Arleigh. Goddamnit.
31 knot Burke was a hero. The Little Beavers.
Trump says US to 'start now hitting land' in Mexico
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We've prolly spent the last year mapping every known lab location, where they all LIVE, what they DRIVE, where there kids go to school, where their side-pieces live....it will happen all at once, it will be glorious
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Those places are ambulatory
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Arleigh. Goddamnit.
31 knot Burke was a hero. The Little Beavers.
31 knot Burke was a joke that went over his head. They called him that because he limited his destroyers to going 31 knots even though they could go faster.
It had nothing to do with heroics or charging the enemy at full speed.
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Pffft. My Minekazi does 44
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31 knot Burke was a joke that went over his head. They called him that because he limited his destroyers to going 31 knots even though they could go faster.
It had nothing to do with heroics or charging the enemy at full speed.
Sort of wrong. One of the cans was having boiler issues in Bravo two. Instead of thirty three knots (Burke's normal speed, notoriously hated by the water tenders) desron 23 was held back to 31 knots.
Halsey's chief of staff contacted Burke inquiring by saying Burke. What are you doing? Come home. We miss you.
Burke replied somewhat miffed, what am I doing? 31 knots. That's what I'm doing!
The cans were capable of 35 knots but not all of them.
33 knots was about what they could all attain.
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He was a hero. He was brilliant. He needed a wheelbarrow to haul his nuts.
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Pffft. My Minekazi does 44
ABs VLS will slow you down a little.
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He was a hero. He was brilliant. He needed a wheelbarrow to haul his nuts.
meh. He was a Naval Officer. The only thing they deserve is our disdain.
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Not all.
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meh. He was a Naval Officer. The only thing they deserve is our disdain.
So, giving this reply a momentary think. In service I worked maintenance on communications systems. Additionally I collaborated with other trades in E division.
I was in every space on board whatever vessel.
I mostly hung out with other enlisted and seldom had meaningful contact with the officer's Corp. To me they were managers that needed me perform tasks on equipment that they didn't fully comprehend other than this thing doesn't work, fix it. You have no idea the level of power that gives you. You have the power to cause uncertainty in a manager. If you can communicate that fact obliquely you own the deck. It levels the field. They have biannual fitness reports. Their fitness depends on your performance.
At eighteen years of age I understood this.
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Mexican army, lol.
They would send a battalion of drywallers and sling mud
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So, giving this reply a momentary think. In service I worked maintenance on communications systems. Additionally I collaborated with other trades in E division.
I was in every space on board whatever vessel.
I mostly hung out with other enlisted and seldom had meaningful contact with the officer's Corp. To me they were managers that needed me perform tasks on equipment that they didn't fully comprehend other than this thing doesn't work, fix it. You have no idea the level of power that gives you. You have the power to cause uncertainty in a manager. If you can communicate that fact obliquely you own the deck. It levels the field. They have biannual fitness reports. Their fitness depends on your performance.
At eighteen years of age I understood this.
oh I understood that as well, and often could use that to the advantage of the guys I was in charge of.
Most of my disdain is from the idea that a college degree and 90 days of fork and knife school somehow equated to them being qualified to lead/manage men at 21-22 years old. Theres nothing worse than an O1 through O3 that think they know something. By O4 some stat having a clue, but not all.
If I had my way every officer would come from the enlisted ranks. 6-8 years of service under their belt and a minimum rank of E-5 to apply. No college required.
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Every low ranking officer worth a damn is smart enough to speak with his sr nco before opening his yap.
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Every low ranking officer worth a damn is smart enough to speak with his sr nco before opening his yap.
Thats the difference between Navy officers and Officers from the other services. Naval officers act like they are aristocracy. It never occurs to them to lower themselves to seek advice from their Chiefs or First Class Petty Officers.
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Wow. Your time in service was far different from mine.
I can think of two Lts. That fit that description in six years of active.
Maybe because mine was maintenance and damage control and most of E division and A gang were ultra squared away divisions on both of the commands I served on. The division officers made decisions but they always listened to senior NCOs.
