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One of my shipmates on firstship in Japan straight up went to sleep while on the internal rover watch in the berthing. When the duty chief found him, he was suggled up on a couch with his gun laying on the floor. Chief picked up the weapon and assumed the rest of the watch. Dude went to DRB, but only lost his firearm qual because the watch section heads had gundecked his internal rover qual. He never should have been on the watch in the first place. That man is a chief today.
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Just before I arrived at my first ship (also in Japan), I had a fellow DIVO leave the quarterdeck as inport OOD while on the midwatch. In a stroke of genius (and because the heads are super small on a minesweep), he decided to leave his weapon on the quarterdeck. The rover found it and held the watch until he got back. That man never got his pin.
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Sailor hung her belt on the bathroom door to use the restroom and left it there for a few hours. Got kicked off security.
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maffew buildings posted:Someone here has a story you're going to love Kinda the opposite in a way. Just want to add that being a civilian rules I stumbled backwards into a “cyber security” job where I think they just wanted someone with that title to sound good to the investors since I’m basically just an extra hand with IT, and I don’t even do direct helpdesk, I just do research and write scripts.
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https://www.postguam.com/news/local/seabee-dies-while-assigned-in-tinian/article_2bad6f6c-a0ef-11eb-90be-23b628cde8f7.html Sailor got caught in a rip tide. New guy with a family. Pretty loving awful to state the total obvious, obe od my former troops is out there and they're taking it as well as can be expected.
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Anita Dickinme posted:Sailor hung her belt on the bathroom door to use the restroom and left it there for a few hours. Got kicked off security. For awhile I was locked with a Duty Chief who wasn't qualified guns (because my psycho captain refused to sign out the list of qualified arms locker key holders) so I'd be armed for 24 hours as EDPO, with both sets of small arms keys. When it came time to rack out I'd just kinda awkwardly jam all that poo poo in my rack. I am 99% sure that's unkosher as hell. Unrelated rant: I'm up for my ops/nuc/sub physical, and medical has been a nonstop nightmare for me over the past month, their hours are 9-11 and 13-15, with training all day Thursday, and they spent a month loving my paperwork up, so I finally went in today, while I'm on transfer leave. My BP has been 130-140 for like a year, apparently no one gives a poo poo. The following convos happened today. Doc: "I need you to be more specific about your *surgery*" Me: "It's in my medical record, I don't remember the details" Doc: "well, we can't just read your medical record, when was it?: Me: "2016?" Doc: "okay *tangent about remembering the date and hospital for his wrist surgery" Doc: "Any heart problems?" Me: "I have an abnormal heartbeat" Doc: "ok, what type?" Me: "I literally can't remember, it's benign and there's a CD with a weeks worth of data on it collected from a Halter Monitor by Yale-New Haven Hospital in my medical record, I can show it to you" Doc: "ok, but I need to know exactly what it was. Me: "OK, give me my medical record, I'll find it for you" *reaches for medical record* Doc: *pulls medical record away* *stares* Me: *stares* Doc "ok, for the next part of the physical we'll....." I can't take this poo poo, I've wasted like 20 hours at medical over the last couple weeks for no reason, while doing my actual job, just omit the ball fondling and teethy check you stupid fucks, the physical reveals nothing. Also I got the 5 stitches I got in my finger at a civvie urgent care pulled today by an HMCS, but he accidentally flipped the scalpel the wrong way and ripped one out instead of cutting it 
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Apr 20, 2021 07:39
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Lol FTN and gently caress you if you're still in.
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Don't skip the teethy check they hosed me on the way out by not doing one.
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Elendil004 posted:Don't skip the teethy check the hosed me on the way out by not doing one.
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My falling asleep on watch was only 6 months after 9/11. Things were taken a lot more seriously. They ripped my frock, obviously (a week away from me getting paid for it which hurts far more), renacted my suspended bust which took my crow, then hit me with another bust to E2 as well as a 45/45 and a week in the brig.
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drat.... Did you at least get good sleep that week in the brig?
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Deadmeat5150 posted:My falling asleep on watch was only 6 months after 9/11. Things were taken a lot more seriously. They ripped my frock, obviously (a week away from me getting paid for it which hurts far more), renacted my suspended bust which took my crow, then hit me with another bust to E2 as well as a 45/45 and a week in the brig. Yoowzer. We had a frocked E4 busted down to 2 back in 05 on PCU New Orleans. He was topside rover on a berthing barge and decided to quell the boredom by disassembling and cleaning the M4 in the middle of watch because "he was a country boy who grew up with ar15s". MACM was less than pleased with that initiative. Seems to be a navy trend they should address in training lol.
