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FrozenVent posted:How the hell do you pronounce foc’sle and bosun? As they're supposed to be pronounced. fōksəl and bōs(ə)n.
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Mr. Nice! posted:As they're supposed to be pronounced. fōksəl and bōs(ə)n. English is the dumbest language.
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I stayed in Oxnard, I like it, but I also live on the beach and it's not the 90s so that probably helps Fun fact about Mugu Rock, the Sailor from my outfit going to the brig for child porn charges did a suicide by driving in to the rock at 100+ MPH. Now as you know that road is pretty windy, so it's a testament to the stability, handling and acceleration of the 2014 Hyundai Sonata. Wow, what a vehicle!
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maffew buildings posted:
What forum did he mod? AI?
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I think he was a big anime guy, actually
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We had an anime guy and sex pest but they were two separate people. Anime guy was a CS and did commit crimes against omelettes though. “Oh you got [CS’slastname]ed” because a way to say you got your food burnt or raw. Also I don’t know if I mentioned it here but i was struggling to get my DD214 and other paperwork and after a week or so I just called my congressman and got it the next day, gently caress Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and whoever the CO was I forgot already! I’ve only been out two month but it feels like a lifetime it’s amazing
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titties posted:Probably, it's been a pretty long time but there must have been whistle blasts. They also blared taps throughout the entire base which is the part i remember more vividly Yeah as I was typing that response I realized I wasn't 100% sure about how colors worked in-port vs underway or whatever and realized that I had not participated in colors since I left prototype in like 2009 or so ( I think) We had an old CS1 who had a pedo-stach and likened every meal he made to sex or jizz or something else totally foul, but he would make pretty good breakfast quesadillas so he was alright. A stellar sailor compared to the CS3 who poured mop water into the ventilation ducting to "clean" it and shorted out half the ships IC communications Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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Grip it and rip it posted:Congrats man, you doing anything special with your leave? Cross country road trip with a 2 year old, a 10 year old, a dog, two cats, wife and me. It's gonna be... interesting. We're trying to book it to Dallas to visit family, then a quick trip to Carlsbad Caverns and the Grand Canyon. San Diego for more family time, then off to Ventura. Wingnut Ninja posted:Congrats! Hope you get to have some fun on the trip west, Mugu is awesome. I love this little backwater base, even if we have to deal with raccoons pissing in the ceiling every now and then. The only person I've chatted with that didn't like Mugu said it was because of the weather (???) - that it was too "overcast all of the time". Meanwhile, we're standing in 90 degree/90% humidity Virginia swamp-rear end weather. Some people. Hopefully, my new office is in better shape than the one I inherited at my old VFA squadron about eight years ago. DustyNuts fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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The best part of stealing the Jack off The Sullivans was watching the confused as hell watchstander come out to take it down for colors, not have a flag, awkwardly salute and go back inside. (The worst part is having to hide it because people just assume you're a Libertarian anti-masker for flying it.) Elendil004 fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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Anita Dickinme posted:English is the dumbest language. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll
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Carlsbad is really cool - if you think you can manage it try and catch the bat show at sunset. You can also hike out of the caverns right before dusk, iirc, but I'm not sure how plausible that's gonna be with 2 kids and a dog. Definitely a very cool national park with some excellent tours
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MonkeyFit posted:"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D. Nicoll One of my yeoman called English the stealiest, most made-up language ever and I really couldn't dispute that statement.
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Elendil004 posted:Jack off The Sullivans
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DustyNuts posted:The only person I've chatted with that didn't like Mugu said it was because of the weather (???) - that it was too "overcast all of the time". Meanwhile, we're standing in 90 degree/90% humidity Virginia swamp-rear end weather. Some people. It gets overcast? It's always been sunny whenever I'd drive through but I can picture it being "Coronado Overcast", meaning the marine layer rolls in. quote:Hopefully, my new office is in better shape than the one I inherited at my old VFA squadron about eight years ago. That looks about the size of maint control for a fallon det. Of course my time in the Navy has taught me that that chair is very likely not in a VFA-103 space nor maint control.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:One of my yeoman called English the stealiest, most made-up language ever and I really couldn't dispute that statement. England had a habit of being conquered by continentals who layered their own language on top of what already existed. It's amazing it's not worse.
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Mrs. Sullivan will be none-too-pleased
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Elendil004 posted:Navy Thread: Jack off The Sullivans
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Well I don't know what I expected.
