I just joined the Navy. What am I in for? Bootcamp for

Alot of seamen

>>739097719
A /b/tard in the navy?
You just have to say "aye mates where da pirats arrrrre"
You'll be fine

How tall are you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw

This can't be too far off.

>>739097719
>What am I in for?

Sodomy

>>739097719
I envy you. Wanted to do this several times but I was always a pussy and I always will be.

What are you going for?
Corpsman?
Engineering?

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>>739097719
Navy vet here OP. I loved my time in the navy, it was the ultimate boys club of hilarity. People forced to eat other people's snot during crossing the line ceremony, laughing at friends who accidentally raw dogged Philippine hookers, sneaking drinks after work in the berthing. This is not the navy experience you will get and this has been confirmed by my brother on active duty. Anti hazing faggots and snowflakes have taken over the military and have ruined the party for everyone......but hey at least you'll travel to places you've never dreamed of.

>>739097719
How does it feel to be so dumb that the only thing you can do is to die for your jew overlords?

>>739098142

like the brige?

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>>739097719

Be a ctn or an it. Get certs and fuck off. Not worth it though

I was in 2011-2015 and loved it. Not at first though, but about six month in when everything made sense and we were on our first cruise to the Mediterranean. There is still some hazing but nothing serious as this anon >>739098142
said. I'd still recommend it if you want to see the world and some other really cool shit.

Also ignore these faggots.
>>739097815
>>739097823
>>739098042
We had one gay dude on our ship but he was fairly cool and never talked about it. Overall if you're on a good ship it will feel like you have hundreds of blood brothers whom you'll get to know and trust with your life.

>>739097719
Navy /b/ro here.

If you go to the surface fleet, your life will suck. If you go on a submarine, your life will suck AND you won't see the sun. If you go aviation, you will get Thai hookers and lots of beer.

But as an enlisted, expect 2-3 years of dumbfuckery in the name of "tradition." Also, Chiefs are going to ruin your life because muh deckplate leadurship.

>>739099185
And by aviation, I really mean MPRA, since we deploy to hotel rooms in Japan.

Dont go nuke

>>739098142
I was 8 years in the surface ; crossed the equator and the arctic circle. No one ever made me eat snot and if they did it wasn't going to happen. No one was ever made a better man by being tormented by others for their sick sense of fun. I believe in tough training and the instilling esprit de corps but if you want to humiliate grown people who volunteered thier lives to service of country then you don't need to be in the US military. Go join a college frat.

>>739099170
>Navy
>Worried about loss of life

Hahahaha

>>739099185
>If you go on a submarine, your life will suck AND you won't see the sun.
Not OP but this is such a shame, I've often thought about dropping what I have to join the silent service. I play sub simulators on hardcore realism and heard the Navy would be increasing the submarine fleet, seemed like an opportunity.

>>739099763
>I play sub simulators on hardcore realism
Oh boy

>>739099278
ETN detected

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>>739099571
Overly sensitive queers like this who cant take a joke ruined the military for everyone. All he can see is "I'm a victim, I'm a victim", instead of holy shit this is funny. I've been on the receiving and dishing out end, these sort of events are not torture it's shenanigans. Waterboarding is torture you faggot, not a traditional crossing the line ceremony.

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>>739099613
Well, shit happens sometimes. Even if not in battle.

>>739097719
>What am I in for?
100 sailors go out, 50 couples come back
(my father was in the navy)

>>739099980
Better than those morons who joined the Marines after growing up playing COD. At least he has to put some thought into what he's doing.

>>739100197
Which one?

>>739097719
LOL i work at RTC welcome to hell stormtrooper

>>739098142
Navy vet? Bullshit. Navy doesn't deal with animals, why would they need a vet?

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>>739100130
What this anon said.

>>739097719
why are all sailors gay?

>>739099185
Ex bubblehead here. Go aviation

Op is your name tyler by chance?

>>739097719

Regret at not joining the Air Force

>>739097719
good luck bro

Being the marines personal uber driver

>>739100321
You know what they say:
"There are plenty of fish in the sea".

>>739099185
compared to subs surface fleet is fucking cheesedick. easiest job I have ever seen.

Former submariner

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>>739100171
75 years after Savo Island and we still can't beat the japs at night

>>739097719
I thought I wasn't going to like it when it was mine time in the barrel. But you get used to it. They are all tested, so just don't think about it and suck. Just don't be too good at it, or they start giving you extra barrel time.

