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Also enjoy your shipyard tour I guess? That will likely be worse than the crash...
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Elviscat posted:Injuries are all minor, felt like being in a loving car crash though. How do we know you're you and not one of those NTIs from The Abyss?
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Elviscat posted:Injuries are all minor, felt like being in a loving car crash though. Glad your safe.
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Oct 8, 2021 04:04
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M_Gargantua posted:China now deploying underwater antitank hedgehogs as nextgen anti-submarine warfare. Poes law and all....is this true, are we expecting underwater obstacles being deployed by China?
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Poes law and all....is this true, are we expecting underwater obstacles being deployed by China? Underwater is a three dimensional space, and the ocean is impossibly loving big, it would be exceedingly unlikely for someone to deploy a manmade underwater obstacle like that. Far more likely to have a less than perfectly accurate read on where exactly you are and smack into a seamount.
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Oct 8, 2021 05:09
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Or hit a wreck, a whale, a submerged container or another submarine. Comedy option: they hit that malaysian plane.
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Oct 8, 2021 05:30
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Crab Dad posted:Glad your safe. ^^
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I’ve been e-mailing my congressmen for YEARS about the ARROGANCE of these loving whales, when are we going to be given clearance to put these fuckers in their place Seriously, has this ever really happened, outside of a Clancy novel?
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Elviscat posted:Injuries are all minor, felt like being in a loving car crash though. how is the berthing area on a seawolf? and is there actual space for any sort of work out equipment? we had to strap down a rowing machine and bike in the passageways in engineering on the LA.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Poes law and all....is this true, are we expecting underwater obstacles being deployed by China? Imagine if they put explosives in it. 
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Thanks for the well wishes, everything turned out as well as possible. M_Gargantua posted:Also enjoy your shipyard tour I guess? That will likely be worse than the crash... I've got 9 months and I'm outta here, I wasn't going to stay in anyways, but this sure didn't change my mind. ded posted:how is the berthing area on a seawolf? and is there actual space for any sort of work out equipment? Surprisingly lovely, there's really only 2, so they're giant labyrinths, workout equipment is the typical fast attack bullshit setup you described (VAs are the same). These boats are weird, really fat, but they make up for it by being short, all the racks are like 1.5" shorter than an LA or a VA for example, I swear these boats were designed by people that wanted sailors to suffer.
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Tell your CO to come to Newport News so I can get some OT.  But for real though glad y’all are alright and I hope everyone’s not too shaken up. That’s always the shittiest thing to hear.
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MrMojok posted:
The Hartford wrapped a whale in its prop while surface sailing back to Port under DDG escort, after surfacing into LPD18
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Elviscat posted:Injuries are all minor, felt like being in a loving car crash though. Glad that you're alright and that the injuries were all minor. That's a scary thing to go through.
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MrMojok posted:I’ve been e-mailing my congressmen for YEARS about the ARROGANCE of these loving whales, when are we going to be given clearance to put these fuckers in their place Whales get hit by poo poo all the loving time, man. They’re not super smart. Cruise ship sailed into Southampton a decade ago with one speared on the bulbous now, quoth the bridge crew “oh we thought she’d been vibrating a bit since yesterday”.
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Oct 8, 2021 16:36
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Supposedly the original Sammy B. Roberts hit a whale on her maiden voyage.
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I'm surprised there aren't more partially submerged shipping container incidents. Ocean big
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They don’t stay afloat very long unless they’re filled with something that floats.
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FrozenVent posted:They don’t stay afloat very long unless they’re filled with something that floats. My favorite lost shipping container story is that there's one wedged underwater somewhere off the coast of France that split open and occasionally its contents wash up on nearby beaches. It was full of Garfield phones.
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There's also the beach in Cornwall where various LEGO pieces from a lost container keeps washing up. By coincidence, a lot of the LEGO is from nautical-themed sets. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Oct 8, 2021 22:06
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We came across one floating off the coast of Hawaii and had to destroy it. It was fully of fancy glass and brass lamps. The really expensive kind. VBSS had to go and drop a few thermite grenades into it. Then we shot it with the 5 inch.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:We came across one floating off the coast of Hawaii and had to destroy it. Did a floating shipping container taking a 5"/54 round look as cool as it sounds?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Did a floating shipping container taking a 5"/54 round look as cool as it sounds? Yeah it was pretty awesome
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We found one in the middle of the ocean on a counter-drug flight looking for drug boats. Spent awhile arguing if it could be a secret drug sub resupply ocean base. Your mind wanders in the middle of the night over the Pacific.
