With USS Harry S. Truman in Oslo the company I work for has been chartered to transport people back and forth to Oslo. Now I felt a little apprehensive about a bunch of young folks and such coming but i was wrong. Sailors can be a rowdy bunch after all.

Yall are some of the best passengers we have ever had and we thank you for your politeness.

Edit: Yall actually clean up after yourself and just in general behave like really decent people. 10/10 would ferry yall again

Looking at orders this upcoming cycle. I always hear terrible stories about recruiting, and I want to gauge how bad or good it is right now. Specifically in the area of Portland Oregon.

For obvious reasons, I imagine it's not so good, but you never know.

Has anyone done recruiting in Oregon? How bad is it? And would you recommend it?

Went to take my wife who is non surface ship in the navy to see what I work on as I work on one of the class of ships they were giving tours of. First had to stand in line for 30 mins to go through metal detectors since the thing was opened to the general public (foreign nationals included lol). To then go wait in another line about 45 mins to get onto the pier to show them your id and again go through a metal detector and ncis running foreign nationals information filtering into the same line. You then go to another line to be told "wait here and we will take you to the next ship with a tour group opening" (you don't even get to pick the ship you want to tour). In which case we got told we were going on a ship that I don't even work on and was the whole point of us driving down from Oceanside wait about 30 minutes to go on the ship after being guided there by our chaperone that makes sure we don't walk anywhere else. Finally you get on the ship and they basically show you where the helicopters land on the back, the ribs (I know spelled wrong) on the side, to the gun on the front. Never inside the ship at any point to then say ok that's the tour bye. Where you walk off the ship to another chaperone who takes you to the exit off the pier and says that's the end of your touring ships. After which 4 hours was just wasted. I was not a fan of how they did the ship tours at all. Like at least have people line up in groups on what ship they want to go on or something. I went on ship tours during a rimpac before where you basically got to go on any ship you just had to wait in line to go on with a group. I was expecting something more like that and was disappointed.

Anyone else go today and feel a little underwhelmed?

My strict friend, who is older than me and is like my second dad, told me I'd never survive boot camp. He is probably right. I am not strong and am pretty sickly.

Thank you guys and gals for having the courage to risk life and limb standing up to the tyrants and psychopaths. My family is from the USSR before it fell, so I am keenly aware of the alternatives to democracy -- and that freedom is not free.

Thank you!

Hey moderators,

I want to apologize for posting something against the rules. I was using my phone at the time and in a bit of a hurry so I didn't even think to check.

Dave

I joined on 11Nov21. Do I rate Gwot??

Are Navy personnel allowed to wear the Air and Space achievement medal? When reading online, it’s hard for me to tell if we can wear it, and I hear mixed things from people in person. Any help is appreciated!

I have CONUS PCS orders with a detach date of JAN 1st from my current command. I sold my house early and have to move my family to my new duty station early (November) while I stay back and finish my order and detach in January. My PPM has been booked through DPS and approved. I didn’t request any advances and will be looking to submit my paperwork once I check in to my new command. I have heard that if you are executing the move outside of your orders and don’t get an order amendment that there is a possibility of not being reimbursed. I’m confused as to why my move would have been approved through DPS with the November dates if I wouldn’t be getting reimbursed. It gave me a figure of how much I should be getting paid for the move etc. Anyone with information or experience on this please let me know. Move is coming up quick.

Where can I find info on converting out of my rate beside the community overview on mynavyhr? My overview doesn’t mention it at all. Thanks dudes.

As the title suggests, for the life of my i can't find the nessacary quick link to view my orders.

My father served in the United States Navy on a destroyer. I want to get the image of his ship tattooed on myself to honor him, and because I’ve always been into ships and maritime activities (I am a SONAR operator for a private marine engineering firm). I love him very much. Would this be socially acceptable?

So the other day a man in a black mustang who claims to be a cars sales man was asking me a lot of questions about my vehicle at the carrier parking lot and inquires I should visit his dealership the following day to hang out with him to play pool and he will give me money if I refer sailors to buy vehicles from his dealership. I find this shady and wonder if anyone else had weird experience like this on base ?

Currently making a port visit to NAVSTA Mayport and was wondering what you guys can recommend for a newcomer to the base and the outside area in general

Can I still go up for BJOY if i made third after i made BJOQ?

Are navy pcms allowed to write ESA letters? I've been told they can and also can't.

I literally just witnessed this and I am now curious. Someone was walking through the mess decks, presumably to someplace else, during evening prayer. Some chief saw them and just kinda loudly said "Standby!" causing them to stop. In this situation is "standby" an enforceable order? Not everyone believes in your magic sky daddy so while I personally will respect your right to exercise your religious freedom, I won't strike up conversation or be disruptive during the evening prayer, don't expect me to stop and play pretend pray. Person in question was in no way disturbing anyone and the chief in question spoke loud enough to be disruptive. Chaps is a LT not a flag officer therefore to my knowledge doesn't garner the honors rendered to the skipper or other flag officers. I don't "standby" when my divo walks in the room either.

Tldr: is "standby" for evening prayer and actual enforceable order or no?