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Seqenenra posted:Oh I would love to see the NJP for this. If he was hiding... https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/breaking-news-missing-shiloh-sailor-found-alive-on-ship-1.473645#.WUKKOut95hE Datapoint: We had an dude miss ship's movement because there was a wrestling match he really really wanted to attend. Nothing happened to him. Admittedly, this was 25 years ago, and he was an ensign .
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orange juche posted:Didn't they do a nuclear cruiser or something? Can't say they ever got as small as a DDG. Bainbridge was the smallest one, IIRC, and it was about the same tonnage as a Burke. Virginias were a little heavier than Ticos, they just didn't look like it. (former CGN dude)
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Commoners posted:Do the back in the military dreams stop at any point? I think it's funny that during my dreams I instantly go into a resigned "Do whatever the gently caress you want, I'm not even supposed to be here" mindset and then I just watch people gently caress everything up. As of 25 years on, I can say--not yet.
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I have no regrets about never wearing khaki.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Thanks for the Wat How long has this been a thing?
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And yet USNS ships sometimes do.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Seriously, why not go bright orange? The old utilities were basically prison uniforms, so we have precedent. You'd think they'd want bright colors for visibility in man-overboard situations.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The F-15Cs would have shot down the friendlies, too Well, naturally. Better safe than sorry.
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LingcodKilla posted:Lol this will end well. Be sure to remember your SA password and contact us during boot camp. Also send us your div mailbox so we mail you care packages. Additional Protip: do not open any care packages we send you.
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Mr. Nice! posted:A large group of people tell you earnestly that you will probably fail out of this program and if you succeed will hate every second of your life for years with a significant chance of a bullet to the dome as your exit strategy and you take it with a "golly gee folks guess you're gonna have to laugh at me later." I have fewer regrets than most of the people here, but I got out in 1992, when it wasn't as lovely of a place.
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PneumonicBook posted:Wtf where'd all this deck chat come from??? Topsiders gonna topside, I guess.
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piL posted:Goon Privateer anybody? In 1991 we hoped that, in the usual way of Navy regulations, prize money rules were still mouldering away on the books somewhere. There seemed like a non-zero chance that we might actually be called upon to take a prize during the "blockade Iraqi and Jordanian ports" phase of Desert Storm. I don't know what a modern container ship and a fuckton of cars looted from Kuwait would have sold for, but a 1/600th share of that would still fill quite a few stripper g-strings.
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FrozenVent posted:They used to get prize money, too, which was most of their income in those days. Letter of marque were an easy way to increase the size of your fleet for cheap. Fast ferries, man.
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PneumonicBook posted:Or any other branch. Is it really just that they give them officer uniforms? Does the khaki dye cause some kind of biochemical reaction?
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Anita Dickinme posted:The way I’ve seen it is 90% of the people who stay in were bullied in high school and stayed in because they finally have “power” over people. I honestly couldn’t believe it when some master chief went off on my buddy for cutting a literal foot off the crosswalk and tried to send him to mast. I can definitely see that as a Master-at-Arms motivator. (Sorry, MAA's who are decent people. I assume you're out there somewhere.)
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Stultus Maximus posted:Is the SM-6 really a capable ASCM or is it listed because the Navy desperately wants everyone to believe that the 1970s Harpoon isn't still our only ASUW weapon? The Navy desperately wanted everyone to believe that the antiship version of Tomahawk worked, but they just couldn't keep a straight face after a while.
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Cerekk posted:if the Navy really wants to improve recruiting they should just bring back prize ships We asked some pointed questions about that in Desert Storm, when it looked like there was a real chance we could take a prize.
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pkells posted:Destroyer trip report: You snag the top bunk, so you have room to sit up and free storage space between inspections.
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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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Well, there's another movie I'm not going to able to see in the theater because I'd spend all my time yelling at the screen.
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LingcodKilla posted:Down Periscope is a goddamn documentary. No, I thought we were talking about this poo poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9j6O1PF1Lk
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M_Gargantua posted:I know someone in Hampton roads who lives in a tiny house right on the water. Not evacuating of course, because they're in Zone 3 for some reason. It doesn't look that good for Norfolk, either.
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I guess it's cool that they can do this but it sounds like a poo poo job to do it. Mark VI patrol boats make 500 mi trip
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BIG HEADLINE posted:1. Go see Sorrento. It's life-changingly beautiful. This. It's basically Norfolk, but surrounded by nice scenery.
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McNally posted:I know TVS posted about her position on the Fitz, but I think we should wait for her input before we connect dots that lead back to her real name here on the forums. Was that the ProPublica article? Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Feb 7, 2019 |
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buttplug posted:Post-Cole or pre-Cole? The Navy has always taken firefighting at sea seriously, but much, much moreso after the Cole bombing. Which, again harks back to my point above about how we tend to learn a lot of lessons the hard way (through blood). The bitterest pill is that it gradually forgot how serious about firefighting it got after watching the British experience in the Falklands--the USN suddenly remembered flash gear was a good idea, and maybe we ought to have some of those thermal imager thingies, and maybe replacing all that WW2 surplus mechanical foam with something that didn't attract sharks might be better for all concerned, and everything was very firefighting-oriented. How many times has this cycle repeated?
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ManMythLegend posted:Regardless though, the engine rooms are always hot even in the winter. ...up to a point. When injection temps were below freezing, we had ER ventilation off and were comfortable at around 65F.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:I won't be happy until the enlisted ranks look like the warboys. Remember: use silver food coloring, not actual silver paint.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/1098715212822335488 Wait, what? They'd changed the jack (at some time over the last 25 years)?
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Stultus Maximus posted:I spent the first and last couple months of my first DIVO tour in the yards and it was as miserable as you describe. I wasn't trying to look good for anyone, and neither was my DH who was awesome. The yards just suck. OTOH, you're not deployed.
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Drones, soon available in frigate size: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPz9YWS5dH4
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boy are my arms tired posted:
Oh good, nothing's changed since 1992.
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It's essentially what happened to the Comanche, too--feature creep.
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LingcodKilla posted:Don’t marry someone in the service. What about a stripper in the service? Do those things cancel out like double negatives?
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Jimmy4400nav posted:So far Whidbey as been pretty awesome, good to be back in the Northwest. Are deer... not like that somewhere?
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Oh look, they're naming a ship after someone who's still alive. Again. https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2019/05/06/New-destroyer-to-be-named-in-honor-of-ex-US-Sen-Sam-Nunn/3621557150220/
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Cerekk posted:George Washington had five different warships named for him before he died. It was in poor taste then, too. At least the Continental Navy had the excuse of not having poo poo else to draw on.
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PROCUREMENT CHAT I think we may have finally dodged a bullet: https://news.usni.org/2019/05/28/lo...0JlUCghfA-OVhEg quote:Lockheed Martin won’t submit a bid to compete in the design of the Navy’s next-generation guided-missile (FFG(X)) frigate competition, company officials told USNI News on Tuesday.
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Mentioned over in current events, but Very Stable Genius Alert: https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1133882529335980032
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Nick Soapdish posted:What's wrong with the Ike jacket? Next you'll tell me you hate the interstate highways system for reasons beyond it destroyed mass train travel between population centers in middle America Hey now--the post-WW2 implosion of the rail industry also had a lot to do with the fact they were run at capacity to move oil with no allowance for maintenance for four years and no postwar allocation for repairs.
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