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DownByTheWooter posted:Well I hope y'all rounded up a bar of soap and let them all take a quick shower at least War or terror You know someone decided that even giving them a hose shower was ‘better than they deserve’
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M_Gargantua posted:War or terror I'm amazed they weren't just shackled together out on deck, I thought that was the current standard
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simplefish posted:You should do something useful to both break the monotony and save time later. Like you could have been cleaning your weapon. Yeah, maybe disassemble it so you can get it really clean.
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Hey, it goes by faster if you have guys to help. Know any dudes nearby not doing anything?
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orange juche posted:Let me tell you some of the most boring as gently caress guard duty is standing guard in the secondary exit of the ship's brig for 4 loving hours with a Mossberg just staring at a locked gate and the shower/poo poo area of the brig because there's 10 or so pirates in your brig. Were you doing this on the Big E because I spent some time with the guys who took our pirates away and I still don't know who smelled worse.
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DownByTheWooter posted:Well I hope y'all rounded up a bar of soap and let them all take a quick shower at least Yeah they were allowed to shower, guarded of course but no we didn't spray them with a fire hose or any dumb poo poo like that, we actually followed proper procedures for treating detainees, and even gave them actual medical care (a couple got shot, and 1 got stabbed in the boarding iirc, i don't think stabby boy made it) because these guys were going back to the States to face federal criminal charges for piracy. We treated them nice because we we're positive that anything we did that was off the mark would wind up in court against us. Geizkragen posted:Were you doing this on the Big E because I spent some time with the guys who took our pirates away and I still don't know who smelled worse. Yeah that was those guys. The fun thing was 3 or 4 of the pirates had active symptoms of TB, so we all had to get retested afterwards to make sure we hadn't contracted it. orange juche fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Sep 25, 2018 |
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Oh so that's probably where I was exposed.
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Did the guy get stabbed accidentally by one of the other pirates, or did a knife fight break out with one of the boarding team guys?
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Did the guy get stabbed accidentally by one of the other pirates, or did a knife fight break out with one of the boarding team guys? Boarding team, I mean the boarding team was a bunch of DEVGRU dudes in one of their SWCC fastboat things (this happened pretty close to shore, we intercepted the boat as it was trying to flee to Somalia so they could offload hostages and hold them for ransom, so they're lucky they weren't all just killed on the spot. I'd imagine if the SEALs had known that there were no living hostages aboard the boat when they boarded they would have just smoked the lot of them. Knifeboi got a Ka-Bar in the neck for trying to ambush one of the boarding team.
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Was a feelgood story until you mentioned the hostages were all dead. loving pirates.
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Yeah we basically body-blocked the boat with a CVN and her escorting DDGs. I think there were 2 DDGs there along with us, and we were basically spending all day trying to make the pirates existence hell on the yacht to get them to surrender. Shooting laser dazzlers off the bridge glass, pointing those neat focused noise makers/loudspeakers at the yacht and broadcasting an alternation of telling them to surrender in Somali, Arabic, and just broadcasting irritating tones at night so they couldn't sleep. Once they realized that there was no chance in hell of us leaving them to their devices, I think a scuffle broke out on board over what to do, and an RPG was fired at one of our DDGs, and then there was a bunch of gunshots below deck (them shooting the hostages). The SEALs boarded as fast as they could but poo poo was all over by then. A couple pirates got shot, and one got knifed, and the rest surrendered when they realized that they were likely to all die if they tried to resist. poo poo was hosed. One of those things I'm gonna remember forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SY_Quest_incident quote:According to American reports, the SY Quest was captured on 18 February 2011 at 13.23 UTC by nineteen pirates in a mothership, 190 to 240 miles off the coast of Oman at approximately 18°00′N 61°02′E in the Indian Ocean. Pirates then tried sailing the SY Quest towards Puntland. Sometime thereafter the Enterprise, the guided missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf and the guided missile destroyers USS Sterett and USS Bulkeley were sent to the area and arrived several days later on or about 21 February. Captain Dee Mewbourne, of the Enterprise, then proceeded with opening negotiations with the pirates, at which time two Somalis went aboard the Sterett. On the following morning, 22 February, while negotiations were still taking place, a pirate aboard the SY Quest fired a rocket propelled grenade at the Sterett from 600 yards away but it missed. Almost immediately afterward gunfire was heard aboard the yacht so a boarding party was sent in on a raft and they boarded the SY Quest. A brief skirmish occurred resulting in the deaths of two pirates, one by rifle fire and the other by a combat knife. Thirteen pirates surrendered in the process and were taken into custody. After boarding, the American navy personnel discovered Phyllis Macay and Robert Riggle, of Seattle, Washington and the SY Quest's owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, California. My bad I thought we were off the coast of Somalia, it was Oman. Also one of the few times I've heard Enterprise run up to flank speed when it pulled a 180 after receiving the orders to respond. Holy hell the ship sounded like it was going to come apart from the massive cavitation off the propellers. orange juche fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Sep 26, 2018 |
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Ah I was thinking of the other pirates we had on board. The ones that took the Emirate's tanker. Those guys were also smelly but the UAE guys who came on board to get them smelled even worse. They managed to stink out the smoke pit.
