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I'm still wondering why the difference matters to anyone.

I'm still wondering why the difference matters to anyone.

Look, I'm in the same boat as you; that is, I can do an excellent-low on the PU/CU, but I cannot run for the life of me. The best advice you got was "suck it up and do it." 1.5 mi in under 12:00 is not difficult. I got out of the routine of running due to the holidays, then I had the PRT...

1. Marijuana is easy to get, so long as you weren't a huge pothead. The psychiatric stuff will depend on what meds you took. If you just sought therapy for a few months, then it shouldn't be a problem. As far as the psoriasis, in the words of my recruiter "If you don't have any medical...

Nuke enlisted isn't a bad deal, either, but if you want to be an officer it's not the way to go. My uncle and one of my ex's cousins were nuke enlisted, and both are doing very well in life right now.

I think it's moreso that you have a pool of people who don't want nuke being forced into doing it. If your dream is to be a Naval aviator, and suddenly you're told you gotta spend your obligation as a SWO or on a submarine, you wouldn't like that very much, would you? As for "gestapo...

I don't know if it was before/after they projected a shortage. They hold these interviews a few times a month (one for academy, one for ROTC, one for OCS guys, and perhaps some other occassions, to), so my guess was that the large size of the pool this month was due to the backlog from the...

Didn't you ask this question on another thread? Didn't people tell you to expect that your husband will be deployed "a lot?" There is no such thing as "guarunteeing" anything when it comes to deployment time. If your husband has been gone 5 months and 29 days and then someone decides to drive...

Aside from practice, what you can do is look for arithmetic "short cuts." This requires you to think flexibly about numbers. For an easy example, let's say you have 21/7. Well, 21 can be broken down into 7*3. Now you have (7*3)/7, and the 7's just cross out to equal 1. While you wouldn't...

The semi-colon should be a comma (semi-colons separate independent clauses without the use of a conjunction). Stylistically, it is not a good idea to have two short sentences in a row. It makes your statement start off sounding choppy and like a 5 year old said it. What is "this?" Pronouns...

Basically, the only way for the Admiral not to give his stamp of approval is to act like a tool. If you have a reasonable answer to why you want to be a nuke and a self-accountable/learned my lesson explanation for any booboos, then he lets you in. The problem with you guys is that he can...

The shortage apparently didn't stop the Admiral from denying 3/27 people who went to the interviews today. (Yes, I got in).

I wasn't trying to discourage you. I was just saying that you really need to look inside and ask yourself do you REALLY want to be a military officer, and if so, what specialty "floats your boat." It's a big commitment, so it's not something to take lightly.

Your spelling on this board may not mean anything, but mouthing off to officers, who are trying to give you advice, isn't going to get you anywhere. There is a lot of information on this board, and all the guys on here will be more than happy to help you out to find it. However, if you act like...

You can find basic description of various jobs at each of the military branch's websites. While it's not going to give you a "personal account" of what the field is like, it will give you the general job description. Write down the ones that interest you from there, and go ask the recruiter(s)...

Ever try calling officer recruiters for the respective branches? They should be able to A) answer your questions in more detail and B) put you in touch with anyone with the specific designations you are seeking. However, it will make both their and your job easier if you can narrow down your...

I guess this means my interviews Thurs. should be on the easier side... On the flipside, I really hope they don't start drafting people into the program, for the same reasons I wouldn't want the military to have a draft in general.

There are jackasses everywhere you go. No one can guaruntee that your CO is going to be a "cool" guy. You should also bear in mind that the long hours extend to your deployments, and you are not going to be deployed 100% of the time. I don't think you should join the military because it'll...

I'm applying for subs, but the guys giving us a tour in King's Bay were both SWO/N. Their advice to all of us, regardless of platform, was to qualify for your pin as quickly as possible. They described qualifying as if a rainy storm cloud over your head gets lifted, and the sun starts shining...

I'm applying for subs, but the guys giving us a tour in King's Bay were both SWO/N. Their advice to all of us, regardless of platform, was to qualify for your pin as quickly as possible. They described qualifying as if a rainy storm cloud over your head gets lifted, and the sun starts shining...

So how do you avoid bursting out with laughter at this?

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lol...the kid looks like he's about to cry, too. In all seriousness, he'd be wise not to try to force his way in. Those "neutral" cops would probably arrest someone at the moment there was any hint of violence, and arrests don't look good on applications.

You have to do all that stuff anyway, so why not get it out of the way? I'm applying for NUPOC, so it's a little different of a process, but I did go to MEPS and fill out the security form before my package was submitted. As far as the PRT, my recruiter said that they got a class where...

