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The only times i ever recall saluting indoors or within the skin of a boat were during ceremonies.
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Crab Dad posted:Y’all real navy are wild. Back in the day, bridge watch was in SDBs.
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Dec 5, 2023 02:10
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One time I sent my wheels man down because his balls were hanging out of his grateful dead daisy dukes. He flipped me the traditional one fingered salute on the way off the bridge. Sorry my dude I don’t need to see your balls for four hours tyvm.
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Dec 5, 2023 02:22
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You sure can tell the Merchant Marine operates different than the Navy.
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Dec 5, 2023 05:53
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Mr. Nice! posted:Can definitely tell crab dad lives in radio. People salute on the bridge all the time. The people on watch are covered. Skipper might or might not be if they're up there depends on how they feel. Excuse me. The Last Ship isn't a dumb movie. It's a dumb TV show. As Mr. Nice! said, saluting in the pilot house is common. If someone is entering the pilothouse they salute and ask permission to enter, when you're turning over the watch you salute the Officer of the Deck, and officers get permission from the CO to turn over if the CO is up there. But someone asking permission to salute the CO before everyone else after a speech? Sounds like dumb TV logic. Apparently at least part of it was filmed on my friend's ship. He has photos with either the show's CO or XO (McSteamy or the CHUD Baldwin before he really came out as a CHUD).
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Dec 5, 2023 06:07
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never did nor saw anyone doing saluting poo poo on ye olde ustafish. you go down that hatch and that nonsense went away.
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The Valley Stared posted:Excuse me. The Last Ship isn't a dumb movie. That never happened on my cruiser but that doesn't mean the navy wasn't dumb elsewhere!
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Dec 5, 2023 08:31
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Once we saved the ship everyone gathered around maneuvering and saluted us, they didn't clap though. Also the doors were still shut so we couldn't actually see the salutes but they were there, right around the corner.
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Dec 5, 2023 10:44
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I can’t recall ever asking permission to go onto the bridge but all the watchstanders were definitely covered.
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Dec 5, 2023 13:40
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I usually wear a cover when I'm on a submarine bridge, but it's a North Face beanie.
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Dec 5, 2023 16:14
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Alp that formal poo poo was only for surface watch stations. As soon as we dove things got (slightly) less stupid
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Grip it and rip it posted:Alp that formal poo poo was only for surface watch stations. As soon as we dove things got (slightly) less stupid Was it worth it, just to avoid saluting?
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Dec 5, 2023 18:10
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Saluting is dumb as gently caress and it's not even in the top 20 dumb things about being enlisted
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Was it worth it, just to avoid saluting? That, the beards, the civilian T's under the poopie suits, the civilian ballcaps underway....yes. All that PLUS $200 bucks a month extra. Every meal a feast, every payday a windfall and every field day a nap I also served on two skimmers and there wasn't a lot of saluting once we were underway since you don't have to wear a hat underway. At least there didn't used to be. I think making the 8 o'clock reports required a salute but I'm pretty high right now so who knows if I'm even in the right thread.
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Dec 5, 2023 19:36
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:Saluting is dumb as gently caress and it's not even in the top 20 dumb things about being enlisted Your AV looks like a dumb kid who forgot his cover on his way to the smokepit.
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Dec 5, 2023 19:43
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Flyinglemur posted:That, the beards, the civilian T's under the poopie suits, the civilian ballcaps underway....yes. They stole our goddamn beards from us. They did it in the most insulting way possible too, they didn't make a new regulation, they claimed that SUBPAC "recently became aware" "some submarines allowed sailors to violate regulations with regards to facial hair". Motherfucker, you're a submarine officer, was your head jammed up your rear end for your entire career obstructing your vision? Just acknowledge that it was a tradition loved by the submarines force that is no longer tenable because you can't get a seal in an EAB. Doesn't matter now I guess, I can grow all the beard I want.
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tacopie posted:Your AV looks like a dumb kid who forgot his cover on his way to the smokepit. loving lol too accurate
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Elviscat posted:They stole our goddamn beards from us. wait, they took away underway beards? was it someone butthurt about them removing smoking?
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we had no shave chits underway on surface ships, too, as long as it was long enough before our next port call. It was an MWR thing where you could buy one for $10 bucks or something that paid for steel beach picnics and the like.
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I can't remember if I had to salute the OOD when I went to the bridge or not, but I definitely had to ask for permission to enter and I definitely needed to remember to have my hat on me, so I'm guessing I did.
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There’s at least one e5 on the Nimitz with a glorious sloppy beard down to his belly button. Probably Jewish?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Was it worth it, just to avoid saluting? No. Being a navy nuke electrician one a boat without SERPOS loving sucks very badly. gently caress the navy.
