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Posted: 3/23/2006 12:45:42 PM EDT
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NFTI - Naval Firefighters Thermal Imager - guy with the NFTI directs the motions of the nozzleman on a fire hose because they can see where the fire is thru smoke. Also used to find people down. This would be the team leader which i was 01-04 |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 1:38:16 PM EDT
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In 1984 and 1985 I was going on DET to Hawaii, Alasaka, San Diego, Whidbey, Comox, Key West, Oceana, Rosy Roads, Bermuda, Alameda, Portland....
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Posted: 3/23/2006 4:54:36 PM EDT
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"I can neither confirm or deny the presnce of nuclear weapons on board. I can confirm that some of the weapons systems have the capability to use nuclear weapons. " That was what you were supposed to say, and once a ship was operational ans had nuke capable systems it was supposed to act like it had them on board all the time. And most of the guys could figure it out when you went to Seal Beach and the wives could drive over or the times when you went there and only Marines were on the pier.
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:28:25 PM EDT
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WHats a steel beach party? ANd what weapon fired what round in that unrep?
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:36:33 PM EDT
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A steel beach picnic is any kind festive meal held during the daytime while underway usually a BBQ. Can also happen when you're in a really shitty liberty port. see: beer on the pier. An M-14 fires a blank round while fitted w/ a line launching setup. MK??? |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:42:54 PM EDT
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Can a recruit be deployed on ship without A school? If so how? |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:44:57 PM EDT
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I was not deployed until late in '85 (SSN underway) to the Med, but we did not have M-16's. M-14's is what we qual'd on. Sorry, but can't help you out with skimmers capabilities, they were only "targets"
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:47:09 PM EDT
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How bout this:
"Ernie...Willie, Rosser. Kehoe, Langston, Arroyo, Fist Class Petty officer Dehart with the God awful stinking feet. Hanley, Toach , Sanches, Gunner........If that person knows the Detroit, he will know these names. I am done.....Go asked your friend. Peres was Gunners right hand man. Good morning Tigers. "If you look port side you will see beautiful beiruit." That was our Captain, Ask them about the GQ because of the Russion SUb. Ask them about the GQ becaue of Itallion ship that was flying a distress flag, and would not answer our call. We were getting ready to board that ship. Ask them What port could we not go to because the men from the Jersey F-ucked it up.....It was Hifa...Spelling. Ask them what port of call got canceled. because of our YOU CALL WE HAUL Motto.... Ask them what we did when we pulled into Norfolk from our cruise......What were the gunners mates doing at the time....We had done a thing from stipes the movie....you know Booom shaka laka boom. Ask them if he remembers that if he had the priviledge of being top side when we came into port.......I am done...Ask him these question and you will get your answer. " |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:48:53 PM EDT
[#9]
He said his captain called the ship nickname (Tigers) does the captian do that? And was that the name?
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Posted: 3/23/2006 7:51:40 PM EDT
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Undesignated sailors deploy without going to A-school. |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 8:02:30 PM EDT
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Yes, the CO a lot of times addresses the crew by a pet name. Our Skipper calls us Warriors. You sure can go straight to the fleet from boot camp. A lot of guys that dropped out of A-school when I was going through went straight to the fleet. It is something that is avoided and for the most part they get at least Apprenticeship training. Nowadays, at least for engineers, everyone gets the same training upon leaving bootcamp. |
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Posted: 3/23/2006 8:45:08 PM EDT
[#12]
Too bad my previous post got skimmed over. . .
Fuckin' squids! 
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Posted: 3/23/2006 9:24:58 PM EDT
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Hifa, good liberty  More than one Liberty has been screwed up in Hifa  There was a Russian Destroyer/Troller back in the Med that used to like to follow the Nimitz. If I remember right it was Hull Number 898, or 998 or something like that. Anyway, the skipper of that ship must have wanted something from us real bad, he would get as close as he could somedays. I can tell you that a lot of the Line Rats would flip them off  I only seen one Russian Sub that had surfaced, the entire time I was in the Navy, They looked pretty amazed at the size of the Nimitz. As far as pulling bullshit pulling in to Home Port, or any port for that matter, it was completely unacceptable. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 12:34:48 AM EDT
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What hull #? |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 1:53:11 AM EDT
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Naked,
at this point you are being a nit picking fool, if you don't want to believe the guy fine, but he sounds more and more like the real deal. You need to find a life, go find a girl or something.......... |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 2:00:53 AM EDT
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I agree - the guy seems credible enough. If he was really trying to impress you he would have said that he was a Gunner's Mate on the battleship, not the CLF ship. Logisitics, while very necessary, is hardly glamorous, except for the very rare days when one gets to do something like fly NFL cheerleaders or other hotties around. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 4:54:45 AM EDT
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Yep. We're getting old. My active duty squadron -- VP-23 -- was decommissioned years ago. P-3 duty was the best the Navy had to offer. Sorry to hijack the thread. |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 6:04:49 AM EDT
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Don't tell my mom I was a frigate Sailor.
She still thinks I was a piano player in a whorehouse. 
