Military peeps!!

[Krandor]

But ETs do as well so I'm screwed too

Advancement for ETs in the Coast Guard is beyond terrible, I'm in my 4th year now as a 3rd and just noticed one of the guys I went thru boot with just made OS1

[Abandon]

Yes, but you get to see some of the funniest shit at Captain's Mast. My first YNCS told me, "When you're up for sea duty, take a squadron of anything over a ship," and the rest is history. IDK man, the shit you have to put up with on a ship would drive me fucking crazy. Ah, sea stories.

Some of my best friends happen to be (SW) YNs, but I don't hold it against 'em.

the NJPs I did on the ship (i was/am legal clerk) were some of the funniest things I've ever witnessed. I'm TOC I'm at now hasn't had a single incident (knock on wood) since 2007, haha

[trinironnie]

Advancement for ETs in the Coast Guard is beyond terrible, I'm in my 4th year now as a 3rd and just noticed one of the guys I went thru boot with just made OS1

Didn't know coast guard followed the same way as us o.o;

[Abandon]

they do for the most part, just dont have some of our rates. That, and they're not real people.

[trinironnie]

^ lmao

[BaneTheBrawler]

i also got a canvas pack from the same guy i got the tankiscope from. i'll bet that pack's seen some shit.

[Darkdreamer]

Man those other branches got some weird shit. Glad I was in the Chair Force and a pencil pusher for years. Though I did get fucked up on one of my trips to the desert. I was in downtown some fucking town I can't spell or pronounce and I was in a shop picking some shit up. I came back outside and the busy streets were disturbingly empty... which should have been a clue. So I walk back to my vehicle... fucking escalade we stuck out bad. And my truck blew up throwing me back like 10 feet into the stores door I just came out of. Long and short came to find out that the bomb misfired and should have blown up right around the time I would have gotten back to the base. Good times.

[Krandor]

they do for the most part, just dont have some of our rates. That, and they're not real people.

If the Navy does it, the Coast Guard will eventually follow suit about a decade later.

Except for the merging of rates, which is just odd. Spent 3 years as a CIWS tech, and now I'm doing standard ET work for small boat stations and comm centers. Few years before I got in the FC and ET rates got merged, QM and BM were also combined a few years back.

[Abandon]

those rate merges, rofl

[Indalecia]

I can kinda understand why they merged EW and CT (I was an EW tech primary) for the intel side, but jesus christ, CT's know jack shit about the SLQ-32 or any of its systems.

So I'm the senior EW on the ship (frigate), all of E-5 with my SW pin and we finally get an E-6 to fill rote. This was during the 3-4 year merger period and this guy who comes in was a CTT from school and had never been on anything smaller than a carrier, so he's used to at least 10 peeps or so in his division. Walk him around ship indoc, meed the cap/xo, all that crap and we go to AIRNAV for paperwork. I just dump it all on him:CSTT, MSDS, Intel, PQS, DC-related shit, all our compartments, our chaff loadout and related systems, all the fun stuff. He asks how many people we got and I say: Me, you and 2 thirds.

"wut"

"Yeah, you're new bigwig, have fun." "Who's the chief?" "We don't have one...although OSC tries, but he's dumber than a bag of hammers." "Who do we report too?" "OPS" "Wait what...." "Our new CICO gets here tomorrow and still isn't cleared all the way on classification. Oh, btw, me, you, PN1, OPS, XO and CO are only ones with TS/SCI clearance, so we handle most of the Intel coming in"

I've never seen someone so demoralized so quickly. He literally knew nothing about being an EW and he was tossed right in. Shit was fun for the first 3 months.

[Abandon]

which frigate were you on? Small boy life is da bess

[Indalecia]

Robert G. Bradley out of school, DeWert until I got out (and where this happened)

[Effluo]

We deployed after 9/11 and ended up heading straight to the Arabian Sea. About halfway through, our YNC rotates out to his new duty station. We got a YNC from CINCPAC who shows up with a fucking gold SWO pin on his coveralls and shit. We can tell already this guy is gonna be special. So fast forward to our 3rd beer day and he gets totally drunk. He ends up stealing two cases of beer and talking some purple shirt into hiding the beer in one of the fuel spaces next to our admin office. Her LPO comes in to check the space after the steel beach picnic and asks YNC why he's in his space; YNC says this is my space, I'm the LCPO. Dude calls bullshit, YNC throws both cases of beer overboard, runs up and across the flight deck to the other side of ship. Dirtass got caught of course, and went to Captain's Mast with the CO of the carrier. Letter of reprimand and restricted to the boat for all port calls (we hadn't had ANY yet and only ended up hitting two ports all cruise.) Also, we were allowed to wear jerseys, but he was no longer allowed anything other khaki's or coveralls and nothing that said VF-102 Admin LCPO. I still have a copy of the POD with that NJP in it... we all still laugh our asses off when someone brings it up.

edit: Also, after we got back from cruise, our squadron was decommissioned (bye bye sweet F-14s) and moved from VA. Beach to Lemoore, CA. They ended up forcing him into retirement shortly after everything was running at the new homeport.

[Abandon]

rofl, that is excellent.

[Abandon]

My building that i currently work in houses 5 different commands, but it is my command's building. My gf works with the command whose space is directly across from my office. I was late today. My chief was asking me why I was late, and I didn't wanna be upfront about it, but she came walking in. so he looks at her and asks "why was he late today?" to which she replies "because i blew him before he left"

Chief had nothing to say. Gave both of us a high-five, and went about smartly.

[Krandor]

Is this the same one who said shit ass tom bardy?

[Krandor]

All my best sea stories can't really be repeated because of opsec

Suffice to say the guy in charge of the Ion Scan sees and hears some very funny things during drug interdiction cases.

[Effluo]

OMFG... that.is.awesome.

[Effluo]

MAs watching people get it on on the fantail with night vision . Wait till dude is about to nut, then walk up and bust them. CO makes them call their spouse if they are married to tell them why they are at NJP.

[Krandor]

When I first reported to my boat, they had so many 8H cases (article for inappropriate relationships in the CG) that during the weekly pizza night, weapons division would serve up breadsticks that we cooked in the shape of the characters.

Our CO was not amused but never said anything to us.

The best one we had was probably a DC3 and HS2 caught fucking in sickbay by the HSC one night before a port call where the HS2 was transferring out.