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Anyone ever hear of the Chief of Naval Personal Identity Force before?
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Laranzu posted:You got some mail too? Yep, hadn't even opened the letter yet and looking at the visible logo and PO box return address just makes my brain scream SCAM
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Jul 26, 2017 03:54
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Anyone hear about a man overboard yesterday on the USS Stethem near china?
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Aug 2, 2017 20:35
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Always elevate your complaints, never let yourself get hosed over. Big navy doesn't appreciate when local staff fucks over sailors and ruin retention rates. Either Admin gives you your money or you file some official complaints.
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Aug 7, 2017 11:27
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1337_ScriptKiddie posted:My Chief told me about the special table in the tree fort for non-chiefs. I just can't believe that is in my career path if I wanted to stay in. They will will never trick me again. E-6 for lyf. You mean you get a private table in the private club! Bottle service
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Aug 14, 2017 01:22
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LingcodKilla posted:Jesus Christ I'm not a monster. Ehh being a nuke after getting out is more finding ways to tastefully turn down all the extra lucrative job offers
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Aug 14, 2017 05:30
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FrozenVent posted:Why the heck is the navy having the same people stand OOW/OOD and EOW? Because the engineering officers do no engineering and that is up to enlisted who are good at their jobs. Once you qualify you're doing deck poo poo and get to keep the vague idea of whats happening underneath/behind you.
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Aug 17, 2017 06:25
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If I ever get the chance I want to buy TVS all the drinks. Reading that report was worth it.
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Aug 18, 2017 03:44
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I'm seeing it reported she was struck on the port side. Hope it's not bad
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Aug 21, 2017 00:48
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Straight of Malacca is madness. Not as bad as a place but probably the second worst I've seen. Heading toward Singapore at night time you can see the thousands of lights on all the tankers chilling out south of the port.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:10
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My suggestion. Grab a bunch of submarine O-3 who have no preconceptions about what surface life is supposed to be like, have them spend a week on a ship, observing watchstanding and auditing maintenance & paperwork, and write up reports on what they saw. That outside persepextive will notice some critical flaws. I'd guarantee it. Identify those flaws then a few months later come back and use the same system to go shop by ship and retrain and audit. Signs of issues: "That wouldn't work because subs aren't swos" "That only works for submarines because they have small crew sizes" "I don't want to have ORSE equivalents on my ship that's too much work"
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Aug 22, 2017 20:02
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Blackchamber posted:Ok but at the end of it how do you trick them to going back to their underwater fart coffin? Because Sub life it turns out is way better than being a scrub on a destroyer dealing with extra dumb sailors. Sub life is great
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Aug 22, 2017 21:24
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ded posted:The only time we did not do drills was when we were doing special stuff during westpac. And there are some skippers that even run drills during those times. We did drill walkthroughs when we couldn't do them for real. You'd act it out and talk through it. Stopping to make comments or ask questions or to announce that ~thing~ took place and enough time had passed to move on. Unsurprisingly at first nobody took them seriously and they were useless but two months in we were bored enough to do them sarcasticly. Doing them sarcasticly after two months turned us into dramatic stage actors at four months and at the end of that deployment ORSE workup was a cakewalk and we got an Excellent, an E, and a NUC. System works when people participate.
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Aug 23, 2017 04:13
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ManMythLegend posted:This is unsurprising to me as at an all hands call here in Sasebo he also admitted to a few thousand Sailors that he didn't know what "PMS" was so... That's even more dumb then I was imagining him being. Williamson also sounds like an idiot. Maybe there's a trend there.
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Aug 23, 2017 13:30
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maffew buildings posted:I can't even begin to tell you how many man hours we lose in the Bees due to not knowing bowlines Son let me explain the bowlines and the bees to you. You see when an idiot enlisted and a stripper love each other very much they start getting ideas about knots in the barracks room...