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Posted: 3/24/2006 6:28:46 AM EDT
[#19]
+1. Personally, this squid believes he's the real deal..... |
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Posted: 3/24/2006 8:13:11 AM EDT
[#20]
Wow, that's cool. I overheard MY Captain telling a new JO that we were "little blue tools, use them until they break and get another." |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 2:01:20 PM EDT
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He got owned ..his lies got deeper and deeper, then another board member found someone who was on the ship he was supposed to be on. Anyway, he claimed he went to C school and was assigned to a Spruance class ship...he got owned with some more questions..he still did not quit. Amazing. I am now wondering if it is illegal to pose a navy sailor? He now blathers about how he cannot remember what an OBA was or what drills they performed..and cannot divulge the Spruance ship because of security.
 He's a gotdammed liar. I just wish we could turn his putrid ass in to authorities.  He did'nt even know who is CO was during his deployment.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 2:09:51 PM EDT
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My favorite is to ask him about the senator's son assigned to the ship that had a waiver of bad eyesight that had to be escorted by a Seeing Eye Cat. If he bites on that, he's truly owned |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 2:11:07 PM EDT
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I don't remember my CO's all 4 or 5 of them, I don't even remember how many, it wasn't that important to me. I even went to mast twice and can't remember the CO's name. Heck, even the last 2 presidential candidates embelished their .mil resumes  At least he didn't claim to be a super secret seal/delta force/cia agent/forced recon sniper. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 2:16:42 PM EDT
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Well he went way overboard and claimed to go to another ship Spruance class, they asked what VLS was on board, he had no clue they were toting Tomahawks.  I wish there was someone who could turn him for lying..guess not. Liberals just lie and think no one is watching. He got owned, then he got defensive, then he got beligerent..he couldnot google enough correct answers to save himself. It was funny to watch the meltdown. The board owner just deleted all the fire fights and called this got a liar and he was owned.
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Posted: 3/25/2006 2:18:25 PM EDT
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You lost me on that one Piccolo, you were'nt on the Detroit with the sec? Were you?
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Posted: 3/25/2006 2:37:29 PM EDT
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Stuff like new guys heading to ships straight from A school and ships yanking
people around enroute to their ultimate duty station happens all the time in the Navy. I had a buddy in my command fly into Rome to be stationed in Naples and he didn't have a sponsor to pick him up at the airport so he had to take an airport shuttle all the way to Naples. I was an E5 then and my command didn't even get word from OS A school that we had someone comming. No BUPERS orders on the NIPRNET either. So I don't doubt it. Hope this helps. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:02:36 PM EDT
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First off, a Spruance-class ship is a destroyer.  The USS Detroit (AOE 4) is a Sacramento-class fast combat support ship.  Which is it? |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 6:06:33 PM EDT
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Why dont you just ask to see his DD-214
That is your paperwork you get when discharged from the service... All will be on there.. |
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Posted: 3/27/2006 9:31:48 AM EDT
[#29]
I concur. |
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Posted: 3/27/2006 9:55:49 AM EDT
[#30]
You do know there were SPRUCANs that only had ASROC launchers capable of carrying Harpoons and ASROCs only, right? ETA: And there were SPRUCANs that had Mk141 ABLs (armored box launchers) with Tomahawks and no MK41 VLS. VLS wasn't common on SPRUCANs until the early to mid 90s. |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 3:16:04 PM EDT
[#31]
85' Med run - Tullibee (SSN 597) 87' Med run - Albuquerque (SSN 706) |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 3:26:34 PM EDT
[#32]
I'm still in and did a "Westpac" deplyment in 85. No Sprunces had VLS back then, a few had ABL's in the late 80's early 90's then a few that were not decommed switched to VLS. I read the whole conversation while parts are a little fishy most rings pretty true. Dean
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Posted: 3/28/2006 3:49:15 PM EDT
[#33]
Well, Ive read 4 pages of this thread and see nothing but speculation. I'm retired Navy, was a Gunner's Mate and retired W-4. As a striker, this guy really wouldn't know much about anything except where the chow line was. As for weather or not they had M-16 Vs M14, that would depend on the Ships Gunner. Believe it or not there are many dumbshits in the service who do four years and get out. Nothing you have quoted seems unusuall to me.
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Posted: 3/28/2006 5:23:25 PM EDT
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That an E-1 or E-2 not know the name of the O-6 commanding his ship would not surprise me. The distance between the 2 on some ships can be immense. Most E-1s and E-2s on a ship like the Detroit prefer it that way, because the usual way for most to meet the CO is at Mast. In fact when I was Ft. Lt. in the yards, several of my E-1s and 2s were that rank because they got to be very familiar with the CO on Friday mornings.
