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AlternateNu posted:Oh lordy. We have nothing but big deck sailors in this thread? I know that at least three of us were on the Lincoln at the same time, but there's plenty of Amphib/DDG/other small boy representation as well.
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Yup. I've only ever served on DDGs. Both FLT 1s at that, though I spent two weeks on a FLT IIA. Otherwise, about the longest I've been on another class of ship was lunch on the Wasp with my cousin who ran air maintenance. Pretty cool LDO.
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AlternateNu posted:Oh lordy. We have nothing but big deck sailors in this thread? Heavens no. I break out in hives if I go on anything bigger than a cruiser. This upcoming XO/CO ride will be the first time I return to a class in my career. Until now I've done a cruiser, a frigate, a 2 variant LCS, and a sweep.
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ded posted:My boat took some good pictures of the Nimitz from about 750 yards away when they were trying to sneak past us. The only thing I hear when picturing a Nimitz-class CVN sneaking past anything is Baby Elephant Walk.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:The only thing I hear when picturing a Nimitz-class CVN sneaking past anything is Baby Elephant Walk. One time they made us come up with a plan to light Boxer as a small boat and try to sneak up on pirates. It was a bad plan.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I know that at least three of us were on the Lincoln at the same time, but there's plenty of Amphib/DDG/other small boy representation as well. When were yall on? I was there for like 2006 to 2007 or so, when we did a Westpac cruise before transferring to the Bush for precomm. Left right as things were starting to get bad in the yards at PSNS.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:When were yall on? I was there for like 2006 to 2007 or so, when we did a Westpac cruise before transferring to the Bush for precomm. Left right as things were starting to get bad in the yards at PSNS. Got there June 2006, left at the end of 2011. I was an FC, there was another guy that was an AT, and I think the third was an IC, but I forget for sure. edit: 2007, not 2006. I got there right at the end of the yard period. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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I was on JSM and HOP. There were 4-5 goons on JSM with me.
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Hekk posted:I was on an LPD for three years. It was nice but I just had to liaison between the landing force and the ship. Well that and I loaded and unloaded all of the equipment and Marines. I went on a minesweeper once to see what they were like. It was easy to get onboard because they never went out for more than a week at a time and just anchored off the coast of Sasebo half the time they went out. JUNEAU? I was a Sasebo sweep guy for my first tour and it was great. Though true. We were usually 3 section during any kind of work ups but were able to spread to 4 section for most post-deployment and maintenance periods. Being CDO was a crapshoot based on quals though. There were times there were 5 of us. There were times I was port/stbd with the CHENG. *shrug* The best part was our deployments never lasted more than 6 months, we never went farther than PI, and we almost never sailed for more than 5 days at a time. So our deployments were basically just port hopping around WESTPAC. And because we independently steamed the entire time, we never had to deal with strike group bullshit. Hell, we were so separated from the other amphib ships on base that when CTF76 locked everyone down after that string of liberty incidents in 2007(?), we were exempted. 
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AlternateNu posted:The best part was our deployments never lasted more than 6 months, we never went farther than PI, and we almost never sailed for more than 5 days at a time. So our deployments were basically just port hopping around WESTPAC. And because we independently steamed the entire time, we never had to deal with strike group bullshit. This really is the best part of sweep life. Though 76 is a lot more involved with MCMs now thanks to the loving GUARDIAN.
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ManMythLegend posted:This really is the best part of sweep life. Though 76 is a lot more involved with MCMs now thanks to the loving GUARDIAN. That was my ship. But I was about one XO/CO fleet up cycle removed from when she ran aground. (RIP) A lot of the guys I served with were still on board when that poo poo went down.
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AlternateNu posted:Oh lordy. We have nothing but big deck sailors in this thread? I was on an Austin class LPD before my CVN tour. This would be the opposite of a valid SWO career path.
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AlternateNu posted:JUNEAU? This was 2015-2018 on the Green Bay out of Sasebo. Which was my second tour in Japan but my first time stationed aboard a ship. If I had more time before I retired, I’d do another three years on an amphib because I got to take the best parts of being a sailor without actually having to do the lovely stuff. I never did quals or stood duty but I got blue libbo in ports. When we were back in home port I went to XOs call in the morning, inspected some green spaces, and went to the gym before heading home everyday. The only time life was really miserable was during onloads and offloads in Okinawa in the summer.
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ded posted:My boat took some good pictures of the Nimitz from about 750 yards away when they were trying to sneak past us. Did they try going past at 10 knots on just the one shaft while having the crew sing Louie Louie?
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SquirrelyPSU posted:The only thing I hear when picturing a Nimitz-class CVN sneaking past anything is Baby Elephant Walk. McNally posted:Did they try going past at 10 knots on just the one shaft while having the crew sing Louie Louie? Was a war game in a giant rectangle box. Our boat acting as an oscar II vs the battlegroup + sub escort. They sent the entire escort fleet to the north end of the box to push west (the west side was how they 'won') while the carrier went alone in the south end of the box while running on 2 screws instead of 4, to look like merchant traffic, with its sub escort screening ahead. We detected the carrier at an obscene distance away on a 3rd or 4th convergence zone. When we also detected the LA class escort we knew we had the carrier. Rolled up beside the Nimitz, took pictures and fired off flares to tell them they were got. Nimitz radioed out 'rest of fleet, highly recommended make best speed for west end of box'. We hauled rear end to the north end of the box and caught the rest of the escorts at night with zero light discipline and murdered everyone. Figuratively.
