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16 minutes ago, immamac said:

I want to know the circumstances that even led to this. How this guy didn't realize immediately that the scope was backwards or that there was photos being taken is beyond me. 

Good chance his sailors disliked the guy and did it to make him look like an idiot. I had some captains that were awesome and cared about their sailors. I had some captains that only cared about making admiral and gave zero fucks about the people under their command.

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

But are we tracking the senior enlisted that recently installed a Starlink terminal and secret WiFi network so they could stream during their cruise? 
 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/ 

Well so… which is it? We bringing 4k porn to our warships or nah? 
https://www.wired.com/story/us-navy-starlink-sea2/

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Posted
38 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

But are we tracking the senior enlisted that recently installed a Starlink terminal and secret WiFi network so they could stream during their cruise? 
 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/ 

I don't understand why every chief wasn't busted to seaman and discharged, and I don't understand why none of the "investigating" officers haven't been fired.  How much brain power does it take to figure out that there has to be an external antenna, and it has to be on the very top of the ship?  Yet no one looked for the antenna on the exterior of the ship?  I think some of the officers were in on it, too.

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Posted
2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Good chance his sailors disliked the guy and did it to make him look like an idiot. I had some captains that were awesome and cared about their sailors. I had some captains that only cared about making admiral and gave zero fucks about the people under their command.

Yeah, he didn't put that scope on the rifle, and chances are when he looked through it, he knew something was wrong, but didn't want to look like an idiot and ask why it was that way.

Whoever issued him that rifle didn't like him.

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Posted
2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

But are we tracking the senior enlisted that recently installed a Starlink terminal and secret WiFi network so they could stream during their cruise? 

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/ 

If we had decent internet porn and Starling terminals when I was in, and you told 19 or 20 year-old me that a briefcase-sized terminal could get me all the porn and video games I wanted when I was stuck on some shitty field exercise...

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Posted
2 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

I don't understand why every chief wasn't busted to seaman and discharged, and I don't understand why none of the "investigating" officers haven't been fired.  How much brain power does it take to figure out that there has to be an external antenna, and it has to be on the very top of the ship?  Yet no one looked for the antenna on the exterior of the ship?  I think some of the officers were in on it, too.

That's fucking wild. I'm shocked there aren't some sort of sensors that automatically detect wifi networks on our ships. Seems like kind a of a no-brainer, and an extremely easy deterrent against a foreign agent slipping a transmitting device aboard. Also, the network was named "Stinky" and wouldn't it show as an available, albeit locked, wifi network to anybody who bothered to check their phone/computer to see if they were near enough shore to get a signal? Should be pretty obvious that "Stinky" wouldn't be an official Naval network. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Bruh, they're underway. That shit don't count.

It's not gay if it's underway. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Also, it's not queer if you're tied to the pier.

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Posted
7 hours ago, baboso said:

Senior CPO is an E-8, right?  So, for all her skulking, lying, and ignoring USN regs, she gets busted one grade to E-7?  Amazing.

E-9.

It's hilarious, yet really fucked up, that the Chiefs' mess would do this. When I was deployed, we just brought hard drives with illegally downloaded shows, movies, and porn to watch and trade.

Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

That's fucking wild. I'm shocked there aren't some sort of sensors that automatically detect wifi networks on our ships. Seems like kind a of a no-brainer, and an extremely easy deterrent against a foreign agent slipping a transmitting device aboard. Also, the network was named "Stinky" and wouldn't it show as an available, albeit locked, wifi network to anybody who bothered to check their phone/computer to see if they were near enough shore to get a signal? Should be pretty obvious that "Stinky" wouldn't be an official Naval network. 

You can set wifi networks to not broadcast their name.  It would then show as a hidden network when people saw it on their devices.  There might be other hidden networks on ships by design because then you have to know both the network name and the password to log in to it.

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Posted
44 minutes ago, baboso said:

I thought Master Chief was the E-9.

It is. Tired posting leads to dumb mistakes. At captain's mast you are only going to get busted down one rank unless you're only "frocked" (wearing the rank but not yet being paid that rank). I've never heard of a command senior chief. I've only seen command master chiefs. 

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2 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

It is. Tired posting leads to dumb mistakes. At captain's mast you are only going to get busted down one rank unless you're only "frocked" (wearing the rank but not yet being paid that rank). I've never heard of a command senior chief. I've only seen command master chiefs. 

Doesn't Master Chief have his own hologram porn?

 

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Posted
12 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Hey Navy!  You drive the fucking boat and let the Marines do the rifle work, ok?  Good lord!

Gott damn it! Do I have to micro manage everything? 

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Posted
7 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

So even a person who has military  navy training and has advanced well up the chain of command can't even be trusted to use a firearm properly.....

FIFY.

Hell, it might have been his first time to ever fire a weapon in that capacity.

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Whole buncha more Navy leaders fixin' to get fired.  Are we losing fighter jets faster than the Russians?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/07/navy-fighter-jet-red-sea/

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A Navy fighter jet failed to land on an aircraft carrier and plummeted into the Red Sea on Tuesday, marking the fourth major mishap involving the vessel and the third loss of a fighter jet deployed with it since the warship left home last year.
The F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet, worth about $67 million, went overboard after an unsuccessful attempt to slow it down upon landing on the USS Harry S. Truman, the Navy said in a statement. Both aviators aboard the jet safely ejected and were rescued at sea by helicopter with minor injuries, and no one aboard the warship’s flight deck was harmed, the service said.

