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Mr. Nice! posted:He's a good dude. I wish I was as tall and as handsome as MML.  
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Is MML tall enough to do the Riker maneuver WRT chairs? One of our officers in Reactor department was tall enough that he had to walk with a permanent stoop in order to not smack his head on stuff. Dude probably was 6ft 6 inches tall and could definitely do the leg over the chair to sit in it trick.
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Unfortunately, no. Thanks to a hosed up back, and old age, I've lost an inch of height and I'm down to 5'11''.
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Ironically Jonathan Frakes did the Riker maneuver because of a hosed up back in the first season, at least that was his explanation, and then he just made it part of the character.
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The Valley Stared posted:You'll be going at the same time as one of my good friends then. Sorry that the detailer shortened your tour by that much though. That's a shame. Saves me from having to ask every classmate about stairs until I catch a glimmer of recognition though. The only real issue with the shortened tour is autoanal gymnastics I have to do to finish my Masters in time, but the detailer was willing to flex a bit to make it happen, so I can't fault her. I really like my primary gig for my shore tour, but what I spend 80% of the time doing is so frustrating that sometimes I yearn for the simplicity of being a beat down department head underway.
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piL posted:sometimes I yearn for the simplicity of being a beat down department head underway. 
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What can I say; the sea, she calls to me.
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piL posted:What can I say; the sea, she calls to me. Being underway as a DH was generally way better than being in port so there is something to what you're saying. Honestly, you'll do great as a department head but it will most likely be harrowing. ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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McNally posted:Note to self: Riker avs for all
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piL posted:Psht, you're going back to sea soon enough I'm sure. Please tell me they're throwing money at you to stay in for that.
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Dec 11, 2020 05:38
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US Berder Patrol posted:Riker owns
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Well, yeah - he's a rare O-5 who habitually tells the selection board to go gently caress itself when they try to compel/*force* him to take O-6.
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McNally posted:Note to self: Riker avs for all Make it crabby and I’ll bite.
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Evil SpongeBob posted:Please tell me they're throwing money at you to stay in for that. Oh yeah. The bonus they give to those who take Department Head is 105K if you take it within a certain time frame. It goes down after a while, but is still within the high 5 figures range. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it goes up more in the next few years. COVID is keeping people in a little longer, but the Navy was already having problems retaining folks for DH tours.
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https://twitter.com/SteveLiewer/status/1337451126703222784?s=20 Maybe don't have a Russian gf that you met while in Djibouti. Maybe pay attention to your security briefings. Maybe don't be a colossal fuckup
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/SteveLiewer/status/1337451126703222784?s=20 Other than this he’s a p cool guy though.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/SteveLiewer/status/1337451126703222784?s=20 If you can't come back home with an FSA hottie that can clean anything, speak six languages, and can get the guy at the counter to break the rules this one time and give you the discount, what's the point of going to Djibouti?
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An AOAA went overboard on the TR and the search was called off. https://apnews.com/article/search-a...aign=SocialFlow
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I have an acquaintance out there who told me when it happened. Everyone just got out of a 23 day isolation period prior to getting underway, everything on the boat is shut down for covid, and everyone is loving miserable.
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I was hoping it wasn't something like that, but figured it was. That sucks.
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I have heard nothing but horrible things from that command since the old CO got fired.
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orange juche posted:They somehow find a worse CO than Dee Mewborne? John Paul Jones himself would be a downgrade from CAPT Crozier so really we're grading on one helluva curve here.
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Well I mean pinch hitter COs generally are poo poo, both because you're fighting up hill against a crew who probably doesn't like you and misses their captain, so morale is in the toilet, and the kind of person who would wind up with hot fill orders to command a carrier are probably not the best COs in the first place.
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I ragged on USS Gabrielle Giffords but I can give the crew credit for making the best of an inauspicious start: https://news.usni.org/2020/12/14/lcs-uss-gabrielle-giffords-nabs-narco-sub-in-the-pacific
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https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1339594552143826946?s=20 The concept of surface commerce raiders into the 20th century was always such a puzzling continuation of tactics
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Dorstein posted:I ragged on USS Gabrielle Giffords but I can give the crew credit for making the best of an inauspicious start: https://news.usni.org/2020/12/14/lcs-uss-gabrielle-giffords-nabs-narco-sub-in-the-pacific Bravo Zulu Coast Guard 
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Elendil004 posted:Bravo Zulu Coast Guard Not just transfer all the LCS to the Coast Guard or sell them to Saudi or use them for reefs and start building the FFG(X)
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1339594552143826946?s=20 That was before carrier supremacy and I thought the German ships were heavier than the British. If they had been able to operate in an area beyond shore based aircraft they would have slaughtered merchantmen.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Not just transfer all the LCS to the Coast Guard or sell them to Saudi or use them for reefs and start building the FFG(X) Thanks, but no thanks. we have 60 year old cutters still chugging along we cannot afford overhauls every two years.
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lightpole posted:That was before carrier supremacy and I thought the German ships were heavier than the British. If they had been able to operate in an area beyond shore based aircraft they would have slaughtered merchantmen. It was after carrier supremacy, Graf Spree just didn’t know it yet. TBF the British didn’t either. Just ask the prince of Wales and the repulse.
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Nick Soapdish posted:Not just transfer all the LCS to the Coast Guard or sell them to Saudi or use them for reefs and start building the FFG(X) No joke the best Coast Guard ship I ever sailed on was a Navy ship (WPC)
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Proust Malone posted:It was after carrier supremacy, Graf Spree just didn’t know it yet. TBF the British didn’t either. Just ask the prince of Wales and the repulse. Naval doctrine hadn't changed to account for it. Without it, a heavy in the Atlantic would tie up a lot of resources protecting convoys.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1339594552143826946?s=20 We say this, and continue to build 11-figure megacarriers for people to shoot missiles at
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Cerekk posted:We say this, and continue to build 11-figure megacarriers for people to shoot missiles at Yeah but at least at the end of the day carriers are just floating airfields and those will be useful until [date]. Now if they will actually be useful in a near-peer/GPC war welp that's a fish of a different color. https://twitter.com/chinfo/status/1339673324956364816?s=20 Snow! (I am happy I live where snow is not as often) Edit: https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1339776411083665414?s=20 Reminds me of when I was on Shore Patrol during liberty port in Spain with two Marines and we just got drunk instead of doing our job Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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Proust Malone posted:It was after carrier supremacy, Graf Spree just didn’t know it yet. TBF the British didn’t either. Just ask the prince of Wales and the repulse. Repulse and Prince of Wales weren't sunk by carrier aircraft and until late in the war there weren't enough carriers to cover every square mile of ocean with air cover, so there was a place for surface raiders in naval tactics straight through until almost the end of the war.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Repulse and Prince of Wales weren't sunk by carrier aircraft and until late in the war there weren't enough carriers to cover every square mile of ocean with air cover, so there was a place for surface raiders in naval tactics straight through until almost the end of the war. They were sunk by naval aircraft from a land base three days after Pearl Harbor but ok fine. Yes it’s remarkable how far the surface raiders got, but intimately they were a waste of men and material compared to submarines of all navies. The Germans knew they couldn’t compete on the surface against the Royal Navy both because of treaty and economy, but they built big dick swinging surface ships anyway because that’s what a navy was back then.
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