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In all honesty, what's that saying..."If you have to ask..." Something is telling you that the drive is 'not right' to the point that you won't employ the "beg for forgiveness..." approach. You should listen to it, along with the several warfare qualified officers telling you it's a bad idea.

This. You're going to have a hard time selling a 20-24 hours of driving in a 72 hour period to your CO. Especially if 500 miles was set to make sure you are within an 8 hour drive of the command (500/65 = 7.6...), coincidentally what the maximum the Navy recommends driving per day on long trips...

You're on a pilot board, so naturally you won't find people steering you away from aviation. However, you'll generally be working longer hours, sleeping a lot less, and working with a less talented wardroom as a SWO vice aviation or nuke. Plus the SWO/sub mentality of OJT vice a dedicated...

Yea but legislation often passed by bribery and other questionably legal means to overcome gridlock, and there are still plenty of examples of government gridlock throughout our history. It's a lot harder to "bargain" like that in the information age. Our government was designed to be slow and...

The current animosity between the political parties is as old as representative government. We had a Civil War because Lincoln and Republican representatives were elected. While that Congress passed the 13th amendment, the modern one nationalized healthcare. FDR concocted a court packing scheme...

It's one of those things that require a flag's attention to change, and as R1 alluded to it's not worth his time. You could install it yourself but then that's an unauthorized shipalt. If you needed to use the shower to decon you can switch the head before they have the guy exiting the spill area.

M-divers always hated starting up/shutting down the RO units 2-3x a day, since it takes 25-30 min for a trained operator to do. Unfortunately, they don't expand the size of the san tanks to go along with the increased, reliable water output.

We don't assist revolutions out of charity; we do it because it serves our national interests. African nations go to war all the time and we tend to stay out militarily. We had no stake in Syria, at least not one worth investing resources into and upsetting their allies, until they started using...

Yea but now INSURV is every 2 yrs to mitigate that risk. More frequent inspections will certainly lead to a better QOL. You can sell it to your guys that TYCOM cares about their safety so it will be better.

I find it slightly ridiculous that slaughtering 80k civilians with bullets is kosher but use a chemical agent on one and THAT is crossing the line.

Well, I will say this: the times when I've been legitimately pulled over the police were always respectful and professional. However, I am white, have a military sticker and sheriff sticker on my car and have a PBA card. I think that a minority driving an older car with no family in military or...

So which is it: did I not actually witness police clandestinely break the law they are sworn to uphold for no reason other than they can and did I not witness police fail to help when called upon? Or am I a jackass for not liking it and the fact that there is little anyone can do about it?

The alternative is to catch him like they did every other criminal in the history of the U.S. Let's be clear: I am not "shitting on" the police officers on the ground for doing their jobs. They did what they were told to do, and it involved placing their lives at risk. They deserve all the...

Yea man you completely ignored the first part of those sentences. He would have to be serving in the armed forces of a country at war with the U.S. As Russia is not at war with the U.S. and he is not a member of the Russian armed forces, those clauses don't apply.

Sorry, I should've stated it as "citizens should not have to subject themselves to a police search everytime there is a murderer on the loose in their neighborhood." Additionally, you had originally stated that police could not submit illegal contraband found in plain view (e.g. a meth lab in...

The police have no probable cause to believe there is a terror suspect in anyone's house just based on the suspect's last known location. I don't know about you, but I don't want to spend a half hour on my front lawn while police search my house the next time a multiple homicide offender is on...

Oh but don't forget Obama's clandestine use of drones (er, I mean UAVs) to kill terrorist suspects in Yemen (along with civilians in the area) and he pursued using them to kill US citizens on US soil without any judicial process. I am amazed that this has stayed relatively low-key in the news...

Do you live in a cave? A 20 block area of Watertown (note: not where the guy actually was found) was locked down and searched door-to-door by police in riot gear. The fact that no one has filed a complaint (yet) doesn't make it right. I find it ironic that the hub of the revolution stands for...

Miranda is important because cops figured out how to make people feel like they don't have a choice even when they do. Similarly cops in some areas will tell a person "open your trunk, please" vice asking "may I look in your trunk." The person can say no in bith cases, but in the first he has to...

When a half dozen police dressed in riot gear (albeit often poorly fitted and incorrectly assembled in this case) and "ask" to search your house for a terrorist you don't really have a choice. If you say no they will have probable cause that you are either under durress or are harboring a...

If you're in-shape enough to run a tough mudder, then you're in-shape enough to pass OCS with a normal pair of cross-training sneakers.

Boston and its suburbs already gave up their 4th amendment rights to get this guy. Ironically a private citizen found him shortly after they were allowed out again. Kudos to the citizen who found him and the LEOs who went into harm's way to get him, but the macro strategy of how he was...

Ask yourself if you'd be comfortable running around with those on grass, mud, sand, gravel, and road. If yes and they look normal then you'll be fine. Worst case scenario is they make you buy new sneakers at the NEX.

Does getting A's in college coursework significantly boost an applicant's chance of succeeding if he is otherwise competitive? Again, I'd normally be weary of advising a guy who has EPs and command-level collateral duties to pay out of pocket to bust his ass in their spare time when the Navy...

