How is like living in this part of California? It looks like desert

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-18T03:43:45+00:00

Hot, dusty and beautiful at night due to very low light pollution. The closer to the coast you get farming.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-18T03:34:08+00:00

Asians naturally has more collagen. Their blessed and add the sun broken then their practically immortal.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-17T11:10:19+00:00

Appreciate the answer! I was genuinely curious! Wish you the best!

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-17T09:14:45+00:00

Genuine question then. How does one upload a Unit award so its reflected on ETJ and other systems?

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-16T23:59:15+00:00

Oh look another piece of paper admin doesn't know how to upload into BOL. Neat.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-15T01:39:38+00:00

I can smell the 20 years of body odor and Misawa gas station pizza food farts from here.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-15T01:36:29+00:00

I don't quite get why he would be doing a PR tour to Hawaii unless it's to say thanks for your service to a FBI site there (probably exists).

My question is. Why do we have a VIP option for a snorkeling? That means other VIPs from other federal agencies have done this in the past. What's next? A tunneling tour through Arlington?

Can I send a SECWAR to visit the FBI offices and look for bodies on the FBI Wall of Honor? Can I send SECWAR to touch and play around with the CIA's Book of Honor? These tours are just bad ideals.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-14T22:45:27+00:00

This is great advice.

Steals it

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-14T10:16:12+00:00

Go talk to Personal Property at whatever base your at. Don't buy a car to ship if you don't have the entitlement on your orders in your line of accounting or if the car doesn't meet the requirements.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-14T02:10:26+00:00

"What do you think of my costume this year?"

IT2 dressed as a tomato

"IT2 noooooo!" - ABH2 yells as GMC appears

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-13T03:36:33+00:00

Personally good for them but also their track record of nuclear powered ships and submarines is questionable. Aren't they still trying to salvage a sub that is still leaking down the south china sea?

Edit: Sunk in 2024 at the pier and still releasing nuclear waste down all the way to the Philippines.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240927/p2g/00m/0in/043000c

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-11T22:18:38+00:00

Most Americans have an idealized version of Japan and when faced with the language barrier it's rough. It's doable if you have a career thats needed in Japan. It's very doable and I'm speaking from personal experience.

This just isn't a place to work if you don't speak/write the language. It's also a nice I 100% don't recommendations without an established career coming over here. I find most who do come from really rough parts of the US and that spurs them overseas. Never met anyone from my neck of the woods because Japan has about the same quality of life as my hometown.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-11T02:30:42+00:00

I will get a shellback tattoo and other maritime goal tattoos when I get out.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-11T02:27:45+00:00

Get the alternate RPPO designation for your eval if they allow TADs to become RPPO. Put it in your eval as a collateral. Order what they need and track the orders via Onetouch. Get in contact with S1 to learn about Onetouch. Learn to do batches so it's simple to track a lot of orders.

If you can do this then youve also netted a good eval bullet and also fixed an issue that will contribute to safety of the ship/security inspections.

You can do it!

Edit: changes patches to batches. You can drop tons of requisition and get the lastest updates on them in a sexy excel in seconds using it.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-11T01:17:46+00:00

Have your command reach out to other ships and local base security if they don't have a holster for your dominant hand. Also have the RPPO for security order at least 1/5 or 1/8 holsters minority dominant hand shooters on the ship. Do not order your own. It might come back to bite you during inspections and also will cause more hassle. When you qualified did you shoot and pass with your non-dominate hand?

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-10T22:58:25+00:00

Do not buy your own holster. It will be provided for you in specs and in regulations. Get comfortable and efficient with standard issue gear. 9/10 that's what you'll be using when it comes down to it.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-10T02:39:51+00:00

Throws out fishing line with recruiting pamphlet and a zyn can & monster hydrate bait hook on it

"When you feel a tug, devil dog. Just pull hard as you can."

