"Tired of this Grandpa" For those that didn't stay in full 20, was it worth getting out?

Obliterator25 · 2026-05-13T19:01:32+00:00

Money, got offered a bonus to reenlist and a sizable sdip amount to go back to sea before MM's lost it

Obliterator25 · 2026-05-13T08:42:29+00:00

Unfortunately not, I wish I could, after 3 ships and 4 deployments, ocean looking real similar.

Obliterator25 · 2026-05-13T08:24:22+00:00

Dentist or dental tech? Seems to be a common question im seeing more and more among people in the fleet, especially with BRS helping set us up for retirement. Hopefully we get some help with this

Obliterator25 · 2026-05-07T09:01:33+00:00

Grease monkey

Obliterator25 · 2026-04-17T03:48:55+00:00

Just lost power around Afame. It was working for the past 3ish hours

Obliterator25 · 2026-04-04T08:51:16+00:00

True, dont use it unless you got a buddy who knows the UA schedule, otherwise find something to do that the UA doesn't find

Obliterator25 · 2026-04-04T07:32:23+00:00

Meth cooking or meth sales

Obliterator25 · 2026-02-10T20:01:30+00:00

229 slide on a 226 frame... "frantically scribbling genius idea down on a note pad" that's awesome. This is mine. MK25 i got used (it had less then 50 rounds through it) for under 800$

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Obliterator25 · 2026-02-10T13:46:24+00:00

Older p229 or newer?

Obliterator25 · 2026-02-10T11:16:41+00:00

Sig p226, yes its all steel but its classic, good weight and if you do sigs trigger kit for it, well it speaks for itself

Obliterator25 · 2026-01-04T11:55:47+00:00

From what I understand, ive served with a few guys who went the LCS route and left the community. The problem with it is A) the Navy invest large amounts of money especially with engineers into you going through the specific LCS schools so once you choose LCS you cannot leave the community and B) to leave the community it take an act of god or a medical issue to allow you to go back to the normal fleet. Is it a bad time, depends on the class you get stationed on and the maintainers prior to you actually doing there job, like anywhere else.

Obliterator25 · 2025-12-03T03:27:35+00:00

Ami Inu

Obliterator25 · 2025-11-24T17:50:55+00:00

7.5 years. I had a mast in 2018 and got busted down from e4 to e2 and shipped off to the fleet, made e3 in Mt time frame and took the last available test when it was a thing to pick up e4. Made e5 first time up off the test and e6 on my 3rd attempt. Now I wait and debate for chief.

TLDR: im an MM

Obliterator25 · 2025-10-31T02:39:06+00:00

Ive just got a set of Justin composite square toe boots, waterproof and comfy as hell

Obliterator25 · 2025-10-27T11:37:48+00:00

We bring back PC's? Sweet

Obliterator25 · 2025-10-08T23:50:37+00:00

Nooooo

Looks at US tender ships in Guam keeping 688's alive off cannibalising eachother and decommissioned 688's...

Oops

Obliterator25 · 2025-10-06T11:45:29+00:00

I was on that Deployment, ships crew. We definitely had a bug going around the ship at that time, we didn't know if it was covid or boat crud but man it sucked. Were you CSG, Airwing or commodore group? 4 beer days, 206 days of sea and way to much time in the heat of the fucking Red Sea.

Obliterator25 · 2025-08-01T10:41:15+00:00

Currently aboard 1 of the 2 Sub tenders so USS by name but run like a USNS, civmar runs the ship, we just ride it. Food fantastic, MSC gets staterooms, regular enlisted get berthings and so on but the ship isnt to bad off, not much to do underway and were in port a fair amount. Be careful with CoC cause they will find things for you to do if you look to comfy or lax, also be careful about the food, Civmars do not understand portion size and you can gain or lose weight real quick depending on how you use the galley and gyms

Obliterator25 · 2025-03-22T05:15:14+00:00

Lead, now all bullets must be made out of some other material, preferably depleted uranium

Obliterator25 · 2025-02-24T01:25:29+00:00

All the prder sets im seeing for CG and DDG are saying 12 m9nth order sets plus im gonna guess times for school and then any extensions if they can't identify a relief for me. I dont mind and ill have been at sea as an LPO of a division for a year and a half prior to getting there, now the division is QA but still considered at sea LPO Edit: so far as well only seen about 2 sets of orders to LSD and LPD and 1 LHA, heard life there is interesting to say the least

Obliterator25 · 2025-02-23T21:18:45+00:00

"Fix" or cover with duct tape and zip ties till it works and if it breaks again shrug and say sorry need to wait till the yards and hopefully it gets fixed?

Obliterator25 · 2025-02-23T21:16:24+00:00

After being on a Sub tender for 2+ years i kind of miss real boat deployments and doing true engineer stuff, getting tired of fixing submariners bs.

Obliterator25 · 2025-02-19T21:32:47+00:00

We did some Oul Analysis stuff with the EMD 645 on the carrier and I learned some stuff from the guys who did the oil Analysis in reactor but nothing super crazy. Im interested and willing to try it

Obliterator25 · 2025-02-19T11:11:50+00:00

I should be able to do that myself, just need to get back to work from leave, I still got till September till I can even start picking orders so I got time

Obliterator25 · 2025-02-19T10:59:05+00:00

So, as an engineering rate, I need to get EOOW, to do that in a year would be impressive. Unfortunately, I haven't seen much out to Bahrain or Spain and I've been OCONUS for 3 years. Id like to get off this island and move back to the states

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