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Wibla posted:Reading up on this thread makes me happy I only spent 4 years in, and that in a backwater NATO ( But did you have a soft serve machine or beer bar?
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Crab Dad posted:But did you have a soft serve machine or beer bar? No soft serve machine, but both messes had wet bars. Roughly $1 for a beer, $20 for a liter of booze or a case of beer. In port only, of course, we ran a white ship otherwise. We had some legendary parties in the enlisted's mess during my time aboard. I even remember parts of some of them 
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Wow I really backed the wrong horse being born in the USA
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IncredibleIgloo posted:5 years on the Lincoln would have been rough. I was on board for a little over a year, went on the 2006 Westpac, but transferred to the Bush right at the start of the terrible yard period. Missed a lot of bullshit, heard it was really bad and the RO even got relieved. Yeah.....it was a lot. Thankfully, I showed up the last week of the 2006 yard period. Probably the highlight of my career.
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Oh my god. This is some next level "retired guy can't let it go" poo poo. https://twitter.com/BDHerzinger/status/1409748382512521216?s=19
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:How many chief stickers does that man’s oversized truck have Lol. We had a retired chief here in jax that got a Phoenix U doctorate and called himself doctor primary against and get devastated by the incumbent in 2020. He tried milking the chief thing in his ads and sounded like the biggest dipshit. He basically read off his eval bullets like he actually believed them.
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In a stunning display of not giving a single gently caress I once had a chief allow me to write my own eval. I was extremely squared away and an asset to sublant (Spoiler: i lied)
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I’m living in this dudes area right so I’m gonna try to show up to some town hall to ask him a bunch of stupid questions
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I’m living in this dudes area right so I’m gonna try to show up to some town hall to ask him a bunch of stupid questions "Why does watching people clean qualify you to be a legislator?"
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I’m living in this dudes area right so I’m gonna try to show up to some town hall to ask him a bunch of stupid questions Please please please do 
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I thought SOP for running for office on the merits of wholly average service was to go carpetbag somewhere without a fixed military presence where the population couldn't decode your wholly unremarkable boasts as uninteresting bullshit.
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Or so full of retired lifers that you have your own voter base of like-minded peers.
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There's a dude that swings by the VA in Shawnee all the time, we call him The Moto. Got a couple dozen Marines stickers all over his truck, three flags, and of course the Veteran's Vest will all the patches and badges and other poo poo on it. Irritating motherfucker. Only put 4 years in a cook but by god you listen to any of his stories and you'd think he was the second coming of Chesty Puller and that R Lee Ermy once licked his rear end.
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You’re not a Marine unless you make four years of janitor work the entire identity of the rest of your life.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:You’re not a Marine unless you make four years of janitor work the entire identity of the rest of your life. gently caress....
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PACFLEET CO: Numbered Navy Fleets Don’t Need to be Tied to Geography By: Sam LaGrone June 30, 2021 7:39 PM https://news.usni.org/2021/06/30/pacfleet-co-numbered-navy-fleets-dont-need-to-be-tied-to-geography quote:The U.S. Navy’s numbered fleets are by tradition tied to a specific geographical region, but that doesn’t mean commanders in California can’t command ships in the Western Pacific or any other part of the world, the new U.S. Pacific Fleet commander said on Wednesday. Then what is the point of having Numbered Fleets being mostly coordinated with COCOM borders. Also, whoever looked at the Indo-Pacific region and thought "what they need is another HQ staff" needs to be sent far away
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As an aside, Aquilino has probably the squarest jaw of any human being I've come across in real life. He's like a GI Joe figure.
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Nick Soapdish posted:PACFLEET CO: Numbered Navy Fleets Don’t Need to be Tied to Geography Maybe I've been away from the fleet for too long but this doesn't make any sense to me. A numbered fleet's forces isn't a specific battle group or set of battle groups. It's whatever ships are in the numbered fleet's AOR at any given time. Like, you're on a DDG in San Diego and you're under 3rd Fleet's responsibility and then you sail to Yokosuka and now you're part of 7th Fleet. And the numbered fleets aren't operational commanders, they're force providers to the operational commander. Why would you want ships in the Mediterranean still reporting to Yokosuka while being employed by Naples? Am I wrong and confused here?
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Stultus Maximus posted:Maybe I've been away from the fleet for too long but this doesn't make any sense to me. A numbered fleet's forces isn't a specific battle group or set of battle groups. It's whatever ships are in the numbered fleet's AOR at any given time. Like, you're on a DDG in San Diego and you're under 3rd Fleet's responsibility and then you sail to Yokosuka and now you're part of 7th Fleet. And the numbered fleets aren't operational commanders, they're force providers to the operational commander. Why would you want ships in the Mediterranean still reporting to Yokosuka while being employed by Naples? Because that means more admirals and more staffs to do bullshit and get paid.
