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Wouldn't the Maj. Cmd selects be boosted by the fact that the Navy requires JPME to be selected, and that JPME can be done concurrently with a 1 year master's program at the NWC? We're also talking someone who is 20+ years into his career before that little wicket becomes important vs. the...

You can't 'un-volunteer' after power school. You sign up for a contract to be an 1170 -> 1120, so to 'un-volunteer' would require a lateral transfer. I don't know what unusual circumstances surrounded the guy who 'un-volunteered' right before SOBC, but I suspect more was at play than a simple...

I was more talking about the fact that if it weren't for 16-18% oxygen levels and general lack of sleep, you wouldn't be able to have a conversation with someone in your 'office' on a sub without waking up 1-2 other people because your 'office' as a DH is half of the 4'x6' area in front of the...

What's kinda funny is that you missed the opportunity to dig at the fact that you even had an office to sweat in.

4? More like 6. At least our ER is air conditioned :). In a vacuum it's not. But if you pile it into all the other training you have to do, it amounts to 8 hours a week. Now, if you were to count drills as training, which they kind of are, it bumps to 12. So you spend 60 hours a week...

As far as subs go: When you go on deployment, expect no communication at all. On local ops, you can send emails that get transmitted when the sub comes to PD, assuming the weather is good and it's not taking forever to get required message traffic. If you go on a boomer you'll almost always...

Learn to read charts, be cognizant of where the ship is authorized to operate, and don't recommend the ship positions itself in a spot where it will potentially run aground (such as, on an island) or enter territorial waters in your briefs to the CO. That will probably get you far in the...

Well, just to clear some things up: There are 4 options within the nupoc program: SWO nuke, subs, instructor, and Naval Reactors engineer. The last two aren't comparable in any way to SWO, so can't really answer your question there. It's like asking what's better, a financial advisor or...

A better title: Fuck over a bunch of people, save 1.5% on DoD budget and 0.25% on federal budget. Sub-headline: Congress pushes to use savings to fund illegal immigrant welfare; considering increasing foreign aid to Muslim Brotherhood. Also, one of the costs is chronic care for retirees...

I define 'actual engineering' as in sitting down and desiging something, ie 'using CAD' as you state. There are R&D spots open for EDOs but if someone is joining the Navy as an EDO and expects to be designing, for example, the next DDG as a LTJG, he's going to be in for a rude awakening. As with...

Because group study has been shown to be more effective than just solo studying when employed properly, ie groups of people with similar LOK/abilities, you review the material alone beforehand, you don't spend the a bunch of time shooting the breeze, etc. because vocalizing the material helps...

He would have to go AD to work at NR. NR is the only AD option in the Navy that will allow him to do actual engineering. Yea, didn't think about that. People don't just 'suddenly' get scholarships and grants, they apply for them. OP probably should've been more forthcoming to the OR about this...

I agree that if someone is struggling to hit the minimums then they'll have a hard time, but you don't need to max any category before OCS to succeed. In fact, if you can score just 'excellent' overall then you'd be ahead of most of your peers.

Do they not look at the reason? You'd have to be really sick in the head to turn down a full scholarship + $25k research grant in order to earn a master's. Regardless, it sounds like OP's only choice is to write a really convincing letter on why he DOR'ed from OCS and why he wants to come back...

Yea, I just don't like the fact that she was pinning it on being a racial/gender minority, and no one else understands because she's the only person in the world who found herself having to work with members of the opposite sex or a different race.

This sounds like BS excuse making to me. A part of being a grown up is sometimes doing something you're not comfortable doing because it's foreign to you. There are plenty of people who succeed as a racial minority within their organization. I suspect Dirk Nowizki didn't get so good at...

Not sure how you can call a profession that judges people based on factors beyond their control (namely height) a 'meritocracy.' You can have the best arm in the world but you will never play QB for a pro NFL team if you are under 5'10" and even at that height you'd better be exceptional...

So at what point does making modifications to the CrossFit routine make it stop being 'CrossFit' and start being 'I'm just doing my own thing?' If you can't follow the workout routine as designed then it's not a good routine, IMO.

Yea, POTUS doesn't have veto power and doesn't communicate what he wants in legislation to his majority party in the Senate. Nope, not his fault at all.

Any fitness coach worth his salt will tell you to stay the fuck away from crossfit. Here's a fun fact: most of the competitive crossfitters don't actually do crossfit as their normal workout. They train for a month or so to do the crossfit routine but the rest of the year they do a more...

I must be computer illiterate. I can find the links to transfer post 9/11 benefits to a dependant but can't find the link to transfer from the MGIB to post 9/11 GI bill.

No idea. My bad, made a bad assumption (this IS the 'stupid questions about OCS' thread though!)

I am going to suggest a slightly different line here: I don't know what your level of fitness is right now. If you are a fit person who is looking to get in shape for military fitness, then more endurance work will serve you better. However, if you are not in shape then weights can help you...

Don't count on eating any dairy at OCS. Maybe they wisened up but when I attended you were not allowed any dairy products at all, including milk.

I get what you're trying to say, but I think there are a lot of people who couldn't make it in those jobs. It's back-breaking work for crap pay and you generally get treated like garbage by your boss, whose only concern is making you work faster.

To expand on this: The MAs or TMs are supposed to maintain all of your small arm qualification paperwork, including your most recent shoot for each weapon. They are supposed to give it back to you when you transfer so that you can provide it to your next command. That would 'prove' that you...

