Back from Deployment.
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Topic: Back from Deployment.
Posted By: Monk
Subject: Back from Deployment.
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 6:23pm
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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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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 6:33pm
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Welcome back! What type of ship do you serve on? ------------- 
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 6:54pm
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Thanks! A destroyer, DDG 103 USS Truxtun. Tin Can Sailors. |
Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 7:09pm
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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Monk wrote:Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 7:25pm
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Sink any German u-boats lately?
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Posted By: stratoaxe
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 7:52pm
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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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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 13 December 2011 at 2:46am
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? |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 13 December 2011 at 2:43pm
Your kind were always the hardest to hit.  |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 15 December 2011 at 9:22pm
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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. |