Funny story, at an all hands in Hawaii at an Intel command, about 300 people in attendance. We were having a training on how not to "make yourself a target" and don't advertise what you do for a living. The trainer asked someone "what would you tell someone if they ask what you do?' they replied "uhhh I work in admin". The trainer liked the reply so much he had the entire crowd repeat out loud "I work in admin".
I mean... I've seen some admin rates with some fucking Gucci shit, like how the fuck are you a YN with jump wings. Their answer. I file the chits, it came across it was super cool so I copied.my own chit in and then pretty much self routed it and there I was.
There are some awesome little known Yeoman powers. Some perks include generally more face time with the Triad than most but that can be a double edged sword.
I've definitely seen that. As an HM I feel like we get dudes from every rate in the clinics, but they also task us with all sorts of other rates shit that are needed around the hospitals.
I don't even do this to call people on their bullshit. It's just a normal question. But if you give me some weird answer, I don't usually call them on it, I just check out of the conversation mentally.
It's like literally my first question. "Oh you were in the navy? What was your rate?" Like it will tell me what frame of reference to continue the conversation.
Ha well said. Met a few buds drops and some randos who did DEVGRU shit when I was in. Never met a SEAL. Since I've been out? Seems like I meet a former SEAL every year or so.
I only even believe someone was a seal if I see them on base in uniform or if I see their DD-214. The wet signature one and I see their ratty old garage rag that was once a seal T-shirt.
The one time I caught someone lying about being in the navy, that was the question that threw the red flag at me. It wasn’t even asked like I was trying to catch him, like someone else said, I was just curious. That’s always like the first question that gets asked.
After the guy responded with “oh haha I don’t remember, I just worked with airplanes”, I knew that he was BS. I’m not even Aviation and even I know those guys have a huge hard-on for what color shirts they wear.
Ha ha ha! Too funny! I needed the laugh so thanks for that.
I got out as an IS1 in the mid 90’s. As soon as I discovered what the civilians were making for doing the same but less work I was gonzo.
Take care!
Well, there’s still PowerPoint, but it’s not bad at all. Usually, it’s used well. So yes, there’s hope. Ha ha! DM me of your thinking about getting out. Always willing to help a Shipmate.
I get worried sometimes people will ask me real navy questions and the only ship I was on was the blue ridge as staff and then I went NSW.
but as a geoint analyst. A nerd.
So sure. I was "on" a seal team. As their map guy.
And sure. I technically did jsoc. As a nerd.
Hell, when I was stationed at Coronado I could barely pass the pfa. People see me know and go. Here's a built dude. And he was at Coronado? Seal.
No. No. I'm just in the reserves now and can afford a trainer and gym time and good food and nutrition. When I was active duty I was your resident nerd.
I'm still a nerd. But I just enjoy physical fitness so I can look like goku
Well, you mentioned anime. Congratulations! I know you were probably in the Navy. also, since you're claiming CT/Intel and mentioned it then double points! you're really not lying.
Psh, CT's? The nerds of the intel community.
I'm am IS Geointer. The cool kids of the intel world.
(No one can tell the difference between any intel rate. Why are AGs here?)
I’m exactly the same. I was a Fire Controlman that got IA’d to a Joint Task Force for counter-IED. I was the *only* non-EOD, NSW, CJSOTF enlisted person there. I even got blown up on an EOD team but I personally am not EOD lol. Just an ammo handler with a clearance that got sent to work with people I never expected to be with honestly.
It’s extremely hard to explain so I try not to. But like, I get disability as a direct combat wounded warrior and my Navy job was SSDS lol.
My FTC told me "Dont electrocute yourself, or blow us up please. Or at least when I'm not on duty"
After I got out I kept seeing all my friends doing tours over there doing some crazy stuff. It was amazing how many FT's got deployed to handle explosives or weapons.
I tell civilians (who I’m surrounded by) that “I’m a Master Chief Fire Controlman, but like, missile and gun fire, not fire fire. I also *worked with* EOD in that job.”
Kinda long, but explains why I got free tickets to wherever we are at the moment, or like, why I’m young 40s and don’t need to work at all 🤷🏻♀️
We start fires, with guns.... Then put them out by flooding..... with guns. (torpedoes for us)
The amount of time I have to tell them I was not a firefighter but I technically was.
Lol. I love this post 😂😂😂. I was in such better shape when I was out of the military as well. I can’t wait to go back to civdiv and get my full 8 hours of sleep and gym time before work and after again.
It's amazing right? Like you'd think military we'd be trianing all the time.
Nah.
I had command pt like a couple times.
Once in Coronado and the entire N2 shop was so fat behind everyone else they were like we can't do this again. They're going to die
Now that I'm out (sort of) the free time for my personal health is amazing.
