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Wibla posted:Build a bunch of frigates and block III burkes, LCS are dumb as hell and a gigantic waste of time and money. Yes that's what the Navy will be doing??? There's only a handful of Freedoms left to send down river and even less Indys.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Every carrier can be a submersible once. The joke doesn't work in this case. 
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Sep 5, 2023 14:39
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Weren't there WWII submarines that could launch planes as well?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Weren't there WWII submarines that could launch planes as well? Yeah Japanese used them to launch a raid on San Diego than nobody noticed.
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PneumonicBook posted:Or when the Navy is like "We need to decom all of the Cruisers, please they cost hundreds of millions in reparis and computer architecture upgrades" and Congress says "What we heard is decom nothing, ever." Finally decommed the Lake Champlain on Friday, after being on the list like 6 years in a row. I'm on transfer leave because my next ship is under way for a month, and OH LOOK MY CHIEF IS CALLING ME AT 0700 BECAUSE IM NOT AT QUARTERS ONA SHIP THAT DOESNT loving EXIST. (They're towing it this Friday, but I detached the loving instant the ceremony was done, read your loving emails)
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I'm shocked they finally decommed the port royal jesus that thing should have just been left on reef runway.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I'm shocked they finally decommed the port royal jesus that thing should have just been left on reef runway. Oh? That was the first ship I worked on as a fake sailor. They were super nice to us and loaded us up with equipment when we completed our hopeless task of watertight door and scuttle maintenance.
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Crab Dad posted:Yeah Japanese used them to launch a raid on San Diego than nobody noticed. I thought they were never used operationally. The I-400s, right?
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McNally posted:I thought they were never used operationally. The I-400s, right? Bad memory overlayed on this event https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Ellwood Still… using a submarine to shell a refinery and basically doing nothing but spread fear is pretty lol
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Crab Dad posted:Oh? That was the first ship I worked on as a fake sailor. They were super nice to us and loaded us up with equipment when we completed our hopeless task of watertight door and scuttle maintenance. That ship was so impossibly hosed after running aground. The fact they kept using it was such disrespect to the sailors they put on it. If she had ever been in a hot situation, she was going down permanently. There was no reason to keep trying to repair that crippled hunk of junk.
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The only ship I dealt with more jacked up than the Port Royal was the Chancellorsville. I'm pretty sure that hull has leaked more fuel oil than it burned.
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All this talk of the Ticos being decrepit wrecks just drives home the  feels of remembering them being the new poo poo.
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Just ran into an old XO from last-command at indopacom, looked hella familiar, dudes an O-6 now. Was trying to remember where I knew him from and he came up and hit me with the "What are you doing here in civvies", told me to get a haircut, and asked me who my command / CO is. I'm like chill bro, I'm retired. The look of absolute confusion on his face was priceless.
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Arione posted:Just ran into an old XO from last-command at indopacom, looked hella familiar, dudes an O-6 now. Was trying to remember where I knew him from and he came up and hit me with the "What are you doing here in civvies", told me to get a haircut, and asked me who my command / CO is. I'm like chill bro, I'm retired. The look of absolute confusion on his face was priceless. Lol I’ll probably be there in November. We should do subway and chat.
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Crab Dad posted:Lol I’ll probably be there in November. We should do subway and chat. Sounds good, I will likely be around, if not we can meet up on JBPHH.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Finally decommed the Lake Champlain on Friday, after being on the list like 6 years in a row. I'm on transfer leave because my next ship is under way for a month, and OH LOOK MY CHIEF IS CALLING ME AT 0700 BECAUSE IM NOT AT QUARTERS ONA SHIP THAT DOESNT loving EXIST. (They're towing it this Friday, but I detached the loving instant the ceremony was done, read your loving emails) Back when we did monthly threads circa 2012 I got the first post and named the thread "Keelhaul all Khakis" Naturally enough nobles bitched that they changed the name like 4 days into the new month. But my sentiment remains to this day
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Arione posted:Just ran into an old XO from last-command at indopacom, looked hella familiar, dudes an O-6 now. Was trying to remember where I knew him from and he came up and hit me with the "What are you doing here in civvies", told me to get a haircut, and asked me who my command / CO is. I'm like chill bro, I'm retired. The look of absolute confusion on his face was priceless. Do you know what department he's in? I'm doing work with the INDOPACOM J8/J85 right now. Maybe I know him. 
