Hey Navy, keep track of your shit

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 10/08/2020 at 14:05 • Filed to: #shiplopnik

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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 14:09

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No. You aren’t the boss of us.

— some Admiral

lone_liberal > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 14:19

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As a former sailor I can assure you that will never happen. You’re talking about a service that put  their personnel in camouflage. I n the Navy.

ttyymmnn > lone_liberal 10/08/2020 at 14:22

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Imagine trying to find a man overboard who was wearing aquaflage. 

user314 > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 14:24

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And this is why I killed my PopSci subscription 20 years ago. Two seconds on Wikipedia turned up:

Wave Gliders are used for defense, maritime surveillance, commercial, oil and gas, and science and research applications. Examples include:

Commercial/Oil and Gas – atmospheric, seismic, and environmental monitoring

Defense - Anti-submarine warfare and Intelligence, Surveillance and Recognizance

Maritime Surveillance – surface vessel detection for coastal and border security

Scientific research – weather monitoring, climate change, deep-sea seismic detection, ocean acidification, environmental monitoring, bio-geophysical research and fish/ecosystems monitoring.

Since 2007, Wave Gliders have been deployed in many areas of the global ocean, from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean . [9] They’ve been used to track great white sharks by Dr. Barbara Block of Hopkins Marine Station [10] , patrol marine protected areas (MPAs) for the United Kingdom ’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office to protect against illegal fishing [11] and assessed the health of the Great Barrier Reef and ecosystems. [12] Additionally, they’ve collected and transmitted data through extreme storms [13] and detected a live diesel submarine during the Unmanned Warrior exercise conducted in October of 2016. [14]

“Almost certainly” navy my arse...  

Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/08/2020 at 14:24

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Pictured: F/A -18 plays Tic Tac Foe

lone_liberal > ttyymmnn 10/08/2020 at 14:28

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Even when I was in the working uniform was a light blue cotton shirt with dark blue dungarees (jeans to normal people) so you had better be wearing a life jacket if you had any hopes of being found.

Darkbrador > user314 10/08/2020 at 14:36

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Recognizance ?

You people need to stop making up words, or using them for what they don’t mean. Like the military guys/system “prosecuting” a target. That’s not what it means...

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com 10/08/2020 at 14:44

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It is pretty surreal—

“large, rotating Tic-Tac”

Reminds me of the big rotating strawberry in “Alias”.

ranwhenparked > lone_liberal 10/08/2020 at 15:17

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Green camouflage - to blend in with the woodland environment of a grey metal ship, and the blue open ocean.

ranwhenparked > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 15:18

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But, if the Navy starts keeping account of all their used and broken garbage, where are the Marines supposed to get all their new supplies?

haveacarortwoorthree2 > lone_liberal 10/08/2020 at 15:19

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In the Navy, you can sail the 7 seas!

haveacarortwoorthree2 > Darkbrador 10/08/2020 at 15:22

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Or we all could just recognize that the same word can have different meanings depending on context.

“verb: ; 3rd person present: ; past tense: ; past participle: ; gerund or present participle:

2. continue with (a course of action) with a view to its completion.

“a serious threat to the government’s ability to prosecute the war” 

The Ghost of Oppo > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 15:31

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Hasn’t the US military lost a shocking number of nuclear weapons over the decades? 

4B11tFTW! > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 15:39

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I refuse to believe this is American equipment , not a penis in sight.

Just Jeepin' > The Ghost of Oppo 10/08/2020 at 15:40

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Even 1 sh ould be shocking.

This is a very sobering read. Fortunately all of the still missing ones I’ve spotted while reading were in the oceans, but I haven’t read the whole thing.

https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons

barnie > lone_liberal 10/08/2020 at 15:44

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Our SOSpenders flotation vests have a blinky light built in that turns on automatically if we’re tossed into the water. Funny when they go off from a big wave washing over the deck. We have to take the autoinflation pills out on Sparrow since she’s such a wet ride. Pray you hit the water conscious... There are deck straps and U-bolts mounted for tethers so going overboard hasn’t happened, yet.

user314 > haveacarortwoorthree2 10/08/2020 at 15:46

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user314 > haveacarortwoorthree2 10/08/2020 at 16:10

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It’s also entirely possible that whoever wrote the entry used the wrong word, or got bitten by autocorrect. It is Wikipedia...

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 16:16

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One’s still in a swamp under Goldsboro, NC.  That’s the most appalling one.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > lone_liberal 10/08/2020 at 16:19

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Yeah, but these NSWC  guys would like a word.

lone_liberal > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/08/2020 at 16:22

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There were two groups that had camo uniforms when I was a sailor: Seab ees and SEALS (and sometimes corpsmen if they were attached to ground combat units) . That made sense.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 16:36

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Squids can’t get their shit together! Hey I found you a Kaiser, slight combat wear and tear , all original patina. Winch works! 

Just Jeepin' > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 10/08/2020 at 17:16

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Good thing the winch works, would need it to drag it onto a trailer. Sad.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Just Jeepin' 10/08/2020 at 17:31

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I wish I could find an LU4 winch actually, the M37s use them and they are expensive even in non working condition. I may put a new winch on someday and cover it with a canvas winch cover to hide it.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > The Ghost of Oppo 10/08/2020 at 17:35

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I wouldn’t doubt it.

Exage03040 @ opposite-lock.com > user314 10/08/2020 at 18:42

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What passes for “journalism” these days...