Where are you stationed and what is your job?

NWS Charleston SC
Navy
Nuke Electronics Technician


ah yea, just remember OPSEC and all that good stufff

(there might be another thread, if so im sorry)


-ET3

1/8/2006 9:57:08 PM

Army, discharged

1/8/2006 10:01:14 PM

ahahaha "discharged" is that what you call it

1/8/2006 10:14:35 PM

Air Force, Tech Controller, now they're paying for school
Monterey, CA
Biloxi, MS
Tinker, OK
PSAB, KSA
Bolling, DC

[Edited on January 8, 2006 at 10:15 PM. Reason : duty stations]

1/8/2006 10:14:52 PM

NAS Pensacola
USMC
student Naval Flight Officer (either F-18 WSO or EA-6B ECMO)



i don't view divulging that level of info as an OPSEC concern.

1/8/2006 10:14:57 PM

oh i know, im just saying

1/8/2006 10:17:33 PM

MP Platoon Leader
211th MP Co
Clyde, NC

1/8/2006 10:17:59 PM

^^hey, can you go scout out the area around MCAS Beaufort for me sometime...is it pretty nice?

^where in the hell is Clyde, NC?

[Edited on January 8, 2006 at 10:19 PM. Reason : asfd]

1/8/2006 10:18:26 PM

over near waynesville and canton, just the west of asheville, get off at exit 27 or 28 heading towards murphy and cherokee.

1/8/2006 10:22:42 PM

i jsut discharged some shit into the toilet

1/8/2006 10:23:05 PM

^ thats actually pretty close to the truth

1/8/2006 10:28:26 PM

do military people have to get passports if they're stationed overseas?

i thought of that today for some reason, and i'm curious

1/8/2006 10:28:35 PM

military bases are US territory

1/8/2006 10:34:34 PM

clyde is basically BFE, not a whole lot there.
I'm looking forward to not dealing with city life anymore

1/8/2006 10:42:07 PM

forgot about that...but i'm guessing they don't stay on the base all the time, right?

oh well...i won't derail the thread with it

1/8/2006 10:42:24 PM

Canton stinks, but Murphy area is pretty.

1/8/2006 10:52:15 PM

its not that difficult to get a passport

1/8/2006 11:13:57 PM

USS FLORIDA (SSGN 728)
Main Propulsion Assistant

1/8/2006 11:15:24 PM

Air Force, Chinese Linguist
Hickam AFB, Honolulu, Hawaii

1/8/2006 11:21:50 PM

Quote :

"do military people have to get passports if they're stationed overseas? "

They're given one, and I'm pretty sure that you can't use it for anything other than military stuff, so if you travel on your own, you have to have your own passport.
I could be wrong.

1/8/2006 11:23:01 PM

USAF 2d Lt

AIR AND SPACE BASIC COURSE
MAXWELL AFB, AL
(Montgomery)

for a bit
then

DEVELOPMENTAL ENGINEER
EGLIN AFB, FL
(Fort Walton Beach)

1/9/2006 12:22:04 AM

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"Army, discharged"

thought they didn't let you in?

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"NAS Pensacola USMC student Naval Flight Officer (either F-18 WSO or EA-6B ECMO)"

hey if you end up going Prowlers let me know, I was in the EA-6B community for 4 years

1/9/2006 12:35:02 AM

^cool, i'm gonna request east coast Hornets, but there's still a decent chance i'll end up in Prowlers

^^let me know when you get to Eglin. I'm right down the road at Pensacola, along with several other Wolfpack alumni.

