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ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

On my last ship the captain loved watermelon, so Supply ordered some to get picked up during our BSF in the Azores. What they thought was 80 watermelons turned out to be 80 "units" of watermelon which was not discovered until the flatbed truck full of them pulled up to the pier.

We had watermelon breakfast, lunch, and dinner for months. Eventually they started cutting them up to garnish every table onboard for meals too.

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:37

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Fleet and Family also has counselors available that are confidential to help, plus if your stress is related to other, non-Navy, life issues they're in the same office as the folks who help you get that stuff straightened out too.

Also, from the perspective of a sitting CO, let me tell you that I want you, and every one who needs it, to come forward and get the help that you need. You trying to "power through it" is not just dangerous for you, but it can be dangerous to everyone onboard depending on what your responsibilities are. Provided that your prognosis is good from your medical evaluations you getting help shouldn't impact your career in the slightest. Obviously if you have some pernicious and deep seated mental health issues it may require an early roll ashore or something just like any other medical condition which may have some career implications but it's still much, much preferable to the alternative of you hurting yourself.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 06:11

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Howard Phillips posted:

Applied to two. Was limited due to being on deployment. Got rejected from one and waiting for the other.

Already dropped papers, so if I decide to go to shore duty I will have to do the dance and beg to remove resignation papers. Little embarrassing.

Unless you're 100% certain you're going to get picked up for the second program you are crazy for not taking some bull poo poo shore duty and using it as an extra 12-18 months of paid grad school application time. Not only should you take the shore duty, but you should do it at a fleet concentration area so you can take the NWC Fleet Seminar program and get your JPME done so in case you have to do the terminal pull up, and sign the blood money for some reason, you're not too far behind for the O-4 board.

ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jan 23, 2017

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 06:15

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Blackchamber posted:

After I transferred to my next command they got my info and wouldn't let me carry a swiss army knife. I had to train to be able to deploy with the marines in a 'nonpermissable environment' and I was the only one allowed to forgo the 9mm and m4 qual portion. I laugh about it now though, but at the time you cant help feeling embarrassed.

I mean, I don't know your specific circumstances, but I don't think that's all that alarming or surprising. I have gun cards in my desk drawer right now for Sailors who have had issues which I feel make them a risk for self harm, and I would rather they not have access to the most efficient tools with which to inflict it. That said, I've also returned gun cards to folks who have sought help and treatment and are in a healthier place. It all depends on the situation.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 06:18

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

LingcodKilla posted:

ManMyth are you the highest O that burns time in here? Is this a useful tool or primarily fun(present issue aside).
I really like how many people stepped forward with good advice. I hope it helps you Anita.

I'm pretty sure that Stultus Maximus is senior to me.

It's primarily for fun, I've had this account since I was a midshipman and followed SomethingAwful for fun shenanigans. That's not to say that I haven't used GiP as a source of information from time to time, but mostly SA is for me to shitpost about tabletop gaming these days.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 08:37

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Anita Dickinme posted:

Yeah, I don't want to attempt it anymore but I actually kind of enjoy my gun toting job, so I don't want to lose that and go to lagging crew or some poo poo.

I still think you need to go talk to someone. If you're not really thinking about self harm anymore, but are still worried about your command pulling your gun cards then go to the chapel and talk to the RP's about the different chaplains that work there. They're bound to give you a good idea about which one fits your particular taste on the religious to secular scale, and then set up an appointment. Chaplains have mandated confidentiality, they're not allow to "rat you out" even if they wanted to and going to one not affiliated with your command makes it that much more unlikely, but will still let you talk things out and get on the road to getting healthier.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 08:43

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

I sneak off with one of our Lt Cmdrs and play Warmachine and DnD sometimes. We have public board game days where it's mostly civilians and enlisted scum and then I schedule another day so he can get together with me and my civilian friends without worrying about someone on the ship crying about who he is spending time with.

Yeah, some of my guys found out I play Magic and got all excited so now guys come up to me from time to time to talk about decks and card evaluations and stuff. One actually approached me about setting up a draft tournament for the crew because we have a lot of people who play, or are interested, for such a small ship. I gave him the thumbs up and also the go ahead to approach the MWR committee to to see if they'll pitch in some money.

Meanwhile, I actually got WOTC to donate a whole bunch of packs to the ship so it will end up being pretty much free for everyone, but don't say anything because I'm trying to surprise them. :ssh:

ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Jan 23, 2017

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 12:48

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

While we're talking about downers I just had one of my sailors try to commit suicide last night.

Get help sea ghosts.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 08:17

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

piL posted:

I completely wasted my first tour

Hahaha.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 09:29

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Boon posted:

Yeah, I probably should have posted with more context - the video I have (same one) has much better audio but I'm not uploading it to the internet.

