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    Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:42pm
so i showed up at work today and my super said 2 people were going to little creek. i jumped up and said il go...

it was a whole different world... i get to my work station on the ship and coming around the corner i bump into a dude wearing a ski mask carrying an M16.

a little while later we are cutting parts of the ship off and all of a sudden a missile turret starts whipping around. later im checking out this 20MM(?) cannon and look over and theres a 4x2 plate that says "this side towards enemy" kinda freaked me out but once i figured out it was just an armor plate i felt a little better.

earlier in the week i saw a sign that said something along the line of "radioactive area on other side, no bunking or loitering"

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Sounds like the job is keeping you entertained, at least.
 
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Originally posted by merc merc wrote:


a little while later we are cutting parts of the ship off and all of a sudden a missile turret starts whipping around. later im checking out this 20MM(?) cannon


What kind of ship were you on? Sounds like it might be a Sea Sparrow turret.
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Ski masks and M16's, huh? Interesting.
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i read this side toward enemy and thought it was about claymores...cool none the less
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Originally posted by GI JOES SON GI JOES SON wrote:

i read this side toward enemy and thought it was about claymores...cool none the less


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ship was an LSD, http://navysite.de/launcher/ram.htm thats what it looked like. we also used a decoy(?) launcher as a work bench

seeing guys in BDUs carrying guns is nothing surprising (NAVY MPs wear BDUS)

he just had navy blues on (straight leg pants and a light jacket.) but had a ski mask to keep his face warm.

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Originally posted by IMPULS3. IMPULS3. wrote:


Originally posted by GI JOES SON GI JOES SON wrote:

i read this side toward enemy and thought it was about claymores...cool none the less
Ditto


yea me 3... but this was about 6" from where i was standing...
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Originally posted by sinisterNorth sinisterNorth wrote:

Ski masks and M16's, huh? Interesting.
 
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But occasionally at random intervals, an entire SWAT team in full gear would jam into the elevator with the accountants.  Made for an interesting visual.
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Ahh, ok yea that's not sea sparrow. Thank God the utility uniform is going away too, thats probably the uniform that guy was wearing. That thing makes us look like janitors.
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Ahhhh!! You were standing next to the "sea whiz".  Or "R2D2" or the Phalanx. 20mm Gatling gun for ship defense.
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Ahhhh!! You were standing next to the "sea whiz".  Or "R2D2" or the Phalanx. 20mm Gatling gun for ship defense.


CWIS (Sea Whiz) is a pretty sweet system, although I heard it breaks down quite a bit. I know a few guys here that went to Iraq and worked with the CRAM as well, which is a land based version of the CWIS meant to shoot down SCUDs and other airborne threats.
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Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Ahhhh!! You were standing next to the "sea whiz".  Or "R2D2" or the Phalanx. 20mm Gatling gun for ship defense.


CWIS (Sea Whiz) is a pretty sweet system, although I heard it breaks down quite a bit. I know a few guys here that went to Iraq and worked with the CRAM as well, which is a land based version of the CWIS meant to shoot down SCUDs and other airborne threats.
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LSD suck. LHD's and LHA's it's where it's at.
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all the L decks are nuke so we work at them in the yard but im at the base right now. (ide rather be on the CVN or SSBN anyways :D)

LSD 51 USS Oak hill.

edit: the gun i was next to was a MK-38 25mm machine gun. (which btw i want one)

Edited by merc - 03 February 2009 at 5:51pm
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Originally posted by Evil Elvis Evil Elvis wrote:

LSD suck. LHD's and LHA's it's where it's at.

You think those suck?  Try living on an LST for 8 months doing alligator squares .
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Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Originally posted by PaiNTbALLfReNzY PaiNTbALLfReNzY wrote:

Originally posted by Ceesman762 Ceesman762 wrote:

Ahhhh!! You were standing next to the "sea whiz".  Or "R2D2" or the Phalanx. 20mm Gatling gun for ship defense.
CWIS (Sea Whiz) is a pretty sweet system, although I heard it breaks down quite a bit. I know a few guys here that went to Iraq and worked with the CRAM as well, which is a land based version of the CWIS meant to shoot down SCUDs and other airborne threats.

Which LSD are you on?

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Haha, nah I'm not on a ship right now. I'm at a training facility in Dahlgren that has courses involving AEGIS. A lot of the guys here worked on CWIS before doing AEGIS, so I hear some stories.
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