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Finally managed to have a dinner with my dad since Kobe and he talked a bit about flying around the SF Bay. He got drafted around 67 and talked his way in a WO spot flying helicopters for several tours in Vietnam. When he got to his unit he was one of only 2 or 3 IFR pilots so he got all the IFR missions. After the war he moved the the CA ANG and flew all over CA and the Bay Area and was a flight instructor for the squadron. His favorite was to have his students fly into Chrissy Field (basically at the GG Bridge, where all the fog enters and theres perpetual low cloud cover) and pop the collective so they would pop up into the cloud cover to see what they do. He says the students had to transition to IFR immediately or they would augur and 100% of them would have augured the 1st time. It usually took 3/4 times to learn and figure it out. He is definitely an idiot for multiple stupid things including women and flying under the bay bridge until he encountered a low hanging cable, but is pretty decent at flying with a specialization in helicopters.
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He loves flying so he worked at airfields for lessons/flight time when he was a kid. When he was drafted he thought it would be better to fly than anything else and talked his way into a flight slot and did 3 tours 68-72 I think. He did everything he could to get out of Vietnam and always went to Australia for R&R cause it was easy to hook up with the women there.Milo and POTUS posted:Did... did your dad make the news? Fortunately no but 30-40 years ago there was a lot more freedom to dick around in helicopters. Almost all the bay area bases have closed as well now unfortunately. Hamilton was really nice, we spent a lot of time in the hangers and at the pool as a kid. lightpole fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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Heer98 posted:Sorry to butt in, but aren’t things in Korea supposed to be returning to a semblance of normalcy? My girlfriends family (korean nationals in Seoul) seem to be going to parks, restaurants and doing that old people hiking group thing again, and the pictures they send seem to show lots of people living life, albeit cautiously. For a pandemic to be over, the normal metric is 2 periods with no new infections.
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From like middle school through high school we used gay as more of a replacement for dumb or stupid. There wasnt really any homophobia behind it, just kids being dumb and insensitive. This continued until I used it in front of some gay friends and was reminded they were gay immediately after. That's basically the last time I used it like that.
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`Nemesis posted:A guy I know got stung on vacation and asked on Facebook if the piss thing was real and a bunch of people said no. He still got someone to piss on his leg though anyways. I usually have to pay for that
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J.theYellow posted:Word got around, a few articles got written, including Vice publishing the Navy's Twitch recruitment manual, AOC threatened to push legislation to keep the military from recruiting through online video games ever again, and the Army esports team (LOL) pulled out of Twitch entirely before the poo poo hit the fan. Half the fun of twitch are the constant trolls of the streamers to provoke a reaction and watch them roll with it. Even major streamers carefully curating their community are subject to it.
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Twitch chat is a cesspool, learning how to control it would probably be a good screen for that demographic.
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Most of ag is extremely conservative and worship Trump. When I left the bay for grad school at a place with a big ag program I was shocked at the amount of anti abortion and maga graffiti and that was just some of the most visible stuff I didn't have to look for. Chik Fil A barely scratches the surface.
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He didn't make it past a well hiked portion of Mt Tam or something right?
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The FYAD criterion thread about it is the best read. He started somewhere in the Marin headlands around Mt Tam and lost his stroller within a couple miles or something and abandoned it. I guess it could be hard if he walked in a straight line from the coast to the GG...
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Defenestrategy posted:Don't get too wound up about student reviewing student things, only poo poo lords give anyone less than a 100 on those, I think the only time I've given anyone less than 5 stars was an rear end in a top hat in my group who literally did nothing except ask for more meetings, and when we'd show up for meetings he'd sit there and not contribute anything. Eventually we told him to gently caress off with wasting our time unless he had an agenda about what he wanted to discuss. I think I would hand out a 95 or something every now and then. I was also shooting for a 4.0 since my undergrad GPA was like 2.5 but I gave up on that after the 1st or 2nd quarter and tried to make sure I enjoyed the experience and saw as much as I could over taking easy classes and spending my time studying. Noone gives a poo poo about your GPA unless you have some extremely specific plan that requires it after graduation. Gaining broad experiences and interests is much more important. lightpole fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Dec 5, 2020 |
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bulletsponge13 posted:It can be pricey, but GI Bill and VA programs will cover it. I enjoyed it. Met a lot of awesome people, learned a lot of cool poo poo. Depending on what you want to work on, depends on how pricey it gets. I took every elective I could, so mine got pricey quick (having to buy a 1911, a revolver, and a service rifle all the same semester sucked). Sailed with a 1st engineer that is a gunsmith in Texas and absolutely loves it. He said he barely shoots anymore, spends more time just playing with whatever on his bench.
