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KetTarma posted:Today was sucky. I worked on the battery today at the start of my watch and got a little diluted acid on me. The potable water system is down due to e. coli contamination. I sat on watch for 8 hours with an awesome itching sensation without being able to wash myself off. During UNITAS, our evaporator took a poo poo, and we went almost 2 weeks without showers. At least the still was (barely) working, so we weren't completely up poo poo's creek. A UNITAS is both awesome (got to see South America, crossed the equator, Panama Canal, & Straits of Magellan) and lovely (no shore power, evap poo poo the bed twice, 6-month ORSE workup  ). But hey, the coners got plenty of time off.  edit: former MM2/SS welder checking in Mad Dragon fucked around with this message at 15:33 on May 13, 2011 |
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We ended up throwing a way a lot of meat when one of our freezers failed. The sharks feasted that day.
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May 13, 2011 19:08
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KetTarma posted:The longest I've heard of is 6 months. The average seems to be 2 months. This is apparently long enough for an ET to forget what "fission" even means or an electrician to not remember what "current" is. I'm not asking people to be able to graph power transients flawlessly but for someone to want a checkout on Reactor Protection Analysis and answer "What's bad about a core meltdown" with "It's bad." or an electrician getting checkout on Turbine Generators says "I dont know how they work, they just make electricity".. Well, let's just say that it makes you bitter. I've been out for a decade, and I remember all of that poo poo. Kids these days. 
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Jun 4, 2011 20:10
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belt posted:Fixed that for you. B-b-but, my STAR car.  6 and out, here 
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Jun 16, 2011 20:19
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I was told they were going to decommission my old boat, until Sir Skip Bowman himself said "gently caress no! Overhaul!" 
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Jun 24, 2011 20:30
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For some reason, the days before mids were my favorites. I would stay up all night playing video games or checking out Wal-Mart, to get my sleep schedule on track. If I had to do that now, I'd probably hate life.
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Jul 3, 2011 01:35
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same as last hour What's that burning smell?
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Aug 1, 2011 04:34
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moker posted:Tell that to a sub nuke heh Tell that to a sub nuke that went on a UNITAS right before an ORSE. Did you know that there isn't a single port in South America that can support shore power? Guess what that means? Droppin' anchor with P/S duty days and P/S steaming watches, while the coners stand 5-section in-port watches. And since ORSE was right around the corner, why not run drils the entire 6 months while painting/preserving?
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Aug 2, 2011 15:48
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Giudecca posted:Actually, in both Brazil and Peru I believe we had shore power hooked up to a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. I'm sure neither of those piers could accomodate a dinky little submarine. 
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Aug 4, 2011 18:39
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Henry Meowlins posted:
 they let you pick?Here are your choices: []MM []MM or []MM
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Aug 17, 2011 22:33
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Yep. My choices -in order- were ET, EM, and MM. Guess what I was? Fact: I didn't realize until recently that "knuckle-dragger" is a racist term.
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Aug 17, 2011 22:39
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KetTarma posted:I love talking about wish lists. I wanted a Seawolf-class or new construction. I got an OG 688 out of Groton.
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Aug 18, 2011 03:40
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Cerekk posted:I should probably specify a Virginia class They'll give you the most busted non i-boat they can find for you. That's where I went.
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Aug 24, 2011 03:47
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moker posted:Who gave you that av lol Someone hit at least 10 people in TFR with these stupid things a few days ago.
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Aug 24, 2011 17:57
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Mr. Doom-Baddy posted:Edit: I have less than 30 days left til A School Comp. I'm willing to say it absolutely sucked and I'm glad we will be parting ways.
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Oct 4, 2011 15:47
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KetTarma posted:Power school is basically the same thing as A school except different classes. Taught by "officers" who may or may not have their ribbon on the correct side of their uniform.
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Oct 4, 2011 20:42
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Speaking of Chiefs: it made me feel old when I saw that one of my buddies from Power School just made Senior Chief. We were in 9604. 
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Oct 4, 2011 20:54
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I don't even remember my GPA or class standing; all I know is I passed. Also also, welcome to the Navy: where 35-5s turn into spruces, ORSE workups, and shiftwork. Sometimes all at the same time.
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Oct 6, 2011 15:56
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KetTarma posted:Hell, being stuck at a-school is possibly the best deal in the nuclear field. 
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Oct 12, 2011 17:34
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From primary coolant to classified information. Spillage. Spillage never changes. fake edit: stop walk away implicate others make up a story stick with it
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Nov 17, 2011 19:32
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You going to get a sea service ribbon for it?
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Nov 21, 2011 22:39
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KetTarma posted:As far as goon students: id make sure he wasn't assigned to my crew. I don't want to deal with drama from special treatment accusations :P but... but.. I have stairs in my house
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:When I read this article the first time I could not believe that they are using 70's technology as a training device.
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They let roving watches carry guns? The most we had when I was still in was a lovely wooden baton, later replaced with an ASP. Considering we had zero training on either, they would be pretty much useless if we ever had to use them.
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Sacrilage posted:Anything missing, for use of semi-automatic weapon?
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Mar 15, 2012 18:08
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One of the JOs in my prototype class was a reformed coner.
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Apr 15, 2012 03:36
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Yeah. I enjoyed taking poo poo apart and getting my hands dirty. What I didn't enjoy was waiting around all loving day (especially after duty), "just in case" the engineer approved that work.
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Apr 20, 2012 16:42
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Those TLAs might be TMI, just sayin'.
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Jun 23, 2012 04:11
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belt posted:edit: I'm dumb. I get to work on nuclear reactors? Where do I sign? The real dumb here? My signing bonus was 13 hundred dollars, after taxes. They were giving coners 13 thousand, by the time I was in welding school.
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belt posted:Do you work at a nuke plant in Iran? 
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Jul 28, 2012 04:06
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You ever guard a neuc... on weeeeed?
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Jul 28, 2012 06:33
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Take your vols and shove 'em. 35-5 4lyf 
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Aug 24, 2012 05:23
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That fancy black and red hull paint is expensive.
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Mr. Doom-Baddy posted:But I still can't forget all of this poo poo they stuck in my brain.... Don't worry, that'll come with time. That one equation they make everyone learn? With all the goofy symbols and poo poo? Yeah, no idea.
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KetTarma posted:I bet they make him a mechanic. Make sure he knows that there is a 50% chance he'll end up as a MM. Look on the bright side, he'll probably do well in the electrical theory class. 
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ChewedFood posted:All this talk about snow worries me. I've never seen snow. I drive a newer Accord, should I trade it for a truck?
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Sep 28, 2012 21:46
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Driving on ice is easy. Just do what these guys do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDrjP94bJIY
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BULLETS CURE ISLAM posted:Haha, like every evaporator ever
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Snowdens Secret posted:The focus on procedural compliance in operation and the QA efforts involved in maintenance are surpassed only by space program stuff Well, the number of nuke subs lost and the number of space shuttles lost are the same. Of course, the subs were lost before a lot of the QA stuff was put into place.
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camino posted:I put MM on my dream sheet at boot camp and the fuckers made me an RO.
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