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The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:

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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Gun Boat Diplomacy   » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:10 pm

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Having been in the Navy and 20 odd yrs working on a Marine base : IT'S NOT LOADED
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by saber964   » Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:19 pm

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What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story?






One starts with the phrase "Once Upon A Time" and the other starts with "No $hit, this actually happened".
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by dscott8   » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:14 pm

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You all forgot the most basic, common and dangerous one....

"Hellll-ooooooh, Sailor!" <wink>
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Senior Chief   » Sat Oct 31, 2015 9:17 pm

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Tenshinai wrote:
Senior Chief wrote:No 8. "Moored! Shift Colors! Now Liberty Call!" As the crew hits the beach after being at underway for 7 months without seeing land! :mrgreen:

No 9. My favorite that I remember since the ship I was on was caught in the middle of a typhon and the Captain announced over the ships 1Mc "All hands are reminded to sleep with their life jackets on."

Why? The forward gunmount had sprung a leak at the base of the mount and the forward part of the ships was slowly filling with water.


Ouchy.

Big/small ship?


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A seventh could be the President/Head of State: "I need a short, victorous war..."


Ooohh, nice one! :mrgreen:




A WWII destroyer, DD-808
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by pushmar   » Sun Nov 01, 2015 1:33 pm

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Senior Chief wrote:
Tenshinai wrote:
Ouchy.

Big/small ship?

Ooohh, nice one! :mrgreen:




A WWII destroyer, DD-808


Ah. The Buckley. (At least not the Joseph Buckley!)
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Yow   » Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:07 am

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...but, this is the way we've always done it.

~Seaman Sailor.

Cthia's father ~ "Son, do not cater to the common belief that a person has to earn respect. That is not true. You should give every person respect right from the start. What a person has to earn is your continued respect!"
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Fireflair   » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:33 pm

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Yow wrote:...but, this is the way we've always done it.

~Seaman Sailor.


That's not really a sailor's quote. It's more of a business quote. I've heard it in any number of places I've worked. It's common, especially in a place that's trying to change processes for different or (especially) better ones.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Thunder Child Actual   » Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:50 pm

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I know what you learned in training, but we do things a bit differently on this ship.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by saber964   » Mon Nov 02, 2015 5:15 pm

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Thunder Child Actual wrote:I know what you learned in training, but we do things a bit differently on this ship.



We had similar phrase, training is all well and good, but this is the fleet.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Fireflair   » Tue Nov 03, 2015 7:53 pm

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saber964 wrote:
Thunder Child Actual wrote:I know what you learned in training, but we do things a bit differently on this ship.



We had similar phrase, training is all well and good, but this is the fleet.



And the sad thing is, it's very true. Reality versus the arm chair theory.
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