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I don't miss poo poo, gently caress the Navy x1000000
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 02:58 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:00 |
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I've never met so many weeaboos in my life until I enlisted
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 03:55 |
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Only thing I miss about the Navy is my interviewing of the people that would get high as poo poo on LSD, meth, or heroin and I'd just sit there talking with them. Also that one time one of the corpsmen that saw a seal in nwus went full blown fan girl and asked the seal if it was true that if he was able to take the pin away from him he'd be one too. Kid nearly poo poo himself with the glare.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 10:57 |
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So I was sent down to FL in a civilian capacity for some ship evolutions...and the ship never got my jpass request...and it's a saturday...
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 17:37 |
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Stupid E5 test for IT. Never even seen a radio in person. Can't wait for results.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 18:46 |
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poo poo getting all emotional in this thread. I'm still in but some things I'm already missing. Namely:
Stuff I don't miss/can't wait to never do again:
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 18:49 |
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LingcodKilla posted:Never even seen a radio in person. Not a real IT.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 18:51 |
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Good news, old man, you're testing against other reservists and you're in a rate that rapidly advances regardless.Howard Phillips posted:
#1 thing I miss.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 18:56 |
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Howard Phillips posted:Not a real IT. I absolutely agree. Gonna sign up for radio c school next fiscal year. Then maybe a mobilization.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 18:57 |
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Howard Phillips posted:
This. Also, now that this is on Youtube I don't mind posting this/talking about it. I was the OOD in this situation... wooooie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htpjDopOgac
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 21:34 |
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Boon posted:Also, now that this is on Youtube I don't mind posting this/talking about it. I was the OOD in this situation... wooooie. I can't make it out from the audio. What happened to get that close?
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 23:42 |
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Yeah, I probably should have posted with more context - the video I have (same one) has much better audio but I'm not uploading it to the internet. That said, we were in the SAG and our initial course (about 010) had us heading towards Iran with an oil field to our port beam. The CO was with the conning officer and I was managing the bridge. After we cleared the oil field we began to come around 5 degrees at a time until we were heading about 290 - the helm called out steady on course, rudder amidships, I verified it on the instruments up front, and proceeded to call down to aft steering to coordinate a shift of control for training purposes. As I was on the phone (CG - XO's phone on the port side of the pilot house) I glanced out the window at the P&D line which was sitting at about 260. Puzzled, I looked at our bows which looked like a V, then slammed the phone down and ran out to the bridge wing, caught the CO's eye on the fly bridge, saw that he knew, and then I screamed down to drop the P&D line. We got out to about 340 or so on the bow before we began to straighten and correct. Now, here's the thing. The oiler? It's never wrong. Is it wrong? No - you're wrong - correct to it. And so we did. We had previously steadied on 290, but the oiler was closer to 275 or so, and so we began to come around. The only problem is that the oiler then started to come back to the original communicated course of 290. Before we knew it I was looking at their hull numbers through our bullnose. I'm a bit dissapointed in myself that I didn't immediately recommend an emergency breakaway, instead pausing to assess. I arrived at hte conclusion, but as I did the XO was already running past me to blow the signals. I'm still ashamed about that. Anyway, emergency breakaway now in full effect, we managed to level out but we have two lines over including amidships and we're probably at around 100-120 feet. That's where the video starts up. It was shot by the air crew who obviously had no loving clue what was going on until the word started to get passed over the 1MC. Initially there was a bit of chaos as we kind of looked at each other in a shared "oh gently caress" then snapped out of it and began preparing for collision. Reports from our aft fueling station gave us updates, they were the first line to clear. I got on the 1MC and ordered the weatherdecks cleared on the port side. What I didn't know, was that our team on the midships kingpost ran off without clearing the line. A BMSN grabbed a SN and a BM3 and ran out and cleared it themselves (BMSN got a COM and other two got NAMs - those dudes were loving awesome). Once we got the word that the midships line was cleared the CO (who never took the conn) ordered flank 3 (you can hear the engines whine up in the video). At this point there wasn't much left to do in the pilothouse but wait. As we were sucked closer in I sounded the collision alarm; you can hear it on the video chirp twice - that's because I hit it and released thinking it would sound but as soon as I released it stopped, so I confusedly hit it again but it didn't go without holding so I gave up on it and passed a 'brace for impact'. As we pulled forward we were mostly out of danger (though I didn't realize it from my vantage). I walked out to lean against the rail thinking how my name was on that deck log, how I was totally hosed, and I was just waiting for the collision. The CO issued a slough of orders to the rudder both ways and we veered across the bow. A brief moment of panic as we crossed the bow elicited a followup 'brace for impact' that was late and also unnecessary but at that point who the gently caress cares. We cleared the oiler, I walked back in, past some word, and called for reports from all stations. The CICWO ran up sometime around here, was hysterical, and my Helm Safety Officer kicked him out the door. Then the CO walked in, asked for station reports, looked me dead in the eyes, drew a breath and said, "Ok OOD, let's get ready to come back around, we still got oil and ice cream to pick up." That dude was one cool loving cat and the best ship handler I'd ever met. We found out much later that on the final segment of our turn the oiler suffered a rudder casualty which caused them to continue over to ~275. I still get chills watching the video and I got chills writing that up. At the time I was pretty 'young' OOD still, far from getting my pin, and I was just glad I didn't completely poo poo myself. I should note that not only did that BMSN and BM3/SN get an award, but so did the under instruction master helm - who was given her master helmsman qualification that night. E: I had to edit the order of events a bit - a lot of the actions, events, and feelings are vivid, but the exact order that they happened were a bit out of order - watching the video again helped bring it back. Boon fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 27, 2017 |
