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McNally posted:The master chief walked awkwardly into the hospital room, the combination hat in his hands slowly being turned in circles as he unconsciously showed his nervousness. When he realized what he was doing, he set it on the chair by the door and stepped over to the young petty officer's bed. He took a glance at the notecard in his hand and tried to speak, but his voice caught. He took a breath, cleared his throat, and tried again. 
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LingcodKilla posted:My GS boss yelled at me the other day for eating a breakfast sandwich on the clock first thing in the morning. Getting meals was about the only sacred comfort on a submarine. Tell that bitch to suck a dick
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LingcodKilla posted:My GS boss yelled at me the other day for eating a breakfast sandwich on the clock first thing in the morning. I teleworked two days this week and took 9 hours of comp time spread out between the other three days. Being remote is pretty okay.
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LingcodKilla posted:My GS boss yelled at me the other day for eating a breakfast sandwich on the clock first thing in the morning. Are you in 109 or something because that’s some next level bean counting bullshit. And I say that as a professional bean counter.
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McNally posted:The master chief walked awkwardly into the hospital room, the combination hat in his hands slowly being turned in circles as he unconsciously showed his nervousness. When he realized what he was doing, he set it on the chair by the door and stepped over to the young petty officer's bed. He took a glance at the notecard in his hand and tried to speak, but his voice caught. He took a breath, cleared his throat, and tried again. Beautiful.
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krispykremessuck posted:Are you in 109 or something because that’s some next level bean counting bullshit. And I say that as a professional bean counter. Don’t doxx me bro.
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LingcodKilla posted:Don’t doxx me bro. I just strung a bunch of random words together, that’s not doxxing you!!!
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The Little Rock's three month vacation in Montreal is over, this portion of the article made me laugh https://news.usni.org/2018/04/02/littoral-combat-ship-uss-little-rock-leaves-montreal-three-months-trapped-ice quote:While sidelined, two dozen of the crew participated in at least one community service outing to help stock the Welcome Hall Mission in Saint-Henri near where the ship was moored, according to a report in the CBC.
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LingcodKilla posted:Was you guys who said to watch out for people who keep a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese”?. Leadership secrets of Atilla the hun is like 99% stuff like “Share the accolades and spoils of success with your subordinates” I.e. common sense crap that most people still get wrong.
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“Let your employee eat a loving sandwich while waiting for you” type stuff? Maybe I’ll drop a copy off on my GS’s desk before I skate out.
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Why not implement a less publicized in the modern era Mongol tactic, kill him and usurp his role?
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maffew buildings posted:Why not implement a less publicized in the modern era Mongol tactic, kill him and usurp his role? I'd die of boredom.
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Plenty of  nautical poo poo going on in this story about the El Faro sinking: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-worst-us-maritime-disaster-in-decades
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Madurai posted:Plenty of gently caress that
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Good read. Reminds me of reading the incident report with the USS Vincennes or similar incidents where small, minor errors keep compounding until its a big loving deal. The end of the article, reading the bridge talk as they abandon ship, is a real tough one.
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That's a pretty nice version. The actual report is more raw and gave me nightmares.
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Is a badly decayed body a nicer way to say “shark food”? Poor guys.
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Probably not sharks, but everything else. Three days in the water is pretty bad, but that sounded significantly worse.
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I was under the impression that body was bashed to poo poo in addition to any decomp.
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lightpole posted:I was under the impression that body was bashed to poo poo in addition to any decomp. That makes more sense. Some serious wave action.
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It kind of reminds me of the visceral horror I felt reading about the recovery of the Challenger crew. The crew cabin wasn't found until March 7th (the launch was on January 28th) and during recovery operations, one astronaut's body floated out of the crew compartment and wasn't recovered until April 15th. They weren't wearing space suits, they were wearing flight suits with helmets, like in this crew photo. 
