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I'm confused because I think I find myself liking this guy.
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I’m confused because I’ve never been on a ship where the bridge wasn’t a place to hang out with a bored mate.
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Jan 4, 2024 21:49
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an actual captains chair on a bridge?????
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Jan 4, 2024 23:33
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A captain who figured out that up to 20% of his job can be wholesome dicking around? Nice.
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Jan 5, 2024 00:56
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Last deployment I did was the first time on a carrier. They would do daily junior Sailor recognition on the bridge. Candidates would get to drive the ship, have their bio passed as well as recent achievements, get the skipper's coin and a letter sent home. And the fresh baked cookies.
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Jan 5, 2024 02:41
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tacopie posted:Last deployment I did was the first time on a carrier. They would do daily junior Sailor recognition on the bridge. Candidates would get to drive the ship, have their bio passed as well as recent achievements, get the skipper's coin and a letter sent home. And the fresh baked cookies. Everything they told us about skimmers is true.
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Jan 5, 2024 07:16
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McNally posted:I'm confused because I think I find myself liking this guy. I sent his USS Flagg tweet to a Hawkeye buddy, and he responded "Oh yeah, Chowdah's a great guy, I worked for him back in blah blah"
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Jan 5, 2024 18:15
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Dorstein posted:A captain who figured out that up to 20% of his job can be wholesome dicking around? His twitter feed is actually pretty good for a CO https://x.com/ChowdahHill/status/1742762066866221155?s=20 edit: Hold the loving phone he has a dog on board??? https://x.com/ChowdahHill/status/1739615869443981488?s=20 https://x.com/ChowdahHill/status/1738029242737213893?s=20 https://x.com/ChowdahHill/status/1737421364993069274?s=20 Laranzu fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Jan 5, 2024 23:14
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Laranzu posted:edit: I've got a buddy onboard who told me that he felt like the therapy dog needed a therapy dog
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Jan 5, 2024 23:43
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Nick Soapdish posted:I've got a buddy onboard who told me that he felt like the therapy dog needed a therapy dog 3000 people wanting to give you pets is a hard job
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Jan 5, 2024 23:56
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Laranzu posted:His twitter feed is actually pretty good for a CO That's pretty top tier.  Laranzu posted:Hold the loving phone he has a dog on board??? Big decks get dogs. That's just how it is.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:12
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So apparently everything's going just peachy in the Royal Navy: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/royal-marine-linkedin-submarine-admiral-job-listing-l6sc8wm2z
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Jan 6, 2024 05:42
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I actually know a retired Aussie admiral rather well although I don't know if he ever worked in subs. Tempted to forward this job to him. EDIT: Aww jeez he died last year. gently caress cancer.
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Jan 6, 2024 05:50
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The Royal Navy pays like poo poo and their submariners are on sea duty for loving ever. And their SSBNs are averaging over 160 day patrols thanks to HMS Vanguard's ERP turning into a 7 year unplanned refueling. So yeah no surprise they can't retain Trident officers.
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Jan 6, 2024 07:02
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They're still miles happier than USN submarines, IME. (Well, I guess their underclass is, guess the nobles could be different)
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Jan 6, 2024 10:15
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I only know Vanguard officers but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if there's a big divide in job satisfaction between RN SSN and SSBN officers (there certainly is in the USN). Throw in that Helensburgh/Glasgow where they're all stationed are hostile to both the armed forces and to English people. These are dudes that are pumped about their working port visit in fuckin' Kings Bay Georgia.
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Jan 6, 2024 17:43
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https://twitter.com/BWagner_CapGaz/status/1743408704320360882 Atleast he is leaving before he commissioned as a SWO instead of making the fact he couldn't try to go pro right away so surface junior sailors problem.
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Cerekk posted:I only know Vanguard officers but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if there's a big divide in job satisfaction between RN SSN and SSBN officers (there certainly is in the USN). Throw in that Helensburgh/Glasgow where they're all stationed are hostile to both the armed forces and to English people. These are dudes that are pumped about their working port visit in fuckin' Kings Bay Georgia. From the drunken stories I heard in the Senior Rates Mess in Faslane, they love to pull into Kings Bay, take leave, and fly to Vegas or Disney. The most miserable RN sailors I met were on an old Trafalgar class that was in refit in Plymouth. Astute sailors loved the Virginia class because it's "stealth as fook"
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Jan 6, 2024 21:01
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Elviscat posted:From the drunken stories I heard in the Senior Rates Mess in Faslane, they love to pull into Kings Bay, take leave, and fly to Vegas or Disney. Did you tell them about the free foot fooks?
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Jan 6, 2024 21:14
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Elviscat posted:From the drunken stories I heard in the Senior Rates Mess in Faslane, they love to pull into Kings Bay, take leave, and fly to Vegas or Disney. I toured two different V-boats on two different trips to PCAN. Both times, probably 1/5 to 1/4 of the crew was restricted to the boat for missing ship's movement. Getting drunk and going home with American girls is their favorite pastime, and it doesn't sound like the boat puts forth much effort in rounding them up when it's time to leave. (They fully well know these guys have no choice but to return to the boat, given they're stranded in a foreign country.)
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Jan 6, 2024 21:34
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/BWagner_CapGaz/status/1743408704320360882 The new rules are wrecking CFB and its great but I never considered what they would do to service academies.
