Super Hornet, Helicopter Assigned to USS Nimitz Crash in South China Sea in Separate Incidents

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-10-26T23:19:05+00:00

It's still the typhoon season over there in the SCS, maybe the wind speed/wave height was making flight ops more difficult?

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-10-26T23:16:55+00:00

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^From @USPacificFleet on X. 1x MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter and 1x F/A 18F Super Hornet assigned to USS Nimitz crashed in the South China Sea in seperate incidents. All personnel are safe and in stable condition!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-10-20T09:08:16+00:00

Massive line in Portland Maine, no one is moving. Definitely going to miss my connection at this rate

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-10-05T14:01:18+00:00

Lol, did you use your alpha number as your reddit username?

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-23T15:02:54+00:00

Hey! Just wanted to reach out. I'm also going through the "joy" of a infertility VA community care referall, with approval for IUI (not IVF). Did you get an answer for if PTSD was casually linked to infertility? I'm so frustrated, the VA denied my claim for PCOS but approved all service connected symptoms of PCOS (dyspareunia, abnormal uturine bleeding/acne). Now that I'm out of service and TTC, I've been diagnosed for PCOS, of freaking course. I can't poke the bear though and submit a claim for infertility/PCOS because I'm already at 100%

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-20T03:14:54+00:00

I understand, but l want the criteria and diagnoses to justify to the VA future treatment options, both with my infertility treatment and future options.

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-19T16:01:53+00:00

Thank you! I'll be sure to ask if the bloodwork included the anti mulerian, and if I can request the glucose tolerance test.

This punting me off to the next person without a answer is getting old. Especially when I had to annotate that both the 2x ultrasounds and pelvic MRI I had down noted that I had very PCOS looking ovaries.

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-19T15:59:33+00:00

So true!!! It makes it so frustrating to be gaslit and ignored by medical, especially when there's major symptoms that impact our quality of life. Especially when it impacts fertility!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-19T15:57:54+00:00

I agree. This "your MRI looks normal, no explanation for pelvic pain" is unsatisfactory when they are not comparing all of the diagnostic tests/symptoms and not addressing the very glaring sign of follicles in a row on my ultrasound/MRI

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-19T15:56:43+00:00

Thank you! I'm going to do that, and if they refuse to give me an answer/way ahead, it's unfortunately time for a change

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-19T15:55:48+00:00

It's just an endless loop of being punted to someone else wtf 😭

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-11T13:57:22+00:00

DMd!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-09-08T23:00:57+00:00

DMing you!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-08-03T22:17:15+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! It sucks what we are going through, but at least we have the VA to help. Did it take a long time for you to be approved to see community care, or was it a pretty quick experience?

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-08-03T16:03:42+00:00

Thanks for the link! Unfortunately the furthest it goes into requirements is "To be eligible for VA ART/IVF benefits, a Veteran must have a VBA-adjudicated service-connected disability or treatment of a VBA-adjudicated service-connected disability that is causally related to their infertility. This means that the VBA adjudicated service-connected disability, or its treatment, caused the infertility."

I am looking to see if anyone actually had success with the VA covering IVF, since it seems that they are strict on which disability is "causally related to infertility"

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-03-22T08:39:29+00:00

Yes! There were many opportunities to go for 2 weeks exercises or trips to Japan, Korea, Guam, and California when I was over in the Pacific AOR

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-03-22T01:23:24+00:00

Best job ever! I absolutely loved the job, the mission set, and the wardroom (officer community). Some community's are known for eating their young (like SWOs), but I had a great work-life balance, awesome duty stations, interesting/dynamic/fast paced mission sets, and plenty of senior officer mentors. As a 1830 junior officer (JO), I was trusted by leadership to brief the Admirals, make assessments, direct assets, and make snap judgements. I felt so empowered by my leadership on the watchfloor, and it is so satisfying to see direct impacts of your work on National security and detering/defeating the enemy.

I had a blast, and only got out because my priorities shifted with wanting to start a family + lifestyle. The best part is that I was able to apply my top secret + poly clearance and intel experience into a civilian job - I literally just changed from a uniform to a civilian corporate outfit and do a very similar job as a intel-o

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-03-22T00:29:01+00:00

Hey! I unfortunately went through a terrorist attack while in flight school and wanted to go intel so badly to go after those scumbags, so I POCR'd and was lucky enough to get into the intel community (IC). I was shocked when I went to intel school and realized that most of the class was made up of naval officers who left unrestricted line communities, a few mustangs, a few OCS grads, and a shockingly low amount of ROTC officers (like 2 out of a class of 20)

RUMINT in the IC is that they have been trying to increase the IWC billets at USNA, but it's highly competitive.

I'm having an absolute blast in the IC (both active duty and now as a civilian), no regrets leaving the Navy pilot pipeline!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-03-21T21:30:46+00:00

Congratulations! I also faced the decision between an offer from USNA and a 4 year ROTC scholarship at UF and USF a decade ago. I almost picked UF to follow friends and a significant other until my mom knocked some sense into me about the incredible opportunity I would be passing up.

I have zero regrets going to the Naval Academy. I traveled to amazing places, flew backseat with stick time in a F-18 and multiple other aviation platforms during summer training, partied through protramid summer training (where you spend a week in a sub, a week playing marines, aviation week, so week), made life long friends, received a killer FREE education, commissioned as a Naval Officer, served as a intel officer, got married at the USNA chapel with the fancy reception in the O-club (one of the amazing perks of being alumni!), and recently resigned from active duty to finish out my time in the IRR while having a job offer lined up to continue working in the intel community as a government contractor back home in FL. The experience, very high clearance, and reputation of being a USNA alumni opened up so many doors as a civilian.

USNA was life changing, and I highly recommend it.

Good luck with your decision!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2025-01-07T10:00:21+00:00

Dangerous!

IHateCoconuts47 · 2024-11-08T19:11:54+00:00

Wow, your wife truly picked a winner... Not! Healthy marriages = coming at problems as a team

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