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Since folks were talking about the Thresher a few days ago, a youtube channel just dropped a video about the incident. https://youtu.be/g-uJ1do3yV8
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The Navy lost my separation physical paperwork. It doesn't really matter for VA stuff, because my civilian PCP documented all the same poo poo within a year (so I could get actual treatment for it), but loving come on.
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The CG lost my entire record of existing and when I asked for a part of my record for a job once they literally said "oh we dont have it anything so just, send us anything you have and we'll just recreate it".
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1646627126429249538?t=wGun5ZV8-_UOUPhKq50VFA&s=19 Never change, Proceedings article submitters.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1646627126429249538?t=wGun5ZV8-_UOUPhKq50VFA&s=19 I.... don't disagree? UAV dirigibles with a seafloor anchor would be a fantastic loiter capability.
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M_Gargantua posted:I.... don't disagree? UAV dirigibles with a seafloor anchor would be a fantastic loiter capability. There's the weather issue, that still hasn't really gotten any better for LTAs since the Nav canned them the last time.
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Madurai posted:There's the weather issue, that still hasn't really gotten any better for LTAs since the Nav canned them the last time. A UAV dirigible wouldn't need to operate below the cloud deck. Of course that means that there are sizable time periods where you can't see the areas you're observing, but there's still plenty hours of the day (and night!) when they can be perfectly useful at high altitude. The last time the Navy canned them they had to be fueled and manned, and high altitude aerial observation was a bit sketchy. None of those things are true now.
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A.o.D. posted:A UAV dirigible wouldn't need to operate below the cloud deck. Of course that means that there are sizable time periods where you can't see the areas you're observing, but there's still plenty hours of the day (and night!) when they can be perfectly useful at high altitude. The last time the Navy canned them they had to be fueled and manned, and high altitude aerial observation was a bit sketchy. None of those things are true now. Is that you, LT Jonathan Z. French, USN?
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Cerekk posted:Is that you, LT Jonathan Z. French, USN? n..no.. but he seems smart and very handsome.
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If airships come back their aviation uniform should be a steampunk tophat with cosmetic gears afixed to it 
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Jimmy4400nav posted:If airships come back their aviation uniform should be a steampunk tophat with cosmetic gears afixed to it If this doesn't cause me to re-enlist, nothing ever will.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:If airships come back their aviation uniform should be a steampunk tophat with cosmetic gears afixed to it This would rob far too many prospective nukes from the community.
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Elviscat posted:This would rob far too many prospective nukes from the community. You say that like its a bad thing... 
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Jimmy4400nav posted:If airships come back their aviation uniform should be a steampunk tophat with cosmetic gears afixed to it The insignia they've already got is basically the aviator's wings, but with just one wing, which already looks pretty steampunky: 
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Nuke boats are already pretty steampunk, since there's very few conventional steam powered ships left. The synergistic solution is to bring huge multi-reactor SSRNs back as motherships with swarms of UAV airship MPRAs to screen CBGs from enemy submarines. Once the airship swarms detect the submarine(s) the mothership dives to intercept.
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Madurai posted:The insignia they've already got is basically the aviator's wings, but with just one wing, which already looks pretty steampunky: On a scale of 0 to 10, how steampunk is Sephiroth? 
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AlternateNu posted:On a scale of 0 to 10, how steampunk is Sephiroth? This is going to be a question on your Enlisted Steampunk Warfare Specialist board, so study up shipmates.
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Alright Steam-mates, due to the poor decision making of some foozler in the Dirigible Repair division we are gonna have a safety steam down. Now, you all know that you *must* complete your penny-farthing safety foundations course before you can ride one on base, right? And you must be wearing your proper steam protective equipment at all times while riding, not just on base. If you do not you will lose your footcycle privileges and potentially go up to steam funnel and see the old man.
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Crab Dad, you out on your kayak rescuing all those sailors who were headed to Sub Ball and had their ferry crash? E: Whoops 
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Elviscat posted:Crab Dad, you out on your kayak rescuing all those sailors who were headed to Sub Ball and had their ferry crash? Welp, if that ferry galley is working, they're about to be tapped out of beer real quick.
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What the gently caress is going on with the ferries recently? Last year they slammed a dock…
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Infrastructure week!
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Crab Dad posted:What the gently caress is going on with the ferries recently? Last year they slammed a dock… That was blatant operator error by the captain, this one was a mechanical failure 'cause the poor Walla Walla's 51 years old. Some drunk or asleep captain tags a dock with a ferry every few years.
