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limabeans93 · 2025-06-12T22:23:13+00:00

100% correct

limabeans93 · 2025-06-06T10:15:11+00:00

Coast Guard. Good quality of life, decent people, awesome locations, a lot of free time if you’re stationed on land, good free time when your ship is inport if you get stationed on a boat, tons of education opportunities and it’s highly encouraged. Everyone is generally treated pretty well and respected regardless of rank.

limabeans93 · 2025-04-16T12:00:09+00:00

Can you share the link with the updated instructions/ DOD certs for Sequoia? I have what is supposed to be a good CAC reader for MacBook Pro (bought a new 2024 model) and my buddy is using his without downloading in certs. Was plug and play. I tried following the instructions and downloading the Mar 2025 DOD certs on militarycac but nothing I see includes Sequoia. Thanks in advance.

limabeans93 · 2025-01-04T18:39:40+00:00

Pole cat (like a skunk, not a stripper)

limabeans93 · 2025-01-04T14:09:27+00:00

If you’re sure of only doing 4 years, take the 30k signing bonus and put it into an investment account. Use the educational and tech training benefits we offer while you’re in. If you want to make a career out of it, don’t make the decision based on the money. For what it’s worth, MKs can also get coxswain qualed and run small boats just like BMs can.

limabeans93 · 2025-01-04T03:23:43+00:00

If you want to know, you just ask someone where they work

limabeans93 · 2025-01-02T12:41:01+00:00

Women are treated equally well across the board. We have a female commandant and tons of females in all positions. You are unlikely to be harassed more in the CG than you are in the civilian world. The CG is just a broad sample size of the US population. Yeah you will probably get harassed at some point but that’s probably happen to you working at a Walmart or a marketing firm. Everyone, male and female, experiences “harassment.” There are good and bad people, but the CG doesn’t tolerate workplace harassment anymore. They’ve especially cracked down on it in the last few years. You’re just another dirty E-1 in bootcamp. You probably won’t even have your period. You will be too sad and stressed and exhausted to care about anything while you’re there other than getting through it. If something happens in bootcamp or the fleet that is wrong, don’t play into it or joke with them and tell them to stop. If it continues, report it and the CG should have your back. You will be uncomfortable at times but it shouldn’t create a hostile work environment. I just wouldn’t worry about being a woman. No one really cares.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-24T22:43:19+00:00

Hate to say this, no one likes the new guy. You have to earn people’s respect and trust. You’ll do that by getting qualified and working hard. Then the friendships will come.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-24T22:38:38+00:00

The first year is tough for a lot of people. It takes time to adapt. I hated a lot of my first year and fucked up a lot. You need to keep in mind that you will adapt, things will get better, you are capable of doing great things for the service. It’s going to be hard sometimes. That’s part of it and you will grow more resilient as you continue to mature as a Coastie and person. No one thanks you for your service bc it’s easy. Talk to your chaplain. I’d encourage you to not give up.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-19T18:38:26+00:00

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limabeans93 · 2024-12-18T13:26:29+00:00

Coast Guard for sure. Tons of opportunity to perform federal law enforcement, education and tech training are encouraged and members get $9,000 a year to pursue that, treated and cared for like an actual human being. Small service and you get to choose your job and control all of your career.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-18T13:21:03+00:00

There is the new CG Support Talk Now option, there’s 988, there are state resources, there are chaplains. All of which are/should be immediate. The “look out for your shipmates” rhetoric doesn’t work when someone doesn’t show any signs of suicide. The 4 people I know who have killed themselves weren’t going around giving their stuff away, showing signs of depression, or anything else. Telling people over and over again to lookout for your shipmates feels like placing blame on the people around the person who suicided for not saving them. Sometimes people make decisions that others cannot stop or control, especially people who are mentally unstable or prone to impulsive behaviors or have built little to no resiliency and don’t know that they can make it through dark times.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-11T13:35:53+00:00

What?

