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After bootcamp, ATT, my A school, C school and credits earned just for being a AE3 I had roughly 50 credits, I earned another 50 through Clep, Dantes and Excelsior Exams, I took another 40 credits in actual classes to finish the require courses i need for my major and residency (realize that is...

you are probably right, I probably wouldn't fit in the officer community, I came here asking for help and I got crucified. thanks... I think...

I think they said a at TAPS that something like 75% of everyone exiting the military leave with some disability(don't quote me on those numbers). I don't know how well versed you guys are on the military disability system, but being militarily disabled does not mean you are actually "disabled"...

how is it fraud if you actually have these things? I thought I had it, I got tested for it, I didn't. The test showed I had idophtic hypersomia. The disability system is designed to compensate veteran for medical problems that they actually have, not ones they make up. I would have to have...

there isnt much to know, I am from Detroit, MI I am 22 I am an AE3 I am on CVN 70 right now we are in the yards so I am chipping and painting daily and in my down time I act as an educational counselor to my shipmates I have an Associates in Electromechanics with a 3.87, a Bachelors in...

To be honest I am not really sure about anything, I do not know if I want to get out or stay in, if i knew that I would not have posted here at all. I am not sure if I want the disability, if i was sure that I want it then I would not be considering becoming an officer, it is just nice to know i...

I guess you can questions my motives but when you are approaching separation from the service, you really don't know what to do. You get advice from every angle and you try to take the best of it. The disability thing will pan out if I want it, but I am not sure anymore if that is something I am...

I actually went to the doc because I was recommend to by my Divo and my buddy confirmed this recommendation when he got out. Apparently at TAPS class they tell everyone to go to medical and get treated and diagnosed with everything humanly possible to get the most amount of benefits. Trust me I...

I am in the navy now, and I am thinking about getting out. I was pretty sure I had sleep apena and if you actually have it you get a VA disability check every month till you die. I am all for getting mine for the navy because they sure got theirs. Well i dont have sleep apena but i have this...

I was just diagnosed with idophtic hypersomia with this disqualify me from going to ocs or flight duty? All idophtic hypersomia is unexplainable daytime sleepiness, I am pretty sure the entire enlisted navy has it but has not went to the doc about it.

Ellipticals at ocs do they let people use the ellipticals at ocs, i have been using it since i hurt my knee a while back and now it has become enjoyable. I was just wondering if you can use it if you wanted, or even if you can get it recommended by a doc via sf600 thanks

Ellipticals at ocs do they let people use the ellipticals at ocs, i have been using it since i hurt my knee a while back and now it has become enjoyable. I was just wondering if you can use it if you wanted, or even if you can get it recommended by a doc via sf600 thanks

getting a commission in the reserves easier than getting one going into active duty? in terms of selection in general. I know the army all you do is sign up and they put OCS in your contract but then again who wants to go in the army anyways. I am just wondering, I am active duty enlisted and...

This time i actually read the instruction and i didn't see anything about this test. j/k This was kind of a eye opener for him and he might actually change his ways, I think he is putting himself on fep anyways just because he needs it.

.....sorry, my bad.....

well guys thanks for the advice, we weighted in early luckily he pulled it off. this weekend we were running 2 miles 3 times a day with cling-wrap on his stomach and ate nothing but fruit. it was a little crazy, probably unsafe but he got down to 22% body fat, but I think there a stipulations, I...

we do have command PT but due to manning issues and an over inflated sense of importance of my supervisor my shop does not go to command pt, so for the past 3 months I have been taking this guy on 3 mile runs 2 times a week trying to get him in shape, he will have no problem passing the run...

I googled it and I read that preparation h will shrink you midsection but only for like a day, he only needs it for the weight in so that will work, can anybody confirm or deny think to be true. It said that army recruiters use preparation h to get recruits in to boot camp. let me know what you...

there is a guy in my work center needs to lose 2 inches to pass the body fat test and he only has a week, I told time to do a lot of running with a trash bag around his stomach. I was thinking maybe you guys have some advice on ways to lose inches fast, and please dont say a healthy diet and...

