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Basically, you contact an officer recruiter. You will take a test called the ASTB. You will fill out a lot of paperwork, get references from people who know you well (bosses, professors, family friends, etc), and submit your application to a board that meets monthly. In the meantime you will...

Well, be honest about it. Is it diagnosed by a doctor or professional of some sort? Or is it more like, I occasionally read a number incorrectly? If it's going to put yourself and others at risk, and/or it's documented by a professional, you definitely need to bring this up to your recruiter...

I disagree. When I went to MEPS, the guy told us that waivers were running above 90% and I felt that their goal is to get people into the military--just people that are safe to put into the military. No one gave me any real trouble and I got along pretty well with some of the staff during the...

I was trying to explain with an example but maybe it just came out as retarded. You can blame the heat if you want, just please Ken, don't hit me with the dreaded -1. My weak constitution just can't bear it! :icon_glas

Once I found out it was part of an inside joke I found your name hilarious! Hahahaha I am still laughing! My stomach hurts! My eyes are watering! I just sharted!

Dude if you can get National Merit, you can get school paid for at a lot of decent places around the country. Then you could tack BDCP on there for free money. I know this one really cool dude who did that.

If drinking while on the steroid drops is wrong, do you really want to be right?

Show some respect sir, he read every page of the Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft when he was 5. Tell you what, if they can take my 10-hour-a-day Xbox habit and use it to blow up Islamofascists, sign me up.

Obama is clearly introducing the guys, not trying to shake their hands. But even if they did all snub him, I don't care if someone wants to be petty and snub him. He still carries the big stick. POTUS doesn't need the approval of some Russian politicians...

Yeah man, and I think it's great. Easy to hop into a game and quit whenever, and a lot of fun. I especially like the planes-only mode. It also has the most realistic flight simulation engine I've ever seen, which makes the aerial mode fun. One of those paragraphs may be sarcastic

I don't get why everyone is giving Vas Deferens such a hard time for his pretty funny name... Ignominious? Really? Like "MasterBates" isn't? Give the guy a break. It's funny. Funny like the patches you guys complain about being banned for not being PC.

I feel that the amount of money and time we spend on things like space research and programs are minuscule compared to the amount we waste on useless things. Unfortunately, even going into the election President Obama made it clear that space wasn't a top priority. I hope he will change that...

How would that work, Pilgrim? If you aren't medically qualified for any officer programs, why would you be medically qualified for an enlisted one? I wouldn't worry about anything outside your control forcing you to go enlisted.

Is it too late for me to go Marines?

Yeah don't tell the guy at MEPS you think you have stress fractures. Get a private doctor to check you out. Go to MEPS healthy. You will have to duck walk, walk around a bit, do some bending and stretching, walk on your knees, etc. Don't go if you're going to be showing pain or difficulty...

Agreed. These trolls keep saying the same stuff. I do like watching them get their shit handed to them, even if they were only trolling in the first place. Still, I would think Webmaster would have noticed if the same IP was trolling over and over.

You get to graduate OCS and get wings, but you will be flying helos.

So very, very true.

Well, he's right that you need to be at a university. With BDCP you sign a contract for the designator you apply and are accepted for; with NROTC you go where they put you. Whether it's "easier" to get aviation through NROTC I do not know, but I do know there's no guarantee through that route.

Sounds to me like your girlfriend's sorority was just a little below par :)

Emphasis mine. I assume they mean 2001? EDIT: OK, I read the caption for the above picture by the same guy and it was Nov 4 2001 so obviously yeah, typo.

Yep that's about it. You swear into the Navy, and you make your commitment. We had a guy on here who wanted out and there's no easy way to do that. So pretend you're shipping out tomorrow when you swear in--if you're ok with that, you're good to go. You need to be hitting good-low or better on...

If you're only taking OAR, I assume you're not trying to be an aviator or flight officer? If you have a 3.9 GPA and can't do the math on the ASTB with two weeks of preparation, something is terribly wrong. Say they don't accept you for BDCP. Then you can re-apply until it's too late, and then...

Don't worry gaijin, I saw it! I wouldn't want to try to put a rifle round into the bad guy's head from 25 yards if it means an inch or two the right hits a loved one. Let alone a pistol.