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Elendil004 posted:Well I don't know what I expected. To jack off the Sullivans?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:To jack off the Sullivans? I believe in the industry we call it "Booty"
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DustyNuts posted:The only person I've chatted with that didn't like Mugu said it was because of the weather (???) - that it was too "overcast all of the time". Meanwhile, we're standing in 90 degree/90% humidity Virginia swamp-rear end weather. Some people. CMD598 posted:It gets overcast? It's always been sunny whenever I'd drive through but I can picture it being "Coronado Overcast", meaning the marine layer rolls in. I've heard of people giving Mugu a bad rap if they go TAD there or something and don't have a car and are stuck on base all weekend. Which, fair enough, there's not a ton to do on base unless you want to hang out at the beach or the gym all day, but that's not really the best way to judge a place.
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The beach, gym and long run routes are the best features, though! Source: me, a guy who books hotels based on their gyms
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Posted this in the Cold War / AirPower thread but it’s relevant here.quote:So I read an op-ed today about the navy’s upcoming procurement crunch.
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which program would support the most jobs in congressional districts not helped by the Columbia SSBN program? there's your answer
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Posted this in the Cold War / AirPower thread but it’s relevant here. Surface will always lose because a sub without funding doesn't come back up, a plane without funding falls out of the sky, but a ship without funding still floats. Also, is a generational leap in DDs what we need between minesweeping capability, Mark VI, and PCs all sunsetting? Save the money, get people with pencils thinking about flight IV, get the submarine, and spend the price of one DDG to test and develop a couple of squadrons of missile fast attack craft with a Firescout sized helipad and associated tenders. That should give us some short term adaptability in SUW, meet PC and Mk VI gap (except for the riverine role), and should manufacture faster than a DDGX would. Then shore up MCM. Then in five years, if some changes warrant a DDG redesign, approach the Arleigh Burke's successor. Edit: I think we should wait for ffgx to prove some ideas before the new DDG design happens. piL fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 13, 2021 |
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Redirect all money into activating all the battleships again. Profit.
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Crab Dad posted:Redirect all money into activating all the battleships again. Obviously the fuel costs and electrical power generation of a battleship is unacceptable, so we'll need to convert them to nuclear.
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piL posted:Obviously the fuel costs and electrical power generation of a battleship is unacceptable, so we'll need to convert them to nuclear. I thought that was implied.
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piL posted:Obviously the fuel costs and electrical power generation of a battleship is unacceptable, so we'll need to convert them to nuclear. Bring back CGNs. 
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The BBGNs can be the new command ships to replace the Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney.
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Bring back SAGs with our new BBGNs as the queen, you cowards
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Just be stupid like the USAF and base it all CONUS and pretend we'll always have good enough comms.
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Mr. Nice! posted:The BBGNs can be the new command ships to replace the Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney. I…. Actually like this idea.
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BBGNs with rail gun artillery. That reactor should be able to power them.
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MonkeyFit posted:BBGNs with rail gun artillery. That reactor should be able to power them. I'm pretty sure someone's written a pulp mil-scifi book involving this It has a 99.999...% chance to be bad
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orange juche posted:I'm pretty sure someone's written a pulp mil-scifi book involving this I want nothing short of Star Blazers
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Chilling on the way to Guam because freight rates are so high companies are breaking steamships out and running them on diesel at 2-3x the cost of slow speed diesel vessels burning LSFO and still making buckets. My chief doesn't really give a gently caress as long as I get the engine room cleaned up by China and don't do a lot of yelling and my 3rd is worried about running out of beer, he only got 4 cases of budweiser and I wouldn't loan him money to pick up two more in Hono. He has been promising me he won't run out of beer before China like the last two trips but I don't believe him. I think the chief is picking up cases just in case people do though. The 2nd drinks whiskey and had a full suitcase so I don't have to worry about him. Edit: the last 1st got fired for shutting off the exhaust valve spring air before rolling the engine among other moments of incompetence so I don't have a high bar to clear. Edit2: already changed out one main engine head cover stud underway so I'm set. lightpole fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jun 14, 2021 |
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You guys are allowed beer onboard?
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EPF program was allowed to keep beer on board but couldn’t drink it underway. So basically a giant liquor locker. I heard some various things about some of the bigger merchant marine ships.
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FrozenVent posted:You guys are allowed beer onboard? You guys arent?
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