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Crab Dad posted:Glad I had the opportunity to take part in one. Almost felt like I was in the real navy for a day. Crazy random question. I saw a truck with a big freefall lifeboat with "USNS CantRemember" today. My wife asked if the procedure on USNS for inbound antiship missiles was just to evacuate. I said I'd ask.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Crazy random question. I saw a truck with a big freefall lifeboat with "USNS CantRemember" today. My wife asked if the procedure on USNS for inbound antiship missiles was just to evacuate. I mean USNS don't have any weapons or defenses so basically yeah, I'd guess. Getting whacked with an antiship missile is hazardous to a vessel's ability to float. Back when the fleet supply ships were USS ships they had a full complement of defensive countermeasures and about 2x the crew but those got pulled off when they went to MSC.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Crazy random question. I saw a truck with a big freefall lifeboat with "USNS CantRemember" today. My wife asked if the procedure on USNS for inbound antiship missiles was just to evacuate. So the Spearhead class of ship I was on would just turn tail and run. Dual pontoon and the ability to run with one side only pretty drat fast. Also since it’s all aluminum there’s a very good chance the missile could just go through without hitting anything vital. Also they are extremely compartmentalized and nearly unsinkable. That’s all in theory though. Reality a fire would wreck us and go out of control quickly. Then someone would realize the lifeboats were all sold on the black market and turned into booze coolers.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/CAFinUS/status/1418744432719958023?s=19 Do the Canadians have breakaway songs?
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So I just found out the IT civilian chief on my ship got drunk, fought with some MA’s in Gaeta. Assumed he was gonna get fired, sabotaged the network. Did get fired, Network drives zeroed out a few days after he was escorted off the ship. lol For being a loud obnoxious drunk he actually knew his job. Net loss.
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Crab Dad posted:So I just found out the IT civilian chief on my ship got drunk, fought with some MA’s in Gaeta. Assumed he was gonna get fired, sabotaged the network. Did get fired, Network drives zeroed out a few days after he was escorted off the ship. That's amazing but also now he's going to gitmo so...
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Crab Dad posted:So I just found out the IT civilian chief on my ship got drunk, fought with some MA’s in Gaeta. Assumed he was gonna get fired, sabotaged the network. Did get fired, Network drives zeroed out a few days after he was escorted off the ship. Isn’t doing that kind of thing on a military owned vessel like federal pound me in the rear end for 3 decades kinda time?
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Jul 25, 2021 20:20
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Gotta log in to press charges. Everyone is judging from home these days.
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PneumonicBook posted:That's amazing but also now he's going to gitmo so... Honestly he won’t have to worry about that much because alcohol detox will probably kill him first. I’m gonna make some more inquiries into it while I still know some people on the ship.
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What a dumb move. Most people just steal a bunch of poo poo
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Crab Dad posted:Net loss. Yes you already said that.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/CAFinUS/status/1418744432719958023?s=19 I mean.......is it really? That seems like it'd be bad if they just came out of a shipyard, but that was pretty typical from what I saw post deployment. I usually had a good time working unreps unless I had some lovely SK/LS grinning in the background that they were just supervising (shittily). It was good exercise.
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piL posted:Yes you already said that. Lol accidental pun but yeah while we were in the yards he was effectively running three USNS ships radio rooms due to people quitting/not knowing their job.
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Crab Dad posted:...sabotaged the network.... Network drives zeroed out a few days after he was escorted off the ship. Without OPSEC, how is this kind of thing possible?
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Without OPSEC, how is this kind of thing possible? He’s the only one who does network management on the ship and the only person with access to the radio room. He hasn’t had an assistant in 6 months since the last chief quit. He’s decent with scripting so it’s not surprising. Network management on USNS ships is a real single point of failure scenario since the crews are so small. None of that general knowledge should be OPSEC especially since this all happened over a month ago and they are back up and fully running again. Putting used kitchen oil in the hydraulics for the giant ramp accidentally did way more damage overall.
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Crab Dad posted:Putting used kitchen oil in the hydraulics for the giant ramp accidentally did way more damage overall. Please post this story.
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I kinda wanna know how bad of a fire that caused.
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No shot, it would smell like fries when you poured it and there's no loving reason for this to be possible.
