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There is little to no scientific evidence that demonstrates that stretching actually prevents injuries, and doing pushups is as good of a warmup in the morning as any. And yea, the fear of being rolled often prevents people from going to medical.

I can think of 3 off the top of my head. I'll dig up links later if you really want them, but since you say you 'buy it,' is it that hard to believe that a young 20-something with a new-found $60,000/year salary who now thinks he's hot-shit and 'professional courtesy' backing him up would...

Not 'shot up the place,' but I can provide multiple examples in the last 12 months where off-duty cops decided to carry firearms while out for a brew (in a state that forbids concealed carry for us normal peasants), got beer muscles, started a fight, and ended up shooting someone. Bonus is one...

Pretty much that too... I strongly suspect that the popping I get in my knees is from bear crawling until you can't hold yourself up anymore and being crashed into by other candidates in a 4' wide p-way everyday for 2 1/2 months straight. There are ways to push people to physical exhaustion...

Wow...the more you know...

The difference is size structure. The point isn't that those items can't be obtained anywhere else; the point is that a general store located on base, which is meant to cater to servicemembers, does not stock common items that servicemembers actually want (or need) to buy. If the NEX's only...

So you think that the entire recruiting process should change because one person couldn't handle being yelled at, and that this one person is representative of an entire generation of people? Sounds like the woman who was on the news the other day who wanted the state of CA to mandate rear-view...

Canav, cops are run by local governments and largely enforce local and state laws. Saying that they aren't required to intervene when different LEO organizations can have different policies and states have different laws is a wide net. However, I do agree that it is irresponsible for off-duty...

Not enough compound lifts (where are your deadlifts? overhead press? Why leg press instead of squats? Why lat pulldown instead of pullups?) and too much accessory work for a routine like that (not that accessory work is bad per se, but if you're going for a full body workout 2x a week then curls...

I suppose what I'm getting at is that when the NEX stocks 3 aisles of booze and no baby supplies or boxes of cereal, it contradicts the message that leadership is attempting to communicate through hours of GMT on the topic. As for shopping in uniform...the CNO now allows servicemembers to go to...

Not to be debbie downer, but the military believes there is a drinking and driving problem and suicide problem that is heavily correlated to alcohol abuse, and the only advantage that is agreed upon among all posters in this thread is that base facilities offer more round-the-clock access to booze.

There is a federal gas tax @ 18.4 cents/gal. Not sure if they throw state in there, too.

The NEX isn't gov't subsidized anymore. That's why it's not cheaper than other big-box stores and why it stayed open during the furlough. You don't pay sales tax because they run on federal property and are not subject to state laws/taxes. That's why they'll sell alcohol to you at times when...

This is what I'm wondering. The OOD of a DDG can't change depth to get below (or above) the layer to help evade the self-homing torpedo. Is this for CM employment? I understand the whole 'it might not acquire O/S across the layer,' but are you really going to hang the crew's life on that...

When I attended, there was generally a new class every two weeks. I actually arrived at the beginning of a trial of having a weekly class. Anyone who rolled went to the class 2 weeks behind anyway (which was a good thing since the black ninja's class was one week behind).

I can understand it being the recruiter's fault if an applicant shows up to OCS not knowing how to take the PRT, but how is it the recruiter's fault that an applicant DORs while driving there or in the first couple of days?

BBBJ is right: You can ride in whatever you want as long as you have the proper PPE. I've seen plenty of sailors riding to work in their NWUs; wouldn't think khakis were an issue but might be a bit cold in the wind.

This is the culmination of years (decades maybe?) of parents raising hell when little Johnny gets a bad grade and school principals appeasing them. Case in point: An acquaintance of my wife posted a huge facebook rant when her child got a 'sloppy' comment on a handwriting assignment. She...

Because OP is acting like a typical 18-20 year old who is going into damage control mode for fear of having the book thrown at him for doing something stupid. His survival instinct is telling him "well, they jacked up the paperwork and maybe if I go to court and get it thrown out, no one will...

I didn't mean to imply all enlisted Sailors think that O's didn't earn their share, just the ones who will write rants about how requiring a college education for military leaders and allowing them to directly commission with no prior enlisted service is bullshit. I've met some enlisted Sailors...

Whoa. He got a citation for a $25 fine. It's akin to a traffic ticket, legally speaking. If he goes in front of a judge, the judge isn't stupid and s/he will know that the only reason OP's 'friend' is standing there is to have the charges dropped on some legal technicality, no matter how humble...

Eh. I'd say you're going to be expected to write in your XO's style, regardless of how well (or poorly) he writes, including liberal use of verbose Navy cliches, passive voice, and extra commas. To the topic at hand: a college education teaches people additional perspective, basic knowledge on...

Besides military customs, the most important thing you learn in OCS is how to function under constant stress. Once upon a time the class team could actually screw with you in chow hall...you know, like walk up and down the table and kick over your gatorade on your uniform (which was wash khaki...

I went to OCS in Newport, which kinda neutered his rep for PTing candidates during black flags since that happens maybe 3 days out of the year now (the base flies a black flag when there is too high of a risk of heat stroke to PT). As said, he was very quiet and calm, but had a habit of being...

The nut is at the bottom of the picture. If the nut moves up, it is moving toward the head of the bolt. It would be tightening, not loosening.

