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    Posted: 12 December 2011 at 6:23pm
Well, I am back from my first deployment. I was only out for half of the ships full deployment, but I still got to hit a few ports including Rome.

Having a bit of trouble adjusting to back home though. Happens I have heard. Anywho, looking forward to maybe getting back to paintball with a Tiberius Arms 8.1t.

Anyone have any questions about shipboard life?

Doesn't look like I have missed much on this forum lol.
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Welcome back!  What type of ship do you serve on?
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Thanks!
A destroyer, DDG 103 USS Truxtun.

Tin Can Sailors.
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Originally posted by Monk Monk wrote:

Thanks!
A destroyer, DDG 103 USS Truxtun.

Tin Can Sailors.
Cool!  My father served on the USS Willard Keith (DD-775) in peacetime.  My buddy served on the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) during the first Gulf War.
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Sink any German u-boats lately?
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Obviously cliched, but thanks for your service man.

My buddy is still in school in the Navy, he loves it.

You planning on career life?

Most everyone I know in the military joins, plans a career, then abruptly gets tired of it and leaves
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Hey Monk, glad to hear your first deployment went well...any progress on your ESWS?

I'm still onboard USS ESSEX, got 5 months left. TRUXTON just got commissioned right? How is it to be on a new-ish ship?
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Originally posted by Monk Monk wrote:

Thanks!
A destroyer, DDG 103 USS Truxtun.

Your kind were always the hardest to hit. 



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HA! Thanks all.

Newish ship is pretty nice, but things still break all the time. And there is the issue with a bunch of hard-chargers which makes it harder to stand out amongst the pack.

I don't think I will be a lifer, the navy is set up like a corporation now, and the shear amount of retards I have to deal with on a daily basis, I might as well get a real job and be able to see my family year round.

Ill get my Journeymans and finish my degree and Ill be happy.

As for U-boats? Nope, but I did get to interact with foreign navies, so that was cool. And I chilled off the coast of Yemen, we were all a little nervous.
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