1/9/2006 12:39:27 AM

^ yeah I can understand why the hornet choice. cherry point isn't a bad place to end up tho, quiet town, 15 mins from the beach. and the prowler community is pretty laid back for the corps (guess that one can be good or bad depending)...for example they focus more on flight ops than the predawn 5 mile runs. and since they're in ultra-high demand you'll get deployed a shit ton

1/9/2006 12:46:11 AM

[Edited on January 9, 2006 at 1:05 AM. Reason : ]

1/9/2006 12:58:53 AM

how cute are these?


ok ima big dork, but it was the last thing id copied and pasted so it was on my clipboard

1/9/2006 12:59:07 AM

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"Quote : "do military people have to get passports if they're stationed overseas? " They're given one, and I'm pretty sure that you can't use it for anything other than military stuff, so if you travel on your own, you have to have your own passport. I could be wrong."

yeah they get green passports instead of blue tourist ones. not sure what the restrictions on them are though.

1/9/2006 12:59:18 AM

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"MCAS Beaufort isn't too far from Atlantic Beach and not all that far from Jacksonville, NC"

you must be thinking of Beaufort, NC (pronounced Bo-fort). there's no MCAS there. the NC USMC bases are Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville and MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock.

MCAS Beaufort is in Beaufort, SC (pronounced Bew-fort). it's near Charleston, Savannah, and Hilton Head (and Parris Island)

1/9/2006 1:02:04 AM

damn, I n00bed myself...got 'em mixed up...how the hell'd i do that when i worked on lejeune for a while?...d0H!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on January 9, 2006 at 1:05 AM. Reason : ]

1/9/2006 1:04:51 AM

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"thought they didn't let you in?"

I served 2 years enlisted

i got fucked out of my comission due to medical bullshit.

1/9/2006 8:07:42 AM

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"I served 2 years enlisted "

ah ok, what was your job/station?

1/9/2006 8:26:26 AM

This isn't a call out, it's a roll call.

1/9/2006 8:40:46 AM

I was 82nd abn 11th bravo for 4 years, served in afganastan and iraq, discharged on disability under combat

1/9/2006 9:43:12 AM

Burlington, NC - 30th BCT's MICO

1/9/2006 11:01:01 AM

I did 4yrs Army

122nd Signal Battalion
Camp Red Cloud, Korea

82nd Airborne
Fort Bragg, NC

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-finished, G.

1/9/2006 11:03:48 AM

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why is it Seaman?, it should be 2nd Class Bearsley...heh

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"^^hey, can you go scout out the area around MCAS Beaufort for me sometime...is it pretty nice? "

i have a friend stationed down there, shes a corpsman, and she says it alright, but its near the beach, so oorah that one(i havent been down there, so i cant give you anymore details than that, my apologies, sir)

but its close to charleston, so thats a bonus

1/9/2006 11:38:00 AM

Cherry Point, NC
USMC
Harrier Pilot (God's chariot/devil's golfcart)



and reguarding the question about military needing passports, back in the day, they used to let you go anywhere in the world with just your military ID card. Then some guys decided to hijack an airliner in the early 80's. They collected everyones passports and there were a few navy salvage divers on board. Well the terrorist asked what they did and there wasn't a direct translation of salvage diver in arabic, and it was translated NAVY SEAL. So they beat the guy death because of it. Guy has a navy ship named after him b/c of what happened


[Edited on January 9, 2006 at 12:30 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2006 12:30:29 PM

btw, Steven, stop calling people sir on here

There's no rank among wolfwebbers.

1/9/2006 12:32:14 PM

I went to Italy twice without a passport, and travelled through Austria and Germany with just my military ID. might have changed tho, that was back in 99.

1/9/2006 12:33:39 PM

yeah steven, around these parts you call everybody "faggot" whether they are or not.

1/9/2006 12:34:18 PM

US Marines
Cherry Point, NC
Communications Security Equipment Technician (Crypto-Tech)

Honorably Discharged in 2003

1/9/2006 12:39:26 PM

^ how long were you there? I got out in summer 01 and was stationed there a while

1/9/2006 5:55:31 PM

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"btw, Steven, stop calling people sir on here There's no rank among wolfwebbers."

my bad!