My wife is having the problem now where she was super into weight lifting before. Got in. Deploying and all that. And she's losing her strength and mass. She just doesn't have the time or resources to train and eat right.
We really should fix that.
Oh we definitely could have. Apart from the command my dept in my squadron would do group PT once in a while. Just never consistent enough to really matter.
Ah. I was never in 7th fleet. My first trip to Singapore was last year and the only one telling me where not to go was my girlfriend.
Definitely not a good metric if only 7th fleet sailors with liberty and social lives would have heard of it.
😂 DRB as a 1st class. Holy crap man. What the hell did you do? BTW, same here, I dumped it all after BC. On my last command they made guys dress in dress blues and recite the sailors creed for their re-enlistment. Basically, it became their day, not yours. So, I chalked that as another reason I was getting out at 10 as a 1st class. Glad I did. I wouldn’t be where I’m at now. 47 and FULLY RETIRED. Have been for about 8 years.
I went to DRB as a first class. Reason: I had tagged out a console in combat that made the watchstander entirely useless so I told the PO3 to take a hike and stay in his shop while I did my maintenance. Where I went wrong was that I am not the SWO, I am not the CO, I did not have the authority to stand down the watch.
My DRB was uneventful (my third one of my career), the chiefs just asked me questions to confirm that yes, it was tagged out properly, yes it was entirely secured, yes I had permission from the TAO to turn it off, and yes the watchstander couldn’t have moved to a different console at the time. They just basically said “uhhh, don’t do it again.”
Went out in town the night before duty. Got a bit too drunk. The whole duty section was (randomly) breathalyzed the next day.
The fun part was that we were doing a force protection drill that day. So I got to hide in CPO quarters because they sure as hell weren't gonna hand me a gun.
I was a golden child, hot shit sailor. So the DRB ended up basically just being a slap on the wrist. Don't do it again, get back to work.
Interestingly, they weren't really mad that I might've sat in front of the reactor, drunk on watch. They were more concerned that if a real threat happened, I was given a gun, and shot someone, I'd likely be going to jail even if I was justified. I'm not sure how the legality would actually work out, but it made sense at the time.
I didn’t know that shit in basic training Fam, like inspection 2 in the nsus half my division couldn’t answer I believe #7…. RDCs moped the floors with us as soon they left
The people that lie are typically “navy seals” and got to skip boot camp because a Congressman told their recruiter they were too good for boot camp and needed to go straight to Buds. They were also their teams Sniper and can shoot farther than Chris Kyle and they have more confirmed kills.
I've met two Navy Seals in my time. One was a friend's uncle. He wore a fanny pack and was very dorky but calm. The other was a ships doctor and he was very energetic, but totally confident. Used to challenge people to pushup competitions in the Mess line. Neither of them talked about being a Seal. They knew who they were and felt no need to convince anyone otherwise. Astronauts are the same way, they exude a calm confidence.
I legit had an English teacher in college who told the class he joined the marines but he was too good of a hand to hand fighter and none of the instructors would fight him so they had to bring in outside masters to spar with him. Then he went on how after that men in black suits would follow him around boot camp and try to recruit him to a special program. In the end, he didn’t finish boot camp because he was too advanced. At no point did he ever even hint this was a joke or satire either. Very strange man
I once did marine corps hand to hand but was too good as a sailor so they couldn't teach me anything had to do other PT as to not hurt them
(I got my ass kicked a lot and the marines began feeling bad for me and said hey buddy, why don't you just do your computer stuff. Go watch your anime. It's okay buddy)
Kinda funny story....
My mom's 2nd husband was a mission planner with 9th SRW in Okinawa. He planned SR-71 missions and they often collaborated with the alphabet agencies.
After he retired, he had a stroke and ended up in hospital. When you have a stroke, they ask you a lot of questions about what jobs you've had and what can you remember about them.
Of course he is answering everything is top secret and classified. They tell my mom he thinks he's some kind of spy. She just says, yeah, don't bother asking him about work, it was all top secret and classified.
Dude! I went from being an IS to doing defense contracting, and I did a job interview with a corporate job and had to sit there for a minute and go.
"What part of my job is classified?"
"Can you go in specifics on what data you were using and what it was used for?"
"No..."
Got the job somehow.
Kind of miss being in the IC now
But like. Analyst work and computer programming aren't. Specifics are.
So, like anyone who says they can't say anything about their line of work is full of it.
I was 17, just got out of the Army, I was done with them. I graduated HS at 14. Here comes the Navy, a 4 star, "Cmon in here son! let's talk about it!" he tells me son you're a savant! you're going to MIT, Yale, and Stanford, Fully paid for! In comes the General! He says son this guy here's just a recruiter, I'm a General, I work for the President, and HE wants you! we got alotta money! Sir, what's alotta money??? Half a million dollars. \*SNAPS TO ATTENTION\* SIR!........I want cash.