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When I was a kid I used to read a lot of books about WWII fleet boats, and I thought the idea of submarines and serving on a submarine was the coolest thing ever. It was, in many ways, like serving on a space ship, right? That is what I thought. My grandfather was in the Navy in WWII, on this V-5 program. His first choice, when he joined, was to be a pilot but they had enough people in that pipeline. Second choice was submarines, but by this time that pipeline was also clogged. His first boat after school and commissioning was a tiny LCVP in the Philippines, that shuttled people between Tacloban and Tubabao. He did eventually made it to BB-42 Idaho, but through sheer luck, his age, and fate, it was after Okinawa. Everything was winding down. As I got older I started to read the stuff that was available, which was not much, about serving on more modern submarines. And I still thought the same things, about how cool it must be. And I had a great respect for the Navy. I didn’t end up joining the Navy when I came of age, though. Instead, I joined the Marine Corps. Explaining why I did that would be a whole different post, and I won’t go into that here. I was in from 1987-1998, and somehow I still had the idea at the time, that serving on subs in the Navy must be a lot cooler, and would not suck. And there were a lot of times back then when I wished I’d done that, instead of what I ended up doing. A lot of that was due to reading Clancy and watching stuff like HfRO and Crimson Tide, I guess. I experienced a lot of sheer misery, to be sure. Absolute loving misery, institutional assholery, and hidebound nonsense. But I’m not at all sure it was worse than what I’ve read and heard about modern bubbleheads or even surface fleet people experienced in the USN at that time, or later. But thanks to stuff I’ve read ITT and other places, and the couple of former submariners and several surface Navy types I’ve since met IRL, I think I might have gotten off easy, really easy, with my experiences in the USMC. e: obviously I got out before 9/11 and all that came after that, and had I not, my experience would have been a lot different. I realize that, and I don’t intend to diminish the experiences of anyone who was in the UCMC during those times.
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MrMojok posted:When I was a kid I used to read a lot of books about WWII fleet boats, and I thought the idea of submarines and serving on a submarine was the coolest thing ever. It was, in many ways, like serving on a space ship, right? That is what I thought. My friend have you heard of the Navy Reserves?
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Elviscat posted:That was blatant operator error by the captain, this one was a mechanical failure 'cause the poor Walla Walla's 51 years old. Washington has also done everything in their power to gently caress over the ferry crew and under invest in the ferry system so not very surprising. Theres a bunch of AK ferries out for maintenance right now but its still cold and dark so I've avoided those jobs. New York also tried to gently caress over their ferry engineers and they've been working without a raise or contract for like a decade but it just went to arbitration and came back as Maersk Lines Limited Chief Engineer pay was prevailing wage so NY about to get real deservedly hosed.
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Crab Dad posted:My friend have you heard of the Navy Reserves? SHTU THE gently caress UP CRAB DAD!!! LEAVE THAT MOTHERFUCKER LAONE!!!!!!!!!!
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lightpole posted:Washington has also done everything in their power to gently caress over the ferry crew and under invest in the ferry system so not very surprising. Theres a bunch of AK ferries out for maintenance right now but its still cold and dark so I've avoided those jobs. Sort of. A big part of it is staffing problems from the senior people in the union gleefully negotiating a contract that makes the job absolute dogshit for new hires (but benefits senior people). They've also allocated money to buy new boats faster than they've actually managed to get new boats, mostly because of a law that the boats have to be built in Washington, and there's only really one shipyard with the right capability, and it doesn't have the capacity. There are legislators trying to change that law so they can solicit bids from Gulf companies, but there's opposition coming from the local shipbuilding lobby. Nobody's actively trying to kill Washington ferries like they are in Alaska, it's just general bureaucratic incompetence.
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TheWeedNumber posted:SHTU THE gently caress UP CRAB DAD!!! LEAVE THAT MOTHERFUCKER LAONE!!!!!!!!!!
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SA Forums > VFW > Navy Thread: NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP CRAB DAD!
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Crab Dad posted:My friend have you heard of the Navy Reserves? WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH YOU???
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FrozenVent posted:WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH YOU??? I can’t read this while I fill out my orders to fleet week and Hawaii.
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DO YOU WANT A PROBE? THIS IS HOW YOU GET A PROBE!
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FrozenVent posted:DO YOU WANT A PROBE? THIS IS HOW YOU GET A PROBE! Put that motherfucker on restriction. Do it.
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Crab Dad posted:My friend have you heard of the Navy Reserves? BAD CRAB DAD
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FrozenVent posted:DO YOU WANT A PROBE? THIS IS HOW YOU GET A PROBE! According to his rap sheet, this is how he's gotten a probe at least seven times already.
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Stultus Maximus posted:According to his rap sheet, this is how he's gotten a probe at least seven times already. AND IVE GOTTEN MODERATIONS COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT AND I’LL loving DO IT AGAIN
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