If you haven’t heard about NTWS yet, here’s your chance before it may be too late. The parent website of the website “affectionately” referred to as “Navy Myspace” is being called out by Air Force officials as an OPSEC nightmare.

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Think the Navy is tough. Think again.

I’m proposing a new recruiting poster for the type of sailor the new Navy is attracting.

It’s a new Navy, everybody knows that. Today’s wars are no longer fought with two battleships, side-by-side, taking blows at each other with sailors swinging from the masts and fighting with swords. That’s for Hollywood movies and historical archives. Today’s wars are high-tech and most sailors are trained like technicians and don’t even know the difference between rope and line.

Consider the following brief article and feel free to comment below with your thoughts on “The New Navy”.

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When do Navy advancement results come out?
I’ve been seeing a lot of traffic from people searching in google for the answer to this question so I decided to write a quick post about it.

Ok, here’s how it works:

The Navy has advancement cycles. For advancement to paygrades E-4 to E-6, there are two cycles. Read the full story

This week, the Navy held their semi-annual advancement exams for all E-6 eligible candidates. Basically, every E-5 over 3 years and a few early candidates sit down and take a 200 question test with 115 questions on their specific rating and 85 questions on general military knowledge. This test, normally does not bother me. As a matter of fact, I do quite well on standardized tests, I always have. I’m also pretty good and predicting the results of these tests and the likelyhood of my advancement because, after all, it’s just a numbers game.
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So what may seem like a simple task to most webmasters is getting all jacked up by whoever runs the Navy’s websites. Let’s take, for instance, navy.mil. Whoever runs this website needs to take a basic course in coding a website properly.

What most people don’t realize is that gearadrift.com and www.gearadrift.com are technically two different websites. The WWW version is a subdomain of gearadrift.com, the main domain, just like http://docinthebox.blogspot.com is a subdomain of http://blogspot.com.
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There is a long standing Naval Tradition known as Shellback Initiation or wog day and it occurs when a Navy Ship crosses the equator. This initiation ceremony, also known as the Crossing the Line Ceremony is a long standing Naval Tradition and is one of the most threatened of the Navy’s Traditions.

Navy Shellback Initiation has always involved a lot of contriversy and lately, Navy shellback initiation is in danger of becoming extinct due to the political correctness of today’s Navy. Regardless, we are here to document shellback initiation as a great Naval tradition and to help keep alive the loyal order of shellbacks.

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