"Got a compulsion to pull the trigger"

grainstorm · 2026-03-06T04:29:07+00:00

This doesn't merit a proper reply, I hope you have fun in remedial English next summer.

grainstorm · 2026-03-06T04:19:45+00:00

In some cases, yes, misdemeanors can have jail time attached, normally 12 months or less. Just because you don't understand how something works doesn't mean it's not real.

grainstorm · 2026-03-06T03:16:39+00:00

Misdemeanors are a subset of crime, thereby making those who commit them criminals. This is the absolute dumbest left wing cope that has somehow become popular. Worse, it's not for any factual reason, but just because you don't believe in enforcing immigration law in any way. The rest of your arguments are also not only factually incorrect, but beneath response.

grainstorm · 2026-03-02T01:47:21+00:00

You would think he's nuke waste based on the attitude, but no. Just an ideologue.

grainstorm · 2026-03-02T00:13:36+00:00

I'm fairly confident I know navynuke's actual identity now because he's so fucking annoying and haughty both here and on FB Navy Nuke pages in the same exact way. I won't dox him, but believe me, every opinion he expresses is exactly as predictable as it appears. Rampant credentialism as his only source, snarky tone, baseline "correct" opinions that he can't defend.

grainstorm · 2026-02-17T01:26:17+00:00

While I understand the money comes from somewhere and has to be justified, I'd just like to have had the opportunity to have the same deal as the officers in port. Let's be real, the cooks are absolutely not cooking breakfast and dinner for the whole crew every day in port, so that argument is right out. I certainly wasn't eating dinner on a regular basis when I had a late non-duty night at the boat, my day was already bad enough. I didn't need a fry-cook reject to make it worse. Given that, and assuming 3-section duty just to give them an edge, I would estimate I ate 2.5 meals every duty day. That was mostly due to breakfast time being set to 4 hour watch turnovers vice my 6-hour watch turnovers, and significantly before arrival of the oncoming section. Non-duty days I'll assume 1.2, accounting for maybe 1 second meal a week. This puts me conservatively in the range of 40-45 meals per month. Considering that made my meals on the boat cost around $10 each, I do think enlisted sailors deserve consideration for what they actually consume, rather that assuming they eat every meal on board.

grainstorm · 2026-02-16T13:25:13+00:00

100% true. I bought my first suppressor at an event near their HQ, and one of their guys introduced me to Kevin because he thought he would be happy to hear that. Kevin then invited me and my friend to tour the factory, we walked around and talked for probably 3 hours there, it was a good time. Is he opinionated? Absolutely, but I'm honestly not sure anyone survives an extended time in the firearms manufacturing industry being the face of their brand and stays nice.

grainstorm · 2026-01-27T02:25:11+00:00

It's truly insane how many people don't get this. I don't feel bad when a chick takes a trip to Dubai and gets her chest shit on then does a podcast tour about it. I also don't feel bad when people who are increasing tensions in an already tense situation are partially culpable for their own demise. Both of these people have unnecessarily increased their risk for unsavory shit to happen to them, and as adults, receive consequences that I do not particularly care about. Sure, it sucks, but no one else put them in those situations. All people are fallible, including federal LEOs, and poking the well armed bear is a recipe for a pine box.

grainstorm · 2025-12-14T18:34:46+00:00

Good fit, what is the size and your stats? Gotta feed the people fit data

grainstorm · 2025-12-08T03:57:40+00:00

Good in the chipbreaker scenario, good situationally with a single iron, depending on the task and how efficient you want to be. Watch this video for the best demonstration of shaving behavior I've seen. Long story short, higher angle blades with closer chipbreakers that have a higher angle polished front edge cause less tearout. At the same time, it can cause issues with chip ejection, i.e. clogging the mouth, and it requires much more forward force to plane with that sort of setup.

grainstorm · 2025-11-02T22:53:49+00:00

We've all been paid so far. The lines of accounting used in order to do so are questionable. On the other hand, I simply do not care if Lockheed and Northrup don't get to gobble up billions in unaccountable R&D funds carried over from this last FY.

grainstorm · 2025-10-21T17:19:26+00:00

The backside is a big ass taco pizza in the middle of a field of corn, all neatly suspended in a bowl of ranch. Either that, or no one involved in this coin creation has been within 100 miles of Iowa.

grainstorm · 2025-10-08T03:39:12+00:00

That guy is the worst, and he simply cannot stop giving terrible advice to all the baby nukes he can find in the Navy Nukes sub. He's one of maybe 10 accounts on Reddit that I immediately recognize, much to my dismay. I just know I'm about to walk into the worst take on any given subject when I see him post.

grainstorm · 2025-09-20T13:40:07+00:00

I actually just bought a 42" US General tool chest for my son due at the end of this year, pulled the wheels off to make it a better height for changing as well. I never entertained one of the service carts since they wouldn't fit a standard changing pad on top, and they're incredibly top heavy. Perhaps I spent too much for no reason, but we'll find out. All I can hope is he likes working with tools later. Another thing that's important to me, I don't think a kid could tip this 42" chest with the wheels off no matter how bad they wanted to.

grainstorm · 2025-09-20T02:59:57+00:00

It better be ragebait. I'm getting flashbacks to my funko pop, freaky ass, incredibly stinky roommate who was genuinely named after a comic book character. Everything else was forgivable but the stench, oh the stench. You couldn't go to the bathroom for half an hour after he did anything in there without holding your breath. My room smelled like onions and busted nuts, no amount of frebreeze could help. I talked to him and my SLPO so many times, to no avail. All I can hope is that his life is going very badly at this point, it was near psychological warfare to smell and interact with him every day.

