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There aren't many commissioning options available to you if you are ineligible for TS clearance, and most of those options would require a specific educational background that you don't have.

Out of curiosity, in what ways do you believe the pendulum has swung too far? Also, do you think that your evolving position and increased responsibilities may have influenced your perception of organizational wide change where none may exist? I had an EDMC accused of 'changing' as he increased...

I said can, not will. Come back when the recruiter is booking a flight mid July from 1-2 weeks out from hot vacation spots. Even your numbers add up to 2 weeks of pay, which still points to swift outprocessing to be the best way for the Navy cut costs on applicants who fail their flight...

The point of my post wasn't about the medium of delivery, but that one should be skeptical when a person who has reaped the benefits of a career path suddenly believes that he achieved success in spite of those benefits rather than because of them. I especially would be skeptical of an old...

Flight + hotel + rental car + per diem for a 3 day trip can easily add up to more than a month of E-5 w/ under 1 year of service pay.

But when JO and DH pilots are leading people into combat, they're going to do it while flying an aircraft. Hmmm... I mostly find the 'officer first' thing in the Navy to be nothing more than a meaningless catch phrase people throw around because they think that they are supposed to. The Navy is...

Yea, and I've read no less than a dozen clickbait headlines about how college isn't worth the investment, only to do a quick search on that author and lo-and-behold, he is some 40 something year old man with a college degree. Shocking. Point being, sometimes people forget the opportunities...

If you need a weapon for your duties, the Navy will issue it to you. You cannot bring your personal firearms onto a military installation.

The reality is that MEPS will only know what recruits tell them, especially when it comes to mental disorders. As you have experienced, they do a cursory examination that would identify any glaring physical disabilities/ailments that restrict normal motion and sensory perception, but beyond that...

If you don't have gap insurance, there's nothing you can do to get more than the assessed value of the car. If the car is repairable, the most damages your insurance company can get from the other party is the immediate diminished value (resale value of your car before accident - resale value...

When I was 'shopping' for laser eye surgery, every single one of them put their results in terms of % of patients achieving 20/40 or better. I'd be surprised if you can find a doc who would even do the surgery since you don't even really need glasses at 20/30-20/40.

I have had my social security number, DOB, and hometown plastered on dozens of gov't documents. If my identity was ever at high risk of being stolen, it was after joining the Navy. Oh, and not to mention that dropping my mil ID anywhere up to last year would have given someone my name, DOB...

Someone already beat you to it...

According to the VCNO, the plan to forward deploy more ships has been in the works for quite some time. It was in response to sequestration and finding a way to cut O&M costs. Forward deploying more ships cuts on all the fuel, supplies, etc. needed to get the ships across the ocean before they...

I would argue it's easier to develop the capability to track and destroy SSBNs than the capability to develop a boatload of bunker-busting ballistic missiles that must hit their targets accurately and simultaneously to prevent launch. We're kind of lucky that Ivan went broke during the cold war...

Eh, I tend to disagree that it's the military alcohol regulations alone that do it. Let's say we waive a magic wand and a duty van or three takes everyone from the o-club to their house after a night of drinking. So now I ask: who is going to go to an on-base bar with a bunch of dudes and women...

The few times I've sold a used car on the market, it has gone pretty quickly. It will especially go quickly if you find one in good condition. Have your husband go post a flyer or dozen around a ship that just got back from deployment. The car will sell.

Why not just buy an old used car in good condition and flip it 7 months later? An older car would probably sell for equal or slightly lesser value than you purchased it for in 7 months, assuming you don't bang it up in that time.

The security deposit is for damages and cannot be taken because you broke the lease from the SSRA. Note: This assumes that you gave adequate notice of at least 30 days. For example, if your orders have you executing a PCS in June, you have to tell the landlord before May 1 that you are moving...

Prior enlisted SEALs go through OCS, they don't repeat BUD/s. PM NavyOffRecruiter or RUFiO181 and ask them how backing out of DEP would affect your application to commission. If you enlist, you'll have to spend significant time as an enlisted Sailor to build up top evals and get a good CO's...

I think you misunderstood. Epi-lasik is in the same category as PRK - it's a surface ablation procedure. The difference is how the epithelial layer is removed to get to the cornea. PRK takes a scrubby brush to your eye, epi-lasik uses suction and a laser to do it. Ultimately, which procedure...

You're not active duty, so the Navy couldn't care less how you schedule your post-op care. Military physicians will evaluate you when the time comes. Which procedure you use is really up to you and your doctor. The military has no preference. If you do choose surface ablation, ask your doc...

Required by written guidance, CO independent. Remember the whole lack of trust for JOs theme that started this whole conversation?

Surface OOD is almost exclusively stood by JOs except for when DHs need to do specific prac facs for command quals (unassisted landings and such). 'Special evolutions' submerged entail getting within a mile of an object you can't physically see, so yea, the DH is usually doing that with the CO...

If you're talking on the surface, yes, of course you do. We only surface to transit into or out of port. If you're talking about conning the ship, it depends on the CO and timing. One thing we have that you don't is a requirement to qualify EOOW and eventually qualify engineer. Duce-guy's...

You lost me here. As a nuke, I'll be the first to say that expert knowledge of ship's systems is one of the most important things for someone to learn as a JO. However, the stuff you mention is way too in the weeds. What a JO needs to be able to do is brief his bosses about the problem, its...