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Aug 23, 2017 15:52
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Because the Navy refuses to spec a ship that will handle all the low intensity stuff and doesn't need all the expensive electronics and gadgets and weapons. Think about the LCS
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Aug 24, 2017 05:33
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Mr. Nice! posted:The gently caress is the point of a warship that can't go to war? ISR, anti piracy, search and rescue, assured access, etc. What were the point of escort carriers that couldn't take a hit and didn't have any anti-ship munitions to put on their planes? The Navy keeps trying to make everything a front line warship with radar and ECM and ~multirole~ M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Aug 24, 2017 |
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Aug 24, 2017 15:38
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I wanna get into procurement and maybe improve some small part of the system. Increment the counter toward long term solutions.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:55
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Godholio posted:The problem with cheap and expendable is that anti-ship missiles are cheaper and more expendable. And if your cheap and expendable ship can't effectively protect itself, welp, I hope the crew was cheap and expendable too. And a swarm of anti-ship missiles is still cheaper and more expendable than a DDG? The only way to stop offense is to strike first
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Aug 24, 2017 15:56
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Yes, but you can use it to free up a DDG to be useful doing real work. If your worried about somolli pirates having anti-ship missiles then you're not setting realistic goals for what you expect ships to handle. A DDG is a billion dollars of overkill and extra upkeep for accomplishing a lot of low intensity tasking.
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Aug 24, 2017 15:59
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My contention is that EW and RAM are superfluous to the job a cheap navy ship should actually be doing. If you wanna purchase a low observable litoral strike craft for opposed shorelines then that's a different mission set then the LCS has or is designed for. If you want to have a platform for low intensity long loiter surveillance. Hell you could have a nice VLS truck that is solely designed to rack 40 missiles for C2 for a DDG or air platform that has the targeting sensors. VLS tubes are cheap, radar and fire control is not.
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Aug 24, 2017 16:42
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Two Finger posted:They were pretty good at holding off superior Jap fleets. thats my point, I was being sarcastic Taffy 3 was the bomb
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Aug 24, 2017 19:25
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Local hydraulic override
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Aug 24, 2017 23:42
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piL posted:Any advice for Guam night stuff that isn't a strip club? Bucket list skinny dipping every beach on the west side late at night. Also do go to the parts where the locals hate non-locals. Mac and Martys is probably still there and good, they have inside out burgers and good beers. Churascos is the Brazilian BBQ all you can eat.
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Aug 25, 2017 14:32
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LordNad posted:You guys forgot shooting. Tons of indoor gun ranges. Almost as overpriced as the strip clubs And the strip clubs may get a bad rap but once you know how to not get fleeced they're better than any other stipclubs on American soil. Plus everybody in the service industry on island knows everybody else. Bartenders, DJs, strippers, if you start making friends there are some seriously excellent groups of people to hang with. Which groups you hang out with depends on if your more leaning toward "drunken beaches, boats, and beer runs" vs "drunken bacchanals". So make friends with everyone. If you really just need a good recommendation asap head up to gun beach and chill there. Got a bar and volleyball courts, grab swim trunks or just skinny dip once the day crowd and tourists leave and the latenight crowd starts encouraging shenanigans Guam is the island of misfit children. Take that into account and just flow with it as long as you can keep a clear head to not get a DUI or show up to work drunk.
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Aug 25, 2017 16:05
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piL posted:Any advice for Guam night stuff that isn't a strip club? On a side note are you on guam as a single sailor or are you in a separate social bin?
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Aug 25, 2017 18:41
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Jimmy4400nav posted:It wasn't all bad though, we found out our CO likes to goof around on reddit, and to tie into ORM he gave a ten minute speech spoiling the ending of the Game of Thrones season finale, so that was kind of fun. Much worse than your CO goofing around on SA 
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Aug 30, 2017 02:57
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Lou Takki posted:The old timers in my office keep saying the reason the Fitz and the McCain collisions happened is because the COs don't yell at the OODs like they used to in the old days I recommend yelling at them better than 80s OODs did.