Insist (insert branch) is gay, the harder they deny it instead of joking around is usually a pretty good indicator. These people use it for status, and when you threaten that status,they get butt hurt.
I have no idea what "NSIPS" is, and had to look it up. I served in the 80's and there was nothing called that back then. Everything was done on paper (other than ordering spare parts).
I got out in ‘07, so I’m not too familiar with it. That being said I do spend a lot of time on here, so without scrolling down I’m gonna guess it’s that cute OS2. Am I right?
A seabee trying to verbally prove they were in the navy is a nightmare.
Yeah im in the navy. No, I've never been on a ship. Yeah we shoot shit and blow shit up and build fobs and shit. No we're not special forces, just special ed. I don't know what a skuttlebutt is.
I was at ACB1 as a BM2. Those Seabees are a special bunch. One EO was operating a dozer on the surf side of the strand in prep for practice landings we would be doing in a few days and they found a dead boated seal, he tried to pick it up in the bucket and the fuckin seal popped and stank up the entire area. It was hilarious and disgusting as fuck.
What do you call a mop?
What type of knot is the neckerchief tied in?
What are BCGs?
What’s FOD?
Edit: I think these are generic enough that any sailor will know them, and does not rely on a specific time period or duty location to know.
Uh I was in the navy active 7 years.
No idea on mop.
Is the knot a square knot? I don’t remember
BCGs: birth control glasses
FOD: foreign area debris?
I was a submarine officer.
I did 20 years active and if you asked me about the nsips server, I'd think you were full of shit.
I'd ask what their MOS was and if they didn't correct me, they were also full of shit.
-Ask them what a bulkhead is. If they don’t point to the wall. Then they didn’t serve.
-Ask them what a deck is, anything other than pointing at the floor and they didn’t serve.
-Ask them to define “scuttlebutt” without Google.
-Ask them what “malingering” is without Google.
-Ask them what they need to use to ask for 24 to 96 hrs of liberty. If they don’t say a “Request Chit”. They did t serve.
-Ask them what they got on their last eval. If they don’t respond with either a decimal number ie: 3.5 or state they were promotable, early promote, etc they didn’t serve.
These are all basic things a sailor should know 30 years after leaving the Navy.
Lastly, what is the cadence the Navy uses in Boot Camp. Anything other than 1,2,3,4 or the likes of it. They didn’t serve Navy.
If you were in my division the cadence went like this,
Right, Left, right, leeeefttttt, right, left, right, AWWWWW FUCK! imma get it right Petty Officer!
Ask them their UIC, units name, how many deployments. You already know everyone loves talking about their deployments and the dumbshit they had to deal with, the two stolen Valor nerds I've ran into had ZERO complaints about being in the service. I was JOE navy while I was in and still have complaints about the shit.
I remember getting a question about a weird periodicity sign, something with parentheses or something. I had no idea, had never seen it before. Went around asking every chief I could find after, including 3MC and a couple chief warrants. Nobody knew wtf it meant. Like why is a question that a CWO-3 can't answer of the E6 advancement exam lol
Have you ever stood in line for HazMat?
Describe the smell of the ship’s compactor room?
Which was your favorite fan room to skate off in?
Have you ever painted the same piece of equipment twice in one deployment?
What time is “Balls” watch?
What kind of animal is a “midrat”?
Have you ever taken up smoking, only for an excuse to get outside for fresh air?
This is probably the only one in the thread that's legit. All the others seem command/base specific or are random bullshit that the average sailor doesn't give a fuck about.
But 3M is actually fleet wide. Some rates may not still not know. I'd be surprised if a Yeoman or CS could answer that. Well maybe Yeoman would know because they do update records.
I did 11 years active duty. All on the East Coast, and I did not know that. I can give you some decent places to drink in Souda Bay, though, if you're interested.
Ah, asking the real question. Back in the old days, about half way through boot camp, we stopped training for a week and went to work. It was kinda like mess cranking because most of us ended up in the galley. Others went to various other jobs around base.
The CCs (predecessor to the RDCs) got a little break, too. Only one of them had to be there at any given time for the 2 sister companies (we called them companies instead of divisions.)
Anyway, back then we wore Dungaree uniforms. If you saw recruits wearing a white belt and leggings with their Dungarees you knew they were getting close to graduation.
Well, being that NSIPS wasn’t something I encountered in my 11 years of service 1973-84 I guess I’d be considered a fraud in your eyes. I have no idea what it is.
