"this side towards enemy"
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Topic: "this side towards enemy"
Posted By: merc
Subject: "this side towards enemy"
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:42pm
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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" works going well though learning alot and seeing a ton of cool stuff. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:45pm
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Scream "Incoming!" at the top of your lungs during lunch. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:45pm
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Sounds like the job is keeping you entertained, at least.
:) ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:46pm
What kind of ship were you on? Sounds like it might be a Sea Sparrow turret. |
merc wrote:Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:47pm
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Ski masks and M16's, huh? Interesting. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:51pm
| i read this side toward enemy and thought it was about claymores...cool none the less |
Posted By: IMPULS3.
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:53pm
Ditto ------------- 
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:55pm
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. ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:56pm
yea me 3... but this was about 6" from where i was standing... ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:58pm
Friend of mine (civilian) used to work at the DEA, in an office setting. Mostly suit types, normal boring officey stuff.
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. ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:58pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 2:42pm
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Ahhhh!! You were standing next to the "sea whiz". Or "R2D2" or the Phalanx. 20mm Gatling gun for ship defense. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 3:31pm
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. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 4:11pm
Which LSD are you on?
In b4 acid jokes. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 5:21pm
LSD suck. LHD's and LHA's it's where it's at.
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Posted By: merc
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 5:46pm
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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) ------------- saving the world, one warship at a time. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 9:28am
You think those suck? Try living on an LST for 8 months doing alligator squares . ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 9:40am
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. |