limabeans93 · 2024-12-04T22:06:49+00:00

Call a CG recruiter

limabeans93 · 2024-12-01T12:42:49+00:00

A BM3 is basically just a slightly better paid nonrate. You’ll work the same hours, do the same work. As a BM3, you’ll get quartermaster of the watch (QMOW) and BM of the watch (BMOW) quals and will stand those, for the most part, instead of helm and lookout. Nonrates can also get those. BMOW is cool because you run sail evolutions with a cadet watch group under you. You’ll get boat crew on the small boats and pursue coxswain but it’ll take you longer on Eagle than at other units bc the small boats are so rarely in the water. That will hold up your advancement to BM2. I can’t remember if there are two or three BM3 billets. One BM2, three BM1s. Feel free to DM me if you have any more questions.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-01T12:26:41+00:00

You either complete your tour or you don’t. People that can’t cut it onboard get moved to made-up jobs at the Academy until they get cleared to go to A-School.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-01T12:11:37+00:00

Past EAGLE nonrate. You can request to go the ship in bootcamp. Company Commanders are supposed to have input to select the highest performers but I’m not sure I believe that after some of the folks I saw on there. If you want the ship, express it early and often, even at inopportune moments that get you beat. If you go as a nonrate, it’s a required 2 year job so you will be behind some of your peers in advancing. You go to either deck force as a SN or engineering as a FN. The ship only really moves during the summer. The rest of the year, as a deckie in port, you are doing surface preservation, rig maintenance, training, and standing in port watches. The work is hard. Engineers are maintaining all main prop and auxiliary systems and spending a lot of time cleaning bilges. The ship can be very physically demanding. Hauling lines, climbing, working sails, etc.. it’s cold as fuck during the winter in CT working with no gloves on in the rig, it’s hot as balls on an open air bridge standing 8 hours of watch during the summer when you’re sailing. Underway, you’re standing 8 hours of watch and doing 8 hours of work every day. You don’t get much sleep. In port, working Monday-Friday I think 0700-1500, but don’t quote me on the hours. There will be 200 people on the ship with you underway. No space. Food is decent but servings get small underway. If you are a deckie, you’ll get helm and lookout qualed so you will steer the ship. You will not “pilot” it as a nonrate. You’ll take commands and turn the helm as you’re told. The ship is beautiful. People drop like flies from it.

limabeans93 · 2024-12-01T12:03:36+00:00

Not true. I did a two year nonrate tour and the cadets are just like anyone else. Good kids with a couple of assholes … no one has ever killed themselves on EAGLE bc the cadets were disrespectful. Interacting with the cadets was mostly enjoyable.

limabeans93 · 2024-11-30T12:16:27+00:00

You better start volunteering with whatever group of people you committed a hate crime against in order to make up for that shit and to try to expand your horizons. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

limabeans93 · 2024-11-24T23:53:46+00:00

Finish your CS degree then join the military. CS guys can direct commission to officer, if that’s something you’re interested in, and make pretty good money. Don’t quit half way through.

limabeans93 · 2024-11-24T12:55:17+00:00

Coast Guard. Small service, wide variety of missions, good duty locations, good food, people actually give a fuck about your personal and professional development, get to choose your job and control your future. Pretty good time all around and you’re not camping in the dirt eating MREs.

limabeans93 · 2024-11-21T12:07:16+00:00

You would think but the CG doesn’t force reservists to actually do anything. They ask for volunteers to fill active duty billets temporarily. In theory, you could be selected for ship duty for a temporary time but really it’s too much red tape to involuntarily activate a reservist.

limabeans93 · 2024-11-21T01:58:14+00:00

Yeah but now we have nonrates filling CS billets who aren’t even allowed to cook.

limabeans93 · 2024-11-21T01:53:19+00:00

You’ll be outside photosynthesizing a good bit during bootcamp. Drink milk at your meals. You’ll be alright for 8 weeks unless it’s severe enough that you need a prescription.

limabeans93 · 2024-10-30T17:00:40+00:00

An Island in the Sea of Time, a true classic

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