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Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer
I didn't buy div shirts 'cus my division was complete autism.

Yet we somehow still managed to get the Battle E flag.

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Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Anita Dickinme posted:

I didn't buy div shirts 'cus my division was complete autism.

Yet we somehow still managed to get the Battle E flag.

Its almost like the navy is full of mouth breathing morons

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Anita Dickinme posted:

I didn't buy div shirts 'cus my division was complete autism.

Yet we somehow still managed to get the Battle E flag.

Battlebugs 4 lyfe


Did you have a coed div? Mine just tried to gently caress constantly so we were terrible overall.

Just found out we did indeed have a boot camp marriage. I wish those two girls the best in life.

buttplug
Aug 28, 2004

LingcodKilla posted:

Just found out we did indeed have a boot camp marriage. I wish those two girls the best in life.

:quagmire:

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB



Just imagine a Thai lady boy and an Irish lady boy hooked up and basically get the visual.

But with no organic dick surprises.

Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer

LingcodKilla posted:

Battlebugs 4 lyfe


Did you have a coed div? Mine just tried to gently caress constantly so we were terrible overall.

Just found out we did indeed have a boot camp marriage. I wish those two girls the best in life.

All male. From stories I've heard I got lucky, but I was on the Arizona and marching anywhere was a bitch.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Anita Dickinme posted:

All male. From stories I've heard I got lucky, but I was on the Arizona and marching anywhere was a bitch.

Certainly an advantage to not having idiots compete for attention from the females.
Did you even have snow on the ground? You big baby.

Analogical
May 20, 2013

EEOD? Why not, I could use a break from work

:911:
I was in a co-ed division and the worst part of it was sharing the compartment with assholes from another div. I was the RCPO and having half the div across the hall meant the ACPO dealt with them and I never had to since RCPO/ACPO are always opposite genders. I found out later on that the female side of the hallway was like Auschwitz the whole time because the girls in charge just went nuts with rules and "talking is secure". Male side was chill. The last night we took the newbies from the other half of the compartment out of bed and forced them to let us battle them like Pokemon.

Analogical fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Sep 20, 2015

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Analogical posted:

I was in a co-ed division and the worst part of it was sharing the compartment with assholes from another div. I was the RCPO and having half the div across the hall meant the ACPO dealt with them and I never had to since RCPO/ACPO are always opposite genders. I found out later on that the female side of the hallway was like Auschwitz the whole time because the girls in charge just went nuts with rules and "talking is secure". Male side was chill. Last night we took the newbies from the other half of the compartment out of bed and forced them to let us battle them like Pokemon.

Last night our dipshits shaved their nuts one last time with all the contraband clippers they had and hid them in areas that the next div would find without too much effort.

Nwabudike Morgan
Dec 31, 2007
Shave My Nuts, Boot Camp Shipmate

Sir Lucius
Aug 3, 2003
We had a sleepwalker who would sleep piss all over the floor in the middle of the night.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Sir Lucius posted:

We had a sleepwalker who would sleep piss all over the floor in the middle of the night.
I thought sleep walking was a huge no-no.

vulturesrow
Sep 25, 2011

Always gotta pay it forward.

Sir Lucius posted:

We had a sleepwalker who would sleep piss all over the floor in the middle of the night.

Protip: he wasn't actually sleepwalking.

Sir Lucius
Aug 3, 2003

LingcodKilla posted:

I thought sleep walking was a huge no-no.

It is, he got kicked out.

poopkitty
Oct 16, 2013

WE ARE ALL ONE
I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.

Laranzu
Jan 18, 2002

poopkitty posted:

I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.


http://rage.wikia.com/wiki/Ark_Suit

Some nerd poo poo?

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


poopkitty posted:

I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.

Isnt that a MtG card? Cant keep up with these new artifacts-equipment.

Mad Dragon
Feb 29, 2004

poopkitty posted:

I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.

powered exoskeleton welding rig

Null Integer
Mar 1, 2006

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

poopkitty posted:

I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.

I thought they are used when dealing with insane voltages (1000+) when it has to be live. Ket might know more on it, as I don't have the NSTM 300 on me, but it seems like something only real electritions would ever use in the navy.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

poopkitty posted:

I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.

Did you not get clarification from your junior sailor?

Arc suits are the future

poopkitty
Oct 16, 2013

WE ARE ALL ONE

Null Integer posted:

I thought they are used when dealing with insane voltages (1000+) when it has to be live. Ket might know more on it, as I don't have the NSTM 300 on me, but it seems like something only real electritions would ever use in the navy.

Yeah, I'm going to ask the engineers tomorrow. Apparently there are students on hold at FASW waiting for them so they can learn maintenance. Getting paid waiting for some loving suit that we don't use. We work on black box systems. That's ridiculous.

8 months, 11 days.

RCK-101
Feb 19, 2008

If a recruiter asks you to become a nuclear sailor.. you say no

poopkitty posted:

I am a tech rep., and just had a junior sailor (STG, not yet in C School) ask me about Arc suits. What the gently caress is an arc suit and how much is this stupidness costing us. Did I miss a memo? The other guys I have asked out here (all Navy, mostly ETCs, one or two FCs) know nothing.