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ded posted:it was posted in the gbs osha thread months ago. im pretty sure it was some bargain bin long distance car transport poo poo. I'm making some assumptions but those things are generally Caribbean/Africa/South Pacific since they are generally Con/Ro. They are going to small places with low infrastructure (cargo cranes and the ro part) that can't justify pure car/truck and container vessel traffic. Closest stuff to that in the US I think are some of the MARAD vessels as we don't have much need of it. US ports are built up, even Alaska has good enough infrastructure.
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My dad has a story about moving a load of WP in a UH1 in Vietnam and it getting hit by fire.
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It might have been at night and it was in the bay, not on a sling, so they rapidly turned into the sun.
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I mean, there's plenty of people that gently caress that up, say now, and fail.
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Iraq had just spent the previous decade in a hot war with Iran while the US was still naval gazing over the Vietnam War.
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Godholio posted:We also got to show off the big set-piece warfare thing that we hadn't done since Korea, but are/were pretty drat good at. And the AF got to do IT'S thing for the first time ever. I was talking about during desert shield. I remember my step mom deploying with the 343rd Army air medical and all the yellow ribbons everywhere. There was concern about going up against a veteran force with one that spent the 80s in the barracks. Desert Storm luckily proved them wrong. Edit: Thinking back I remember their unit patch was a UH1 soaking in a hot tub. I remember running around Hamilton AAB and going to watch the unit airlift Santa to look at 101 during Christmas. lightpole fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jan 13, 2021 |
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Dick Burglar posted:The Men Who Stare at Boats Don't correct me
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Theres nothing about oil backing in there or something? Forex is a terrible way to make money unless you're cheating. If you start fishing around in the bargain bin of unstable countries you may as well just burn your money.
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TheWeedNumber posted:Hey so, I need to go to Paris with a dear friend, so to speak, next year or whenever this shitshow pandemic is over. How do you do Paris right? I wanna do that for a few weeks then hit Corsica for the rest of the trip and I need to start stacking up and planning now. One of my good childhood friends had his wedding in Brittany and we stopped in Paris briefly. As he put it, the only way to do Paris wrong is to rush it. Sit outside in the sun and enjoy a late brunch and stay to have another cup of coffee and skip out on something you were going to do. Don't try and see everything all at once. Edit: Rhum Agricole for your digestif with the coffee. And meeting people at sunset by the Seine for wine and whatever else you dig up. lightpole fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Touts trying to take advantage of tourists. Paris has a lot of them. You can generally schedule things now and the Louvre didn't have a line anyways when I went. Skipped Notre Dame cause the line was terrible. Do your best not to stand in lines, going so far as to skip out on seeing things. Also, Brittany was amazing, I need to go back to France. lightpole fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:So what I'm getting is that my planned two-week trip to Paris includes two weeks in Marseilles and zero seconds in Paris I thought Marseilles was supposed to be a little rough? Le Havre was awesome so hopefully its a similar port city. I got by with rough Spanish and was able to make friends with younger people pretty easily. Also, I'm a white male and didn't have to worry about a lot of discrimination. I am under the impression Marseilles has a large immigrant community and it is worse there so I would double check that.
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Nice and hot piss posted:Preface: she was the manager for OR and nursing house supervisors. Why would this be odd? I think it would be stranger to be a lame duck manager for longer than your current tenure. I did this at my last company right before Thanksgiving after 30 days. Am I supposed to just sit around and put out half-assed work and not really care about it? They've already proven I can't trust them and they are toxic, I really don't want to be there so I won't be. At will employment goes both ways. She would be the idiot for sticking around in that environment.
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Nice and hot piss posted:It's definitely not the best thing to do where I live, since there is only one single hospital system in this area. Not giving 30 days notice means non re-hireable so unless she wants to work in a clinic she is poo poo out of luck. Again I may not be privvy to some things but for someone who is focused solely on an area of expertise that you find mainly in hospital systems I don't see where she could get a job, let alone a surgical suite center, and there's only one of those with a long rear end list of people who want to work there That sounds like terrible people policy. Good for her.
