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M_Gargantua posted:why would you go to a chlorinated pool Nostalgia, mostly. Used to get drunk there with my wife an entire drat decade ago, holy poo poo. Shorebirds is still there.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Remind me, is PR the religious assistant rate? Youre thinking of RP. Google says The Aircrew Survival Equipmentman (PR) was originally known as a Parachute Rigger until the rating was formally changed to its current name in 1965. One of my RDCs was a PR now that I think about it.
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PneumonicBook posted:Youre thinking of RP. Yup, this.
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I did a lot of research to determine this, but the Barefoot Bar at the Hale Koa has the best mai tais on Oahu.
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The Hale Koa is awesome in general, their luauas are great, and the Barefoot Bar has by far the best prices on drinks anywhere on Waikiki iirc. I really like Hawaii, so of course Pearl's the only US submarine base the Navy never sent me to.
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You heard it here first folks, Top Gun 2 is a good summer blockbuster! Just saw it in IMAX and enjoyed it
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Nick Soapdish posted:You heard it here first folks Yeah, when I said it. Too slow, Rooster.
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Watching the original top gun and Chapo wasn’t lying about how wet and moist the original is. Like all characters are sweaty at least 75% of the time on average. It’s really weird to watch blockbuster movies from that era where everything wasn’t as polished and focus group tested yet, like how horny the movie is but for men at least as much as women and how bad yet oddly real the dialogue is.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Watching the original top gun and Chapo wasn’t lying about how wet and moist the original is. Like all characters are sweaty at least 75% of the time on average. Well the film was supposed to be in a hot area so… Hydrate sir.
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This is all I know about the original Top Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1LXL6OOsM I've never actually seen the movie.
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Wasn't it Indian Ocean? Thats not ball sweat area.
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lightpole posted:Wasn't it Indian Ocean? Thats not ball sweat area. They were sweating up a storm in movie-Enterprise's CIC, which is like the opposite of how I remember any CIC being kept.
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SOP for us (Royal Norwegian Navy) was to keep temps pretty low in the CIC. God knows it feels hot enough anyway when you're sitting there working in full flash gear during general quarters though.
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The ACs on ships are chilled using seawater. If the seawater inlet temp is is in the upper 70s, cooling is a lot more difficult.
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So far into my rewatch every male character with dialogue is at least somewhat sweaty at least once.
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lightpole posted:Wasn't it Indian Ocean? Thats not ball sweat area. I figured the bad guys where supposed to be Libya
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I figured the bad guys where supposed to be Libya  Aren't you watching the movie, right now?
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Thought of something: what’s the specific set of messages or instructions or whatever from the mid-to-late 2000s that ushered in the “kinder, gentler navy” that all the old dickheads reminisced about? I remember some people lamenting about not being able to do fan room counseling or drive drunk with impunity any more but I never found out where the turning point was. (edit: i am reasonably sure they were all full of poo poo) MancXVI fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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Xakura posted:
"Present Day" my rear end. There's no A-7s in CAGs any more. I know I know. 
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MancXVI posted:Thought of something: what’s the specific set of messages or instructions or whatever from the mid-to-late 2000s that ushered in the “kinder, gentler navy” that all the old dickheads reminisced about? I remember some people lamenting about not being able to do fan room counseling or drive drunk with impunity any more but I never found out where the turning point was. I was in in the Eighties, and the crotchety old-timers were still sore at Zumwalt.
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I had to talk my division into tacking on my third class crow in the manner of old because in the early 2000's the entire navy was very afraid of getting in trouble for any kind of hazing or harassment
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I figured the bad guys where supposed to be Libya The initial incident is based on something that happened in Lybia, the enemy in the movie is just ~foreign country~. Same in the second movie, it’s just some random country with nuclear reactors and F-14.
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Was working on my eval and lol I was told I had to “grow into my crow” and don’t expect to make board. Oh no don’t threaten me with a bad time. E6 is the poo poo.