You have to do all that stuff anyway, so why not get it out of the way? I'm applying for NUPOC, so it's a little different of a process, but I did go to MEPS and fill out the security form before my package was submitted. As far as the PRT, my recruiter said that they got a class where...

I live in NY. Hell will freeze over before NY goes "red."

I haven't been there (yet), but word is that standing out is the last thing you want to do at OCS. Nothing you do there (except pass or fail) counts toward your career, anyway.

Exactly. I don't understand how anyone can say McCain isn't conservative enough, but then be content to let Hillary or Obama, who are even less conservative, take the Presidency. Also, from what I do know of McCain's voting record when he "crossed the party lines," he's always had a clear...

Seek another officer recruiter. Being told to enlist for the purpose of becoming an officer is rarely good advice.

Nobody will give a shit what you're wearing, and most people won't even know that you're applying for an officer slot. I wouldn't recommend wearing a nice shirt and slacks because you're going to be dressing/undressing quickly, and it's a pain in the ass to do that with dress clothes. A pair...

Ivy league schools look for people with exceptional talent. This talent can come in the form of being a math whiz, a musical genious, or the next Barry Bonds (sans steroids). I fail to see how being white/black/yellow/green/blue skinned fits that criteria.

But that's exactly what affirmative action does. It allows people with sub-standard performance to get accepted into a position based upon ethnicity. Now, that person may have worked hard to get the grades/evaluations that he did, but if he's getting the position over someone with better...

Back up...the point isn't whether or not MB can find scholarship money for him or his children. The point is: why should he (or anyone else) have to go back in their geneology to find .05% Native American ancestry from 150 years ago in order to receive special funding? More importantly, why...

But Masterbates, you benefitted from affirmative action because you were able to get a fine education at an institution which promotes diversity.

It's a fine balance. Could Hooter's turn around tomorrow and suddenly market themselves to women? No. But they could, if they desired, try to shift their business strategy to be more inclusive of other subgroups of people. Businesses do this all the time to try to generate more profit. The thing...

But it is the business owner's decision to make young and middle-aged men their target clientele.

No, I'm not in favor of any government mandate to hire someone based upon gender, ethnicity, nationality, or disability. It is up to the employer to assess whether or not someone is capable of performing their job duties. The beauty of a free market is that these people who are being...

I made no such statement. I said that the government does is stepping beyond its boundaries by mandating that private organizations take ethnicity into account when hiring people. But it doesn't create an equal playing field.

I didn't mean to incinuate that. What I meant was that $150,000 can't be considered "upper-class" in this area when you have to feed four children, buy a house big enough to have at least 3 bedrooms, and pay astronomical property taxes. But that is also why COs and police around here make 6...

So? I don't care who benefits from it; it is wrong for the government to mandate that a private organization has to accept/hire/whatever a certain number of people based upon ethnicity. If a private school doesn't want to accept white people, then that's their perogative. I suppose that's my...

My point is that even though a family pulling $150,000 is in the upper percentile population wise, you could hardly consider that "upper class" based upon other factors like cost of living. My parents made over that amount of money when I was younger -- my mother was a part-time RN, and my...

The thing is, when people look at those types of salaries, they usually assume it's only one person making that amount of money. A dual-income household with two middle class salaries can pull over $150,000 (which is the 95%, according to the census).

Mandating that someone hires an individual based upon ethnicity is mandating that someone hires an individual based upon ethnicity. That is the concept, and it is the same now as it was in the 60s. The reason why it is done is irrelevant. Regardless of whether or not you think it was...

Actually, I have seen quite a few articles that question the usefulness of stretching and found that there is very little correlation between stretching and injury. I can't find them anymore because I do not have access to my college library, but feel free to do your own research. Almost any...

No, it's not any different at all. It mandates that one hires a certain amount of people based upon the color of their skin. You could argue that such a mandate might have been more necessary in the 60s to facilitate desegregation, but that does not make it any different in concept.

Yea. That was me.

I thought you said that Democrats are racist??? I wouldn't use an example of a Republican implementing a policy which forces employers to hire people based upon the color of their skin as a shining example of progressive thinking. It's the whole "fight for the poor" thing. While there are more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayed_Rahmatullah_Hashemi http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008020 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/magazine/26taliban.html Taliban spokesman now attending one of the best universities in our country. Go figure.

Photo ID, books to read while you wait. Wear boxers.

Speaking of schools harboring terrorists, is anyone other than me surprised at how little coverage/attention/outrage the terrorist's son (whose name escapes me atm) at Yale got?