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Wild T posted:This one was always my favorite. Let's drive out to the aircraft in my BMW that I paid for by smuggling $10M in ecstasy back from Germany in a C5. Kings Point cadet used his time at the MMA to smuggle ecstasy back to the US from Europe. Enlisted the help of other cadets, including his then girlfriend, to help. Was eventually caught when his relationship didn't work out.
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ulmont posted:They can't mandate an EUA-only vaccine. Once the vaccines get full FDA approval I'm sure they'll be mandated. My dad keeps trying to bait people with the making an EUA vaccine mandatory thing. His morning coffee is usually at dawn with other veterans/chuds so there's probably some opportunity there but his actual friends and wife aren't even pretending to humor him with a debate.
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Weka posted:"Reduced heat transfer. Composite case insulates the chamber and bolt face from heat transfer, reducing wear and tear on weapon system." Heat transfer to the internals would have negative effects as lubrication burned off and the metal expanded. You would eventually get metal on metal contact and the bolt would seize (I'm assuming I know nothing about guns). Heat transfer is also wasted, as it moves to the weapon instead of forcing the round out of the barrel.
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FrozenVent posted:I had to Google what that is. Never seen one, and I’ve worked on 20+ ships and studied plans for a lot more. They are pretty common. Usually just go with a full or empty tank to limit free surface but depending on size and construction of the tank you will need them. Unless you just have a large amount of small tanks? How can you never see them? Most people think the ocean is dirty due to their experience with bays but that water is gross cause of land. Saltwater from the middle of the ocean is crystal clear and pretty clean. If its from the tropics its also nice and warm, just have to change it every couple days since it starts getting algae and poo poo growing so it gets a little greenish. lightpole fucked around with this message at 15:45 on May 22, 2021 |
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Oops, true. Its mostly devoid of life and hopefully not polluted to a toxic extent. Theres large deserts in the ocean without a lot of life. Dont have to do too much processing of the water depending on your desired profile. My last chief was from Florida and he was bragging about his saltwater pool, it sounded amazing.
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Straight chlorine is so harsh and unenjoyable, that sounds so much better! It doesn't have to be a full bulkhead with like lighterholes, it can just be a baffle or something to break up the tank a bit.
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I got off in NY on a Maersk ship and took the train back to the bay area. You can get the coach seat and just sleep in it but I wouldn't recommend it. I got a cabin and it wasn't bad. Spent most of it reading Shogun and looking out the window. Could also bring alcohol or some recreationals but you want something that will keep you occupied for a lot of time because Chicago to the Rockies it doesn't change much. Its nice if you want some breathing room to readjust back into society and it was definitely cool to do it once. Theres no need for the whole thing if you just want to do a section though.
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FrozenVent posted:For what it’s worth, even merchant ships have separate officer / unlicensed dinning room, and the officers have bigger rooms. US flags the unlicensed (SUP/MFU at least) enforce this. The MFU electricians make more than 3rds and they have strong contracts (although they recently took the actual food items out of the contract). Its really more of a how much responsibility do you want thing over class. Pine Cone Jones posted:Yeah, it's a union shop. I make decent enough money, but I can't cover all of the bills myself. My husband has debated going back to working at Firestone, even if flat rate is a scam. Have to think in terms of shipping flows. This is probably a low point in terms of door to door stuff. Post labor day is when things start to pick up and they want to be gearing up their workers for the holiday rush. So right now, yes, they are stringing him along because they need him for the holidays. lightpole fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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the division tends to fall along cultural lines, namely Newfie / English / French / others.
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You need to be 10% smarter than the equipment you're operating at all times.
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Had a mate for a roommate one year. They had a flashing light video tape to practice with for their final and nav looked terrible.
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Wibla posted:The helo poo poo is a big part of why I never got into offshore work after leaving uni. gently caress all about that poo poo. Helos are deathtraps. HUWET is a thing for a reason.
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Sri Lanka went through the same thing. First time I was there we were discouraged from leaving the ship and escorted. There were abandoned army checkpoints everywhere. 5 years later and you had to look hard for evidence.
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