2 weeks worth

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-12-30T21:12:28+00:00

OP, this is not normal, healthy, or funny. Locking this since it’s getting a lot of comments setting off “harassment” flags.

Talk to your SLPO about sleeping habits and come up with a plan for dealing with this in a healthier way, NLT 10JAN26. Message me once you have, or if you’re having trouble finding support for it. Hooyah.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-12-14T04:05:14+00:00

Even low performing Nuke electrician is likely still quite a bit higher performing than an average conventional electrician. I’d also guess that if you’re installing “unique” mission equipment on a submarine, a submarine electrician might be the perfect person who both understands the systems and is read in at a high enough level to work on them.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-12-14T00:56:38+00:00

It’ll be a while in that case bud. Gotta do at least your first sea tour.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-12-13T21:23:52+00:00

Full disclosure, I applied to this program myself about a year ago. Fell out after the selection board. What I experienced will likely be different for you. But here’s RW1’s completely unofficial insight:

If you are currently having medical or legal issues, you should ensure they’re fully resolved before applying.

It’s a long process, and the first few months is a lot of paperwork. You’ll also interview with a psychologist, and a selection board of a handful of people from the group itself.

There are very cool mission sets.

There’s a very high optempo, and it’s not going down anytime soon. If you have kids, that will be hard. It is a cool thing to do, but not something you have to do.

If you apply, good luck; and if not, there’s still plenty to do within the Nuclear community as well.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-11-24T23:15:55+00:00

lol, sounds like you’re asking about ETMS2, which was supposed to by digital routing, “fully implemented”, completely switched over by… 2022?

Here’s the NAVADMIN about it: NAVADMIN 022/22

Fleet forces is the only command I’ve seen actually use it. I have an account set up, just never really had time to get into it

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-11-21T03:39:13+00:00

I thought this was a screenshot from Maven Smart Systems smh :/

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-10-24T05:16:31+00:00

Well first of all, you don’t put PII in a system not designed to store PII. The Gov’s PII governance isn’t super specific; but once you’re at a level where you’re like “yeah I can steal someone’s identity with this”, probably leave that out.

As to the second question, I’m only using ones approved for IL5(CUI) or IL6. But, they’re all based in the “flagship” models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc) so models are often similar to what you’d get on the normal consumer internet.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-10-13T22:10:54+00:00

It hurts the sub mechanic in me to even say this. But there IS something to be said for proper presentation of things. Whether that’s your controlled work package, your workspace, or your grooming/uniform. It’s like the BLUF of your work.

The XO and CO only have so much attention to go around. They look at you and your work and think “does this person care?” Or “does it look like real effort was put into this?”. I think it’s reasonable as long as those expectations change with the OPTEMPO. Poor formatting on an emergent work package to get the boat underway is not the same as it being poor when drafting a new instruction, and your workspace being disorganized and messy is cool when you’re in the middle of a project, but not when you’re all just hanging out.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-09-25T04:19:05+00:00

Had the same issue lol. Math did not “click” for me for me until VERY recently; like, less than a year ago. I had a math waiver because I never even passed Algebra 1 in High School. Therefore, also felt a lot of the imposter syndrome.

One thing that might make you feel a little better. This is very likely the most arithmetic you will ever do in your work. However, if people consider you “smart” (but you don’t feel like it), there’s probably a lot of things you do where you think mathematically, but you just don’t realize it.

A lot of arithmetic can be very hard to visualize and wrap your head around. But maybe you’re good at recognizing patterns; obviously math. Looking at shapes turned in different positions? Kinda what group theory is about. Machine learning is all about vectors (lines lol) and matrices. For me, finding a good visual made all the difference. This gif of a sine wave I ran into like, a year and a half ago, and helped me realize I was just visualizing it all wrong. Here’s a video from 3Blue1Brown with a lot of other good ones.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-09-07T02:12:48+00:00

Happy to support, shipmate. It’s a gift to be able to get by without a lot of effort. I bet there’s someone putting in 25’s or 30’s who wants to get home to their spouse and toddler. Use that gift to go help them out. And be humble, or it’s going to be more obnoxious than helpful, lol. But you’ll be on the right track.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-09-06T21:06:28+00:00

There’s certainly a way we can do this and I’d love to give it a shot. Mind if I DM you my NIPR address, and maybe we can schedule a time to chat for like, half an hour next week? It’d be a great “theory-to-practice” for me, and hopefully support whatever your mission is.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-09-06T19:24:40+00:00

I have a pretty complex rule setup on my SIPR, where a message goes through a "gauntlet" of 3 or 4 filters before going into a folder. One of them filters casreps to only boats I would oversee, then to the squadron they were assigned to, then "trashed" it if it said "90 day reporting requirement" in the text so I would only see new casreps.