>>739100171
>Enlist in armed forces
>Die due to combat unrelated mistake

Hahahaha

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>>739100387
Bro, even if OP said yes, you do realize that there are hundreds if not thousands of people joining Navy RTC each week? There are probably a couple dozen Tylers in there as well.

>>739099763
I knew lots of people who worked on subs while I was in the Norwegian Navy. It's not for everyone. Unless you're the captain or 2'd in charge you likely won't know where you're headed, and there's lots of restrictions on what you can bring on-board.

For some reason they're superstitious as fuck, if you've got anything that resembles a horse you'll hear it. (horses were used in the past to drag corpses from the dock or some shit like that).

Also, the rest of the navy calls them stink-tanks for a reason, the fucking smell that comes out of that hatch after a few weeks out is fucking terrible.

>>739100332
current bubblehead here
go subs because we want everyone to be just as miserable as we are

>>739100130

i actually would have joined the military if it wasn't filled with people like you.

your definition of a good life is being drunk and fucking a hooker bareback, while your wife is back home with two kids.

you call it "not able to take a joke". i call it honor.

>>739100827
Haha...i still remember the boat smell. I got out in the 90s

>>739100748
us submariner here
youre fucking retarded shut up
almost everyone on board knows where we are and where we are headed as long as we arent in patord waters
>i talked to this one guy who saw a sub one time and now im an expert

>>739100748
its amine its how e recycle our farts

>>739097719
one of them navy seal?

>>739097719
Become a medic, work with the Marines instead.

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>>739100833
>>you call it "not able to take a joke". i call it honor.

>>739100990
you dont notice the amine smell underway but the day those hatches open its like someone died onboard

>>739100671
>Around 270 active ships filled with heavy machinery, hazardous environments, explosives, and a shit ton of other potential fuck you's.
>Expect 0 accidents ever.

lol You're either a kid or you never worked anywhere in your life.

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>>739100833
Keywords here you didn't join.......now fuck off you soft snowflake pussy. If you can handle a practical joke how are you going to handle your friends arm getting blown off?

>>739101075
Yep...comeback from a long underway and your seabag you brought home is like damn

>>739100674
I know but theres this real faggot i know who goes to boot camp for the navy in august and hes really the type to post something like this

>>739101063

so having a loving wife and kids equals to virgin neckbeard to you?

i guess your iq is poTAhatoe

>>739099278
This guy gets it

>>739101110
This. I think the one thing I was most surprised about in the Navy was the sheer industrial feel. Hardhats and huge machinery and lots of noise everywhere. SO much noise.

>>739099571
8 years here, surface, Electronic Warfare. I had a pussy assigned TAD to my div. He wouldn't participate in crossing the line. So locked him in the shop. Your name isn't Sean Cote is it?

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>>739101009
Haha relax dude, I was in Radio-ed, crypto qual etc with submarine-fags for 4 months, this is just the shit they told me went on in the 8 subs or so we've got active in the Norwegian Navy. We had quite a few US-subs there as well, even had a pleb guard post a facebook-pic of the allied subs we had docked there. Priceless.

>>739101110
>Working on ship filled with explosives, machinery, and fuck yous
>Crash it into something
>Kill your sailor brethern by mistake

Hahahaha

There are hazards everywhere, everyday. If you drive a car, don't drive into oncoming traffic.

What's long, hard and full of seaman?

>>739101123

i don't see it as practical joke. it's vulgar.

and i served. but actually where it does matter if you are smart.

but feel superior because you got a bucket of shit and piss smeared over your face. that sure makes you a man.

>>739101479
Do they still call you guys spooks? Did when I was in

Find a yoeman and a PS and be their friend. As an AD this is the best career move you can make.

I got a question too.

Which is better? Navy or Air Force? Also, which job would you recommend for a fellow /b/tard.

>>739100833
I call it being a pussy. Now STFU Francis.

They deliberately give recruits a hard time in boot-camp to weed out those who can't follow orders or are otherwise unsuitable for service. Don't take the BS too seriously and you should be fine.

>>739101458
We use to take kids like this into the fan room and beat the fuck out of them. I never understood why soft cry babies and pussies enlist. You're in one of the most brutal male dominated environments known to man, whaddaya think was gonna happen?

>>739101110

Anon its not that accident don't ever happen. But that the when the navy fucks up, they do it a massive, spectacular, and bloody way. The Fitzgerald will be scrapped and most of its crew crucified.

