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Wasabi the J posted:NGL I'm kinda I feel you entirely Wasabi. I’m even a bit jealous of her, what a cool job.
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so all the old pomp and parade poo poo is fun to me and that lady looks pleased as gently caress to be the new Cap'n Crunch
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Wasabi the J posted:NGL I'm kinda What do they even do with the Constitution? I hope they at least get to go out and fire some broadsides even if just at the ocean.
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Arcella posted:What do they even do with the Constitution? I hope they at least get to go out and fire some broadsides even if just at the ocean. https://www.navy.mil/uss-constitution/ It's basically a museum ship (and there's an actual museum associated with it too), they do tours and a lot of PR/ceremonial stuff. They did a big restoration on it a while back so it is actually able to go sail around now, but it's not something they do routinely. I'm sure every Captain daydreams about taking it out to hunt pirates.
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Jan 23, 2022 23:10
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm sure every Captain daydreams about taking it out to hunt pirates. If I could be the IDIS and give the intel briefs for it, I would sign back up tomorrow.
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Jan 23, 2022 23:29
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://www.navy.mil/uss-constitution/ They also keep it in case they need a ship immune to EMPs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_jwvaBciI&t=644s
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://www.navy.mil/uss-constitution/ Does the command have actual other sailboats or a ship to actually practice rigging and sailing? Or would that make it too much of a “fun” assignment for the USN.
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hobbesmaster posted:Does the command have actual other sailboats or a ship to actually practice rigging and sailing? Or would that make it too much of a “fun” assignment for the USN. They do have a pike team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amLM6E0o_mc
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If you're in Boston it's worth seeing the Constitution and the WWII destroyer museum ship next to it. You get a lot of access especially to the destroyer so it's a pretty cool visit and it's not at all inconvenient to get to if you're already downtown.
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hobbesmaster posted:Does the command have actual other sailboats or a ship to actually practice rigging and sailing? Or would that make it too much of a “fun” assignment for the USN. Like most things, you have to go Coast Guard for actual nautical fun. https://www.uscga.edu/eagle/
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That Works posted:If you're in Boston it's worth seeing the Constitution and the WWII destroyer museum ship next to it. You get a lot of access especially to the destroyer so it's a pretty cool visit and it's not at all inconvenient to get to if you're already downtown. Concur. It’s a nice setup.
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PeterCat posted:They also keep it in case they need a ship immune to EMPs. yet somehow the helicopters worked?
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Crab Dad posted:yet somehow the helicopters worked? Helicopters are driven by their desire to murder their occupants.
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Well I think Tom Clancy’s corpse just had a huge loving erection. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/politics/biden-troops-nato-ukraine.html?referringSource=articleShare Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics The president is also considering deploying warships and aircraft to NATO allies, in what would be a major shift from its restrained stance on Ukraine.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Well I think Tom Clancy’s corpse just had a huge loving erection. My guess is that his previous restrained stance and new more overt deterrent posture is related to how negotiations with NATO allies regarding how unified the alliance will be.
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Crab Dad posted:yet somehow the helicopters worked? I think in the context of the episode the EMP was only within a certain amount of distance of the enemy battleship.
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Stultus Maximus posted:My guess is that his previous restrained stance and new more overt deterrent posture is related to how negotiations with NATO allies regarding how unified the alliance will be. I'm curious how unified it'll be.
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Crab Dad posted:yet somehow the helicopters worked? They already work in defiance of all logic and reason, so why not?
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I’d kill for some orders back to Europe. Might get my wish.
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Stultus Maximus posted:My guess is that his previous restrained stance and new more overt deterrent posture is related to how negotiations with NATO allies regarding how unified the alliance will be. Germany is still acting weird, probably because of natural gas deliveries out of Russia: https://twitter.com/mitchprothero/status/1485248663593103363
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facialimpediment posted:Germany is still acting weird, probably because of natural gas deliveries out of Russia: I wonder if the people in the German government who made the call to pivot away from nuclear power and embrace Russian fossil fuel pipelines are feeling any shame or regret at all right now.
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Don't forget France! Macron was saying that the EU should make its own security deal with Russia without the US.
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Arrath posted:I'm curious how unified it'll be. So am I. My read on this is that Biden doesn't want to bluff. The oddly ambiguous "minor incursion" statements from the presser were to make it clear to Ukraine that they shouldn't bet on backup unless poo poo goes real serious, so they shouldn't get overly confident. I also assume that most of the European allies behind the scenes weren't ready to commit to anything. Now they probably are so he can be bolder. A lot of this probably goes back to Obama's "red line" in Syria where he thought the UK was backing us up.
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Kesper North posted:Don't forget France! Macron was saying that the EU should make its own security deal with Russia without the US. Given the.... unstable nature of the USA over the last few years, I don't even know if I can blame them.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I wonder if the people in the German government who made the call to pivot away from nuclear power and embrace Russian fossil fuel pipelines are feeling any shame or regret at all right now. You know, post Greece I wonder if France and Germany would prefer that Ukraine wasn't on the path to EU membership...
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Kesper North posted:Don't forget France! Macron was saying that the EU should make its own security deal with Russia without the US. They should, it's not like we're going to do anything against Russia ever again after 2024.
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Kesper North posted:Don't forget France! Macron was saying that the EU should make its own security deal with Russia without the US. Im sure they havnt forgotten about the whole australian sub deal just yet either.
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Sentinel posted:Im sure they havnt forgotten about the whole australian sub deal just yet either. I'm positive that's a major driver behind Macron's comments.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I feel you entirely Wasabi. I’m even a bit jealous of her, what a cool job. Arcella posted:What do they even do with the Constitution? I hope they at least get to go out and fire some broadsides even if just at the ocean. Wingnut Ninja posted:I'm sure every Captain daydreams about taking it out to hunt pirates. Nick Soapdish posted:If I could be the IDIS and give the intel briefs for it, I would sign back up tomorrow. Well, maybe we could be the pirates for ol' Captain 64...
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Jan 24, 2022 04:46
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Look I'm just saying maybe Jonas Venture was on to something...
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://www.navy.mil/uss-constitution/ I feel like Master and Commander is a seriously underrated movie. Not like Top Gun I guess, but I can see people getting a romantic feeling about a sailing ship like it.
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gently caress working on a sailing ship. There is next to nothing to be romantic about.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:gently caress working on a sailing ship. There is next to nothing to be romantic about. I'm not sure what else needs to be said.
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https://twitter.com/jdpoc/status/1485351325143605250 RIP in piss
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Well that didn't take long. https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1485452071642054671 And nothing of value was lost.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:gently caress working on a sailing ship. There is next to nothing to be romantic about. What do you got against sodomy and the lash?
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Just have robots handle all the sailing gruntwork so you can enjoy being a cap'n
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SquirrelyPSU posted:I feel like Master and Commander is a seriously underrated movie. Not like Top Gun I guess, but I can see people getting a romantic feeling about a sailing ship like it. It's absolutely underrated, probably because unlike Top Gun, it's striving for historical accuracy. I wish it had spawned a rich series of sequels and spinoffs. Crab Dad posted:What do you got against sodomy and the lash? At a guess, probably the "lash" part. Also, Herman Melville has some great descriptions of life during that time: quote:When you have the requisite room, you always have "spreaders" in
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I cannot even imagine a hammock-deck in the tropics. gently caress. That.
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A hammock with spreader bars is simply divine and I’ve spent a fair number of nights in one of mine (hammock camping is A Thing for me.) but everything about hammocking on a ship sounds super lovely. I was rewatching The Terror last night and they had a shot of some sailors in hammocks that were bent into a U and it made my back instantly ache.
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