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When asked how my weekend was, I can freely talk about boning my girlfriend without repercussions in the form of sexual harassment suits or getting fired. I also don't have to listen to other people have these stupid conversations without getting punched in the throat. On the negative side, I...

I am not an aviator, but the fact that I never hear the following "conversation" ever again makes it all worth it: *Gets on elevator at 8:45 am Monday morning with two other female workers* 30 seconds of awkward silence Woman 1 to woman 2: *in over-happy, high on caffeine voice* HAPPY...

It sounds like you had your heart set on the USMC and are only applying to the Army because you'd have to wait until Oct, 2010. I would caution you against going into the Army just for that reason. You are going to obligate yourself to the Army for years when you could just wait a while and...

Honestly, the way an officer's contract is written, I doubt the 4 vs. 8 active duty was the actual issue. To my knowledge, aviation always meets its goals, so if someone doesn't want it the community can say good riddance and move on. Besides, don't aviators sign the 8 year active duty...

The life of an academically struggling nuke is miserable. Spending 80 hours a week in the same classroom for 4 months at a minimum (earliest you can possibly fail the minimum two classes for them to consider outprocessing you), particularly when you don't want to be there in the first place, is...

Maybe, maybe not. There is a formula that Big Navy uses to meet their manning. So you tell the Admiral that you don't want to serve aboard a submarine, no way, no how... you could end up with a bottom choice, you could end up in your original community. It depends on a myriad of factors that are...

Sorry, I did not mean to imply to act like a jackass in front of the Admiral. Rather, politely but firmly state that you don't want to be a nuke. If they order you into the program anyway, so be it.

My mistake then. If a bank changes an interest rate on a fixed CC and applies it to past debt, then I can understand the extreme dissatisfaction.

There are people on these boards who turned down nuke and are now pilots. If you really don't want to be a nuke, what's worse: standing in front of the man at the Academy and doing whatever silly punishment they might hand out, or spending the next 5 years of your life being miserable? It's...

Just to clarify: my original argument was in regards to professionals. People with PhD's who are doing research need the first 4 years to learn the basics of their fields. You'd be hard pressed to get an advanced degree in immunology without having learned the basic cell structure and mechanisms...

Same thing as aviation. You can attempt to redesignate if another community is looking for an unqualified JO. If not, then you are separated from the Navy. At least they get to keep the nuke bonus. Just wait...if the Navy times article is true, then in a couple of years women will be...

Yea, that's the other side of the coin...Congress only actually meets like 90-100 times a year. Good luck getting something passed if something goes down on a Saturday and they're not due back to work until Tuesday.

If you want to argue for an age requirement, then fine. I would disagree (even completely cutting out a 4 year degree, one would not become a full-fledged doctor until 25 at a minimum), but requiring a bachelor's just to make someone "older" is silly. Also, did you know that it's harder for...

I agree. However, my point is that there is a lot of room for improvement/reform on the schooling end of the deal as well, but no one is addressing that at all. When you have people going into 6-figure debt to get a medical degree, you're never going to truly make healthcare "affordable." It...

No matter what you do, there will still be doctors who have gone through 11-15 years of schooling and training who expect to be paid $200-500k per year to do their jobs. That's not going to be cheap for anyone, no matter what you do about insurance premiums.

The fact of the matter is that requiring Congress to deliberate before every armed conflict is not practical in today's world. The War Powers Act is a good compromise between two competing powers that exist in the Constitution -- The President's position as Commander in Chief, and Congress's...

I am not supporting the law. My point is that if people believe talking on the phone is dangerous and ought to be illegal, then texting is far worse. Novice or not, it's nearly impossible to send a text message without taking your eyes off the road at some point. In the days of voice dialing and...

Texting while driving is more dangerous than talking on the phone while driving. At least you keep your eyes on the road when you're talking.

Credibility with an elected official's constituency is important. If Obama starts to be viewed as a joke by Americans, it will create problems in accomplishing his goals. It could also potentially cause the Democrats to lose the majority in Congress come mid term elections. That might be a good...

This is why I stay away from variable interest rates.

To state the obvious, it seems like Obama has lost a lot of credibility by accepting this award. Jokes like the above are non-stop. His advisors had to see this coming, so my question is why accept the award? Obama could've humbly turned it down...Americans would respect him for rejecting an...

The question was not what all officers wear, but what you have to say at OCS. AT OCS, it's always the star, unless it's an ADM's shoulderboards...then it's an anchor.

To extrapolate: The only way to guaruntee yourself a pilot slot or nothing is to apply to BDCP or OCS. If you go to USNA or choose to enroll in NROTC, you fill out a service selection sheet in which you can be picked for anything on it. You may or may not get selected for pilot depending on a...

