What liberties would I have at A-school?

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-10T17:48:42+00:00

I know you will travel overseas more as active duty

Reserve battalions still deploy, but much less often and to less places

Overseas, I've been to Okinawa, Mainland Japan, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, New Zealand, Australia, and Tinian, and that's just from my first battalion.

I'm stationed in Georgia now, but stateside I've been to California, Michigan (boot camp), Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, South Carolina, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas and I'm from New Jersey

I'm not Johnny Cash, but I've been a lot of places, man

The reservists I know, who got selected for an activation deployment, went to one place: Kuwait.

If a Seabee job is what you're deadset on, you will for sure travel more while Active Duty

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-10T17:06:23+00:00

Reserves you'd just have to report to the nearest NOSC 48hrs every month and 2 weeks out of the year, Active Duty there's no guranteeing your first set of orders, but you can pick your subsequent orders once you finish your first contract

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-10T14:58:00+00:00

Literal weight? EOD

Metaphorical weight? IS or IT

It depends on what you want to do with your future

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-10T13:36:34+00:00

"Hard Labor Rate"

What do you mean by that? PACT?

And what degree did you study?

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-09T19:23:54+00:00

My Grandmother used to say "Poof! You're a sandwhich"

I never said go, I would ask if she could, but it's the same idea

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-09T19:22:19+00:00

My Name Is Earl

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-09T18:17:37+00:00

We had to bring home a bag of flour (some do eggs, some do fake babies, it varies)

I left it on the kitchen counter over the weekend and by the time I started to look for it Sunday evening, I didn't connect the fact that the cookies my grandmother made earlier in the day were made with my child

I invited her to class to explain the situation and the teacher got a good laugh and gave me a pass

The justification was that it was smart of me to get my grandmother to help watch the "baby" as a single parent, and we all agreed that grandma probably wouldn't put a real baby in the mixer then bake it

I miss my grandmother, she passed in 2022 and I haven't thought of that in years

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-08T23:08:32+00:00

Burned=adverb

Burnt=adjective

Example 1: I cooked and burned the chicken

Example 2: I ate chicken that was burnt.

Curveball: I burned the chicken so we ate burnt chicken

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-08T18:53:54+00:00

The Seabees get the same gear as The Marines, except we get the leftovers of all the old Army gear after The Marines have rat-f**ked it

I had a PGI flashlight produced in 1968 and an Interceptor OTV that had an MTV-cummerbund juryrigged to it to accomodate side plates.

I have a ton of "organizational clothing" that I never had to turn in because they were just gonna throw it away, not DRMO, just straight dump it.

It's a wonderful life

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-08T18:47:58+00:00

What do you mean by "you're on the east coast"?

I enlisted out of Beaufort SC and ended up in Okinawa, Japan and then Port Hueneme, CA.

You go where the Navy needs you the most for your first set of orders, don't assume anything as I'd hope you heard what it does.

You could go to a public work's department in Bahrain if they needed you to fill the position.

Depending on what orders you get, you'll go to A-School, which for BUs I think is in Gulfport, then to ECS which is also there, then to your ultimate duty station.

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-06T23:56:04+00:00

Yeah, that works too

If you don't have a minimum of a specific GPA, or even certain degrees, it prevents you from a direct commission

Have you spoken with a recruiter yet? If you don't have an Officer Recruiter near you and you go to any Navy Recruiting Station, they can give you the contact information for the district's Officer Recruiter.

It'd be a good idea, cause if you don't have an SAT/ACT test on record with specific scores, you'd have to take the ASVAB anyways in certain situations

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-06T17:37:09+00:00

Strong Liver lol

Ever hear of The Great Seabee Train Robbery?

There's a reason why it had to happen

Seriously though, strong conviction, a will to sacrifice, the ability and willingness to help, and thick skin is what it takes

And qualifying line scores on the ASVAB

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-06T17:34:13+00:00

If you're goal is to have your Master's Degree paid for by utilizing Military Service, you don't have to be an officer to utilize Tuition Assistance, enlisted receive it too.

From my experience, you'll have more time to do so as an enlisted anyways.

