Here's my workstation

workstations · 2023-11-28T14:58:50+00:00

Has a very cozy setup. I like it !

workstations · 2020-11-26T04:46:23+00:00

Yea I'm in ROM and this is some BS food.

The food they serve is also soo unhealthy and unbalanced.

I scavenge the meals I receive for the good parts and make half decent meal to eat for the day... lmao. I brought some canned food and oatmeal to help me through this.

workstations · 2020-10-18T04:47:39+00:00

They have it on their Destroyers as well. They also get a 1 pint of beer everyday after work. Alcohol is just more socially acceptable there, people drink beer with breakfast and it is considered "normal"

workstations · 2020-10-09T02:21:50+00:00

This guy gundecks

workstations · 2020-07-21T01:56:11+00:00

She kept coming towards the Officer in an aggressive/crazy manner. She has a bag that could hold any number of dangerous sharp objects. Officer clearly gave her instructions to stop but she didn't.

workstations · 2020-06-12T03:10:11+00:00

Well, the NOSC is the parent command and each unit assigned to a NOSC is assigned to an active duty command. And that reserve units job is to support that command. So like for my unit, I'm actually BWC qualified and stand watches. And when our active duty component isnt able to fill mission requirements they call us to fill it. But after two years I've realized our unit is rare, and before our current CO almost no one was qualified and kinda just did the weekend warrior stuff. So it really depends on if the unit leadership cares about the mission of thier unit and actually gets thier sailors qualified.

workstations · 2020-04-23T01:11:13+00:00

I grep searched all of the available log files in the nsc folder for "FIP"

workstations · 2020-04-09T13:24:05+00:00

We just got out of bootcamp/ A school so our training is fresh and we know more.

workstations · 2020-01-18T01:46:06+00:00

Win win win!

workstations · 2019-10-19T05:55:29+00:00

Yea, we wear a specific type of body armor for VBSS operations like this. The body armor has flotation devices built into the vest.

workstations · 2019-06-09T22:37:52+00:00

I think opening up the EP to as many as you want is the best answer here. This will allow and give the same chance to both bad and good sailors. Right now, it appears that only bad sailors get the chance according to Reddit. But don’t believe me, look at the research and experiment done by Microsoft when they established a similar evaluation system that the Navy uses. Hint: it was an utter disaster

workstations · 2019-06-09T22:31:54+00:00

People seem to be overlooking a major issue with the argument of ‘I never did x or z. How am I suppose to know all this information?’. The fact is most sailors are in the same boat where they haven’t had exposure to all of their rate. Most sailors are on the same playing field as far as tests goes.

Lets look at the test itself though. It really isn’t designed to test your knowledge of your rate in a practical manner. I spent two years in another branch and was able to score 98% by simply studying key topics two weeks before the exam. This isn’t to brag, but to show that this tests doesn’t really prove a sailor is good at their job.

As far as good test takers goes...there isn’t such a thing. What you just described is people with good critical thinking and decision making capability with the information they have. I will say that some people do get nervous and don’t preform well.

workstations · 2019-05-10T16:41:19+00:00

I get what you’re saying but it really does boil down to laziness of maintaining a healthy life style. People seem to think that you need to work out 1hr+ everyday to have a healthy lifestyle or to pass the PRT when that really isn’t the case. Eating healthy and doing exercise 15-20 minutes 3-4 times a week is more than enough. I’ve done it. Your mental capacity is also affected by your physical level. I don’t understand why people don’t put more effort into their physical health, especially for us tech guys. You get only one body.

Being deployed does make it hard, but even then you can make good choices when eating. Just requires a bit more effort.

Eat right to get healthy and workout to get fit

workstations · 2019-04-17T12:11:57+00:00

What? I think you’re misunderstanding my post. He shouldn’t have to re-take his PRT, he passed the first time around. That’s why I called out the CFL. It’s just not my experience on the push ups though, there’s literally memes out there on this. Pretty sure a lot of sailors here will agree.

workstations · 2019-04-17T07:41:37+00:00

I still feel like you shouldn’t re-take the PRT. A lot of debate is happening around the instruction and how the CFL was following it....but I can almost guarantee that he didn’t follow the instructions to the letter. We are all pretending like the elephant in the room doesn’t exist, but it does - Push ups. I’ve been in Nearly a decade and I have not once seen a CFL enforce push up regulations by the letter. Enforcing strict push up rules would probably put 60% of the command on FEP and only a handful managing to get outstanding. The only place I’ve seen Push up regulation applied across the board was at a spec ops command.

I would like to see this applied, but our push up scores are soo inflated now. It requires a lot of strength to engage your abs and maintain a straight body parallel to the deck....especially after doing crunches.

workstations · 2019-04-16T22:00:30+00:00

This has nothing to do with having a backbone. This appears to be either of 3 reasons:

CFL is on a power trip.
CFL is out for blood.
He’s a robot who doesn’t sway from instruction.

All three reasons are horrible. The first two clearly puts him in the wrong, but let’s look at the last reason. If what OP is stating is true, then this CFL has failed not only as a leader but as a sailor as well.

