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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Internet VFW > September Navy Thread: Post in this thread and receive your IDW pin
 
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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008

DustyNuts posted:

http://youtu.be/7eN3fxzn0ro?list=FLDYVJiJbxTuSjhRpAJTu63w

sailors

That's terrifying.

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


 In Navy news, the Dirty Nickel got extended for the third time in as many years.

http://wtkr.com/2014/08/30/bataan-amphibious-ready-groups-deployment-extended/

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008

KetTarma posted:

Do you know if youre going to get assigned to an IT billet after graduation?

If it works like IS, which it should since we are all one big, stupid IDC, he should be able to pick a local unit with an opening in CMS-ID at the schoolhouse.

KetTarma posted:

None of the ITs at my NOSC are billeted as ITs. Ironically, a GM2 and a civilian GS-something are our IT support.

Are you talking about the full-time FTS guys at the NOSC because if that's so then I wouldn't be surprised it is some random rate guy and a GS providing NMCI support instead of an actual ITman.

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008

ManMythLegend posted:

gently caress.

YES.

No, just smoke a normal pipe like your fellow black shoe Fletcher; gently caress ego maniac MacArthur
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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


 I guess the biggest question is: Where do you want to locate when your contract is up? Also, unless things changed from when I PCSed from overseas, you'll probably have to keep the closest coast. Unless you're a noble who can go from Norfolk to Cali to England to Australia (to be fair that was an O exchange tour for him)

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


 Triad relieved on the USS James E Williams

Business Insider posted:

The three top leaders of the guided missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG-95) have been removed and reassigned halfway through the ship's deployment pending the outcome of an investigation into "command climate," the Navy said in a news release Tuesday.

The skipper, Cmdr. Curtis B. Calloway, was relieved at sea by Capt. Anthony L. Simmons, who will take charge of the ship for the rest of the deployment as an investigation moves forward. Calloway, along with Cmdr. Ed Handley, the executive officer, and Command Master Chief Travis Biswell, the top enlisted leader, have been reassigned to staff positions at Naval Surface Force Atlantic.

Other than announcing the high-profile firings and mentioning an investigation, the official word from the Navy offered few details. But as Sam LaGrone notes at the U.S. Naval Institute, the removal of the entire command staff at the same time is quite rare.

The Navy Times offered one possibility as to why:

A Navy official who spoke on background to discuss a sensitive matter said there is a separate investigation being conducted by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service into a liberty incident that occurred in the Sixth Fleet area of operations, but declined to divulge further details.

The Williams left its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 30 for an eight-month deployment in support of U.S. Africa Command.

I would like to think there is a rather pedestrian reason but, another part of me really wants a hosed up reason for this to have happened.

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008

Sir Lucius posted:

September Navy thread attendance has been very low this month. Muster will now be taken during Navy thread quarters. Be in formation 15 minutes early, and be sure to have your sleeves rolled/unrolled, whichever is more inconvenient.

Chief's Call is a half hour before that so be sure to be 15 minutes early for that :chiefsay:

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