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Daddy's gotta eat. Apply for jobs and apply for OCS. You are promised neither, and pursuing the one will not hurt your prospects for the other.

Just read this, really enjoyed it. This is next:

Stealing good ideas from Seventh Fleet, are we?

1. Yes. Jumped ship from a corporate job to the Navy on what was, in the comparative scheme of time, a whim. 2. No. But the mind does wonder. 3. Remind myself that nobody knows the future, most people I encounter don't actually know what they're doing (but some people know how to look good...

That's where I thaw my Uncrustables

Good correction. I just found out about that feature while picking up a multiengine rating in an old Beechcraft, so the feature was much appreciated!

I'm new to ForeFlight, so anything I say is very likely to be common knowledge around here for folks who have been using it. I know ADS-B will give you TCAS, but a cool ForeFlight feature that works even if you don't have in-flight connectivity is the ability to "pack up" any files necessary to...

Reading for a class. Let me sum this one up for you: "Humans fight wars for all kinds of reasons. Maybe for state security. Maybe distrust of other states. Maybe just because they're humans. Regardless of the true answer, a bunch of people throughout history have a lot to say about it."

Journalism major. Highest math I ever completed in college was Algebra II. Unsure how I made it into the cockpit without ever taking anything with "calc" in the title. :)

Down the Wikipedia rabbit hole I go! If I don't make it back, tell my wife, "Hello."

Maybe somebody smarter can comment on this, but I am fairly sure the weak link in most the DoD PCs I've sat in front of is the old, failing HDDs. Throw as much RAM/CPU power as you want in there, but if the Read/Write is jammed up to 100%, that's all you're getting. Whenever your computer is...

Until a few months ago at my command, I would place in the Top Three items the lack of functioning computers for squadron access. Everything we do besides fly and sim relies on basic computing functions, and the computers in our workspace would previously take upwards of 20 minutes to get from...

This entire site is Mos Eisley, but it's one of the tabs that opens when I middle-click my "Morning Reads" folder, and I just stare at it like a car accident and wonder why I even took the 405 this morning...

I imagine all of it could have been done better, because anything can be done better looking backward after the fog of war has cleared. But my opinion doesn't matter because I'm a 1310 with no relevant experience ?‍♂️ I am waiting to hear how the exit could've been executed better from somebody...

Looking forward to hearing some well considered alternative plans to what actually went down, because after digging through enough of these letters/posts/etc., the solution always seems to have been "Should've done it better, should've made sure we had the adequate resources, etc." Nothing...

YOU WANNA FIGHT OR SOMETHING lol jk

You can sure hope that's the case.

I don't spend a noteworthy amount of time in the Opinions sections of news media websites, but I enjoyed this read. Obviously we'll be talking about the trees for some time to come, but eventually it'll be time to talk about the forest. Interested to see how the nation decides to back up/project...

Probably. That score isn't bad, and your GPA is really good. Not to mention your service and the other experience stuff (without digging into your profile to determine what that is). Your recruiter may have a better answer.

I was a new eighth grader when we began our occupation in Afghanistan...there came a point where I forgot what our mission even was over there. You say the word stability enough times and it starts to sound funny. I didn't know how we would ever exit that place, given our presence resembled a...

Just wanted to poke in and cheer for everybody sticking to their guns here. This has been the most enjoyable AW thread for me in ages. Carry on :)

Late golf clap ?

I mean, I'm currently a student and haven't had this happen. An anecdote for an anecdote. Anybody who does what your professor did is being absolutely ridiculous (at best), and I've never heard any even close to reputable sources talking about this kind of behavior (least of all positively)...

Kid was just sitting there all peaceful like, being colorblind and kind. Teacher comes outta nowhere. BAM! Now the kid's apologizing for his ancestors. He didn't even know these people! What even is race? And suddenly the kid next to him looks a little darker, a little more dangerous...

That opinion is likely held by a teeming majority of teachers, parents and school administrators across the nation.

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I think the zero-defect mentality approach could be detrimental over the long term for servicemembers who have spent the majority of their young adult lives in the military (they're bound to make mistakes just like they would on the outside, right?) But when you're talking about highly...

