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Has anyone who has lived in a particularly noisy part of the ship ever used noise canceling headphones/earbuds to sleep? Normal flange earplugs just didn't quite cut it for me living under the cat during my first underway.
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Red Crown posted:Has anyone who has lived in a particularly noisy part of the ship ever used noise canceling headphones/earbuds to sleep? Normal flange earplugs just didn't quite cut it for me living under the cat during my first underway. I lived under the cat and it didn't take long for me to get used to it with just the foamies. Also, I have hearing loss now.
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Aug 26, 2016 02:01
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Red Crown posted:Has anyone who has lived in a particularly noisy part of the ship ever used noise canceling headphones/earbuds to sleep? Normal flange earplugs just didn't quite cut it for me living under the cat during my first underway. For the first 96 or so hours you get progressively more tired until you pass out while jets are slamming off the deck right over your head and you never have any problems after that. I slept under cat 1 and 2 for 4 years and i only have to have people repeat poo poo 3 times for me to understand it now.
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Aug 26, 2016 02:32
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No loads will wake me up though, once. Then I'm good. Normal cat shots don't phase me in the least.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:03
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The only thing that would absolutely wake me up was the sound of the ventilation winding down.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:09
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Stultus Maximus posted:The only thing that would absolutely wake me up was the sound of the ventilation winding down. That sound would shoot me out of my rack faster than anything else and send my rear end flying to CCS to figure out what the gently caress just happened.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:25
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Stultus Maximus posted:The only thing that would absolutely wake me up was the sound of the ventilation winding down. Hah, you aren't kidding. Distant 4MC "gribble gribble in the flogbag twirble flerp space" followed by ventilation stopping will get your feet on the floor before the actual announcement is made. In response to the actual question, the noise-canceling headphones I've used are really pretty good at deadening ambient hum - even at the bargain level - but not great at sudden pitch-changing noise. Which presumably a cat launch is.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:28
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Stultus Maximus posted:The only thing that would absolutely wake me up was the sound of the ventilation winding down. Ive only heard that one once, I then spent the next 4 hours sitting in an electronics space with a redneck a/c and a thermometer and making reports to the CSO every 15 mins.
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Aug 26, 2016 04:43
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There isn't much worse than waking up at to a dead silent ship.
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Aug 26, 2016 05:53
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Mr. Nice! posted:There isn't much worse than waking up at to a dead silent ship. Been out for 2.5 years now and I still get nightmares about this occasionally.
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Aug 26, 2016 06:00
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Lou Takki posted:Been out for 2.5 years now and I still get nightmares about this occasionally. Been out 4, and in the reserves for 2 now. I still have them. And when I was on LCS as support I instantly started running for forward IC one day when they lost power. Oops.
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Aug 26, 2016 06:37
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I generally run for my PS4 in GQ situations.  But seriously even I have trouble getting to sleep for at least the first few nights I'm home from the boat due to the relative with of my home.
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Aug 26, 2016 07:41
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Stultus Maximus posted:The only thing that would absolutely wake me up was the sound of the ventilation winding down. Same.
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Aug 26, 2016 08:52
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:For the first 96 or so hours you get progressively more tired until you pass out while jets are slamming off the deck right over your head and you never have any problems after that. I slept under cat 1 and 2 for 4 years and i only have to have people repeat poo poo 3 times for me to understand it now. This. People get so annoyed. It's cute. My main office was under the forward missile sponson at the end of Cat 3 and 4. Double hearing protection only gonna do so much. The worst was the unexpected touch and go.
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Aug 26, 2016 10:53
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SquirrelyPSU posted:This. People get so annoyed. It's cute. I will violently scrape metal together on your roof while you sleep. My squadrons berthing is under the wires. It's fun.
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Aug 26, 2016 15:27
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ManMythLegend posted:Same. engineering casualty engineering casualty... Our DCC was a pretty good EOOW on last ship, but the dude was loving cursed. Every major engineering casualty I can remember occurred while he was EOOW.
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Aug 26, 2016 18:36
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vulturesrow posted:No loads will wake me up though, once. Then I'm good. Normal cat shots don't phase me in the least. My berthing was all the way forward on the Reagan one level below . You get all the wonders of jet noise and chain dragging with the added bonus of the cat slamming home at the end of the deck sending vibrations everywhere as the jet takes off. Every few weeks the vibrations would knock out my rack light. Until another one made it work again.
