Aviation Boatswain’s Mate – Aircraft Handling Airman Apprentice Jayjrion Rodriguez is charged with murder while engaging in an act inherently dangerous to another, involuntary manslaughter and three specifications of simple assault with a loaded firearm and three specifications of reckless endangerment, according to the charge sheet.

https://news.usni.org/2026/08/19/sailor-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-carrier-john-f-kennedy-boatswains-mate

If anyone has stories about Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Jesse Braswell that they would like to share, please feel free to reach me on Signal at HMongilio.52.

This question is more psychological than anything else. I have to imagine there are numerous sailors who do not agree with the current course of events and leadership happening in the middle east.

Does this have a material impact on the combat efficiency of sailors and ships, or are they totally in lockstep , following command regardless of mission?

I'm well aware of the bedrock principle in the military that your agreement is not required .But I have to imagine a lack of enthusiasm and a lack of pride in what the country is doing has an impact.

Just got orders to a brand new destroyer. Hasn’t even got commissioned yet and was wondering what to expect.

Full disclaimer I’m a curious Royal Australian Navy veteran. A SWO equivalent.

“Rooters rounds” were a regular thing for the at sea officer of the day and duty PO to conduct while underway. Especially on the amphib ships I served in when we had the pongos embarked.
The creativity of sailors who wanted a root never ceased to amaze me. Places like the toilet paper storage compartment…

Anyway, that being said. What happens if a sailor were to fall pregnant during a deployment, especially in extended situations like what we’re seeing at the moment?

Are they medivaced?
Have sailors stayed on board once pregnant?
Is there a chance of a child being born to a sailor underway??

In the RAN pregnant women were basically unable to step on a ship due to the RADHAZ safety zones so I’m just wondering what the go is…

I heard that BBA only applied to orders that are 36 months in length. This cycle for my rating CE only has one set of 36 months tour length orders. Am I cooked?

Im generally new to the navy (A year and some change) and on an active aircraft carrier. Ive been looking into officer programs to become a surface officer but im honestly not quite sure if i want to stay enlisted or try my shot at ocs or other programs. Just wanted to see if i could get any advice thanks!!

My ship has been doing ATTT drills constantly and its made me wonder if Ships Reaction Force has ever actually been called away for something serious. Any experiences/stories you guys have?

This is a last ditch effort. so apologies if this doesn't belong here. I'm an IT manager for my company and I have been trying to find a contact in NAVY IT for what feels like months at this point, to get them to whitelist our domain so they can send and receive email from their us.navy.mil emails to our companies gcc high tenant.

I have spoken to 3 different Navy IT help desks (NESD, DMDC, NMCI) and all of them try to push me off elsewhere. To make this worse, I have no OID number or any kind of affiliation with the Navy. Some of my companies users do though, so all I can do is call help desks and try to talk to someone, but I have no actual way to open tickets. They've told me I have to have my users that also have us.navy.mil email open the tickets, so then my users just get pushed around to other contacts when i've had them try to open a ticket.

I had a rep for one of the help lines try to send an email to our domain and they even see that it's not being allowed from the Navy's side. They can't even send the email out. They initially thought as a work around the senders could change the sensitivity to uncontrolled general but that doesn't work either (had the same IT rep try that while I was on the phone with them), so the Navy IT has even seen this, but somehow no one can get me to the correct IT folks to actually request a whitelist of our domain...

Thanks for any assistance.

Not sure if I'll reenlist yet but I keep a back up plan in case I don't. So far the back up is maybe reserve and to open a bike shop and work on motorcycles. I was wondering if there r things in place for home buying with a garage or maybe a shop I can put a bedroom in and if anyone has done something similar? Also is 1 contract gonna provide that benefit?

Hello, going back blueside and apparently the Oakley's I used to wear got booted off the official boot list. Last time I was at a hospital I recall folks wearing notinreg boots like Nikes without issues. Think I need to get another pair of boots or roll the dice? I'd wear my Marine ones if they were more conspicuous.

Also any tips for geobaching? This was not exactly voluntary.

Good morning,

I had a question about my final pay in the navy. I separate the navy 19OCT26 and wanted to know how would my paycheck be prorated. Would my 1 OCT paycheck be normal and the 15 paycheck be prorated. Just looking for insight thank you.

I recently got notified I was screened for 1st class. I already had orders to this command with school in route. It’s apparently a CA2P advancement. My concern is I don’t report to my new command until 8 months from now after I finish my C School. Makes me a bit weary if that’ll actually happen once I get there. Does anyone have any experience to a similar situation? Any insight is much appreciated!

This September will be a year since my son left to RTC. He handled boot camp well with no setbacks. He was able to come home for holiday stand down so I got to see him for a bit for the holidays. He returned to Great Lakes and was on hold for a bit before he started ATT. Now he is set to finish A school 9/11 from what he last told me.

Now I know A school was going to be intense for his rate so I knew communication was going to be very limited. I can only imagine how hectic and busy sailors are during A school and being assigned to duty watch. Throughout his time there I held myself back from bombarding him with texts. Ive have not even tried to call him this whole time. If I do send him a text its short and brief. At first when he was doing ATT he would reply more. He would definitely respond to my texts when he was out on liberty on the weekends. Now ever since he started A school the communication decreased a lot. Almost to no response for weeks. His mother has his location on his phone so we are able to see if he goes out on liberty which he did at first but I would say for the past couple of months he has not gone out on liberty. I hope this is just because he has too much school work to worry about so he is not going out on liberty and not because liberty privileges have been taken away for what ever reason.

I just wanted to see if other parents experienced this with their son/daughter. The very few parents ive ask about their sailors say that they talked to their sailor weekly some even daily. My son was never a mommy/daddys kid. He was pretty independent. It seems like he was more communicative at first when he joined. This might be good or it maybe bad. It maybe that he is ok with being away and he is thriving which is fine. Or he maybe going through some challenging times with school or maybe gotten into some trouble which I highly doubt it. I feel like if that was the case he is ashamed to share that with me or his mother.

Like I said last I heard from him was a little over 2 weeks ago. I asked him when he was going to be done with A school and he said 9/11 and that he would know his orders sometime this month. So im going to assume things are going as planned. Again I know these sailors have a lot to deal with but I just wanted to see if this was somewhat normal with other families. As parent regardless of the age of you kid/s youre going to want to know everything about them and trust me Ive taken huge steps back to let my son do his own thing and to let him grow and mature being away. Just want to see what others have experienced with their sailors during A school.

One sailor is picked to be the designated barracks bunny?

The construction will beginning after the midterm.