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That is loving awesome and gently caress I wish I was there. I miss shipdriving so god drat much.
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Pre-deployment seabag inspections aren't crazy at all on ships to make sure people have everything they need for the time the ship is gone. Once you're out to sea or just randomly in port it's mainly just to gently caress with someone.
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Aug 5, 2014 00:51
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Of course it isn't. Someone picks up for us.
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Aug 5, 2014 03:05
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We also help find and rescue stranded vessels. In this case an Aussie flight found the stranded fishermen, but it was our ship that diverted and went to assist. http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg70/Pages/JointCoalitionForcesRescuePakistaniFishermen.aspx#.U-DP-FblOIg That was interesting in a number of ways. First off, the captain made us shave our beards because we were doing real work. That sucked. We sent over our VBSS team with a bunch of food, water, and basically cold packs (robitussin, advil, tylenol, etc) over to the dhow. I was on watch in CIC (Combat Information Center) and we watched the VBSS team try to board this old rear end boat. It was rocking so hard the side rails were nearly hitting the water. After the first two guys struggled with their pilot's ladder to clime aboard, our team switched up and just started stepping on the second to last rung when it rocked down close to our RHIB (navy small boat). The rocking made one of our guys a little sick to his stomach and he had to poo poo. The ship had no toilet, so he had to go to the head of the ship and squat over a hole. We could see him poo poo on the camera from CIC. Afterwards we spent the rest of the evening playing tag with various groups trying to decide what we were going to do. Before someone finally got the pakistanis to give a drat, we had all our towing gear out and had cleared out a berthing for them to stay in while we towed them back. Thankfully we didn't have to actually try to tow them because that would have been a giant pain. Once we got our notification of Pakistan's people coming to get them, we just chilled, made sure they had supplies, and bounced as soon as the other ship came in.
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Aug 5, 2014 13:45
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Before I got into the meat of the story because of the paywall, all I could see was discussion about the captain being holed up for the better half of deployment. That happened on my last deployment as well, but for slightly different reasons. The whole time, though, ISIC was fully aware. Dude was just plain sick. He would still come to all nav details and meetings. He might be in PT gear and go back down after he was sure the XO/Ops had it, but he never missed anything. The XO was taking over command in a couple of months anyways, so it worked out fine. He actually chaired my OOD board because the skipper was ill. He didn't have any officers making his bed or cooking him meals, though.
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Aug 6, 2014 04:24
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almighty posted:This is the same ship the late Capt. Holly 'Witch' Graff used to command, who was fired for abusing his command authority among other things. Abusing her command authority. It finally boiled to a head when she threw a full coffee mug at the XO for being late to a briefing. His immediate response was to yell at everyone else to get out, and a few hours later she was relieved of command. She also ran the ship soft aground in her time in command.
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Aug 6, 2014 15:23
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If you gotta spend the time, might as well make some loving money while you're at it. Spring semester is still possible, but if you're there until December it might be better just to shoot for summer. Save up all your money on deployment, don't take any terminal, use that last month for outprocessing, and then take your bigass stacks of cash and go travel/do something fun for a few months. Start school in the summer.
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Aug 11, 2014 16:45
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Yeah it was alright. There were some nasty motherfuckers down there, though. SPACE HOMOS knows a few. Shitfuck was king nasty poo poo closely followed by hoagland and puckins.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:48
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SK and SH don't usually stand any watches at sea except in low visibility, drills, or special evolutions on small boys. They just run the store, laundry, and supply. Every one of those fuckers goes to bed at night.
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Aug 12, 2014 02:58
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I'd say that one of the biggest hurdles to advancing in supply is your fluency in tagalog.
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Aug 12, 2014 03:14
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He talked to me same day about it. I almost posted something about it but, meh, effort.
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Aug 12, 2014 03:31
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No we're just friends and bullshit throughout the day. When he was done at meps he was telling me all the details. Later that night he saw you post about your meps trip and texted me saying "yeah I saw that guy when I went."
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Aug 12, 2014 03:38
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I found out that my last ship would have given me at least one and possibly two more NAMs while I was there if I had written them up.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:59
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Japan means you'll be out to sea more often cumulatively than ships that deploy regularly stateside. You will be unduly burdened with stupid rules, will live on your ship for months before you can move into a barracks room, and won't be allowed out past midnight during any of that time. If those rules have changed, they're one dead cabbie away from being back in place. C7F locks the gently caress down on liberty and basically anything you do. I can't speak at all to Washington because I've never been, really. Bahrain is hot, sandy, and miserably humid 80% of the year. The remaining 20% is pleasant. You'll be surrounded by some of the most liberated group of shitheads in the middle east and a lot of commonwealth folks. It's a terrible place, imo, but you'll make a fuckton of money if you're smart, have hot white foreign girls around at various bars and such, and will gain a deep appreciation for indian/malay slave labor as you can get everything delivered, including booze.