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lightpole posted:That's a pretty nice version. The actual report is more raw and gave me nightmares. Charitable of the article to call it not a decrepit rust bucket considering it sounds like it had been sliced and diced and modified so much over the years too. Those Jones Act hulls live long hard lives shovelbum fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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Reminds me of another Vanity Fair article about the totally avoidable crash of Air France 447 in 2009. I made this one required reading for my students for a while. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash
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Madurai posted:Plenty of Ooof that poo poo give me chills.
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I spent many a night pouring over weather reports and charts trying to make sure I didn't drive my sweep into some horrible weather system or another.
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ManMythLegend posted:I spent many a night pouring over weather reports and charts trying to make sure I didn't drive my sweep into some horrible weather system or another. How thoughtful of you. We gave the nav team straight up briefs of the radioactive water/air plume predictions at Fukushima and asked them to maybe not drive through it. Or if we did maybe not ingest water. They did.
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Laranzu posted:How thoughtful of you. So when you die of radiation related cancer, the VA can claim that it wasn't service related
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orange juche posted:So when you die of radiation related cancer, the VA can claim that it wasn't service related The medical radiation exposure page is suprisingly missing from my record. Weird right?
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shovelbum posted:Charitable of the article to call it not a decrepit rust bucket considering it sounds like it had been sliced and diced and modified so much over the years too. Those Jones Act hulls live long hard lives Think she was built on Sunrise Shipyards and is a sister ship or similar design to the Matsonia, if you ever reach Oakland. The hull would be fine but I know on the Matsonia they replaced entire decks, around the evap, the contaminated steam generator and elsewhere. The piping was probably rotten as well. 6 months or so before this, the 2nd on the Matsonia managed to drop the water level in the boilers while blowing tubes and lost the plant. It took them like 2-3 days to get it back online due to trouble shifting back to the main buss from the ESB. The Matsonia was also lengthened. Ship is rather stiff for a container ship and a narrower beam than you would be used to. They also had the oil in the main sump pretty low and the suction piping wasn't midships. When they came up to switch the list and get the scuttle closed they lost LO suction. No propulsion in that and you're done.
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lightpole posted:Think she was built on Sunrise Shipyards and is a sister ship or similar design to the Matsonia, if you ever reach Oakland. The hull would be fine but I know on the Matsonia they replaced entire decks, around the evap, the contaminated steam generator and elsewhere. The piping was probably rotten as well. 6 months or so before this, the 2nd on the Matsonia managed to drop the water level in the boilers while blowing tubes and lost the plant. It took them like 2-3 days to get it back online due to trouble shifting back to the main buss from the ESB. The Matsonia was also lengthened. Ship is rather stiff for a container ship and a narrower beam than you would be used to. I know its going to vary wildly between different classes of ship (and even between individual ships,) but what's a rough average sustainable list for the propulsion plant on a ship? I know 15-20° is waaaaay into shits-going-poorly territory, but I kinda figured that ships would be engineered to keep running even in that kind of situation. My knowledge of steam plants is limited to the bolted-to-the-ground variety.
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That developed as the main sump was low and the suction piping was off-center. I don't think they realized both factors contributed to the loss of suction or that it would have at the time. I think standing orders and technical manuals stated to carry a higher sump level as well but I'm not reading the report again. That shouldn't be a common occurrence and 20 degree rolls shouldn't be a problem outside of maybe some low/high level alarms depending on SOP. I haven't thought about max rolls or sustainable list. The C9s and some other ship classes have standings order to maintain a 1-1.5 degree list as it is.
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Gangsta lean
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Godholio posted:Ok, so when blue and when white? My senior chief said I could wear whites in DC when I report next week. I really should double check because lol trust. Hawaii is year round whites.
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LingcodKilla posted:My senior chief said I could wear whites in DC when I report next week. I really should double check because lol trust. When in doubt blues are fine. Look at the weather and imagine how cold your nuts will be in the respective uniform before picking one.
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orange juche posted:When in doubt blues are fine. Look at the weather and imagine how cold your nuts will be in the respective uniform before picking one. At least I bought new whites so my nuts wont literally be on parade anymore. loving things shrunk since I got them.
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