I don't think that Gen. McChrystal is "conducting an independent media campaign to sway policy." In this age of information, it would be nearly impossible for a General to ask for more troops/money/whatever without it getting leaked to the media. I'm quite sure that anyone who is professional...

I'm curious to know what % of the retention are prior enlisted sailors who are on their way to retirement after their DH tour vs. how many were in their 5th year of service.

As far as nuke subs not drafting people... tell that to USNA and NROTC midshipmen.

Falling out of a run is very, very bad. Just don't do it.

Why not? I'm just curious why you'd say this. As Otto said, you don't get harrassed during runs unless you fall out of the run. In fact, the fast group actually did more running...they'd be sprinting up and down a hill until the medium and slow group got back from their runs. I don't know the...

Women can and do become impregnated by their husbands while on liberty. That's not having sex when they're not supposed to.

SUNY Albany, BS in biology. I'd go to Albany if I had to do it over again. However, I would not major in biology. You should pursue something that is interesting to you, but you should also keep in mind where the job market is headed. I majored in biology because I was trying to pursue...

Etiquitte at Newport is an NKO course.

It would work, but it's nearly impossible to hit that perfect number and keep it there. The number of women and men in the Navy is not constant, and they all have different sea tour schedules.

I believe it. Struck me as odd that he was so uptight about us knowing the regulations. When I was at OCS, he was the only DI without a good conduct medal. The most epic RPT I ever witnessed was when the black ninja made his PT body bear crawl around the PT field for the entire duration of...

Which is exactly why integrating women into the community is such a challenge.

Son, get in the grass and kill yo'self. I thankfully had minimal interaction with the black ninja. Only time he got me was when he was coming into work in civvies, and I didn't recognize him. The only other time I interacted with him is when we were almost candios and he was telling us to know...

Think beyond officers. I was referring to enlisted male sailors being forced to hot rack in favor of enlisted females getting their own 9-man. Unless you're saying that men and women are given the same room on surface ships, which, to my knowledge, doesn't happen. Even if it is just on the...

And for every woman who helps man the sub community, how many men are going to leave because they were forced to hotrack while 2 women shared a 9-man room?

I'm sure in everyone's "fantasy Navy," we'd never lose a sailor to pregnancy...or the myriad of other testosterone related accidents that I detailed above, all of which rise from a conscious choice to partake in a risky/stupid activity. The reality of the matter is that it's not possible to...

Isn't the pregnancy thing being blown out of proportion? How many male sailors are lost because they got into a motorcycle accident, got a DUI, decided to smoke pot on liberty, got into a barfight, broke their knee playing tackle football w/o pads with their friends compared to how many are lost...

What about women who choose to enlist or apply to OCS later than 18/22, respectively?

I disagree. If we go back to before integration of blacks and later women into the workplace, they absolutely had to show that it was valuable to hire them, or else companies would have no motivation to accommodate the varying needs of their employees. Today we accept as fact that, for many...

That's an impossible task, since you're asking me to prove a negative. As I said before, if you're going to propose a change that is very difficult to impose, then there ought to be a good reason for it. The burden of proof lies on those who support the change.

It's not specious at all, nor is it a red herring... your statement was that a company would get sued and lose for refusing to hire a gender. I listed 3 companies which would not... at least not for those specific positions. The "civilized world" can recognize that even in the modern age of...

Ultimately, the burden is to provide a good reason why the change should occur, not to provide good reasons to avoid it. We've already established how difficult it'd be, but no one has provided a good reason why we should bother to overcome it. So far the only ones posed are to fix manning...

Really? Been to Hooters lately? Strip clubs? I also don't see women suing the NFL successfully because females aren't allowed to try out. I mean, it could be done...all you have to do is make some rule changes about how men aren't allowed to tackle women and everything would be peachy. The...

I don't think anyone's saying it's "not possible," but that it's more of a PITA than it's worth. Also, short underway periods don't deal with the same long-term issues as full deployments. If said boomer is making 5 knots to nowhere 1.5 months into its 3 month deployment and discovers that et2...

Females can be nuke officers on aircraft carriers. As has been covered by a dozen posts, the issue isn't sexism. There are legitimate logistical problems that are very difficult to overcome wrt putting women on submarines. You also have to consider that there are many compartments on 688 subs...

This is really why I don't think it'll happen anytime soon. Living spaces, facilities, and all that jazz are one thing. If that weren't hard enough to overcome (are they going to use up an entire 9-man room for one female enlisted sailor, or an entire 3 man stateroom for the one female DH? Or...

Honestly, if you're thinking of DOR'ing, the fastest way to go home is to finish the program, graduate, and then turn down the commission. Who knows, by then you might have changed your mind. But no, it's not a dishonorable discharge either way.