only really care about graduate degrees being in your record if you're going for O-5+.
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May 4, 2024 00:17
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The reserves giving a poo poo about your occupation is folklore passed down for years that I've never once seen bear fruit. A guy I served with is up here because he took lcs orders and he looks old as gently caress but he's younger than me.
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https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1787592297099481525?t=yx3KFv9wFA-ivBuC96BaiQ&s=19 A buddy from the Bataan ARG 2011-12 long deployment is on their right now as a Senior Chief. I have to imagine being a khaki underway is better than as a blueshirt. During that deployment, they stuffed us staff and augmentees in Snipes Castle. Every shower and toilet worked but man was that a culture shock
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1787592297099481525?t=yx3KFv9wFA-ivBuC96BaiQ&s=19 Good thing we have like a thousand DDGs so we can... keep the same one on station month after month.
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May 6, 2024 23:12
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Don't forget to do your annual "Don't go to Russia to meet your online date" GMT due by COB at the end of the week! 
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May 7, 2024 01:04
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Don't forget to do your annual "Don't go to Russia to meet your online date" GMT due by COB at the end of the week! lol a goddamn staff sergeant was that stupid
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Don't forget to do your annual "Don't go to Russia to meet your online date" GMT due by COB at the end of the week! Hey I was in the brig with that guy! Cool dude, lied about leave for pussy. Actually a chief that I ended up respecting.
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May 10, 2024 00:28
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Letter to the board and enclosures submitted. Nothing to do now but wait.
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May 13, 2024 23:56
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Crab Dad posted:Letter to the board and enclosures submitted. Nothing to do now but wait. I have been led to believe that this means you’ll get a personal phone call at 0900 by an Admiral congratulating you on your promotion to E9 or something tomorrow. Good luck anyway.
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May 14, 2024 00:10
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Crab Dad posted:Letter to the board and enclosures submitted. Nothing to do now but wait. Good luck, you don't need it as you're a shoe in
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Nystral posted:I have been led to believe that this means you’ll get a personal phone call at 0900 by an Admiral congratulating you on your promotion to E9 or something tomorrow. MCPON crabdad when?
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May 14, 2024 01:26
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I work with a guy who was a master chief in the navy and whenever he gets too navy for things I give him a solid aye aye shipmate or aye aye master chief and it really reminds him to chill out we're an NGO now and most of the volunteers are retired white people.
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Elendil004 posted:I work with a guy who was a master chief in the navy and whenever he gets too navy for things I give him a solid aye aye shipmate or aye aye master chief and it really reminds him to chill out we're an NGO now and most of the volunteers are retired white people. My coworker is a medically retired E3 marine (he tripped down a hillside in Afghanistan) and he insists on calling me chief from day one of working with him over a year ago. I just sort of cringe because if I called him sarg I’d most likely make his day/week/month.
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Crab Dad posted:My coworker is a medically retired E3 marine (he tripped down a hillside in Afghanistan) and he insists on calling me chief from day one of working with him over a year ago. I just sort of cringe because if I called him sarg I’d most likely make his day/week/month. Call him "corp" and defend by saying you thought he had fallen down the career ladder when he was in.
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My plan after retirement was to call anyone I worked with that I didn't like "Chief". My first job post grad school was at an equine-assisted mental health facility. My first day there I was being introduced to the horses. "That one there is the oldest horse we have. He was about to be slaughtered at an auction house and one of our friends bought him and brought him here. He doesn't get around very well anymore, has a hard time seeing and generally doesn't know where he is sometimes. He needs extra patience." His name was indeed Chief. So my days still started with me saying "Good morning, Chief" as a civilian. Clearly I was a Disgruntled E6 that took my angst out on the goats, which made me a poo poo bag. Never mind that I had some pretty good reasons to distrust the Goat Locker. Anyway during one of the first days of SARP Counselor Training, the instructor was talking about biases, and that we all have them. Then he asked if anyone was aware of any biases they have so I raised my hand. Didn't realize I was going to be the only one of 28 students (2 E5s, about 10 E6 and the rest 7-9) to do so. And I definitely wasn't expecting the shotgun question of "ok, so what bias do you have?" I was on the spot so I just said, "I.....don't like...Chiefs." The classroom was full of HARUMPHing and remember this is like day 2 of 10 weeks. One of the Master Chiefs did approach me and say that he was sorry to hear that and if there was anything he could do, to let him know. I told him that it wasn't everyone of course, and I had worked for some very good Chiefs. But on the whole I trusted them way less than the O gangers for whatever reason. Anywell, we started with 28 students and ended with around 12 after 10 weeks. Most of the washouts were the Khakis. One Master Chief was in my small group and he REFUSED to use first names so they were like, back to the fleet with you. Another SC, the biggest mouth breather in the class, was sitting at his desk and he told a couple other Chiefs to "just do what they say here and when you get to your command, you know how to lead and act. This touchy feelly poo poo is bullshit" or something to that effect. Mind you, we knew that the classroom had an open mike directly to the office of the guy in charge of training us. He was gone that afternoon. In conclussion, Chiefs are a land of contrast
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:In conclussion, Chiefs are a land of contrast Yeah. I got out almost 20 years ago and went to the vendor to work in engineering, and over the past couple of decades I've become an SME on certain aspects of our system. I was pretty humble when I transitioned to civilian life and I knew fully well that there was *a lot* of stuff I didn't truly understand. New arrivals fresh from the fleet are a mixed bag. Many of them think they understand things they do not understand, but honestly I'm not entirely certain it maps to seniority. I see a lot of former E5s show up thinking they're hot poo poo, and I've also seen a lot of former khakis show up thinking they're hot poo poo--but I wouldn't say I see more of the latter than I do the former. Now, the ones WHO CAN'T SHUT THE gently caress UP about having been a Chief--they're almost certain to be problem children. (On the other side of the coin, I've worked with people who I didn't know were Chiefs--hell, who I didn't even know were in the Navy. They show up, grind away and eventually I'm like "you've done this before, haven't you?" The ones who say "yeah I got out a couple years ago after 20" always impress me because a lot of khakis can't go five minutes without reminding everyone.)
