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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 Lord Skimper   » Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:00 pm

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I'll just add one more. This comes from sister the doctor, she was admonished during her first vasectomy. She said "Oops". Twice.

What doctors are taught to say is "there" in stead of "oops".

So who has heard their doctor say " There there, there there".

Now you know what they are really saying.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Snow Tiger   » Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:24 pm

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Actual signal, sent by an RAF Coastal Command Very Long Range Liberator aircraft to the commander of the escort for the convoy it was flying air cover for:

'Six hearses in sight bearing 180 degrees 25 miles. I go'

A 'hearse', in Coastal radio-speak, was a u-boat. 'I go' meant that the aircraft was out of fuel and was going home. The convoy escort commander had just been told that there were six u-boats on the surface directly to his east, and his air cover was going home. Worse, there was a transcription error, so the signal was read as being _five_ miles, not _twenty five_ miles. U-boat torpedoes had an effective range of four miles. Worse yet, it was just short of sundown.

This signal gained fame as the absolute worst possible message which could be delivered to a convoy escort commander.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Tenshinai   » Fri Nov 10, 2017 12:57 pm

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Lord Skimper wrote:I'll just add one more. This comes from sister the doctor, she was admonished during her first vasectomy. She said "Oops". Twice.

What doctors are taught to say is "there" in stead of "oops".

So who has heard their doctor say " There there, there there".

Now you know what they are really saying.


Yeah, but at the same time, most docs ALSO say something like that when they finish something...

So, are you getting put together, or broken apart? You will never know! :twisted:

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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Annachie   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:20 am

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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Peter2   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:27 am

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Maldorian wrote:"Does anyone know where we are?"


Especially if he gets the reply "You are in a helicopter 50 feet above the sea and descending under autorotation!"
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by dscott8   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:54 am

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"Of course I'm qualified to command this ship in combat! I've read everything David Weber's ever written!"
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by jtg452   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:45 pm

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I thought it would have been some Lt(jg) saying, "I have the con."

I figured that would be the nautical equivalent of seeing a 2nd LT with a map and compass in hand.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by jtg452   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:56 pm

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dscott8 wrote:"Of course I'm qualified to command this ship in combat! I've read everything David Weber's ever written!"

I think Forrester, Lambdin and O'Brien would be more useful in a real world setting.

Of course, the helmsman would probably be freaked out when you give new courses by 32 or 128 point compass direction rather than number ("Make your heading southwest by west") and reminding them to watch their luff.
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Fox2!   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 12:57 pm

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[quote="jtg452"]I thought it would have been some Lt(jg) saying, "I have the con."

I figured that would be the nautical equivalent of seeing a 2nd LT with a map and compass in hand.[/quote

Navy (and Coast Guard) O-1s are Ensigns, not Lt(jg).
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Re: The 5 Most Dangerous Things You Will Hear in the Navy:
Post by Fox2!   » Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:00 pm

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jtg452 wrote:
dscott8 wrote:"Of course I'm qualified to command this ship in combat! I've read everything David Weber's ever written!"

I think Forrester, Lambdin and O'Brien would be more useful in a real world setting.

Of course, the helmsman would probably be freaked out when you give new courses by 32 or 128 point compass direction rather than number ("Make your heading southwest by west") and reminding them to watch their luff.


Or give them a heading in three dimensional space (125 Mark 15, to use the style from a different franchise).
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