re: USS Antietam runs aground

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I still think it's mindboggling that a single warhead is powerful enough to partially lift a warship out of the water.

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When the Navy conducts live fire exercises on decomm'd ships they do it in this order:

1. surface ship guns
2. missile attacks via ship/air
3. sub torp
4. game over everybody go home

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I will say the missile spin up order and the dive order in Crimson Tide are spot on and I always go full mast when they play "Eternal Father Strong to Save" - The Navy Hymn, when they dive

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I've always had issues with Crimson Tide because I was a radioman and that crap was not accurate at all. But then again, our room/equipment is highly classified causing accuracy to obviously suffer

Bump for more sub stories. Been awhile since I've thought about a lot of these haha.

Above is the good ship Charlotte with the death trap ASDS on the aft escape trunk. Also a vial of water they collected for us while we were on the North Pole (pretty sure they just drained a SW cooler for these)

Fun fact, we spent 1.5 years in NNSY replacing 4 of the reactor coolant pumps and the RPCP. We had 0 people re-enlist during the shipyard availability and 7 (8?) suicide attempts. Also lost almost 20 people because they became sad. Crew morale at its worst .

I'm pretty sure the entire crew would have rather spent that 1.5 years at sea than in shipyard.

Where did you get the model? I kept a chunk of metal that was part of one of the topside cleats. During the collision the cleats partially melted from the metal-to-metal friction. I also have some other odds and ends from my boats... vari-nozzle, life ring from the Wyoming, battle lantern, etc.

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Bump for more sub stories.

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Ummmm... OK one of my favorites. When I got to my first boat I got sent with MM2 Craft to learn how to rebuild a shite pump. Craft talks A LOT and was rambling on about something as he started loosening the bolts on the outlet flange on the shite pump. There was some residual pressure on the line and shite water sprayed out all over his face and in his mouth.

He starts freaking out and saying "I GOT shite IN MAH MOUF! I GOT shite IN MAH MOUF!" then he starts wiping his tongue with his hands. I'm laughing so hard I can barely talk but I manage to get out "Craft you're wiping your tongue with your hands and your hands are covered in shite too". So Craft starts licking my sleeve to get the shite off his tongue. Just a typical day in A-gang.

I also had to tear apart half our plumbing system one time bc apparently someone failed to instruct female midshipmen that they shouldn't flush tampons down the shitter.

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We named a ship after a battle that was a draw?

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I Lol

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He was made Division Officer of A-gang (Terd's group)

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Goddamn motherfrickin' DCA... we either make or break them sumbitches. Only the strong survive!

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the saltiest sonsabitches alive.

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The night ended when they jumped in a cab, told the cabbie they wanted find, "fun ladies" and was dropped off at a brothel where our beloved Ensign vomited mid-thrust onto a Russian hooker.

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And that's how legends are made.

You know how we're always pumping or blowing tanks overboard. One time the DCA was standing OOD and I told one of my NUBs that the DCA tank was almost full so I needed to blow it overboard. I said "go up to Control and ask the OOD for permission to blow the DCA". A few minutes later I get a call from the DCA laughing his arse off... then he tells me to knock it off.

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Yeah, I think it is funny that the only country that slaughters whales is gonna have "environmental concerns" regarding a rather small lube oil discharge.

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Fuel oil is still leaking into the bay at Pearl Harbor, so fack em.

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Fuel oil is still leaking into the bay at Pearl Harbor, so fack em.

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By this logic I'd say Japan has left a mess all over the western Pacific.

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frick, I just lost my job.

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Definitely that.

When we got in our collision the CO was shitcanned within hours. When I found out he was packing up his stuff to leave I found the yeoman and told him to get me one of the photos of the boat. I was scheduled to transfer after this deployment and he had been my CO the entire time I was there. There's a sort of tradition that when someone transfers the CO gives him a photo of the boat with some parting words and signs it. So I went up to the CO as he was packing his things and said "Sir, you've been the skipper since I've been here. I know they're about to replace you with some temporary CO and I'll be goddamned if I want that son of a bitch signing my farewell photo."

He stopped packing his things and said "I'd be honored to sign your photo." That fricking picture is hanging in my house today along with the others.

It really is a shame when a great CO loses everything over something that he had no control over. But I'm sure he's making fricking bank in the civilian world right now so I don't feel too bad for the guy.