I think you can change positions of your hands as long as they dont leave the ground, so i guess you could slide them... also as a tip for form it is good to practice with your head up, it keeps you back and butt straight also when you are dying put your head down and then you can use different...

someone should tell these guys that they make cars now, it would save them a lot of work.:icon_wink

i just wanted to know if you could be commissioned directly to fts, but the added info is helpful, also are there advantages to being fts? thanks

does anyone know anything about getting a commission and being a tar or in the reserve doing full time support? If it is possible would the advancement be slower or faster and would this be much harder to get into?

I have started writing my essays and I was wondering what other people have put that got picked up, anyone willing to share?

i say go to another recruiter, when i joined the navy (enlisted) i signed up at jax, then i moved home to michigan, i went to the local recruiter and told him my story and gave him my old recruiters business card, he said they could do what i think was called a "courtesy ship" if my old...

i look at my 5 vector model, it hasn't changed since boot camp, i think they are hoping we all just forget about it and then they will just delete the link.

this might be a stupid question, but what is FAC?

do anyone know of a good book to study for the astb? I found the gouge in pdf format, but i am looking for something that explains stuff a little more in detail. thanks

i was approached this summer and asked if i would come volunteer and be a sea cadet officer, at the time i had a hectic schedule so i dismissed it. My life has calmed down a little and now i think i have the time. Do you guys think this would be a good move in trying to get a commision in either...

not even close, it is a lot of leadership stuff, and general military knowledge. plus business crap that is relatively useless

well i work in the battery locker at aimd, we have a lot of down time (actually it is mostly downtime), instead of sleeping, i did nkos between college courses and taking cleps, but know what you are saying. I guess ill leave out the part about doing them at work

i did them all at work when i 1st got in, classes in boot camp and my cmc said it was the wave of the future and seemed important, all it has done so far is made my smart transcript 10 pages long.

my bad, it was a typo

I have done 200+ NKO courses does anyone care, it didnt seem to affect my eval, will these help my get into officer programs? i even did all the OCS courses, does anyone have any information about nko besides in the future it will be used for advancement.

believe it or not but that is a common misconception among enlisted personnel, a lot of people i talk to in the navy think it means non-flying officer, but then i say RIO or back seat flyer and they say "oh yeah like goose"

I know p-3s get deployed, I few guys in my shop worked on p3s, but the quaitly of life on a shore deployment is way better than the boat, maybe it is different as an officer but the boat is no fun for e-5 and below. I realize i am in the navy and my recuriter told me when i joined that avaition...

can you pick your platform? Id love to go p3s just for the family, and the whole no boat thing.

i had a wife and 2 kids, can i take them along to schools (i.e. flight schools or nfo schools, I was told i could as enlisted to my A school till i got there and then they said no. needless to say id hate to do that to my wife again. Plus i think i perform better without my worrying about the...

I just noticed your icon, are you going to be going to U of michigan? I am from there and it would be insane if i could go back for just a few years.

blackjack rj did you get a lor from him? I think i have talked to him a few times, i think there is only 1 cwo5 at aimd right?

WOW! I guess i really need to talk to her.

yeah, i am working nights right now and it is hard to get to work early enough to talk to people before they leave. but i go back to days on the 16th i think ill be able to get things done then.

any particular type of community service will blow away a selection board?

i am active duty enlisted, does the same go for me?

how many times can you apply for ocs in a year? I know some programs are only once per year, but i keep reading apply often and i understand that they have boards monthly but does that mean you can apply monthly? thanks guys

they don't have a high year tenure thing for officers do they?

It is funny that you are going to AMU for strategic intelligence, I am also looking into that program and I think that is my next step in my plan after i compete my BS in polical science at excelsior. Do you like it so far? also are grad courses really that much harder than undergrad or do they...

i have taken some very hard exams and some very easy ones but then again i have taken some course at embry-riddle that were upper level and i was told were very hard and they were a peice of cake, i guess the it depends on who your talking to.

I have enrolled in exclesior, and i am picking out classes now, if you dont mine me asking did you go for the liberal studies option or pick a major, if so what did you pick. Also i was wondering if you were picked up for ocs? thanks for input, it gives me a warm and fuzzy about exclesior.

this may sound like a stupid question but being enlisted the phrase "choose you rate, choose you fate" is heard very frequently, in reference to advancement. As an AE my advancement for my rate is poor, and if would have know that i may have chosen another rate, for example i joined the navy...