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Nick Soapdish posted:PACFLEET CO: Numbered Navy Fleets Don’t Need to be Tied to Geography During peacetime, purpose and geography have been aligned, with each geographic focus being to keep threats and issues where they are and from broiling over to destabize the global order. Because of that and that most AORs require the same structure to do the same thing give or take (less subs and carriers, more small boys in SOUTHCOM for instance). But 10th fleet being global shows that you could task a force to a purpose. 3rd fleet/7th fleet overlapping in the largest geographic region with two missions (home defense and Westpac Indian Ocean AOR) creates the opportunity to focus one fleet on maybe a particular nation state and a second one to focus on the everything else you might be doing in a particular AOR, or to focus a fleet on a particular emerging situation that might cross geographic boundaries and let the remainder of the force handle everything else. Fleets, to me, seem about making sure you can walk and chew bubblegum--that your concerns in one area have to compete with someone elze saying "hay buddy, don't forget about xxxxxxx". I think as near peers become more global, we will make that more about type of action than location of action, and if that happens, you'll see Fleets crossing and overlapping regional COCOMS. A Russia fleet, a PLAN fleet and some everywhere else Fleets might start to make more sense than geographic regions. Maybe. Edit: mostly, it's probably about admirals competing for importance which is weird because 7th fleet is the job you do after the job you do in 3rd fleet, right? piL fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:brb going on deployment Have fun!
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Knocked everyone off at noon only to get called out to manouver cause we hit a whale. The unlicensed already drank all the holiday beer and now I'm stuck in the control room.
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lightpole posted:…cause we hit a whale. This is something I’ve always wondered about. Does this happen often with ships and submarines, or is it more infrequent?
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Whales are big dumb idiots that won’t get out of the way. When you’re in potential whale waters, you gotta keep a lookout to avoid them. Military ships are agile enough to dodge dumb whales, but a tanker or cargo ship isn’t going to be as lucky. Dolphins will usually just play in your wake. Whales are idiots and will just let a ship hit them.
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Mr. Nice! posted:...Military ships are agile enough to dodge dumb whales,.... My friend was at the helm in a three-ship formation of frigates, piloting the second. The first called out over bridge-to-bridge that there was a pod of whales and they were maneuvering to avoid. The first ship turned, second ship followed their wake, hit a whale, and the third ship followed in THEIR wake, and ALSO hit a whale. The CO specifically forbade him from painting 1.5 whales on the bridge as kill markers.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Whales are big dumb idiots that won’t get out of the way. When you’re in potential whale waters, you gotta keep a lookout to avoid them. Military ships are agile enough to dodge dumb whales, but a tanker or cargo ship isn’t going to be as lucky. Watching dolphins playing in the bow wave of the carrier as we left port was pretty cool, but also pretty  because it sure looked like they were getting awfully close to the ship. I guess they knew what they were doing though. Not that we would have been able to tell if we ran over one.
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I almost died in a small boat off the coast of California because a blue whale whale breeched like 50 yards in front of us and was just like oh hey guys what’s up am I in the way? An Alaskan pilot told me bald eagles do the same thing, they cannot comprehend anything else in the air being big enough to hurt them, they’ll just look at a plane or helicopter and smack right into it.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:My friend was at the helm in a three-ship formation of frigates, piloting the second. The first called out over bridge-to-bridge that there was a pod of whales and they were maneuvering to avoid. The first ship turned, second ship followed their wake, hit a whale, and the third ship followed in THEIR wake, and ALSO hit a whale. We were navigating through a pod so of course we slowed down to a craw with 60 second course corrections. One decided to bump us from the side anyways.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Watching dolphins playing in the bow wave of the carrier as we left port was pretty cool, but also pretty They riding a wave using almost no energy and would be highly unlikely to get hit.
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We see a lot of whales and dolphins in the P-8 on camera, its pretty cool seeing the various pods broaching the surface and hearing whale songs on sonobuoys.
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Dolphins are cool. I’m always happy to see dolphins. I was never happy to see a whale on the bridge of a ship. Anywhere else on the ship I was glad to see them. So long as I wasn’t responsible for our interaction, we were cool.
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I’ve had cool two days seeing both dolphins and orcas in the puget sound. 3 more weeks of terminal.
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I saw a pod of orca in a growler field off Newfoundland once. It would have been an amazing sight if I’d had a chance to enjoy it, but I had to deal with the afford-mentioned growlers. Never maneuvered to avoid a whale, but then again cargo ships have a huge blind spot dead ahead… and they rarely keep a good visual look out.
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Noones doing any maneuvering at sea speed. Thats why they have whale zones off both coasts. 2 three hour time changes, a drill day and some duty and I'm free! I've basically already given up, its great!
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When we were in the King James Sound up in Alaska waiting out a nasty storm we had a pod of humpbacks who were just totally enamored with the ship. They stayed with us nearly the whole week we were there and even followed us out of the Sound to say goodbye. They were awesome.
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Diablo Canyon in Avila Beach on the central California coast is looking for plant operators. Anyone with a decent engineering plant background should be good, pay is good, and you get to live in an awesome area. They are shutting it down so it would only be 3-4 years but it would be an awesome 3-4 years. Only problem is you won't want to leave.
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My squadron has the same number of fingers, toes, and eyes that it did last week. I am a happy safety officer.
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