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Elviscat posted:Thanks for the well wishes, everything turned out as well as possible. Be sure that this gets documented in your med file. Who knows it might be claimable in some way for a VA disability. Glad I didn't take that offer to transfer to the seawolf when she was getting ready for sea trials 
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Oh boy it's time to apply for billets with the Reserve. Found the perfect billet (meet all the requirements E6,clearance,NEC's) with a unit I've supported in the past, got multiple awards from and the civilian side they support has requested I come back. So I probably wont get it and will be stuck for a few more years with an unit that doesnt do anything productive. Gotta polish up a package and send it to them and hope I rise to the top over other possible applicants.
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Hard pass on being in a submarine collision glad everyone’s okay.
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Virginia Slams posted:So he sent me a picture of what they were talking about it, there is a thing called a payback computation table. *kramers into the thread* Oh poo poo, just saw all of this. You got PMs? PM me on the latest, this all sounds weird and I can probably offer some advice. Or just post here on the latest.
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Wonder Free posted:We found one in the middle of the ocean on a counter-drug flight looking for drug boats. Spent awhile arguing if it could be a secret drug sub resupply ocean base. Your mind wanders in the middle of the night over the Pacific. <takes notes for new technothriller novel project>
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M_Gargantua posted:Also enjoy your shipyard tour I guess? That will likely be worse than the crash... gently caress the shipyard. I'm not even on a boat I work at the base but holy poo poo it sucks.
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zXzC0C0zXz posted:gently caress the shipyard. I'm not even on a boat I work at the base but holy poo poo it sucks. It's not so bad civilian side. 
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Saw something crawl across the ticker for Merchant Marine, TW: assault victim describing sexual assault/rape during her Sea Year https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/business/maersk-rape-investigation-merchant-marine/index.html Sea Year may be getting suspended again because crews can't keep their hands off female cadets. The US federal government doesn't really have a way to actually enforce compliance with the zero tolerance sexual assault mandate, right? Considering there's a very small amount of US flagged carriers out there, I guess they could stop putting cadets on non-US flagged vessels. I'd ask the question "how hard is it to not be loving rapey" but the answer is apparently "very hard indeed" 
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orange juche posted:Saw something crawl across the ticker for Merchant Marine, But upon returning to campus and working as a victim's advocate, she learned of at least nine other female students currently enrolled at the academy who said they had been raped during their Sea Year. What. The. Hell.
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Crab Dad posted:But upon returning to campus and working as a victim's advocate, she learned of at least nine other female students currently enrolled at the academy who said they had been raped during their Sea Year. And after talking to no less than 50 other female USMMA grads, all of them had been harrassed, assaulted or degraded during their time in USMMA. It doesn't specify whether that occurred on campus or during their at sea year while with a crew, but that's pretty loving godawful, and wild that it's just now hitting the news. quote:The woman behind the blog post wrote that of more than 50 women in her senior class at the academy, she has "not spoken to a single one of those women who has told me that she has not been sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, or degraded at some point during the last 3 years at the Academy or during Sea Year. Most people, and even the leaders of our school, do not seem to understand how serious this problem is, especially at sea."
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It’s not just an American problem.
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Anita Dickinme posted:It's not so bad civilian side. For reals. It's not even so bad on the SurgeMain reservist side (because it's the civilian side with weekly work logs and  tryin' to get all up ins but the work leaders run interference for you).NNSY isn't the best, btw, but it's CERTAINLY not the worst.
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FrozenVent posted:It’s not just an American problem. Well apparently USMMA Sea Year only sends cadets to US-flagged vessels, so this was all happening on US flagged ships, and would definitely have impacts on those carriers US flagged operations (as small as those are since the vast majority of shipping happens under flags of convenience, I guess it would gently caress up someone if they had some Jones Act shipping gig) . Now whether the USMMA takes any of this poo poo seriously remains to be seen, but who knows, maybe they'll do something since this hit a major news site and got exposed to the non-mariner populace.
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Anita Dickinme posted:It's not so bad civilian side. I know I can see it everyday… I wish I could smoke weed and knock back a few beers while I drive off base
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:For reals. It's not even so bad on the SurgeMain reservist side (because it's the civilian side with weekly work logs and That honor goes to PNSY
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Happy Birthday y'all
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