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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:51:43 PM   
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The only way shuttles develop military skills is if your force is carrying out a series of fast but short retreats


Maneuverability in awkward positions is definitely a military skill....retreating or advancing.


You should see some of the awkward positions I've had to operate in




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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:52:30 PM   
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Please see mu previous response.


Yeah, I get it. Youre grumpy.


No. But your'e Dopey!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:53:07 PM   
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Had a pint of Hobgoblin with my lunch yesterday and very nice it was too


I wish they let us have a beer at lunch.


Would it increase your productivity?


Not at all. But it would make work a lot more fun!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:54:15 PM   
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Submarines don't make for comfortable work spaces. Or living spaces.


Yet you did volunteer!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:55:07 PM   
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You should see some of the awkward positions I've had to operate in


Bet you can't beat laying under an SLBM replacing a limit switch with the North Atlantic x inches below your back through the pressure hull and 16 tons of solid propellant inches from your face.


Beat it? Who'd want to? Apparently Simon , you have a strange thing for pain!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:56:17 PM   
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Submarines don't make for comfortable work spaces. Or living spaces.


Yet you did volunteer!


No I didn't.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:57:30 PM   
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Submarines don't make for comfortable work spaces. Or living spaces.


Yet you did volunteer!


No I didn't.


You didn't volunteer to serve in submarines?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 9:58:10 PM   
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Submarines don't make for comfortable work spaces. Or living spaces.


Yet you did volunteer!


No I didn't.


You didn't volunteer to serve in submarines?


The answer is still, "No".

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:00:29 PM   
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Submarines don't make for comfortable work spaces. Or living spaces.


Yet you did volunteer!


No I didn't.


You didn't volunteer to serve in submarines?


The answer is still, "No".

That's interesting. In most of the world's Navies subs are volunteer only duty (except obviously Russia).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:01:43 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:03:35 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:06:05 PM   
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In theory you are a volunteer because when you join up you volunteer to serve in any ship, submarine or aircraft.


I'd have to say that sucks! In our Navy both flying and submarine duty are volunteer only and you can quit at any time (you won't be happy , but you can quit at any time). The joke is you volunteer twice. And to quit you have to sign the entry on page 13 of your service record. Hemce when you quit , you are said to be "signing your page". And you automatically lose the right to wear your Dolphins or wings (which ever you have).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:07:38 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:09:35 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:14:40 PM   
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My dolphins are somewhere in a drawer


No doubt hiding from the Japanese whaling fleet!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:17:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just to change the subject, has anyone read "Pearl Harbor Countdown :Admiral James O. Richardson" ?

It's pretty interesting. I'd read years ago Richardson's bio "On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor" , but this book doesn't pull any punches. It really goes deep into the infighting when FDR ordered the fleet moved top Pearl Harbor and Richardson objected (causing FDR to fire him and "deep select" Kimmel).

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:23:27 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:42:09 PM   
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Bet you can't beat laying under an SLBM replacing a limit switch with the North Atlantic x inches below your back through the pressure hull and 16 tons of solid propellant inches from your face.


Been there, done that and the injection temp was 29f on the fast attacking, deep diving, sonar transducing, ecm listening, torpedo firing, nuclear reacting ...USS Suckfish (SSN 637). I don't think we had as much rocket propellant in our subrocs (made by, of all people, Goodyear tire and rubber) but on my first time at sea I actually slept next to one in the torpedo room for a week.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:49:00 PM   
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Bet you can't beat laying under an SLBM replacing a limit switch with the North Atlantic x inches below your back through the pressure hull and 16 tons of solid propellant inches from your face.


Been there, done that and the injection temp was 29f on the fast attacking, deep diving, sonar transducing, ecm listening, torpedo firing, nuclear reacting ...USS Suckfish (SSN 637). I don't think we had as much rocket propellant in our subrocs (made by, of all people, Goodyear tire and rubber) but on my first time at sea I actually slept next to one in the torpedo room for a week.


That dates you. ASROC and SUBROC have been out of service for a very long time. And so has the Sturgeon class, let alone the lead boat!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:53:48 PM   
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Like, hi dude

Word.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:54:06 PM   
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Dude, mornin'.

Hey.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:55:41 PM   
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That dates you. ASROC and SUBROC have been out of service for a very long time. And so has the Sturgeon class, let alone the lead boat!

I can remember when a sail was made out of cloth and you climbed rigging to get to it!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:55:45 PM   
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Please ! We are not enough in the evening to allow this kind of talk


What time is the right time?

Ummm...never?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 10:57:01 PM   
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Eeeerrrrrrr................

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_new_basic_training




I like it. Sounds like a much smarter fitness training program, along with incorporating input from combat experienced vets. The only part I initially questioned was dropping bayonet training, but if they don't carry them anymore, why spend time training with them?


Interesting....doing yoga and playing tag.

Actually, they had better make sure they build endurance as well. Five mile runs might be somewhat pointless but 10 mile marches with full loads certainly aren't.

Reminds me of Private Benjamin. IIRC, she signed up for the Army with the condos and shopping excursions. This oughta be just right for her ilk.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 11:13:07 PM   
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Had a pint of Hobgoblin with my lunch yesterday and very nice it was too


I wish they let us have a beer at lunch.


Would it increase your productivity?


Not at all. But it would make work a lot more fun!


Exactly....I would enjoy my unproductiveness much more.....

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 11:13:50 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 11:14:07 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 11:15:27 PM   
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Had a pint of Hobgoblin with my lunch yesterday and very nice it was too


I wish they let us have a beer at lunch.


Would it increase your productivity?


Not at all. But it would make work a lot more fun!


Exactly....I would enjoy my unproductiveness much more.....

brought a six pack of sierra nevada pale ale to the data center at 2pm today. make the work go better.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 11:16:31 PM   
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That dates you. ASROC and SUBROC have been out of service for a very long time. And so has the Sturgeon class, let alone the lead boat!

I can remember when a sail was made out of cloth and you climbed rigging to get to it!


Cap'n 'ornblower? 'at yoo?


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 3/16/2010 11:16:36 PM   
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