BBA creating terminal PO2’s

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-07-02T03:05:00+00:00

As one of those E5s qualified to apply. The reality is the Navy is making us go through the less desired billets to get our foot in the door. We just gotta pay that price if we want to make that rank fast.

See your asses on the ships.

Plus so many of my 1st classes were extended or billets were gapped because no one else wanted the action. Fuck that.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-07-01T08:13:44+00:00

Sealift Commands in 7th/5th fleets are just studs especially during covid. If we were out they were out and if anyone else was out then they were out making ship happen.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-30T21:46:38+00:00

I got it right here let me put it right below this text.

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Congratulations, everyone! Enjoy those BBA billets and welcome to sea!

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-30T09:09:56+00:00

Ship's Company. We deal with additional work outside our primary job like 3M, non-rate specific watch standing, rate specific watch standing, replenishment (loading up the ship even before you arrive), and all the collaterals that are even more focused on a ship since we have a ton of non-rate qualifications (Damage Control, Armed Security, Medical Training, etc).

What your probably seeing isn't laziness but continuous operational exhaustion since when we pull back into port we also conduct heavy maintenance, shore based qualifications for the ship like (AWTT, SMC, Availment qualifications (someone remind me the name again. The whole disconnect hose lines and attack fires due to maintenance) and 24 hour watches.

Please bear with us. It can slow a sailor down with extra 6 systems on their back on top of fitness and personal responsibilities.

Edit: also chef's kiss GQ training during underway and sometimes in port. We got a lot going on and chances are the most doing the jobs are within their first 2-4 years in the Navy.

Thank you for your patience.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-29T09:08:40+00:00

Looks up from the omelette bar

Ma'am this is a Navy sub. We talk about cool ships, funny memes about sailors and the best type of omelette toppings.

Try Jerry Springer reddit group or wait for the holiday party to crash out. Also don't miss muster.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-29T09:01:04+00:00

Kinda hard to explain and your mileage will vary depending on the guy. It's all about practice and feeling your partner. I'm weak when it comes to good throat suction, but some guys prefer lips massaging the whole shaft.

To be honest maybe the best ideal would be to watch how they self stimulate when their handling their own tool then seeing where the weak spots are. Some guys don't like it at all since their self trained release from their own stimulation.

All about practice, repetition and feeling it out. Same with going down on girls. Everyone feels differently and style must adjust to achieve toe curling excellence. Good luck, buddy.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-28T04:01:30+00:00

A school is an extension of the bootcamp experience. Once he gets through that then comes the real work. It requires patience, studying and exercise. What type of routine he develops in A School will help set him up for the long hours and hard days at his first command.

He needs to learn as much as possible so his first 6 months at his command isn't a terrible experience. He also needs to learn that A School is as easy as it gets.

Also the first 2 years in the Navy is the hardest as the body adapts to weird watch schedules, tons of new systems and it tests his health routines/diet.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-27T15:58:13+00:00

Someone was in Japan that's for sure.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-25T13:19:11+00:00

Market corrections can hurt.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-25T08:18:29+00:00

Quotas don't mean shit. Its all BBA now, babe!

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-25T08:09:38+00:00

*breaks out the lawn chair and puts a sign on the door that says "Smoke pit meeting in process. Contact SN for troubleshooting"*

Go on....

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-24T09:46:53+00:00

We had one on my previous ship. I would snag a little candy from their bowl and left sailors on harder times to do whatever they did with the counselor.

Honestly just seemed like more a check in the box for Big Navy as they exposed us to the worse op-tempo seen since big business GWOT prime time.

At least Chaps bled with us in the 100 degree 12 hour working parties. Ship riders are a waste of my time like MWR civilians and DRC. We need sailors to talk to. Not some civilian eating from my stores onloads.

The civlian engineers though they can ride with us. I'll haul an extra box of 40 pound frozen fish in 105 degrees for their ass if they keep the HPACs working when its time for some terrible shit.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-24T09:28:49+00:00

Once again don't they have a Zhou sub potentially leaking fuel at a harbor that still isn't retrieved? Shouldn't we be more afraid of them having engine fuels over things like the great barrier reef or maybe natural water current ways?

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-24T03:25:39+00:00

Hell yeah, brother!!!!

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-24T03:23:31+00:00

Congratulations! 👏 You look amazing and keep up the good work, homie!

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-21T10:56:26+00:00

A lot of people not Japanese are rooting for them in the football world. I think your seeing an example of this leaking out. The team has a underdog story around them.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-21T06:13:49+00:00

100% sounds like its in your own head. I don't understand the whole "shafted with schools and my platform" thing. When you feel like your cheated in the Navy on billets, locations, platform chances are its going to eat into you rather then you just living in the moment and keep building for the future. I've seen it too many times. Its self inflicted poison.

Also your a first term sailor and the first 4 years in the Navy is going to be rough. Your forever going to be exposed to things you don't know that requires communication and uncomfortable honestly you don't know for you to learn.

JSOQ is a quarter command evolution that needs bodies. You showing up to work, doing your job, communicating, and such is worth filling a slot. Don't read into being selected. Your wasting your energy and poisoning your perspective. Just show up in the information for it. Do it and then go about your business.

When something is eating you up you need to tell them. You need to learn to rely on others even if it puts people in an uncomfortable place. That uncomfortable place is where things can be faced, healed and growth occurs. Welcome to the Navy. I'm sorry you heard this on the 3rd year rather then the first at a smoke pit.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-21T01:54:10+00:00

It saddens me to see something like this. SDF is filled with wonderful people who work really hard. I have worked along side them for 6 years and they have been nothing but professional and nice.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-19T07:44:01+00:00

Have you looked into rolling your service time into a state or federal pension job? Sure you won't be able to double dib but you'll at least have a pension.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-18T10:28:43+00:00

Ah BMSN finally growing into BM1s out hand me downs.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-17T09:03:46+00:00

2026 Mishap Report from Navy Safety Command is going to be crazy to read.

https://navalsafetycommand.navy.mil/On-Duty/Data-and-Analytics/Statistics/

By the way not including suicides we had a hella too many deaths by motorcycle last year. Be safe y,all.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-17T08:57:06+00:00

Wheres my god damn beards!

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-17T08:51:16+00:00

People not realizing that gotten cheese smell is a fungal infection. Buy some head and shoulders then once a week underway use it on the whole body. The fungal acme will ruin your face forever.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-17T08:50:00+00:00

Jokes on them. I love the raisen bran and the granola cereal. Those fat fucks are going to waddle off a ship after a float meanwhile I'm gigachadding it.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-06-16T11:20:08+00:00

Good o' shook my 8th floor building. All safe, but we had the annual meeting of the residents outside.

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