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Recruiting duty isn't a 'due course' shore duty. Is it really beyond the realm of possibility that the following scenario occurred: Recruiter already has one foot out of the Navy and cares more about job hunting/liberty than putting new officers into the Navy. He's already met his quota for...

My surgeon convinced me to go epi-lasik (which is PRK but they take the cornea off with a laser). He claimed it was going to be mildly uncomfortable for a couple of days. That was an understatement. I shudder to think what PRK felt like.

Before you swear in you can do whatever you want. Your recruiter isn't going to file any paperwork until you sign the application process. My suggestion is that you start the application ~3 months post-op; by the time it takes to get everything together, you'll be ready to have that 6 month...

Brett, I've been watching you go back-and-forth with Hozer and read the article you posted with the expectation that it was going to lend some insight into this 'process' you keep talking about but refuse to explain to anyone because your staff tour(s?) inside the beltway make you more...

Not really. Let me summarize this article in two sentences: SECDEF wants Trump to keep his hands out of DoD's Wheaties. Liberal paper finds DoD insiders who will openly disagree with POTUS under conditions of anonymity. More at 11!

Sounds like a disaster of biblical proportions.

The Navy times sites two studies that were conducted by the Naval Safety Center - one in 2016 and one in 2018. Anyone have those/can post them? I couldn't find them on the Naval Safety Center's website, and since the results of the study don't match my experiences like many in this thread, I'd...

There is a ton of bad gouge in this article. Most glaringly is his cynical take on leadership from a JO who had his cup of coffee in the Navy then left and pursued a career as a worker bee. From his own account, he frequently participated in his watchstanders' bitch fests, saw his job as a...

It's up to the board members. If I were sitting an adsep board for this I'd be voting and trying to convince others of an OTH. NPQ isn't the same as a drug offense.

They should do some research.

You would go to NJP, which would find you in violation of article 92 and 112, and then an ADSEP board. The board will determine if there was basis for the COs decision and would determine if you get retained, an Honorable, General, OTH, or some other category for having fewer than 6 mo of...

It's increasing. The date of rank cutoff for the FY18 promotion board was July 1st (essentially anyone who commissioned after June 1st in 2008). All they have to do to meet the 11 year projection is push the DOR cutoff by one month to the left.

The current flow point for URL O-4 is 10 1/2 YCS and is increasing to 11 YCS by 2022. OP is not an URL officer, so I can't speak to their statutory board timing. You'd think it would be the same, but apparently not.

It depends on the problem and whether they know how to repair it. A swap of a TG is relatively easy and was likely designed into the life cycle of the ship. If there are gremlins in the distribution system or something is wrong with a 'life of ship' component then not so much.

What? Look, this guy comes in here with a douchebag screen name and essentially says 'I don't really want to be a SWO, convince me to stay in the Navy.' He didn't use those words exactly, but that's effectively the point of this thread. Being in the Navy is hard work, and for a junior SWO 20...

For the sake of your future Sailors, peers, and chain of command, DOR. Also, your screen name demonstrates some poor headwork.

Some COs still do it. If you're in a sea going command, who's going to say anything?

Ok, from a practical perspective why does it matter? Unless you have the worst chain of command ever you should be out of work by 1200 the latest on most days. I'm pretty sure if you just didn't show up for work no one would notice or they'll just assume you had an appointment or something. At...

Awards matter zilch for Officers when it comes to promotion. Straight from a person who recently sat statutory boards "no, we really didn't look at that."

Right, and "generally" I've read a lot of Navy Times stories of "Cmdr XXX was relieved" (sidenote: still baffled why the Navy Times doesn't use formal rank abbreviations) with some flowery language of filling up a couple of pages while not really saying anything, and through networking found out...

I think you're missing my point in the context of this thread... Several officers have mentioned that speculation leads to cynicism, which leads to malcontent (queue some Star Wars meme about hate leading to the dark side here). While the Navy has a policy to "disclose" DFC, they still often...

My most recent deployment relied heavily on coordination between us, air assets, and surface assets. Your community was instrumental to the fight and you did it well. Stop being so self-loathing.

A key point is that the Navy does not have to disclose the details of the DFC. Sometimes, when a CO is still 'under investigation' it's because everyone knows the allegations are true (by everyone I mean the junior enlisted ranks on the ship), but the NJP process has to catch up. Typically these...

He was not 'effectively fired.' He was passed over once details surfaced that were not known prior to his nomination. And I repeat: what's in those undisclosed email matters. I understand your anecdote just fine. Here's another: I was arrested for assault in college and no one gives a shit. I...

Bill Moran didn't get fired. Bill Moran didn't maintain a friendship with a MIDN who got in trouble from back in the day. We still don't know what's in those emails. These false equivalencies are getting ridiculous. Details matter.

The bar for firing is not the same as the bar for passing someone over to be hired. Were this to come out after ADM Moran swore in as CNO, he'd keep his job.