This is everything anyone needs to know about the SWO community and its attitude toward JOs. I will counter with this: Why would you ever want to take the DHs/XO/CO out of their roles as senior supervisors and make them operate a level lower than they ought to? Who's providing backup to the CO...

It sounds like the SWO community is similar to the sub community in one regard: You should expect that your responsibilities as a JO are going to be very limited in scope and mostly revolve around maintaining paperwork programs. The Chiefs manage the people in the division, and the CO/XO/DHs...

The bottom line is that even though the record is expunged/hidden, you plead guilty to a felony. Your lawyer was trying to keep you out of jail and give you the opportunity to have a successful career in life - which you can still do, just not in military service. Your only recourse at this...

The better shape you are going into OCS, the easier time you'll have with that stuff. You have 7-8 weeks, so that's plenty of time to get into the oustanding category. Having said that, plenty of people make it through the program showing up being able to just get a satisfactory on the in-prt.

The people who get stress fractures are the people who have relatively light or no PT routine and suddenly find themselves having to exercise everyday. The same people who show up having to give 110% to get that 'good' score and then burn out a few weeks later. Having said that, Jacob, it's not...

You're not deployable for 6 mo after the surgery, so you'd probably have to pursue it on a non-operational tour (school or shore duty). The other time you might be able to do it is if you are assigned to a ship in overhaul, since that ship isn't going out to sea for quite some time. Initial...

Seriously, beef with the Pentagon spokesman? His job is to articulate DoD policy to the public. If anything I thought he was cool as a cucumber when some Fox News bimbo tried to get him to declare war 4x or so, each time repeating 'the President has authorized military operations against...'...

If you show up without glasses and never wear them even if issued, no one will be the wiser. Just make sure you can tell the difference between a chief anchor and gold oak leaf at a reasonable distance. At OCS, you'll get BCGs so it won't matter. After OCS, no one will give a crap about your...

I agree with you of course, but I wasn't talking about holding them to standards of conduct. I was more so talking about: Officer with an hour until next meeting: look at to-do list, prioritize what to work on in the next hour. Junior enlisted with an hour until a training event: check in with...

I would argue that money is the least of concerns. Aside from the stickiness of having a circle of enlisted and officer friends that are not supposed to be friends (which becomes an increasingly bigger deal as you become more senior), there are large differences in quality of life and how they...

That sounds like what it is in a nutshell (it doesn't go into much detail about what Tricare Choice would/would not cover). Here's my issue with it: The report goes into detail the many complaints that military family members have with MTFs: the referral process, long wait times, etc. Not to...

True. Thing is, at some point military compensation is going to come under fire as part of the over-arching plan to get the federal budget under control. I think that they were trying to balance saving money with retaining as many benefits for service members as possible, which is better than...

Maybe because the over-arching point he was trying to make to a lawyer-turned-junior Senator is that aviators need funding for more flying hours, yet that has been lost because he got an off the cuff guesstimate of actual flight hours incorrect? I don't think that the Senator knows how many...

I don't think you understand. The commission was stood up by Congress as part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Former military flag/GOs and Congressmen don't willy-nilly embark on 2 year studies like this on their own accord.

So I said that I was skeptical about how they will save $5billion but supposedly increase the net value of a retirement pension with a 5% TSP match. Too good to be true... Answer: They propose drastically reducing medical benefits for AD family members. Tricare Prime and Standard go away...

You might stand a better chance of being together 'some of the time' if you both commission. Keep in mind that your career paths and duty rotations could be completely different as O vs. E. Definitely head over to pers and look at whatever career briefs they have to see how your nominal duty...

Shipboard drill: People lathargically go to assigned stations throughout the ship and performed rehearsed actions. Shipboard casualty: People run to the scene, crowd the space, and stand in awe without any plan, knowledge, or initiative of what to do next.

Fresh off the press, the Military Compensation and Retirement Commission (MCRC) just released an extensive report detailing proposals to save DOD money. Surprisingly, most of the proposals seem pretty easy to swallow and were favored by ~60% of AD servicemembers surveyed over the current...

FIFY. The infuriating part is when the boat is 'out of food' and pulls in to offload boxes of frozen steaks that have to be thrown out because the chop mis-managed the funds, and since the food comes from a foreign country it shall not enter the U.S. I mean, yea, some stuff generally runs out...

I think that you missed the point. The stated purpose for BAS in the MILPERSMAN is to offset the cost for government provided meals. It's not there to give you tax-free money to pay for groceries at Walmart or lunch at Subway. I agree that whether or not you collect BAS as an officer isn't tied...

No. Enlisted servicemembers assigned to sea duty on a ship are not authorized BAS unless the ship is in overhaul. http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/7000/Documents/7220-180.pdf It doesn't matter where they live or what the marital status is. Enlisted crewmembers not...

The only thing I missed is what you meant by 'lose.' I thought you meant that enlisted crewmembers were paying a mess bill with base pay like officers are when the ship is U/W. I'm aware of what officer BAS is, see below about that. Be careful what you wish for. Most officers make out on the...

So I was a little off, memory was fuzzy. Anyone collecting BAS gets charged the standard government meal rate while onboard a ship for each meal eaten. This works out to about $14/day or $430/mo if you ate every meal onboard the ship, which is a little higher than the enlisted BAS rate of about...