1/9/2006 10:01:55 PM

Ok, us non-military lurkers need definitions for all these terms please:

1. NWS
2. OPSEC
3. NAS
4. F-18 WSO or EA-6B ECMO
5. 211th MP Co
6. MCAS
7. BFE
8. SSGN 728
9. "i'm gonna request east coast Hornets, but there's still a decent chance i'll end up in Prowlers"
10. 30th BCT's MICO

Thanks.

1/9/2006 10:05:27 PM

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"1. NWS 2. OPSEC 3. NAS 4. F-18 WSO or EA-6B ECMO 5. 211th MP Co 6. MCAS 7. BFE 8. SSGN 728 9. "i'm gonna request east coast Hornets, but there's still a decent chance i'll end up in Prowlers" 10. 30th BCT's MICO"

1. Naval Weapons Station
2. Operational Security
3. Naval Air Station
4.?
5.211th Military Police Company(thats a guess, im not sure)
6. Marine Core Air Station
7. Bumfuck Eygpt
8. Guided Missle Nuclear Submarine
9?
10?

1/9/2006 10:23:04 PM

1. Nose Wheel Steering (pilots will get it, but for correct term, see above)
2. Operational Security
3. Naval Air Station
4. WSO/ECMO cool name for goose taking up space in the back of your jet (sorry josh had to do it, but you know i'm just ribbin)
5. 211th Military Police Company
6. Marine Corps Air Station
7. Bum Fucking Eygpt
8. SSGN 728 (could be a sub term, don't ahve a clue)
9. There are two coasts for most airframes in the navy and marine corps. East coast (bases in NC or SC) and West coast (bases in CA or AZ). Prowlers, the navy/marine corps electronic warfare aircraft, which has 1 pilot and 3 nfo's (naval flight officers) which operate all the electronic devices that jam enemy radar and give them cancer b/c they are putting out so much energy. Very nice tool cause i don't want a SAM (surface to air missle) chasing my ass one day and these guys can fool the shit out of them.
10.30th BCT MICO - don't know, some crazy army acronym by the looks of it.

[Edited on January 9, 2006 at 10:27 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2006 10:25:25 PM

the army is all about acronyms

1/9/2006 10:27:34 PM

4. WSO/ECMO - arguably takes up space better used for fuel or ordinance. conversely, handles all the less cool parts of flying that the pilot doesn't wanna fuck with, so he can do all the fun stuff like flying the bird and blowing shit up.

it's a trade off.





I'm about 6 flights away from my private pilot's license (should be 3-4 flights away by the end of this week), and the NFO job is going to be phased out of the USMC (although I don't know if it'll be in time to benefit me). I'm gonna try again to switch as soon as I'm allowed to start bothering the shit out of the powers that be again (after the 3rd attempt, which was denied by a brigadier general, they basically told me not to ask again until I'm a fleet NFO and someone else's problem)


The good thing is that I'm guaranteed tactical jets as an NFO, and if I manage to get switched after my first tour, flight school will surely be a pushover the second time around...all I'll have to learn will be the stick and rudder skills, and I'll have been a private pilot for several years, so that shouldn't be hard...so hopefully I'll have good odds of getting whatever bird and duty station I want.

[Edited on January 9, 2006 at 10:35 PM. Reason : asfd]

1/9/2006 10:28:49 PM

^^shit, i think the navy is worse


i think we have acroynms for acronyms

[Edited on January 9, 2006 at 10:29 PM. Reason : yea]

1/9/2006 10:29:09 PM

I heard a funny story, that in Beaufort, SC, they switched some of the Hornet pilots around. So guys that used to pilot with an NFO went to a single seat to run everything, and the single seat pilot who was used to running everything on his own now had a guy in the backseat to run stuff. The biggest thing guys had to complain about was the new single seat guy was way behind and now two seat pilot had to say "We fucked up the radar intercept" when it was really the guy in teh back.

1/9/2006 10:33:24 PM