1) I disagree with CDR Salamander's assumptions. I think that what is in those emails is very relevant and this whole thing is about giving Bill Moran a soft landing to make sure that they don't go public. 2) The connotation of using the phrase 'sexual assault' sucks because I agree that most...

Okay I'll bite... I began college when the people who connected to the internet did so using a dial-up connection through AOL, when downloading a song on Napster took 45 minutes, before Google was synonymous with internet search. I was the first in my family to attend a 4-year college and I...

Is this a serious question? -That someone was convicted of sexual assault and it took longer than a week to get this into his OMPF. -That someone was convicted of felonious sexual assault and not given a dishonorable discharge in the next month, so he's collecting about $80k a year to sit in...

Shipping my car cost about $1300 cross country and I recouped about $700 from the travel claim. So all in all about $600 out of pocket. If you want a closed shipping method the cost goes to about $2k cross country.

They won't. You aren't allowed to ship (or tow) a vehicle as part of your HHG move. You won't 'get lucky.' Aside from the fact all this stuff us programmed into move. mil, I haven't met a HHG agent that doesn't treat you like a criminal trying to scam taxpayers at every opportunity. The travel...

The Navy will partially pay to ship your car in CONUS. They will pay what they would have paid you if a dependent drove your other vehicle cross-country (per-diem + mileage), which is almost always less than the cost of shipping. It's in the JTR, complete with example calculations. In fact...

What we do on the submarine side: E-4-E-7: NAM EOT. NCM EOT for hot-running chiefs. E-8/E-9: NCM EOT. MSM for the COB (equivalent to CMC) if he's the #1 in the squadron. DIVOs (O3): NAM EOT. NCM EOT for hot-running officers (typically ~1 every two years per boat). DHs (O4): NCM EOT XO (O4): NCM...

So then why bother asking him the question? As for responses: I think you missed my point a bit. We have to start with trying to answer: What does it mean to be "truly tactically proficent" and "ready for a peer threat?" What does that look like and how are you evaluating it? That's not an...

A little devil's advocate here... 1) This reserve O-6 is doing a safety seminar. His job isn't to solve fleet manning/maintenance/funding problems. He's probably heard this "question" (in quotes because it's really just a gripe to a senior officer) a billion times over, there's very little he...

There are about a dozen reasons I've never done anything like this that starts with why you think there's a dichotomy between "sitting on my ass in an air conditioned office" and loading equipment onto the ship, but let's not turn this thread into a community dick measuring contest. A) Your...

For several reasons, which I'll cover below. We have coveralls for exceptionally dirty work that would soil the NWUs, so I'm not sure what you're driving at here. They're even provided at no cost to the sailor. You don't do manual labor. Some of our men do. Those sailors are afforded coveralls...

I think that a lot of people look back on dungarees with rose-colored glasses. Many enlisted personnel thought they were uncomfortable, ill-fitting, and likened them to a prison uniform. The first two complaints are likely due to changes to the average shape of an American since WWII. The fact...

I actually think that moving the chest rank on the potential new uniforms to soft shoulderboards for officers and rating badges for enlisted would be a nice throwback. Keep both versions blue vice the khaki color for officers/chiefs. However, I'm sure somewhere there's a design criteria not to...

And I'm struggling with how someone can call China a peer adversary with a straight face. Can you link me to one of these military leaders that China is capable of simultaneously fighting and defeating two high-end blue water navies in full-scale conflict? There is a large spectrum between...

I was speaking from a military standpoint, but yes from an economic standpoint they reach out a lot further...including a stronghold in the U.S.

China's sphere of influence is limited to the far east. They are a threat only because we have an interest there as well, and we can't just run over them anymore. Again, this doesn't make them a peer wrt naval capabilities, it just elevates them above most of the rest of the world. No, I'm...

They can use the terminology all they want; the people you point to are not above political pandering for more funding to buy cool toys. The great thing about adding the word 'near' to 'peer' is that you don't have to define exactly how near they are. There are more than a few tactical...

He said those things in response to questions on topics that were separate from the one that you were using them to support.

The context absolutely does make a difference. You snipped a quote out of an answer where the Admiral is speaking about the difficulty of establishing a base of operations in the South China Sea. That doesn't make China a near peer competitor by any stretch. Do you really think either of these...

We enjoy maritime superiority over any other nation, to include complete dominance in air and undersea combat. This is an indisputable fact. Yes, China is able to churn out large numbers of ships, missiles, and aircraft that are outmatched by the weapons we employ. They are also unable to...

I mean, the interview is public and you mashed together partial quotes from answers to 3 different questions. Also, anytime an GO/FO speaks to Congress about world threats there is going to be a certain level of "this is why you need to give me more toys" salesmanship.

Way to take quotes out of context. Do you work for a major news agency?

Who is this peer adversary? What country can come close to our industrial output for ships and aircraft? This 'near peer' boogeyman doesn't exist. Our Navy far exceeds the tonnage and capability of the next guy. Whatever they do have, they struggle to maintain even a small fraction...