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Errr... In all seriousness, we're in the NAVY. Our job is to protect U.S. interests AT SEA, and that gets broken down into specific designators. It is not to go to Iraq to make power-points. There is a "fast track" to getting to Iraq or Afghanistan if you really want to go -- it's called the...

Nothing wrong with not wanting to make a full career out of your service. It just came off that the only reason you desired to serve was to beef up your resume.

I was told that graduate boot, get E-2. Graduate A school, get E-3. Guess I was told wrong. Sorry for the bad gouge.

You will probably not have the time to complete your degree while on active duty in your initial 4 years. I suppose it can be done, but it'll take a hell of a lot of discipline and long days. See above about the degree part. Of course you'd be able to have a personal life when not deployed out...

You really should re-evaluate your decision to join if this is the only reason that motivates you because it will be a miserable 5 years (8+ as an aviator) doing a job that you don't really want just to have a springboard to something else.

This must vary highly state to state. NY reinforces history and English moreso than science and math; it requires four years of the former two to graduate HS, but only two years of the latter two. I took a trip to Gettysburg in 8th grade, led by an extremely passionate (and very good) history...

No one can really tell you what your chances are exactly. Your GPA is a bit weak, so if you can retake the ASTB and bring those scores up in order to make your application that much better. If you put nuke on the application, it's likely they are going to screen you for that above the flight...

35-8=20???

err, any in the "subcompact" category: http://www.glock.com/english/pistols_models.htm

Shot around a half dozen pistols over the past two weeks... Baretta m9, Glock 19, Glock 22, Walther PPK, Springfield XD-45. Might have been another in there, but I don't remember it. The Glock 19 (9mm compact) felt really good, but the glock 22 (full size .40) hurt to fire. Of the guns I've...

Per the link above, 18 over the course of 232 years.

I'm quite shocked. I still haven't seen any sort of similar website on the anti-gun side that puts together such an overwhelming amount of facts to make a convincing argument. Instead, they usually do the following... Ok, you know of one example where .50 cals are used in a crime. If we banned...

I admittedly have not fired a .50 cal rifle, but one look at them in the gun range here can easily explain how these things are not feesible for use in any sort of crime situation. They are absolutely huge, bulky, heavy, loud, and supposedly kick like a mule. Again, I defer to...

SWOs do a lot more than paperwork.

General question/threadjack: I was under the impression that officers went to court martial if they screwed up, not mast. Is this just a special case or what?

I always get a kick out of people making up rules for no reason. At OCS, our DI let us drink juice w/ breakfast in the morning. A few days later, some of the guys started bitching that it was supposed to be OJ only and got their panties in a bunch that some of us had another type of juice. But...

Weed is a lot more popular than a lot of people like to acknowledge, and in my hometown area there was a big boom of cocaine usage over the past few years.

Ironically, the SWOs in my OCS class had the toughest time understanding moboards.

It's been that way for 232 years and counting.

Of course.

Who says the Admiral even bothered to ask them if they wanted to be a part of the nuke community?

No, I didn't get the joke. Lost in translation to writing. Seemed to me that it was an example to debunk the claim that people were being forced into the nuke community. Sue me. But hey, the sweeping personality generalization based on one example sure was nice :). Oh I understand that people...

www.gunfacts.info /end argument, particularly the misconception that stricter gun laws equate to lower gun violence/gun murders.

I am as upset at the "nuke draft" almost as much as the guys that don't want to be in the program. It kills morale, and the command keeps bitching that our class average is lower than normal.

You are wrong. There are multiple people in my nuke class who wanted no part of nuclear power, but it was on their list because they had to put 5 choices, and there aren't too many URL positions to choose from. A few were denied SWO in favor of going submarines. Rickover is dead, so I really...

'cept if you got the black ninja...I think that's as bad as it gets.

3 section watch rotations are a punishment for SWOs if they fuck up...they are routine for submariners.

Considering my nuke class has quantitative economics majors in it with < 3.0 GPAs, your friend's idea sucks. You would think so.