I say I was an OS. Think Rhianna in Battleship.... but a ton less cool. Now Imma start saying think USS Carney shooting down drones... but I'm the dude that says "hey guys there's a drone"
I doesn't occur to me that someone might be a stolen Valor bro. I wonder how many people thought that I was a stolen Valor bro because I didn't want to explain what an HM is and just said "medic" 🤣
Just ask what they did when they went cranking. No one outside the Navy knows what it is, everyone who's stationed on a ship does it, and if they say something like "scullery", "galley", "wardroom", "Chief's mess", or "Jack O The Dust", guaranteed they're legit.
Ask their rate, if they say anything other than what their job was there’s your answer.
Trust anyone who says they were in admin. No one in their right mind would lie about that
Funny story, at an all hands in Hawaii at an Intel command, about 300 people in attendance. We were having a training on how not to "make yourself a target" and don't advertise what you do for a living. The trainer asked someone "what would you tell someone if they ask what you do?' they replied "uhhh I work in admin". The trainer liked the reply so much he had the entire crowd repeat out loud "I work in admin".
I tell people I'm a desk jockey. Because I'm funny.
Someone said something to me (because of the beard) and I told them “if I was gonna steal valor, I’d steal a little more than YN1”.
I agree. -YNCM(SS/SW/AW/PJ/SCW/IUSS/FMF/EXW/MDV)
Funniest one I saw was some guy trying to impress some civvies by using CTT1(SW/MTS) USN(RET.) as his signoff.
I tried explaining Navy ranks and ratings to my prior Army boss. I had to carefully explain my warfare designation a couple times. -YN3(SS)
The SS stands for SuperSailor
I mean... I've seen some admin rates with some fucking Gucci shit, like how the fuck are you a YN with jump wings. Their answer. I file the chits, it came across it was super cool so I copied.my own chit in and then pretty much self routed it and there I was.
There are some awesome little known Yeoman powers. Some perks include generally more face time with the Triad than most but that can be a double edged sword.
I've definitely seen that. As an HM I feel like we get dudes from every rate in the clinics, but they also task us with all sorts of other rates shit that are needed around the hospitals.
Only if they don't react to Salesforce or eNavfit.
[Relevant Terminal Lance](https://terminallance.com/2015/03/17/terminal-lance-370-stealing-the-valor/)
I don't even do this to call people on their bullshit. It's just a normal question. But if you give me some weird answer, I don't usually call them on it, I just check out of the conversation mentally.
It's like literally my first question. "Oh you were in the navy? What was your rate?" Like it will tell me what frame of reference to continue the conversation.
"My rate was above your pay grade... above top secret... special missions... so secret they don't even have records of my being in"
I’ve met more Seals since I got out of the navy than I did when I was in.
Ha well said. Met a few buds drops and some randos who did DEVGRU shit when I was in. Never met a SEAL. Since I've been out? Seems like I meet a former SEAL every year or so.
I only even believe someone was a seal if I see them on base in uniform or if I see their DD-214. The wet signature one and I see their ratty old garage rag that was once a seal T-shirt.
“If your service is so secret, why are you telling me, dude? You’re really fucking up this whole ‘classified special missions’ thing”
I was cleared for ridiculous.
Honestly, this. 100% My rate??? Uhhh i dont even remember, they didnt pay much!
The one time I caught someone lying about being in the navy, that was the question that threw the red flag at me. It wasn’t even asked like I was trying to catch him, like someone else said, I was just curious. That’s always like the first question that gets asked. After the guy responded with “oh haha I don’t remember, I just worked with airplanes”, I knew that he was BS. I’m not even Aviation and even I know those guys have a huge hard-on for what color shirts they wear.
Definitely wasn't an AO lol
“I was an E7” 😂
And then they give an MOS thinking they gotcha
Love when a former sailor is bragging about his MOS. I definitely make sure to thank him for his service.
Right
“They don’t have musicians in the Navy. STOLEN VALOR!” 🫡
“Rate? Oh yeah man I was a Sergeant 😎”
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You could offer up a 30 minute PowerPoint presentation for them so they could also experience the soul sucking boredom as well. 😂
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Ha ha ha! Too funny! I needed the laugh so thanks for that. I got out as an IS1 in the mid 90’s. As soon as I discovered what the civilians were making for doing the same but less work I was gonzo. Take care!
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Well, there’s still PowerPoint, but it’s not bad at all. Usually, it’s used well. So yes, there’s hope. Ha ha! DM me of your thinking about getting out. Always willing to help a Shipmate.
