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That man will die or get others killed in another stupid preventable accident after he learned nothing from that is my bold prediction
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US Berder Patrol posted:What kind of coast guard boat took you all the way to the anti arctic A big red one. Was best TDY would do again.
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Here we go 2021-2022 DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY MANDATORY COVID-19 VACCINATION POLICY https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Messages/ALNAV/ALN2021/ALN21062.txt?ver=Vbl_3soAE1K4DhYwqjSGLw%3d%3d
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Aug 31, 2021 21:15
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What was jetski man trying to accomplish? Just go up and touch the ship?
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Aug 31, 2021 21:17
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IncredibleIgloo posted:What was jetski man trying to accomplish? Just go up and touch the ship? Jumping the wake waves apparently.
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Aug 31, 2021 22:02
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IncredibleIgloo posted:What was jetski man trying to accomplish? Just go up and touch the ship? With the hand lanyarded to the kill switch 
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US Berder Patrol posted:What kind of coast guard boat took you all the way to the anti arctic Polar class ice breaker and I have two antarctica service medals (well bronze star in lieu of a second, natch) also I’m a civilian now so I’m civil service. I spent a ton of time in the Caribbean while active duty but that fuckin sucked gtmo and that stupid outdoor theater can eat my whole rear end, along with the entire MA rating. As far as what I do that’s really hard to sum up fully and completely so let’s call it modernization/avail planning and finance or how I learned to stop worrying and love the nmp-mom Also I have no answers about anything to do with the contemporary CG (the uniform question, our uniforms were trash all the way up until I left) as I got out in 2013 and only keep in touch with a very small community of people who disrespectfully refer to me as SK1 because they know it bothers me. It sounds like everyone doubled down on being turbo chuds and I’m pretty happy about bailing. One of my first lessons about the chain of command was in 2002 when I volunteered to go tdy to Bahrain using an automated process and orders got cut without a command endorsement which created some local disturbance. Anyway, that’s bringing it back to the talk about orders which I’ve had some experience on the periphery with PCS in/with the navy with both civil service and active duty and it’s a real nightmare. Coastie readers: DA/peoplesoft/whatever is a billion times better than what USN folks deal with on that front, and transfer season is a way better model than whatever it is the navy is doing lmao Anyway the most eye opening thing about working for the navy is how much worse every aspect of every thing is than the CG and to really absurd degrees despite basically all the money in the world being available to fix it, the wardroom will still trip on its dick to gently caress it up So basically anyone that ever has some feeling of regret about joining the USN: you were/are completely correct, and it gets worse the deeper into civil service you get if you stray from a warfare center or Washington Navy Yard. Maybe less true for weird places like SRF or the rare person who scores a 5 year in Sasebo.
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Aug 31, 2021 23:58
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krispykremessuck posted:Anyway the most eye opening thing about working for the navy is how much worse every aspect of every thing is than the CG and to really absurd degrees despite basically all the money in the world being available to fix it, the wardroom will still trip on its dick to gently caress it up Preaching to the choir, buddy 
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Sep 1, 2021 00:10
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I knew I messed up when I had to sing a drinking song every time I marched into a magic tunnel that makes me want to drink but was told multiple times that drinking bad.
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Wibla posted:Preaching to the choir, buddy I know but it was a real eye opener, particularly when it comes to financial stuff and, hilariously, anything logistics.
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Sep 1, 2021 00:24
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Jumping the wake waves apparently. We have people doing that constantly when we take LCS' out on Lake Michigan.
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krispykremessuck posted:I know but it was a real eye opener, particularly when it comes to financial stuff and, hilariously, anything logistics. The CG does the work while the Navy fucks around. Just the way it is 
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PneumonicBook posted:We have people doing that constantly when we take LCS' out on Lake Michigan. I’ve had someone try that with a kayak in the South Shore Canal. People are dumb as gently caress, and they will try to go after the ship or its crew when they inevitably get hosed up. Those loving freighters have huge blind spots up close, which shouldn’t be a problem because once something is in that blind spot, it’s too late to do anything about it. But welp.
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My chief tried to test the engine with the turning gear engaged after telling everyone about the bottle of whiskey he found and then walked out of the engine room before we got 1st bell. When the captain called down for departure I told him I was walking the gently caress off the ship the second the gangway hit the dock, then walked up to the chiefs office and told him the same thing which broke him out of his binge. He self reported to the company and is getting off for treatment but everyone stopped pretending he is still in charge and now I just answer all the emails and do his noon report. The budget sheet the captain gave me had the wrong $ per diem for labor cost, I even double checked with both chief and captain before I made sure to spend every dime padding everyone's OT. I'm pretty happy about the hole I put in their budget the, gently caress this poo poo.
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Every chief I've worked for has made it clear I am NEVER to be under budget. So I made sure I was $50 over, which suddenly turned into some thousands. They can't even fire me cause they don't have anyone to take the job. The last 2 weeks have been the weirdest I've ever had at sea. My electrician is laid up with ulcers or something as well. Really hoping he's OK, my guys have been pretty awesome.
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Dorstein posted:Everyone knows the best episode of Battlestar Galactica is 33. My second ship's CO was huge on Battlestar Galactica and always called it "one of the most accurate depictions of carrier life during high optempo." The XO is a raging alcoholic dick. OPS/CSO gets poo poo on constantly. The pilots are arrogant fucksticks. And the CAG is a capable but overall vestigial position which does nothing but sew discontent between the crew and the wing. And there's always one pilot loving a chief somewhere who is, in turn, likely loving one of their E3s.
