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You can reschedule a reschedule on nsips, or you could 2 years ago. My 6 years in the reserves was loving miserable. I'm sure I've written effort posts in this thread about why the reserves are awful, somewhere.
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PneumonicBook posted:You can reschedule a reschedule on nsips, or you could 2 years ago. This is wild because 100% I believe you and there’s every chance my NRC just does it for me because they rightly assume I’ll just gently caress it up and they will have to fix it anyways. I’m very persistent.
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Hey Crab Dad, I ran into a guy who was at LA Fleet Week at a sushi place and he got a behind the scenes tour of the Iowa.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Hey Crab Dad, I ran into a guy who was at LA Fleet Week at a sushi place and he got a behind the scenes tour of the Iowa. I had plenty of opportunities to get a behind the behind tour in many NYC locals but I am honorable and married sailor.
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Crab Dad posted:I had plenty of opportunities to get a behind the behind tour in many NYC locals but I am honorable and married sailor. 
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Jun 3, 2023 13:54
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Longshore are having a nice work slowdown so I get to spend the weekend sitting at the dock on OT.
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Jun 3, 2023 18:27
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You know I think I may have hosed up coming to Hawaii at this time. I may actually have to do “work”. “Work” to me is standing watch doing absolutely nothing of value. gently caress.
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Jun 4, 2023 23:11
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Jun 4, 2023 23:16
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HiroProtagonist posted:silly, random question, but if you're disembarking from a double berthed ship, do you have to first request permission to leave your ship, then request permission to board the inner ship and then request permission to go ashore from that one Mr. Nice! posted:You ask for permission to depart from your ship as normal, as you cross the QD of the other ship, you ask for permission to cross. Yes, you will sometimes get stuck just waiting sometimes. There isn't anyone waiting for you along the bow between ships. All the action takes place on both ships' quarterdecks. thanks for all the answers btw, i forgot i posted this but I was legitimately curious
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Jun 4, 2023 23:24
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Crab Dad posted:You know I think I may have hosed up coming to Hawaii at this time. I may actually have to do “work”. Work is fine, I never minded doing work, it was my third favorite part of my career. "Work" like standing whatever bs watch I'm sure you're standing is gently caress awful. Like when I spent 24 hours printing off emails at Bangor once a month.
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Jun 5, 2023 01:40
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Elviscat posted:Work is fine, I never minded doing work, it was my third favorite part of my career. Yeah 11 hours on my feet in dress whites answering the same dumb questions but making people laugh and smile most likely be a pleasant memory after this exercise in staying awake at a desk. Go watch Spider-Man. Super dope.
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Jun 5, 2023 02:14
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I feel like if we were on a boat together I'd stop by your watchstation on my 2100 tour to shoot the poo poo, even though it was eating into my 4 hours of sleep. impossible scenario because Crab Dad would somehow be the COB on his first tour, even if we were the same age
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Jun 5, 2023 02:35
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Elviscat posted:I feel like if we were on a boat together I'd stop by your watchstation on my 2100 tour to shoot the poo poo, even though it was eating into my 4 hours of sleep. Wait a second we’ve have some beers together and we should again especially now that you’ve been out for over a year. It’s crabbin time soon too.
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Jun 5, 2023 02:56
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https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1665536280325701632?s=20 I am sure a lot of non-surface or non-Navy type watching that like "they're so far away, what's the matter?"
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Nick Soapdish posted:I am sure a lot of non-surface or non-Navy type watching that like "they're so far away, what's the matter?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDN8lQW08yQ&t=174s
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1665536280325701632?s=20 See, even a lot of surface types probably wouldn't consider that distance too bad until the very end of the video where you hear the Chung Hoon's gas turbines rev back up and you realize they probably had to come to bare steerageway in order to let the assholes pass without colliding.
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Jun 5, 2023 23:23
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1665536280325701632?s=20 Yo its good luck when a ship cuts your wake like that everyone knows this
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Navy-merchant marine relations at an all time high!
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Jun 10, 2023 08:32
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Everyone should schedule their Honolulu port stays around 🦀
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Jun 10, 2023 08:38
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Crab Dad posted:Wait a second we’ve have some beers together and we should again especially now that you’ve been out for over a year. Yeah! I'm down for crabbing and/or a beer.
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Now that I have this cheap Sextant which one of you goons would teach me how to use it?