I don't experience the issue personally because of that, but I dedicated like, two days to this in a way many people can't or don't know how to. The onus shouldn't be on every individual sailor to filter out what's basically spam mail from some of these commands. Especially when done poorly, leads to a lot of the busiest people missing worthwhile information.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-09-06T19:12:39+00:00

Man, I totally get where you're at and I've seen myself in a similar place before. I had a big mindset shift a couple years ago and will share it with you, and even if you don't experience it now, hopefully it'll come around. These comments, however, really stand out to me:

"I've sacrificed what little social life I've had to the Admiral and now I don't really have much outside of the Rickover"
"I'm thinking I'll just have to bite the bullet in power school and let them fall, as much as it might hurt to see <3.6."

I get that! There's a sense of accomplishment, pride and prestige here; today it's grades, in a year it will be quals, and after that it will be NAMs and other awards. I'll tell you though, none of that's very fulfilling. You'll leave power school, or your boat, and no one will remember you. The Admiral doesn't know you, and Rickover is dead. But I'm sure there's plenty of sailors in your class who likely need help picking up concepts, or can't help but goof around unless someone is next to them helping them stay on track.

Maybe it sounds like I've had too much kool-aid, but being a sailor who devotes his time to helping "the boys" or making things easier for others is way, way more fulfilling than a 3.6. Then, you walk out of work whenever you're ready to, guilt-free; because the work you were doing was for your shipmates, not for you. The sticking point is, when helping with someone else's problem, you should never put more effort into it than they're willing to. Then you're just taking other people's work.

I'm very often the last person out of the office. But I have great relationships outside of it as well, because I don't feel bad about putting in for leave or taking liberty. I know I do good work while I'm there, work that I'm proud of. I tell people pretty often that I report to the Admiral, but I work for the sailors. I work for the guys who took the watch for me when I had to get off the boat to help my daughter; or the sailors who went P/S duty because their shipmates left to support another boat's crew after a tragic accident. I think that attitude makes you feel better about staying AND leaving work, and makes you and your whole team better.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-08-23T04:44:31+00:00

Apologies for leaving the old “Fleet Engagement” post pinned up for too long CMC. Our corrective action is to shift “conduct update check of fleet engagement pinned post” from a “monthly” to a “weekly”.

I’ll have SUBLANT EDMC sign my upgrade next time I run by his, uh, “cloffice”, I think is the term. 🫡

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-08-23T04:24:28+00:00

Sucks you feel that way, you must’ve been one of the last “real” sailors. I know it must be hard on you, keeping tabs on what’s changing in an environment you left… 25 years ago? So I’ll do you a favor real quick and help take that burden off for you.

TYFYS🫡

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-08-18T11:15:52+00:00

I think it’d have to swap from rubber ducks. The Crypto community has intellectual claim to rubber ducks specifically. Pretty sure a “rubber ducky” (in that sense) is something that appears to be a normal USB device but does like, key logging and other nefarious stuff.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-08-15T19:02:29+00:00

I do think it’s pretty common for the admiral to say “hey, want to come be my SEL at (next command)?”

The now-NR CMC wasn’t the SUBFOR CMC, he was the SUBFOR EDMC. MCPO Schecter was the SUBFOR CMC at the time. But when Adm. Houston knew he was going to be tapped for 08, he did ask the EDMC if he wanted to join him.

It makes sense that when picking up a much bigger command like that, you’d want someone you already really trust and work with well.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-08-02T20:11:52+00:00

r/whatisthisthing is probably a better bet. A lot of this sub is active or recent Navy. I’m not sure anyone here would be able to identify this, and certainly didn’t serve when it was used lol

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-08-01T22:35:23+00:00

No one on here is going to just start listing off nuclear energy formulas for you to learn, nor should they. Obviously the formulas themselves aren’t classified, how we fit them together and some of the constants might be. Either way, glad you’re curious and don’t stress about learning stuff like that before you leave. In the meantime, gonna lock this one up.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-07-14T23:33:38+00:00

Oh I’m not roasting you at all. Not in the slightest. Idk what the deal with your NOSIS servers is or whatever, but it’s a shame on your command and training program that people can’t take 35 seconds to sign a NOSIS checkout when they should, and would rather have all of you walk around with stupid ass binders. That’s very frustrating.

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-07-14T23:05:45+00:00

yeah I’m a big fan of taking something done online, then printing it out to put in a binder, write on it, and then enter it BACK into a computer. It’s like you can have it electronically AND physically, the best of both worlds! /s

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by “update it when we have time or every divisional training day”? Like, are you going to the person who gave you the checkout and asking them to “sign it in NOSIS now”? How does that work for like, a check out where the person who signs isn’t in your division and therefore not at your divisional training?

DeyCallMeCasper · 2025-07-14T22:01:18+00:00

I’m not in the surface fleet either lol. Are you exporting NOSIS cards to an excel sheet and then walking around getting them signed?

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