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Crab Dad posted:drat.... I actually did, there was nothing else to do.
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I slept more my first two weeks in the brig than I did in my five years in the Navy.
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Hmm, sleeping, must be nice
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I had a frocked E-5 in my first division who got busted down to E-3 and given the full 45/45, 1/2 pay for two months for getting shitfaced off absinth during a port visit in Hong Kong. He woke up in a water tower on the top of a building on the other side of Kowloon when he came to. When he finally climbed out of the water tower and jumped down to the roof, he broke through the roof and landed in some old guy's apartment. He got back to the ship about an hour curfew. Worst part is I was the legal officer, and he was my best loving electrician. And I was the CDO that night freaking out because he was the only who didn't make it back by curfew. >_>
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Had a frocked E7 at the Intel schoolhouse that got knocked down for sexual harassment of a student to E5. Saw him years later at a fleet MIOC when our ship was inport and he was able to retire as an E6.
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King of Bees posted:Yoowzer. We had a frocked E4 busted down to 2 back in 05 on PCU New Orleans. He was topside rover on a berthing barge and decided to quell the boredom by disassembling and cleaning the M4 in the middle of watch because "he was a country boy who grew up with ar15s". MACM was less than pleased with that initiative. Seems to be a navy trend they should address in training lol. I bet he didn't verify the MRC before he started either.
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We had a Frocked Chief pop positive for coke. Busted to E-5; admin sep out. Got caught running a coke ring in the restriction barracks. Reduced in rate to E-1, BCD. All-but-paid E-7 to E-1 in ~3 months. Took a fistful of Chiefs with him as accomplices/facilitators. Also a fistful of E-6s and quite a lot of E-2 through E-5 there in the barracks.
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Anita Dickinme posted:I slept more my first two weeks in the brig than I did in my five years in the Navy. Some people were complaining about the two week ROM in conex box housing prior to joining their ships on deployment, and I was just like... dudes, this is probably the best two weeks of deployment for a lot of people. Other than the food, that kind of sucked. But as crappy and run-down as those housing units are, they were still vastly better than virtually any berthing on the ship.
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King of Bees posted:Yoowzer. We had a frocked E4 busted down to 2 back in 05 on PCU New Orleans. He was topside rover on a berthing barge and decided to quell the boredom by disassembling and cleaning the M4 in the middle of watch because "he was a country boy who grew up with ar15s". MACM was less than pleased with that initiative. Seems to be a navy trend they should address in training lol. PCU New Orleans?  we probably have met.
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maffew buildings posted:https://www.postguam.com/news/local/seabee-dies-while-assigned-in-tinian/article_2bad6f6c-a0ef-11eb-90be-23b628cde8f7.html Saw this on FB. loving sucks man, sorry. Really sorry for his family.
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Best sleep I ever got was on the Howard in the middle of PAC sailing through a typhoon. That rocking and rolling just out me out like a baby.
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Man I feel for you guys. They really should send more active duty sailors to these dumb EPF ships as down time and rest because we reservists dont deserve this kind of rest and relaxation compared to sea duty sailors. Oh man what an idea. 30-50 sailors at time for rest and relaxation to work on evals/quals/jerking off for a few weeks. No extra duty just good food and regular sleep. Give these ships a real mission as a floating MWR. Also I want flying pigs and unicorns civilians manning the ship.
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Who takes their weapon apart on watch? Christ, what an rear end in a top hat.
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Crab Dad posted:Man I feel for you guys. They really should send more active duty sailors to these dumb EPF ships as down time and rest because we reservists dont deserve this kind of rest and relaxation compared to sea duty sailors. In six days or less this would get hosed up.
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krispykremessuck posted:In six days or less this would get hosed up. Money on the less. We just got a new OIC who had to spend some extra time at ECRC to take a refresher on taking sailors to mast. We had some..... issues in 2020.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Who takes their weapon apart on watch? Christ, what an rear end in a top hat. I actually did this a lot when I had the Tower watch at pier 13 in San Diego.it was a 6 hour watch, alone, at night, at the end of a pier with no ships on it. I used to bring my cleaning kit and strip and clean my M14. Now even though I wasn't a gunners mate I did have my armory qual so I at least knew what I was doing. At least they gave us a radio so we wouldn't go completely insane.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Who takes their weapon apart on watch? Christ, what an rear end in a top hat. 