>>739101354
Yep, that's how you know your ship is alive. My ship was decommed and eventually everything was shut down and tagged out with only the lights left working. The silence was surreal and kinda sad tbh. Felt like she really is dead.

>>739101800
what makes you unsuitable for service?

>>739101639
Those are/were CT's

>>739101617
Scored a 91 on the asvab and worked on the intell side.....cant tell me shit cuck.

>>739101757

so in how many actual battles you were involved?

0?

but i licked someones asshole, so everyone who hasn't is a faggot!

sound logic mate.

>>739101810
Bingo. He basically got the boot off his prior boat (Leahy Class CG). He didn't last long in my div as I was the LPO.

>>739101639
The tribalism is hilarious to be honest, every single profession and group hates another group for no fucking reason.

Only thing I heard was our reputation for being cowards, but to be fair, if your ship is raided and you work in the radio-room, your job is to lock yourself in and destroy everything while your friends die. It's fucked up to think about, but the KOI-18 Crypto-tapes are digestible, lol.

>>739101831
You're definitely right about that. A while back we had our sister ship run aground somewhere in the Black Sea and half the officers were fired with several going to court martial, so after 7 death aboard, crucifiction doesn't sound too far-fetched.

>>739101917
Bleeder sickness, bad eye-sight, color-blindness, failing the physical tests etc.

>>739101550
>crossing the line
Your moms dried up old pussy.

>>739102037
I'm an IS and intel is no guarantee that of intelligence. I work with a lot of really dumb fuckin' people.

>>739102322
>Bleeder sickness
bleeder's disease is the right term, a little random, but I remember one or two guys got sent home for it.

>>739101735
Want the most benefits out of least effort, go Air Force. You won't do shit and literally sit on your ass all day. If you want to get benefits while seeing the world and shooting the fuck out of the ocean, go Navy.

>>739097719
>What am I in for?

think of it as like being in prison, but with the added chance of droiwning

>>739102038
When you are stationed on a Iowa class not too many people are inclined to fuck with you.

Regardless I can understand your angst. If my mother was fucked by a squid while on liberty in Subic I would would probably have sand in my vagina as well.

I'm in the Aus Navy, more positive experiences than negative

getting ready (strength conditioning and such) to try to enlist.

good info/feedback in this thread.
makes me feel less anxious.

>>739102132
Leahy-class? Jesus, how old are you?

>>739102188

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=94115

Here is the USS Greeneville. She managed to sink a Japanese fishing boat without firing a single torpedo.

>>739102147
I always thought the tribal alliances were priceless I was an PH and an MC after the merger. Our biggest allies were the IT and ICs. So much fuckery.

>>739101917
That is a very long list. If you put a marginal person under pressure in an unfamiliar situation things can get weird in a hurry. We lost 3 or 4 guys during boot-camp.

>>739102577
Run with boots on, sit ups, push-ups and pull-ups. Then get good at letting overweight fucks talk shit to your face and let it roll off your back.

If you can do that boot is a piece of cake.

>>739097719
What am I in for?
Gin, sodomy and the lash!!

>>739102505

>is afraid of taking action with his life on the line
>thinks people who put their life on the line for their homecountry have sand in their vaginas

do you sleep with the lights on?

Don't become a Seabee; the A school is trash. They think they are marines. Also; don't go undesg that shit is trash.

The modern Navy is mostly-devoid of the classical "lock him in a fan room and beat the fuck out of him" nonsense. This is good, but there is also a lot of PC bullshit we have to deal with. The previous set of leadership (Mabus, mostly) did a really go job of trying to force libcuck politics into the military (see: transgender policy). The current SECDEF is, well, Fucking Mattis so things are on the upswing with actual military things and less corporate bullshit.

That said, I have found the Navy to be the most rewarding thing I have done with my life so far.

>>739102581
Very. I was CG-33, BB-63 and FFG-30.

>>739102817
yeah, i had a near death experience which has killed my ego, the shit talking / getting screamed at i am ready for.

i've been conditioning myself to be able to do 100 pushups / situps / pullups in one sitting.
the number im at right now is kind of embarrassing but i know it's just about persistence and conditioning..
the boots thing, i am going to start doing! good advice i wouldn't have thought of.

>>739097719
Getting stuck in the bowels of ship and not seeing the sun for weeks at a time.

>>739102606
I'm not gonna lie, I do feel for the Japs but that sounds cool as hell, as if a giant sea-monster blasted out of the ocean. The fact that the sub allegedly suffered minimal damage is pretty surprising too.

