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My dad was an engineer on a mike boat in the army and often tells stories of the shenanigans that ensued.

One of which involves them being assigned to some kind of officer training course (forgot most of the details). It was a 4 day operation and on each morning they would practice taking the beach. Well the boat crews were ordered to stop about 50 feet short of the beach through the first 3 days and make the guys run through the water. Then on the last day they were told to take em all the way up to the beach. When they dropped the gate all the guys just stood there and stared at the coxswain like he was the biggest a**hat in the world. Then afterwards one of the officers goes up to them and says he didn't know they could do that (go all the up to the beach). Then he says (jokingly) "you better hope none of us get assigned to this unit" or something to that effect.  

Theres another one that has nothing to do with beach landings but I think it’s funny. They're docked on some river, its night and he's lying on his back staring up at the stars and he starts to notice that the stars are moving. He gets up and there's some drunk guy untying their boat from the dock. The guys standing there holding the last line in his hands looks up at my dad and says "Your boat came untied im trying to fix it". My dad jumps off the boat and grabs the line out of his hands and yells for everybody else. The guy runs off and they all chase him leaving my dad alone to keep the boat from floating away. They come back and my dads laying on the ground with the line wrapped around his body and his feet braced against the docking cleat (i think it’s called that).

Theres a ton more about sinking their boat, almost getting run over by a destroyer, sinking their boat again, his unit getting ripped off in operation Big Red (might have been when he was in the combat engineers...can't remember), and so on.

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Where are the guns and missiles?

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Camouflaged as lounge chairs and boomboxes.

Quoted: Yeah and the CO's of the ships are usuallsy CWO's. A lot of BM's from the Coast Guard get out and lateral over to the Army, get an insta-promotion and take command. Pretty cool if you ask me.

Yup.  I know several coxswains who are thinking of doing that.

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inside

from the flight deck

loading our Bradleys

The HSV's have joint service crews, correct?

Or am I just imagining something?

I seem to recall in The Military Balance of 1994, the US Army was listed as having one of the Navy's retired Iwo Jima class LPHs tied up in Louisiana.

I believe this is Army as well.

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The army has a navy and an air force, and the navy has an army and two air forces.  For some reason the air force only has an air force. We have a Navy too. USAF might not have an army yet, but they're working on it. what would you classify SP's, PJ's and FAC's? mall cops, medics, and FO's respectively.

IIRC the Army is loaning the ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) from the navy for use as a test platform.

IIRC the Army is loaning the ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) from the navy for use as a test platform.

Quoted: Quoted: www.onr.navy.mil/media/releases/image_gallery/images/020802-N-8894M-003.jpg Army Ship My wife got to ride on that one shortly after it got to Ft. Eustis.  It was a smooth ride she said.

I was given a two-hour tour of that vessel.

Pretty impressive.

I don't remember seeing an MOS for any of this. Do they even exist, or is everyone on these boats just a compilation of different (usually non-nautical) MOSes?

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WANT  

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.... Go Navy!