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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


FrozenVent posted:

AND IVE GOTTEN MODERATIONS COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT AND I’LL loving DO IT AGAIN

Tell them you're operating under the UCMJ so gently caress off from judicial review for NJP

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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Stultus Maximus posted:

According to his rap sheet, this is how he's gotten a probe at least seven times already.

Honestly I wanna give whoever complained on my behalf a hug lol

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Nick Soapdish posted:

Tell them you're operating under the UCMJ so gently caress off from judicial review for NJP

I’M MERCHANT MARINE THE ONLY JUSTICE I CARE ABOUT IS THE CBA

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

FrozenVent posted:

I’M MERCHANT MARINE THE ONLY JUSTICE I CARE ABOUT IS THE CBA

I think this is where we start talking about flag fringe?

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Stultus Maximus posted:

I think this is where we start talking about flag fringe?

Nah, just about gold-fringed posts

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah
crab dad, fast cruise

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

FrozenVent posted:

I’M MERCHANT MARINE THE ONLY JUSTICE I CARE ABOUT IS THE CBA

I still don't believe Canada has flagged vessels.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

lightpole posted:

I still don't believe Canada has flagged vessels.

The whole Great Lakes fleet, the Arctic sealift fleet, a whack of tankers… it’s not huge but it’s a decent sized fleet.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://www.dvidshub.net/news/442730/nasa-astronaut-and-former-seal-completes-navy-flight-training

I feel tired just reading that article. Dude is now a former SEAL, Medical Doctor, Astronaut, and now Naval Aviator

Jimmy4400nav
Apr 1, 2011

Ambassador to Moonlandia

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/442730/nasa-astronaut-and-former-seal-completes-navy-flight-training

I feel tired just reading that article. Dude is now a former SEAL, Medical Doctor, Astronaut, and now Naval Aviator

Jonny Kim continues to live his best life and make the rest of us feel like lazy scrubs!

While going through flight school in Pensacola, I was fortunate to meet him and the rest of Nasa Astronaut Group 22. They had to go through a ground school syllabus and were in the classroom next to ours in the NFO schoolhouse, so we'd always bump into them in the hallways. The best time was when our two groups met for beers downtown. Jonny Kim had just flown back into town that night, and he made time to come down and shoot the poo poo with us dorky ensigns. The whole group of them were awesome down to earth folks.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Seriously I barely have the effort to change my cat box and this guy is is racking up the skills sets.

MrMojok
Jan 28, 2011

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/442730/nasa-astronaut-and-former-seal-completes-navy-flight-training

I feel tired just reading that article. Dude is now a former SEAL, Medical Doctor, Astronaut, and now Naval Aviator

People make fun of BUD/S and SEALs ITT and not without reason.

But the idea of making it through BUD/S, SQT or whatever they call it now, serving on the teams, then becoming a doctor, astronaut, and eventually a helicopter pilot… if you wrote a screenplay about a character like this, even Hollywood film studio producers and development people would say “No. it’s completely unbelievable. Thank you for your time, and if you write something else later that’s not fantasy, we’d love to read it”

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

quote:

Kim was pinned by his wife while his three children watched from close by.

Gonna go out on a limb and say that the kids only recognize him from pictures.

Cerekk
Sep 24, 2004

Oh my god, JC!
Just gonna assume his wife is a brain surgeon who also does lingerie modeling.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Cerekk posted:

Just gonna assume his wife is a brain surgeon who also does lingerie modeling.

Clancychat?

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006
What's the point of getting his Navy wings? XO on a carrier?

McNally
Sep 13, 2007

Ask me about Proposition 305


Do you like muskets?

A.o.D. posted:

What's the point of getting his Navy wings? XO on a carrier?

It was helicopter training, probably for lunar landings.

Wibla
Feb 16, 2011


Clancychat.

Deus Ex Macklemore
Jul 2, 2004


Zelensky's Zealots

Wibla posted:

Clancychat.