>>739102831
Sleep like a baby.

>>739102438
This is why women are not fit for duty

>>739102978
>FFG-30
My man. I was on a FFG-32 and FFG-56. Tin can sailors.

>>739103037
Make sure they are good boots. Shin splints suck.

>>739103208
Not my favorite boat. That thing bobbed like a cork in the Persian Gulf. THE AC vent in the rack was kinda cool though. She was pretty damn fast too.

>>739103103

literally.

The Navy has its own air force, lts own infantry (Marines - which has its own air force), it is a mine sweeping navy, it has its own CIA, its own sepcial forces, it is a submarine force, a surface navy, an amphibious force, a combat construction force. It has a vast and complex logistics system. There are oceanographic and atmospheric research activities as well. It also has an estimable medical system (including research )for which also services the marines and often participates humanitarian activities with the Commissioned Corp of the USPHS. The are two navy rate which can be a part of nearly all these communities: one is HM or Hospital Corpsmen and the other is RP Religious Program Specialist.
RP is a good rate if you are a person of faith and like detailed administrative work at the behest of Chaplains who are notorious hard-ass task masters. But HM can be a rewarding that can take you anywhere in the Navy world. There are downsides to this rate of course (as with all rates) – one being training won’t convert into civilian certification as would other service’ s medic rates. But the HM rate is one to consider because it has potential for a career path: many former HM become Pas, Rns, LPNs and MDs

>>739101540

there's always that idiot who does drive into oncoming traffic and you're the one in oncoming traffic that has to avoid it

>>739103563
HMs are really good at missing your veins.

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>>739103101

San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 675 kilometers (364 nautical miles, 420 statute miles) southeast of Guam while operating at flank (maximum) speed at a depth of 525 feet (160 m)

>>739103511

"Then get good at letting overweight fucks talk shit to your face and let it roll off your back"

Don't you have something better to do like like pin on a good conduct medal or pretend you washed out in BUDS?

>>739100748
>Norwegian Navy, confirmed faggotry and 100% force protrection "saft og spikking".

all the cool boys are in the army.

>>739097719
>What am I in for?

a sense of purpose and responsibility.

or lots of gay shit

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>>739103432
FFGs were all I knew in the Navy so I didn't mind any of that since I had nothing to compare it to. We had a good crew though, and most of use loved that ship even if at the time no one would admit it. Now that it's decommed, everyone who served aboard says they actually miss it.

>>739101458
Being locked in the shop is nothing. You may consider our Shellback ritual to be lame but it never involved any kind of violence or injesting foul. BUt it was fun by anyone's standards

>>739098478
>>739098478
This a hundred times this.

I heard you subnewfags actually get email on a regular basis at sea. We were lucky to get 3 or 4 mail bags during a entire Med run

>>739104270
At least you participated. Guys like me are just sad to see how watered down SJW's have made naval traditions.

Pogo you paedophile

So I should join the navy instead of the marines? What about the Airforce?

>>739099278
Solid advice

>>739097719
Navy women are the matresses of the 7 seas, never forget

>>739097719
Shipmates help shipmates with sheets and sheets only.

Also making the bed is the most important thing about boot camp. Also your feet will be beat the fuck up if you dont learn to march in step. Attention to detail Shipmate.

Last thing, "shipmate" is generally considered a insult in the fleet.

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Lots of servicing boots

>>739097719
Rum, sodomy and the lash.

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>>739097719
Thanks for serving our nation. I hope you have a memorable and exciting enlistment. God bless.

>>739099278
Yeah... This guy knows.

>>739105109
Who let the USAF guy in?

>>739099763
>>739100748
Subfag, here.
Firstly, the Norwegian navy is nothing even remotely like the USN, which I assume OP is joining.

We're not really superstitious, there's not really any big restrictions on what you can bring aboard (depends on the boat, but doesn't vary much), and with the exception of special assignments, we almost always know where we are and where we're going to be.

As for the smell: it is not a stench in any way, shape or form. However, it is definitely unique due to the chemical we use to scrub CO2. It smells like cat piss, but unless it gets on you, you won't smell like that at all.

But it's definitely not for everyone, because otherwise we'd be a bunch of fags just like the surface fleet. Fuck them.

>>739097719
age? did you lie or withhold info to get in?

>>739105451
Sub fag turned Seabee here. I agree with all of this except smell. Amine smells like Greasy ramen noodles and depression

>>739105564
That's another fair assessment of the smell.
Also having it get dumped on you at 0300 sucks ass and burns like hell if you don't wash it off.