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I've worked with a lot of good chiefs, but only one good Chief's Quarters
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Gonna be volunteering at Los Angeles fleet week this year.
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Here's a long story that at it's best is just a dumbass liar and at worse a dumbass stolen valor dipshit. We are getting our driveway redone and the crew was here this week doing it. I mentioned to the owner of the company, who is working this project, that I ws jealous that him and his boys got paid to dig in the dirt. He said that he could hire me so I could play along but I told him that the VA has asked me politely to please not work. He asked what branch I was in and I said Navy and he said he was Special Warfare, that he was a Frogman. I asked him what his rate was and as he walked away I swear he said "LT First Class." I didn't push it because they were working. Also I'm old and there is a super good chance I misheard him. I asked him later where he was stationed and he said "Coronado" very quietly. Then he said he deployed to Afghanistan and was part of Operation Overwatch to "look after the pussy-rear end Marines." This was the second or third time he had disparaged the Marines for being "pussies". The first time was when I mentioned our 93 year old former Marine neighbor and how I wsa "still kind of scared of him" with a laugh. He made sure to say that he wasn't afraid of any Pussy Marine. I know I've said it before but a couple of years ago he was on his way outside with his machete because one of the other neighbors was threatening his girlfriend with a bat and beating up her car. Obviously I'm not ACTUALLY afraid of him, but he is still crazy as gently caress. That night I got in touch with a good friend of mine that was a Seal Uber Driver guy with the SWICC pin or whatever they call it. He got in touch with his old CO because apparently there is a list of everyone who made it through BUDS or something like that. You guys aren't going to believe this but he wasn't on the list anywhere. Normally I would keep loving with a guy like this, asking more and more detailed questions, but they aren't finished with my driveway yet (dug it up, laid a poo poo ton of stone, will be back in a couple of weeks to finish the job) and I want a good driveway. So I have no clue if this guy went to bootcamp and failed out or what, but it was loving great to encounter one of these assholes in real life. The last time this happened was a former Army guy who in 8 years had about 12 different jobs including helicopter pilot as an enlisted person. What a hero.
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MarcusSA posted:Gonna be volunteering at Los Angeles fleet week this year. I'm working it too for city of LA. We're doing an disaster exercise followed by a seminar on the Iowa. I was on the Iowa in December and the smell of the head instantly took me back 24 years to when I was still in. Maybe I'll buy a DD 214 veteran hat to wear around.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:I'm working it too for city of LA. We're doing an disaster exercise followed by a seminar on the Iowa. I was on the Iowa in December and the smell of the head instantly took me back 24 years to when I was still in. Boo well I’m still going to the NYC event for anyone in town.
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If the phony seal guy is using that in any way to promote his business you can let the seal foundation know about it. They may pay him a visit and publicy humiliate him. They enjoy doing that.
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King of Bees posted:If the phony seal guy is using that in any way to promote his business you can let the seal foundation know about it. They may pay him a visit and publicy humiliate him. They enjoy doing that. No, not yet. When I talked to him on the phone he said they were a "Minority Hiring" Contractor and I almost asked if he offered Disabled Vet discount but I'm not that guy. Usually. Seems odd he didn't lead with "Vet-owned" business.
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:No, not yet. When I talked to him on the phone he said they were a "Minority Hiring" Contractor and I almost asked if he offered Disabled Vet discount but I'm not that guy. Usually. Seems odd he didn't lead with "Vet-owned" business. Could be your garden variety slug that just tells people what they think they want to hear.
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:Here's a long story that at it's best is just a dumbass liar and at worse a dumbass stolen valor dipshit. It's possible he's a BUD/S dud, but a BUD/S dud wouldn't make the mistake of saying "LT First Class", ranks are drilled into you, like week 1-2 of boot camp, before anything else, you're not even through boot camp and on to BUD/S yet. Guy's an idiot and a liar, and if he's using that to promote his business or anything it's one of those stolen valor things you hear about/see. orange juche fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 18, 2024 |
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I have a friend who is getting ready to retire and ask questions about transitioning from active duty to MSC. Is there anybody here that would not mind connecting via email with my buddy with any questions he may have? I appreciate this in advance. He's a good dude.
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:Here's a long story that at it's best is just a dumbass liar and at worse a dumbass stolen valor dipshit. You should get him in a room with some marines and ask them all about their time in the service
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Deus Ex Macklemore posted:I have a friend who is getting ready to retire and ask questions about transitioning from active duty to MSC. Is there anybody here that would not mind connecting via email with my buddy with any questions he may have? If he's looking to sail as a CIVMAR can PM me. Crab Dad also knows a bit since he interacts with them a bit more I think. If he's just looking for the military to civilian license thing the USCG does thats online, I've never looked beyond the USCG site but iasknmc@uscg.mil had usually been pretty helpful about any licensing issues I've had. This has changed a bit, especially with the pandemic. Feels like resources are getting scarce at the NMC. The printers they used for our documents previously gave us passport like books but those all died so our licenses now come on a slightly fancy piece of paper.
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I can only talk about quality of life issues and my knowledge is getting a few years old. While I worked alongside of them for a year ultimately I decided not to apply because i have family at home still. But if I was single…
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