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lightpole posted:The new rules are wrecking CFB and its great but I never considered what they would do to service academies. Yeah the bowl games were a poo poo show this year lol. There’s no way this lasts.
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Jan 7, 2024 16:57
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How do you suppose the transfer portal works for players coming into a service academy?
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Jan 7, 2024 18:05
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I mean if this rate the service academy teams are going to become a joke and never ever compete for a title. We have to stop it before that happens
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Jan 7, 2024 18:06
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It took at least 5 years into my Navy service for friends and family to stop asking if I was excited for the Army Navy game. Why would I give a poo poo about the future terrible junior officers? Plus, I already had an alma mater to root for with Purdue
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Jan 7, 2024 18:50
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Anybody who beats up on midshipmen can't be all bad.
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Jan 7, 2024 20:25
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Nick Soapdish posted:It took at least 5 years into my Navy service for friends and family to stop asking if I was excited for the Army Navy game. Why would I give a poo poo about the future terrible junior officers? Plus, I already had an alma mater to root for with Purdue Yeah, I served on submarines and still work on them and last year people kept sending me links to their "submarine-themed" uniforms from the game. I could not give less of a poo poo. (Not to mention it just looked like an Under Armour ad.)
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Jan 7, 2024 22:01
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Anathematic posted:Yeah, I served on submarines and still work on them I'm sorry 
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Jan 7, 2024 22:13
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah the bowl games were a poo poo show this year lol. There’s no way this lasts. Every part of college sports is now hosed due to football and bowl season and the playoff are a joke. Theres no way to put it back, they would have to make extreme changes for players to be able to play in bowl games and avoid the transfer portal, as well as give them the incentive to does so, not to mention more games for the playoff and championship. Good for the players, gently caress the system.
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Jan 7, 2024 22:37
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Elviscat posted:I'm sorry Haha, fortunately I only work on sonar and not for the shipyard or any of the maintenance activities. I don't think I could handle that.
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Jan 8, 2024 00:44
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CO from one of the cruisers was QB for the Naval Academy in the late 80s or some poo poo. He chucked a football from (I think) the helo deck of the Cape St. George into the hangar bay during an unrep. That was the only cool thing I've ever seen in relation to Army/Navy.
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Jan 9, 2024 01:15
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I’m trying to figure out where this comes from so I can do better than a Facebook link to a nuke meme page https://www.facebook.com/share/v/LayE6fehcuRdhfKz/
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Jan 9, 2024 07:29
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https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1746209231173284223 BATARG Sailors and Marines getting hosed like it is the 2011-12 deployment again Edit: https://twitter.com/halbritz/status/1746238924475817998 VBSS is no joke; hope they find the guys Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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Jan 13, 2024 17:42
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I don't know but I am assuming they keep putting more and more poo poo on guys belts to carry. I remember vividly a chief jumping into a pool with the entire required boarding kit, standing on the bottom, pulling his "positive" inflation and not moving an inch before dumping his belt and swimming to the surface. Carrying 50 lbs of poo poo with 40 lbs of buoyancy is insane.
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Jan 13, 2024 23:19
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Godholio posted:I sent his USS Flagg tweet to a Hawkeye buddy, and he responded "Oh yeah, Chowdah's a great guy, I worked for him back in blah blah" Small world but Chowdah was Big XO on my first cruise and Farva and I crossed paths. Both are solid Posters, but Chowdah's unbothered Tweets about dogs and cookies while the air wing is actively bombing stuff puts him on a whole other level.
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Elendil004 posted:I don't know but I am assuming they keep putting more and more poo poo on guys belts to carry. I remember vividly a chief jumping into a pool with the entire required boarding kit, standing on the bottom, pulling his "positive" inflation and not moving an inch before dumping his belt and swimming to the surface. Carrying 50 lbs of poo poo with 40 lbs of buoyancy is insane. Oh yeah, all the bullshit that the VBSS teams are required to carry will make you sink like a loving rock. You gotta ditch everything as soon as you hit the drink, and honestly I'd hope that VBSS dudes train on ditching their gear, but I don't think it's super emphasized from what I remember. They could carry more buoyancy/bigger lifevests, or meet in the middle with slightly less gear and slightly more vest, but I'm sure the Navy won't do that, preferring instead that you frantically ditch your poo poo as you sink.
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Jan 14, 2024 01:03
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I’m glad to see that the navy is adopting the merchant marine philosophy to MOB situations: if you hit the drink, you dead
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FrozenVent posted:I’m glad to see that the navy is adopting the merchant marine philosophy to MOB situations: if you hit the drink, you dead Isn't merchant marine fairly lightly manned so that if you go over the side it would be a while before they notice you gone?
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Jan 14, 2024 03:11
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If nobody sees you go over, yeah chances are nobody is going to notice you’re missing until your next watch.
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orange juche posted:Isn't merchant marine fairly lightly manned so that if you go over the side it would be a while before they notice you gone? Watchstanding it would be accountability every ~8 hours between watches, dayworking it would be accountability at 0800, 1300. I usually try to make sure everyone is out of the engine together at 1700 just so I know noone is left down there. Stewards also make a mental note of who's been eating a bit. Typical manning would be ~20, give or take 5 souls.
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