Eating vegetarian will be easy. Just eat rice/potatoes, and veggies every lunch and dinner. For breakfast, you'll get all the pancakes, french toast sticks, or waffles that you can eat. Oh, and lots of dinner rolls, too. Avoiding malnutrition from not eating any protein while PTing fairly often...

I think that if you were in the military prior to the post 9/11 GI bill, you have to file a form to sign up for it. Otherwise it's assumed you have the MGIB.

You're ignoring a whole lot of compensation if you're just including base pay. In fact, total AD military compensation totals $116,484,238,000 (includes MIDN/Cadets, but doesn't include reservists). The comptroller lists "active personnel costs" as over $130 billion (the dollars in the charts...

I've thought about this quite a bit lately, mostly because my wife's dad retired in part thanks to his body deteriorating. He's in his early 60s. While we've figured out how to make people live longer through medical procedures and medications, we haven't figured out how to postpone the adverse...

Villanelle, the compromise is altering retirement starting with new servicemembers. @ Pags, we will have to agree to disagree. You keep going back to importance of one's job within the military, which I wasn't referring to. I was referring to a journalist, who has never been in the military...

It's not a reasonable compromise because 90% of the old system + 10% of the new system does not equal 100% of the old system. It would still ultimately cut his retirement benefits retroactively.

I disagree. I think big Navy does, too. You have a better chance of screening for promotion in some billets than others, all else being equal, because those billets are more challenging or require a higher level of expertise to perform. Then there are shore duty billets which are harder to fill...

Suppose the alternative is a TSP match. Or suppose it's a change to no benefits until 62.5 (both options have been tossed around). Suppose (through admittedly poor money management) a terminal E-6 or E-7 with 18 years of service has under $10k saved up in TSP because he's relying on that...

I really think that goes the wrong way, though. With people living longer, the expectation should be to stay in the workforce longer. Isn't the money problem largely due to the expected lifespan rising along with spiraling healthcare costs for hospital care, surgeries, and a coctail of expensive...

Flash, this is why I hate when people talk in long-term numbers. "Cut 6 billion" sounds like a lot, until you divide it by 10 and compare it to the current budget this year and realize it's a fraction of a percent. $1.7 million pension sounds like a lot, but it's only $25,000-30,000 a year (and...

Before anyone complains about grandma and grandpa living off of only social security, we should remember it was their generation that decided that corporate retirement benefits were just too expensive. Now they're pulling the 'I don't get retirement benefits, why should they?' line.

There is no mindset. It is a fact that some jobs will work harder/longer than others. Choose your rate/choose your fate. Doesn't mean the job is unimportant, but a journalist with an agenda could try to exploit it.

Bullweavels...the other "other" white meat. Also, food stored next to 2 month old cans of garbage and some E-4 who hasn't showered in a week climbs over to take his logs. Yum. Never ate an MRE, but I suspect it's a bit more sanitary even if it's tasteless. I think you meant 'eat better during...

It wasn't meant to be a dick measuring contest. Point was that a journalist would find some airman or sailor who has a cushy MOS or rating and exploit it while conveniently ignoring those who have a tough job to do. I spoke about submariners because it's what I know, not because I think that...

I would like those who say 'you're way overcompensated' to serve just a year in the submarine force -- you know, one of those 'non-combatant' units that should be cut because we didn't fight on the ground in the war on terror -- while being paid as an E-4/E-5. I can assure you he won't be saying...

I think adjusting HYT to 30 years in non-infantry jobs with some kind of mechanism to prevent people from becoming an empty uniform when they know that they are a terminal E7 to E9 (or O4 to O6) would go a long way. Pair that with a 401k/match pension system vice the current all-or-nothing...

Case 1 does have the gi bill. Hopefully he has a wife who can support a family and an employer willing to hire a 50 year old with the credentials of a 22 year old. Kids come into the equation because the military doesn't aim to just keep single men for 20-30 years. As I said above, unless...

IIRC, OCS is not a PCS move. You'll go to OCS and they'll get moved to your follow-on duty station when you get orders to it.

Don't move the goalpost. $88k (factoring in the tax advantage from your above number) is not "six figure compensation". It's $12,000, or about 15%, short. I have heard the "but he makes over $100k" argument pertaining to senior servicemembers. It's not true unless they live in a place with...

Huh? E-7 @ 24 year pay is just over $54,000/year. Special pays might add another $10,000 (I'm not familiar with how the Army does them), but those are taxable anyway. He's $8,000 short of having any money eligible for being taken out at the 25% tax rate, and that doesn't include deductions. So...

I think that if you factor in the lack of equity he has in a home from moving often (if he even bought one), the career earning potential his spouse takes for moving often, and the step back that he has to take earnings-wise at 44 years old evens out his 'highly compensated skillset' (your...

RLSO, I agree there. I was speaking toward the future retirement reform discussions that are probably on the horizon for personnel who have not enlisted yet, not changing the game on people who are in. You push retirement off until 62 or 65 or whatever for future enlistees, then you're not...

The thing with mil retirement is that it's 'one size fits all' for a military that can have unique experiences. Take case 1: A person enlists as an 11B in the Army and makes a career out of it. He's survived multiple tours in Iraq, but he FTS E-8 and are he retires at 44 years old. He has a...

You don't go to dental before OCS. If you have any dental issues, you get classified as a class 4 and can't deploy until they are fixed. If you need work done at OCS, they do it in like week 9 or 10 and you get a few days off while being high on minor pain killers.