>>739099185
why do aviation get more thai hookers than surface ship?

>>739105701
Fast boat or boomer?
I was a MT, so only boomerfag here

>>739105823
Fast boat, A-Gang.

>>739101810
I used to give blowjobs in one of the fan rooms. Good times.

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>>739106169
my nigga, god speed and keep them nubs qualifying..

>>739102606
Without even reading I know that was Brandhuber's boat. He was CO of NNPTC when I was there.

>>739101810
>>739101458
id rather be beat up than eat snot. does that make me a pussy? i dont think it does

>>739106471
Yeah, every sub guy knows that story. That and the USS Georgia slicing a japanese tug boat in half. Theres a video of it.

>>739105821
We det to Thailand more? And we stay in Hotels when we do it.

>>739100130
id rather get water-boarded than eat snot. so go fuck yourself.

>>739106687
im thinking of joining as an aviation electronics tech (AT?) or general electronics tech (ET?).

Why wouldnt aviation just be assigned to a carrier anyway? in which case, a diesel destroyer or something would hit more ports

everyone on a submarine gets a rolex submariner with optional black rubber strap for combat operations

>>739099170
>We had one gay dude on our ship
Hahahahaha.
No.

Everyone on that shit was gay, just one guy took it home.

>>739101810
They enlist for the same reasons anyone joins the navy: for a job, adventure, career growth, escape family and be part of something big and meaningful and the hope of some fun. I don’t think they joined to be submissive masochists abused by sociopaths bullys

>>739105564
Steelworkers get deployed all the time right?

>>739107387
Not really, they deploy with the battallion. Not more than anyone else. Some dets are pretty gucci but most in africa suck ass

>>739105551
bump

>>739107162
There's P-3/P-8, and E-6B squadrons that are land-based only. We deploy to a bunch of Air Force fields all over the world. Most of the guys who go this route avoid going on a ship at all in their Naval career.

>>739107847
THIS! NAS jax is the tits. Not too busy and theres enough to stay in trouble

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>>739097719

>>739099571
Sounds like someone wasn't a nuke or a reactor dept conventional. I would walk around during watch and pull my nuts out and yell "Its fucking nuts in here!" and usually one or all of my watch standers would do the same(or the female one would laugh her ass off). Pussy bitch.

>>739106255
Strange I used to get them in fan rooms and shaft alleys!

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>>739097719
Here you go OP. Don't forget to take advantage of the financial benefits that the military provides for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvKAhmgkoj4

>>739101735

Airman here. USAF has a strong reputation for highest quality of life standards and preparing you for return to civilian life. It's not uncommon for people to enlist just for job experience and training and drop out in 4~6 years. (staring at ATCers that do 6 years then head out for that $100k a year job on the outside)

You won't see much of any action unless you join as a battlefield airman (TACP, Combat Controller, Parajumper). Shoot, a SSgt just came back in my shop and the worst he dealt with was occasional mortar attacks on his position. (he was working on one of our combat radars to give context)

As far as Navy goes, the only sailors I've known were my dad and father-in-law, and it was their opinions that drove me towards the Air Force. Both heavily blame USN for their failed marraiges. So don't go Navy if you plan on having a normal family? Sorry I can't give much context there.

If you have a hard on for combat and being some kind of hero, USAF isn't the way to go though. Go join Army or Marines.

>>739107162
Also, Carriers get really sweet port calls. Just because they are nuclear powered doesn't mean we don't put them in cool places. Those are the SSBNs.

>>739108320
The USAF is a corporation, not a military branch. It can kindly go fuck off.

You're gay Tony

>>739097719
Make 110% sure that you know if the job you're going for requires a security clearance, and if so what, if any, documents you'll need during boot camp to take care of getting it.

Because my recruiter didn't tell me what I needed (my father's citizenship papers and my parent's marriage license) I couldn't get the documents in time and lost a $40,000 sign on bonus and had to switch rates.

does navy have any way to find out i was prescribed ritalin for a couple months like 6 years ago?

if i try to join at 33 and dont provide any medical history, will they be suspicious

i doctor shopped to get ritalin, i didnt actually need it, and havent done it in like 5 years

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>>739104904
If OP can't get laid on a Navy ship, then all hope is lost on him.

>>739108439

Yea, we'll fuck off with our C5s that fly 24/7 to deliver supplies to everyone on the frontline and bring home your half blown up bodies. (every dead servicemember is brought through my base first with the utmost respect. I got to help transfer a few of the dead sailors from the recent accident not too long ago, actually)

>>739097719
You wait till now to ask? You confirm my love opinion of those who join the military.

