Joining the U.S. NAVY. Plan to leave in September.

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It's official. I'm finished with college and now I have to get a life. :(....and :).
I have mixed feelings, but I don't want to settle in for some 9 to 5 job yet. I'm just too young.
Too many places to go and people to see. So long as I don't get shot at. Which if I do, oh well. I knew what I was getting into.
Besides, I like order and discipline. There's just not enough of it in civilian life for me.
I just can't be bossed around by some pricky little corporate dweeb because frankly, I just have no respect for them, nor the patience to put up with them otherwise.
If I adopted a corporate lifestyle, I'd be going from job to job quite often because I just wouldn't be able to restrain myself from kicking my supervisors in the balls.
My intership job was great and I liked working for my supervisors there , but unfortunately such revered jobs where everyone gets along are rare, and my internship there was only a temporary agreement.

My MOS will be in the computer science field and I plan to go back to a uni for a masters one day via officer candidate program. Here's hoping for my success.

:cheers:

I just hope I don't get swindled. Those recruiters are notorious for doing just that, even if I do score perfectly on the military placement test. (ASVAB)
 
Good luck man, the Navy is tough shit.
Lots and lots of endurance training.
 
Good luck man, the Navy is tough shit.
Lots and lots of endurance training.
Thanks. It's not the physical part I'm worried about though, rather the ability to work as a team under dire situations/emergencies.
I suppose that'll come naturally though through experience and weeks of KP. :P



Yeah, you're gonna be hardcore if you don't shoot yourself.

Full... metal... jacket.
What you really mean is: Full...metal...<waits for KA to finish phrase>
 
3000 men get on a ship


1500 couples get off.
 
3000 men get on a ship


1500 couples get off.
Don't worry. I'm one of the few who wouldn't get that lonely. :|

Plus, there are more female sailors these days than there used to be. I can testify to this as I've been on a cruiser/frigate class ship before and was suprised at how many females there were onboard.
I doubt they share the same quarters with the men though.
 
Congrats!
Good luck on everything dude.
Everyone send him dragon t-shirts!
 
I have mixed feelings, but I don't want to settle in for some 9 to 5 job yet. I'm just too young.
Too many places to go and people to see.

If you think the Navy is going to bring you to exotic locales and interesting places, I fear you are utterly mistaken.
 
It'll bring lots of time sitting in front of a computer on a carrier.

Which can be fun, I guess. If that's your thing.
 
You are aware that dragon shirts aren't regular Navy attire, right?

Not saying it wouldn't be badass, mind you.
 
Phew I was expecting it be another 'Ive joined the US Marines' thread, you will have facepalmed in those circumstances. But Navy seems interesting, I was pondering that idea a bit ago, that or the RAF, time will tell. Have fun and good luck.
 
If you think the Navy is going to bring you to exotic locales and interesting places, I fear you are utterly mistaken.

What are you talking about? Surely you can sail the seven seas in the navy? And put your mind at ease in the navy.
 
Dude bring your dragon shirts, they'll be a real kick with the crew.
 
If I adopted a corporate lifestyle, I'd be going from job to job quite often because I just wouldn't be able to restrain myself from kicking my supervisors in the balls.

umm wouldnt the military be more of the same except you cant kick them in the ballswithout spending time in solitary confinement?

My MOS will be in the computer science field and I plan to go back to a uni for a masters one day via officer candidate program. Here's hoping for my success.

:cheers:

I just hope I don't get swindled. Those recruiters are notorious for doing just that, even if I do score perfectly on the military placement test. (ASVAB)

"you wont go to Iraq, scouts honor!, you'll be stationed in the bahamas sipping cocktails all day working on your tan"

Saturos said:
Plus, there are more "female" sailors these days than there used to be. I can testify to this as I've been on a cruiser/frigate class ship before and was suprised at how many "females" there were onboard.

fixed ..pretty sure there's two of them and they're both named Pat

anyways good luck, and try not to fall overboard/get hazed in a homoerotic hazing ceremony

;)
 
It's official. I'm finished with college and now I have to get a life. :(....and :).
I have mixed feelings, but I don't want to settle in for some 9 to 5 job yet. I'm just too young.
Too many places to go and people to see. So long as I don't get shot at. Which if I do, oh well. I knew what I was getting into.
Besides, I like order and discipline. There's just not enough of it in civilian life for me.
I just can't be bossed around by some pricky little corporate dweeb because frankly, I just have no respect for them, nor the patience to put up with them otherwise.
If I adopted a corporate lifestyle, I'd be going from job to job quite often because I just wouldn't be able to restrain myself from kicking my supervisors in the balls.
My intership job was great and I liked working for my supervisors there , but unfortunately such revered jobs where everyone gets along are rare, and my internship there was only a temporary agreement.

My MOS will be in the computer science field and I plan to go back to a uni for a masters one day via officer candidate program. Here's hoping for my success.

:cheers:

I just hope I don't get swindled. Those recruiters are notorious for doing just that, even if I do score perfectly on the military placement test. (ASVAB)

Have a er...good time and good luck.
 