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AlternateNu posted:Do you know what department he's in? I'm doing work with the INDOPACOM J8/J85 right now. Maybe I know him. No, he had a visitor badge.
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Crab Dad posted:Lol I’ll probably be there in November. We should do subway and chat. Next time we need to start at the Tchin Tchin bar, run across the street to Fete, and take a tour at Ko Hana. Go for the good tasting.
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lightpole posted:Next time we need to start at the Tchin Tchin bar, run across the street to Fete, and take a tour at Ko Hana. Go for the good tasting. Non work night sounds like fun. Chances are pretty good right now I’ll be on island for November and Jan/Feb.
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lightpole posted:Next time we need to start at the Tchin Tchin bar, run across the street to Fete, and take a tour at Ko Hana. Go for the good tasting. Odds of getting me to China town are infinitesimally small, especially after dark. My Hanai Mom was mugged there in broad daylight a few months ago, the homeless and crime is rampant there now. Ko Hanna is alright, the Kea tastes / smells like skunk water. The Koho is decent but its expensive. They want 250-300 for a 375ml of koa, absolutely not. I did the Ko'olau distillery tour, not exactly a "quality whisky" but its "local".
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AlternateNu posted:I’m still waiting on my submersible carrier. Just imagine the wings vs. dolphins turf wars.
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Dorstein posted:Just imagine the wings vs. dolphins turf wars. Wait wait wait....are you telling me that there is an air division of the Navy? And they have their own warfare device? I don't believe any of that.
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Flyinglemur posted:Wait wait wait....are you telling me that there is an air division of the Navy? And they have their own warfare device? Literally everyone has some sort of pin now. Did you see the abortion that is the new MA pin? They even had the audacity to make it a progressive pin like the divers. Still think the top 2 pins out there are the Beersws and the honch rat pins.
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Sep 5, 2023 20:58
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Pray what tell is a honchrat?
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Holla holla honchrat
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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1699115969480724967?t=H_RaT9hmJDSH8nXk0P9-lw&s=19 Lol dude got a FLOC for saving a dozen of his shipmates, the Navy always remains the same I got a FLOC as an IS2 for helping the embarked one-stars flag writer master chief
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lol I got one at fleet week for convincing a printer to work.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1699115969480724967?t=H_RaT9hmJDSH8nXk0P9-lw&s=19 Tbf nobody got awards back then. Look at photos of Nimitz and he has like 4 ribbons
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Per some responses, they upgraded it to a NAM a few years ago. Which is the same medal Kennedy got for doing the same thing.
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I got a NAM for amusing the vice president for shits sake they should have raised it to right below the MoH.
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PneumonicBook posted:The Cruisers that are finally getting decommed have been recommended for decommissioning for years at this point. The LCS only make sense from the standpoint of keeping shipyards open, because it turns out it's incredibly difficult and expensive to spin up a shipyard out of whole cloth.
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I got a nam for unfucking the paintlocker as a SN. The XO was reading everyone’s full citation as the skipper pinned us. When he got to me, he said “to SN Nice for… unscrewing the paint locker” without saying anything actually on the citation.
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I've seen cooks get NAMs for cooking tasty dinners for Admirals, lol.
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Our entire CS div got NAMS for cooking a good meal for our VIP cruise. They cooked barely edible poo poo before and after in the same underway. But the command asked zero questions about the quality of food they were feeding us. Despite even the captain eating that same food.
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Crab Dad posted:Pray what tell is a honchrat? The Honch is the american alley in Yokosuka
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McNally posted:Per some responses, they upgraded it to a NAM a few years ago. Which is the same medal Kennedy got for doing the same thing. ackshually JFK got a Navy and Marine Corps Medal, it's a little bigger than a NAM
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An SH3 got a NAM for keeping the soda machines full during my first deployment to Somalia. Same ship gave a COM to a Chief that used his rear end to plug a hole in the hull where a paint scraper had gone through, in the engineering spaces. Same Chief that couldn't transfer because he was too fat. Goddamn I wish I was making this up
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It was a temporary fix while the DC team was getting the correct materials
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