OP, no doubt you are motivated, but I will 3rd the advice given above: You get no points in life for mediocre results, regardless of how much workload you are taking on. It is not in your best interest to get C's in classes, particularly in pre-calculus classes and English Composition I. The...

Is there anything actually useful on NKO?

Tiz, you might not have meant to insult warfare pins with this statement, but you did. Wings have been around for almost a century and dolphins not too far behind. Both devices were around in the "good old days" when award inflation reportedly didn't exist. There isn't a single submariner...

Your options are: 1) Enroll in a 4-year college and join their NROTC program. You may not get selected for pilot, though. 2) Enroll in a 4-year college and apply for OCS in your senior year for a pilot slot. You may not get selected for jets later on in training, which would leave you paying...

Thris thread is a torrent of emotions. On the one hand, I feel bad for the dude because he is trying to right himself after some poor decisions. On the other, he thinks that the military will take fuckups and that lying about it is cool. My landlord made a side comment that she wished a...

You get 10 days of temporary lodging expense. That is plenty of time for you to find out where the hangouts are and find an apartment if you're single.

General moving tip: scope out an area for what you want to live near. An old CO told me walk to fun, drive to work. Particularly good advice considering the penalty for a DUI. For single or married no children, bars and beaches. For young children, good school and parks. Being a 5 min drive to...

That's not true. I can change my HOR by going to psd today. Servicemembers frequently change their HOR to states with no income tax for servicemembers.

Yea, sorry misinformation in my original posting in this thread: The HOR move is to move goods from your HOR to another, different HOR. It is used in the event you leave furniture behind at your HOR and want to retrieve it later (usually when you exit the service, but not always). An example...

No. A HOR move is for getting out of the Navy. It authorizes you to move your stuff from your duty station to your HOR, since you won't have PCS orders to go home when you resign. If you decide to move a distance further than than your HOR, you have to pay the difference. You get to execute...

And this is where we go full circle and go back to E6B's advice... Getting a graduate degree is hard. Going through flight school is hard. When my mother went through graduate school, there was a high divorce rate. Perhaps it was for the better that you geo-bached just because you wouldn't...

I thought DoD nurses were staff corps officers?

It's not an issue of qualification but of longevity. It will be difficult for your wife to find work as a lawyer (and many other well-paying jobs outside of what villanelle noted) because she will be a short timer. The answer to the interview question "where do you see yourself in 5 years" is...

E6B offers some good advice. Personally, I have not stayed in one place more than 2 years. My wife doesn't have a professional degree that allows her to get swept up immediately everytime we PCS, but would still prefer to work. She has been unemployed since moving in with me a few years ago...

Don't we already have a ton of Army troops on the border of the DMZ already, along with AF and Navy assets nearby in Japan? I was under the impression that a carrier is used to bring forces where we aren't, not where we already are. That and Mr. Kim is looking for any aggressive act by us as...

People tend to over-state the running that occurs there. You start out the program doing 1.5 mile runs 3x/week. There is a warmup formation run (very slowly paced) and a short warmup run, all told totaling 1.75-2 miles (so somewhere around 6 miles on the week). You are also broken up by ability...

You just told me what you wanted in 5-10 years should you pursue a career in engineering, so why is this difficult to articulate to employers? If a mega-corporation won't get you there, then you need to consider other options that will. Doing a flying tour with the Navy won't catapult you to the...

HR do have filters, but oftentimes it boils down to quantifiable measurements like min years of experience, regionally accredited university, and gpa... not the names. There might be a company or two who tell their HR people to only give them the names of applicants who attended one of a half...

That's not entiely true. Employers are smarter than you think and they can tell when a resume is a full page, fluffed up expression of the fact that someone has attended school for 16 years and held various part-time unskilled labor jobs in the process, even if the degree is from one of the...

Gave outdated info I guess. All running while I was there was on the road or in the gym. I actually have never done a PRT on a track period -- usually on a road but sometimes on a trail. I also hear they banned bear crawling because responses on the safety survey indicated that goos poop is not...

The track is for NAPS and the Marines. Off-limits to OCS nasties.

I agree with everything you said except this. You will never run on the track at OCS. You run on a road that is relatively flat but has slight inclines and many many potholes. Also a nice sea breeze that you run with on the 1st half and against on the 2nd half. So what's the point of doing it to...

I failed depth perception at MEPS. Just passed it on my 5 yr physical. Test is bunk but nothing you can do about it but try to pass it unless you become head of Navy medical.

The bright side is that you'll live in places that you normally would never go to. Each place has something to offer in terms of things to do. Take advantage of those when you can. To me, that's much better than staying holed up in LI like some of my friends back home have done.

Not as an aviator but I'm 30 still renting and will be for the foreseeable future, as moving once every 3 years with the current market makes buying silly.It gets old. Whether you can get that white picket fence depends on your duty station and standard of living in the area. When on sea duty...

To respond to an above question...Geo bachelor means being stationed in a different location from your dependants. If you are on TAD orders, you collect per diem for food as well as BAH from the higher of the two duty stations and are entitled to gov't quarters in your duty station (e.g. you...