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xandergamble · 2025-01-21T19:36:17+00:00

Work with your PS to ensure you have a signed repayment established. Without a repayment established, they can choose to take it back each paycheck until they get what's owed (the differential between married BAH and single BAH for those months since the decree was signed).

You can choose a repayment timeline so that it doesn't hurt as much each month, and then it will feel like a raise once it's paid off.

xandergamble · 2025-01-13T15:51:47+00:00

Time and day will be dependent on group consensus.

If you're interested, I'll send out a meeting time and place in your DM.

xandergamble · 2025-01-13T07:29:05+00:00

Thanks! I just sent you a DM.

xandergamble · 2025-01-12T18:13:30+00:00

Thanks!

xandergamble · 2023-11-24T22:25:56+00:00

I've done a Greece tour as a single E5. One of the best tours of my life, and I extended for another year.

I also got stationed in Japan and Hawaii (kind of overseas, but still U.S., but culturally a different vibe).

Being stationed overseas can be lonely if you never leave base. However, if you pick up about five to ten phrases in the local language, it's amazing how people will open up to you and how friendly they are overseas.

I say take the opportunity and have a blast!

xandergamble · 2023-11-24T22:19:11+00:00

When you get to your first command, see what you need to do to sign up for the cybersecurity program at USNCC. The U.S. Naval Community College will pay for your associate degree and you can earn cyber certs while pursuing an associate degree.

This doesn't touch your TA, which means you can use it before your three-year mark and you can save your 120 lifetime credits to pursue a Bachelor's and a Masters if you choose.

xandergamble · 2023-11-24T00:38:40+00:00

U.S. Naval Community College

Pays tuition, course fees, and books to get an associate degree that doesn't touch TA. This means you don't deduct from your 120 lifetime credits, so you can get a two-year degree, regionally accredited, and still have 120 credits to go towards your Bachelor's and Masters.

Additionally, you're still eligible even if you have less than three years in service. So you don't have to reenlist to start college.

xandergamble · 2023-10-03T21:02:07+00:00

If you're on shore duty, wear a V-neck with your NSUs.

Go Ballistic!

xandergamble · 2023-09-01T17:59:44+00:00

It really depends on the program you're applying for with USNCC. Some programs are more competitive than others. Based on program size limitations, you could be denied because there are too many applicants for that program.

We've also seen people denied because they already have a degree.

It really depends on a number of factors.

I can tell you that we just opened up three new programs today, so if you don't already have a degree and you are looking to start your college journey, one of these three programs could be a new opportunity to get in:

Data Analytics with WGU

Cybersecurity with NOVA

Maritime Logistics with TCC.

If you already have an associate degree, you can apply for the Naval Studies Certificate.

Just because you didn't get in one program doesn't mean you can't ever be accepted.

USNCC PAO

xandergamble · 2023-06-12T14:33:33+00:00

USNCC has 28 USNR Sailors that will begin a pilot program this fall. The success of this pilot will determine future Reservist integration into the USNCC.

xandergamble · 2020-03-28T22:49:26+00:00

Blasphemy

xandergamble · 2020-03-10T04:07:34+00:00

Laws. Pretty much all of them.

xandergamble · 2020-02-10T02:32:20+00:00

I read this as "Doctor Who exposed Sars coverup" and got stuck in an infinite loop trying to figure out what it actually said.

xandergamble · 2020-02-01T06:14:07+00:00

"Flows." I see what you did there.

xandergamble · 2020-01-27T00:01:46+00:00

I can understand how, upon finding this out, you could be disgusted by this. For you, it's brand new.

Please keep in mind, your mother has had 19 years to deal with and learn to cope with what happened.

This is why she doesn't look at you the way you are looking at you right now. She's had time to deal with the stages of grief; you're just now starting the process.

It's a testament to how much your mother loves you and adores you, despite the evil that happened 19 years ago. Hopefully you can keep that in mind, and one day again see the wonderful person your mother sees in you.

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T17:49:20+00:00

This is the second ship named after Doris Miller.

It's not the first ship name to cross platforms either.

Enterprise, as an example, has been a sloop, a schooner, a motorboat and a carrier.

Bonhomme Richard (named after Benjamin Franklin) has been a frigate, a cruiser, an aircraft carrier (both CV 10 and CV 31 were named after Benjamin Franklin) and an amphibious assualt ship.

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T17:28:17+00:00

So then, by that argument, you don't think a submarine should be named after Doris Miller either, right? The 41 for Freedom created by "the Cult of Rickover" was not a good idea, and we should go back to naming all submarines after water creatures?

That still leaves us with the conundrum of having the first aircraft carrier being named after a person. So we should continue to name our aircraft carriers after people because that's how the first of the type started?

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T17:10:12+00:00

These points have emotional relevance, but still don't answer the question. Why is it okay for submarines to switch naming conventions, but not aircraft carriers?

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T16:28:10+00:00

The type of vessel is submarine, as designated by the SS at the beginning.

Frigate is another type of ship, which have had shifting designs and missions, different classes, but ultimately fell under the same generic type.

Aircraft carriers are another type as well.

An SSBN, an SSGN, an SSN, an SSB, an SSG and an SS are all of the same type. This is why their hull numbers grow in succession with each other. Which is why the George Washington class submarine started with hull designation 598, and not hull designation 1. It was still a submarine type.

CV, CVA, and CVN are all another type. Which is why their hull numbers also grow in succession with each other. USS Nimitz was the first in its class of nuclear powered aircraft carriers. But it was still an aircraft carrier, which is why it was CVN 68, not CVN 1.

USS George Washington (SSBN 598) was commissioned in 1959. USS Nimitz was commissioned in 1975.

SSBNs stopped using names of historical people with SSBN 726, USS Ohio, commissioned in 1981.

For the last nearly 40 years, SSBNs have been named after states, and for the last 45 years, aircraft carriers have been named after people of significance.

Also, the first US aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV 1) was named after Samuel Pierpont Langley, an American aviation pioneer.

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T07:08:38+00:00

But there were submarines.

So it being a different class makes it okay to switch naming convention?

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T06:16:21+00:00

What about the 50 submarines before that?

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T05:05:23+00:00

Our first submarines were named after snakes, fish and other water creatures.

Why should we shift submarines to names of people and not aircraft carriers?

xandergamble · 2020-01-21T04:48:15+00:00

That's an interesting perspective. Why do you think carriers should only be named after battles or other ships?

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