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Pay that sucker off. You have what, $100 a month or so as a minimum payment?

Wtf is wrong with cereal? It's much healthier than the french toast, pancakes, and fake eggs they make you eat the first 9-10 weeks.

With a teaspoon.

It's actually very easy to gain weight after about midway through the training. Most DIs tend to lay off the beatings around that time, and chow is all-you-can-eat.

It is? From 1945-1992, our enemies were "communists." Now they're "terrorists." Same thing, different day.

Dammit...so close, yet so far :(

It doesn't burn, and it's a previously (and probably still) used "interrogation technique."

If I stick an electrode up your ass and hang the other on your testicles to give you some shock treatment, is that torture? Has no long term physical effects, so it must be ok. Only if you accept the notion that waterboarding is an effective technique for extracting useful information, which is...

Losing weight is a matter of calories in being less than calories out. Some people can spend the time to workout more than others; however, you gave your diet advice without even taking this into consideration. Someone who works out for an hour a day for 3-4x/week at moderate intensity (which is...

Showing military strength is not going to deter violence against America any more than the death penalty deters murder. We've been showing quite a bit of strength in the Middle East since 2002, and they're still attacking us over there.

How many wars in our young history ended with unconditional surrender? Aside from Japan in WWII, I don't think there have been any. The majority of peace terms have been accompanied by negotiations, even if they are a bit one-sided.

Some people aren't distance runners. I wasn't when I showed up to OCS, although our longest regular run was 2.2 miles starting in week 4-ish. Also doesn't help that the staff is always trying to "help" you run faster. If you can outrun all of them, then good on you.

You, too, gave bad diet advice for people trying to drop weight. The ratio of 40/30/30 is for bodybuilding, ie weight gain. Additionally, someone who is trying to stay under 2,000 cal/day is going to have a hard time doing that and feeling full while eating a diet of predominately meat, which is...

This makes me wish that teachers had the ability to administer corporal punishment. That urchin deserves a swift smack in the mouth.

fixed :D

Not a female, but having been through OCS: You can typically expect a handful in each class...usually less than 5 though. The training is exactly the same for men and women. I can't speak on any other existential differences because I'm not a woman, and women aren't men. It's expected that...

If you workout as regularly as you claim, the Navy PRT should be the last of your worries. 55 situps, 50 pushups, and a sub 13:00 run are not difficult to accomplish for someone who is remotely in shape.

You're going to find that there are literally dozens of different fitness programs out there, and they all work. The first step is to figure out fitness goals. Are you looking for athletic performance? Lose weight? Get buff? Workout routines work best when you tailor them to fit a specific...

Generally good advice throughout OCS.

Same thing as a "gauge," as spelled by a retard.

I can't figure out which I hate more...the acronym "COIN" or the way the Navy spells "Gage."

When I was at OCS, I have never seen or heard of a DI hitting you on your go fasters.

You implied that we went to war with Nazism, fascism, and monarchy in your first comment. All forms of those government involve a restriction of rights, so it follows that if we are at war with those ideas, we are also at war with a restriction of rights. Hell, we were so inundated with justice...

On a basic level, it's the same thing. Nazism, communism, whatever...life for the average joe is going to be very similar in all these situations. Very few rights, and lots of people being killed because they either are ethnically different, or suspected to be rebellious. No, they don't all...

There is more than just a vestige of that idea in humankind. Germany, while a democracy, still represses speech regularly. There are many regions of the world which have dictatorships, and many parts of Africa have experienced genocide not very long ago (but the US is always reluctant to label...

No, we didn't. Monarchies and dictatorships still exist today, and there are still people who ascribe to Nazi beliefs.

Don't kid yourself. We didn't go to war with the ideas of fascism and monarchy. We went to war with the German, Italian, and Japanese countries after they directly attacked us.

We don't address it. It's not a good thing when everyone thinks the same way and agrees with whatever the government attempts to do. There is a reason that many historians liken FDR's presidency to the closest thing we've had to a dictatorship. I think people on these boards are looking at the...

"We" didn't begin an idealistic war. The Bush administration claimed left and right that Iraq had WMDs AND was planning to use them against us in the very near future. Both claims turned out to be patently false. In order to conduct the war in Iraq, we moved a lot of the forces from Afghanistan...

Two things: 1. If/when you get to OCS, you be sure to tell the DI that he is conducting improper athletic training when he is constantly doing everything in his power to make you put out 110% every day. Especially include your schpeil about how high intensity workouts are bad and all that...

STA-21 is an enlisted-to-commissioning program, so you would not be eligible for it. You should contact a local officer recruiter to look into various BDCP programs. It's the same as applying for OCS after college, except you get paid a monthly salary + BAH while finishing school. Plus, unlike...

In the first month or so, you'll be able to make calls on Sunday afternoons. After you secure, you'll be allowed to use phones on weekday evenings.

I was actually curious about that as well, but wasn't able to get my hands on the XDM.

Shot the XD-45 and XD-40. I loved the 45, only liked the .40... but I've generally found that I dislike .40's. For some reason, I can shoot a .45 all day but the .40's I've shot cause red marks/bruises at the web of my hand after unloading ~20 rounds.

Question: do people who started paying into the old GI bill have to fill out paperwork to "switch" to the new one, or does that happen automatically?

I have no experience with Bachelor's, but I know for a fact that the Navy supports the online Engineering Management degree that a lot of nuke officers opt to get since power school gives us credits toward it. Satisfies the check in the box for senior officer.

They are the outer socks, but point taken. *orders suggested boot socks*

Obviously no one is going to be checking the material of my boot socks. However, if the reason for no acrylic is legit (melting in heat/fire), then it wouldn't be a good idea to get them. Sorry for the threadjack... I just figured that Marines would have a better insight to this issue being...

Except it's a Navy-wide thing that Acrylic is no good for shipboard wear.

Thanks for the suggestion, but those socks are acrylic, which is a nono for shipboard wear (and thus a nono for the plant here). I was asking about boot socks because the command here is switching to the NWU in about a month, and as everyone pointed out the uni shop's boot socks suck.

Any suggestion as to brand/material to buy?

Contract for SNA is 8 years after winging. You start being paid on day 1 of OCS. You should save up some money regardless in case there are pay issues.

Not that I agree with the article, but a lot of people are missing the author's point on this one. He is not advocating disbanding the AF's assets altogether; rather, he is suggesting that the AF should be rolled into other services, like Army Aviation. So we'd still have all the above toys...

You'll get your military ID while at OCS. You will fill out any remaining paperwork during indoc week as well.

So they get beat in polywools?

Horrible way to do it, IMO. Gets everyone's crap mixed up, and invariably leads to super-wrinkled uniforms from over-loading the washers. Honestly, you do your laundry whenever you can find a free washer/dryer. You should do it at least once a week. Sometimes that entails staying up later than...

Ah yes...you are correct. You have to request a cold pack w/ motrin vice a normal cold pack.

You will have a med body. Talk to him, request to get a cold pack at King Hall medical. It comes with horse pills (800 mg ibuprofin) as well as acetominophen. Do not do this during indoc; missing any morning evolutions will make you roll.

Which is why we have laws preventing people from taking 'justice' into their own hands.

The facts there are still different; the perps were in the middle of committing a crime. In this article, the crime was done. There was no subsequent robbery/assault/attempted murder in progress. You're trying to argue that killing the perps is justified because they might subsequently rob/shoot...