# ? Feb 27, 2017 00:18 |
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Boon posted:Yeah, I probably should have posted with more context - the video I have (same one) has much better audio but I'm not uploading it to the internet.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 09:29 |
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navy seems gay as gently caress and the worst to actually serve in having to live with your senior enlisted and delusional officers so I'm just drunk posting right now that you got my respect. when I was recruiting for the army and my major competition was the navy I said "IMAGINE IF YOUR MCDONALDS MANAGER LIVED WITH YOU AND YOU WERE SURROUNDED BY THE OCEAN" and actually that didn't work that much but still my heart was true
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 09:31 |
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i should have said " your mcdonalds manager without the pot hookup part" now that i think about it
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 09:33 |
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Asking for someone. What are all the ideal IT-esque type of jobs for someone that wants to do four and get out, maybe use GI Bill, and have a possible career prospects as a civilian right out of the Navy
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 09:40 |
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Asking for someone. What are all the ideal IT-esque type of jobs for someone that wants to do four and get out, maybe use GI Bill, and have a possible career prospects as a civilian right out of the Navy IT, CT-whatever except maybe the language variant. Those and IS can also come with higher level clearances which is also valuable outside.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 11:11 |
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Yeah I never got all the CT jobs. I know there's three? Two are of IT variants and one is linguistics?
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 11:42 |
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Yeah I never got all the CT jobs. I know there's three? Two are of IT variants and one is linguistics? CTN: l337 haxors CTI: Interpreters CTT: Used to be EW's. They're responsible for shipboard electronic warfare gear. CTM: Basically ET's with TS/SCI. They repair gear and sometimes operate SSES stuff. ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Feb 27, 2017 |
# ? Feb 27, 2017 11:55 |
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Ok so everything but CTI, got it, thanks. Said person speaks Spanish but lol that's probably more commonplace than Tagalog
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 12:25 |
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Forgot CTR. Communications signals
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 14:08 |
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Laranzu posted:Forgot CTR. Communications signals gently caress, I knew I was forgetting one.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 14:33 |
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Hey there used to be CTOs and CTAs too
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 15:28 |
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LingcodKilla posted:Stupid E5 test for IT. Never even seen a radio in person. A lot of the IT people that see radios every day don't know what they are either. Don't sweat it.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 15:33 |
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Day one of TAP, finance guy is a retired GSM. Welp that's my story.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 17:24 |
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vulturesrow posted:Hey there used to be CTOs and CTAs too CTA is now just a YN with SCI
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 17:25 |
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vulturesrow posted:Day one of TAP, finance guy is a retired GSM. Welp that's my story. Expectations managed.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 17:57 |
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I would avoid CTT and CTR like the plague. CTT is literally watching a 30 year old TV while at sea for hours at a time. CTN is the best for the short enlistment. You get high level clearance TSC/SCI and mostly work on shore for high level mission infastructure. Possibly work with civilian counterparts, so get direct experience. Can be hired directly into IT role in high clearance required government or contracting job or get degree and do same with more pay.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 18:15 |
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Howard Phillips posted:I would avoid CTT and CTR like the plague. CTT is literally watching a 30 year old TV while at sea for hours at a time. CTT, if you get shore or direct support first, doesn't use the 40 year old refrigerator with a monitor stuck in it. The job is much nicer. Still doesn't translate out to civilian work unless you go govvie or contractor though
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 18:40 |
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poopkitty posted:Expectations managed. So it turns out Mr Retired GSM was the highlight of the day.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 22:19 |
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vulturesrow posted:So it turns out Mr Retired GSM was the highlight of the day. There's still time to jerk off in the head.
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# ? Feb 27, 2017 22:32 |
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DownByTheWooter posted:CTA is now just a YN with SCI It never wasn't.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 00:12 |
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Except at least CTAs were able to somewhat keep up their proficiency with managing security admin. In most cases I've seen YNs with that NEC are pretty terrible at it due to lack of experience.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 00:43 |
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Boon posted:Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck I realized recently that we're only ever taught about situations that go bad, never the close ones where somebody saves it and it's really heartening to see your example.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 07:52 |
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TAP Day 2. DoL contract instructor is a retired NCC.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 16:47 |
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How long until e4-E7 advancement exams are released?
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 18:07 |
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LingcodKilla posted:How long until e4-E7 advancement exams are released? Results? April i think.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 20:29 |
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vulturesrow posted:TAP Day 2. DoL contract instructor is a retired NCC. You're retiring, you can just attend days 1 and 5!
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 20:37 |
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vulturesrow posted:TAP Day 2. DoL contract instructor is a retired NCC. Ours was a 23 year old milspouse with a Master's in business. The DOL teaching job was her first out of college. Yay. Whatever, I just got out and went to college.
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 20:50 |
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DustyNuts posted:You're retiring, you can just attend days 1 and 5! Not being snarky, where does it say this?
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# ? Feb 28, 2017 23:37 |