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MSC has something like 4+ month requirement before you can even request a relief and then its another 4+ to actually get one. COVID ruined this cause ~national defense~ or whatever even while the Navy can relieve their own sailors or let them go home when in port. Edit: USCG finally accepted all my paperwork for Chief Engineer after months of telling me they didn't receive anything I sent and then telling me that I didn't sign the paperwork they didn't receive. Motherfucker its got an electronic signature and date clear as loving day. I guess CCing the NMC and everyone at the REC when my application status was updated to canceled on Friday helped straighten it finally. hosed up my interview with LLNL for a NIF director job and I'm still super depressed but hopefully get into Sandia instead and never go back to sea. lightpole fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/Navy_Hipple/status/1630102815233437697?s=20 Pretty lovely year to be mobilized but at least I was on a USNS ship so the food was good and we did get a few weeks total off the ship.
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https://twitter.com/JournoGeoffZ/status/1630362283305230336?s=20https://twitter.com/JournoGeoffZ/status/1630362283305230336?s=20 Good Navy for once?
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Fivemarks posted:https://twitter.com/JournoGeoffZ/status/1630362283305230336?s=20https://twitter.com/JournoGeoffZ/status/1630362283305230336?s=20 USNS Maury is the only confederate name sake still.
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Bad luck to change the name, should've just replaced it
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slurm posted:Bad luck to change the name, should've just replaced it At least that's a better reason to change the name than "we want to reuse the current name for a cooler ship".
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Smalls was a loving bad rear end dude. Glad he gets a ship named after him.
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Crab Dad posted:USNS Maury is the only confederate name sake still. They just renamed Maury Hall at usna for Jimmy Carter. The superintendents house is still has a confederate name afaik
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Smalls was a loving bad rear end dude. Glad he gets a ship named after him. Too bad its the most broken CG in the fleet. Every time I ran into the Chancellorsville in the Pacific or the Gulf, they were broken and on their way back to port for major unscheduled repairs. One time, they were literally just leaking fuel oil out of their hull.
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I was gonna say, being a poo poo rear end CG they can keep the name, save Smalls for a good ship lol
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AlternateNu posted:Too bad its the most broken CG in the fleet. Every time I ran into the Chancellorsville in the Pacific or the Gulf, they were broken and on their way back to port for major unscheduled repairs. One time, they were literally just leaking fuel oil out of their hull. I believe I speak for every sailor on a CG when I say that my ship is in fact the most broken CG in the fleet.
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Aren't all the ticos broken as gently caress? 
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Wibla posted:Aren't all the ticos broken as gently caress? Only one I ever saw up close was the Port Royal as a surge main component. Just finished a cruise after being tied up for a couple years after running aground on a reef. Was running water tight door and scuttle tests. Lol you could fit a finger though more than half of them. “It floats don’t worry”
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Wibla posted:Aren't all the ticos broken as gently caress? Yes. They have structural issues because of design flaws and the continued addition of massive weight in the superstructure throughout design and modifications over the years. Crab Dad posted:Only one I ever saw up close was the Port Royal as a surge main component. The Port Royal is the most hosed up cruiser. The others are hosed and have holes in their superstructure and cracks all over the place. Port Royal is hosed up in the same way that all CGs are PLUS it has a permanent list among excessive crookedness everywhere. Parking on Reef Runway was really not good for the ship.
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Wibla posted:Aren't all the ticos broken as gently caress? <ages visibly>
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Mr. Nice! posted:Yes. They have structural issues because of design flaws and the continued addition of massive weight in the superstructure throughout design and modifications over the years. Reminds me of my first ship, the Guardian (MCM-5). It's the sweep that ran aground off the coast of PI a decade ago. That was the death knell and the thing had to be decomm'd and chopped up while still stuck on the reef. But before that whole fiasco, back when I was still onboard, we ran into a megatyphoon in the SCS after China flipped us the bird and prevented us from coming into Hong Kong harbor. Caught in 20-25ft seas for 5 days. The hull was so warped after getting tossed around like that, it never really sailed straight again.
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AlternateNu posted:, it never really sailed straight again. Who among us …
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We sailed with a Perry class, the USS McInerney, many moons ago that was so beat up, it would take on water above sea state 5. That said, I was sailing on an Oslo-class frigate from the 1960s where the superstructure lifted from the deck in bad weather, so it's not like we could throw any stones. Or buckets. One might say it was two cripples sailing across the North Sea together.