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Only hat I ever wore on board was my hard hat. Occasionally a ballcap. I’m not much for hats, really.
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Crab Dad posted:There’s at least one e5 on the Nimitz with a glorious sloppy beard down to his belly button. Probably Jewish? Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, or a follower of Norse Paganism could all be the case (or medical), but the length you're describing sounds far more like a religious exemption.
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The Valley Stared posted:Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, or a follower of Norse Paganism could all be the case (or medical), but the length you're describing sounds far more like a religious exemption. We all jelly. You’d never peg him for a sailor out of uniform.
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Hot drat I should have said I was a follower of Norse Paganism instead of NORELPREF
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ded posted:wait, they took away underway beards? Supposedly because some sailors couldn't fight the BHR fire because they had no shave chits. Grip it and rip it posted:No. Being a navy nuke electrician one a boat without SERPOS loving sucks very badly. gently caress the navy. Instead of carbon dust everywhere, SERPOS and similar solid state power conversion equipment cause human poo poo to be everywhere, since they have a tendency to loving RANDOMLY EXPLODE. Nothing like trying to get an R-134a back up after a drill and hearing *POP* *WHUMP* *PSSSSHHHHH* accompanied by a big, reeking cloud of capacitor smoke. SSMGs rarely, if ever, exploded IME.
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I have zero good experiences with solid state frequency converters. gently caress those things. (I wound up in sick bay after ours literally went up in flames in the middle of a damage control drill).
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Elviscat posted:SSMGs rarely, if ever, exploded IME. We definitely had one join the skipjack diving team on mission. Luckily it only smoked parts we could replace underway rather than, you know, the many dozens of tons of angry spinning metal.
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Elviscat posted:Supposedly because some sailors couldn't fight the BHR fire because they had no shave chits. You just have to get your SCBA vice tight on your head and it'll seal just fine. You're going to be operating with a splitting headache and might smell a little like burnt hair afterwards but beautiful things require sacrifice. Plus they are positive pressure so its not like you're getting smoke back.
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Lol we had a 1 Farad capacitor blow in our transmitter cabinet one time and smoked out the bridge.
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Yeah all the concerns about beards not working under an SCBA I found to be completely silly in reality.
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Elviscat posted:Supposedly because some sailors couldn't fight the BHR fire because they had no shave chits. I'll take an exploding SERPOS 100% of the time. SSMGs are robust but dealing with their maintenance on top of all the other electrical maintenance on the boat was bullshit. I never got to watch a movie underway and I have 4 sea service ribbons.
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Grip it and rip it posted:I'll take an exploding SERPOS 100% of the time. SSMGs are robust but dealing with their maintenance on top of all the other electrical maintenance on the boat was bullshit. I never got to watch a movie underway and I have 4 sea service ribbons. If NE01 and WM01 actually did the maintenance on the machines that are in their workcenter it would be better, but every boat split MIPs them to EE01 because they can't trust anyone else to do the work competently.
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i could never remember the dumb salute rules so i just saluted anything that resembled officer ranks at all times because in a-school i was taught 'when in doubt whip it out' WOW glad i understood that meant saluting unlike someone of my classmates!
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Cerekk posted:If NE01 and WM01 actually did the maintenance on the machines that are in their workcenter it would be better, but every boat split MIPs them to EE01 because they can't trust anyone else to do the work competently. Coners are incompetent?!?! But the submarine force is elite...
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Elviscat posted:Supposedly because some sailors couldn't fight the BHR fire because they had no shave chits. thats bs. oba & eab has zero problems with some hair. if you had like a 3 or 4 inch long beard maybe it might have a problem
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https://twitter.com/DavidSRoza/status/1732526809395102184?t=-EzcKKfvpZ8VujjFYVO7wQ&s=19
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/DavidSRoza/status/1732526809395102184?t=-EzcKKfvpZ8VujjFYVO7wQ&s=19 Can’t really argue with that.
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Grip it and rip it posted:I'll take an exploding SERPOS 100% of the time. SSMGs are robust but dealing with their maintenance on top of all the other electrical maintenance on the boat was bullshit. I never got to watch a movie underway and I have 4 sea service ribbons. My perspective is probably skewed since I was a mechanic, lol. I forgot boomers have like 90 of the loving things too. ded posted:thats bs. oba & eab has zero problems with some hair. if you had like a 3 or 4 inch long beard maybe it might have a problem Oh yeah, I'm not arguing it's valid. I had to trim my big filthy trucker beard for a management interview this week, and I'm sad about it.
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