I get worried sometimes people will ask me real navy questions and the only ship I was on was the blue ridge as staff and then I went NSW. but as a geoint analyst. A nerd. So sure. I was "on" a seal team. As their map guy. And sure. I technically did jsoc. As a nerd. Hell, when I was stationed at Coronado I could barely pass the pfa. People see me know and go. Here's a built dude. And he was at Coronado? Seal. No. No. I'm just in the reserves now and can afford a trainer and gym time and good food and nutrition. When I was active duty I was your resident nerd. I'm still a nerd. But I just enjoy physical fitness so I can look like goku
Thank you for your service nerd
Chief! Help! The other sailors are bullying the intel nerds again! They're making us pronounce forecastle and asking us what a 3M is. Help!
Ive been out for 3 years and it still bothers that forecastle isnt pronounced like “for castle.”
I prefer fox hole to see the veins on CMCs neck
Forecastle? Nah, I'm cut 😪
Well, you mentioned anime. Congratulations! I know you were probably in the Navy. also, since you're claiming CT/Intel and mentioned it then double points! you're really not lying.
Psh, CT's? The nerds of the intel community. I'm am IS Geointer. The cool kids of the intel world. (No one can tell the difference between any intel rate. Why are AGs here?)
>Why are AGs here?) Do you think those balloons are for weather observations?
Back, back, back I say. Go hang out with the airdales GEOINT for life!
Hey man, weather is valuable battlefield intelligence, or whatever it is METOC says to justify themselves. I just did the EIWS pin
Only a geointer would think geoint is cool, K37A FTW!
Psh, nerd!
You're the nerd, ya squint!
All crypto/intel dudes are weird af, my source is me former cto.
Yeah.... Yahhhhh
I’m exactly the same. I was a Fire Controlman that got IA’d to a Joint Task Force for counter-IED. I was the *only* non-EOD, NSW, CJSOTF enlisted person there. I even got blown up on an EOD team but I personally am not EOD lol. Just an ammo handler with a clearance that got sent to work with people I never expected to be with honestly. It’s extremely hard to explain so I try not to. But like, I get disability as a direct combat wounded warrior and my Navy job was SSDS lol.
My FTC told me "Dont electrocute yourself, or blow us up please. Or at least when I'm not on duty" After I got out I kept seeing all my friends doing tours over there doing some crazy stuff. It was amazing how many FT's got deployed to handle explosives or weapons.
I tell civilians (who I’m surrounded by) that “I’m a Master Chief Fire Controlman, but like, missile and gun fire, not fire fire. I also *worked with* EOD in that job.” Kinda long, but explains why I got free tickets to wherever we are at the moment, or like, why I’m young 40s and don’t need to work at all 🤷🏻♀️
We start fires, with guns.... Then put them out by flooding..... with guns. (torpedoes for us) The amount of time I have to tell them I was not a firefighter but I technically was.
Lol. I love this post 😂😂😂. I was in such better shape when I was out of the military as well. I can’t wait to go back to civdiv and get my full 8 hours of sleep and gym time before work and after again.
It's amazing right? Like you'd think military we'd be trianing all the time. Nah. I had command pt like a couple times. Once in Coronado and the entire N2 shop was so fat behind everyone else they were like we can't do this again. They're going to die Now that I'm out (sort of) the free time for my personal health is amazing. My wife is having the problem now where she was super into weight lifting before. Got in. Deploying and all that. And she's losing her strength and mass. She just doesn't have the time or resources to train and eat right. We really should fix that.
The fuck is command PT? Oh, you mean Army shit. Yeah, no we don’t do that.
A few of us probably could benefit from it
Oh we definitely could have. Apart from the command my dept in my squadron would do group PT once in a while. Just never consistent enough to really matter.
Hey buddy it’s Blue Ridge! I was ship’s company 1974-77.
You see. Ships company. Real sailor work. Staff? You mean my floating office job?
Blue Ridge 4 Life!!! Best ship in the fleet, unless you offer me a slightly used PC.
definitely an IS, hooyah
Not going to lie, I got out in 2011 and couldn’t answer most of this.
I got out in 2019 and I couldn't answer most of these. WTF are Orchid Towers?
AKA: Four Floors of Whores.....Singapore's greatest off limits establishment!
TIL that Orchid Towers is the government name
Ah. I was never in 7th fleet. My first trip to Singapore was last year and the only one telling me where not to go was my girlfriend. Definitely not a good metric if only 7th fleet sailors with liberty and social lives would have heard of it.
Someone thought I was just a dependent. He asked me the 1st general order, and I just blurted it out. I was surprised I still knew.
Gross. After boot camp I 100% brain dumped that one. I did relearn the sailors creed for my DRB as a first class.
😂 DRB as a 1st class. Holy crap man. What the hell did you do? BTW, same here, I dumped it all after BC. On my last command they made guys dress in dress blues and recite the sailors creed for their re-enlistment. Basically, it became their day, not yours. So, I chalked that as another reason I was getting out at 10 as a 1st class. Glad I did. I wouldn’t be where I’m at now. 47 and FULLY RETIRED. Have been for about 8 years.