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AlternateNu posted:And there's always one pilot loving a chief somewhere who is, in turn, likely loving one of their E3s. Quite often you can leave the chief out and go straight O2 on E3 action. Otherwise that all reflects my experience. Edit: Was smoking a cigar with the big XO once when he abruptly stood up and said "someone is probably loving someone they're not supposed to and trying to ruin my career right now, gotta go"
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AlternateNu posted:My second ship's CO was huge on Battlestar Galactica and always called it "one of the most accurate depictions of carrier life during high optempo." The XO is a raging alcoholic dick. OPS/CSO gets poo poo on constantly. The pilots are arrogant fucksticks. And the CAG is a capable but overall vestigial position which does nothing but sew discontent between the crew and the wing. I spent a couple deployments on a carrier and all of this checks out. Probably why I liked Battlestar Galactica so much.
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Geizkragen posted:Was smoking a cigar with the big XO once when he abruptly stood up and said "someone is probably loving someone they're not supposed to and trying to ruin my career right now, gotta go" Was he right?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Was he right? He might as well have said "someone on board is probably breathing oxygen right now".
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Wingnut Ninja posted:He might as well have said "someone on board is probably breathing oxygen right now". True. What I should've asked was, "did they catch anybody?"
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Last deployment someone found an empty one of those giant protein powder bottles completely filled with used condoms in one of the officer heads. Opinions were fairly split between "obviously some pilot is loving their brains out" and "a clever enlisted person would absolutely dump their incriminating trash in an officer head". It did lead to some amusing group emails asking hotel services whether used condoms are supposed to be sorted into dunnage instead.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:giant protein powder bottles completely filled with used condoms in one of the officer heads This reminds me of that scene from band of brothers where the OIC finds hundreds of condoms in one dude's footlocker during an inspection.
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orange juche posted:This reminds me of that scene from band of brothers where the OIC finds hundreds of condoms in one dude's footlocker during an inspection. "How will you have any energy left to fight the Germans?!"
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Ok weird factoid here but I knew a bunch of dudes who used the giant bucket of free condoms to, uhh, “keep the area clean” when jerking off. Rather than a more traditional method. So used condoms aren’t really a sign people are having sex. On the other hand keeping used condoms is weird as hell and raises more questions that worry me than anything involving sex.
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Usually they just flush them and let the engineers find them in the maceration pumps
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lightpole posted:Usually they just flush them and let the engineers find them in the maceration pumps Yet another reason I'm glad I didn't go Engineering.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Last deployment someone found an empty one of those giant protein powder bottles completely filled with used condoms in one of the officer heads. Opinions were fairly split between "obviously some pilot is loving their brains out" and "a clever enlisted person would absolutely dump their incriminating trash in an officer head". Used synthetic latex or polypropylene condoms cannot be thrown overboard anywhere under MARPOL V, however natural latex / sheepskin can be thrown out with food, I think. Of course MARPOL doesn’t apply to military vessels so do whatever.
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FrozenVent posted:Used synthetic latex or polypropylene condoms cannot be thrown overboard anywhere under MARPOL V, however natural latex / sheepskin can be thrown out with food, I think. This is now my favorite OOD board question.
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https://news.usni.org/2021/09/01/5-sailors-missing-after-navy-helicopter-crashes-off-california It always gets to me when casualties happen from training or normal ops. It is one thing if you're in country or on deployment but just off the coast doing workups just seems different even though it is similar risk Joke response: As always, helicopters spit in god's face and just try to murder occupants
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  Light work. piL posted:This is now my favorite OOD board question. No plastic over the side bruh.
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lightpole posted:No plastic over the side bruh. Is natural latex a plastic?
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Neither is. Synthetic latex just has the non biodegradable poo poo in it. Its the reasoning that's important when thinking about marpol. Edit: I'm having doubts you are correct. Sanitary products dont generally rapidly biodegrade as is ie tampons, and would generally be classified as litter/pollution. Used sanitary products would probably be classified as hazmat. Marpol generally requires stuff disposed of over the side to be done so in a manner that makes it rapidly biodegrade with size limits according to category. Tossing a 100% cotton tampon over the side would still take it awhile to fall apart and a used condom would still cause environmental damage. lightpole fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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Sep 3, 2021 12:20
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lightpole posted:
That box link up some out of phase power supplies or something?
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lightpole posted:Neither is. Synthetic latex just has the non biodegradable poo poo in it. Its the reasoning that's important when thinking about marpol. You’re kind of right, going by the latest IMO tables (https://wwwcdn.imo.org/localresourc...20Annex%20V.pdf) you can only throw condoms overboard if they do not contain plastics and are considered food or cargo.
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FrozenVent posted:You can only throw condoms overboard if they do not contain plastics and are considered food... Does....does that seriously occur often enough to justify the extra clause in the rule?
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SerthVarnee posted:Does....does that seriously occur often enough to justify the extra clause in the rule? No the rule just says you can only throw food and cargo residue overboard and only if (amongst other things) they don’t contain plastic.
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Oh man, the things I saw getting thrown overboard on the George Washington our last underway before RCOH. 
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Anita Dickinme posted:Oh man, the things I saw getting thrown overboard on the George Washington our last underway before RCOH. Float testing contraband is a time honored tradition.
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