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Fiye posted:USS Enterprise had one and it made enough money across two deployments that when we finally decommissioned they had enough money left over that they were covering 90% of your entertainment expenses (Concert tickets, movies, etc...) up to $500 a month for a good while. I got so much ultra-discounted poo poo from the ship's MWR program due to everyone getting their sugar drink fix from the coffee shack. What the hell did they name the thing? It's been a while and I can't remember the name.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/spawnofKahn/status/1613327011799306241?t=BZ7BPeK0NQaMXEFM41sGDw&s=19 I like the pepe frog for the Moskva. I get the feeling this is not their official document.
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Is there a joke there other than "the Moskva sunk lol" or what is the alt right meme supposed to mean?
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Cerekk posted:Is there a joke there other than "the Moskva sunk lol" or what is the alt right meme supposed to mean? I assume it has to be a joke, as far as I know the Alt-right is pro-russia, so it doesn't seem like something they would create something mentioning that it was sunk.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I like the pepe frog for the Moskva. I get the feeling this is not their official document. It's not on the original document - that's a user edit.
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A fair amount of this is Wikipedia-able stuff but when he gets to his own experiences and photos it gets decent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9NVvKrlMQ
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/spawnofKahn/status/1613327011799306241?t=BZ7BPeK0NQaMXEFM41sGDw&s=19 Used to routinely visit the NMIC. Good cafeteria. Pity it is out if the BAS budget for daily consumption. There's a gym there that's outside of the SCIF area so people could workout with their personal electronics, but they kept forgetting to take them out and bringing them into the secure areas. Buncha dipshits.
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Norwegian Frigate discovering that the unknown "obstacle" was a tanker headed straight for them: https://giant.gfycat.com/DaringWildLemming.mp4
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Yeah, despite having a good shot at saving the boat. E: To quote the USN Handbook of damage control: "If the ship does not sink within a very few minutes after damage, she probably will survive for several hours." And I'm not idly shitposting above, I was part of the commissioning crew of the first ship in the class and that boat should by all accounts have made it to port even after getting a love-tap like that. The official reports also state this. Ugh. This poo poo pisses me off. Wibla fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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Most modern warships are built to take damage like this and still back to port, even if it's limping along. Mine did, but that may be more of a testament to the quick actions of the crew than anything else.
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The Valley Stared posted:Most modern warships are built to take damage like this and still back to port, even if it's limping along. Mine did, but that may be more of a testament to the quick actions of the crew than anything else. Did any sailors not responsible for that clusterfuck get awards for their actions?
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The Valley Stared posted:Most modern warships are built to take damage like this and still back to port, even if it's limping along. Mine did, but that may be more of a testament to the quick actions of the crew than anything else. I’d argue the damage control efforts in your case was above and beyond what one could reasonably expect of the average sailor.
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A.o.D. posted:Did any sailors not responsible for that clusterfuck get awards for their actions? Yup. Here's an article about it. https://news.usni.org/2017/10/20/u-s-7th-fleet-honors-36-uss-fitzgerald-sailors-bravery-damage-control-efforts. COMs all around! Great work team! Apparently I was put in for something higher and so was my DCC, but I know I've never received anything more than the COM, and I don't know if he ever received anything for his actions. Even so, securing systems and closing water-tight hatches will do a lot of the work to keep a ship afloat. I seem to recall there being a design "feature" for the Norweigan ship that contributed to it going down, but I might be misremembering that. And I agree to an extent that what we did was above and beyond, but it shouldn't be. I do praise my DCC a LOT, but that's because people wanted to be around him and I think that was a huge contributing factor. DC was also important to the crew. It's when DC becomes an "Engineering Problem" that situations like the one above become more likely.
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"How I saved weight and cost by removing all these complex bulkheads, an MBA success story"
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M_Gargantua posted:"How I saved weight and cost by removing all these complex bulkheads, an MBA success story" Watertight doors and hatches are not only expensive and unsightly, they require consistent maintenance to function properly. Plastic bead curtains promote good airflow and are a fraction of the cost with no required preventative maintenance. They can also be ordered in numerous fun colors (at this time, only haze grey is available) to increase crew morale. In addition, they give olfactory warning in the event of conflagration.
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M_Gargantua posted:"How I saved weight and cost by removing all these complex bulkheads, an MBA success story" But seriously, building warships to commercial ship subdivision standards was a thing that I think the French re-started with the Floreal-class corvettes, and it's spread everywhere.
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The French haven't the nature for war. Their Latinate voluptuousness combines with their Gallic laziness and the result is they'd rather eat and make love with their faces than fight. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Whom'st among us does not enjoy voluptuous love with their faces more than scrubbing a bilge
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Never mind, I didn't read the context fully.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:The French haven't the nature for war. Their Latinate voluptuousness combines with their Gallic laziness and the result is they'd rather eat and make love with their faces than fight. Haha, probed for a quote from General Webb who refused to attempt to lift the siege of Fort William Henry.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/1615938204661604355?t=6GNi_T64eZpHtupnpKeveOOWHJviX7KUe7fXs_YVsHI&s=19 It was a bulk buy, we're about done building the rest of them.
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PneumonicBook posted:It was a bulk buy, we're about done building the rest of them. They are building them faster than we can decomm them. We'll never be rid of them at this rate
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Laranzu posted:They are building them faster than we can decomm them. We'll never be rid of them at this rate I’m staring at two of those tri-hulls sitting in our mothball fleet right outside my office This better have kept the yard from shutting down and aluminum welders working….
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Laranzu posted:They are building them faster than we can decomm them. We'll never be rid of them at this rate I assure you, we are not building them quickly. I was supposed to be out of boats to build a couple years ago, instead I've still got 4 in various stages of construction up here.
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The Navy is like me and all my model boats. A bunch of useless junk in various stages of completion that is just depressing.
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Anyone ever go on/serve on one of those? Wonder what the conditions are like, if it is worse to be deployed on than other ships. I imagine it must not spend much time far away from the coast, based on the name of the ship type, so maybe they get much more frequent port calls?
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Anyone ever go on/serve on one of those? Wonder what the conditions are like, if it is worse to be deployed on than other ships. I imagine it must not spend much time far away from the coast, based on the name of the ship type, so maybe they get much more frequent port calls? That’s assuming they can leave port before breaking down.
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My buddys a port engineer for them and from the sound of it they are always broken.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Anyone ever go on/serve on one of those? Wonder what the conditions are like, if it is worse to be deployed on than other ships. I imagine it must not spend much time far away from the coast, based on the name of the ship type, so maybe they get much more frequent port calls? One came to SF for Fleet Week. I was distracted by the amount of unpainted aluminum inside, as well as unbelievable amounts of headroom in the passageways.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Reopen Subic Bay, send over all the LCSs and reform the Far East Patrol Squadron We may be halfway there already!
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Christ, the depths of depravity that went on in Olangapo *before* the age of smartphones...that's gonna end SO many loving careers.
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There’s a couple positions for baby’s first civilian IT jobs at Bangor/Bremerton available. Requires sec+ and secret. Contractor positions but the reason we have them open is that the guys who previously had them got hired on by gov or the big boys of MIC. PM if interested for more details. And no these aren’t printer tech positions under me.
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