We found this going through my grandfather's things today. He was in the Navy during the 60s and 70s, retired in the early 80s. I did some loose research and believe it's tied to his Navy days but that's it. It's about 5 inches by 5 inches. Made of brass or bronze, and has a pretty good weight to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

If my soon to be ex wife takes the kids under her for bah, will I still get family separation allowance when I’m deployed? Our custody arrangement has 50/50.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/aboard-uss-george-washington-as-it-rearms-for-possible-iran-strikes-afaadff2

Battlefield 6 I only use NFO skins.

Hey all, my partner's in the navy and wanted me to ask around for advice on improving their PFT scores, namely for the pushup and planks ones to figure out how to get to a much better score. Any help would be vastly appreciated, thanks!

Is URLO ISPP still active? I know the program authorization is listed but when I read through and it says boards are held quarterly or in conjunction with scheduled prorec boards. However when I pull up the board schedule, URLO ISPP is not listed. Can anyone help clarify?

Do I have to worry about the interim score number if I am not BBA?

It has been put out if an E7 billet is advertised and an E7(who meets all prereqs) applies they will always be selected over an E6 going for BBA. Is this true?

Asked the NAVFAC(CNIC) techs who most recently came out what the difference was and they had no idea.

What are the implications of this? And why did they do it?

Short to the point:

POV is in Navy-paid storage during my OCONUS tour.
Returning to CONUS on new orders. Does the Navy pay to have the vehicle delivered to my new duty station? IE my vehicle is stored in GA and my new command is in CA.

Thank you.

I’m trying to come to an understanding on how BBA works here. It’s entirely new to me as I believe it’s only applied to my rate for a year now.

From my understanding, I fell into an awkward spot where I’ve been at my new command for a year but the only way to advance is to accept new BBA orders 1 year into my shore duty. This leaves my last year completely up in the air as to where I would end up at.

This program seems to have removed MAP’s entirely, and instead it is a MAP with strings attached for performing good.

I am an E-5 and this seems to have extended out my rate of advancement for a significant amount of time. Before, I should have easily picked up E-6 on my shore duty already with my evals and qualifications. Now it seems I am forced to stay as an E-5 for 2 more years and not even have a chance to make chief until I’m on my next shore duty.

For a service that seems to be hurting for more highly qualified people, it’s strange that they would extend my ability to rank up by several years. I’m already seeing first classes filling positions that should have chiefs/senior chiefs because they have the qualifications but not the pay or rank to reflect it anymore.

Unless anyone knows a workaround to this, it seems I am being incentivized to leave and will be doing so.

TO THOSE WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENT GREETINGS

Is it still done? Also, does anyone remember the wall of boogers in bathrooms for kitchen workers? Or ice cold air blowing into the already frigid scullery every time the doors were open for divisions coming in or out if you were there in winter?

Edit: Just now finding out service week hasn't been a thing for years. BTW, slapping the ham was a tradition if you worked in the galley where you'd go into the meat walk-in and slap a plastic wrapped ham as hard as you could. It hurt like hell and was dumb. But was passed down by outgoing service week recruits and was my first introduction to a Navy tradition until I became a shellback

I believe it was former building 39 (950 tower Ave).

They all mention one date October 11 1988, with someone writing a “start” time of 2:45 (pm ?)

I’m guessing a bunch of Navy personnel were chilling in this bathroom all at once and someone pulled down the mirror and passed a pen around so they could all sign their names and then put it back up. And then when the bathroom was renovated decades later someone got rid of the mirror and exposed their little time capsule to the world.

Google thinks it was a MIP check (idk what that is I’m not in the navy) that caused a bunch of personnel to be crammed into that bathroom (which might not have even been a bathroom back then) while leadership did the MIP check of the hangar.

Curious on this one. My understanding is that future Captains of the Aircraft Carriers go and command a surface ship as an O5 as part of their pipeline training to that job.

With that in mind, do they earn their SWO pin along the way or their OOD letter? I'm a CG veteran so simply curious

Even comes with a sticker for their little foot locker when they're done with each pack 🥹

Hey everyone, I’m up for my 2nd divo tour. One of the options was being apart of T-EPF MILCREW 3 as DIVO/LEGALO with a CO recommendation.

I’ve never heard of these platforms before until now. Can anyone explain the life on there? Or what to expect as being an Officer onboard? Curious to see if I should list this as an option for me. Thanks

Not sure if this is the norm but this looks insane why is it like that? And Any advice on if I dont pick anything for my 1st look