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Wibla posted:We sailed with a Perry class, the USS McInerney, many moons ago that was so beat up, it would take on water above sea state 5. the piece of poo poo spearhead class i was on was equally bad except it was by design not because it was old and tired. "The ship is unstable in rough seas and at high speeds. At 10 knots in calm sea states the hull can roll up to four degrees to each side, while conventional ships would roll very little; this increases if the ship goes faster or in rougher conditions, raising the possibility of seasickness.[10] To achieve its top speed the ship has to be traveling in waters not exceeding sea state 3 (waves up to 1.25 m (4.1 ft) high). At sea state 4 it can travel at up to 15 knots, at only 5 knots in sea state 5, and has to hold position in any higher sea state." 1) I got use to the torque of the ship pretty quickly and never got sea sick. however I saw an entire security detachment of marines and sailors get wrecked on their first couple nights on the ship in transit. 2) lol we would run and hide at sea state 3. Ship would just try to tear itself apart.
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Most of my career was on lake boats so lol. I did spend time on a cargo ship that was so loving rusty, a deckhand managed to drop a sounding rod through the main deck. Right before we sailed, too. When I reported this to the captain as we departed he was a bit annoyed so he slammed the throttle astern a bit too roughly. The vibration intensified and we head a loud BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOING sound, as if someone had hit a giant oil drum with a sledge hammer. I get my rear end up to the monkey island, turns out the MF/HF antenna had just… rusted through its mounting. And fallen to the deck like a dead tree. Anyway I tied the antenna to the base of the mast and the chief engineer covered the hole in the deck with duct tape, and off we went.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Smalls was a loving bad rear end dude. Glad he gets a ship named after him. With a crosspost from the coldwar thread in case anyone doubts the claim: Cyrano4747 posted:hahah holy poo poo. The USN is renaming a ship, which they don't really do too often.
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https://twitter.com/Gruntyginman/status/1630633738580180999?t=zjr-L4HfR7VNsWrB9EsSRA&s=19 It literally costs nothing to be a good  and look out for your people. I never understood fellow Chiefs that were like this.
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Well it was tough for me therefore it should be tough for anyone because god forbid giving your people more than you were given when you were coming up.
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That Sailor's kids did not come in their seabag!
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PneumonicBook posted:Thay Sailor's kids did not come in their seabag! No, but some sailor most likely did.
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Crab Dad posted:No, but some sailor most likely did. 
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/Gruntyginman/status/1630633738580180999?t=zjr-L4HfR7VNsWrB9EsSRA&s=19 Same. About 70%, in my experience, of the cpos were like that. 90 of the scpos and 99.99 of the mcpos.
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[Ask Me] about the seaman who cut a hole for a pocket pussy into his rack... (please dont)
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I am so confused what first of all you have rack mates and I mean to get any real momentum going you're going to be alerting your whole berthing that you're loving your rack mount pocket pussy Just crank it in the shower you loving animals
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orange juche posted:I am so confused what first of all you have rack mates and I mean to get any real momentum going you're going to be alerting your whole berthing that you're loving your rack mount pocket pussy Also order of operations is important. Crank it. Shower it. Let the jelly fish go down the drain. Never understood the guys who finish off after the shower and left the sea baby behind.
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Thank God for a contract with a shower, shitter, and no roommates.
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I sailed with a guy who'd been chief on an OSV where the two opposite watch qmeds shared a room and one of them was always complaining to the chief that it "smelled like skeet in here, he's skeeting all over" and the chief had to talk to the other guy about not skeeting in paper towels and leaving them in the trash. And that's whylightpole posted:Thank God for a contract with a shower, shitter, and no roommates.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/Gruntyginman/status/1630633738580180999?t=zjr-L4HfR7VNsWrB9EsSRA&s=19 At least gunners mates don't work with anything that might be hazardous if handled while severely sleep deprived
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One of my buddies works on a government ship and he's been encouraging me to get my MMC and apply for the junior version of his job. I even met some of the other crew and officers and they were all like oh yeah dude get a job out here with us. I'd like to thank all the merchant seamen in this thread the past few pages for encouraging me to go buy a bag of weed tonight instead lol
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/Gruntyginman/status/1630633738580180999?t=zjr-L4HfR7VNsWrB9EsSRA&s=19 Good on that sailor for standing up for themselves but holy gently caress I can’t believe he wrote all of that out. I know the marines are different but that’d lose you rank in an NJP regardless of how loving stupid your SNCO is.
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Hekk posted:Good on that sailor for standing up for themselves but holy gently caress I can’t believe he wrote all of that out. I know the marines are different but that’d lose you rank in an NJP regardless of how loving stupid your SNCO is. Probably would in the Navy, too! When I was in, basically any kind of response could be "disrespectful" if your chief was a whiner about it
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He probably should have just said “ kid is sick can’t come in” and been done with it.
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