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Aug 13, 2014 12:39
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krispykremessuck posted:Where in the gently caress in MT were you that it never got over 70 during summer In the mountains.
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Aug 13, 2014 13:45
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My friend just recently finished biking across country. It was May when she was in Montana and there was some snow and a lot of ice and snow she still had to deal with for a large chunk of the ride.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:13
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SPACE HOMOS posted:Montana to ? I want to bike across country or at least those 100 mile rails to trails. But I am poor. She started on the pacific coast in Washington and stopped in Boston.
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Aug 13, 2014 15:41
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PneumonicBook posted:Don't pick a rate at meps thinking you'll be able to repick at some other date.
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Aug 14, 2014 21:41
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Midrats on last ship was almost always chicken wheels or something of the sort.
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Aug 16, 2014 11:25
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Snowdens Secret posted:Chicken wheels and fried hamsters were the best meals on the boat. The cooks hated serving them because people would eat so much. So many people in the wardroom would look at me like I was nuts anytime we had either because I would go whole hog on that poo poo. poo poo owned. Lastship also had a nice tradition of wings and pizza every Saturday night in port or underway. Made weekend duty not suck as bad and was nice comafood before holiday routine underway.
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Aug 16, 2014 20:12
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That's why you get a slice of pizza and eat it with a knife and fork then. I mean, you're still a fag either way, but at least you're eating.
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KetTarma posted:Well, finally got my foot operated on to fix some torn ligaments. HM1 told me to expect a medboard around Feb. Not really sure what result I'm hoping for since I need family-style Tricare coverage until mid-2016. The PEB process takes quite a while from start to finish. If whatever you're disabling condition is rates 30% or higher, congrats on your pension and retirement. Holler at shim for more info or see if you can find the old PEB thread.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:You guys worry a lot. I am pretty sure every other week I was be counseled in A and C school. I told a STG1 to gently caress himself, got in trouble for calling a girl "watersport" as a nickname, and had to do stupid poo poo for not using a crosswalk. Then on the boat I told a CS1 to gently caress himself (stopped at XOI) and had plenty of counseling chits by my work center sup. For things like telling the guy signing my tags for 3m to kiss my rear end or throwing a tech pub at my work center supervisor. There were definitely some shitheads across the board all over that ship. I did like the signs welcoming the new GM1 to the FCPOA after he got loving slammed and dropped a rank for loving that SH1. He kissed the right rear end in some way to get to stay in till retirement. For those that might want some backstory, we had a GMC as our 3MC for a while on an all male ship in 2007. He was apparently nailing an SH3 on the regular. They started loving when he was just an SHSN. Dude was married to a chief on another boat out there. poo poo hits the fan and lost his anchors over it. It was taken as far as it could go, but they didn't separate him. They let stay in for another 2 years or so to hit his 20 and transferred him to a shore billet in Japan. His wife didn't care and didn't leave him which made me think she was a dyke and they were just married for convenience.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Pretty sure that's what got him in trouble to begin with. I was about to post this but got sidetracked by sodomy.
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Snowdens Secret posted:August Navy Thread: Was About To Post, Got Sidetracked By Sodomy I had a close call like that when I was the lucky one from the locker they decided to put in a MOPP suit and send topside for the ATG inspected drills in the Okinawa op area. It was hot/humid as gently caress and we had zebra set on the ship for a good while, so the ship itself was quite a bit more miserable than normal to boot. I get sent outside wearing that loving garbage sack along with the DC trainers and ATG people. I'm not sure if I had ever been trained on what to do with those stupid chemical test kits or not. I was at the first stop on my route and they kept asking questions. I just mumbled and muffled out some poo poo which was certainly pulled from my rear end, but I was dying in there. When one of them finally looked at my face they immediately started helping me take the blouse and headpiece off. We passed that part, but I'm pretty sure it was more because they felt bad for me than anything else.
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KetTarma posted:Dear Livejournal, Hoorah military medicine!
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Boon posted:Command ballcaps can be worn with NWU's after labor day. So that's pretty cool I guess. gently caress yeah. I actually wrote multiple letters for the t-shirt commodore regarding ball caps and other uniform feedback. I'd like to feel I had a hand in this inconsequential, yet nice change for people still in. I'm pissed that someone over the years seems to have absconded with a couple of my old ball caps. I feel like a tool wearing them, but it gets me so god damned much business down here in the south it's hard not to.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Did he tell you it was fine to wear one, as long as you bought enough to share with the whole command?  I really think those were more from the then deputy commodore, honestly. He was a different kind of guy. Had 10 dependents. He drove a loving 15 pack van as a POV.
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You enlisted time makes you eligible regardless of your time at the academy.
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