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ded posted:We hauled rear end to the north end of the box and caught the rest of the escorts at night with zero light discipline and murdered everyone. Figuratively. look man when you're a season behind on game of thrones and get like zero personal time what do you expect
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2008 deployment in a dust storm in the Persian Gulf, Cape St. George was 500-1000 feet off starboard doing their thing. I think we may have been doing 5 knots. For a moment, the dust clears a little bit and there is an Iranian Patrol Craft which had unknowingly had found its way between the two. Everyone realizes (us, the CSG, and the Patrol Craft) it at the same time. They immediately went full reverse and high tailed it out there.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:When were yall on? I was there for like 2006 to 2007 or so, when we did a Westpac cruise before transferring to the Bush for precomm. Left right as things were starting to get bad in the yards at PSNS. I was seaopdet in AIMD, did a westpac 2010-2011 and a world cruise 2011-2012. SquirrelyPSU worked in some shop that was accessible through the head in my berthing and we knew a lot of the same people, but we never actually met. edit: or was that the other dude, i don't remember MancXVI fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Sas Vegas is the best base in the Navy.
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Stultus Maximus posted:I was on an Austin class LPD before my CVN tour. This would be the opposite of a valid SWO career path. The hell is the Austin class? Did they split the classes for the new ones? I know they're getting a FLT II designator soon(ish). But it's also been a decade since I was on one. San Antonio class for me.
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Thronde posted:The hell is the Austin class? Did they split the classes for the new ones? I know they're getting a FLT II designator soon(ish). But it's also been a decade since I was on one. He's an old salt, it was before the LPD-17
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Thronde posted:The hell is the Austin class? Did they split the classes for the new ones? I know they're getting a FLT II designator soon(ish). But it's also been a decade since I was on one. LPD 4 class, built 1965 - 1971
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MancXVI posted:I was seaopdet in AIMD, did a westpac 2010-2011 and a world cruise 2011-2012. Somebody tried to do the Stairs thing to me in the chow line. I always assumed it was you. But I didn't know the SA "hello" at the time. e: I had probably 800 SF of 54 degree office space between FWD and AFT RAM. It was lovely. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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https://www.duffelblog.com/2020/04/pentagon-worries-capt-croziers-concern-for-his-sailors-may-be-contagious/ Duffel Blog still great
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  Because the actual Chief asked me too lol That being said if this dude cusses me out again I’m going nuclear. I don’t think the dept head is aware of anything going on specific to this acting Chief other than me having issues getting stuff done. Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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Failure 1) Your dipshit CPO has your cell phone number and you responded to it. Either (a) get a burner or (b) never respond to that thing for official communications.
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Nick Soapdish posted:He's an old salt, it was before the LPD-17 Thought about that after, drat that is old school. Think there's even a new Austin in the new ones.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Failure 1) Your dipshit CPO has your cell phone number and you responded to it. Either (a) get a burner or (b) never respond to that thing for official communications. gently caress, good point.
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Bremerton yards, my man. Don't ever repeat my mistake. Change your phone number because of Identity Theft or whatever, get a burner, and make sure that dude doesn't think he can get a hold of you in 5 minutes.
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https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-captain-fired-lyingquote:According to the investigation, Cmdr. John "Bob" Bowen, the Decatur's commanding officer, ordered his crew in September not to report that the ship had gone dead in the water. I don't even get why, it's not like you'd lose your command for having a casualty which takes a few hours to repair.
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A TR sailor has died of COVID.
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The Navy is having the worst of the recruiting problems currently, right? Why on earth would you make that problem 10x worse by screwing up one of the main selling points: free healthcare. Nobody gives a poo poo about free healthcare if they are going to be forced into virus boats. Come on navy just think one step ahead this isn't that loving complicated.
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Maybe my experience was an anomaly, but the institutional culture of the USN seemed to be relentlessly gently caress over personnel for no logical reason.
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Relentlessly loving over personnel is how you keep mission effectiveness at 100% according to the spreadsheets.
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M_Gargantua posted:Relentlessly loving over personnel is how you keep mission effectiveness at 100% according to the spreadsheets. Gotta turn those red boxes green shipmate.  Pryor on Fire posted:The Navy is having the worst of the recruiting problems currently, right? Why on earth would you make that problem 10x worse by screwing up one of the main selling points: free healthcare. The cynic in me says the Navy and DOD are banking on the upcoming economic downturn to get warm bodies in positions as soon as they can recruit.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Gotta turn those red boxes green shipmate. I doubt retention is gonna be good from sailors living on the plague ships though. Also how long until they project boot camps going forward? poo poo's gonna get weird.
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Ex-Navy nuke has a twitter thread on why it's kinda nice to have a healthy nuke crew on a carrier. https://twitter.com/KimWooster11/status/1249480330404417538
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