>>739097719
You can get promoted if you polish the golden rivet.

>>739097719
My friend did a year there.

He said it was a lot of bullshit. Like yeah there are things like the commercials, training and going to other countries all exciting and shit. And he said there is a ton of downtime. How he would work 12 hours shifts just sitting 'on patrol'.

>>739108747
Rude.

Also your pilots can fuck off with their "not having a ground job" and "getting a van to the flight line" bullshit.

Naval aviation gives me salt.

Go nuke.

>>739109858
Second, did 7 years as one, hated my life, but worth it. I make 110k a year now with out a degree.

>>739109218

Yea I've heard a lot of ground crew hates pilots those reasons. Since I work RAWS (Radar, Airfield, and Weather Systems), I'm far enough away from them that I never have had to deal with them (other than commanders which are almost always ex-pilots of some degree)

>>739109858
>>739109858
How is the nuke training now? I was in during the 90s. ET. A school attrition was >50% but unless we got in trouble pretty much everyone made it through power school. EM and MM were opposite. They all made it through A school but half o them failed out in power school. Still the same? We lost just as many through 'demonstrated unreliability' as we did for academics. But I heard it's not that way anymore. I was only during the draw down so they could afford to be picky.

>>739110368
Same. I'm the only manager in my district that doesn't have a university degree.

>>739110907
I went through back in 2011-12 and I was an MMN, we had an attrition of about 10% in A school, 40% in Power School and 30% in prototype and then about 5% in the first year and a half in the fleet. Power school sucked for me, I was on 35-6's but prototype I was a fucking beast and was on staff hours after the first 4 weeks, and then 2 weeks after the off crew exam(I failed that bad).

>>739108063
Seconding for NAS Jax. Mayport's pretty decent too.

>>739111146
They were 35-5 when I was in. Lots of my friends were on them. I was always V or S-15 but I usually put in about 20 just doing my homework and studying the night before a test. That was the real key to the classroom success. Doing your own homework. I saw my friends on 35-5s passing around the homework to each other and then fucking off for 6 hours a night then failing tests.

>>739110907
EM in last 3rd of powerschool. Most of the attrition is in a school, but they try to keep as many people in as possible.

>>739110368
Why 7? That's an odd number to be in. Did you re-up after 3 or something?

>>739111969
I did all my home work, but the what fucked me was I didn't do any of the required reading. The only subject that really was easy to me was the mechanical theory stuff, but most of that is stuff I can see or replicate easily.

>>739112409
Medically separated/retired after a high pressure air compressor blew up on me and got me good.

>>739111983
They used to witch hunt people to kick out. NO second chances for anything. They used to tell us that they knew we had already gotten away with something that they hadn't found out about yet so we were coming in on our second chance. Underage drinking was a guaranteed ticket out. No exceptions. Lost a lot of people in Orlando due to underage drinking.

>>739112824
You would be disappointed, underage and DUI you get a second chance now. Shit my power school class had 6 DUIs in one weekend, all kept and allowed to proceed.

Expect bullshit but it teaches you self improvement and management. Remember, no matter how much work you put in, everyone graduates the same way.

>>739099278
Please explain

>>739111983
Being a nuke on a CVN it can be a good deal sometimes, but it depends on your Reactor Officer and CO, if they like nukes, you're golden like a shower. If they hate nukes, you will do all your nuke shit(training, drills, work) and then top side bullshit(training, drills and working parties). By the time we got a CO that was all about treating the nukes like the rest of the ship(except duty rotation), I was senior enough my CoC protected me from it.

>>739097719
If you're antisocial and like being treated like a fucking dog, then go for it. If you have any emotions whatsoever, then they're going to break you. Also, a lot of homeless people are prior veterans. If you don't take care of yourself, and/or if you get coerced into doing hazardous tasks that may wind up damaging your health, then you risk compromising your future. They will psychologically beat you down, and brainwash you. You may even come out having learned to be hopeless. If you aren't comfortable with this prospect, then I strongly recommend you cancel on them. I was in the Navy for almost 8 years, and it definitely wasn't for me. You can roll the dice if you want to, but if the bad shit I've just described actually happens to you, then you'll have no choice but to deal with it. It's your call. I'd say that if you have any doubts about joining, then listen to your gut instinct.

>>739097719
Hopefully death.