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31OCT22 SNA/SNFO BOARD

dxfan06

dxfan06

Hopeful SNA-Dreadful Runner
FloridaDad said:
Thankfully with my college degree I wouldn't start at E-1 but ya being 31 with 2 kids would make it an even rougher transition. Especially considering most of my post college life has been spent either working for myself, having others working for me, or traveling and playing music with a ton of freedom. To be clear I do understand the transition to military life as an officer won't be a cakewalk either. In the end though, my family and I are craving the stability, support structure, and benefits military life can provide. I loved being a self employed musician but man can that be a really lonely life and you never really know where the next paycheck is coming from.
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i feel that, i've known people to be really successful at it but man it looks like such a grind and you gotta be on it constantly. I'd have done it myself but im not good enough for that life haha.
 
Mouselovr

Mouselovr

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Contributor
elariosa95 said:
Despite my pfp, I actually do not play DnD.

HOWEVER, I am more than willing to play if we class up together haha
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Your final inspection in OCS is called OPI. Its a huge range of knowledge on the navy such as types of ships, subs and planes,

Had buddies who played "OPI DnD" to study where they built a mini navy and played war games against each other.

Navy DnD
 
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FloridaDad

Well-Known Member
dxfan06 said:
i feel that, i've known people to be really successful at it but man it looks like such a grind and you gotta be on it constantly. I'd have done it myself but im not good enough for that life haha.
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elariosa95 said:
Despite my pfp, I actually do not play DnD.

HOWEVER, I am more than willing to play if we class up together haha
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Well now I at least know 1 potential musician and DnD person to hang out with in the Navy! In all seriousness, DnD is something I hope pass the time on long deployments with if I can find a handful of people interested in it! I also hope to write a lot of music with no social media to distract me or kids to watch.
 
elariosa95

elariosa95

SNA (Primary - VT-6)
FloridaDad said:
Well now I at least know 1 potential musician and DnD person to hang out with in the Navy! In all seriousness, DnD is something I hope pass the time on long deployments with if I can find a handful of people interested in it! I also hope to write a lot of music with no social media to distract me or kids to watch.
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Make that 2 potential musicians! I play bass, but I'm not very good ?
 
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exNavyOffRec

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cjh5073 said:
Completely disagree. I think its harder if you look at it that way.

Enlisting not only gave me perspective but allowed me to get in front of the right people, and network within the aviation community.
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You are the exception to what the normal enlisted experience is when applying for an officer program, for every 1 of you their are 10 that hit roadblock after roadblock.

You are very lucky to have had a good experience.

Do you have a warfare pin? I had a CO that had a policy of not recommending anyone for an officer program without a warfare pin. Did you go mess cranking yet? I have seen that be a roadblock too.
 
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cjh5073

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exNavyOffRec said:
You are the exception to what the normal enlisted experience is when applying for an officer program, for every 1 of you their are 10 that hit roadblock after roadblock.

You are very lucky to have had a good experience.

Do you have a warfare pin? I had a CO that had a policy of not recommending anyone for an officer program without a warfare pin. Did you go mess cranking yet? I have seen that be a roadblock too.
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EAWS/ESWS.

Had to get XO approval for those though because they changed the instruction.

I also got just about every qual they will allow me to get (3M to WCS, DC to Team Lead, QA, went to DCPO School, Second Class Swim, Engineering Watches, etc.).

Collaterals - Command TPO, ITT Admin, Command Security Manager. Currently manage that with Cost Travel and Training.

In regards to mess cranking - I just made myself too valuable to let me go down there. They send you cranking when (at least at my command) they don’t want to deal with you.
 
villo0692

villo0692

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cjh5073 said:
EAWS/ESWS.

Had to get XO approval for those though because they changed the instruction.

I also got just about every qual they will allow me to get (3M to WCS, DC to Team Lead, QA, went to DCPO School, Second Class Swim, Engineering Watches, etc.).

Collaterals - Command TPO, ITT Admin, Command Security Manager. Currently manage that with Cost Travel and Training.

In regards to mess cranking - I just made myself too valuable to let me go down there. They send you cranking when (at least at my command) they don’t want to deal with you.
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No Urinalysis? Pfff noob
 
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exNavyOffRec

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cjh5073 said:
EAWS/ESWS.

Had to get XO approval for those though because they changed the instruction.

I also got just about every qual they will allow me to get (3M to WCS, DC to Team Lead, QA, went to DCPO School, Second Class Swim, Engineering Watches, etc.).

Collaterals - Command TPO, ITT Admin, Command Security Manager. Currently manage that with Cost Travel and Training.

In regards to mess cranking - I just made myself too valuable to let me go down there. They send you cranking when (at least at my command) they don’t want to deal with you.
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That is excellent you have been able to get those quals done, that is not typical.

Each command I have been at no one was exempt from mess cranking, when you have a conventional MM that is on an ORSE watchteam with ORSE coming up and the CO/XO won't make an exception for him you know that they don't make exceptions for anyone.

The ones they don't want to deal with get recycled to the mess decks once everyone has been through once.
 
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