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What you're saying doesn't match what the community managers have put out. Sure the stars can align for an EP sailor and he can get recruiting duty, but it's rare.

Chill out man. First off, the devil's in the details of reporting. The 355 ship navy is a cap / target is on specifically manned warships that kill and blow up things. The 530 ship Navy includes support / logistics, command, and unmanned ships, which our current fleet sits at 490. This isn't...

It looked like what got him down that path was the argument that designing ships to do multiple missions leads to cost bloat and he used aircraft acquisition programs as examples. I'd argue that it's more cost effective. When VA was designed, subs were envisioned as ISR / strike / SOF...

Ships aren't the same as aircraft. By the nature of their size, cost to build and maintain, manning, and operating environment, ships have to be capable of multiple missions. Building one hull for one mission would be a monumental O&M cost. On a ship the sailors who are training to do EW aren't...

I 'only' went through two. That guy who sat me down to take the ASTB cold ended up separating without saying anything and going incognito for a couple months. The next one was extremely helpful. This. The guy sent to be the nuke recruiter when I was a JO didn't screen DH. For enlisted it...

Things change but when I started my application to OCS circa 2007, the only way to get in contact with an OR was for the enlisted recruiter to forward your info to them. They started heckling me and listing all sorts of ridiculous fake requirements (I had done my research and also helped that...

You guys do realize that this thread was started by a civilian seeking advice and information, right? The e-penis contest isn't a good look.

You could see this coming a mile away. All of the justification for lockdowns talked about projections through August. It built this sense that the disease would be over by autumn to many local political leaders, who used the lockdowns to take time off rather than urgently plan for how to get...

This is hugely variable by company and career path. One of the selling points of the Navy is that it offers guaranteed promotion opportunities, and will train you up for those jobs internally vice hiring from the outside and requiring years of experience (how does one get managerial experience...

And you responded with saying that the coolest non-administration related stuff is done as a Divo and that an officer's job is largely an administrative role. I simply don't find that to be true.

I disagree with this statement. If I made a pie chart on how I spent my time, admin / paperwork would be like 25%. It certainly can consume you if you allow it to, at which point you're probably missing something more important. But YMMV.

No. It's completely unrealistic to expect every division to reset all annuals in the upkeep before deployment, some of which they could have performed as recently as 3 months ago, when they're busy fixing the broken stuff that has to work before you leave. Semi annuals have a max of ~8 months...

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about strict controls on semi-annual or less frequent when the last pre-deployment upkeep and first post deployment upkeep are 10-12 months apart.

Yep. And sometimes if a ship goes long and a higher priority ship comes in, they'll just stop work on ship A and go to work on ship B. This is another aspect but it typically stems from ownership not malice. During the planning meetings I had to tell every chief to transfer jobs to depot that...

I think that all of the talk about how to find efficiencies in project management is a great discussion that's answering a different problem. The Navy knows it takes on average x months to overhaul y class ship with a standard deviation of z weeks. From a macro scale we should just plan on the...

Lines of funding and who's responsible for the bill certainly could explain a lot. In the example I noted above, if the project sup admits a delay too soon then he could be on the hook for all of the overtime to get back on track. Again, I don't know all of the ins-and-outs of why it happens...

There's more to peel back on this onion than poor planning. The yard management knows how long it takes to do depot maintenance packages on every class of ship by now. Prepping to go in the yards, we were on deck after another boat finished. Some retests weren't going well. I knew from the...

I wasn't saying that I think that double pumps were the right answer. I am saying that there are a lot of factors to be considered. Sailor happiness is one of them. Most of them we don't have visibility on, so it's really difficult to put together a reasoned argument for or against them beyond...

The details of whether or not Bryan Clark is correct exceeds the classification level of aw.com. I'm simply saying that the argument 'we're running the force ragged for no reason' is an implicit agreement with this take and can have ripple effects on future force shaping and funding. COCOMs do...

No. I'm saying that it could be hard for a well meaning Admiral to argue that we need to fund 11+ carriers after saying that we don't actually need to deploy a carrier to one of the most volatile regions in the world for the Navy to accomplish its mission.

How is 2 deployments in 2 years not being 'used efficiently?'

If you were any number of senior military officers or Congressmen with a vested interest in carrier funding, would you be as willing to say 'nah, we don't really need one of those to keep Iran in check.'

There are mounds of scientific research on why the legal limit is set at 0.08. The vast majority of people show impairment operating a motor vehicle at that level, even if they don't show other signs of being drunk. There's even credible research to support lowering it to 0.02 - 0.05.