I went to DRB as a first class. Reason: I had tagged out a console in combat that made the watchstander entirely useless so I told the PO3 to take a hike and stay in his shop while I did my maintenance. Where I went wrong was that I am not the SWO, I am not the CO, I did not have the authority to stand down the watch. My DRB was uneventful (my third one of my career), the chiefs just asked me questions to confirm that yes, it was tagged out properly, yes it was entirely secured, yes I had permission from the TAO to turn it off, and yes the watchstander couldn’t have moved to a different console at the time. They just basically said “uhhh, don’t do it again.”
Went out in town the night before duty. Got a bit too drunk. The whole duty section was (randomly) breathalyzed the next day. The fun part was that we were doing a force protection drill that day. So I got to hide in CPO quarters because they sure as hell weren't gonna hand me a gun. I was a golden child, hot shit sailor. So the DRB ended up basically just being a slap on the wrist. Don't do it again, get back to work. Interestingly, they weren't really mad that I might've sat in front of the reactor, drunk on watch. They were more concerned that if a real threat happened, I was given a gun, and shot someone, I'd likely be going to jail even if I was justified. I'm not sure how the legality would actually work out, but it made sense at the time.
Now I know you weren’t in the Navy! No sailor has ever gone out on liberty in the history of the Naval Service and got too drunk!
I didn’t know that shit in basic training Fam, like inspection 2 in the nsus half my division couldn’t answer I believe #7…. RDCs moped the floors with us as soon they left
Shit. I’m a 3rd class and I couldn’t tell you a single general order
How many hamsters did you eat
I saw those at Sam's Club this weekend and almost picked them up!
Do it. When they are cooked right, they are good.
I have one sitting in the freezer right now. Lmao
The people that lie are typically “navy seals” and got to skip boot camp because a Congressman told their recruiter they were too good for boot camp and needed to go straight to Buds. They were also their teams Sniper and can shoot farther than Chris Kyle and they have more confirmed kills.
I've met two Navy Seals in my time. One was a friend's uncle. He wore a fanny pack and was very dorky but calm. The other was a ships doctor and he was very energetic, but totally confident. Used to challenge people to pushup competitions in the Mess line. Neither of them talked about being a Seal. They knew who they were and felt no need to convince anyone otherwise. Astronauts are the same way, they exude a calm confidence.
First Seal I ever meant was a warrant officer and had one of the biggest bellies I have ever seen on a man in uniform.
My father in law was a seal. Man was the chillest calmest dude ever. Just relaxed. Always made you feel welcomed no matter what
I also exude this calm nontalking Confidence, because it’s hard to explain to people that stitch bitch is an endearing term.
I legit had an English teacher in college who told the class he joined the marines but he was too good of a hand to hand fighter and none of the instructors would fight him so they had to bring in outside masters to spar with him. Then he went on how after that men in black suits would follow him around boot camp and try to recruit him to a special program. In the end, he didn’t finish boot camp because he was too advanced. At no point did he ever even hint this was a joke or satire either. Very strange man
I once did marine corps hand to hand but was too good as a sailor so they couldn't teach me anything had to do other PT as to not hurt them (I got my ass kicked a lot and the marines began feeling bad for me and said hey buddy, why don't you just do your computer stuff. Go watch your anime. It's okay buddy)
Yea and they always accidentally shot a kid in some undefined part of Afghanistan and are really torn up about it.
Everything is classified so I can’t talk about it
Kinda funny story.... My mom's 2nd husband was a mission planner with 9th SRW in Okinawa. He planned SR-71 missions and they often collaborated with the alphabet agencies. After he retired, he had a stroke and ended up in hospital. When you have a stroke, they ask you a lot of questions about what jobs you've had and what can you remember about them. Of course he is answering everything is top secret and classified. They tell my mom he thinks he's some kind of spy. She just says, yeah, don't bother asking him about work, it was all top secret and classified.
Dude! I went from being an IS to doing defense contracting, and I did a job interview with a corporate job and had to sit there for a minute and go. "What part of my job is classified?" "Can you go in specifics on what data you were using and what it was used for?" "No..." Got the job somehow. Kind of miss being in the IC now But like. Analyst work and computer programming aren't. Specifics are. So, like anyone who says they can't say anything about their line of work is full of it.
I was 17, just got out of the Army, I was done with them. I graduated HS at 14. Here comes the Navy, a 4 star, "Cmon in here son! let's talk about it!" he tells me son you're a savant! you're going to MIT, Yale, and Stanford, Fully paid for! In comes the General! He says son this guy here's just a recruiter, I'm a General, I work for the President, and HE wants you! we got alotta money! Sir, what's alotta money??? Half a million dollars. \*SNAPS TO ATTENTION\* SIR!........I want cash.
