|
The reflag I did with you was really last time I sailed for them. They didn't get us mattresses till Cape Town. Should be a relief 3rd with B Dub coming up if he didn't get hold of you. Also possibly a relief 1st there, and a C9 relief 1st but that might be just a trip or two.
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2022 13:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 23:32 |
|
|
lightpole posted:The reflag I did with you was really last time I sailed for them. They didn't get us mattresses till Cape Town. That one was in good shape for a reflag. The mattresses didn't even all come until the states, I had a poo poo one from Baltimore to Norfolk. I'm still on here for another while, I thought I'd be off early but if we actually make schedule I'll be on a while yet. Does Matson still have like better sheets and food? When I was a cadet quality of life was really good but the C9 I was on was a hard working ship to say the least.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2022 19:41
|
|
|
I've erased it from my memory. Food is better on the triangle, China Express gets a little old but it always depends on the galley crew. Sheets depend on if you follow an alcoholic first who spent all his time smoking butts in bed so everything smells like an ashtray and you keep digging butts out of the sheets.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2022 03:42
|
|
|
lightpole posted:you keep digging butts out of the sheets. I usually do it the other way around when I sleep nekkid.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2022 23:08
|
|
|
lightpole posted:I've erased it from my memory. I don't at all like being the anti booze guy but drat alcoholics on a ship can be really miserable
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2022 13:20
|
|
|
I got a good sheet today. I'm going to find the old one in the laundry and cut it up for rags. Quality of life is spectacularly improved. Today on the ship we learned that if you have to make new gaskets for a cooling water pipe, don't forget the hole for the water, or things will get melty!
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2022 00:06
|
|
|
You have the 1sts keys, just go grab one or yell the SA to put something decent on your bed. Was it as bad as leaving a rag in the piston cooling oil B&K?
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2022 00:53
|
|
|
lightpole posted:Was it as bad as leaving a rag in the piston cooling oil B&K? Our usual rag location is in the exhaust valve drives. So fun. This was on a compressor which is definitely better than anything in a B&K. Just have to melt the remains of the poo poo aluminum piston out with a torch!
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2022 01:27
|
|
|
I'm on leave and I'm drunk gently caress the navy
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 04:38
|
|
|
Mr. Bad Guy posted:I'm on leave and I'm drunk gently caress the navy So it’s a day ending in “y”.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 04:53
|
|
|
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/15/videos-show-hospital-ship-incident-led-19-people-going-overboard-questions-swirl.html Whaaaaaaaaaaat? The Navy lie to try and cover its tracks? Why I never.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 17:15
|
|
|
I intentionally did not look into this cause I knew it was going to be the dumbest thing ever and I'm not disappointed.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 17:52
|
|
|
Thronde posted:https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/15/videos-show-hospital-ship-incident-led-19-people-going-overboard-questions-swirl.html Needed those sailors back on board to field day after dinner. Whoever approved and oversaw that operation is a slob and a liability. Why the gently caress are you bringing people onboard a ship using a crane? It's literally the stupidest loving way you could possibly conceive for getting people back aboard. Everyone should get an LOI and the OOD should be demoted to ship's gimp for the remainder of their time aboard.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 19:16
|
|
|
The screaming and surprise at the end of the video are sad, but I was almost yelling at my computer "What the gently caress did you expect!?". Shockingly bad decision. I was on a sub tender for rotational staffing and it was also a mixed MSC/US Navy crew, so I wondering if that was part of the issue. On my sub tender there always seemed to be dislike among the senior officers between the USN/MSC. This wasn't the case at the lower levels thankfully, but I was the GQ bridge phone talker so I saw plenty of interesting things between the USN and MSC. My favorite was when we were doing our final GQ to certify sea readiness after a long yard period in Portland, OR of all places. The drill was a flood that led to an electrical fire or something similar. Well, a lot of the sound powered phones didn't work, so that made my job tough. We had some sound tubes and I was able to use those to talk to some folks, but luckily they were not big parts of the drill or it would have been a huge pain in the rear end. Anyways, I was getting reports from locker teams that they could not deploy their hose teams because they were trying to order MSC folks to do it, but I guess at their time the qualification system was different and they didn't all dress out for everything or something. Anyway, the drill was going poorly as you can imagine. Then the chief mate received a phone call, and in the middle of the most chaotic part of the drill he announces "I have to take this call, I will be back in a bit". The Navy Captain scoffed at this and said something like "Are you seriously leaving in the middle of this?!" and the chief mate said "My son's on the phone, this is way more important than this bullshit drill" and walked out onto the observation wing and was on the phone for the rest of the drill. The USN captain looked at me and I looked at him and we both had the same WTF face. Needless to say the rest of that deployment was full of fireworks.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 20:13
|
|
|
Mr. Bad Guy posted:I'm on leave and I'm drunk gently caress the navy Hopefully you don't have too much longer left! Getting out is the best decision I ever made. Perhaps next to my FTN tattoo.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 20:14
|
|
|
IncredibleIgloo posted:Hopefully you don't have too much longer left! Getting out is the best decision I ever made. Perhaps next to my FTN tattoo. A FTN tattoo is more self-indulgent and sad than an actual navy tattoo.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 20:47
|
|
|
IncredibleIgloo posted:Then the chief mate received a phone call, and in the middle of the most chaotic part of the drill he announces "I have to take this call, I will be back in a bit". The Navy Captain scoffed at this and said something like "Are you seriously leaving in the middle of this?!" and the chief mate said "My son's on the phone, this is way more important than this bullshit drill" and walked out onto the observation wing and was on the phone for the rest of the drill. The USN captain looked at me and I looked at him and we both had the same WTF face. Needless to say the rest of that deployment was full of fireworks. He wasn't wrong, though.
|
|
#
?
