That reminds me, don’t volunteer any information about yourself whatsoever. When I went through they asked if anyone did debate or speech. I did, but kept quit. The person they ended up picking had to go in front of the TIs every meal and ask permission for the squad to come in. Or something. I don’t really remember what they did. I just know they got yelled at a lot.
Oakminster’s a lawyer, but I vaguely recall that he might have been an Air Force JAG officer at some point.
Nope, that’s not it. Dang, I know the answer though.,…just can’t come up with it.
I was in both the blue-water Navy and the Seabees.
I though being a Seabee was about 1000% better than living shipboard, even on the greatest ship ever to sail the oceans, USS Enterprise.
But I’m happy to answer questions about both.
IIRC, Oakminster was a sub guy (as in submarines) just like me. Unless I’m thinking of a poster with a similar username.
Can’t link from my phone, but it was Oakminster.
Robby was a Naval officer in the sub fleet - I am pretty certain my husband served with him on one of his boats.
When was your husband in the Navy? I was on the Philly out of Groton from '04 to '07.
85 to 89 but technically enlisted in 84 with a short delayed entry. Purposely dropped Nuke program and so only trained as EM. 4 years active and 4 years inactive reserves. You had to do 6 years active? Was that Nukes or a standard rate?
My recruiter wants to come to my house tomorrow to have me do a statement for medical. Is this normal? What does the statement consist of?
I remember the recruiter coming to my house multiple times, so that’s not weird. There were multiple docs I had to sign – some of them were medical related, but I don’t recall the specifics.
'83 to 2003. Started on the USS Spadefish, segue’d to NSSF then San Juan and Miami with assorted shore time at NSSF. I think his favorite shore duty was at RadCon.
Which tour was the one when you and your hubby brought home the sub parts and reconditioned them yourselves? I think you said it saved the military several hundred thousand dollars?? I love that story!
As a Nuke, I was committed to a six-year active term (as an ET/ Reactor Operator, I made sure that the first two years would be in schools :D). I wound up taking a six-year reenlistment just before my fifth year was up, and exited service after just shy of eleven years.
boffking, remember this: if there isn’t a paper or electronic record of something, it never happened. KEEP YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT! Did some coke with a hooker a few years ago and no one knows about it? No arrest, pictures, friends and family don’t know, etc? Then keep it to yourself. In bootcamp you will have a last opportunity to write down anything you may have withheld up to that point. Leave the page blank. The only way the Navy will know about something that doesn’t exist in records is if you tell them. So don’t.
Remember that millions of people have been through bootcamp. You will survive it, and have funny stories to tell.
toofs, 21 years active and reserve Navy, retiring in a few years. Go for the CT ratings if possible. PM if you want any advice.
I thought that was what “fly in” meant?
From a friend, re. a different military’s Basic: “It’s kind of like school. You know how the math in math was more complicated than the math in physics, and the math in physics more complicated than what you’re doing now at work? Like that but everybody wearing green, and less math and more marching. You gotta learn the attitude, really.”
Yeah we just had this thread started in January, I link but if he doesn’t care, neither do I.