Individual Augmentee (IA) info & questions

[webmaster]

NMCI and OneNet, what the heck are they? (I actually am serious about OneNet, I have never heard of it)

OneNet is the overseas version of NMCI... Luckily they have only done the NIPR migration for my command.

Unfortunately, I have seen and used both.... yeck...

 

[McNamara]

Ahh, but see, now that you've volunteered for one IA you are prime meat for the next one that comes along regardless....

That's what I was thinking until yesterday. Apparently (and I suspected this before it was confirmed) the wing leadership does not want to send any JGs on any IAs. They're against it in principle, possibly because they figure we might not be in the Navy for much longer and it would be a "waste" of a career-enhancing tour to send us. It makes more sense from their perspective to send an O-4 who needs IA to get a good set of follow-on orders or to boost him on the next selection board. That's understandable, but I wish they could just come out and say "you're never going, period" rather than having to hear it through back channels.

Of course they could always change their minds.

What you say:

"I'm Lt. Johnson, and I'd like to volunteer for an IA with a combat unit in either Iraq or Afganistan, preferably one in the field and not in HOA or Gitmo"

What they hear:

"Lt. Johnson Blah Blah Blah volunteer for an IA Blah Blah Blah either Iraq Blah Blah Blah HOA or Gitmo"

LOL, pretty damn funny! Probably exactly how it is, too.

 

[gaijin6423]

Mac, brother... We need to work on your communication skills, man. Here I am, keeping you up-to-date on my personal life and the best stripclubs in West Palm Beach, and I have to resort to airwarriors to know that you're NOT headed to hadji land? Where's the love? I guess I'll have to stop in your neck of the woods on my way to the Stumps and learn you some respect (in the form of borderline alcohol poisoning, of course).

 

[McNamara]

Mac, brother... We need to work on your communication skills, man. Here I am, keeping you up-to-date on my personal life and the best stripclubs in West Palm Beach, and I have to resort to airwarriors to know that you're NOT headed to hadji land? Where's the love? I guess I'll have to stop in your neck of the woods on my way to the Stumps and learn you some respect (in the form of borderline alcohol poisoning, of course).

Yeah...sent you an email regarding that. You'll get your chance!

For the rest of the forum, don't hold your breath but it looks like I may be going after all. This time it's a different billet, and the wing has absolutely no volunteers, so they figured they would ask me to make a decision in 15 minutes while I'm already on detachment. Brilliant. It's a year in A-stan, by the way.

Of course, I'm just waiting to hear the "Psych!" again, but they seem pretty desperate so maybe they've done a 180 on their "no O-2" policy. A call in the middle of the night (for me, end of the workday for them) has we-need-some-body-now written all over it.

So how can I utilize this to my advantage? What can I squeeze out of the detailer in return?

 

[S.O.B.]

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[Schnugg]

I used that for my entire year in Bahrain. It had the time portrayed in a donut graphic...."The Donut of Pain" or "Toroid of Pain" as we called it.

Oddly the SWOS liked the donut reference best.

Cheers,
G

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Oddly the SWOS liked the donut reference best.

Oddly enough, the best watch to have inport was the rev watch (04-08). Fresh donuts would arrive daily b/t 0500 and 0530.

 

[Brett327]

I used that for my entire year in Bahrain. It had the time portrayed in a donut graphic...."The Donut of Pain" or "Toroid of Pain" as we called it.

Oddly the SWOS liked the donut reference best.

Cheers,
G

Toroid of Pain - I love that one!

Brett

 

[SteveG75]

I used that for my entire year in Bahrain. It had the time portrayed in a donut graphic...."The Donut of Pain" or "Toroid of Pain" as we called it.

Oddly the SWOS liked the donut reference best.

Cheers,
G

The Marines prefer the term "Doughtnut of Misery". I attached mine for laughs.

 

[jrod22]

Naval individual augmentees program include officers as well

I was curious if anyone knows about this program of the navy training sailors for ground war fare to support the Marines and Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. If this is the wrong place for this thread I apologize, just feel this is important information to learn about and possibly share.

Thanks to anyone willing to contribute.

 

[IRfly]

The short answer is yes, it does include officers. Use the forum's search function (upper-right corner) to find the threads in which this topic has already been discussed.

 

[Gatordev]

Not sure if all the threads are public, but try a search for "Individual Augment" w/ the quotes and you'll see some more info about it.

 

[raptor10]

I also had a question.

I was curious if anyone knows about this program of the Navy training Sailors for air warfare to support the Marines and Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. If this is the wrong place for this thread I apologize, just feel this is important information to learn about and possibly share.

Thanks to anyone willing to contribute.

 

[Brett327]

I also had a question.

I was curious if anyone knows about this program of the Navy training Sailors for air warfare to support the Marines and Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. If this is the wrong place for this thread I apologize, just feel this is important information to learn about and possibly share.

Thanks to anyone willing to contribute.

I think that's called CNATRA.

Brett

 

[nittany03]

I think that's called CNATRA.

Brett

SHACK!

oh, and I searched myself, and I think most of the IA threads are actually in the private NA forum . . .