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Going /out/ while in the military

Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 06:20:12 No.2310521 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2310528 >>2310551 >>2310603 >>2310948 >>2311351

I'm joining the navy soon, and I want to figure out whether its possible to still maintain camping as a hobby for me considering my rating isn't related to being in a forest or in a desert. Is there anyone else here that is in the military who has had a similar problem? How did you work it out; you just go camping on leave?

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Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 06:45:55 No.2310528 Report

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>>2310521
Bump

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Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 06:47:02 No.2310529 Report

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Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 08:35:57 No.2310551 Report

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>>2310521
>bumping on a slow board
>bumping on a slow board within literal minutes
Go die for Israel, zogbot.

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Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 09:08:42 No.2310560 Report

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>>2310551
It's human nature to make mistakes. Maybe if you actually went outside sometimes you would realize this.

Sometimes I forget this board is a slow board. So what?

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Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 11:53:36 No.2310598 Report

Quoted By: >>2311504

Army. It's harder than before. I try to go visit the nearby state parks, lakes, urban exploration shit on the weekends with the boys. 4 days and passes are your friend, always put in for a pass unless you want to be doing staff duty with some dumbfuck whos on extra duty.

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Anonymous Sun 27 Feb 2022 12:56:58 No.2310603 Report

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>>2310521
uh what? yea you take leave. just like any other job where you would take days off to go on longer than single weekend trips.
if anything you have it made now in the military, assuming usa many park systems are free for you or at least discounted

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Anonymous Mon 28 Feb 2022 03:03:22 No.2310948 Report

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>>2310521
Yes. Most jobs will be a 9-5 with two days off, unless you're at an operational billet, then it's whenever-whenever. Even then, outside of deployments, duty section, and workups, you'll have off time. I go /out/ on weekends, unless I've been in the field for a while, then I'll enjoy my bed. You'll have limits placed on how far you can go in your off time that increase depending on how many days you have off, ie 2 days off vs 4. They're reasonable, and even then you can always request an "out of bounds" chit. Easy day. You do get leave throughout the year, like 30 days/yr or something like that. Navy here, done both ship and land deployments, so if you have questions lmk.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Feb 2022 03:39:17 No.2310956 Report

Quoted By: >>2311504

military has atleast 1 3 day or 4 day weekend a month on average. 2 or three periods of 2 week leave every year, and weekends. atleast it is for me in the army. might be some differences for dudes in the navy idk, yall got weird ship schedules

as long as you dont get sent to a shit state, /out/ isnt too hard.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Feb 2022 19:43:58 No.2311228 Report

Quoted By: >>2311230 >>2311504

Unlike what people think, you are only taught enough to survive in the woods during war with rations and whatever kit they issue you, no survival training unless you get the specialty courses like SERE (for pilots mostly) and ranger training.

If you want to make camping fun learn the stuff they don't teach you, like trap making, rope making, firecraft, go above "just camping" otherwise they might take the fun out of it.

Theres a couple stuff you can teach yourself to be better off during training, but overall going camping is half of it being able to handle the weather, being sleep fucked.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Feb 2022 19:59:09 No.2311230 Report

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>>2311228
Are you fucking illiterate? OP said he already camps and he just wants to know how difficult making time for camping trips will be while he's in the military.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Mar 2022 00:35:13 No.2311344 Report

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>>2310551
>Navy
>Die
Lmao

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Anonymous Tue 01 Mar 2022 00:36:14 No.2311345 Report

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>>2310560
I go outside and op is a fuckwit

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Anonymous Tue 01 Mar 2022 00:43:51 No.2311351 Report

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>>2310521
Really depends where you're stationed at but you will get to go camping on weekends as long as you're not on duty. If you are attached to an expeditionary command you get to sleep in a tent sometimes if you're doing an exercise, I would recommend a seabee rate it if you want to do /out/ stuff with the Navy except BU(Builder).

OP Tue 01 Mar 2022 08:43:20 No.2311504 Report

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>>2310598
>>2310603
Thats good to know. I only knew of leave and two day weekends so its good know I will get four day weekends occasionally. I didn't know about the national park stuff too, and I guess it makes sense they would give a discount.
>>2310956
I'm being sent to South Carolina so I'll have to see how good/bad the camping is over there.
>>2310948
I'll continue lurking here and I'll ask some questions when they spring up until I leave for boot. What is an operational billet?
>>2311228
>>2311230
I much to learn with regards to camping. I have been camping since I was young, so I do have some camping knowledge but not enough to say that I know what I'm doing.
>>2311345
:(
>>2311351
I already have a rate that I have chosen, I'm shipping next week. The rate I have seems to spend a great deal of time on the ship rather than on land but I'll only truly know when I'm working in that chosen rate

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Anonymous Tue 01 Mar 2022 14:41:50 No.2311580 Report

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>>2311504
Like the others have said it's mostly a weekends off sort of thing for most commands with rare 72 to 96 hour liberty drops. I do hope you picked a good rate as it will not only determine what sort of place you get orders to but the time you have as well. For example I'm in ops and leave no later than 1200 but deck and engineering often stay till 1600+ and sometimes work weekends.

There are some /out/ things you can do on a ship as well. I keep fishing gear, a hammock and some potted plants in my shop which satisfies my needs.

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