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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:43 pm
Ahoy.
I got out of boot camp on Friday, just got to San Diego for my A school. Pretty cool beans. Lots of cool benefits come with being in the service. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL here, and the command and other sailors are great. It's like a college campus.
Obviously, I haven't been able to keep up with things on here, and I don't have time to check up on all you guys like I should, so do tell me what's been going on in the outside world with you folks. I'll check in on it tomorrow, since I'm on an MWR computer and they don't want me on for that long. I'm picking up a laptop this weekend with my boot camp money, so I'll be able to get back to my old routine after duty. Faust will return, I promise you that.
Welp, I need to get up and shine my boots, iron my uniform, all that jazz. See you gents tomorrow.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:04 pm
O; Are you allowed to drive a submarine?
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:53 pm
Yea, those military benefits are really tempting. o___o
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:05 pm
500 men depart on a ship to sea...
250 couples return....
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:38 pm
Are you going to sail the seven seas?
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:12 pm
1. No, ******** submarines. I enjoy sunlight, and the prospect of surviving if someone ******** up and blows a hole in the hull.
2. 250 couples don't come up. Sometimes submariners share each other, so it's actually in the 180-200 couple range.
3. I don't actually have a ship yet, so sailing all seven seas in the next available thing, an inflatable life raft, will take a bit. I'm going to be an STG, Sonar Technician Surface-class after I'm done with school, so I'll be on cruisers and destroyers, sometimes carriers.
Aaaaaand the military benefits are pretty rad. You're pretty much set here by the command. You have the freedom to do with your money as you please, within reason. If you get into crazy debt, you'll lose your security clearance for whatever job you have, 'cause it's too easy for somebody to bribe you for the information you're cleared to have, lose your rate, and then maybe get discharged from the Navy.
They give you this program called TSP, which is kind of like a 401k. You put money into it, and it pops up later with some crazy interest. If you put maybe 10% of your paycheck in per month, you'll end up with $2-300,000 when you retire.
The Montgomery GI bill is friggin' awesome. You put in $100 a month for 12 months, and then the Navy gives you in the area of $30,000 for college. That's your money when you want it. It goes towards tuition and books, yeah, but also living expenses like groceries and rent. You can live off it for however long it's there, or until you graduate.
And A school itself? It's awesome here. There's an impossibly rad recreation hall with fooseball, pool, a PS3, two Xbox 360's, Rock Band in the corner on another 360, a little library, and a theater that plays movies that come out on DVD in a couple months. The food is good, and free, and generally everybody's pretty awesome if you're on time for everything and you have your uniform looking squared away. You get weekends off, and there's a ******** of s**t to do here in San Diego. This weekend I'm going to chill and try to get my bearing on everything. I'm on phase one liberty, so I have to wear my dress whites outside the base, which is pretty awesome for me just because I love my little neckerchief.
Oh, and I lost 30 lbs. in boot camp. I was by no means the fattest dude there, but I lost the most weight. Now I'm skinny as hell.
I'm cleaning my uniforms upstairs, so I gotta run, but I might be back later. Seaman Recruit, Naval Base Point Loma, out.
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:37 pm
Sounds like you have it made, Faust.
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:32 pm
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:10 pm
It's cushy. Just gotta tolerate 9 weeks of a short bald man with a red rope on his shoulder yelling at you for not properly folding your skivvies.
And my GOD Goodwill food gives you swampass.
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:08 pm
Have fun in the navy. Long history of family in the military, we have my late Pop Pop's pistol he won off of a marine in a poker game back in WWII. See if you can win a game system, that'd be pretty freaking sweet.
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:00 pm
Lunar Falcon Have fun in the navy. Long history of family in the military, we have my late Pop Pop's pistol he won off of a marine in a poker game back in WWII. See if you can win a game system, that'd be pretty freaking sweet.
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:51 pm
OH. OH.
And this weekend I'm picking up the sexy new service uniform. It comes with a sweet hat.
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:41 am
The Eternal Are you going to sail the seven seas? Can you put your mind at ease?
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:12 am
Faust!
that is so awesome, the Navy sounds like a awesome thing to go into if anyone here is also interested in the armed services! 3nodding
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