Caffeine makes me drastically run worse...burn out in the first 1/4 mile and feel like my heart's gonna explode. But I don't drink coffee often and abstain from soda, so yea.

First of all, do you even know what my stance is on 2nd amendment issues? Second of all, the fact that I think that the mass hysteria by the right over a possible Obama presidency and his supposed drastic effect on [insert issue] is unwarranted does not make me unknowledgable about 2nd...

No one got my Ghostbuster's quote :'(.

I confused the 1960s with the 1860s. Oops.

Because some people think Obama will try to enact tougher gun control, and apparently under Obama this country is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead...

Re: gay marriage, that has only been handled on a state level thus far, where the rules are a little different than the federal level. However, yes, our federal government has gone against the grain from time to time. Women's suffrage and civil rights for blacks come to mind. However, I don't...

pfft, don't discount the bs factor in RLP, either. We had a guy who left clothespins on his khakis on the reinspect pass.

I agree with Flash here. There is enough of a majority in America that loves their guns that it's not likely the Dems will screw with gun laws. If they do, at least you guys can take solace in the fact that within 2 years they will no longer hold a majority in Congress, and then said laws can be...

I call bullshit on that one.

+1. Any good interviewer is going to be looking at the details of your appearance more than what you actually wear (unless you choose not to wear a suit, which is bad). Nails/nosehair clipped? Shoes don't look like they're 5 year old hand-me-downs? Suit pressed? Etc. After that, it's how you...

True, but looking back, ain't it one of the funniest moments of your life? Btw, do you know why they nixed bear crawls? They sucked at first, but I definitely attribute a significant part of my run improvement to them. Congrats on commissioning.

You can watch/read all the stuff in the world, and you wouldn't know what OCS is like 'till you're living it. Having said that, just know that your husband is in the care of some of the best DIs the country has to offer, and that they always have the safety and well-being of the candidates in...

When I was doing OHARP over the summer, all officer programs except nuke were essentially already full for the year, so if you didn't have a stellar package you were likely not going to be picked up. I realize that the enlisted recruiter was making it sound like 3.5 gpa was a requirement when...

When I was working OHARP in the summer, that 3.5 gpa number was closer to reality than you might think if your goal was pilot -- at least when it came to pilot. New fiscal year now, so the rules probably changed. Good luck on the rest of your classes and ko the astb. I will concede that an...

Lies, if you mean they got BCGs within the first couple weeks. I was 20/30 left and 20/50 right. Didn't wear glasses prior to OCS. I didn't get BCGs till week 9, and only got them because I had to do a second physical for nuke. I then proceeded not to wear them.

Probably not, but this is a common practice among candidates/DIs these days.

I say again: running 4 miles prior to OCS isn't going to help you much. You will rarely run more than 2.2 while there (there were a total of 3 3.2 mile runs, done on Saturdays 'at your own pace' which equated to DIs running along side everyone screaming "THIS IS A RACE!"). "Beat" refers to RPT...

For Navy OCS, 3 miles is fine. Just focus on running faster now. Nope. In the first month -- lots. But it also depends on your class team. Yes, there are rest days (usually Sunday, but as training progresses Tues/Thurs tend to be taken up by grad practice rather than PT).

Our class officer did those with us on the few days that we had strength and conditioning workouts. I personally didn't experience any joint pain from doing bear crawls, and I never heard of others complaining of it. Most pains came from running on the shitty ass road. SEAL wannabes lose muscle...

From all the political talk I've been hearing during this election season, it sounds like most people who support Obama's tax plan really think that the "rich" don't pay taxes. They envision a bunch of "evil" corporate owners hiring expensive accountants to find any and every loophole to evade...

I see where you're coming from, but I always felt most at risk of injury while transitioning between different exercises during beatings, since everyone was doing them so fast that no one cared if they kicked your face in while getting into a pushup position.

That would have an interesting psychological effect, knowing that you're about to get a bear crawl killing when you hear 'attack the chop shop.' Thing is, we bear crawled in the p-way/killzone many times, so if they got rid of it due to goose poop why would they restrict that now?