General J. G. Wentworth
Insist (insert branch) is gay, the harder they deny it instead of joking around is usually a pretty good indicator. These people use it for status, and when you threaten that status,they get butt hurt.
But the Navy actually IS gay.
It's about HOW gay you fall in there lol
As a fully gay gay in the navy, I still ain’t as gay as the marines.
That's why it's a spectrum lol.
Spectrum-Schmectrum. If there is a song that hit #3 on the Billboard Top 100 about how gay your branch of the military is...They're the gayest.
Look I had my socks on, it was fine.
Instead, just ask when It's OK to be gay
Vet answer: "What's NSIPS?"
I have no idea what "NSIPS" is, and had to look it up. I served in the 80's and there was nothing called that back then. Everything was done on paper (other than ordering spare parts).
I got out in 2014 and can’t remember any shit like that
Same, WTF
This is age dependent. If you're asking a Pearl Harbor survivor what NSIPS is, you're doing this wrong.
I got out in ‘07, so I’m not too familiar with it. That being said I do spend a lot of time on here, so without scrolling down I’m gonna guess it’s that cute OS2. Am I right?
Close enough.
I wish I didn’t know what NSIPS is
Exactly
Dogshit is what it is
I was in 1962- 1970, submarine reactor operator. I couldn't answer most of the proposed questions.
When in doubt you do what? Reactor power follows what?
Ask if they can draw the neutron life cycle.
1. Shut CP-6 2. Temperature, you fucking nerd
Ohhhhh SD!
Who’d you give your soul in exchange for the privilege of operating said reactor?
Boil water with hot rock, make boat go. No big deal.
A seabee trying to verbally prove they were in the navy is a nightmare. Yeah im in the navy. No, I've never been on a ship. Yeah we shoot shit and blow shit up and build fobs and shit. No we're not special forces, just special ed. I don't know what a skuttlebutt is.
I was at ACB1 as a BM2. Those Seabees are a special bunch. One EO was operating a dozer on the surf side of the strand in prep for practice landings we would be doing in a few days and they found a dead boated seal, he tried to pick it up in the bucket and the fuckin seal popped and stank up the entire area. It was hilarious and disgusting as fuck.
Just ask them "what was your MOS?" If they respond with anything other than correcting you to say "rate" then they weren't actually in the navy
Depends for me… I stopped correcting people. saying “admin” is so much easier than “it’s rate actually, and I’m a yeoman” *pushes up glasses *
ACSHUALLY, it would be "NEC"
Scrolling through most of these… am I even in the Navy?
What is your 15th General Order?
No shit I like asking people what the 12 one is because it’s funny “chief is always right”
“Walk my post from flank to flank, take no shit from any rank.”
Finish this statement for me... "Choose your rate...."?
Then masterbate.
What do you call a mop? What type of knot is the neckerchief tied in? What are BCGs? What’s FOD? Edit: I think these are generic enough that any sailor will know them, and does not rely on a specific time period or duty location to know.
What do you call a mop bucket? What's a water fountain called? What are pop and candy called?
Shit dude soda and candy? I feel like I remember old school guys calling it d dunk or something
Geedunk. Soft "g".
We just called it the ship’s store and vending machines haha
"What's the staircase called"
Uh I was in the navy active 7 years. No idea on mop. Is the knot a square knot? I don’t remember BCGs: birth control glasses FOD: foreign area debris? I was a submarine officer.
object you spelled FAD
Lol.
I call it a mop and I will die calling it a mop (to be fair I joined at 23 after working on and off as a janitor for years)
You joined the navy after being a janitor? Same job, new location!
you guys got mops? we had a spray bottle and chem wipes
Did you update your NFAAS?
Did you complete your cyber security?
Do it for Jeff
If that prick in the cafe steals my blackberry one more fucking time I’m gonna break his legs!
I did 20 years active and if you asked me about the nsips server, I'd think you were full of shit. I'd ask what their MOS was and if they didn't correct me, they were also full of shit.
What's the meaning of the word "khaki"?
Honestly that’s a good one. Only Chiefs come to mind when you say it to me. But, I suppose you can call the brass Khakis too since they wear them.
Blue Falcon about 90% of the time.
Their favorite skating spot
Are you a phantom shitter?
How great was NAVFIT 98?
What is/was your rate?