That said, we were in the SAG and our initial course (about 010) had us heading towards Iran with an oil field to our port beam. The CO was with the conning officer and I was managing the bridge. After we cleared the oil field we began to come around 5 degrees at a time until we were heading about 290 - the helm called out steady on course, rudder amidships, I verified it on the instruments up front, and proceeded to call down to aft steering to coordinate a shift of control for training purposes.

As I was on the phone (CG - XO's phone on the port side of the pilot house) I glanced out the window at the P&D line which was sitting at about 260. Puzzled, I looked at our bows which looked like a V, then slammed the phone down and ran out to the bridge wing, caught the CO's eye on the fly bridge, saw that he knew, and then I screamed down to drop the P&D line. We got out to about 340 or so on the bow before we began to straighten and correct.

Now, here's the thing. The oiler? It's never wrong. Is it wrong? No - you're wrong - correct to it. And so we did. We had previously steadied on 290, but the oiler was closer to 275 or so, and so we began to come around. The only problem is that the oiler then started to come back to the original communicated course of 290. Before we knew it I was looking at their hull numbers through our bullnose. I'm a bit dissapointed in myself that I didn't immediately recommend an emergency breakaway, instead pausing to assess. I arrived at hte conclusion, but as I did the XO was already running past me to blow the signals. I'm still ashamed about that.

Anyway, emergency breakaway now in full effect, we managed to level out but we have two lines over including amidships and we're probably at around 100-120 feet. That's where the video starts up. It was shot by the air crew who obviously had no loving clue what was going on until the word started to get passed over the 1MC.

Initially there was a bit of chaos as we kind of looked at each other in a shared "oh gently caress" then snapped out of it and began preparing for collision. Reports from our aft fueling station gave us updates, they were the first line to clear. I got on the 1MC and ordered the weatherdecks cleared on the port side. What I didn't know, was that our team on the midships kingpost ran off without clearing the line. A BMSN grabbed a SN and a BM3 and ran out and cleared it themselves (BMSN got a COM and other two got NAMs - those dudes were loving awesome). Once we got the word that the midships line was cleared the CO (who never took the conn) ordered flank 3 (you can hear the engines whine up in the video). At this point there wasn't much left to do in the pilothouse but wait. As we were sucked closer in I sounded the collision alarm; you can hear it on the video chirp twice - that's because I hit it and released thinking it would sound but as soon as I released it stopped, so I confusedly hit it again but it didn't go without holding so I gave up on it and passed a 'brace for impact'. As we pulled forward we were mostly out of danger (though I didn't realize it from my vantage). I walked out to lean against the rail thinking how my name was on that deck log, how I was totally hosed, and I was just waiting for the collision. The CO issued a slough of orders to the rudder both ways and we veered across the bow.

A brief moment of panic as we crossed the bow elicited a followup 'brace for impact' that was late and also unnecessary but at that point who the gently caress cares. We cleared the oiler, I walked back in, past some word, and called for reports from all stations. The CICWO ran up sometime around here, was hysterical, and my Helm Safety Officer kicked him out the door. Then the CO walked in, asked for station reports, looked me dead in the eyes, drew a breath and said, "Ok OOD, let's get ready to come back around, we still got oil and ice cream to pick up."

That dude was one cool loving cat and the best ship handler I'd ever met.

We found out much later that on the final segment of our turn the oiler suffered a rudder casualty which caused them to continue over to ~275. I still get chills watching the video and I got chills writing that up. At the time I was pretty 'young' OOD still, far from getting my pin, and I was just glad I didn't completely poo poo myself. I should note that not only did that BMSN and BM3/SN get an award, but so did the under instruction master helm - who was given her master helmsman qualification that night.

E: I had to edit the order of events a bit - a lot of the actions, events, and feelings are vivid, but the exact order that they happened were a bit out of order - watching the video again helped bring it back.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 09:29

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:

Yeah I never got all the CT jobs. I know there's three? Two are of IT variants and one is linguistics?

CTN: l337 haxors
CTI: Interpreters
CTT: Used to be EW's. They're responsible for shipboard electronic warfare gear.
CTM: Basically ET's with TS/SCI. They repair gear and sometimes operate SSES stuff.

ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Feb 27, 2017

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 11:55

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

Laranzu posted:

Forgot CTR. Communications signals

gently caress, I knew I was forgetting one.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 14:33

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

DownByTheWooter posted:

CTA is now just a YN with SCI

It never wasn't.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 00:12

ManMythLegend: Aug 18, 2003; I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.