I know someone who wanted to leave the Royal Navy telling them, "If me, a mere Lt instructor leaving a few months early is going to cause the Navy a major problem then I'll let you into a secret. You have a much bigger problem than me leaving the Navy".
My friend did the same thing in his divorce precedings. She said " I want half your retirement pay." He said "Go ahead, i will smoke a blunt in front of the CO just to make sure you don't get a dime, bet." She caved, cause he was serious, lol.
If she was really petty, she would go ahead. Whats the worse that could happen? If she cave, she won’t get anything. If she doesn’t cave she won’t get anything as well. The opposite is not true, if she cave, your friend gets to keep his career and his money, if she doesn’t cave and your friend goes through with it, he’ll lose his job.
my parents got divorced in 1990. my mother, who has since remarried, STILL gets half my dad's retirement pay from the air force. her divorce attorney was so damn brutal that almost every other divorce attorney in the state had her on retainer so they wouldn't have to face her in court.
The law has changed now, if you get out you still owe your spouse half of "what would have been your retirement" had you stayed in. I was a court deputy in family court for 7 years so this one came up frequently. I was stationed at Great Lakes in 1980 when one of my Chiefs got out with 19 years in service because his wife left him for his buddy. His buddy bragged that he was going to get his wife and half his retirement pay. My Chief said, "Well we will see about that!". At the time it worked, neither my Chief nor his a s s h o l e buddy saw that retirement. Anyway, that's why the law changed. Too many people would get out vindictively (rightly or wrongly) just to deny their spouse a dime, that the feds changed the law at a federal level. I always wondered what happened to my old Chief. How did things finally turn out for him?
22 years in the Navy. What he said about the board is so true. Lmao. It's always one person on the board who swears they need u to stay in these last 3 weeks. Lmao. I sat many a board.
my dad ended up staying in an extra 10 years...mind you he did 33 years total and his job was that special. but he pulled shit like that to finally get out. he was so tired of the politics in those offices. USN Frogman . OLD SCHOOL...so damn old the coronado bay bridge barely was built and had a toll on it.
Hilarious! 🤣 My husband and I had the pleasure of sitting front row at one of his stand ups a couple years ago in Denver. Once he found out it was our anniversary And we are both veterans he roasted us pretty good! “F#%K early” was his saying 🤣
I feel this, served 10 1/2 years in the Royal Navy myself. Had to give 18 months notice to leave. During that notice period I actually finally got promoted (desperately slow promotion in my branch was the main reason for leaving). So I'm in front of the Skipper to receive my promotion and he pipes up with "I suppose you'll be staying with us now you've got your promotion?"............ I nearly laughed in his face and my Divisional Officer told me later that he was genuinely scared I was gonna go off at the guy for such a stupid remark........ some people in the Navy (mainly the Officers) have absolutely no friggin' clue what goes on in the lower decks.......
I spent my last month in the Navy living on the ship before moving away after my separation. Turned out my master chief at the time was living on the ship as well. I preceded to wake up at 4am almost every morning until my last day for the sole purpose of isolating the hot water valves to his birthing showers from different random points. The man needed a bit of inconvenience in his life, karma wasn't catching up fast enough lol. Never underestimate a sailors ability to not give a fuck in the waning days of their contract lmaoo..
In my last day I reported to my CO that a certain chief filled his garage from the Navy supply depot. And tha another was married (unknown to the Navy) to a foreign national (A Russian), And that two of his Ensigns were in love... _with each other._ I never looked on it a snitching. I looked on it as giving a Captain I respected the leverage he needed to run his boat. Yeah, he blackmailed them into obedience.
Thank u for your service It's always appreciated Gary I'm happy you decided to follow your dreams becoming a comedian you're needed on this battlefield. of laughter you're funny. much 💞💞💞Respect
I came to San Diego in 1998, I heard stories about you. People who knew MA’s stationed with you and what not. Wish I would of bumped into you at Mr.O’s comedy shows. Been watching you since your start and felt bad for you when you got picked on your first season of being the host.
J N you know what, I just read it again and realized I completely misunderstood the comment. I thought he meant selected, not hazed. Yeah he truly earned it!
I was also in the Navy, enlisting when I was 17. I am grateful for the 4 years I spent in the Navy because it paid for college. I got out a month early because I was starting school and the Master Chief in my Division was cool.
I told them the navy was around for 200 years with out me. They’ll be just fine when I’m gone when i was asked to extend for an employment when my time was up.
That’s hilarious, I can see the guy flipping out on you in my head. Leadership REALLY doesn’t like it when you pull the rug out from them. It wouldn’t make sense too keep you in anyway, that would just piss you off and lead to you badmouthing the Navy after you got on TV. If I was them I would have made you an offer to do your last three months on BET as plainclothes TDY if you would talk about the Navy and how they were letting you pursue your dream. It would have been a helluva recruiting tool, for cheap…
I was in during the "don't ask, don't tell policy" when a guy that was stationed with me said he didn't want to be in the navy anymore so he's leaving today. I looked at him like he was crazy but later I saw him leaving with his bags. I was shocked. After asking him what happened, he said he went to the warrant officer and said, "I'm a f%ckin' fag!".
which is crazy because i have a close family friend who spent 22 years in the Navy and retired and his command and everyone else knew he was gay. He had a live-in partner for the majority of the time he was in. I guess the difference is that he wanted to be in the Navy and they just let him stay in regardless of his sexuality. He joined in 1986.