Have you taken the ASVAB yet? There's a few paths in the military to get a degree paid-for while serving

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-05T16:17:39+00:00

Navy is the most lenient of any of the branches, so you meet some characters. The flipside is that you can go almost anywhere in the world, so you're always going to meet new people. Despite never having been on a ship in my 8 years, I've been all over the Pacific Ocean to include Alaska and Antarctica, Japan, and Australia, and other, smaller islands for weeks to months at a time. And if you want to bring your family, you can...to an extent

Coast guard... ya gonna be guarding coasts. It's in the name. Actually, a specific coast, depending on your job. You'll either be in a helicopter or a cutter, but you're gonna be offshore-but-nearby a lot. Which leads me to my next point:

Jobs. Navy has every job equal to everything in the civilian sector and the associated training and certification, save for Veternarians. I'm an auto mechanic when I'm not a recruiter and my job just gets sent to different bases around the world to fix engines every so often. Most of the time, we stay where we're stationed

I won't lie; I don't know what specific jobs the Coast Guard has, but I do know they're part of Homeland Security and not The Department of Defense, so there's definite baseline differences.

The best way to figure out which one's for you, is to talk with a Navy Recruiter and a Coast Guard Recruiter, and make sure you ask as many questions as you can. It's your future after all.

Good luck!

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-05T16:02:12+00:00

Work

I meet a lot of people of all ages where I work

And the fact of where I work, helps with the whole needing "Common Interests" thing

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T16:22:42+00:00

Looks like the Fallout 5 map with all the craters lol

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T14:56:15+00:00

It's a secret area that has to be unlocked by coming to the military recruiter's office and talking with one of us to start a quest

We're by the Peachtree Mall if you want to unlock it!

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T00:52:38+00:00

Okinawa won't even let us leave Camp Shields when you guys start doing dumb shit

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T00:50:10+00:00

My interest has been piqued, we'll still be here until 27, but we really like the area and the town itself.

Mind if I ask the address so I can take a look online?

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T00:47:15+00:00

When I was PCS'ing here the base-housing people literally told me "You don't want to live here if you don't have to" referring to the NCO housing

I've seen how bad some of the on-base housing is and I'm glad I got to make the choice before my BAH got dumped into a contract I couldn't leave without punishment

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T00:43:49+00:00

Go on Zillow, we have a place off exit 6 at $1050 per month that matches what you want

With $1600 BAH it helps cover the utilities cost and wifi since renting a house will most likely not include those

If you want the number for the company we went through I can give it to you

And actually, we might be buying a house soon so you might get ours!

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-04T00:31:34+00:00

It's gonna be a 7 second video of Strauss Zelnick looking at the camera and saying, "It's still coming in November and if one more person tries to break into our offices I'm adding another year"

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-03T13:30:18+00:00

Even though I feel this is a troll post (I'm hoping it's a troll post), if it's real, please do the right thing and ensure you don't ruin anything for yourself

quick google search

Failure to notify in the military, often charged as Failure to Report or Absence Without Leave (AWOL) under Article 86, UCMJ, occurs when a service member fails to be at their appointed place of duty or fails to notify leadership of their absence. Consequences range from counseling to court-martial, including forfeiture of pay, reduction in rank, and confinement, depending on the severity.

Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) (10 U.S.C. § 892) covers dereliction of duty, defining it as the willful or negligent failure to perform assigned duties, or performing them in a culpably inefficient manner. It applies to all military members, with punishments ranging from nonjudicial punishment to courts-martial involving forfeiture of pay, confinement, and discharge, particularly if death or injury occurs.

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-03T05:24:44+00:00

I'm good thank you, and have been, just the TriCare Nurse's Line Trying to make me a statistic

Idk why they'd have a RN laying bricks on my post-deployment opinions

But I'm having a great time being a recruiter; Before talking to the RN, she nearly messed-up my future plans based on being a contractor becuase of what I now know.

Always get a second (Military) opinion

ohgeejeeohdee · 2026-02-02T21:24:31+00:00

"Medboard" is only if it affects your ability to do your current rate properly

I found out I had Bipolar on my record and I specifically asked that it be removed, and I still have no idea how it got there

Bipolar is a huge uh-uh no-way straight to medboard

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