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Sleeping on the floor wasn't an option for me. I'm in lovely base housing complete with uber uncomfy tarazzo floors. I'll try a pallet when I get to advanced.

Put your PCL under your pillow when you sleep. Seriously, you'll learn them a few at a time for CPT's. You'll start stressing over them and waking up in the middle of the night and having EP nightmares where you sit up yelling "condition lever fuel off, t-handle pull". Or was that just me?

I'm not sure what JCOP stands for exactly, but basically, if you're not scheduled for anything else, you come in and study at the squadron building for 4 hours. Sometimes they assign an IP to go over a subject for an hour of that time. As far as going through RI's first, it's 6 weeks out of...

I had a similar attitude about VT3. I heard how far behind they were and how JCOP sucks, and the AF IP's have poor attitudes towards JO's, etc etc etc. So I was relieved when I heard that I got VT2. Then...I got bumped. So I was headed to VT3 and guess what. All the stuff I heard was wrong...

You guys are reading me wrong. I'm referring to the people in the Hampton Roads area in general. On a personal level they'd rather piss on you than give you the time of day. That's the impression I got while I was stationed there. I've heard some defend them claiming that it's because of the...

There's a private forum? Anyway, I wish they'd hurry up and settle this. I have a house right around the corner from Cecil and need to know if I should go ahead and sell it. As far as Oceana, the people in Hampton Roads seem to treat us like crap anyway. Let's get out of there and laugh...

Wow. You realize that's about a $700 pay raise right?

There's a formula at the front of the MPTS book, but it requires numbers that you get from stucon. I think you need a math degree to correctly compute it with the formula though.

Jack Bauer uses his PDA to save the world every week. That alone says something about their usefulness.

It just started recently. I finished weather on March 1 and had Fam 0 the following Monday. I have Fam 5 and BI 1 today. The only reason it's taken this long is because I was med down for a week and because there were so many people in the sims, I didn't get double pumped for any of them...

Don't listen to these guys about the wait for VT-3. We're zipping through now. We went from not enough instructors to too many. I was AFDO last week and it's almost like the IPs are on standby now, hanging out at the flight shack waiting for a student.

not considered disqualifying

End of month pay is paid on the first of the following month. That is a nice history lesson though.

Yeah, when your paycheck actually hits your bank can vary depending on your bank. I had Compass for a month and if payday was a Friday, my money wasn't available till Tuesday morning. Needless to say, I don't bank with Compass anymore. With Navy Fed, if payday is on a weekend, my money is...

I'll give it a shot.

My 2 kids are older, so I'd definitely like to find "the code" for the childfree parties.

Did you get what you wanted?

Just wander down Merrill where it runs into the basketball court.

There are still perks to living in housing though (here anyway). Security, convenience, good neighbors, park for the kids, swimming pool, basketball and tennis ball courts, friendly community. The people on my street get together at someone's house every Friday night for some beers and a...

No there are no meters on the houses yet. As far as the BAH issue, I'd like to know how it's going to work out. A buddy that just went to Kingsville has to pay utilities, but he gets a partial BAH to cover it. That's under some new program where civilian contractors run housing. Another...

I have a signal amplifier that a cable guy in Jax gave me. When we first moved into Whiting Pines I was at about 1.5 Mb/s. After hooking up the amplifier, I'm at 4.5 Mb/s which is about twice as fast as my neighbor's DSL.

Okay, I give up. Can someone point out the guy in the bottom 2 multicam pics.

You'd be better off asking at morning muster.

Make sure you get receipts for any contributions to charity, and if you don't make any, then start. I'm not talking about cash donations, I'm talking about taking old appliances, clothes, toys, etc and dropping them off at Goodwill. A friend told me about it. He dropped off a bunch of stuff...

My truck doesn't have lumbar support, maybe I can talk my doc into writing me a prescription for a new car.

Neither my phone nor my wife's phone works. They're different brands and neither of them is the little cheapo phone that comes free for signing up.

I've been living in Milton while going to API and had no problem with my T-Mobile service at all while driving from Milton to Pcola. Now I've checked into Primary and I realized that I lose my signal almost entirely about halfway between Whiting Pines and Whiting Field (around where Stewart...

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KimberlyD, I'm a prior who lived in base housing in Millington, TN and Newport, RI. I got commissioned and now I live in Whiting Pines and it is 100 times better than any of the other housing areas I've lived in. I also have 2 kids. You'll get a decent sized 3 bedroom house. The only problem...

Log onto Mypay. There's a section on there that deals with travel claims. If it's been liquidated, there will be something there.

Since leave starts on the 15th at 1600, then this seems like something a SWO would do.

I guess I missed the traffic safety video, but that 20+ year old fire safety video was awesome.

The most advance pay you can get is 3 mos with 2 year pay back.

If your friend got DLA when he went from PNS to Whiting, it's most likely money that was due to him from his move from his last PDS to Whiting. Since API is temp duty, they normally won't liquidate travel until you check into your permanent duty station. This is especially true of married...

I left my wife in Jacksonville and came to Pensacola. Believe me, it will get old very quick. I was driving back and forth every other weekend (and consecutive weekends on occasion) for 4 months and finally decided to move them here. It is a short 5 hour drive, but it's nothing but I-10 and...

LT H put out the leave periods this morning, but I didn't really write it down so I can't help with that. I just wanted to help some people understand some basic leave policies because there is some bad gouge going around. Regardless of what you may have been told, If you check in or out...

I'll make a guestimate for you on the leave periods 1st leave period Dec 19 - 28 2nd leave period Dec 28 - Jan 9 That's about what you'd expect in the fleet, but I have no real idea what it's like here. They may even start it and end it mid week to give everyone right at 2 weeks.

My API schedule this week is

Do a search. Someone posted a link on here not too long ago to a company that makes some nice jackets that meet the reflective safety regs. They're expensive, but you don't have to wear the cheesey orange vest. Do you guys see the homeless sitting in the medians wearing the orange...

It's not a big task. It takes less than 5 minutes throw some polish on your boots and give them a quick buff.

In the fleet? Mostly yes. In the aviation community?? I was stashed with a squadron for 6 months and those guys didn't. I remember the XO started hitting them up about shining their boots.

I think the technical term is "powerpoint poisoning".

I typed my name into that website and it shows mine and my wife's name and our ages. Says that there is other information available. Would be interesting to find out what other info it has on me. A ton of information is available out there without having to pay for it. Many cities have a GIS...

If that doesn't work, there's a military locator you can use to find out where he's stationed. Sometimes it lists an email address. You have to be at a .mil computer to use it though. http://www.navydirectory.smartlink.navy.mil

The black sunglasses with black non-mirrored lenses is no longer the regulation. It changed a few years ago. Now the uniform regs just say "conservative sunglasses are permitted". Of course the definition of conservative is going to change from command to command. Just make sure they look...

I'll post this again for you FlyingBeagle.

Throw other balls up there to knock down the volleyball, let them all get stuck, then wait for a good wind, or a hurricane.

Flyingbeagle, when I said that at the squadron I was with, that the JO's tend not to salute each other, it's not something I saw and made an assumption about. I was told not to salute the other JO's in the squadron by the other JO's in the squadron. I'm aware of the regs, and I'm all for...

My wife says that when she goes to the commissary at NAS Jax, the gate guard looks at her dependent ID card then stands back and salutes. She says it happens every time. I understand saluting the blue sticker, but if you know for a fact that the person in the car is not an officer, I don't...

The Navy and Marine Corps do not salute uncovered. The Army and Air Force do (or so I've been told). I don't think I've ever gotten a clear answer on saluting other services, but I believe the rule is basically, when in Rome...