The bolt moving down (A) and the nut moving up (C) are the same thing, though, just with a different point of reference. For a left-handed screw, clockwise turns would eventually remove the nut from the bolt instead of fasten it like it normally does. This means the bolt would move up and the...

From what I gather it's like anything else as an officer -- you get out what you put in. Just like people can elect to brain dump the wisdom their DIs pass to them, people can choose to make midn cruises a waste of time.

Ahh, the Black Ninja... Regardless, just because HE rolled those candidates doesn't mean they actually left the pipeline. This is the drama I was referring to. They could have rolled into another class and graduated like the vast majority of candidates do if they fail an evolution twice. The...

I think you meant B? Righty-loosy for a left-handed screw?

There's no perservering, though. Take a step back and realize that throughout the last 10-20 years of OCS, the only way to attrite was to quit or get seriously injured. I just define "hard" as something that many people have a realistic chance of failing even when they do their best. Becoming a...

A and C are correct. Don't get too hung up on errors on the practice tests. The ones sold in book stores aren't proofread very vigorously, but they'll give you good exposure to the types of problems you'll see.

It doesn't matter what you think. It matters what the selection board policies are. NavyOffRec posted that NRDs were being instructed to field reject candidates with OPs credentials (or lackthereof). That's why it seems like he was being 'discouraged.' No, the OP's recruiter should do whatever...

The program wasn't hard when I went through 5 years ago, either. It was merely a gut check -- will you put up with 10 weeks of what effectively amounts to hazing to be a Naval Officer inbetween teaching you common military protocol and some bare-bones basic stuff about seamanship and navigation...

Even better...we can make Florida an exclusion area for travel unless you get the permission of a 2-star, but only after you've done NKOs for 'ATO Level I-C - how to avoid getting abducted by Mickey Mouse' and 'SERE Level D - how to survive on the land if you are lost in Epcot,' had a 2 hour...

You beat me to it. Maybe we need an annual "how to be polite to civilians" GMT :rolleyes:.

The prt instruction only allows for something like 2 min breaks between exercises. OCS is the only command I've been at that follows it, or remotely makes you do proper form. But let's be realistic -- if you need a 10 min rest to "run" 1.5 miles in like 12 1/2 minutes, you're in sorry shape.

Which goes back to the whole error of ommission vs. error of commission. If you feel the need to be a hardass about saluting in a dark commissary parking lot, presumably at all sorts of awkward angles of approach and such, you're probably compensating for something. People who command respect...

My point is that obtaining a satisfactory on the PRT is the standard for fitness in the Navy. The PRT is a test that is supposed to measure physical fitness. I'm glad you think that it's not good enough for you (and I'll agree that someone could obtain a satisfactory without actually doing a...

Read the first paragraph. And the part that says "or special criteria" and then the table below that outlines special criteria which includes commissioning programs. For accounting/pay purposes, you're an E-5 while in OCS.

http://www.navycs.com/blogs/navy-clothing-allowance Google is your friend :).

I agree with the rest of your sentiment, but the PRT is exactly intended to be a measure of physical fitness. Supposedly (and that's a big supposedly cuz I have no idea where they got the data) the score structure is based off of percentiles of performance in the American population, with...

Just don't do it to a bunch of other O-3s walking by you while walking along with and talking to another O-3. That's just awkward. And incorrect.

Paul Ryan decided to weigh in. I think he 'gets it' as far as the way forward. The Tea Party faction will complain that he only makes passing mention of tackling the healthcare problem, supports increasing taxes on the wealthy for medicare, and doesn't call for aggressive enough mandatory...

You sure? Because that would put them hitting DH school at 8.5 ycs minimum. It sounds like the SWO gate is the same as hours for the same reason -- you want to be a DH long enough to have a breakout fitrep for your in-zone LCDR look. There are 'high visibility' jobs like working on an...

Because bigger business with in-depth logistics and larger profit margins can adjust to regulations. Let's say I have two acres of land, I decide to use it to raise a couple of cows to sell milk. Oh wait, I can't because my milk isn't certified by the FDA and I don't have whatever licenses...

I know he can do it. That isn't a Congressional law problem nor a budget problem; that's an international relations problem. We have a bunch of prisoners whose countries don't want them back. You were blaming Congress a few posts ago.

Yea, cuz he doesn't have hundreds of billions of dollars in DoD operations budgets, hundreds of Naval vessels, dozens of USAF transport aircraft, and hundreds of thousands of servicemembers to work with. He definitely needs to hire more people and build more assets to get it done. Again, if he...

The operation of Gitmo is directly under executive branch control. He could sign an order to release or try all prisoners by a certain date. If Congress wanted to continue funding an empty prison, that's their problem. Like Wink said, he found out it's a lot more complicated than that because no...

Only about $500 billion of a 3 trillion bidget goes to welfare programs. The rest are used for things that you theoretically use or benefit from either now or in the future regardless of income. You don't lose the ability to collect social security, drive on the interstate, have cheap gas, live...

You don't get something for nothing, but all of those programs would siphon money from wealthier states to poorer states. If you live in a county of 1,000 residents in Alabama with a median household income of $40,000/year, the property taxes that go toward education isn't going to cover a...