I'd like to join the Air Force perhaps. My grandfather was a jet mechanic during Korea and did somthing during the apollo missions. Forgot what but he got a plaqe for it. Joeseph Myers.
 
In the navy oh yes

village.jpg

Oi, I was planning to make that joke :(.
 
I just got out of college too with an Associate in Welding. I wake up at 5:30AM, then leave at 6:15AM and get there at 7AM. Then I take like a half an hour at 9AM for a coffee break, then a half an hour lunch at 12PM. Then I leave at 3PM! :D How ****ing cool is that? I get $16.50 an hour for TIG welding which is very clean and leave the place looking like I did when I entered. It's stainless steel or high carbon steel and I sit on my butt most of the time welding. I don't have to be super human strong neither because we have 2, 10 ton overhead cranes to lift the (at least) 5 ton heat exchangers, mixing tanks that are worth half a million. :D When I go there as a full employee, I will probably get $20 an hour. Only a half an hour from where I live as well. They also tell me that they shut down at midnight so I could go in at lunch time, then work to 8PM and get out. As long as I get 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I get tons of benefits and even get free tuition to college. There is also paid holidays, week long company shut-downs, etc. So listen to me kids, become a welder, go to college, find a terrific job, PROFIT MAJORLY! Gas prices too? Pfft. :smoking: *Hey become a welder in the Navy Saturos. :D
 
I guess getting used to no women isn't going to be hard for you. Hyuk hyuk hyuk.
 
"Village People" jokes aside, thanks for the replies everyone! :) I think... :|

@ CptStern: Yeah, I don't expect the NAVY to be a cakewalk, martinis, beaches and sh** like that. Far from it. More like long monthly periods on a ship doing lots of work in a orderly and timely manner. It wouldn't bother me much though like it would many. Yes, there are too quite a few women in the U.S. NAVY these days compared how it used to be. I guess it really depends on where I get stationed though. Regardless, I'll have too much on my mind to worry about chasing women for quite some time. I'm 24 and behind in life by today's standards. I've got lots of work to do fs and I don't mind cleaning out latrines for awhile. I had to do that anyways in Job Corps, and I do it at home just because I can't stand uncleaniness. As for why I can tolerate military personnel bossing me around and not corporate? Well, military guys are more in-your-face with things and not weasely, backstabbing cheats like the corporate monkeys are. Plus military officers have earned their right to be authoritative in my book because of the things they've experienced and accomplished. Thanks for taking the time to post Stern. At least you somewhat cared about this thread. In your own humorous way of course. :)

@ Jintor: I intend to do just that. Just so long as nobody else tries to rape my dragonshirts.

@ hool10: Welding is indeed a lucrative business, but it's not the field I really want to pursue. My father's a welder and a machinist and has even *literally* resurrected a few old hot rods with his metal sculpting abilities. (He's currently restoring a 1932 Ford pickup as a hot rod. Chopped dropped and everything) However, I would probably starve to death if I tired my hand at it. Just not my thing. I do respect others though that can do such work. I would probably rather get into the scientific side of metal though. Something like metalergy. Welders though would probably have an advantage since they have experience in how different types of metal behave under extreme heat. Good luck in you endeavors in that field anyways. :thumbs:

@ Everone else: Thank you all for wishing me good fortune! :)

I've been doing push-ups every chance I get now. I did probably a grand total of 150 today, which is not really that much for some of you, but bear in mind I've gotten fairly sissified over the last two years doing nothing but school, PC, eat, and bed. I started out doing about two reps of 15 push-up every chance I think about it. Hold on...*huff, huff, huff,...14, ...15* My arms feel like limp noodles right now.
 
In the navy oh yes

village.jpg

that's not the village people

this is the Village people

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far more gay than your village people


Saturos said:
@ CptStern: Yeah, I don't expect the NAVY to be a cakewalk, martinis, beaches and sh** like that. Far from it. More like long monthly periods on a ship doing lots of work in a orderly and timely manner. It wouldn't bother me much though like it would many. Yes, there are too quite a few women in the U.S. NAVY these days compared how it used to be. I guess it really depends on where I get stationed though. Regardless, I'll have too much on my mind to worry about chasing women for quite some time. I'm 24 and behind in life by today's standards. I've got lots of work to do fs and I don't mind cleaning out latrines for awhile. I had to do that anyways in Job Corps, and I do it at home just because I can't stand uncleaniness. As for why I can tolerate military personnel bossing me around and not corporate? Well, military guys are more in-your-face with things and not weasely, backstabbing cheats like the corporate monkeys are. Plus military officers have earned their right to be authoritative in my book because of the things they've experienced and accomplished. Thanks for taking the time to post Stern. At least you somewhat cared about this thread. In your own humorous way of course.

np, if I were to join the military (hah) I'd have picked the navy because of the sense of duty, the fact that you get to travel, the exotic hookers in every port, the inevitable venereal disease, and the great healthcare the military provides which should help me get off herion which I developed a taste for while serving my country in Corfu .. ..I'm much better now, after having shot myself in the foot and recieved a full discharge after biting that officers ear.....but ya ..navy .good times



;) good luck
 
When one of my friends joined the Navy, he had to give away all his clothes (they all went to me). So, you're probably going to have to give up your dragon shirts, buddy.
 