@@323guiltyspark there didn't need to be a conversation. He broke the "don't tell" rule. On the other hand I saw a guy that was so flamboyant in his looks and behavior that he was obviously gay but no one really bothered him. They kept the "don't ask" rule.
Two guys I was in the band with got record deals for their Phish style jam band. Our Commander Bandmaster wouldn’t even approve their packet to get out early due to financial situation change so they just went AWOL. They would come back every few months, get demoted, go on barracks restriction so they could mess around with the commander. Eventually, one guy got fat and got a weight control discharge and the other a mental health discharge and then went on tour. The band is Perpetual Groove and it’s the drummer Albert and piano Michael. Cool dudes stuck in a shitty situation with the commander and a retiring 1SG who was checked out.
I was in the Navy too, in 1995- 1996 Gary. Happy New Year. ❤ i also in an interacial marriage. Met him in the navy. We have a daughter together and i also have a son. They both grown. I divorced him in 2020.
Looking good Gary! I see you been working out. Hopefully things are going better with you and Kenya with your divorce. It’s always better for everyone to end things positively. I have always enjoyed both of you!
Veteran USN. Yes I went in at 17 cause I had nothing else going on. Stationed in San Diego I did 5 years and 1 month. Yes Warrant Officers are loud like that mainly because they went all the way through the ranks lower enlisted to upper enlisted to Officer. They didn't come in by going to college and then getting their little butter bar. They know enlisted pain, so when they get mad, LAWD it comes with volume! Before I left and I didn't have to do a board you just sign your paperwork and pack your bags, but I had a lot of officers telling me to stay. Well they should have seen my potential and appreciated my hard work and stopped "losing" my security package.
Oh it's such a great feeling!!! When you know you're getting out and you can tell people in your chain of command what you really think. I had a huge brother as my Chief and I talked back to him. He freaked and said get in my office now, we need to talk. Oh yes we do need to talk was my reply. As soon as the door shut he started crying. I'm harder on you guys bc I'm not part of Master Chief's smokepit crew...
I retired some years ago, as a collateral duty I conducted several summary court martials (not like a regular court martial you see in the movies). Mostly they were on-base DUI offenses. Guys caught at the main gate intoxicated. Stating "I'll do a line of cocaine on your desk" would be an asymmetric method of seeking a discharge. :-)
I was so desperate to leave the hood, that I got my mom to sign the waiver while I was still a junior in HS. Served over a year in the Navy reserve before even going to RTC. I think that I may have been stationed in Sand Dog with you (1990-1995, USS Fort McHenry[LSD-43]).
Gary's got a voice for RU-vid infomercials. "Guys, You wanna kno how I got a check for 3000$? Links down in the description, watch a few videos. I'll see you there."
I’m in the Army now and my music just blew up in my country , every producer wants me back home and I still got 2 yrs , can’t go for any shows I’m booked for. Thinking of buying the damn contract 😹
I was never allowed to participate in competitive shooting in the Marine Corps until a few months before I got out. I was always "too important to the mission." I would say, "Well then promote me or give me a medal or something." they never did that either
Sounds just like a warrant to say something like that. They be big tripping sometimes lmao. (I’m active duty navy so I know this). That Chief sounds like he was hilarious though 😂😂😂😂
I worked with a 1st class at the I level. He did most of the repairs on the test benches. Coming back from deployment they would let some of the crew fly back from Hawaii. He decided to get out and go to work for the manufacturer of our test bench. He had been selected for chief but turned it down. Some officer told him if he didn't take chief, he could not go home early. He told the officer that if they didn't let him go that he could be the busiest motherfucker in the Navy and not get anything done. They let him go.
In that position, if he's saying "I NEED him", why not just say "You NEED me? Promote me, pay me more and buy me a house to retire in if I'm that important..."?
That's supposed to be the way capitalism works, you need it, pay for it. There is very little the navy needs it doesn't have in abundance. What the Navy needs can't happen it needs for bombers, submarines and anti-ship missiles not to exist. Surface ships are incredibly vulnerable to any and all of those. Huge surface fleets have been obsolete money sucking vortexes since the 1950's.
Old Navy crazy! I did 10 years in the USAF, but I didn't go on leave my last 3 years and I had 92 days of terminal leave when I seperated. Planning matters! 😂
Sounds like me when I left the Royal Navy, didn't use any of my re-engaging training time or budget cos I knew I could walk in to an engineering job without even blinking, which I did. Terminal date was some time in March/April, but I went in to the Unit Personnel office just before Christmas leave to see what was what, and they panicked and said "you can leave today". Had nearly three months worth of double pay days as I started a Job in January......... I was loaded. Lol. Spent it on a T3/T25 VW Campervan and toured the whole of Europe later that Summer