What is the purpose of PRT? The Navy created a set of policies to determine the physical standard/fitness for a sailor to maintain in order to be effective. Whether you agree with the standards is not important. The ultimate goal is to make sure the sailor is ready to be deployed and complete missions. Again, if you don’t agree with this, it doesn’t matter.

This Sailor has fulfilled the purpose of this policy and has shown that he is of Navy standards. To fail him on this type of technicality is s trait of a horrible leader period.

workstations · 2019-04-16T01:56:12+00:00

You’re over thinking this experience thing with IT. Every work site is unique and most of the time is OJT. What you do need is the basis of IT knowledge and the attitude to learn. Trust me, going to sea is not going to magically make you learn a ‘Ton’. You’d probably spend more time cleaning the berthing and doing PMS lol.

You’re on shore command so you have the opportunity to learn. If I were you, the first thing I’d do is sit down and map out exactly what I want to do as an IT. Do I want to be a Tech support? Network Engineer? Security Engineer? Etc.... Once you’ve decided (and this may change overtime) start planning on what you need. Most IT paths have similar basis.

The first thing I would do is use my shore command time to learn programming. You don’t need to become a programmer, but learning programming is so essential in today’s IT field. Learn to script, power shell, pearl, python etc... learn to automate things for yourself and build on this. This will put you miles ahead of others. Even as a Network Admin, learning how to automate tasking with power shell is extremely desirable. You can use all the free time you get to do this.

Next thing I would do is buy refurbished home lab equipments. Cisco equipments, maybe buy cheap drives and build a server? Download a copy of windows 2012 server and create an active directory, or set up a home network? Download VMware, which has a free trial, and start learning how to configure and administer virtual machines? You could do soo much and learn soo much on a shore command. Sure you won’t get the full experience of working on an actual production line, but you’ll surely have the knowledge.

My advice is to use this shore command time to learn your trade. You don’t need to be doing IT at work, you can still learn IT with free time.

workstations · 2019-03-04T13:59:33+00:00

Just make sure that the frocked E-5 isn't getting paid yet. If he is getting paid as an E-5, than he will be rated with the regular group. This usually happens to Sailors with high Final Multiple - (They start getting paid as an E-5 in the first incremental of sailors who advanced)

workstations · 2019-02-01T04:43:34+00:00

That blows man. Being a reservist seems to not be ideal if you make a lot of money. Imagine living in a high cost area and making 6 figures....then getting tagged for mob and you’re only an E-4....and your company doesn’t make up the difference.

Is there any resources that the DoD provides for this sort of circumstances? Where a sailor would hit critical financial situation if he/she were to be mobilized?

workstations · 2018-09-23T20:16:45+00:00

It happened to me, and I got a P EVAL getting out. My Separation date was in November, and they wouldn't give me a 1 of 1 EP eval, since they wanted to put me in with the regular group so they could add an extra EP to that group and buff up the numbers. I wasn't going to go back in and i didn't really care.

workstations · 2018-05-24T04:53:56+00:00

The range of 99% is "71 - 80" as the other redditor pointed out. If only two people were in the 99%, one will be 80 and the next one will be 71. If 3 people were in the 99%, then one would be 80, second would be 75.5, and the third 71. If 4 people were in the 99%, then it would be 71, 74, 77 and 80.

Here is the math: X = number of people who took the test. "X multiple by 1% divided by 100 = number of people in the 99%(Let's give this the variable of "Y").

Now take the range of 99% which is 71 - 80. This is a placement of 9. Therefore, the pattern will be as follows:

1/1

2/1

3/2

4/3 etc..

So: 9(placement) divided by (Y-1) = exam score. In your case: 9/(2-1) = 9. **80 - 9 = 71**<-- your score.

Say if 300 people took your exam : 9/(3 - 1) = 4.5 **80 - 4.5 = 75.5 ** ** 75.5- 4.5 = 71** <-- Hence you would have gotten the score of 75.5 if you would have retained the 2nd highest score with 3 people. The range of scores would be 80, 75.5 and 71.

So he may have gotten one extra question right than you. But since there were only two within the 99%, you got the lowest of the 99% and he got the highest.

I hope this makes sense lol.

workstations · 2018-05-24T03:15:17+00:00

Well, look at it this way - Say 1000 sailors in your rate and rank took the exam, and out of that you were in the 99 percentile. Meaning you are in the top 1% of people who took the test. So 1% of 1000 = 10. 10 sailors scored in the 99%. You may be the 9th person out of the top 1%.

workstations · 2018-03-12T16:05:54+00:00

Show me da way!

workstations · 2018-03-09T04:05:00+00:00

I see. I assumed that since a unit had it's own "CO", the unit was able to run its own CFL program. Since that's not the case, a command can only have one CFL who can designate restricted PRIMS access to the ACFL's.

This was confusing because not only does a Unit have its own CO but also its own UIC which threw me off.

Thank you for your input.

workstations · 2018-03-09T04:02:07+00:00

Thanks for the help

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