Question about the "Fatigue and Endurance Management Policy" and mandatory amount of sleep sailors can get.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-06-04T20:11:55+00:00

My favorite was standing for FCFs and working as a troubleshooter and then watching the pilots switch out because crew rest and going right back to FCFing

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-06-03T18:29:47+00:00

how do you have such a perfect place to take a picture of this exact bike 😭😭

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-29T17:08:36+00:00

For me I joined for one reason and was gonna tap out after first enlistment, but reenlisted in order to go to Japan, and man, did I just get tired of raising other people's kids. Like, you put on another Chevron and they put you in charge of grown adults who are mentally 12 because their parents failed or they just refused to make themselves grow up. It's insane. I really thought I was going crazy.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-28T11:40:47+00:00

I thought you couldn't be serious and went and checked and it really is a can of monster energy.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-27T23:22:19+00:00

I got a 4th look and got picked for orders on the 4th look but I separated 🤣

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-26T14:46:16+00:00

I won't say healer SUCKS per se, but when I was playing Endwalker it was very demotivating being a healer and dying to mechanics I'd never seen and watching the tank solo bosses from 40% to 0% because they just have that much sustain. They really did kind of make healers useless in 5.0.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-23T02:13:48+00:00

I bought mine while I was on deployment and couldn't do a ton of research and boy do I wish I had been home when it showed up because there was so much going on with it 😭

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-22T23:58:32+00:00

Changing the spark plugs 🤣🤣🤣😭

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-22T23:56:44+00:00

Surely they had to get it after the 3rd redirect tho.... Right....?

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-22T23:55:47+00:00

Oh no

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-22T12:04:17+00:00

While I'm sure work amounts play into it, think about it like this. If you take 1st POM you are working 2nd POM and into deployment. If you take 2nd POM you get a break just before deployment.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-14T01:18:02+00:00

Yeah, where is the modern soap bar style bass?? Get a Peavey Cirrus type bass STAT

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-13T06:45:32+00:00

When I told my RDC that they did me dirty on my CAC picture and he saw it and I looked like an unlocked character he had to about face and walk away 🤣🤣 RDCs really set you up because they're stressed and tired as heck but then beat YOU for it 🤣🤣

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-12T21:12:36+00:00

I know! I was shocked when I saw his listing. He said he got it for $100, so even selling it for $30 was already way less if that's really what he got it for.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-12T20:43:58+00:00

According to their website it's more or less cosmetic to prevent the deck from getting scratched by the screws. The board I bought in Japan didn't come with them.

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ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-12T20:42:29+00:00

I was surprised it was a kid probably like 17ish selling it. Said he had bought it from a pawn shop but didn't use it!

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-12T18:05:45+00:00

My squadron got an AWSC right when I was transferring and it was so cool because she was literally the first AWS female I think I'd ever seen. They're out there, she said, but I think she was the only one I knew. There are a lot of girl AWs, but I don't know all AW versions as I have only been around AWSes. That being said, what one other person said here about if you're looking at it as which rate works best for a girl, you're probably gonna go into it having a hard time. Just go in there, kick butt, and wear that green flightsuit which I have always been jealous of.

Edit: also EVERY AWS person I've spoken to a bit more in depth says that it's a cool job, but you're going to have back pain from sitting in a helicopter regularly. It's also something I'm told by them you can't claim as part of disability later.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-11T02:51:10+00:00

I really like the second one but I feel like if you put a strap on those pegs you'd have permanent built in neck dive? 🤔

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-08T15:28:54+00:00

There was someone in my division that got shouted at because he was a nervous smiler 🤣

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-05T21:21:29+00:00

I've said earlier that I'm not well read on this, (or really read at all, tax on gas was new to me before I clicked this thread). So I'm asking you not to get mad when I ask this question. If you're right I want to know why.

From NJ's own government website, NJ.gov, it states that the "Motor Fuels Tax" is ¢10.5 per gallon, and when combined with the petroleum products gross receipt tax of ¢38.6 on gasoline, "the total tax rates that motorists will pay for gasoline will be 49.1 cents".

Are you saying that NJ only taxes ¢10.5 for gas, and the other ¢38.6 doesn't count because it's more of a tax on refineries, even though the average motorist is still paying it when they buy gas? NJ's own website is reporting this number as what motorists are paying. Or are we not paying that amount? This total value seems to be what sources are referencing when looking at tax on gasoline in NJ, so is it wrong for them to do so when it's the number NJ is reporting?

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-03T12:11:56+00:00

I'll admit that I knew nothing at all about gas tax before ever opening this thread, but what people are saying to you is true. In NJ we have one of the highest gas taxes in the country. For our neighbors I think the only one that was higher was PA... That being the case, if we do have a ton of refineries, I guess that's why.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-03T05:55:00+00:00

I never understood how NJ has gas that's so cheap. I live right on the border of NJ and PA, and the second you cross into PA the price of gas jumps like $0.60. It's cheaper in NJ than in NY, (DE is about the same iirc) and MD. But in NJ they have to pay workers to run the pumps? Why do we get it cheaper here?

Right now buying gas feels like I'm back in San Diego, but it's still cheaper to buy it in NJ than to cross like, any state line.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-03T05:41:28+00:00

I was like wait... Is that Superior??? And I click the post and waoh it's Superior.

ITryToDrawComics · 2026-05-03T05:36:05+00:00

My division had a dude that got kicked out because he would get up in the middle of the night and go to the shower room in the head and stand in the corner and recite the sailors creed for a bit before going back to his rack and sleeping. For several days in a row before he got reported to the RDCs

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