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Posted on 4/14/14 at 12:30 pm to darkhorse
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Becoming bold little ruskies
"Becoming"?
When a friend of mine was in the Navy back in the 80's, he told me that sometimes when they were refueling their frigate (USS Boone?) a Russian warship would sail between the frigate and their tanker. they would have to drill on recovering fuel lines as quickly as possible for these events.
This kind of shite ain't new.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:02 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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We apologize to Russia for our ship coming too close to the Russian jet. I have called President Putin and let him know we are taking all measures to avoid this from happening again."
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:03 pm to C
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I think times are a bit different today than they've been in the past few decades. Outwardly at least.
No it's really not.
We play games with non allied navies all the time.
Hell the game got hot a couple years ago when a Chinese plane accidentally rammed a US Patrol plane a couple of years ago.
Opps
This has always been the game and will continue to be.
The OP, like the media, will try to make a bigger deal out of it then it actually is.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:04 pm to asurob1
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We play games with non allied navies all the time.
yes...during war game excercises. a random buzzing of a navy ship by a Russian fighter is not common....not even a little bit. not since the 80's anyway
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:05 pm to Choctaw
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post one
I'll see what I can dig out of my box o photos this weekend.
I have 1000s of shots from my time when I was in. I was a photographer's mate ;-).
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:07 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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"Becoming"?
When a friend of mine was in the Navy back in the 80's, he told me that sometimes when they were refueling their frigate (USS Boone?) a Russian warship would sail between the frigate and their tanker. they would have to drill on recovering fuel lines as quickly as possible for these events.
This kind of shite ain't new.
Yup. Part of the game we use to play.
Hell I remember a story of a pair of destroyers unrep (under way replenishing) from a tanker and a Russian warship made a run at them. The Captain of the destroyer ordered his guns to track the Russian warship. The Russian warship turned away.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:07 pm to asurob1
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I was a photographer's mate ;-).
i didn't know we still had those. ofcourse...theres not much use for a photographer on a submarine.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:08 pm to Choctaw
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yes...during war game excercises. a random buzzing of a navy ship by a Russian fighter is not common....not even a little bit
You couldn't be more wrong. We launch fighters to guide them away from our combat groups. But this sort of thing is common practice, and as a former submariner you well know this.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:10 pm to Choctaw
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i didn't know we still had those. ofcourse...theres not much use for a photographer on a submarine.
lol, well digital killed the need for photo mates. They combined the rate with JOs and I think they now call them "mass comm" specialists.
I spent my time in a photo lab on a carrier, up in CVIC and time on the deck. I didn't end up being a TARPs monkey but I developed plenty film back in the day.
Good times. It was back before the Navy became all PC. I'd hate to be in now.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:10 pm to asurob1
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But this sort of thing is common practice, and as a former submariner you well know this.
honestly...i didn't. i knew it was quite common in the 80's but never heard of those instances while i was in (90's) or recently.
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:11 pm to Choctaw
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honestly...i didn't. i knew it was quite common in the 80's but never heard of those instances while i was in (90's) or recently.
Well, who knows, I have a couple of friends who ended up becoming lifers, we talk from time-to-time and they have shared more then a few sea stories.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:17 pm to asurob1
well as a submariner your kind of out of the loop. unless we were doing war game exercises we rarely traveled with our group, so who knows. submarine crews are usually kept in the dark for obvious reasons.
most of our close calls (although very rare) were with North Korea
most of our close calls (although very rare) were with North Korea
This post was edited on 4/14/14 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 4/14/14 at 1:22 pm to Choctaw
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well as a submariner your kind of out of the loop. unless we were doing war game exercises we rarely traveled with our group, so who knows. submarine crews are usually kept in the dark for obvious reasons.
most of our close calls (although very rare) were with North Korea
Yeah no doubt. I could not imagine the isolation of being a submarine. You guys have gigantic fricking balls to do that for a living. I gotta see the sun once in a while or I go batshit crazy.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:18 pm to darkhorse
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Russian Fencer
Looks like an F-14 and a Tornado had a baby.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:23 pm to upgrayedd
I love me some Tomcat!
Best navy fighter of all time...(in this old sailor's opinion.)
Best navy fighter of all time...(in this old sailor's opinion.)
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:30 pm to asurob1
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asurob1
Damn, I'd have to wear Depends if I were a pilot with that much destruction just a few feet behind my a-hole.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:31 pm to darkhorse
They know their navy and airforce can't frick with our navy or airforce and combined we would smoke them.
Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:35 pm to asurob1
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Best navy fighter of all time...(in this old sailor's opinion.)
On this, we agree.
Tomcat Posted on 4/14/14 at 3:51 pm to darkhorse
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Admiral Josh Painter: [after running up to the USS Enterprise flight deck to survey an F-14 crash scene] "This business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!"
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