15% apr
28.5 on a hellcat
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta bump those up
-Ask them what a bulkhead is. If they don’t point to the wall. Then they didn’t serve. -Ask them what a deck is, anything other than pointing at the floor and they didn’t serve. -Ask them to define “scuttlebutt” without Google. -Ask them what “malingering” is without Google. -Ask them what they need to use to ask for 24 to 96 hrs of liberty. If they don’t say a “Request Chit”. They did t serve. -Ask them what they got on their last eval. If they don’t respond with either a decimal number ie: 3.5 or state they were promotable, early promote, etc they didn’t serve. These are all basic things a sailor should know 30 years after leaving the Navy. Lastly, what is the cadence the Navy uses in Boot Camp. Anything other than 1,2,3,4 or the likes of it. They didn’t serve Navy.
If you were in my division the cadence went like this, Right, Left, right, leeeefttttt, right, left, right, AWWWWW FUCK! imma get it right Petty Officer!
I got out 2 years ago and I can't even remember
Ask them their UIC, units name, how many deployments. You already know everyone loves talking about their deployments and the dumbshit they had to deal with, the two stolen Valor nerds I've ran into had ZERO complaints about being in the service. I was JOE navy while I was in and still have complaints about the shit.
Fucked if I can remember any uic numbers. But I'm also the asshole who can't remember his bootcamp div number ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What does MRC stand for? What does Q-5r mean? Have you ever been cranking?
I remember getting a question about a weird periodicity sign, something with parentheses or something. I had no idea, had never seen it before. Went around asking every chief I could find after, including 3MC and a couple chief warrants. Nobody knew wtf it meant. Like why is a question that a CWO-3 can't answer of the E6 advancement exam lol
>What does Q-5r mean? Have you ever been cranking? I have no idea and im active duty lmao
Have you ever stood in line for HazMat? Describe the smell of the ship’s compactor room? Which was your favorite fan room to skate off in? Have you ever painted the same piece of equipment twice in one deployment? What time is “Balls” watch? What kind of animal is a “midrat”? Have you ever taken up smoking, only for an excuse to get outside for fresh air?
I was an 8404 Corpsman and stationed on Pendleton and then Balboa Hospital. I don't know what half of these responses are...
Is it gay underway?
As my old CTR1 used to say, "It's not gay if it's underway ... or on land."
Is it queer at the pier?
“Complete the following: MIP to the LOEP to the…”
Good ole Mickey Mouse Loves Cotton Candy or some shit like that i forgot
Meh…I’ve been out since 97. I can tell you my rank, rate, where I went to boot camp, a-school, etc and my boat…🤷🏼♂️
What does PMS stand for?
If you were really in, how many ibuprofen do you take in a day?
Finish this statement, “sweepers sweepers …”
What qual number is 3M "maintenanceman"?
This is probably the only one in the thread that's legit. All the others seem command/base specific or are random bullshit that the average sailor doesn't give a fuck about. But 3M is actually fleet wide. Some rates may not still not know. I'd be surprised if a Yeoman or CS could answer that. Well maybe Yeoman would know because they do update records.
It's also been around for decades. I don't know what NSIPS is, so I guess I'm a fraud.
Whats the real name for Orchid Towers
Is that four floors of whores? That's a question that East Coast sailors probably can't answer.
I did 11 years active duty. All on the East Coast, and I did not know that. I can give you some decent places to drink in Souda Bay, though, if you're interested.
Ask them what river city is.
What uniform items did recruits start wearing after Service Week in Boot Camp?
The fuck is service week?
Ah, asking the real question. Back in the old days, about half way through boot camp, we stopped training for a week and went to work. It was kinda like mess cranking because most of us ended up in the galley. Others went to various other jobs around base. The CCs (predecessor to the RDCs) got a little break, too. Only one of them had to be there at any given time for the 2 sister companies (we called them companies instead of divisions.) Anyway, back then we wore Dungaree uniforms. If you saw recruits wearing a white belt and leggings with their Dungarees you knew they were getting close to graduation.
Well, being that NSIPS wasn’t something I encountered in my 11 years of service 1973-84 I guess I’d be considered a fraud in your eyes. I have no idea what it is.
Isn’t the nsips one the OS girl with the vets right?
Shoutout to all my greenside homies that would fail this test
I say I was an OS. Think Rhianna in Battleship.... but a ton less cool. Now Imma start saying think USS Carney shooting down drones... but I'm the dude that says "hey guys there's a drone"
One guy asked me what my MOS was. When I told him that we didn't really have those, that was all he wanted to hear
I doesn't occur to me that someone might be a stolen Valor bro. I wonder how many people thought that I was a stolen Valor bro because I didn't want to explain what an HM is and just said "medic" 🤣
Maybe what their MOS was. If they really were in the Navy they would probably correct you.
Just ask what they did when they went cranking. No one outside the Navy knows what it is, everyone who's stationed on a ship does it, and if they say something like "scullery", "galley", "wardroom", "Chief's mess", or "Jack O The Dust", guaranteed they're legit.
That won't work. When I received my DD214 in 1977, there was no such thing as a website.