I don't think I have one... where were yours, m0t and Lobster? I'll check my paperwork. EDIT: Checked it, don't see an OCS date anywhere.

NBA Jam rules? Bounce for two cups? Pull cup or pull ball (or neither)? How many re-racks? How does the Navy play at the O Club?

I still don't see how you made it through filling out the app, the SF86, all the references, testing, studying, digging up all the info you need, waiting months, signing a bunch of paperwork, faxing, standing in front of a flag with your recruiter and taking the oath, and finally reading all the...

I know, I couldn't resist being a dick. It was tongue in cheek since we all know ASTB scores don't really mean shit once you're through the application phase.

Same. Well, same except that I had a higher ASTB score :icon_tong They are busy and there are lots more people out there who would never make it past the board than people who would.

BDCP can be tricky. It's hard sometimes to remember that you already swore your oath of enlistment. You're in the Navy, just as all of us who swore in are--it's just that we haven't done anything yet. You still owe the taxpayer time. Personally I think it's not even "right" to drop after all...

Only if you sign a Military Astronaut contract.

Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny aren't real... Money doesn't grow on trees... There's no such thing as a free lunch... Bad things happen to good people, and so far you can't go wild west on pirates unless you've been through BUD/S and SEAL sniper school :)

Speaking from experience, yes? :icon_smil

I don't know if that site meant for it to be serious and true, but the original emails and posts online were a joke and it was very obvious that they were a joke. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/piratecruise.asp

Oh yeah, obviously. My bad. That's what I was thinking of. Accepting your final select, if you will. And you're probably not going to get paid for a while. I think my first deposit ended up being like 5 grand or something ridiculous because it took them so long.

That's a shit-ton of situps. In the Navy on our PRTs we do two minutes of sit-ups. How was this arranged? I'm finding it a bit hard to believe that anyone did 430 legit situps in a row without stopping. Also, thanks for the advice on failure and such... but how do you know that "physicality is...

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Need to learn to read the whole thread...

Should you try? Yeah, do your best. If you need help trying, eat lots of fiber and get some reading material.

It's Flash. He has the opportunity to rile people up by not typing a reply and by God, he's going to use it! ;)

It jumps to E-5 IIRC... it would be such a shame if OCS was full for a few months after I graduated... :)

I was wondering that too. Also, since it's twice as heavy, wouldn't that help a bit with how it feels (even though the force is more, the acceleration should be the same maybe? Been a while since physics). Also I think he left the stock on one of the guns, if you look closely.

I had to do such an interview. Are you a fan of the United States? Did you lie on your form? The correct answers are yes and no. Hopefully you aren't trying to become a Naval officer if you feel differently, so in my experience the interview is no big deal.

ENS Adam R. Cole took some of these pictures I see. Wonder if he's the same Adam Cole that was in that OCS special article who was in Mass Communication. http://www.projo.com/extra/2008/ocs/stories/day5.html Click on Cole's picture.

MB, you're disappointing me. The tough-as-nails manatee-fighting PUMA-dwelling tailhooking and helo-driving he-man of AWG fame can't beat Ace of Spades on hard?? :) Great game though right? I love it. Why would you get a PS3? Xbox has Halo 3 and costs less. Live costs $3.85 a month if you...

So basically... get a really expensive degree that no one wants from a private school, fail to land a real job, and get paid by the taxpayer for it? Just sayin... I guess the counter to that, though, is that education is a market failure and this compensates for that.

Same here, and one of the guys who did one of my PRTs was an Ensign who said he had had to delay people who couldn't run for shit while they were 30 days out. I'm BDCP, so my standards are good-low anyways though. But once at OCS, I read on this site (and there's the quote from the guy a bit...

WTF? As the honorable LGPP pointed out... you should have WinRAR or 7ZIP or something that opens .rar files... Do you also use Windows ME and browse the internets from Netscape Communicator? :D

You could save $200 by giving him a massage yourself, and then afterwards make it better than any "professional" massage by giving him a Oh, never mind.

Get good grades wherever you go. Do a few things that you enjoy (sports, volunteering, clubs, extracurriculars, it doesn't matter what) in college. You can go 3 basic routes: NROTC Academy OCS / BDCP Good luck. Grades, man. GPA is big.