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Pandasmores posted:This is going to sounds like a retarded question, but don't you guys have plugs on the ships? Unless you're buying lovely batteries/draining them too much I don't see how you'd need a couple spares. Answer may vary. My berthing probably had about four working plugs and boat LSs (they actually owned the space) stealing properly tagged power strips but not bothering to actually fix all the broken poo poo.
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Pandasmores posted:This is going to sounds like a retarded question, but don't you guys have plugs on the ships? Unless you're buying lovely batteries/draining them too much I don't see how you'd need a couple spares. This was like four years ago so I'm assuming the quality of what we were buying was sketchy. I can't remember now that I think about it if it was the batteries or atomizers that kept making GBS threads the bed. But yea we had a million outlets in the shop.
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UoI posted:I was going to PM you but you were smarter than me with your money. Tell me about life on a carrier, seeing as that's where I'm (probably) going to be ending up. Probably be better if you just throw some specific questions out. There are others in here who have deployed aboard a carrier and a lot of stuff is the same no matter what you deploy on. I can probably answer a lot of questions but I'm not going to be able to tell you how to survive living in a 100 man berthing for instance. SquirrelyPSU posted:I was gonna say she was preggo, but I think I'm mixing her up with Carrie Underwood. You are right about both. I think Clarkson already had her baby though.
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Pandasmores posted:This is going to sounds like a retarded question, but don't you guys have plugs on the ships? Unless you're buying lovely batteries/draining them too much I don't see how you'd need a couple spares. Power plug space on a submarine was very valuable, a bitch might get stabbed for unplugging something early or out of turn.
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Look at yall shipfolk with your personal electronic devices and ya power plugs. Suddenly life in a SCIF ain't so easy sounding IS IT 
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Analogical posted:Look at yall shipfolk with your personal electronic devices and ya power plugs. Suddenly life in a SCIF ain't so easy sounding IS IT Some of us are in the real Navy! 
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Apr 21, 2015 13:41
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Howard Phillips posted:Some of us are in the real Navy! 
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Howard Phillips posted:Some of us are in the real Navy! #WOGPride
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vulturesrow posted:Probably be better if you just throw some specific questions out. There are others in here who have deployed aboard a carrier and a lot of stuff is the same no matter what you deploy on. I can probably answer a lot of questions but I'm not going to be able to tell you how to survive living in a 100 man berthing for instance. I don't really have any right now, I was just hoping you'd tell me it won't be awful. 
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UoI posted:I don't really have any right now, I was just hoping you'd tell me it won't be awful.
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Just get orders to an MCM where 40 man is our biggest berthing, with other 6-15 man berthings literally fit in where they have room.
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get orders to a MCM where every time a wave looks at you funny you do a wicked sick back flip in your rack
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MCM: It's like the Tin Can Navy but wood and it's 2015.
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Boon posted:MCM: It's like the Tin Can Navy but wood and it's 2015. Who had all the weenie touching stories about MCM? That poo poo had me rolling.
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Boon posted:MCM: It's like the Tin Can Navy but wood and it's 2015. Don't they have to pull in every month or so while deployed? Sounds like a dream come true.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Don't they have to pull in every month or so while deployed? Sounds like a dream come true. Hey who wants to stop in (lovely Persian Gulf Port here) 20 times!!!
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vulturesrow posted:survive living in a 100 man berthing for instance.   As someone who used to live in a 100+ enlisted berthing as a fresh assed E1.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Hey who wants to stop in (lovely Persian Gulf Port here) 20 times!!! GUARDIAN resulted in 7th fleet MCMs only going to Korea and back. But that's probably better because 7th fleet MCMs' primary mission is revolving door inspections, so underway time is a bit of a distraction.
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Underways on MCMs are stretched. 2 weeks feels like 2 months, and 45 days is pretty much everything is breaking and supply is serving chef boyardee. On the bright side I've never seen so much varied experience as an ET anywhere else.
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Reacon posted:Underways on MCMs are stretched. 2 weeks feels like 2 months, and 45 days is pretty much everything is breaking and supply is serving chef boyardee. On the bright side I've never seen so much varied experience as an ET anywhere else. Skimmer privilege is a real thing. You're triggering me.
