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FrozenVent posted:Off the top of my head, and excluding stuff like math and physics, I got: When I got commissioned, they were cutting us orders directly to ships under the idea that OJT is all we need. 
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Aug 23, 2017 11:44
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Dingleberry posted:I worked port ops in Everett on an assist tug; we'd put docking pilots aboard ships coming in and the pilots would generally talk about how the CO's were often unwilling or incapable of putting their own ships alongside the pier, comfortably. With two tugs providing assistance. Harbor pilots always dock warships and control the tugs, therefore no naval officer ever gets practice doing it alone.
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Aug 24, 2017 01:26
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Godholio posted:All I remember from my childhood there in the early 80s is Kmart. I imagine it hasn't been updated in appearance or stock since then. That's true of every Kmart.
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Aug 25, 2017 23:27
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Because we work for CTF 76, we had to do a safety stand down this drill weekend. lol.
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Sep 18, 2017 22:43
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orange juche posted:I still get poo poo like that, a year+ on. Maybe if my life was in a lovely place like living in a spot where i couldnt toss a dart and land a job Kind of makes me wonder how worthless I am because I never get and never have gotten any poo poo like that.
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Sep 24, 2017 17:21
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Cerekk posted:What the gently caress, do you surface dudes not have contact management software or what? Little changes in radar return can lead to wild changes in software determined CPA.
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Sep 28, 2017 22:47
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FrozenVent posted:Such as? I've seen a console suddenly show a contact changing course by over 180 degrees for a few seconds before returning to something like the original calculated course.
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Sep 29, 2017 01:54
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FrozenVent posted:If losing a plot in such a radical fashion for a few second poses a risk to your collision avoidance, you should already have the GA going and the watertight doors closing. It's an irritation and if you have a paper plot it's easy to just put in the position and confirm that it matches the expected course and speed rather than wait for the machine to unfuck itself and update. Geizkragen posted:Aircraft radars do this too. Or look at your paper plot.
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Sep 29, 2017 02:52
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M_Gargantua posted:Still, that may be an urban legend that I heard over and over with no official corroboration Yeah, for it to be true you'd have to have a command triad more concerned with sweeping and high dust than basic safety and mission accomplishment.
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Oct 3, 2017 00:29
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M_Gargantua posted:lack of peanut butter I would have literally starved.
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Oct 29, 2017 21:44
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Mr. Nice! posted:Also if you've never seen a DDG helm, it's pretty obvious which console has control. They may have still been at darken ship, but it's a lit up button on the console regardless. I haven't, so what is it like sending lee helm to somewhere else? Does the conn give a rudder order and then call down every time?
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Nov 1, 2017 15:41
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Ron Jeremy posted:Isn’t it a little early for service selection? Check the date stamp yo.
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Nov 23, 2017 01:57
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/12/08/sailor-staged-racist-vandalism-navy-says/ On one hand, sailors gonna be sailors and this isn't the first time something like this has happened. On the other hand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_turret_explosion#Continued_focus_on_Hartwig
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Dec 8, 2017 20:58
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The key is being in a command where nobody with authority cares.
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Dec 14, 2017 03:12
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Elendil004 posted:https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...m_medium=social Everything in there is true and has been said for years and nobody is going to fix it because the senior ranks are filled with people who didn't get the gently caress out of the toxic environment.
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Dec 17, 2017 16:14
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Mr. Nice! posted:More SWOS means more time in simulators and learning basic navigation and shiphandling. That's useful with pulling into a port unaided by pilot/tugs or in general how to usefully drive the ship. Yeah, I don't think you can draw a straight line from the SWOS problems to those collisions in particular but I do think the general lovely culture and lack of professionalism and mentorship which the article also described played a part. e: I mean, what did it say to the SWO community about priorities and professionalism when every other designator needs months of schooling to even begin to do their jobs but hey you guys, just show up on a ship after your butterbars are on, you'll be fine? Stultus Maximus fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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Dec 17, 2017 16:48
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So first they go from 3 to 2 failures for ADSEP, now they go to unlimited? WTF?
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Dec 21, 2017 22:23
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Okay, clarify something for an ignorant aviator: on a five-and-dime watch rotation, does that mean that each individual person is standing watch every 5 hours in 15, or does that just mean that each duty section has to cover watches during that period, and individual people don't necessarily get a watch each time. Because if it's the former, I don't understand how a human being from the planet Earth could possibly think that's a good way to do business. It's surface Navy. Of course it's 5 on and 10 off for everyone in the watch section.
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Dec 22, 2017 02:24
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Default Settings posted:I don't quite understand how watch rotations still can be a topic today, by all rights it's something the British should have had figured out in the 1700s. Funny thing about the watch rotations that the British figured out in the 1700s...
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Dec 27, 2017 22:08
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:do tell? Are the ones we still use. Because the Navy is stupid.
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Dec 27, 2017 22:29
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LingcodKilla posted:We use dog watches still? We did as of ten years ago, dunno about now but surface Navy doesn't change much.