I don't particularly have a dog in this race — and have no context for the actual infraction — but I think there's a "time and a place" context that probably matters here. It's okay to get drunk, but maybe not to have alcohol on your breath during your job interview. I imagine Big Navy isn't...

Yeah, or whatever that weird blue felt-like stuff is. Calling that material "carpet" may be a bit generous.

Oof. I was in the same room and we had the same AC problems. To make it worse, something caused a tremendous amount of water to soak through the carpet in the room before air det got on board, and there wasn't any airflow to dry it out. So we had quite literally a jungle back there. No-shave...

I'd rather be a deep sleeper than a light sleeper on a Navy vessel (I am the latter). Most of my underway flight time was in the middle of the night (DDG/CG), so bedtime was always around the time the ensign on watch played the blaring morning wakeup song over the 1MC/flight deck gun shoots/CIWS...

I read way too much required reading for school right now to spend any of my free reading time on more of the same, so I was looking for a little fast-food bedtime reading. I had never read a Star Wars book and decided to start with the Thrawn series based on some recommendations and Google...

Mmm, I think I probably didn't provide the context for the articles I was reading. The particular context were a slew of articles like these that specifically highlight the achievement of Capt. Bauernschmidt being the first female CVN CO. A fairly common response in the comments sections of...

Meanwhile, almost three weeks ago, a black Sailor on a destroyer found a noose on his rack. What is the correct way forward for Navy DoD to address this sort of thing? Should that Sailor continue to prove themselves through hard work and good character, to later become somebody else's hero for...

If the point is, "Our warfighters should be unified and focused on warfighting, looking together in the same direction toward the enemy," then I agree with you. These articles conveniently leave out the amount of utter horseshit that non-straight, non-white, non-male individuals deal with based...

I think the quality of audience this article lands with is summed up fairly well by one of the comments in response to it: "The day we have a gay sailor will be the end of the America we love. "

I haven't done any reading on this, but I may dig around. In the blind, I'm inclined to agree. Seems like a natural step forward for the military that aligns with society's forward motion. I'll be a little surprised if I find that a majority of women today disagree with women being eligible...

I think nearly everybody here can fit that patch into its place in history, understand the context, and move on. If the patch gets posted with "TRIGGER WARNING FOR WOKEHEADS" and all that typical messaging, we're talking about a different, contemporary topic :) I'm confident of two realities...

That Brett, so sensitive. C'mon boys, let's take our SEND THE WOMEN AND FAGS patch to the OTHER wardroom ???‍♂️

That's exactly what somebody who would wear that patch today would say ?

FINE MAYBE I WILL pings, finds every submarine in the ocean, drops an extremely effective salvo of Mk-54s and gets the Medal of Honor

Agree. This proposal feels like a disingenuous way to approach a real issue (namely, Sailors discriminating against other Sailors). A half-vigilant command should be able to identify and shame-crush that behavior in a way that makes the Navy's standing order for this stuff pretty clear and...

R U HURT im JUNGLe?!1 a JeT flY BY DROp floweRs but HELO sAvE YOU. HOVERS iS DivINE. HANGAr FAcE is RIGHT THERE bY trap –Helo Pilot

While I enjoy the sentiment, that's what I'm saying. If somebody wants to drink bleach to get rid of the demons, that's their prerogative, and I don't care. If enough of the nation doesn't want to vaccinate, that hurts the people I love. I knew somebody who died from COVID complications (at this...

My love and grace winds down pretty quickly when the decisions people make negatively impact others around them. If somebody refuses to get on an airplane because they've seen news articles about a plane exploding -- regardless of the safety comparison to driving, etc. -- I don't care, because...

I check this thread every once in awhile because I don't feel like putting OAN cookies on my PC. I only comment when I'm drunk and zoning out on my Zoom class. ?‍♂️

...I don't understand. Am I not allowed to have flavored opinions about people within my bounds of free speech? :) If I were less of a fan of free speech, I'd be trying to shut all these groups up. I think we are at a global learning point about what kind of decibel levels speech can reach...