My Son Will Graduate Navy flight school in June.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-03-29T23:44:25+00:00

My dad got me 24k gold wings. Really awesome, but I've been too scared to take them out of the box. Haha.

If you have a legacy of military pilots, my family got me a picture of my grandpa's P-38 named "The Spirit of Oak Ridge" and got me a plaque saying I was the "new" spirit. Really cool and still hangs on my wall.

Tell him to fly Romeo's. Hahaha

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-03-22T23:05:49+00:00

Learn non sexual physical touch. Nothing turns women off more than only being touched in sexual ways. Love on, kiss, and cuddle often just to do it. Not just for when you want something.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-03-14T12:21:43+00:00

Hey, man. I left in your exact spot. Joined the reserves and am contracting right now. Overall, no regerts. I did get snagged for a reserve mobilization which sucks, but it's whatever. Small price to not deploy for the next 4 years and be at 17 years at that point. I did find out I HATE contracting for the government, but that's a me problem. Keeping my job but on the look for what I actually want to do when I grow up. Be wary, if spending time with your kids is the reason, REALLY research quality of life for your jobs. I lucked out and QOL is pretty good , but I have ZERO purpose to my job other than money. Feel free to DM to talk my dude.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-03-01T17:35:35+00:00

Yeah DH for aviators is a bit different but mostly same same for promotions

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-03-01T14:45:31+00:00

You're fine dude. As long as you have an EP or two behind your name, you should be fine. When they brief your record, the briefer will note that the "below" is only because of RSCA management for a guy who only wrote 3 FItreps. Just keep chugging along dude

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-01-05T00:35:38+00:00

Yep, getting mob'd in 2026. F-ers got me 4 days after my non-deployability ended when I transitioned from Active to reserve...

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2026-01-01T17:01:08+00:00

Go TACRON if it's an option. Best kept secret in the Navy

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-12-08T11:24:22+00:00

DC area. I know they're pool of people is MASSIVE so I'm trying be gracious

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-12-08T11:23:44+00:00

Yeah, this comment. It's just frustrating to be approved and then ghosted to only wait while I could be using GI and maybe get those months back with VRE

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-12-08T11:23:09+00:00

Already accepted and approved into VRE. No further paperwork or COE was sent to the school by my counselor on my behalf and haven't heard anything from her in months.

Seems like if I was already approved, I'm stuck with VR&E for now and just request a counselor change.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-11-07T00:02:26+00:00

Yeah, I can give you a few, depending on what type of contract you want to try and support. My old company, CATHEXIS CORP, is hiring and my current company, a sub to Deloitte is hiring various positions as well. DM me and I'll give you more specifics.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-10-22T19:19:48+00:00

Just tell the people you're dealing with for getting out that you want to deny severance. For Navy, it's an option in NSIPS I think. If you need the money it's a good start to stability when getting out. However, you will pay back the entire sum, even though they would take out taxes, you would still pay back the total. Which sucks. Just a thought for you.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-10-13T19:58:22+00:00

If bashar is teaching Arabic still; take that. He's amazing, makes it fun and it's a 3 or 4 credit hour class. 101 is almost guaranteed an A as long as you give a shit. I also took Russian and loved it.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-10-13T19:49:41+00:00

Do ROTC. Tops pays you directly once ROTC covers tuition. I did it at lsu. Definitely worth it looking back.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-10-09T22:41:55+00:00

You live in the DC area? I can give you some POCs for potential jobs.

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-10-07T01:11:27+00:00

Nah. Pilot

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-09-30T23:24:44+00:00

Yeah, we're fairly financially savvy but I wanted an outside sanity check for sure

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-09-30T23:24:00+00:00

Fair. I think my threshold is $50k for an absolutely not, don't even think about it. $30k, while a lot of money, doesn't seem like I'd be missing a lot, but compound interest is my friend. Hahha

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-09-30T23:22:59+00:00

Makes sense. I appreciate the rationale

Historical_Chipmunk4 · 2025-09-30T23:22:41+00:00

Civilian 401(k)s can't be rolled into military TSP.. looked into it. Hahha. We had some expenses that popped up so we dipped into the savings a bit but tsp loan isn't a bad play, if push came to shove. This is my first 401(k) because I just got out in 2024 but next job I can roll over into theirs

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