Listen man, you were the one who piped in with the 'well ackshully...' about how technically the DOD can disregard local laws for use of controlled substances (as if I didn't know that) and then tried to draw a parallel to frigging plastic bag use.

I understand that from a technical perspective. I was speaking from a practical / PR perspective. The odds that a DOD installation lowers the drinking age to 18 and legalizes marijuana before all 50 states do is 0. No GO/FO wants to explain to Congress why a bunch of teenagers are going out in...

The DOD has to follow state laws, too. No one wants to argue over where to relocate a base over a conflict with local laws and regulations. The million dollar question here is: your sailor shows up smelling like weed. How do you objectively determine if he baked one off this morning or if it's...

Nonono... You get brought down when the dependopotamus sees you on her way to the nail salon and calls God and country to report your ass.

I learned to do my own during this time. It now takes me 10 minutes. I don't have to wait in line behind an army of A schoolers and I don't have to deal with Ursula's look alike blaming me when she manages to cut my head with a buzzer.

You can thank the TR and its martyr CO.

NPIs do work. The shutdown had many reasons - some rooted in science, and many not.

They knew all of those things. They also knew that the PFR was estimated to be around 0.1%, +/- 0.05%. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/29/823517467/fauci-estimates-that-100-000-to-200-000-americans-could-die-from-the-coronavirus

I think that the models are reasonably accurate. Hopefully we learn a few things from this pandemic: 1) We need to foster a culture of staying home when sick, not powering through it. The economic relief bills should have focused on increasing paid sick time vice blanket writing people checks...

The best is when the news sounds alarmist over asymptomatic cases.

If you're talking total cooking time sure. I'm talking active time. You don't have to stand over the stove to watch the food cook. I cook all the time and most of my meals take less than 10 minutes of active time. One example: rub chicken breasts with your favorite mix of spices. Scoop rice...

If your definition of healthy is organic, grass fed gluten free fad bs, then maybe. The staples to make balanced, nutritional meals are generally the cheapest items at the grocery store. And cooking most meals takes as long as waiting in line at a fast food joint.

Ok boomer

Let me just say that it's disappointing that you'd take the time to write that post but couldn't bother to do a Google search.

First, the threshold for obese is less than you probably think it is. Second, of the over 132,000,000 obese Americans, there are fewer than 1,000,000 that actually have a legitimate health condition that makes them that way. Everyone else is simply inflicted with some combination of gluttony...

He makes it sound like being fat is some sort of stroke of luck beyond people's control.

I'm honestly puzzled why the CDC posted this. Looking at NYC alone, excess mortality in 2020 is at about 25,000 people. The assessed mortality from COVID-19 so far is 32,000 people. Nation wide, the numbers are 205,000 and 185,000, respectively. The numbers aren't nearly as far apart as the 6%...

There's a Roth TSP option. You can withdraw contributions without penalty, although you'll have to make monthly payments to replenish. It's essentially a loan to yourself with interest also paid to yourself.

Where in there is a study of infectious disease and the effectiveness of mitigation measures on public health?

They might as well have bitched on the internet. The paper is crap. I don't have a paper because I'm not an epidemiologist. But there's this organization called the CDC that reviews papers written by actual experts and puts out guidelines. So there's your contradiction. If I want to review...

In other words: 'We lack the education and experience to explain why this phenomenon occurs, so we'll just conclude that NPIs are ineffective.'

Yes, economists should be consulted to discuss economics.

When an economist is pontificating about the effectiveness of public health policy on the spread of infectious disease using a basic model, his opinion is exactly as good as a naval aviator's. Put another way: why should we listen to this panel of economists that are claiming that the CDC's...

Their argument isn't supported by the results in the paper. But that's what you get when economists try to do research outside their swim lanes.

Yep. They basically wrote a paper that theorizes that flattening the curve works. Also, you don't usually turn to economists for your SMEs on pandemics.

That's where you and I disagree. COVID-19 reporting, like all reporting, has a high inject of opinion. What sounds more dire: 'NY sees record high 1000 new cases of COVID-19!' vs '1 in 10,000 NYers infected with COVID-19.' Both are true statements. One gives people the impression of a big...

It wasn't in the OP Ed section. This is the front page of the paper. But here's the point: all news is an opinion piece. Always has been, always will be. The choice of adjectives and adverbs can paint two very different pictures of the same factual event. Writers and editors know how to choose...