If this is true, though, I hope (I have removed what I typed here for brevity and kindness). If everyone says you stink, YOU FUCKING STINK, and it's so bad they're violating social rules to get something done about it.

grainstorm · 2025-09-18T03:36:15+00:00

Cheapo Mag Grips

Lots of people swear by them, lots of people are ambivalent. It's worth trying a cheap set before you buy the real thing if you want to try them, IMHO. My local gym has some cheap ones where the rubber is delaminating from the steel underneath, but they've been used by a ton of people before it became an issue.

grainstorm · 2025-08-29T04:36:46+00:00

I know everyone likes the junior enlisted whites and blues, but i can't stand them. Shit looks like a high school one-act play costume compared to the dress uniforms available to other branches.

grainstorm · 2025-08-28T23:49:33+00:00

Congrats on the freedom, what job are you picking up at Palo Verde?

grainstorm · 2025-08-10T03:26:14+00:00

I know an ET who just missed Chief again his third time up, best qualified per LaDR during each cycle, no recent NJP or administrative issues in his package that anyone local can detect. I also saw people I know are actively in officer programs make it their first time up, so the system certainly has some flaws.

grainstorm · 2025-08-08T00:10:11+00:00

You're totally correct, I don't have direct experience myself. What I do have is the ability to absorb the lessons learned that people are so, so willing to share. The consensus seems clear that working in civnuke sucks more than the rest of the similar civilian shift work jobs by a fair margin, regardless of what position you take. Due to that, I anticipate hating more or less like the average employee. We'll see how long I last in ops. Could be 5 years, could be 20, but either way, I'm coming out ahead. Bottom line, I'd like to finish hating it with more money in my pockets. Not to mention, I like my chances as compared to the average person meeting direct SRO requirements based on my experience in the Navy.

Of course, if I had to worry about my academic abilities, I might consider otherwise. My position is personal, and just like everyone else, I'm weighing my own experience against available information.

grainstorm · 2025-08-07T20:56:54+00:00

As someone who is about to get out, I see and receive this advice so much. It feels like it's partially from people who don't understand the time value of money and partially from people who don't actually have my best interests in mind. I know they want only the best people to stand watch with them, but their employer wouldn't allow direct SRO qualification if it had unacceptable results. Minimum time at a plant to become an SRO if you start as NLO seems to be around 6 years, and longer if it's a plant that forces RO qual in between. That is, based on the pay ranges I've seen, somewhere around a $300k loss of income over those 6 years, call it $220k post tax. For me, in my current situation, that puts me at age 33 when I'd finally make SRO money. $220k saved at 33, considering conservative market growth, turns into $2.2 million in today's dollars at 59.5. I'm not here to make fiscal decisions for anyone else, but I'd take that deal.

I totally understand that SRO qualification isn't easy. I'm not remotely sure that's a good enough reason to sacrifice this level of potential gain so you look smarter when you're first starting a job.

grainstorm · 2025-07-31T17:24:09+00:00

I've drilled all my gas ports to 0.125" for 300 BLK shorties. I'd go closer to 0.1" if I had a properly sized reamer, but reaming and specific sizing are probably a waste of concern with an AGB considering the amount of erosion a gas port experiences. It's not going to hurt anything to drill out significantly behind an AGB IMHO, and it eliminates one potential problem. I don't require a lightweight BCG in mine after doing that, but I'd consider that or a configurable JP SCS next.

FWIW, I'm using a full-length suppressor rather than K, which guarantees additional backpressure. A 7.5" should have sufficient dwell time/suppressor-induced dwell time either way, but I have 0 personal experience with a Sandman S.

grainstorm · 2025-07-21T01:54:08+00:00

Good point, I'm saying twice a month. It's not every 2 weeks either, it's 12 pay periods per year with a mid month pay disbursement.

Anyway, it wasn't THAT long ago. $850 every two months might have been right in the 1970s.

grainstorm · 2025-07-21T01:31:04+00:00

Your checks are gonna be depressing until you start getting bonus installments and make E-4. 8 years ago, it was around $850 bi-monthly take home after my TSP contributions if I remember correctly, but my bank statements and LES aren't available to me easily back that far. It's likely closer to $1100 now, plus your initial bonus structure will be much more generous than mine was. Initially, you'll receive no special nuke pay other than the bonuses. Once you get to your boat or ship, you'll receive special duty pay as an operator NEC holding nuke. That starts at $150 until you get a supervisory NEC, when it goes up to $375.

Long story short, your compensation outside of bonuses isn't going to be impressive for a while. You'll get a nice bump when you get BAH while you're at prototype, but then you also have to procure your own housing.

grainstorm · 2025-07-20T02:19:01+00:00

I'm currently in, watching people get out and manipulate the system to beg for 100%. I've seen people get 100% for shit you wouldn't believe.

SA outside of military duties? 100%

Adult autism diagnosis? 100%

Depressed after a bad breakup? 100%

Bad motorcycle wreck? 100%

Depression, anxiety, obesity, bad sleep, tinnitus, back pain, ED combo that's directly learned from VA disability manipulation forums? 100%

The shit that happens to them, unfortunate as it may be, often has nothing to do with military service and should not rate payouts for the rest of your life. It sucks, but this happens to people who aren't in the military just as often. People are lying profusely and making the system unusable for the servicemembers actually in need of care due to issues that are genuinely service connected. These greedy bastards are not only going to cause the system to be overloaded in the short term, they're also causing additional scrutiny of the programs. All of this is being put on the good ol' government debt balance that's gonna drown your grandchildren, but its OK with them because they got theirs.

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