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Aug 26, 2016 21:00
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On the sub, you would hear your rack fan spin down, the whisper of the 4MC followed by the 1MC followed by the bitching of all the nukes getting up. All of this was of course followed up by falling back asleep.
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Aug 26, 2016 21:49
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Welp, looks like I've got some hearing to lose. At least I can take out my nasty, sleep deprived moods on the wretched souls assigned to my watchfloor 
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Aug 26, 2016 23:07
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Red Crown posted:Welp, looks like I've got some hearing to lose. At least I can take out my nasty, sleep deprived moods on the wretched souls assigned to my watchfloor You do not yet know the fury of the sleep deprived enlisted watch lead. I'll never forget when the DOOW made the JOOD have a mental breakdown in control.
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Aug 27, 2016 03:44
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Ventilation turning off was fire drill time. 
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Aug 27, 2016 03:45
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ded posted:Ventilation turning off was fire drill time. Fifty fifty with a SCRAM, unless it was forward inspection prep time, then it was 100% fire.... Most likely in one of my spaces... 
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Aug 27, 2016 04:42
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Null Integer posted:Fifty fifty with a SCRAM, unless it was forward inspection prep time, then it was 100% fire.... Most likely in one of my spaces... They liked to rack us out for nuke only drills. Because gently caress you. Only time they didn't was random midnight nuke drills. Dumb as hell. edit : actually after a few months out of the yards they figured out how dumb that was because everyone off watch ended up in crews mess and the cooks bitched. ded fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Aug 27, 2016 |
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Aug 27, 2016 06:20
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So the Navy keeps breaking ships it doesn't want. Just feels right.
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Sep 1, 2016 18:52
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So... Raining kinda hard in Norfolk.
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Null Integer posted:So the Navy keeps breaking ships it doesn't want. Sometimes I miss the morning huddles at USFF with people like JJ Costello (who is the biggest piece of poo poo I've ever met, no matter how effective) just tearing into the LCS. It really is stunning how much the Navy hates that ship. And yet...
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Sep 1, 2016 21:55
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LingcodKilla posted:So... Raining kinda hard in Norfolk. Sunny at Fallon.
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Sep 1, 2016 22:01
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Godholio posted:Sunny at Fallon. Virginia Beach - also rainy, better than it was 2 hours ago. I don't have sand bags so hopefully it doesn't flood tomorrow.
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Sep 1, 2016 22:32
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LingcodKilla posted:So... Raining kinda hard in Norfolk. We just pulled in and now they want to take us out. 
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Sep 1, 2016 22:53
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Thanks Hermine for giving me a 4 day weekend.
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LingcodKilla posted:So... Raining kinda hard in Norfolk. Cloudy in Suffolk. Not a drop all day.
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Sep 1, 2016 23:09
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Downright pleasant in Arizona
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Sep 2, 2016 01:28
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Haha yall are still in
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Sep 2, 2016 01:31
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Boon posted:Sometimes I miss the morning huddles at USFF with people like JJ Costello (who is the biggest piece of poo poo I've ever met, no matter how effective) just tearing into the LCS. It really is stunning how much the Navy hates that ship. And yet... An old man who spent his entire career training to go toe to toe with the Soviet Union doesn't like LCS?!?  Also gently caress JJ Costello. He was one of my top reasons for wanting to leave the East Coast.
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Anita Dickinme posted:We just pulled in and now they want to take us out. I just ditched town and I'm up in DC for the night. Tomorrow starting my first trip to NYC.
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Sep 2, 2016 05:02
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So, looks like the Pilot/NFO board got pushed back a month, sucks for the guys waiting hear back, but now I have enough time to finish my packet sooner instead of submitting in January! 
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Sep 2, 2016 06:46
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Is there anything else you think you might want to go do in life? If the answer is "yes" really take a hard look at doing that and not this
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ManMythLegend posted:An old man who spent his entire career training to go toe to toe with the Soviet Union doesn't like LCS?!? For all the (much of it deserved) making GBS threads on the LCS program, I've learned more about being a professional mariner and driving ships in 2 weeks of LCS OOD school than all of ADOC and BDOC. At least these SWOs will go out into the fleet and take some of that knowledge with them.
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And then they'll promptly forget it all at shore duty and never get a chance to practice again as a department head when they return to sea.
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I distinctly remember an ex-LCS-DH screaming about how wind was made on the bridge when a squadron gave us a terrible anchoring point the we would later have to move on and reanchor from. Before that, fetch was a thing that dogs and children do.
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