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lightpole posted:No shot, it would smell like fries when you poured it and there's no loving reason for this to be possible. oh ye of little faith in seamen
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ded posted:oh ye of little faith in seamen I'm loving screaming
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Without OPSEC, how is this kind of thing possible? With admin access anyone who knows how to write basic powershell script or is inclined to google and spent a few hours could do this. Just write a kill switch script that just checks if you haven’t logged in for a few weeks and then just starts doing something like whatever the win10 version of syskey is on every machine it can find on the network with randomly generated passwords. The hardest part of “hacking” is getting initial access or “root” (admin) and he’s not just on the ship, he’s already literally the admin of the ship network. You could do it if you had a few hours to learn, have a vague sense of very basic troubleshooting and got a few pointers. As a network admin you’d have to be incompetent not to be able to do what he did. It’s just rare that disgruntled IT guys do that on the way out even though it’s trivially easy because it’s so obvious who did it and so illegal.
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It is difficult to make a grenade, it is very easy to pull a pin when you're the idiot with a crate of them.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Please post this story. It’s not much of a story. New engine wiper was asked to dispose of 5 gallon bucket of kitchen waste oil. They managed to put it in a partiality filled barrel in the wrong spot. Forward a few weeks and the main hydro system blew a leak and drained out into the space the crane was in. They found the busted hose, repaired it and the same wiper was tasked with refilling and managed to include the bad barrel. We pulled into port to dry dock and the hydros start acting weird after we lower the ramp and Chief engineer suspected something and sampled/smelled the oil and shut it down. They had to flush it out completely which put us a few weeks behind schedule. I don’t really blame the wiper. There was barely enough engine room crew to operate the ship and they were a super hard motivated worker improving their lives but holy poo poo it’s amazing how one accident can make a ship non-op (the ramp being our top item).
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Ro-Ro ramps are giant pains in the rear end and always a single point of failure item. gently caress them things. Company I sailed with had replaced their hydraulic oils with environmentally friendly alternatives, and it was fish-based. You’d know you had a leak when the smell went from “fish and chips shop” to “blackout at the fishmonger”.
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Try using helicopter rotor lubricant instead of aircraft engine oil for about nine months before anyone catches it. Actually, better idea, don't do that thing.
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Hey if it works for nine months… I had an engineer drain the oil from a generator for maintenance, and another engineer forgot his pre watch briefing and started the generator. Bypassed the tag-outs and safeties to get it to start actually. Four million dollars.
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TIL that there's a rehearsal hall for Hell on Earth: https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/navy-berthing-barge/?amp
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BIG HEADLINE posted:TIL that there's a rehearsal hall for Hell on Earth: https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/navy-berthing-barge/?amp I’ve worked on every barge in PSNY and I never once saw a roach or mouse poo poo. I’m guessing the yards in more tropical yards are simply worse. “ Indeed, some sailors enjoyed the experience. In a 2018 interview with the Kitsap Sun, Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Christopher Jahnke stated that “As a single sailor, there’s pretty much everything I could want or need here.” Not exactly a glowing recommendation, but that’s about as positive you can be in the Navy, I guess. “ This checks out from my time on them crawling around rewiring them for network.
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I spent my  conscript year on a frigate built in the 1960s. The berthing areas were cramped (bunks stacked 3 high), the AC sucked when we were in the Mediterranean, but otherwise it was okay. Cleanliness standards were so high you could eat off the deck. How the gently caress do you guys manage to make it so much worse?
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The berthing barges in both Yoko and Hawaii i had to stay on were floating shitholes.
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The barge I had to stay on in Norfolk was a shithole with barely functional heat and hot water. In January.
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Crab Dad posted:I’ve worked on every barge in PSNY and I never once saw a roach or mouse poo poo. I’m guessing the yards in more tropical yards are simply worse. I thought the berthing barge at PSNS was clean as hell. Unfortunately that was not its problem. The "galley" was inexplicably more poorly stocked then the carrier mid-deployment and the berthings were like being in a hostel with the world's shittiest people. And the water pressure was absolute trash. I didn't step foot on that thing unless I had a midnight quarterdeck watch.
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Wibla posted:I spent my US navy ships are disgusting generally.
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The problem with berthing barges is they aren't ships so the navy doesn't give a gently caress about them. They treat them exactly like they treat any barge. They sit in the water and only get looked at if they're about to sink.
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