Posts: 13900
Threads: 262
Joined: January 11, 2009
Reputation:
82
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 12:59 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Jericho Wrote: (May 16, 2015 at 12:49 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: We don't.
I'm not sure where you are from or what exactly you are saying, haha.
In terms of the USN, we have quite a few active carriers all over the place.
I am from the UK (I work for the Navy as a civilian administrator).
I know of your carriers, we had one in here a few weeks ago. The thing was so big it couldn't come into Portsmouth harbour.
Dwarfed the Isle of Wight.
Apparently all the prostitutes from London came down to visit the area to see if US sailors would fall for their wares.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
Posts: 18504
Threads: 79
Joined: May 29, 2010
Reputation:
125
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm
Can you swim, sailor?
Posts: 1137
Threads: 17
Joined: April 26, 2015
Reputation:
21
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 1:08 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 12:59 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Apparently all the prostitutes from London came down to visit the area to see if US sailors would fall for their wares.
It's funny because I know plenty of people who spend entire paychecks on prostitutes. Hooyah STD's.
(May 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Can you swim, sailor?
I can, yes. I am actually qualified as a 2nd Class Swimmer (which isn't common within my rate). What's actually pretty funny is the amount of people who join the Navy that don't know how to swim. In bootcamp, hundreds of people go to the pool at once to test their capabilities in water. In the beginning, they ask if there is anyone who already knows that they will need remedial training. Literally dozens of people stood up for that training. It amused me that people who can't swim at all decided to join the Navy of all branches.
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
-Isaac Asimov
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
-Douglas Adams
Posts: 18504
Threads: 79
Joined: May 29, 2010
Reputation:
125
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Well, people don't know how to fly either and they join the air force.
Posts: 5492
Threads: 53
Joined: September 4, 2014
Reputation:
55
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Are you disappointed that the US didn't go for the second option when naming the Navy: America's Water Guns.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
Posts: 3395
Threads: 43
Joined: February 8, 2015
Reputation:
33
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 11:26 am)Jericho Wrote: I saw a lot of threads like this and decided to try one out.
Ask any questions you have about the Navy (I realize that half of them will be about sexuality). 
Bring it.
I realize that people have been disappointing you thus far, as half of them are supposed to be about sexuality. I mean to help with that ratio.
Is it true that having women on board ships these days is disruptive of traditional camaraderie on board ships?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Posts: 1137
Threads: 17
Joined: April 26, 2015
Reputation:
21
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 2:10 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 1:10 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Well, people don't know how to fly either and they join the air force.
I suppose that is true as well. 
(May 16, 2015 at 1:12 pm)Exian Wrote: Are you disappointed that the US didn't go for the second option when naming the Navy: America's Water Guns.
I am quite disappointed. I would have joined a lot sooner if that was the name.
(May 16, 2015 at 1:14 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Is it true that having women on board ships these days is disruptive of traditional camaraderie on board ships?
It is true, in fact. However, I am not opposed to the disruption of that 'tradition'.
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
-Isaac Asimov
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
-Douglas Adams
Posts: 198
Threads: 5
Joined: April 30, 2015
Reputation:
4
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 8:51 pm
What made you join the Navy, how old were you and do you enjoy it?
“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.” - George Carlin
Posts: 1137
Threads: 17
Joined: April 26, 2015
Reputation:
21
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 9:00 pm
(May 16, 2015 at 8:51 pm)Saxmoof Wrote: What made you join the Navy, how old were you and do you enjoy it?
To be honest, I joined the Navy when I was 19 years old. I was in college for a time but fell victim to what I thought was love, and was harshly and abruptly brought to reality since she cheated on me. After that, I decided to join the Navy (mainly because the majority of my family was/is in it). Since then, it has had its rough moments, but overall has been rewarding. There are quite a few perks to this life, once you get through the isolation from your loved ones and some pretty shitty locations.
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
-Isaac Asimov
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
-Douglas Adams
Posts: 15351
Threads: 118
Joined: January 13, 2014
Reputation:
117
RE: Ask a Sailor.
May 16, 2015 at 9:22 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2015 at 9:22 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(May 16, 2015 at 1:08 pm)Jericho Wrote: (May 16, 2015 at 1:01 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Can you swim, sailor?
I can, yes. I am actually qualified as a 2nd Class Swimmer (which isn't common within my rate). What's actually pretty funny is the amount of people who join the Navy that don't know how to swim. In bootcamp, hundreds of people go to the pool at once to test their capabilities in water. In the beginning, they ask if there is anyone who already knows that they will need remedial training. Literally dozens of people stood up for that training. It amused me that people who can't swim at all decided to join the Navy of all branches.
There were a couple of seniors at the Academy who decided to quit and not graduate (one was a NAPSter with me, so 5 years of school) because they would not jump off the 10m platform. Which is a requisite for graduation because you might need to jump off a ship at some point, and a lot of our ships have decks higher than 10m.
One of them, I was up on the platform with her, trying to convince her not to quit on her whole career for 1.2 seconds of fear.
Side note, one of the qualifications you have to pass when you get to the Academy, Jericho, is something called the 40 year swim. You have to swim, in khakis, for 40 minutes straight without touching the wall, bottom, or ropes. It's not hard, but definitely put Vaseline on your nipples. Pro tip.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---
|
