The Naples incident/how to ruin your career before it's started/make others suffer

[Pags]

If you can't handle keeping yourself out of trouble as a result of extra free, time then you're probably in the wrong business.

"huh...a day dick around flight....what ever should we do with this bag of gas?"

 

[S.O.B.]

"huh...a day dick around flight....what ever should we do with this bag of gas?"

Exactly........ The group punishment thing always bothers me. Hammer these guys to the fullest and move on.

 

[statesman]

I was hoping to come in on Friday and see them hanging from crosses, but Im told we dont do that anymore.

 

[FLYTPAY]

I was hoping to come in on Friday and see them hanging from crosses, but Im told we dont do that anymore.

Don't do what, come in on Fridays or hang people from crosses?

 

[MIDNJAC]

If you can't handle keeping yourself out of trouble as a result of extra free time, then you're probably in the wrong business.

Wouldn't disagree there. Just sayin I don't think Mike is totally off base saying that A-pool brings this sort of stuff out of the bad apples (even if it would have come out anyway at some point).

 

[scoolbubba]

Don't do what, come in on Fridays or hang people from crosses?

Friday is a work day?

 

[FLYTPAY]

Friday is a work day?

According to Statesman it is, crucifictions are done on Mondays.....hence the phrase "sounds like a case of the Mundays"

 

[statesman]

Friday is the day that you show up at 7:15 for a uniform inspection, IN BLACK SHOES!

Wait, thats every weekday from now on.

 

[statesman]

Being active duty doesn't solve the problem of acting like idiots.

 

[phrogdriver]

If they're not on active duty, dealing with public stupidity is a lot easier. "Yeah, he wasn't actually IN the Navy, and by the way he's not going to be."

 

[cfam]

I don't know how the academies do it but the Army and USAF guys at my school were usually did not go on active duty until they reported to their schools

I was on active duty all four years at USNA (at least that's what my ID said). I'm pretty sure the other academies do it the same way.

 

[Flash]

Being active duty doesn't solve the problem of acting like idiots.

It would considerably shrink the A-pool though and save all that O-1 salary money for better uses, like new new uniforms!

 

[UpstateSouthpaw]

Don't "they" say that integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking? What a rare and beautiful opportunity the aviation community has to do a six-month integrity check on all these budding aviators!! They should do something like that Navy-wide. In fact, my own personal integrity is probably feeling a little questionable these days; I think I'm due for my three-year re-up...

Seems like a rather expensive integrity check to me!

 

[CommodoreMid]

I was on active duty all four years at USNA (at least that's what my ID said). I'm pretty sure the other academies do it the same way.

Got a couple of USAF kids that I study with in API who went to the academy and they said they didn't get paid until they actually started doing their job. The Navy is the only service that keeps their people active. Correct me if I'm wrong, but at least for my Marine option friends from ROTC, unless they actively chose to be stashed, they didn't get paid until they reported to TBS.

 

[cfam]

Yeah, the whole "active duty" thing for us didn't extend to pay either...only a couple hundred a month till we got commissioned, so we definitely weren't pulling down any active duty pay at USNA. Not really sure what the thought process behind having us be considered active is. Regardless, active or not, there are idiots everywhere, unluckily enough for USNA it was academy guys this time.