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Geizkragen posted:Ah I was thinking of the other pirates we had on board. The ones that took the Emirate's tanker. Those guys were also smelly but the UAE guys who came on board to get them smelled even worse. They managed to stink out the smoke pit. That weird blend of b.o. and cologne you so often encounter in the Middle East is still one of the most nauseating smells I've ever experienced. I think it's actually worse than straight b.o.
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Does anyone wear any kind of Oxford shoe other than the bates ones with their uniform? Specifically aviator brown shoes since it’s a weird poo brown color. About to have to wear khakis for the first time in a year and I can see the soles starting to crack. Prepping for a bates blowout, I’m thinking I’d like to spend some extra to get something that won’t disintegrate sitting in my closet. I’ve heard of some model of Florsheim or Allen Edmonds that look similar, but I’m hesitant to buy if there’s a chance it’ll look off.
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Wonder Free posted:Does anyone wear any kind of Oxford shoe other than the bates ones with their uniform? Specifically aviator brown shoes since it’s a weird poo brown color. If you’re a khaki who is going to bitch about your oxford looking slightly different?
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Wonder Free posted:Does anyone wear any kind of Oxford shoe other than the bates ones with their uniform? Specifically aviator brown shoes since it’s a weird poo brown color. The cheap Bates (i.e. not the Bates Lites) hold up a lot better over time.
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What the gently caress guys? https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...ce=facebook.com
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Wonder Free posted:Does anyone wear any kind of Oxford shoe other than the bates ones with their uniform? Specifically aviator brown shoes since it’s a weird poo brown color. I wore the Florsheim ones that I bought at the 32nd ST NEX after a Bates blowout.
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vulturesrow posted:I wore the Florsheim ones that I bought at the 32nd ST NEX after a Bates blowout. I wound up ordering those. The amazon reviews for the one I got are mostly people saying they got them after a Bates blowout and they look pretty close. Got them for 85 off the Florsheim site so basically the same cost as a pair of Bates anyways.
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Wonder Free posted:Does anyone wear any kind of Oxford shoe other than the bates ones with their uniform? Specifically aviator brown shoes since it’s a weird poo brown color. Not brown, but I got a pair of Mephisto's from some shoe store in the Lynnwood Mall in Washington that have held up for 10 years. Super comfortable and very much not Bates. Wore them on watch for probably 3 years. They've got a brown version but I'm not familiar with the tint so I can't say if they are close or not: https://www.mephisto.com/us/cirus-5128120.html
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Anybody find some brown NWU boots that work with wide-rear end feet? I normally wear a 4E and Belleville/Bates/Rocky all only go up to 2E.
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Cerekk posted:Anybody find some brown NWU boots that work with wide-rear end feet? I normally wear a 4E and Belleville/Bates/Rocky all only go up to 2E. Did you try the Rocky 2E? Rocky's to me have always run wide to begin with. I wear the 2 comfortably but usually need a wider size in other brands.
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King of Bees posted:Did you try the Rocky 2E? Rocky's to me have always run wide to begin with. I wear the 2 comfortably but usually need a wider size in other brands. I haven't been able to find them in a physical store to try on, but this is useful info before I blind-order a $250 boot
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Gray Matter posted:Anyone familiar with the regs governing ebaying my blue nwus? I mean when you throw away a uniform you're supposed to mutilate it to prevent it from being used to impersonate a military member but that always struck me as a bit weird since you can get a full up uniform from a surplus store. Who the gently caress knows but you'll probably have someone who is a nosy bastard report your rear end regardless of legality.
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I'm going to give mine to one of my students at the end of the school year. gently caress the regs.
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Whew. Orders liquidated from DC. Was kinda of nervous since it’s been a month since I submitted them. Still waiting on my orders from 2016.
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LingcodKilla posted:Whew. Orders liquidated from DC. Was kinda of nervous since it’s been a month since I submitted them. Still waiting on my orders from 2016. So you're not going back to DC?
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Oh no I got invited to come back out again in January but that’s a new set of orders. I was feeling a little sketchy on how I did the housing for this last one but it got accepted no problem. It more than made up for me being hosed by my C school orders in 2016.
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Yup. That’s always the worry but we followed the rules it just feels weird considering how much they try to pinch pennies on stuff.
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vulturesrow posted:https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/10/03/navy-vet-william-clyde-allen-iii-arrested-in-ricin-poison-case/ He didn't mail ricin - he just mailed castor beans. So that poo poo-eating grin is probably because he knows the worst he'll get is put on the No-Fly List. The beans themselves are harmless unless you chew them before swallowing.
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https://twitter.com/SurfaceWarriors/status/1047910472106692609 Go do your FY19 GMTs
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One of the first things we did in Boot Camp was put our social security numbers on our underwear. They're super serious about identity theft.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:One of the first things we did in Boot Camp was put our social security numbers on our underwear. The Chinese already have your ID
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