Dec 16, 2022 21:02
|
|
|
AlternateNu posted:A FTN tattoo is more self-indulgent and sad than an actual navy tattoo. Look at this motto rear end motherrucker
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 00:12
|
|
|
Wibla posted:He wasn't wrong, though.
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 01:13
|
|
|
USN and MSC relations couldn’t have better on my ship due to a certain first class boning down with two of em! Navy motto tattoos are the best. Especially with bull poo poo rates like IT.  
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 01:43
|
|
|
And I thought the Seaman at my last unit with Semper Paratus across the top of her pubic area was tasteless.
Elendil004 fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Dec 17, 2022 |
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 01:57
|
|
|
Elendil004 posted:And I thought the Seaman at my last unit with Semper Paratus across the top of her public area was tasteless. Guessing public area isn't a typo in context?
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 01:58
|
|
|
Laranzu posted:Guessing public area isn't a typo in context? oops, is that like a reverse freudian slip?
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 02:02
|
|
|
Crab Dad posted:USN and MSC relations couldn’t have better on my ship due to a certain first class boning down with two of em! I knew a dude with his dolphins tattooed to his chest christ who wants a lifetime reminder of that
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 03:00
|
|
|
AlternateNu posted:A FTN tattoo is more self-indulgent and sad than an actual navy tattoo. 
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 04:27
|
|
|
lightpole posted:I intentionally did not look into this cause I knew it was going to be the dumbest thing ever and I'm not disappointed. Yeah basically. Imagine even having 19 spare people, that's a whole crew lately with the cadet stand downs and the electrician shortages
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 04:34
|
|
|
Elendil004 posted:And I thought the Seaman at my last unit with Semper Paratus across the top of her pubic area was tasteless. Guessing she really wanted that Coast Guard billet
|
|
#
?
Dec 17, 2022 14:17
|
|
|
Elendil004 posted:And I thought the Seaman at my last unit with Semper Paratus across the top of her pubic area was tasteless. That is so tasteless it's almost art.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2022 04:35
|
|
|
Elendil004 posted:And I thought the Seaman at my last unit with Semper Paratus across the top of her pubic area was tasteless. how in the hell did you even find out about it? nvm actually, yeah that would get talked about, EVERYWHERE on the ship, at loving lightning speed once it was discovered.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2022 07:20
|
|
|
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64023249quote:The Thai navy says 31 sailors are missing after a warship carrying more than 100 crew capsized and sank during a storm in the Gulf of Thailand. There's some brief video of it capsizing, seems like it happened really slowly.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2022 23:12
|
|
|
Bunch of fuckery with orders. Students report to JCAC,, get put into holding for a month, get into class, some go through all 7 months of it, and graduate to be placed back into holding for 2+ months without orders. By the time they hit month 5 its pretty apparent their GPA is going to push through the last 3 modules.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2022 20:37
|
|
|
Vriess posted:Bunch of fuckery with orders. At leas the weathers nice in Cory.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2022 21:21
|
|
|
Crab Dad posted:At leas the weathers nice in Cory. Mid-20s last night. Starting to see 3rd generation instructors; my former students finishing their enlistment and coming back to teach ad I did when I went through in 2010.
|
|
#
?
Dec 24, 2022 22:33
|
|
|
Vriess posted:Mid-20s last night. Vriess posted:Mid-20s last night. I was really close to accepting 3 year orders for instructing. Like I thought about for days. But lol Florida. Nope just couldn’t.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2022 03:00
|
|
|
Vriess posted:Bunch of fuckery with orders. Is the pipeline just hosed up? Cuz it's not like we've been slammed by new grads at Meade or anything. Just a steady trickle.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2022 17:12
|
|
|
Laranzu posted:Is the pipeline just hosed up? Cuz it's not like we've been slammed by new grads at Meade or anything. Just a steady trickle. What’s the housing for reservists like at Meade? I’m feeling the itch to mobilize or long term orders again.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2022 19:23
|
|
|
Crab Dad posted:What’s the housing for reservists like at Meade? I’m feeling the itch to mobilize or long term orders again. Lottery winner itches to buy more tickets
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2022 19:43
|
|
|
Dr. Fraiser Chain posted:Lottery winner itches to buy more tickets Just one more mob. I can stop at any time.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2022 20:07
|
|
|
Crab Dad posted:Just one more mob. I lived in south Odenton and didn't have any issue going thr backroad to Waaaaaagh Chapel or Crofton for late night eats at the Nautilus. LPO lived in Columbia before moving to Glen Burnie. Other dude lived in Ellicott city until it turned to Atlantis. Then he moved to Tampa last year and that went underwater.
|
|
#
?
Dec 25, 2022 23:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 23:32 |
|
|
Nautilus always had lovely coffee for me. Go here. It's still open since I moved away. https://www.grumpscafe.com/
|
|
#
?
Dec 26, 2022 00:51
|
|