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Aug 30, 2017 18:53
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Howard Phillips posted:Hey guys I'm in grad school now. I wake up at whenever I want everyday as my classes are in the afternoon. Walking into campus everyday is a blessing because even if something sucks I still get to stare at co-eds. Hopefully your college is more social than mine, and I hope you learn something. M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 16:40
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Howard Phillips posted:What was your experience? State college that is about as effective as an engineering degree mill, lots of entitled kids who give no fucks but get passed through with 2.8 or lower GPAs, no social life on campus and no one who commits to interesting clubs. Pretty much I learned how to do Calculus better and then added some of that math to electrical stuff I had already learned far more effectively as a Nuke.
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Sep 1, 2017 02:06
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LordNad posted:Sounds like a boat command. Lol what boat has time to give out 96's, let alone 72's.
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Sep 1, 2017 20:15
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Even the busiest commands can find a way to make do without a person for an hour and a half. Well yeah, I'd walk off the pier with a binder in my arms and go gently caress around on my phone for an hour and a half sometimes when there was nothing going on besides 'be here'
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Sep 1, 2017 20:24
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ded posted:What?? No more short shorts? I had to wear navy PT gear and my rear end is nice enough to support Marine silkies
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Sep 7, 2017 03:45
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LingcodKilla posted:The new track suit is replacing the hoody and matching pants. Ok sure.... just tell your boss about making Marine silkies an approved uniform item for warm climates
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Sep 7, 2017 03:52
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We got good because we were doing continual low intensity training all the time that wasn't occupied with actual stuff. I saw the shift from mediocre to excellent over 4 years. It was 100% a culture shift as people actually started being optimistic and motivated. Toxic people left or changed, newer people had solid qualification processes. By the end people knew their poo poo enough to know when to say no, knew enough to solve emergent issues, and could be trusted to not be shitbags. Most importantly when people were delegated tasks they were left to them without micromanagement (because they were trusted) and feeling that responsibility they rose to the challenge (Because they weren't badly trained and felt confident and important.) Feeling competent and important really seemed to be the truing point. Although my favorite pre-deployment training was conducting ISR on the Catalina island Jazz festival as a few people with sail boats kept trying to find us and get the smallest CPA they could manage. The sea lanes around there are packed and they still weren't the worst we saw. I'm convinced the lot of them were actively competing, they would do 180 degree turns and wave ribbons while plowing right toward the scope. Null Integer posted:Boats are gay, lol if your still in. 100 sailors go under and cry themselves to sleep in each others arms as 20 jodies float through base housing.
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Sep 22, 2017 03:02
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Yeah once again submarines are superior to all targets 
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Sep 22, 2017 04:25
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LingcodKilla posted:I still can't believe you recognized me in MEPS. My RDC was in goonfleet, He had an Eve screenshot background on his computer and I called him on it.
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Sep 29, 2017 03:24
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Phanatic posted:What happens to ARPA when you're in an environment where you're trying not to radiate? How do submarines not hit anything when the other ships are completely ignorant of their location 10ft below the waves? same question, similar answer.
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Sep 29, 2017 23:05
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Also wanna make the point that in a ~war scenario~ Anything you're picking up coming toward you using an X band is a small boat (which probably needs to be blown up I guess, don't do 40knots with a 0cpa) Surface search radars don't have any use against real threats posed by enemy surface combatants at expected engagement ranges. Every weapon we care about is pretty much an OTH antiship missile. (Not breaking any NDAs here, theyve said this in plenty of public disclosures) Hence, navy ships have Sperrys for navigation alone and dont give a gently caress about radiating during non-operations.
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Oct 1, 2017 06:21
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ded posted:Every skipper of a Sub has been an Engineer at some point. So thats not quite a true statement. We didn't have a "crash". That Japanese fishing boat was just spying in the wrong place when we did an emergency surfacing from depth.
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Oct 2, 2017 03:53
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