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So what's the takeaway here? Get butthurt you lost a senior officer's confidence for doing something unsafe and you can get him repremanded because he cussed at a social event a few weeks back? What does that have to do with the Admiral's ability to conduct his duties? The fact that the Navy...

Another thing to consider is that the car buying process can be lengthy depending on what your demands are for the vehicle and timing. Having bought a car recently myself, patience is the name of the game. Their job is to move cars, so the longer it sits on the lot the better you can bargain...

He's at NPTU, which is run mostly by civilians. No idea who their ISIC is, let alone who the CoC is beyond the shift eng LT on shore duty. The highest ranking officer I ever saw there was a LCDR, and that was once in passing. I'm sure there's an O5 or O6 there as OIC but we never interact with...

USAA's auto loan APR, Navy Federal's APR, and some dealership APR's during their sales are lower than the starter loan's APR. You'll have an address in FL in time to be able to register your vehicle. Do you expect to be homeless for more than the standard 2 weeks they give you to register your...

There are a significant amount of college graduates working in jobs that don't require a college degree, and a significant proportion of those people are working in jobs that don't even require a high school degree (e.g. bartender). The numbers are astounding but it's because students are being...

They have. Regarding OCS, my DI trained us well until he started going through a divorce about midway through our class. Life suck sometimes; however, it was highly disappointing to hear down the road that he, along with a couple others, were dipping their pens in company ink. He also had a...

Sort of. Whether it be after a first tour, after retirement, or god forbid after something makes you NPQ, you will get out of the Navy one day. I agree that majoring in something that is so difficult for you that you become ineligible for a commission is not the way to go (likewise, this will...

True, but he's got one to two years of core classes to take to decide. Just make sure that a calc sequence and calc based physics sequence is among them so the options stay open without going on a 5-6 year plan. The "major what you're interested in" alone is bad advice. Unless you're super...

And my DI went MIA around week six and porked female candidates. He also wasn't the only one who did this.

What civilian career will you persue when you get out? Major in that.

Admittedly, there was talk of that stuff. We had a prior who got enough people willing to boycott the event at too high of a high price. Yea, I'm sure that GySgt XXX and Senior Chief YYY lose sleep every night thinking about ENS ZZZ's cheap coins. Again, most DIs/CPOs sell their coins unless...

I was lucky in that the class pres/vp/whatever had a high percentage of married w/children people, so they were motivated to keep the cost down. That's how they arrived at using the Newport O-club for hi-mom's. We did have classes that spent as much as you detail. $10/head or family member might...

Yea, in fairness I went through with khakis. The parka and liner cost something like $400 alone or some crazy amount. Then you need to buy four sets of smurf uniforms at like $160/each and pay $20/each in like tailoring/taping fees. There's a reason I only have two of those things. Only if...

Uniform bill is due at the end. Its approx $1800-2000. You'll get an initial uniform allowance and you can put it on a credit card. Look up E5 pay under 2 years and multiply by 3. Then add initial uniform allowance. That's what you'll get paid.

You type "PCS travel" into google and thousands of links come up.

Just some clarification: You get a flat per diem rate for you PCS travel, plus an additional 75% of that for each dependant over a certain age and 50% for dependants under. That is for food and lodging. You then get $.24/mile for gas. Hotel receipts are not required as you get a flat per diem...

Unless you're fat. Then they call you fat one and ask if you like being fat and lazy.

Well, the medal is now officially under review by order of SecDef due to all the controversy.

Bill Gates didn't finish college. Does that mean the path to being the wealthiest man in America starts with dropping out of school? NO! In fact, Mr. Gates himself said in an interview that he is "as far from a typical college dropout as you can get." He finished 3 years of schooling and would...

"Related to" isn't the same as the real thing. You can find success stories of people who went to school anywhere or who didn't even attend college at all, but they are the exception and not the rule.

If you're not majoring in one of these things, or enrolling in a professional program like education, law, medicine, etc (which usually let you major in any of the linked majors, anyway), you're screwing up at a high rate of speed. Bonus if you can enroll in a university renowned for the...

You go up to the hot food line and it's up to you to ask them for what you want on the hot food line. You can ask for more and some servers will give it to you, but the official Navy-wide galley policy is they're supposed to give you a "serving" of whatever you ask for and you have to come back...

Every class when I went through had unrestricted access to as much hot food as you could eat. But it is shitty Navy cafeteria food. If you chose not to eat it because you couldn't handle exercising 30 min later or it didn't settle wth you, then that's your choice not the DIs. Point is for the...

First, tuition assistance refers to money paid for earning college credit at an accredited public or private university. I don't know if carriers have people capable of teaching courses in this capacity...if they do, then I am happy that you and those who served with you were able to take...

I don't know if this is a Pensacola vice Newport difference, but you will not be malnurished at OCS. You can easily eat over 1,000 calories a meal and are required to down a bowl of vegetables. You might still be hungry depending on your metabolism, but malnurished? No. Also large quantities...

