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I never post in GIP anymore, but I used to be on the McCain back in 2004-2007 ish. I was an ET, I think my bunk was right where they got hit. Looks like half of CE is unaccounted for. It's like seeing your childhood home get hit by a meteor. For the people asking about manual steering, there's a way to do it, but it's on some ridiculous ratio, you'd have to spin the wheel hundreds of times to shift a degree.
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When I was aboard, 7 was where I stayed, it's a little tiny one, right? I had the top bunk closest to the hull, it had a ton of pipes running right above it, so I couldn't even sit up, the one perk of top bunk. I heard a rumor that the unaccounted 9 are trapped in a comm space or something. I don't see how that makes sense, as the only space that matches is Aft IC and it's got two escape routes.
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Aug 24, 2017 23:04
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Even the busiest commands can find a way to make do without a person for an hour and a half.
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Sep 1, 2017 20:20
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Something similar happened to my friend who was really into D&D. One of the RDCs called him into the office to show the new cool book that had come out, still in shrink wrap. "This just came out, you want to take a look at it?" And then the guillotine dropped and he got to do push-ups for an hour, looking at the front cover of the book.
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Sep 29, 2017 18:43
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I was on the McCain a decade ago and I'm pretty sure they had a Furuno for the exact reasons described. If a foreign power wants to do electromagnetic analysis on a piece of commercial equipment, they could just order one from a catalog.
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Oct 1, 2017 04:24
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FrozenVent posted:Funny, most of the ships I've been on had Sperry radars... including the ones built in Japan. 
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Oct 2, 2017 02:25
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Potato Salad posted:I would have thought the dome would be flooded by necessity. When someone said the dome was open for repair, I naively pictured someone with dive gear cleaning gunk off hydrophones. I mean, there's the whole process to retrieve mail from the mail buoy while submerged.
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Oct 4, 2017 21:14
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When I was in Forward IC on a destroyer, I got a new OS knocking looking for "Link Cord" (They use a radio channel called Link coord, to coordinate link traffic) I found out that he'd been all over the ship, so I gave him a coil of casualty power cables. Those things are just big enough that they don't easily squeeze through the hatches. The joke was partially on me because I had to put the cables back, but I was able to lower them down an escape trunk.
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Oct 5, 2017 18:21
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https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/10/09/i-now-hate-my-ship-surveys-reveal-disastrous-morale-on-cruiser-shiloh/ The Navy Times article made me really sad. If we're conducting these surveys and not acting on them, what's the point. My congresswoman is super active on the subject of veteran mental health and suicide, there needs to be an investigation of punitive actions against people who report suicidal thoughts.
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Oct 11, 2017 02:18
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Cerekk posted:maybe I'm in the minority here but I feel like if I was an E-3 that just did some dumb mastable poo poo I would rather get 3 days bread and water versus 45/45 and half month's pay for two months I feel like it'd be a great alternative if it was used in place of the more severe punishments. But I get the feeling that it's used in addition to the more severe punishments.
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Oct 12, 2017 06:46
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Lou Takki posted:Bunch of camouflaged dweebs playing with each other's swords. Seriously, why not go bright orange? The old utilities were basically prison uniforms, so we have precedent.
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Oct 19, 2017 18:47
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It only takes a little bit of creativity to turn orange into badass: Wasn't Gordon Freeman's suit orange as well?
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Oct 19, 2017 22:56
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Now the plot of Top Gun 2 is making more sense.
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Oct 21, 2017 02:18
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Godholio posted:takes an F-35 into combat for some bizarre reason. All of the other pilots died while crossing the international dateline.
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Oct 21, 2017 23:47
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Christ that sucks. I guess that's what happens when you create a system where the people who steer the ships are selected from the bottom of the barrel of ASVAB scores.
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Nov 1, 2017 17:05
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I still have a hard time eating cake because of some run ins with rotten or moldy desserts. Cheesecake is fine, but spongy cake topped with frosting, I've got to psych myself up to take the first bite.
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Nov 2, 2017 03:55
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Ceric posted:https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2017/11/01/navy-crews-at-fault-in-fatal-collisions-investigations-find/ Just a note, this summary says that aft steering was unmanned, but the actual report states that just prior to the collision, aft steering was able to regain control.
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Nov 3, 2017 02:45
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quote:Approx. 0520 Supervisory watch stations reported that the Automated Identification System As one of the guys who helped install that system, I feel like a turd. Edit: Here's the actual report if it hasn't been posted http://s3.amazonaws.com/CHINFO/USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S+McCain+Collision+Reports.pdf It's really bumming me out to imagine all the spaces that I used to hang out in completely flooded. It really doesn't feel like that long ago that I was hanging out under the escape trunk in the IC Gyro room, playing Space Empires 2. We had a movie server back there that we'd play Firefly and Weeds on channel 19 (I think). Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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Nov 3, 2017 04:58
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I thought AECF was a six year commitment. I was one of the last AECF people to go to a school that actually taught computers. Ask me anything about the UYK-20.
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Nov 5, 2017 02:38
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ET is loving rad. I wouldn't have picked any other job looking back.
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Nov 5, 2017 03:37
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LogicalFallacy posted:He is. He's an HT. I would probably recommend against going HT unless you're really into that poo poo.