My father was Clancychat. Please, call me Ralphchat

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".


Unlimited power

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah

lightpole posted:



Unlimited power

does this mean you have upgraded to your final form? pretty tight

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

lightpole posted:



Unlimited power

Ordinary Seaman would be a pretty good username.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


MarcusSA posted:

Ordinary Seaman would be a pretty good username.

Personally was thinking Lifeboatman

Deus Ex Macklemore
Jul 2, 2004


Zelensky's Zealots

MarcusSA posted:

Ordinary Seaman would be a pretty good username.

Assistant TO the ordinary seaman

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

US Berder Patrol posted:

does this mean you have upgraded to your final form? pretty tight

On a ship, yes, I'm legally required to tell captains to go gently caress themselves now.

I could get steam/GT chief as well but I might go union official instead and then tell companies to go gently caress themselves as well as mates.

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

MarcusSA posted:

Ordinary Seaman would be a pretty good username.

for Crab Dad?

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


https://twitter.com/JimLaPorta/status/1648440273591218179?t=GcnUndN6YfzUGrT3S8rE3Q&s=19

Just imagine I put the Mad Men "Not great, Bob!" image here

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

That looks pretty representative of what I'd expect from every sub in the fleet.

Dorstein
Dec 8, 2000
GIP VSO
USS Hawaii Senior Enlisted 100% Trust In Leader

Huh.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Dorstein posted:

USS Hawaii Senior Enlisted 100% Trust In Leader

Huh.

:chiefsay: beatings will continue until morale improves

AlternateNu
May 5, 2005

ドーナツダメ!

Dorstein posted:

USS Hawaii Senior Enlisted 100% Trust In Leader

Huh.

The Hawaii operates on island time by law.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

lightpole posted:



Unlimited power

Sorry about your lack of ability to see outside.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB



I was an Ordinary SeaScout.

Now I’m just petty.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Crab Dad posted:

I was an Ordinary SeaScout.

Now I’m just petty.

:crabdrugs:

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

FrozenVent posted:

Sorry about your lack of ability to see outside.

Excuse me m8 please gently caress off this is about engineering

Edit: I'm legally required to say that under CFR Title 46

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

lightpole fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Apr 19, 2023

TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo
Crab Dad I take it all back: teach me how to make nice cocktails for admirals. And by admirals I mean retired CIA officials and poo poo like that. Skillset should transition smoothly to that I assume. Sumimasen shipmate x100.

Unless you don’t tell me how to make baller rear end drinks ofc tho.

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Here is an article complaining that attack submarines "only" spend 20% of their hull life deployed and on station.

I guess we should just stop doing training and have boats deployed 100% of the time when not in shipyard, yeah, that wouldn't have any consequences. (I agree that there's too many boats and we spend too much on them though).

https://www.newsweek.com/2023/05/05/exclusive-navy-will-spend-200-billionequal-ukraines-gdp-subs-it-barely-uses-1795014.html?amp=1

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
lmbo

quote:

only 10 percent of its submarines operated stealthily by spending more than 30 days fully submerged.

ya gently caress the crew how dare they not spend 300 days or more at sea every year


also this :

quote:

But as Republicans hotly debate ongoing military aid to Kiev

gently caress whoever wrote the article and did the editing and gave the ok to publish. Russian supporters.

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020
Oooh do infantry next - I want to see how efficient spending money on them is.

Did you know we keep nuclear ICBM silos manned at all times? We don't even launch those! It costs hundreds of millions of dollars! We could have that as tax breaks!

Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Apr 20, 2023

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Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Grip it and rip it posted:

Oooh do infantry next - I want to see how efficient spending money on them is.

Did you know we keep nuclear ICBM silos manned at all times? We don't even launch those! It costs hundreds of millions of dollars! We could have that as tax breaks!

Not a great line because decommissioning our silos would actually be a great way to save money.

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