My point is that your definition of "can work" involves career sacrifices that many people are not willing to make. Deciding to date and marry a servicemember is a personal choice that involves weighing one's priorities. I have two aunts who told their prospective husbands come reenlistment time...

There are 1,456,862 active duty servicemembers; 6673 have died in Afghanistand and Iraq combined. Only 22 of those fatalities in Iraq were Navy. Of those, two were Officers and one of them was a suicide, the other was a non-hostile fatality. In Afghanistan, 96 were Navy; 13 were Officers.

Rarely will the Navy pay for schooling just because you desire it; it typically has to serve the needs of the Navy somehow. Additionally, there is a lot more to do professionally as a JO other than fly for a few hours and play Xbox and a lot more qualifications to earn. Your professional...

You book the flight, so you get in whenever you pick where a government flight rate is available. Work with your recruiter to see what lodging expenses you are entitled to, if any.

If you have the degree and skillset for a big silicon valley company, yea they pay a lot. But realize that doesn't represent the majority of employment opportunities; the median income is somewhere around $50-60k, which puts that internship higher than most people earn in their full-time jobs.

As an officer already holding a college degree, the GI bill probably isn't going to be your cup of tea. The best thing you could do is pass it down to a family member. You should also look closer into the benefits. The GI bill will provide a free education if you attend a public university...

Try to go the whole 2 min. Kneeling too early shows a lack of effort, and can get you unwanted attention. They understand people will collapse but if you take a knee after 1 min it won't go well.

Point 1: looking at O-1 pay is short-sighted. For starters my O-1 pay with BAH was $35kish in South Carolina, plenty to live off of as a single guy as BAH was lower than the national average for the area. Plus you don't pay taxes on a good chunk of your pay. Oh and I got oral surgery without...

If you show up worried about just passing the PFA, you are too fat and out of shape for OCS. "Running" a 13ish min 1.5 mi, doing 40ish situps and 40ish pushups is easy. If you are seriously worried about that then you need to reconsider your lifestyle. Also if you are prior and can only pass a...

You are not qualified to be a Naval aviator, so it's not possible to pick someone less qualified than you. Whether you like it or not, age is an important factor in both predicting whether an individual completes training and his potential longevity in the Navy. Also, rest assured that the Navy...

I think that turning down an offer for a commissioning slot has other implications for future applications that being a non-select doesn't.

Why did you apply for SWO if you didn't want to do it?

BAS is not for dependents, it is for the servicemember only. As you are in enlisted status with meals available on-base, you will not collect BAS until you commission (which would result in a net negative from your pay if you eat every meal on-base).

Unless your tooth needs work immediately, you'll get it done in candio stage, so you won't roll for 1-2 days siq. If you roll to H for other reasons earlier then they might do it then.

But DO be cheap on hi-moms/dining out (if you have one) and class T-shirts. A class not too far from us spent thousands on those events and items. We rented out the O-club for like $8 a head and the families had an equally enjoyable time. You might be a single "E-5" about to be commissioned...

The key phrase is "100% of those applications considered." Dunno what the criteria is for them to "consider" a package, but it most likely doesn't mean 100% selection of all applicants.

What % of SNAs get astronaut? :p

The answer is you will have few options. 1- You can use the GI bill to off-set the cost, but you will realistically have to do it on shore duty, and even then you might have a workload that doesn't support. 2- You can do a shore job at an NROTC unit and use your status as staff to get reduced...

We need to stop calling social security a free handout. It's not. People pay into it all their working lives, and it's capped at a point where wealthy Americans don't contribute appreciably more. Talking about a 67 year old retired American as if he's leaching the system is insulting to their...

It is if you don't have the aptitude for much else. Not everyone is born equal, and implying that a guy busting his ass daily to clean a building is lazy or has a poor plan is elitist. Maybe he's not smart enough to be something else. Maybe being a janitor full time was "making it" in spite of...

I'm a bit too lazy to find the instruction. Subs have had record retention over the past 3-4 years, so you might meet more than the avg lat transfers, and a lot of the guys you mention are probably in case 2 in that they didn't screen DH for some reason. As with any market, past trends are not...

R1, you keep judging people's character at work for discussing issues on a discussion board in an appropriate topic. It doesn't mean we walk around the boat complaining about every nuance. If the response is stfu and color, why even have discussion boards? scoob, the thing is with most of the...

R1, respectfully, the tone of your response IS the problem. As you have experience getting the ears of those who can change policy, what will get their attention? What will get them to realize that treating a 20 something E5 like an adult or ridding the perception that an enlisted Sailor's time...

Only of the major challenges is that by the time someone can make a change, they are so indoctrinated into the culture that they can't imagine a different way, and are not inclined to listen to guys with 1-4 yrs of experience. A small example of this is some enlisted guys on liberty ran into...

Social Security is a retirement investment account; you are supposed to get more than you paid. The drawback is that Uncle Sam manages the account, not you... which is mainly a drawback only if you care enough about money and retirement to learn to invest smartly. It's also what allows Uncle Sam...