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lightpole posted:Faking it is an art and requires mastering a few specific phrases. "What do you think?" is a good one. I also say "I don't know" a lot. Then you have to master a very noncommittal "Huh", "Oh really?", or "Is that so?" when someone brings up something you should have looked at and known but didn't. Then there's always "I don't think thats how it works but Im probably wrong, let me look into it". Have to hedge uncertainty or making your boss look bad and ensure there's always an out. Make sure to accept blame for anything that sounds like a big deal but noone actually cares about. My go-to move lately has been "verifying that everyone involved is on the same page." Absolutely everyone is immediately willing to believe that no one else has any idea what's going on, so they'll just cough up whatever the most up-to-date info they have is to avoid being the rear end in a top hat that wasn't paying attention. edit: the snipe that should have been an e-mail chain but no one would read it anyways
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I've always wondered what would happen if a ship seriously failed these trials. Failed to the point of almost sinking, I mean.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I've always wondered what would happen if a ship seriously failed these trials. Failed to the point of almost sinking, I mean. Multi-billion dollar contract for Huntington Ingalls to fix it.  https://twitter.com/Warship_78/status/1406601477435576321 WHOOMPF
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Multi-billion dollar contract for Huntington Ingalls to fix it. This would be nice cus I need the OT.
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I had another dream about those fresh dinner rolls. Does anyone have the official bread roll recipe? I've never been able to find it online.
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Jun 24, 2021 13:24
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titties posted:I had another dream about those fresh dinner rolls. nice try boris
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hello fellow US NAVY SAILORS, dreaming of brunch omlettes in "galley of ship", can someone please share NAVINST on making these??
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God dammit i must be the only filipino to ever serve who doesn't know how to make the bread
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Add 5 parts gluten to 2 parts shame, stir in constipation. Portion, bake, then serve
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titties posted:I had another dream about those fresh dinner rolls. I don't know if this has the specific recipe you're looking for, but here's the 2003 revision of the official US Armed Forces kitchen manual. https://www.google.com/url?q=https:...6So08fE1OadcDF6 As a matter of course, unclassified military manuals are public record and are often available online. If not FOI requests can acquire them.
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Based on some of your responses I'm starting to wonder if my experience was unusual and most of you were not served fresh, made-from-scratch bread rolls with dinner every night while underway
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titties posted:Based on some of your responses I'm starting to wonder if my experience was unusual and most of you were not served fresh, made-from-scratch bread rolls with dinner every night while underway Please die
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titties posted:Based on some of your responses I'm starting to wonder if my experience was unusual and most of you were not served fresh, made-from-scratch bread rolls with dinner every night while underway  We all suffered in our own ways.
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Jun 25, 2021 02:13
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Crab Dad posted:
Is this Sgt. Chow-down?
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titties posted:Based on some of your responses I'm starting to wonder if my experience was unusual and most of you were not served fresh, made-from-scratch bread rolls with dinner every night while underway Ummm... the gently caress? Not on a tin can that's for sure. Although whenever rolls were made by the night baker Id always slip in and abscond back to combat with however many I could get my paws on.
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Jun 25, 2021 04:07
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Our cooks couldn't make bread very well, but they did become great at making Corn Bread. ...because they ordered 10x the amount of cornbread and we were low on all other carbs. So cornbread, four meals a day, for a month. After two weeks they started trying to mix up the monotony. Jalapeno cornbread, peanut butter corn bread, coffee ground corn bread, soft serve ice cream mix corn bread, oatmeal cornbread, pretty much anything that could reasonably be mixed into the batch
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titties posted:Based on some of your responses I'm starting to wonder if my experience was unusual and most of you were not served fresh, made-from-scratch bread rolls with dinner every night while underway We had hot rolls every once and while but it's the kind of thing you'd get from a hotel buffet or something. Our real creature comfort was the soft serve machine with accompanying flavor requests. Root beer floats after watch was a nice treat I got to have 1.3 times a day, every day we were on deployment.
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The only thing I can recall being baked from scratch on my boat was chocolate chip cookies every once in a while, and you could only get them if you had some filipinos in your workspace lmao
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Grip it and rip it posted:Our real creature comfort was the soft serve machine I used to make milkshakes using the soft serve and take them back on watch with me.
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Jun 25, 2021 10:29
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A soft serve machine? Oh man that would have been awesome. We had... uh... nothing.
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titties posted:Based on some of your responses I'm starting to wonder if my experience was unusual and most of you were not served fresh, made-from-scratch bread rolls with dinner every night while underway Mods, please tell Crab Dad to not post on his alts We did a crew swap with the Charles De Gaulle on Deployment 2. One of the guys I was on watch with frequently was part of the swap. I demanded that he share every detail of the breads and cheeses that were available during his stay, which he assured me were excellent.
