Submarine Officer 101: Too fat for SEALS, too socially awkward for Pilot

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Mr Crustacean: May 13, 2009; one (1) robosexual
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ded posted:

Sorry by SS I mean Sound Silencing. It covers a lot of things that I'd rather not get into on an internet forum.

My boat (the 688) did an op against the entire Nimitz battlegroup who also had a 688 class escort in 96 or 97 I forget. We popped a flare on them while about 500 yards away. Carriers have no ASW other than the ships around them and aircraft. They had sent the battlegroup to the far north of the op "box" to try and fool us so they could sneak by alone in the south of the box. Oops.

edit : also we detected them at a really loving insane distance also thanks to a sweet sweet convergence zone.

Did the joker of a battlegroup commander who planned that maneuver get his rear end reamed later on by higher up, cause that just sounds like the most ridiculous loving thing ever. Surely the purpose of the OP was to get some realistic training, not to gently caress about gaming it so that you 'win'.
Cause seriously, isn't that like millions of dollars worth of fuel for the battlegroup to gently caress off north.

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Mr Crustacean: May 13, 2009; one (1) robosexual
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Sacrilage posted:

My first Captain was a bit daft, and would get these ideas in his head that MUST be addressed right away. One Monday the CO comes aboard and says "I had a dream that the ballast is wrong on my ship. Dive officer, recalculate the ballast!" And because our Dive Officer sucked any dick that had brass on it, he complied and "Found a discrepancy, sir!" With such evidence, a request to load 10,000 LBS of lead was put into squadron, and 10,000LBS of lead was delivered to the pier.

But no, our Captain could not wait! It must be loaded NOW! What happens if, dare say, the pier were to POOF vanish into thin air! And so our Dive Officer decided he would load the lead NOW, before squadron had their say. Into a line we went, all 100 sailors we, and loaded 10,000LBS of lead from pier to ship. From dawn to dusk we worked, moving this lead, and it was at days end that, with a sigh of relief, we completed our task. We clasped hands and slapped backs, enjoying our feat. But lo comes squadron, with their results. What is this, the calculations were wrong? The ballast was right all along!

And so back into a line we went, at 1735; the lead must come off, after all...

Jesus christ that dive officer :psyduck:

. Learn to double check things before wasting a thousand man hours worth of time and effort

# ¿ Nov 16, 2013 01:26

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