I can explain. We have these on my ship since the voltages are super loving high and will kill you. They are what you need to rack breakers and to deal with high voltage and high energy electrical suits. They are not in most navy supply systems yet so they are a pain to get, and I assume since you are a radar rate you need them because of your weird high energy radar things. They get smelly if you have to use them frequently and have only a limited amount of washes before they are not usable because the protective layer is washed away, but it is around 1000 or so washes. The helmets tend to have plastic internal parts that crack if you have to use them frequently, the related plastic gloves have a bunch of 3M maintaince with them..

(yes this is part of my job why do you ask) The suits vary because an arc flash is just the arc between the conductors in question, while a blast is the "oh gently caress explosion" when metal decides to change phases from solid to liquid and then explode, and if your people don't have these suits on, there will not be enough of them for a casket funeral as they turn into literal plasma.

If your people are heading to my class of carrier that might be why, since I know your end of the radar is a mysterious black box, we just provide power into it and then a mystery occurs.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
They changed a bunch of the NSTM 300 back when I was electro and Ryand is right on point. There was a push to get electricians better coveralls for higher voltage arc flashes just in general for day to day use, but I'm not sure if that ever took off.

Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer
I got to penny and my roommate keeps his room clean. :woop:

He'll probably steal my laptop, though.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
No there's people with their poo poo together and sometimes you room with them. The rest of your class will be walking disasters unfit for life, though

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


What's your rate again?

Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer
ABE

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
What the gently caress is an ABE, I never know what you guys are talking about in here. loving just hit stuff with a hammer and never get promoted like me

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


maffew buildings posted:

What the gently caress is an ABE, I never know what you guys are talking about in here. loving just hit stuff with a hammer and never get promoted like me

You see, the Navy has these things called ships and some of these ships have aircraft. Now, when they aren't getting upset at surface people, air people put on colored shirts and do someone directly above where we were working on the ship. They seemed to enjoy dragging chains around when people were trying to sleep at night (either in their staterooms -gently caress nobles- or while on watch). In conclusion, hang all brown shoes.

Commoners
Apr 25, 2007

Sometimes you reach a stalemate. Sometimes you get magic horses.

poopkitty posted:

8 months, 11 days.

That's when my terminal starts too!

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

Nick Soapdish posted:

In conclusion, hang all brown shoes.

Ok, thank you for this succinct and accessible summation regarding my question.

Anita Dickinme
Jan 24, 2013


Grimey Drawer

maffew buildings posted:

What the gently caress is an ABE, I never know what you guys are talking about in here. loving just hit stuff with a hammer and never get promoted like me

http://bfy.tw/1t75

Sir Lucius
Aug 3, 2003
He works the lines on airships, zeppelins and the like.

vains
May 26, 2004

A Big Ten institution offering distance education catering to adult learners

Sir Lucius posted:

He works the lines on airships, zeppelins and the like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zIlSVT4mBA

poopkitty
Oct 16, 2013

WE ARE ALL ONE

Ryand-Smith posted:

since you are a radar rate

Sonar. Underwater, yo. :colbert:


Commoners posted:

That's when my terminal starts too!

That's my last day in the Navy. Terminal starts before that, just don't know when yet. I'm still homeless and also, kids. Bleh.

Sir Lucius
Aug 3, 2003
Sonar, radar. Basically the same thing

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Ryand-Smith posted:

I can explain. We have these on my ship since the voltages are super loving high and will kill you. They are what you need to rack breakers and to deal with high voltage and high energy electrical suits. They are not in most navy supply systems yet so they are a pain to get, and I assume since you are a radar rate you need them because of your weird high energy radar things. They get smelly if you have to use them frequently and have only a limited amount of washes before they are not usable because the protective layer is washed away, but it is around 1000 or so washes. The helmets tend to have plastic internal parts that crack if you have to use them frequently, the related plastic gloves have a bunch of 3M maintaince with them..

(yes this is part of my job why do you ask) The suits vary because an arc flash is just the arc between the conductors in question, while a blast is the "oh gently caress explosion" when metal decides to change phases from solid to liquid and then explode, and if your people don't have these suits on, there will not be enough of them for a casket funeral as they turn into literal plasma.

If your people are heading to my class of carrier that might be why, since I know your end of the radar is a mysterious black box, we just provide power into it and then a mystery occurs.

The gently caress? Are these voltages high enough for arcing to occur to the skin from connections? A whole suit for electrical safety seems bizarre when the rubber room is a thing.

RCK-101
Feb 19, 2008

If a recruiter asks you to become a nuclear sailor.. you say no

Kawasaki Nun posted:

The gently caress? Are these voltages high enough for arcing to occur to the skin from connections? A whole suit for electrical safety seems bizarre when the rubber room is a thing.

If the insulation breaks down yes, but the arcs in high voltage applications can be high enough to jump across large rooms, but the suit is more for the hot burning gas cloud that is now heading towards your body, and the bright flash of the arc so you are not blinded.

Kawasaki Nun
Jul 16, 2001

by Reene

Ryand-Smith posted:

If the insulation breaks down yes, but the arcs in high voltage applications can be high enough to jump across large rooms, but the suit is more for the hot burning gas cloud that is now heading towards your body, and the bright flash of the arc so you are not blinded.

heh if you're being chased by a plasma ball aren't you already dead?

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RCK-101
Feb 19, 2008

If a recruiter asks you to become a nuclear sailor.. you say no

Kawasaki Nun posted:

heh if you're being chased by a plasma ball aren't you already dead?

I found the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyBoLqtCpxQ here that shows how it protects you from ceasing to exist, notice how the suit takes no damage (and thus saves you).

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