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#3
#3
Job conference up here through a headhunter company over President's Day Weekend.

I'll miss part of it, but not enough to stay. I want/need to promote, and I'm stuck with a critical job code. UPX-29 IFF. I'm stuck in my job rating because of it, a job rating promoting about 4-6% at a time.

If I worked on just about anything else as an electronics technician, I'd be allowed to change my job rating.
 
#4
#4
I'm stuck in a critical field too. But I've been able to promote fast.
 
#5
#5
That's the frustrating part, I'm in an overmanned job field, but have a "critical job".

Hey, if we're overmanned, throw some of 'em in my critical job and let me out.
 
#6
#6
Same sense here. The AF is force shaping thousands. Even some in critical fields, just doing it by rank.
 
#8
#8
I'm stationed in Chicago, but my wife and home is in Missouri.

Sailors could be stationed at the MEPS station in St. Louis, Kansas City, or as instructors for Seabees in Fort Leonard Wood.
 
#11
#11
Navy and AF harder to make rank. Too many folks stick around and leadership slots don't come open often enough. You do have better PX's (BX) from what I understand.

New Navy - Hundred men ship out to sea. Fifty couples come back home. :)
 
#12
#12
That's not new navy, that's submariners.

"New Navy" is pushing to have females on every ship.

"New Navy" is pushing to send sailors on deployments once every 12-18 months, regardless of being on sea or shore duty.

That's one big reason to leave. It's not a 4 month tour as I saw our AF guys doing in Africa, some of our deployments are of the year variety...my tour in Africa was 6 months.

While there, we had a Centcom "guy" (I forget his rank, but he was Navy) tell us this stuff isn't going away...that this type of deployment will become more and more common for the Navy. The war on terrorism, as he put it, won't be over for another 10-20 years...I don't want to make this political, as I have no political bias or horse any of those races, but he said that.

Peace out, brothers. Have fun with that. I'm out in May. That's what I joked with the guys I was around.
 
#14
#14
Oh, I'm plenty safe here in Chicago. Worst thing I have to worry about is freezing to death, but I fixed my barracks room's heater. :)

Since I returned, I've been put in charge of the female barracks sports and physical fitness assessment programs. That entails next to nothing other than me showing up in PT gear each day.

Worse things have happened. I'm just glad I'm non-deployable until I get out. One of the finer points to the Navy's "Individual Augmentee" programs, I'm non-deployable for 6 months. I got back December 18th, I get out May 15th. :)

Suckas.
 
#15
#15
Easy bud. Not all AF people have easy deployments. My carrer field is gone for every deployment at least 8 months.

We are taking over a ton of Army missions.

Prison camps and convoy duty. :no:
 
#16
#16
USAF_Vol said:
Easy bud. Not all AF people have easy deployments. My carrer field is gone for every deployment at least 8 months.

We are taking over a ton of Army missions.

Prison camps and convoy duty. :no:
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How many Iraqis have you abused??? :eek:hmy:
 
#17
#17
I refuse to answer that. But they will light the purell hand sanitizer on fire and throw it at you.

Burn the tents down they sleep in. They are wacky
 
#18
#18
USAF_Vol said:
Easy bud. Not all AF people have easy deployments. My carrer field is gone for every deployment at least 8 months.

We are taking over a ton of Army missions.

Prison camps and convoy duty. :no:
Click to expand...

We're right there with you. I'm hearing of Individual Augmentee assignments being labeled "Squad Leader." Can't be more general than that.

And I did some convoys out there as well.
 
#21
#21
I'll bet one of your Female sailors is named Chuck Bright. :sleep:

:rofl:
 
#23
#23
Seriously, Chuck is in Chicago too. I told him to get on here, but he's lazy. AE could probably help Chuck out. :crazy:
 
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