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Regardless of the ambient wetness, Kelly McGillis is always drier than Tom Cruise in every scene I've paid attention to so far.Xakura posted:
I'm talking about the sweaty CIC in the first scene.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Regardless of the ambient wetness, Kelly McGillis is always drier than Tom Cruise in every scene I've paid attention to so far. Indian ocean can definitely be ball-sweat area, I served on the Enterprise and yeah some days CIC did get toasty if we had a casualty causing the air chilling to be hosed up in there. E originally was designed to operate in the North Atlantic and had chiller capacity as such it seemed. Also those shots were shot in the actual Enterprise or a drat good mockup of it, because it looked definitely correct from my memories of the ships internal spaces. Same with Hunt for Red October. Indian ocean does cross the equator, and if the hypothetical Enterprise was perhaps close to the African coast near the equator that's still the Indian Ocean and I can first hand confirm it gets hot as gently caress there, even in CIC. orange juche fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:This is all I know about the original Top Gun: That's pretty much the consensus view these days, although there are a few contrarian takes out there: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/comparative-media-studies-201-heterosexual-undertones-in-top-gun
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Crab Dad posted:Was working on my eval and lol I was told I had to “grow into my crow” and don’t expect to make board. I think E5 is the best and consequently the one that runs the navy for the most part
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I was wearing a jacket and under a blanket in anything <100 after the Red Sea/Persian Gulf. How do you have an electronics space that isnt properly cooled? The chief on a car carrier turned off the control room AC in the Gulf while pulling a piston cause he thought people were spending too much time slacking in it. Aside from the heatstroke he managed to fry all the EOT cards and forced engine side maneuvers.
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Anywhere can be a ball-sweat area if the air conditioning doesn't work.
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Regardless of the ambient wetness, Kelly McGillis is always drier than Tom Cruise in every scene I've paid attention to so far. The CIC is the very next shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZfM2VMs_vI&t=239s
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:I figured the bad guys where supposed to be Libya The original draft of the screen had the "bad guys" as North Korea, and it's somewhat echoed by the ending involving the fictitious "communications ship" S.S. Layton becoming disabled and drifting into hostile waters, a la the Pueblo incident. But they relented and kept the "bad guys" as "anonymous Communists," hence the red star. They also changed the location to the Indian Ocean which was about as far from any Communist states as possible to further muddy the waters. Now, in Iron Eagle, the bad guys were never named, but it was made exceptionally clear it was Libya. In the (first) sequel it was almost definitely Iran because Libya was a Soviet client state at the time and "both sides" didn't want a ~certain Middle Eastern country~ getting nuclear weapons. FrozenVent posted:The initial incident is based on something that happened in Lybia, the enemy in the movie is just ~foreign country~. I do remember Libya having/supposedly constructing an underground It was also pre-dated by the Iron Eagle 2 plot in 1988. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jun 6, 2022 |
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Yeah I rewatched it with my fiancée when I was less high and realized I missed that text. Definitely more North Korea watching it again
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I can confirm that running all available air conditioning plants in 80⁰F seawater, while they just constantly surge and try to turn themselves off is not a great time. At least I never had to be in a CVNs engine room while they steam through water like that, no AC, hot as hell water, and a steam plant? No thanks.
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Elviscat posted:I can confirm that running all available air conditioning plants in 80⁰F seawater, while they just constantly surge and try to turn themselves off is not a great time. Pre-upgrade, our cooling plants ran at 115% capacity while sailing HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen through the Caribbean in 80-90F water. As far as I recall we didn't have any outright failures, but it was a brand new boat after all  We had a really, really lovely time in the Med with an older frigate back in '05 though. They struggled to get the AC working AT ALL in the berthing areas when it started to get hot and it was 80+F for a few days. That loving sucked. That old boat had a steam plant, too, and the boys in the engine room did not enjoy themselves too much.
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Wibla posted:Pre-upgrade, our cooling plants ran at 115% capacity while sailing HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen through the Caribbean in 80-90F water. As far as I recall we didn't have any outright failures, but it was a brand new boat after all From the time we entered the Med all the way until we exited back out to the Atlantic at the end of our cruise, the chillers on CVN-65 could not keep up with the heat load from the water, and were regularly out of service or weak.
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orange juche posted:From the time we entered the Med all the way until we exited back out to the Atlantic at the end of our cruise, the chillers on CVN-65 could not keep up with the heat load from the water, and were regularly out of service or weak. gently caress, that sucks. Heh, our evaporator died like a day into the Med. That's highly problematic on a boat with a steam plant. Only the cooks were allowed to shower daily, and we were drinking bottled water until we got to Malaga.
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MancXVI posted:Thought of something: what’s the specific set of messages or instructions or whatever from the mid-to-late 2000s that ushered in the “kinder, gentler navy” that all the old dickheads reminisced about? I remember some people lamenting about not being able to do fan room counseling or drive drunk with impunity any more but I never found out where the turning point was. I know this was a rhetorical question but Tailhook was probably the closest thing to a step change in culture in the last few decades.
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Elviscat posted:I can confirm that running all available air conditioning plants in 80⁰F seawater, while they just constantly surge and try to turn themselves off is not a great time. I can't speak for CVN's, but on one particular CGN, engineroom temp was generally 35F higher than seawater temp. Feed Pump Watch in the Caribbean was, as they say, no bueno.
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