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That goddamn soft-serve machine was the bane of E-Div's existence on my boat. A highly visible piece of gear that was always getting broken and got the crew howling to fix it. Forget all the engine room equipment, there were two things that always got everyone's attention and ruined my offgoing when they were broken by someone else - the soft-serve machine and the dryer.
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I spent a day on an Aussie frigate in the Indian Ocean once and they had racks of freshly baked bread available for the crew 24/7 and the galley food was loving amazing.
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Crew: any chance of getting hot food for midrats? Skipper: lol, no, gently caress you.
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Lou Takki posted:I spent a day on an Aussie frigate in the Indian Ocean once and they had racks of freshly baked bread available for the crew 24/7 and the galley food was loving amazing. Dude same. So good.
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scripterror posted:That goddamn soft-serve machine was the bane of E-Div's existence on my boat. A highly visible piece of gear that was always getting broken and got the crew howling to fix it. Forget all the engine room equipment, there were two things that always got everyone's attention and ruined my offgoing when they were broken by someone else - the soft-serve machine and the dryer. The loving soft serve machine was the bane of my existence when I was providing logistics to a remote work site. gently caress that loving thing.
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in the Seabees we got MREs, except when the first classes forgot to distribute MREs, but then that wasn't addressed because the first classes are future Chiefs and they need to learn Chief leadership, such as not feeding your troops. also the galley in garrison routinely had moldy fruit jfc that community needs to be disbanded
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King of Bees posted:Crew: any chance of getting hot food for midrats? I swear our SUPPO ordered as much NOBREAD as he could for every UNREP. Because that's what we had at literally every meal. No bread. Piles of peanut butter, jelly, jam, butter. No bread. Not even crackers.
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Lou Takki posted:I spent a day on an Aussie frigate in the Indian Ocean once and they had racks of freshly baked bread available for the crew 24/7 and the galley food was loving amazing. I was the unofficial liaison officer on my first two ships (because I was the only officer that spoke more than one language and being TRAINO meant I didn't have any actual responsibility) and took a PEP billet for my third tour. I must've taken meals on the ships of 15+ other navies during normal operations, and every single one of them had better food than the poo poo we got.
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My recruiter said that being on a ship in the Mexican navy was honestly better in every way and they had basically a full bar open just about all the time. The only reason he told me this was because I was whatever they call NSW poolees now so he knew I was smart enough to know ship life was trash but dumb enough to join anyway.
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Navy Thread: That Goddamn Soft-Serve Machine was the Bane of E-Div
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It's called autodog, dammit!
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From the brief stint I did on HMS Queen Elizabeth: the quality of the food was pretty similar, and the dining experience was overall a lot more strict than on a US carrier. You were basically expected to come in, eat your food, and leave, whereas on a CVN it's fairly common to chill out for a while and shoot the poo poo in the wardroom if you don't have anything else to do. It's one of the main social outlets on the ship. Now the massive caveat to that is that there's a full loving bar right next door to the wardroom on QNLZ, so that's where most of the socializing happens. And they served some A+ hangover food after Taranto Night, which is basically a big bash where the air wing gets together to commemorate kicking the poo poo out of the Italians during WW2. "Hammy eggy cheesy" is like a little slice of Waffle House out at sea.
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Stultus Maximus posted:It's called autodog, dammit! nobody calls it the autodog, because thats dumb, unless you're a 35 year old first trying to preserve "culture" to impress the mess.
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M_Gargantua posted:nobody calls it the autodog, because thats dumb, unless you're a 35 year old first trying to preserve "culture" to impress the mess. It was literally labeled on the machines on my ships and everyone called it that with no pretense. But that was a long time ago so I guess that's stopped since?
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The autodog was what we called the machine that supposed gave us coffe on the mess decks. But nobody knew how to make a decent cuppa so we had our own installed in the CIC Annex.
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I don't think I was ever on a ship that had a soft serve machine. But I do seem to recall that for a few months on my 2006 Westpac on the Lincoln they had a slushie machine, but the machine was tucked away in a little annex thing off the side of the aft mess decks, maybe even next to a hot dog machine or something, and they would serve the slushies and the finger foods after dinner, maybe around 2000 or so. I could, of course, be remembering things wrong. It has been quite a while. But I had never heard the term auto-dog until this thread yesterday.
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I was a cook in the ARMY national guard and we had a soft serve machine. They carried that thing around on a litter and practically worshipped it. We had a CO change and he, as part of addressing some PT failures, had it removed. I think the full timers had a meeting with the guy because it lasted all of two months before it was back in the kitchen.
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I only had a reefer on the USNS ship i was on and the galley just kept it stocked with novelties but never any non-dairy stuff so I rarely ever went into it.
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