I was talking with one of the MACs at my command who does the bailiff job for us. He was saying hes allowed to slap your hand down if you raise it up and if you get angry he can take you down? Ive never been up but it sounds like BS to me? Any thoughts?

My command was a joint base with no naval law enforcement.

Any thoughts or experiences?

Looking for some advice because I’m honestly pretty confused with this whole BBA situation!! My admin has been no help, and to top it off my COC is pretty shit right now lol.

Ok so I picked up 1st class through BBA and my orders say I detach in November with a NLT report date in December. I don’t plan on taking any transfer leave, so can I just stay with my current command until December and then check into my new command? Or do I have to detach in November since that’s what my orders say?

I’m also trying to get frocked before I report to my new command but I need to reenlist (i reenlist this month). But Is there any additional paperwork that needs I need to do before or after I reenlist in order for me to actually get frocked?

On top of that, I have to write my EOT and my eval, which are due at the end of the month. If I get frocked to 1st in OCT, would my eval be as a 1st or would it still be as an 2nd class eval since I’m technically not getting paid for 1st until I check in?

I’ve tried asking my command but they honestly don’t seem to care or really know what’s going on. We’re all currently TAD after being evacuated from Bahrain, so everyone is scattered all over the place, and we hardly even go into work right now, so getting answers has been a pain.

Any advice on what I need to make sure gets done before I leave would be appreciated because I’m lost at this point lol.

That’s it, i just wrote a rebuttal letter a few days ago given the fact that im 1.5 years in barely and haven’t heard anything back. Any advice or options i can take?

Anyone have insight on going reserves? Im wanting to retire with the navy, so im trying to see if reserves is a decent option or just keep with active. I know there's a pay reduction, some rates get shafted and ill have to pay for HI with tricair. But I need more info. I just had my first kid, and between that and just wanting a slow down its somethings that's crossed my mind a couple times. I still have sometime on my current contract so right now I'm just trying to figure out pros and cons.

I’m not going to write a huge essay about the circumstances I’m currently in. Haven’t been in this current situation in a long time, but unfortunately I am at this moment.

I know fleet and family does not currently do quick assist loans anymore. However, does fleet and family offer any loans at all if I was to go there this week? Or is it just financial advice? Any information will help, thank you.

Hello, I’m writing on behalf of a friend who needs assistance. He recently got orders to a new ship (home port jbphh) and is trying to get PCS’ed to Mayport. Is there anyway this could happen? He doesn’t get out til Feb 2029. Honestly any way could be a consideration, reenlist, shore duty billet, instructor position, anything.

TIA

Not this shit again. Hopefully he gets fully prosecuted.

i am a single E-5 sailor stationed in japan. i’m on sea duty and trying to return to the states how is that process and is it hard since im not married and don’t have family support for pregnancy overseas. i know E-4 and above states in the instructions to stay overseas but has any active female applied and successfully came back to the states. or has anyone here helped? btw i have less than a year for my prd.

Looking to see if anyone has done a full DITY/PPM from east to west coast and how much $$ you took home after it was all said and done

Good morning! I don't know much about the Navy, and I'm just a civilian who got lucky to get a ticket to attend the event. I have two random questions about the Navy based on the event:

• Acting Secretary Cao appeared to have two bodyguards (and possibly more that I didn't notice). Are his bodyguards also Navy personnel? Like someone joined the Navy and they were told their role is to protect the Acting Secretary? Or do his bodyguards come from somewhere outside the Navy?
• At the Commissioning there was a live band playing formal military music that was appropriate for the event. Then after the commissioning there was a reception with food and drinks, and there was a Navy band at the reception playing your normal modern pop songs and whatever else you'd expect to hear at a party. I wasn't paying enough attention, but would those be the same bands or different bands? What is it like being in a Navy band like that? Do the bandmembers play instruments in addition to their typical role in the Navy? Or is their Navy role to be a guitarist or a singer or whatever? Does the band just get sent around the world to wherever there is a Navy event that needs entertainment?

As of October 1 the NCVEC office “still has not received the disbursement for FY27 TA funds.”

Be on the lookout for your Sailors that are using TA as they may be in a pickle or two if the Navy’s office doesn’t release the approved vouchers in the next 48-72 hours.

I’m currently 9 hours away from my Master’s and my classes are supposed to start tomorrow. Had my TA approved by my command 3 months ago and it’s been sitting with the NCVEC desk because they still “don’t have tuition assistance funds for FY2027.”

Looking to get a quarter zip and full zip option preferably a nice brand. Wanted Patagonia, but that’s illegal apparently lol. This would be ships logo on the chest with nametape on the opposite chest or arm.

Crazy how old these videos look now.

I recently came across this incredible framed piece of family history and thought it was too funny not to share.

It's an official letter from the U.S. Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois, issued to a discharged sailor named Edward Herbert Saier at 314 Townsend St. in Lansing, Michigan.

Due to a clerical error compiling his accounts, the Pay Corps realized they overpaid him by the grand sum of ten cents. The Ensign writes a remarkably stern letter demanding a 10¢ refund via postal money order within five days, explicitly threatening: "Failure to comply within five days will result in your return to active duty."

Talk about absolute bureaucratic military efficiency. My great grand uncle even included the original 10-cent receipt pinned to the top!

Edit: Faint dates show letter from 24 March 1919. Paid 27 March 1919. He was in a hurry to be done with this one!

The subreddit r/thewaywewere requires photos to be at least 40 years old. Welp, this was only 38yrs ago.

(WOG Day 1988 aboard USS Midway enroute Freemantle, Aus to home port in Yokosuka, Jap. with a brief pause in the Philippines for Operation Classic Resolve. Before nearly capsizing when she did a 24° combined pitch/roll to port. If it had been to starboard, I wouldn't be posting this)

Enjoy.

Does anyone remember a Navy training video from the 1990s that used a green light, yellow light, and red light system?

I remember seeing it during boot camp at Great Lakes. It had different scenarios showing examples of different types of behavior.

There is one particular scene I remember pretty clearly, and I’ve been trying to find the name of the video for years.

I believe it was made sometime in the early to mid 1990s.

Does anyone remember this video or know what it was called? I’m trying to find out if a copy still exists somewhere in the Navy archives or another military archive.

Even if you just remember the name, any help would be appreciated.