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2/23/2008 10:01:31 AM

by request

2/24/2008 12:56:30 PM

wat happens when you guys pass the equator for the first time?... i saw this episode of JAG and was wondering if there was any truth to it.

2/24/2008 12:58:31 PM

haven't experienced it yet. or watched that episode of JAG. but there is some truth to the old ceremonies. it's an initiation.

2/24/2008 1:00:40 PM

whats the ceremony when you cross the prime meridian for the first time?

2/24/2008 1:06:54 PM

i don't know the name of it, but i think it's for crossing the date line instead

2/24/2008 1:48:55 PM

bttt

3/7/2008 12:47:12 PM

bttt?

3/10/2008 5:59:27 PM

bttt

3/20/2008 4:22:28 AM

bttt

3/23/2008 10:03:45 PM

^^^^, ^^^, ^^, ^ Sorry, but I lawled at that.

3/23/2008 10:04:34 PM

Well, I'm not part of the intelligentsia like vinylbandit is, so I don't have that group following each other around on TWW.

3/23/2008 10:06:23 PM

you're a pariah

3/23/2008 10:08:10 PM

That is true.

[Edited on March 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM. Reason : even got the thread to prove it: /message_topic.aspx?topic=515525]

3/23/2008 10:08:54 PM

lol

I'll be your group.

So, what do you think the chances are of the America losing its #1 superpower status int he next 30 years?

[Edited on March 23, 2008 at 10:10 PM. Reason : .]

3/23/2008 10:09:50 PM

1 in 100

It would take a lot to take us down, and if we go down, the world will go down with us.

3/23/2008 10:11:29 PM

Quote :

" if we go down, the world will go down with us."

You think that's 100% true?

3/23/2008 10:14:56 PM

ask all of Western Europe in 480 AD when Rome fell.

3/23/2008 10:20:00 PM

Those people are all dead.

3/23/2008 10:31:38 PM

Cause life sucked after the Western empire fell, that's why

3/23/2008 10:48:55 PM

Quote :

"the world will go down with us."

What exactly does this mean?

3/23/2008 10:50:56 PM

[Edited on March 23, 2008 at 11:16 PM. Reason : duh]

3/23/2008 11:15:46 PM

well that's one way

i was thinking more of going back a couple centuries globalization-wise

3/23/2008 11:18:54 PM

How cool is the Phalanx CIWS?

3/23/2008 11:20:27 PM

I haven't seen it in real life yet.

But from its specs and videos and stories, I'm impressed.

I mean, it can take down missiles and looks like R2. How cool is that?

3/23/2008 11:21:44 PM

Have you seen "Sinking a Destroyer" on History Channel?

3/23/2008 11:24:05 PM

Caught the last 10 minutes of it just the other night.

3/23/2008 11:24:39 PM

Watching it on DVR right now. Pretty interesting stuff.

3/23/2008 11:27:17 PM

No, that was lame.

It made the Canadian navy look like a bunch of rednecks shooting up their old car.

And whats up with Canada using American military equipment but putting the letter C in front of it and thinking that no one will notice?

3/23/2008 11:46:28 PM

Haha

yea, I was look, alright, they're going to sink that ship

and then I heard the accent

and I was like

3/24/2008 6:13:45 PM

ever ridden on a yellow submarine?

3/24/2008 10:19:20 PM

sadly, no

3/24/2008 10:20:01 PM

bttt

3/28/2008 3:47:38 PM

ttt

4/12/2008 9:52:45 AM

why didn't you become a naval aviator?

no one cares about seamen

4/12/2008 10:17:45 AM

prehaps I don't want to fly?

4/13/2008 7:44:52 PM

None of us would even be here today if it wasn't for seamen!

4/13/2008 7:46:16 PM

next question

4/18/2008 1:00:38 AM

how bad was your basic training/whatever else you had to do. all the preliminary stuff. how bad lets hear it.

4/18/2008 1:02:43 AM

In an era dominated by air delivered ordnance, how large a threat do supercavitating torpedos pose?

4/18/2008 1:08:24 AM

but answer my question first.

4/18/2008 1:09:58 AM

well, being in an ROTC unit, my indoctrination into the military was rather condensed, so I'm not the best source when it comes to this.

but these are the things that any basic military training will do/expect of you:

• Force you into a new mode of thinking - from what I've read and heard and experienced first hand, much of the first stage of training is being hurried around and waiting and being asked to remember more than you can remember and being yelled at through the whole process.
  
• To instill discipline and make you into a sailor - The point of the whole thing is to break you down (not in a bad way necessarily) from your civilian self and "rebuild" into a sailor. We're not by any means robots, no, no, we're critically thinking members of a team - a well run ship is determined by how well her sailors work together.
  
• Your body will be pushed like never before. Our job is only getting harder, and mental and physical endurance are keys to succeeding in that job.
  

4/18/2008 1:10:50 AM

you better damn well believe we still perceive torpedoes as a threat. a chinese sub snuck past a carrier group's lines of defense, so yes, we still know that our ships have to defend from above, on, and below the water line.

4/18/2008 1:12:32 AM

yea i'm not really into yelling

but i am interested in the jag corps so, i don't know.

4/18/2008 1:16:39 AM

How many seamen can fit in the poopdeck?

4/18/2008 1:17:29 AM

well, JAG is part of the staff officer corps. you wouldn't go to North Chicago with the enlisted kids. There is a variation of basic training, after which you would commission into the JAG Corps. I'm not an expert on this, you'd have to ask the folks down at the Navy Reserve center on Western

and check out this site:
http://www.jag.navy.mil/careers/index.html

[Edited on April 18, 2008 at 1:27 AM. Reason : the yelling is not a huge part of military life.]

4/18/2008 1:25:57 AM

^^and it would be how many seamen could fit ON the poopdeck.

well, depends on the ship and the sailors, but you can usually fit the whole crew on the poopdeck, which we call the fantail nowadays.

4/18/2008 1:30:26 AM

thanks yea i am just worried about making it through the basic training. not like physically, just mentally.

oh and also this is a serious question...are there any NOT ultra conservative people in the navy? can i get some moderates up in thurrr?

[Edited on April 18, 2008 at 1:32 AM. Reason : .]

4/18/2008 1:31:44 AM

Haha. I wasn't really expecting a legit answer to that question. As a follow-up, I'll ask a semi-serious one.

With our current Navy, do you think it's possible in our lifetimes that the United States will ever suffer an amphibious assault from a hostile country?

4/18/2008 1:33:35 AM

Just take everything one at a time, and focus on doing it right instead of doing it fast. Try to work with everyone as a team, i.e., check each other's uniforms, encourage one another, use each other's strengths (one guy might be really good at shining shoes, so he should teach others, etc.). And most importantly, LISTEN to the Drill Instructors.

^NOT ON MY WATCH. But seriously, no, we're more secure in that aspect than England.

4/18/2008 1:34:58 AM