 

Posted
1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Whole buncha more Navy leaders fixin' to get fired.  Are we losing fighter jets faster than the Russians?

 

38 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

Do COs get fired for bolters? 

 

10 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Operations in the Red Sea have been very intense and constant. Fatigue may be setting in for everyone. 

 

Keep in mind, this is the carrier USS Truman, who besides losing the two planes overboard, had to send home one of their protective ships,  the USS. Gettysburg last year because the fire control officer on that fucking ship shot at a pair of F18's lining up to land on the carrier.

One of whom was shot down (crew recovered ok), and Gettysburg were in the process of shooting down the 2nd plane when the Captain of the Truman stepped in to belay the Gettysburg.... and then as a reward... that same Captain was relieved of duty because of the Suez Canal Collision in Feb, 

and the replacement Captain had formerly commanded the USS Eisenhower, and was supposed to be commanding it being overhauled in Newport.  Instead he got launched back out on a half tour.

 

Thats a lot of fuckups for 1 carrier group in less than 6 months

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1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

 

 

 

Keep in mind, this is the carrier USS Truman, who besides losing the two planes overboard, had to send home one of their protective ships,  the USS. Gettysburg last year because the fire control officer on that fucking ship shot at a pair of F18's lining up to land on the carrier.

One of whom was shot down (crew recovered ok), and Gettysburg were in the process of shooting down the 2nd plane when the Captain of the Truman stepped in to belay the Gettysburg.... and then as a reward... that same Captain was relieved of duty because of the Suez Canal Collision in Feb, 

and the replacement Captain had formerly commanded the USS Eisenhower, and was supposed to be commanding it being overhauled in Newport.  Instead he got launched back out on a half tour.

 

Thats a lot of fuckups for 1 carrier group in less than 6 months

I’m familiar with the Truman group’s issues but I just don’t think anyone is getting fired for something that can happen during any cycle in any sea at any time. 

Posted
1 minute ago, ConferenceRoom said:

I’m familiar with the Truman group’s issues but I just don’t think anyone is getting fired for something that can happen during any cycle in any sea at any time. 

Losing $200 million of taxpayer funded assets in six months isn’t enough for someone to get fired?

Posted
1 minute ago, ConferenceRoom said:

In this context, not really. 

Pete, is that you? Let’s find a time for happy hour. I’ll hit you up on Signal.

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Posted
On 9/5/2024 at 7:44 AM, Herbie Hancock said:


A I’ve heard fella could make a killing burning porn from limewire before going underway and then selling the dvd’s when you hit about day 10. Also heard you couldn’t tell a soul if you had any on your iPod or it would come up missing

Motherfuckers must’ve been thirsty AF to beat off to a Limewire-era iPod resolution clip.

But I repeat myself.

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, royiv said:

Losing $200 million of taxpayer funded assets in six months isn’t enough for someone to get fired?

 

59 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

In this context, not really. 

I'd take that wager. 

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, ConferenceRoom said:

Do COs get fired for bolters? 

The way it's worded sounds like arresting gear failure rather than a bolter.  Equipment failure will always pull the maintenance practices into focus.  Once Sauron's eye turns upon your PMS (Preventive Maintenance System) boards, you are turbo-fucked.  They will always find some place to ding you. 

It may have been an E-3 who gundecked a maintenance check, but everyone who signed the report saying that it was properly accomplished will have their heads on the block.  And the CO will be on the block for not properly training the crew or exercising proper oversight.

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On 9/5/2024 at 7:30 AM, baboso said:

Senior CPO is an E-8, right?  So, for all her skulking, lying, and ignoring USN regs, she gets busted one grade to E-7?  Amazing.

 

On 9/5/2024 at 2:33 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

E-9.

It's hilarious, yet really fucked up, that the Chiefs' mess would do this. When I was deployed, we just brought hard drives with illegally downloaded shows, movies, and porn to watch and trade.

 

On 9/5/2024 at 3:10 PM, baboso said:

I thought Master Chief was the E-9.

 

On 9/5/2024 at 3:57 PM, Schulz2.0 said:

It is. Tired posting leads to dumb mistakes. At captain's mast you are only going to get busted down one rank unless you're only "frocked" (wearing the rank but not yet being paid that rank). I've never heard of a command senior chief. I've only seen command master chiefs. 

LCS have always had a Command Senior Chief (E-8) vice CMC (E-9).  Some might make Master Chief while in the job, but E-9s are not billeted to LCS.  There are several other smaller commands that have Command Senior Chiefs now.  CMD is also a rating now, so to be a CSC or CMC, you have to go to command leadership school and shift from your old rating to the new CMD rating - i.e. if you were an OSCS, you would now be a CMDCS.

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Posted
52 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

The way it's worded sounds like arresting gear failure rather than a bolter.  Equipment failure will always pull the maintenance practices into focus.  Once Sauron's eye turns upon your PMS (Preventive Maintenance System) boards, you are turbo-fucked.  They will always find some place to ding you. 

It may have been an E-3 who gundecked a maintenance check, but everyone who signed the report saying that it was properly accomplished will have their heads on the block.  And the CO will be on the block for not properly training the crew or exercising proper oversight.

This is a lot more reasonable than that other clown. Thank you. 

Posted (edited)
4 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

Since they've deployed they've lost the same number of fighter jets as Ukraine has lost this year.  

 

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I want to again point out that this isn't a standard deployment. They are very much in a high intensity warzone, with a very high sortie rate, and they intercepting and avoiding multiple inbound threats every day. 

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