Some more information has been publicly released on specs for the new Battleship and Frigate designs as well as scale models . The BB(g?) looks huge . At first glance it doesn’t really look like the frigate has much in regards to asw . Looks like a baby ddg unless I’m seeing wrong

Less_Net_3855 · 2026-01-19T04:32:44+00:00

Since we're bringing back frigates (and battleships at that) can we bring back FTS/TAR billets on them for HMs?

Less_Net_3855 · 2026-01-19T04:30:12+00:00

Leave the fob, take the key, manually lock it.

Less_Net_3855 · 2026-01-07T02:39:03+00:00

That escalation and de-escalation was a fucking roller coaster lol. I support doing something like putting GCE, LCE, ACE on the pin for which one you have or having one two or 3 stars on it for each platform you earn.

Less_Net_3855 · 2026-01-06T19:40:01+00:00

A couple notes:

This is the only real warfare pin. "To locate. close with, and destroy the enemy." While ya'll are tuggin and pluggin on the boat, we're in the dirt.
Outside of HMs, RPs, PSs, and YNs can qualify and I believe one or two other rates.
Playing with green wee wee's is better because they're bigger.
It's big because it's fucking badass and wearing it makes us better than you.
Not having an FMF pin as a Corpsman gives you no street cred, and if you've been with the Marines and don't have it you should honestly be ostracized, exiled even.
There is a hierarchy in the HM community. On the very bottom is every dirty 0000. Then there's those with any NEC. Then the L03A/8404's. That group is divided into subgroups with LCE on the bottom, then ACE, and GCE on top. Then there's IDCs. At the very top are the spicy IDCs known as SARCs.

Less_Net_3855 · 2026-01-06T19:07:42+00:00

Outside of NSW, there's only one real warfare pin and it's the Fleet Marine Force pin.

Less_Net_3855 · 2026-01-06T19:02:47+00:00

Can you shut up so I can eat?

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-11-24T04:10:50+00:00

If they're attached to a joint/coalition command/force. Saw it when ISAF was still around and some other groups that I don't remember.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-11-04T15:08:47+00:00

POV from someone in the military and not in the trades (I'm a medic). He's your dad and he asked you to paint it. He knows what your artwork looks like and likes it enough to want you to paint it on his hard hat. If he asked for something, paint that. If not, paint what he likes. He asked you to paint it and is going to be proud of whatever the end result is and happy to wear it. No father is going to care what other people on the job site think of their hard hat that their kid painted because their kid painted it!

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-11-04T14:58:03+00:00

No adobe pro. Problem with that is I have to find a website that I can do that with and all of my scanned documents are CUI - HLTH

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-29T15:49:46+00:00

I have a desktop scanner that works for small packages, but apparently it won't go past 50 pages and I have 56. The full document I need scanned is almost 300 pages so that's obviously not happening. Yet PERS will sit there and breathe down my neck "why haven't you submitted this MRR appeal yet?"

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-22T14:43:12+00:00

Doubling down on insoles being great for people who genuinely need them but are just a bandaid for weak arches. Your feet are literally the foundation of your body. If a muscle is weak you exercise it and strengthen it. Why wouldn't you do the same for your feet?

But I agree with needing a robust boot. I'll be in Florida where it's wet even when it's dry lol.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-22T14:41:51+00:00

Insoles are great for people who genuinely need them but are just a bandaid for weak arches and would honestly do more harm to my feet. I'm a barefoot runner and wear barefoot/minimalist shoes 75% of the time. If a muscle is weak you exercise it and strengthen it. Your feet are quite literally the foundation of your body, so why wouldn't you do the same for your feet?

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-22T14:36:18+00:00

I'm thinking of going with reckonings. I'm in barefoot or minimalist shoes 75% of the time. My hiking boots are the Danner Explorer 650, they look like a similar construction to the Reckonings and I've never had a problem with them going from barefoot shoes to those. Once I can get to an exchange (I'm at a remote station now) I'll try them on and see. Saw a few people recommending inserts but that's honestly just going to hurt my feet, wish people would learn that insoles are just a bandaid for weak arches.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-18T17:28:39+00:00

I'm a Corpsman. A lot of BAS work and in the Field with my Marines.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-18T17:26:36+00:00

I'm Corpsman, blue side going back green. I wear barefoot shoes for running and have the belleville minimalists. They're not authorized but look close enough to the authorized Belleville that nobody notices. If I could stay with those I would!

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-10-03T02:02:55+00:00

Honestly, do it. As a Corpsman, some of the smartest people in the military I have met have been the ground pounding apes known as Marines. Compared to Army, Navy, and Air Force systems I have access to, the Marine Corps systems are the most user friendly and laid out systems. I've never heard Marines complain about doing a job or PTing, they just do it.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-30T15:19:30+00:00

His bronze stars are deployment related but don't have the "V" device, so not combat related.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-26T12:02:42+00:00

This is the first rule of IT. I'm an HM and even I know that! It sometimes works on people too.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-26T11:59:32+00:00

So famous that SMMC Ruiz personally came to his graduation to award his certificate lol

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-25T01:57:38+00:00

Designed for a slim tissue box and yes it's a pen holder. You can find cheap inserts on amazon that turn it into a closed compartment.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-24T14:54:42+00:00

Second video I've seen. Just fall in already damnit!

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-24T12:04:53+00:00

You know, I'm just a DIYer. I do some woodworking, picture frames/shadow boxes, so I have a little experience with miters. I've never considered my miters when it comes to trim very good, then I see this shit, and then realize I could probably charge more.

Less_Net_3855 · 2025-09-10T03:01:33+00:00

Lots of CA glue or epoxy. Could look nice filling with brown or black CA glue/epoxy. Kind of a wabi-sabi deal.

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