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LingcodKilla posted:Who had all the weenie touching stories about MCM? That poo poo had me rolling. That was our resident former JAG I believe.
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2 months also feels like 2 months so i heard
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vulturesrow posted:That was our resident former JAG I believe. She doesn't have a weenie, though. Bet she's touched some.
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poopkitty posted:She doesn't have a weenie, though. Bet she's touched some. No shes the one who posted about it.
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vulturesrow posted:No shes the one who posted about it. Yeah, Rhesus us probably the single most helpful poster in GiP. Think about that, we're so dysfunctional that a Navy JAG is our star player.
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Booblord Zagats posted:Yeah, Rhesus us probably the single most helpful poster in GiP. To be fair, JAG is barely military so that's probably why.
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Stultus Maximus posted:To be fair, JAG is barely military so that's probably why. honestly my only experience with JAG was laughing at dudes in the DFAC who were getting thrown out with 2 JAG admin assistants. So all in all aside from the Lance Mafia horror stories, they seem alright
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JAG helped me unfuck my bonus situation when I was a babby sailor so that was nice.
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Reacon posted:Just get orders to an MCM where 40 man is our biggest berthing, with other 6-15 man berthings literally fit in where they have room. The USNS Grasp had some embarked (non-ship's company) dudes sleeping in the P-Ways at one point. It was funny because the command really wanted to send females on that one until higher found out.
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Fart Sandwiches posted:JAG helped me unfuck my bonus situation when I was a babby sailor so that was nice. One of my reservist friends had an issue they helped unfuck, they were trying to get him to pay back 20k in his bonus because big navy hosed up his orders and he didn't go to field med as the contract was written, for some reason the detailer had left it out. The extra win in the situation was this whiney brat everyone hated that didn't have field med in his orders that ended up getting it, he could have qualified for the bonus but since it wasn't in his contract they weren't obligated to give it to him even though he's reserves as well.
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Finally got around to watching the first EP of TNT's The Last Ship. A less accurate portrayal of SWO life than Battleship.
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Applewhite posted:Finally got around to watching the first EP of TNT's The Last Ship. As a previous Pearl Harbor sailor, my favorite part of Battleship is the old crusty captain ordering "All Ahead Flank" as the break the mooring chains.The thought of the Missouri blasting out of the harbor channel at 30+ never fails to put a smile on my face.
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Boon posted:As a previous Pearl Harbor sailor, my favorite part of Battleship is the old crusty captain ordering "All Ahead Flank" as the break the mooring chains.The thought of the Missouri blasting out of the harbor channel at 30+ never fails to put a smile on my face. When the Missouri was in dry dock a few years ago for some restoration work, its guns were pointed directly at the building I worked in. I dreamed they weren't inert every night.
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Boon posted:As a previous Pearl Harbor sailor, my favorite part of Battleship is the old crusty captain ordering "All Ahead Flank" as the break the mooring chains.The thought of the Missouri blasting out of the harbor channel at 30+ never fails to put a smile on my face. I'm not familiar with the channel at Pearl, wouldn't that cause the battleship to scrape bottom from squat like crazy?
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Surprisingly, the draft of the BB isn't significantly different than the CG or DDG, however, yes. Also there are multiple turns including a fairly large one right out of the basin itself which a ship at flank would be hard pressed to maintain due to shallow-water drag.
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One of the best parts of The Last Ship was when the crew assembled on the flight deck for all hands call, and the Co steps out of OOD station #3 to address them.
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Boon posted:Surprisingly, the draft of the BB isn't significantly different than the CG or DDG, however, yes. Also there are multiple turns including a fairly large one right out of the basin itself which a ship at flank would be hard pressed to maintain due to shallow-water drag. The channel is short enough I don't think they'd ever get to actual flank speed in it, but yeah they would certainly squat and probably bottom out a few times at best.
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Applewhite posted:Finally got around to watching the first EP of TNT's The Last Ship. Yeah, but Adam Baldwin.
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Lol. http://www.navytimes.com/story/mili...mmand/26205131/ "I'm a Druid and I'm gonna join the Navy which is sooooo in tune with nat-ure" I always thought all religion was kinda lame but had to roll my eyes at the Wiccan Satanist whatever douches in boot camp.
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They're not really any less bullshit than the other religions, they're just less popular.
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