Good luck Saturos! I plan too join the army corps. down here in a year or two :D
 
When one of my friends joined the Navy, he had to give away all his clothes (they all went to me). So, you're probably going to have to give up your dragon shirts, buddy.
I'll just have them sent back home then. Or just not bring any of them at all. :| What does the military do with "civilian" personals anyways once the recruit arrives?
 
I'll just have them sent back home then. Or just not bring any of them at all. :| What does the military do with "civilian" personals anyways once the recruit arrives?

They'll supply you with a box to put all of your personal belongings and clothes in. It's sealed and mailed so you can send it back home.

So... what rate are you going for?
Don't worry. I'm one of the few who wouldn't get that lonely. :|

Plus, there are more female sailors these days than there used to be. I can testify to this as I've been on a cruiser/frigate class ship before and was suprised at how many females there were onboard.
I doubt they share the same quarters with the men though.
Surprised at how many females there were? Ha! There are about 2-5 females aboard an average frigate, and they're all officers. I would imagine it would be just a bit more on a cruiser. And no, they don't share the same berthing as males do.
 
I dont think I'd be able to take the boredom of being in the military. Hope they keep you busy so you dont go nuts.
 
Nice man you'll have some good life experiences there
 
I dont think I'd be able to take the boredom of being in the military. Hope they keep you busy so you dont go nuts.
What do you mean? I assume your talking about the uniformity and strict regulations when you say, "boredom"?

They'll supply you with a box to put all of your personal belongings and clothes in. It's sealed and mailed so you can send it back home.
That's a relief then.

So... what rate are you going for?
Not sure I quite follow.

Surprised at how many females there were? Ha! There are about 2-5 females aboard an average frigate, and they're all officers. I would imagine it would be just a bit more on a cruiser. And no, they don't share the same berthing as males do.
That would make sense. Naturally there would be more females on larger vessels and true they don't share the same quarters with the men. Also, I heard from other friends in the NAVY that the females seem to rank faster than the males do.
You can only go so high as enlisted though before you have to go back for officer training and additional college education.
I've read about some of the more high-tech careers (i.e. nuclear physicist/engineering) where the minimum requirement was "two 4 year masters". TWO! :O Sounds like lots of work lies ahead fs.

Were you in the NAVY joule?
 
Not sure I quite follow.
Your rate.. the "job" you are hoping to get while you're in. I know you said something about your MOS being in the computer science field. That really encompasses many rates, so I'm not sure which you're planning to be. And it's odd you used MOS, that's mainly an Army term.
That would make sense. Naturally there would be more females on larger vessels and true they don't share the same quarters with the men. Also, I heard from other friends in the NAVY that the females seem to rank faster than the males do.
You can tell them I said that's a load of bullshit.
Were you in the NAVY joule?

Negative. I am in the Navy. ;)
 
What do you mean? I assume your talking about the uniformity and strict regulations when you say, "boredom"?

No, I mean theres nothing to do. It probably depends on what you're doing though, and where you are stationed. But since you'll be on a boat, I imagine its going to be very boring.
 
No, I mean theres nothing to do. It probably depends on what you're doing though, and where you are stationed. But since you'll be on a boat, I imagine its going to be very boring.

Ha.. Haha... ha.

There's no such thing as boredom on a ship. Well, unless you're on watch that is.
 
Idunno, I think being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean and not being able to go anywhere would drive me nuts.

Civilian life is the life for me.
 
Idunno, I think being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean and not being able to go anywhere would drive me nuts.

Civilian life is the life for me.
That's fine as I can understand your point Krynn. It's the technology onboard that fascinated me enough to join though. I feel like if I don't, "check it out" I'll be missing out on a big opportunity in life.

Your rate.. the "job" you are hoping to get while you're in. I know you said something about your MOS being in the computer science field. That really encompasses many rates, so I'm not sure which you're planning to be. And it's odd you used MOS, that's mainly an Army term.
Oh ok. I figured that's what you were talking about. Sorry mate. I'm still studying NAVY terminology as I don't want to come across as a complete noob during the first week of training as well as the first visit with my recruiter. I want to come across as if though I'm on the ball you know? BTW, I found a good resource about life in NAVY boot camp that I though was interesting. Have a look and see what you think? I'm still not positive as to what exactly I should start out as. The number of careers available are staggering! According to the ASVAB anyways. The actual availablility may actually be different. I was planning to start out as a technician/operator then hopefully returning to college while enlisted so I can get more computer schooling. I was looking into the programmer side of things more than networking, but I always though it would be cool to be on a development team for those cool training simulators. TBH, I'm not sure how the NAVY applies IT tech for military applications, as I've only had experience on the civilian side of IT tech.

You can tell them I said that's a load of bullshit.
LOL, ok. I'll do that then. :)


Negative. I am in the Navy. ;)
10/4 on that. Hope your faring well. :thumbs:
 
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