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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1260663257041457166?s=19 Sometimes you just gotta take the piss outta brown shoes. That movie being a clarion call for every jerkoff bro type to fly probably did more to prevent me from going air than anything else. I really wanted to fly fixed wing going into ROTC. After my week with the airdales during CORTRAMID, I knew I wouldn't be able to stand working with guys like that on a daily basis. The air detachment on my second ship confirmed my theory.
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AlternateNu posted:Sometimes you just gotta take the piss outta brown shoes. You just know the sequel won't be able to resist having Our Heroes get a guns kill for maximum HOORAH points.
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Madurai posted:You just know the sequel won't be able to resist having Our Heroes get a guns kill for maximum HOORAH points. And by that, you of course mean by using their sidearm with an open cockpit in the middle of a dogfight.
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AlternateNu posted:And by that, you of course mean by using their sidearm with an open cockpit in the middle of a dogfight. That'll be the mirror of the inverted flipping-the-bird scene.
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AlternateNu posted:And by that, you of course mean by using their sidearm with an open cockpit in the middle of a dogfight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUGBujl2-0
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# ? May 15, 2020 00:05 |
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Gravelly voice: "We read you loud and clear."
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# ? May 15, 2020 22:00 |
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AlternateNu posted:Sometimes you just gotta take the piss outta brown shoes. Show me on the doll where the mean aviator touched you.
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# ? May 17, 2020 04:13 |
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In a shocker to nobody following my Navy career my travel got pushed back again and now im flying commercial to Rome then a two week ROM. Beats the rotator I suppose. From start of orders to BOG I’m calculating 5 months and 16 days with only 25 days in uniform in between.
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LingcodKilla posted:In a shocker to nobody following my Navy career my travel got pushed back again and now im flying commercial to Rome then a two week ROM. Anything beats the rotator.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Anything beats the rotator. Yeah just dealing with anxiety over starting work and leaving home but I am thankful for that.
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https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1263143332110188544?s=20 I'm no memesmith but I don't think that is how that meme works. Still made me remember that the crew thought that destroying the display monitors was the same as destroying the HD plates.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1263143332110188544?s=20 I had a conversation with a guy recently with some connections to people involved about this; apparently even though the crew got a hero’s welcome upon returning (like the plane commander tossing first pitch at Mariners game, etc) behind the scenes were different. The careers were over of several of the officers on board, they were told “start looking for a new job” kinda thing. Basically they should’ve called for SAR, ditched the plane in the ocean rather than hand it over to the Chinese, utilized the extensive water survival training aircrews got, etc.
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It’s apparently a VQ wardroom tradition to do dramatic readings of this book https://www.amazon.com/Born-Fly-Untold-American-Reconnaissance/dp/0767911113 Not sure if he is still around or not but it wouldn’t surprise me if all the senior guys got quietly benched and given poo poo orders until they separated.
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Wonder Free posted:It’s apparently a VQ wardroom tradition to do dramatic readings of this book https://www.amazon.com/Born-Fly-Untold-American-Reconnaissance/dp/0767911113 He left the navy in ‘05 as a LCDR with 9 years of active fwiw, so...
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Dingleberry posted:I had a conversation with a guy recently with some connections to people involved about this; apparently even though the crew got a hero’s welcome upon returning (like the plane commander tossing first pitch at Mariners game, etc) behind the scenes were different. The careers were over of several of the officers on board, they were told “start looking for a new job” kinda thing. Basically they should’ve called for SAR, ditched the plane in the ocean rather than hand it over to the Chinese, utilized the extensive water survival training aircrews got, etc. Good.
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ManMythLegend posted:Good. No loving kidding.
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Dingleberry posted:He left the navy in ‘05 as a LCDR with 9 years of active fwiw, so... Eh...that's about normal for a non-careerist. It's about the time the commitment is up. Edit: I'm assuming the Navy and AF work similarly.
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Dingleberry posted:utilized the extensive water survival training aircrews got, etc. Was this training anything like they're data security training?
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# ? May 21, 2020 09:35 |
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Godholio posted:Eh...that's about normal for a non-careerist. It's about the time the commitment is up. Yup i think its like 8 years after you get your wings.
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CMD598 posted:Was this training anything like they're data security training? Water survival is a giant fake helicopter fuselage with a bunch of seats you have to escape out of blindfolded. In flight school you also have to swim a mile in boots and a flight suit. You get kicked in the head a lot. My understanding is that they didn’t really do data destruction drills prior to that. When I went through P-3 training in 2010 there were formal procedures and checklists and we had to do it each flight in flight school. When the P-8 rolled out, they carried a nail gun to shoot through hard drives and stuff, but they replaced it with some electronic hard drive erasing thing.
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# ? May 21, 2020 13:20 |
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Anyone at NAS Corpus Christi? https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/us/naval-air-station-corpus-christi-lockdown/index.html
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Water survival is loving awesome. Having to use it in real life, probably less so.
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# ? May 21, 2020 17:32 |
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limdu for six months. dont be like me, if you need help, get it instead of bottling it up like a dummy portsmouth food was good tho
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boy are my arms tired posted:limdu for six months. dont be like me, if you need help, get it instead of bottling it up like a dummy lordy man PM me if you want to vent to someone
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LingcodKilla posted:lordy man PM me if you want to vent to someone I'm vented out now thanks to therapy and a week at the fifth floor but I've got some stories to tell when some more time has passed
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boy are my arms tired posted:limdu for six months. dont be like me, if you need help, get it instead of bottling it up like a dummy Glad you ended up find the help you needed and got through to the other side.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Glad you ended up find the help you needed and got through to the other side. Yeah man I’m so sorry you had a rough spot like this. Give your kids a hug from us and maybe next year we can grab another burger.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Glad you ended up find the help you needed and got through to the other side. LingcodKilla posted:Yeah man I’m so sorry you had a rough spot like this. Give your kids a hug from us and maybe next year we can grab another burger. thanks guys.
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# ? May 22, 2020 13:11 |
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Got a speeding ticket today leaving Dam Neck Annex. The cop wasn't wearing a mask!!! ACAB
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# ? May 28, 2020 03:06 |
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Last. Day. AD. 214 in hand.
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you should smoke an entire weed
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# ? May 28, 2020 14:51 |
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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1266024977276551171?s=19 Can almost taste that near beer. Was joking with a friend on the Blue Ridge that he was a real salty Sailor now that they and the ship had their first beer day like ever King of Bees posted:Last. Day. AD. 214 in hand. Congratulations!
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# ? May 28, 2020 19:57 |
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Paging DustyNuts to the thread. I'm not sure if you've got PMs or not.
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# ? May 28, 2020 20:12 |
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Nick Soapdish posted:
Thanks! I'm gonna smoke weed and go protest poo poo.
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Yeah he has PMs
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1266024977276551171?s=19 The sheer number of people in these pictures always astonishes me
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King of Bees posted:Last. Day. AD. 214 in hand. I still got 5 more months, but god I'm so horny to be out.
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ManMythLegend posted:Paging DustyNuts to the thread. I'm not sure if you've got PMs or not. I have PMs! What's up
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He’s gonna set you up for an ambush.
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