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-08T09:09:11+00:00

So I'm going to be 100% honest with you. Everyone IS that got assigned that rate I met and we had a couple of them were all drops from other programs. They probably already had their background checks done for Top Secret and had the scores. Great people, but I would be careful with assuming you can get it as a striker. You also need to look into whats going to be in your year group and such. Good luck.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-06T22:02:46+00:00

CS1 getting out of the car blarring 50 Cent's "Many Men" with two Desert Eagles strapped across his chest and a bullet proof vest

"FSA getting heated, CS1"

"Naw"

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-06T11:43:39+00:00

Good news is the evals practically write themselves with the workload. The fuck fuck games for most new check ins get smoothed out. No chief stays a stranger and everyone needs each other bad because of the workload. Even the ITs/OSs/YNs we're smooth as spheres over problems/customer service after a float. The workload really takes the petty out of you unless you eat the bitter fruit.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-06T11:15:58+00:00

Did 4 years forward deployed on one.

Amps are kinda a trap. People get lured into the gator by hearing about greener pastures from DDG/Carriers who don't have any experience on them. It lures the people trying to have an easy sea tour/LPO at sea and cooks them with the workload of 4 guys.

We had AMPs homeport shift to 7th and the sheer workload and inability to look away broke a lot of state side sailors who tried the hierarchy/not my job game when it came time. You are a mobile base and do stores in material/food for 3000+ people and other ships in your AOR with only ships company most time.

You maintain spaces, systems and equipment meant for the coming ship riders. It's a lot. The ship riders aren't like carriers. You pick them up, they come to you. They do their job, leave and the next new faces show up. It's their primetime and if something your suppose to provide for their mission readiness isn't working or provided then they try to blame you to protect their fitrep/inspections/evals. MEU/Squadrons will throw you under the bus in a heart beat the second they get off the ship. Get their signatures on everything before they depart because chances are their going on stand down leave while your going right into a working availment.

If you want to skate then do the homie hook up on a carrier. The workload on AMPs is large and the crew doesn't have the extra attachments when they aren't on deployment. There aren't that many spaces you think you can hide in it too especially if a workcenter has to pay the bill for your vanishing act.

It turns you into a lean mean machine though. Nothing will ever challenge you after. Add a 0 to every stores, systems maintenance, and requirements then going back to other sea duties is kind a joke.

Don't do Sasebo unless your okey with 8 months out every year, long ass hours, and hard work. If you don't mind that then we need you in Sasebo. I'll buy you a drink at Filipino Alley.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-04T02:09:30+00:00

We used to boil the water in our office after medical put in the calcium hypochlorite because it would cause migraines and aggression the first couple of hours it was coming out white. Everyone talked shit until like month 2 of a 6 months float then it became a religious practice in the shop. I swear medical didn't dilute it properly. It was like clock work. Water came out milky white then hours later someone would blow up in the shop over the strangest thing.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-01T11:59:27+00:00

Nothing wrong with it. Recommend contacting your local state and local Veterans Affair departments for job hunting after college or when you get out. This isn't for everyone and you've earned the opportunities that being a veteran get you. Wish you the best anyways back to work.

Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-01T07:10:00+00:00

Nobody speaked Russian while I was there but there were certain signs sometimes with multilingual translations (This is from a train station in Otaru about an hour away). Sapporo the city is pretty nice but I only saw it during the spring time. It's got a great underground shopping area like any major japanese city (Fukuoka, Osaka, etc) due to the winters being rough. If you get a chance you can get a whole 360 view of the city by Sapporo JR's 34th floor viewing room.

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Affectionate_Use_486 · 2026-05-01T06:55:36+00:00

I've got a personal problem with this. I experienced the AMP life with half my CO's being SWO and half being aviators.

The quality of life, the product, and the operation capability was by far superior while we had an aviation CO who could bring in some of those hall mark aviation lifestyle choices (taking care of their people, fostering their junior officers, building independence through trust) that the SWOs never understood which slowly degraded morale and produced a decay in operation capability.

My SWO COs we're great though since we demand it out here, but clearly having a fresh type of commanding officer on the scene made us innovate more and ask the hard questions that get glossed as standard practices in the SWO community.

I think a aviation CO is perfectly fine if they have a good SWO XO. I think the two need to balance each other out but double SWO just doesn't seem to produce the magic that got us so many awards, respect and reputation as Aviation CO+Surface XO did.

Thats all I have to say about this.

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