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Deadmeat5150 posted:I actually did this a lot when I had the Tower watch at pier 13 in San Diego.it was a 6 hour watch, alone, at night, at the end of a pier with no ships on it. I used to bring my cleaning kit and strip and clean my M14. Now even though I wasn't a gunners mate I did have my armory qual so I at least knew what I was doing. I think the issue isn't the skill or ability to clean the weapon, more along the lines of making it completely non-functional during the time when it can be absolutely crucial to be functional.
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King of Bees posted:I think the issue isn't the skill or ability to clean the weapon, more along the lines of making it completely non-functional during the time when it can be absolutely crucial to be functional. Yeah makes sense. Time and place definitely matter.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:My falling asleep on watch was only 6 months after 9/11. Things were taken a lot more seriously. They ripped my frock, obviously (a week away from me getting paid for it which hurts far more), renacted my suspended bust which took my crow, then hit me with another bust to E2 as well as a 45/45 and a week in the brig. My watch sleeping happened when I was 19, also within the year after 9/11. I did it a couple of times while I was the topside rover with an M-14, midwatch, in the winter, in Norfolk, on a DD. There was a bosun locker aft, near the Sea Sparrow platform that was filled with coiled dock line. I'd check in with the OOD, then rove around and crawl into the locker and crash on top of the line. Blessedly out of the wind, I'd set my watch alarm and conk out for 15 or 20 minutes at a time. Wake up, rove back to the QD, then repeat. Never got caught. Bad Sailor! Bad! Now that I've been in the Navy for 20 years, I see 20+ year-olds falling asleep during training or whatever and wonder what the gently caress is wrong with them. Then I remember. They stay up late as gently caress.
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Some of the best naps of my life have been on coils of mooring ropes in the lower focstle while underway, highly recommend.
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DustyNuts posted:My watch sleeping happened when I was 19, also within the year after 9/11. I did it a couple of times while I was the topside rover with an M-14, midwatch, in the winter, in Norfolk, on a DD. There was a bosun locker aft, near the Sea Sparrow platform that was filled with coiled dock line. I'd check in with the OOD, then rove around and crawl into the locker and crash on top of the line. Blessedly out of the wind, I'd set my watch alarm and conk out for 15 or 20 minutes at a time. Wake up, rove back to the QD, then repeat. Never got caught. Bad Sailor! Bad! Yes they do. We were doing a missile/ammo onload at Seal Beach and even though I had duty I wasn't actually supposed to have watch that night, so after a very long daytime evolution of humping 5 inch shells I went ahead and played D&D down in the smoke shed until 3am. Then suddenly I had watch! Topside with a rifle! I even told Chief that I didn't feel up for it and it was probably a bad idea. Welp, it turned out to be a bad idea. Leaned up against the captain's chair on the bridge wing and the rest was history. Despite unfucking myself later in my career I never did learn the "Dont stay up late" part.
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FrozenVent posted:Some of the best naps of my life have been on coils of mooring ropes in the lower focstle while underway, highly recommend. Sleeping on a pile of float coats behind the consoles in CIC while being the only one with access on duty in port. Amazing sleep.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Yes they do. We were doing a missile/ammo onload at Seal Beach and even though I had duty I wasn't actually supposed to have watch that night, so after a very long daytime evolution of humping 5 inch shells I went ahead and played D&D down in the smoke shed until 3am. Then suddenly I had watch! Topside with a rifle! I even told Chief that I didn't feel up for it and it was probably a bad idea. So I was joking earlier, I'm the rear end in a top hat that took apart his 9mm on gate guard duty in Great Mistakes. Right now I'm in Seal Beach doing our pre-deployment onload. I made drat sure that the watchbill coordinators knew that my guys aren't going to stand a watch after humping ammo all day, but here I am posting from an uber back to base at midnight on a Wednesday.
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Take that Under to Jay Birds fried chicken in Downtown Huntington Beach
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During my first oil transfer in the yards I sat in front of a valve for a hour bored as poo poo before my foreman checked on me, which was dope since it seemed he cared and that was foreign to me, and he asked how I was doing and I told him that I didn’t think I’d be standing watch as a civilian. He told me I can sit down and play on my phone and it made a whole difference.
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There is no sleep more peaceful than sleep stolen during a scheduled watch. My favorite spot to sleep while on topside rover was to climb up to the 49 antenna platform on the LSD where I had a folding chair stashed.
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The 30 minutes of nap in some hidden cubby during the 1 hour after watch cleanup accounted for like 10% of my daily sleep. Except one time I found a cubby with so much flaking paint and rust that I spent three days of honest work chipping, scraping, sanding, and repainting it so when me or my future shipmates napped in it we wouldn't wake up covered in that uniquely itchy mix of decaying metal flakes.
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