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Dec 27, 2017 23:49
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Start by Shanghaiing homeless in San Diego. Put them all in deck dept and I bet most wouldn't notice the difference. I'm pretty sure that's how they recruit the yardworkers in Norfolk.
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Dec 28, 2017 16:10
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LingcodKilla posted:Seriously, getting a job in the shipyards as a helper, lowest of the low, takes nearly a year from start to finish. Really? Either you're talking about the serious let's build a carrier yards like Newport News or things have really changed. Both times I was at Metro Machine, it was shady as gently caress. The "helpers" were getting fired daily for everything from safety violations to fighting to sleeping on the job and there was never a shortage of new ones.
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Dec 28, 2017 17:31
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LingcodKilla posted:This is Bremerton so i guess “lets refuel a submarine” is a bigger deal. Yeah. Metro Machine did frigates and small deck amphibs. And anything involving frigates and amphibs is cut-rate and shady.
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Dec 28, 2017 17:48
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orange juche posted:I have no idea what the equivalent of a EP on a officer's fitrep is but if that dude didn't get one, the Navy has failed. It is also EP.
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Jan 2, 2018 01:50
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ManMythLegend posted:That all said, the Chief's Mess can actually be a force multiplier that enables operations better then a bunch of disparate CPO's can. I just takes a lot of adult supervision by the CO and XO plus a CMC who gets it and makes the group work and not just be some dumb loving clubhouse. Is this anything beyond theoretical?
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Jan 13, 2018 01:37
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Goodpancakes posted:Man the navy is weird. CO for a month, asleep in the bunk, get negligent homicide charges, take responsibility for systemic naval staffing and mission problems. I'm gonna guess its hard to get volunteers to captain a ship? Nah, there is literally nothing else a career SWO can hope for.
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Jan 18, 2018 03:58
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Kawasaki Nun posted:Montreal rules Better stuck there than arriving in Mayport, really.
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Jan 22, 2018 04:30
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ManMythLegend posted:I missed this in a drunken stupor when it was posted, but it's 100% true. Lol, that's less than I got for flight deck pay.
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Jan 29, 2018 02:52
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That sounds like the "corned beef" we got for St. Patrick's Day, which was ground beef with a can of corn dumped into it. The Reagan's supply department left a lot to be desired, though I did appreciate the sheer cheek of that one. jfc. When I was on the Reagan, the food was great. I know it did go downhill fast, I was on there for two days about a year later and it was pure crap.
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Feb 10, 2018 07:21
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poo poo, if I were any good at eval writing I'd be an O5 by now.
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Feb 11, 2018 21:43
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Is the SM-6 really a capable ASCM or is it listed because the Navy desperately wants everyone to believe that the 1970s Harpoon isn't still our only ASUW weapon?
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Feb 15, 2018 23:44
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LingcodKilla posted:A much more competent IS1 from my unit got a similar deal on the Vinson a few years back and cranked the whole time. It super turned off the command sending us on ships. Your SEL really should be talking to their CMC and LCPO to make sure that doesn't happen again.
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Mar 4, 2018 12:36
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Mr. Nice! posted:Reservists are often not very useful at their actual job but any body is useful as a mess crank. KetTarma posted:Most reservists I met had little knowledge of their own rate. Yeah, there's a problem where if your contract that you sign with your recruiter doesn't include A school or C school, it's not funded and you aren't going. You get out of boot camp and sent to your first unit as an ET or OS or BM or whatever with literally no idea of what that actually entails. That said, I never send that kind of sailor to a ship alone. I always make sure there are a few boots plus an experienced first class or chief so they actually learn something and become productive and everyone benefits. It doesn't benefit the reserves to get stuck as mess crankers and coffee bitches.
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Mar 4, 2018 23:31
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/CraigMWhitlock/status/973281880874323969 quote:Although the Navy cited Branch for four counts of misconduct, it does not appear that it imposed any penalties. gently caress the Navy.
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Mar 12, 2018 23:31
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Laranzu posted:All he did was get involved in one of the biggest scandals in a long time resulting in not being able to do the job he was appointed to do for 5 years while still getting paid. I'd like someone to punish me by paying me six figures not to do my job and then retire and half pay.
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Mar 13, 2018 23:07
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Sir Lucius posted:Ah yes, the reserves. Good idea, give up my weekends and vacation hours so I can shave and do computer based training. I don't know why anyone would ever actually want to do this. Cheaper insurance than through my job, and also the extra money lets me keep working at a place that I like instead of having to get a higher paying job somewhere I don't want to be.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:02
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pkells posted:Destroyer trip report: Destroyers aren't really that small or cramped. They aren't frigates or PCs, for example. Or old Cold War destroyers. There is something to be said for warships, though vs Army camps. No marching, no hauling rucks full of poo poo, no MREs, actual beds, daily showers, regular hot meals.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Well on one side of the line you have a residential area where people live. On the other side you have the industrial side of a naval shipyard. I mean it makes sense that one side would be more welcoming than the other. San Diego's wet side/dry side looks exactly like that.
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