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Posted: 3/28/2006 7:11:45 PM EDT
[#35]
I did the '92 Med Run on the 755, were you on the Tullibee when the shaft cracked and almost fell out? My TMC on the Miami was on the Tullibee when that happened, I don't remember when. Suffice to say, it is now a qual question for all navy nukes, as to what to do if you find sand in shaft alley. ETA: The nuke prototype I went to was S1C, at Windsor Locks, CT; which was the only other plant operating that had the same reactor as the Tullibee. |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 7:16:30 PM EDT
[#36]
The shaft breaking into 2 pieces was I believe in 79' or so? I really don't remember, but it was several years before I was onboard her. I can say I was on the last Med run she did. Good old Westinghouse fried her motor while "testing" it after the last Med run. |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 7:24:20 PM EDT
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Yeah, the whole electric propulsion was a good idea when sound silencing was not as good as it is now, but it really lacked in execution. I was doing Newcon duty on the 742 while they were building the Seawolf in Electric Boat, and you wouldn't believe some of the stuff they had on there. ETA: Funny story - I think the engine room in the prototype was the same as the Tullibee...do you remember how the electric plant control panel wasn't in Maneuvering? But rather up in ERUL, just aft of main steam 2? When I was doing electric plant shifts at prototype, I got felt up by my supervisory watch.....that is to say, that I am so tall that when I bent my knees to shut the port TGTG tie breaker, keeping my back straight, I almost opened the Starboard TGTG tie breaker with my ass...so the supervisory watch put his hand out to stop my ass from hitting it....kinda freaked me out, until I understood....
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Posted: 3/28/2006 7:40:38 PM EDT
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I remember that question... At least it was better than "What color is the coating inside the OBRT, or some other useless trivia. Hey, How much DOES the RPCP weight? ETA: The boat I was on owns its reduction gears, AND the Diesel (I was there for that one)... |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 8:03:49 PM EDT
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EGAD! We never shat a reduction gear, or a diesel... However, the good oolie I got asked was....what is written under the switch plate of the port loop RCLIV's? The answer was, "You're a man, but so am I..." Because to see what was written under it, you had to remove the switch handle from the RCLIV switch, and we all know what that means.... I remember being asked how much the RPCP weighed... ETA: What did you do to the diesel? |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 8:14:08 PM EDT
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The A-gangers discovered that water is, in fact, a non-compressible substance. They tried to start it with water in the cylinders, the engine turned over, then KB'd. Result: Cylinder's blown out, and BOTH crankshafts sheared, along with other collateral damage. Required complete rebuild at an estimated cost of 3/4 million bucks. The reduction gear was messed up in '91. Aparently, they restored throttle control with the throttles open and the turning gear engaged. The turning gear pretty much exploded. We had one written under the Discharge tank. There is a small crawlspace under the tank. Crawl under, lay on your back. It reads: "If you can read this, you're laying in my spunk." 
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Posted: 3/28/2006 8:41:10 PM EDT
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I was on 723 in the Med in '92 |
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Posted: 3/28/2006 9:14:15 PM EDT
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Hey, stop laughing. I was really proud when I qualified as an Elite Extra Special Forces Submarine Door Gunner.
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Posted: 3/29/2006 3:50:44 AM EDT
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Heh heh heh....were you on a 688 class? If so, do you recall ever doing the DRT Slide Of Death? Remember - where you climb up as far as you can on the port side of the RC in between frames and let go, and you would slide on your back down the hull and under the DRT? But you had to do it on the port side, because starboard side had a pipe that would probably kill you if you did it there. |
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Posted: 3/29/2006 3:52:16 AM EDT
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Med Runs and especially the transit in thru the Straits....the only time the QMs and NAV-ETs would get less sleep underway than a nuke.........."Station the Modified Maneuvering Watch".....heh heh. |
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Posted: 3/29/2006 3:55:58 AM EDT
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I remember the noise the turning gear makes when on the main engines...LOL! I was a drill monitor in Maneuvering, and we heard this high pitched whine, and the Eng told me to go look at it. I get to the Starboard SSTG and see the EDEA lying on his belly next to the mains, and this big cloud of dust coming out of the turning gear motor.....we were probably doing 20 shaft rpm, and the reduction was what, 1:30 or something? BWAHAHAHA. No damage though. Better was when my maneuvering watch was the SPMs (two on a SSBN) and one of them was lowered for some reason in port, but never retracted, and left out while going to sea, and I noticed it just when we had been at ahead full for like 5 minutes. Yeah, it was bent a bit. |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 12:16:31 AM EDT
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Never heard about the "Slide of death". We did have a similar one at the MTS protptype. YOu could go from AMR1 UL, to the bilge in about the time it takes to yell "SHHHHIIIITTTTTT!"
I am also the all time total power record holder. 138% during a backing bell. |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 1:08:54 AM EDT
[#47]
+1 |
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Posted: 3/30/2006 2:42:36 AM EDT
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Damn, that's good - how much shit did you get in? As for me, I don't have a record like that, but I've got the following: Loss of all AC while in port (well, the tie bus was always energized). Loss of remote operability (I was the valve operator under instruction) I set fire to Reactor P&A channel A drawer (which is why I can, to this day, still quote OI-55 verbatim) And for the best - I almost caused a cutback by going to AIII while still 2S/2S. I didn't even look, the RO had to shim in when the EOOW caught it. |
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