USS Grayling SS209 War Memorial Sloan Lake Colorado I was surprised by finding this in Denver

ORIGINAL CAPTION: “An Attack Squadron 35 (VA-35) A-6E Intruder aircraft sits on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60) during Operation Desert Storm.”

Taken in the Red Sea by SRA Putnam on February 1, 1991.

(NARA DN-ST-91-07626)

His daughter was a Girl Scout and he ordered all of them through her. I remember getting a pallet of them vertrep-ed to us when we were deployed on a westpac. One box for everyone aboard. Thanks for the thin mints, Bruno. Did any of you oldheads get one?

DDG 119 has been out since jan 3rd this year , with extensions and nearing 10 months of deployment plus the time needed to come home. It’s one team one fight till one ship is staying longer than all the other ships ( i’m not gonna name the ships but some ships have even been out there LESS time and are on their way home.) no one is talking about this and it needs to start happening, i’m putting this out there to see if anyone can help or if anyone higher up reading this even cares. they are tired and morale is low, it’s hard to keep on going not knowing when you’ll come home , people have missed out on births , birthdays , holidays. bring our sailors home :(

Do yall remember NWU patches from the blueberries? They had them at my first command, VAW-115, I never got one since we switched to type 3s a few months after I got there. They said they were gonna get new brown/tan ones for the type 3s but never saw that. Were these just discontinued when type 3s came out? Sorry I don't have a picture of the squadrons patch but this was an example I found online.

Where do they teach senior officers that I am by no means allowed to have a "passive voice" sentence in my messages, critiques, etc? Is this like an SCC thing and it's the first grammar rule they have learned and they cling to it? Did they all just read a specific book or is it a real rule?

For instance sometimes the emphasis of the sentence SHOULD be on the action being done, not the doer, if you are saying that isbthe important thing.

"Address the training that took place before the critique event"

"The pre-evolution training was not conducted fully due to the ship underway moving ahead 2 days."

I have tried to have this debate with several O5 + and at some point they get a blank stare and say "active voice is better" like its a religious tenet.

So I checked in my command middle of their deployment and at the end of it we received a unit award. How do I know if I am eligible to wear it? Do I go by the citation dates listed in the citation? The period it covers was sometime beginning of the year to August. I checked in way before August. Thank you.

Does anyone have experience with TAR?
I’m a reservist and I’m considering going TAR but how does it work exactly? The only thing I’d be worried about is being stationed over seas with it lol. I’d prefer in the states but idk how it works.

How do they determine the cost of a move? Where I am going vs my HOR is a difference of 110 miles. Property just called and said I may incur a cost; but, they could not say how much.

Arthur F. Fenner composed this march and two-step in 1908. This video features Thomas Edison films of daily life at the Newport Naval Station, recorded in 1900. The footage is preserved as part of the Library of Congress Digital Archives, providing a rare glimpse into the naval community that inspired Fenner's music.

I took the most recent RKE for my rate, and was confused on the timeline for results. I was in student status for a while so I couldn’t take the NWAE or the first RKE when it switched over. Are the results on the same timeline they were under the NWAE (i.e. should I expect them around thanksgiving?) TIA

I genuinely want to stay in the Navy and continue my career, but the current beard/shaving regulations have me worried about eventually being administratively separated over something I’ve struggled with for years.
I’m African American, and clean shaving has always been extremely hard on my skin. I’ve tried basically every recommendation I’ve been given — different razors, shaving techniques, products, skin-care routines, research, letting the skin heal, etc. Nothing has consistently worked. When I clean shave, my face can flare up badly. I get painful bumps, some fill with pus, and sometimes my face bleeds enough that I’ve had to replace pillowcases/pillows because of blood getting on them. It’s not just a few cosmetic razor bumps.
I’ve only recently had to start clean shaving again and the irritation is already coming back. I’m planning to go to medical again and continue getting everything documented, because I’m trying to handle this the right way.
What worries me is the long-term situation with the Navy’s beard regulations and the possibility of eventually being separated if I medically cannot maintain a clean shave. I’m not trying to get out of shaving just because I want a beard. If I could clean shave without tearing my face up, I would.
Has anyone here dealt with severe PFB/razor bumps long-term under the newer policies? Did medical actually help you find something that worked, were you able to maintain a shaving waiver, or did it eventually affect your ability to stay in?
I want to stay Navy. I’m just worried about being forced to choose between repeatedly damaging my skin and potentially losing my career.

I am currently in the process of a hardship separation due to a family care plan. does anyone know the timeline once it’s with PERS? mine has been there for about 4 weeks.

Need to get a few trainings done, have a CAC reader and downloaded the certs I need but keep getting this error on every browser I use. Tried reinstalling the drivers, reinstalling the certs all for this bs to pop up again. Help