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Surprised Seawolf got a DDG as an escort https://www.tiktok.com/@jessbyathousandcuts/video/7236384063072865582?_op=1&_r=1&_t=8d4IrwPn0fu
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Jun 11, 2023 08:10
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Jesus, trigger warning that poo poo. I had to take a year of nav at Annapolis, then went to navigator school before my second tour. Thank Costco they put me as cico instead. E: all I remember is the phrase lat by lan.
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stinkypete posted:Now that I have this cheap Sextant which one of you goons would teach me how to use it? Walk outside and stare at the sun for awhile then make up some numbers and look at your GPS.
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Jun 11, 2023 08:45
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stinkypete posted:Now that I have this cheap Sextant which one of you goons would teach me how to use it? Don't let the haters judge you. The precursor to computer CAD systems was a lettering system named Leroy and there were 20 of those things floating around USS Last Job that noone would have minded wandering off. That said, last I checked they were like 12 bucks on eBay.
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Elviscat posted:Surprised Seawolf got a DDG as an escort That's a Tico. 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That's a Tico. TiconderogDEEZ NUTS!!!!
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That's a Tico. Surprised a Tico was able to make it from San Diego to the PNW without breaking down.
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stinkypete posted:Now that I have this cheap Sextant which one of you goons would teach me how to use it? Pulled out of the trash can at the Reserve Center. I bet yours has all its lenses and shades.
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Is that a god drat vernier sextant?
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Good loving lord it is, it’s a loving museum piece among outdated navigational instruments. I’ve never taken a sight that I didn’t use the GPS as a clock and dr.
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My mom works as a high school librarian and was excited to tell me how some of her students are joining the military. Pour one out for all of them, but pour out a triple for the poor girl who decided to go nuke. 
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Eh, I helped a kid out the other week, they want to go military to get out of their current poo poo situation (working food service in the rear end end of nowhere) I told them if they are hell bent on joining the military, Army and Marine Corpse is a no-go, and no matter what, if you're going enlisted, get your follow-on school guaranteed in writing in your contract, "If it's not written down it didn't happen". I think they want to join the Coast Guard and be a gunner's mate cause they want to shoot guns. I told them that the Coast Guard is a safer choice, as their mission is coastal poo poo, than something like the air force where you will probably get sent to the middle of the US and rot away at a place like loving Tinker AFB. Also better than the Navy, as I've heard from a Coastie that their maximum time "underway" on what passes for a deployment for them is like 3 months, instead of the 8-12 month shitfests of the Navy. Also gave them advice about how to play the boot camp game, don't be the dumbass who gets singled out, and don't volunteer to be the leader of anything, because boot camp doesn't matter for poo poo once you're done with it, and making yourself conspicuous will just make your time there worse.
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You could get sent to Tinker, or you could get a dope rear end base in Germany, Japan, or Korea. Every puddle pirate I've known has fuckin' loved their job though, that's the safe route. Jimmy4400nav posted:My mom works as a high school librarian and was excited to tell me how some of her students are joining the military. Ooof One of my GF's coworkers has a daughter who's a nuke mechanic, it sounds like she's absolutely loving miserable, rotting in Guam attached to a GN. Unsurprisingly it seems that being a woman nuke on a submarine us just slightly shittier than being a dude nuke on a submarine, so, yeah, pouring one out.
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Or, hear me out… go reserves Navy IT or IS…. If you hate it you don’t volunteer for poo poo and serve the base minimum. If you love it you go active or just volunteer for mob back to back.
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Crab Dad posted:Or, hear me out… go reserves Navy IT or IS…. If you hate it you don’t volunteer for poo poo and serve the base minimum. If you love it you go active or just volunteer for mob back to back. See thread title. Not that I disagree with your point at all. But FTN entirely. I should have been a Coastie.
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FrozenVent posted:Good loving lord it is, it’s a loving museum piece among outdated navigational instruments. My first skipper as an officer would always have an ensign using a stadimeter to shout out distances between us and our unrep ship until we got close enough for the laser distance readers to work. Those things were nifty, and you could accurately measure distance on the fly with them.
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FrozenVent posted:Good loving lord it is, it’s a loving museum piece among outdated navigational instruments. It has a "triennial inventory 1976" tag on it, so it was in someone's museum. Best guess is 1911-1914 date of manufacture. It works. I used the book to get a sighting at local noon on the summer solstice and did the math to get my latitude to within a mile of what the GPS says.
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“Within a mile” lol
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Crab Dad posted:“Within a mile” Just because you wound up somewhere around the headwater of the Nile when you tried doesn't mean someone else can't do it properly 
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