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Nov 5, 2017 03:40
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Also if you go ET, your life will be this video on loop. Probably applies to a bunch of other jobs too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtRNg5uSKQ0
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Nov 5, 2017 05:50
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Elendil004 posted:Friend of mine just got orders to a japan DDG (63) as an STG out of school, anything I should scare him with? He's in the same destroyer squadron as the two destroyers that had collisions, and same group as this cruiser: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/10/09/i-now-hate-my-ship-surveys-reveal-disastrous-morale-on-cruiser-shiloh/ One of my former COs while stationed there was this guy: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2015/11/15/report-long-hours-a-nosy-co-a-pet-goat-aboard-cruiser-lake-erie/ I'd probably try to not go to Japan until they figure out what the gently caress is wrong with that fleet.
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Nov 5, 2017 22:38
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Was I the only person who liked self-paced tech core? Sure, they had a room literally filled with Jolt cola that they'd sell to us on breaks, but that's normal.
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Nov 6, 2017 17:51
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Lou Takki posted:If you're into DnD, anime, or furries I recommend STG. There was plenty of that at ET school. Somebody here remembers catboy from 2003 Great Lakes.
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Nov 7, 2017 21:12
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Nick Soapdish posted:And when you do finally decide to end it, please do it on your own. Don't suicide by rent-a-cop or charge the Quarterdeck watch or something where you destroy someone else's life. It could be worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
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Nov 7, 2017 22:13
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joat mon posted:Tell us your Clayton Hartwig theories too! 16 inch inflatable kickball accidentally kicked into barrel of gun causing the gun to backfire Looney Tunes style.
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Nov 7, 2017 23:10
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Evil SpongeBob posted:And with that check, the best car deals can be found at any lot located directly across the street from base. To be fair, if that car kills your debt ratio and keeps you out of 7th fleet, it might be a really good deal.
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Nov 8, 2017 02:26
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For some reason, my dumb rear end brain has been mentally translating CTN to Crypto Tech Nuclear. I just realized that that's definitely not correct.
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Nov 9, 2017 06:34
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Brings back memories from AECF tech core back in 2003. We had a guy who was really into furry fandom, got caught wearing a tail under his utilities, etc. Maybe he was just born 15 years too early.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:45
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Thronde posted:Pretty sure we were at A school and all together. That dick bag was in my duty section. He got mids for a long assed time after. We must have been in the same duty section, because once on midnight watch I made the mistake of being bored enough to ask him how his flying cat fursona got the power of time and space. Short answer: He got them from the time god.
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I remember that we had a section leader named Gay, and another one who had a really thick Brooklyn(?) accent and one of the guys in the section was named Fagart. He sorta had to draw that name out so that he wouldn't say Faggit, instead Fayyygarrrt. Also we had Starcruiser, so if that name is familiar, it's the same time.
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Dec 8, 2017 16:04
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I was thinking the other day about how everyone seemed to know a story about a woman who faked claims of being raped for some reason. Now I'm wondering how many times someone really was raped, and then a bunch of chiefs laid down a huge guilt trip about how they were ruining the career of a fine sailor and that it's going to leave a family homeless. We've all heard stories about families that have the creepy uncle that you don't want to leave alone with the kids, but nobody wants him to go to jail. Why would a Navy family be any different?
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Dec 8, 2017 22:30
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Fred Dawes posted:Leaving for boot camp this week as AECF. Glad I didn't go as a nuke. See you in a few months! Boot Camp is gonna suck, but have fun in Tech core. Make friends, do some fun stuff, don't get scammed.
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Dec 13, 2017 02:44
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Anyone remember a gaming bookstore right outside the Great Lakes base? Looking at some maps, it seems that there's been some big changes to the landscape, but that place was like Nerd heaven while I was in A School.
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Dec 13, 2017 20:12
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I remember back in 2009, some group of smart IT people wrote a training thing on common online scams and it got sent around as mandatory training for everyone. Our Chief read the PowerPoint full of good advice to the division, and added commentary throughout it that undermined any value that it offered. I remember him spending about 10 minutes talking about how he'd send us to mast if he caught anyone using PayPal because he was under the impression that it was a Payday loan service.
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Dec 14, 2017 21:34
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M_Gargantua posted:As a note to casual observers of our nautical thread the Mk48's always have to go last in any SINKEX since theres nothing that floats that can withstand one. Maybe a Carrier could, doubtful it would take more than two. I know what you're talking about, but it's more fun if you imagine this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_48_machine_gun
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Dec 19, 2017 21:43
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So if 75 ships get added to the fleet, are they gonna just go dime and five?
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I was just thinking about some of the people I served with who broke new ground in being fuckups and kept the spotlight off of idiots like me who were just bad at Navy. One guy broke a toilet after trying to flush an apple. And then there was the time a guy decided to use a four day weekend to drive to Maine, from San Diego to visit family. And then there was a guy who had some sort of storage unit or something on base and was keeping a pet cat in there, and he either got caught or the cat died.
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Godholio posted:
Yeah, he made it there, he didn't get back in time, and after the apple incident and the cat thing, they kept a closer eye on him.
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Did he even get there in 4 days?