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Originally posted by LordShiva
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Generally my job was fairly hazardous. One example is during very bad weather and choppy seas they told me to work on top of the aircraft wings hanging over the water.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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I don't know if they lower them sometimes or not.Originally posted by Patroklos
Was that a serious repy?
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Eh, for a frigate I guess it is. I actually wish the US would build a frigate class again. Right now it is either a DDG or a CG which is just overkill alot of the time.Oh, it's armed to the teeth, all right.
The LCS is a corvette, and a gold plated monstrosity in my opinion."The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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Yeah, those ships are only able to throw stones at an enemyOriginally posted by Patroklos
European frigates do look pretty cool, unfortunetly the refuse to put weapons on them for some reason.
WEAPONS
The ship has five standard flex container wells in the weapons deck in the mid section of the ship. The standard weapons container fit for the ship will be two modules for the Harpoon surface-to-surface missile and three modules for the Evolved Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles.
Two modules each carry eight Harpoon Block II surface-to-surface missiles.
The three modules for the surface-to-air missiles will each carry a 12-cell mk6 vertical launcher allowing the ship to carry 36 RIM-162 Raytheon Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM). The CEROS 200 fire control system provides radar homing illumination. The ship is fitted with four Flexfire radar and electro-optical trackers.
The ship will be armed with the Eurotorp MU 90 lightweight torpedo and a twin or triple torpedo launcher on both sides of the weapons deck.
"The on-board battle damage and control system continuously monitors the status of the ship."
The ship can carry up to 300 mines and can be fitted with containerised mine laying rails.
The ship has two Close-In-Weapon Systems (CIWS), the Oerlikon Contraves Millenium, 35mm naval gun system (GDM-008), one to the front of the bridge and one on the roof of the hangar. Millenium can fire the 35mm Ahead Air Burst Munition, at 1,000 rounds a minute. Each round contains 152 3.3g sub-projectiles, fired at a velocity of 1,050m/sec. Millenium is effective at over 3.5km for aircraft / helicopters, 2km for guided missiles / cruise missiles and 1.2km for anti-radiation missiles.
Under a contract awarded in October 2002, a BAE Systems Land & Armaments (formerly United Defense) 127mm 62 mk45 mod 4 gun provides naval fire support capability. The gun will be capable of firing the newly developed Extended-Range Guided Munitions (ERGM) such as the EX-171 ER which will have a range of over 100km with an accuracy of less than 20m.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Are you sure you were in the Navy? That is an old joke you tell the new guy. Send him running around and then get all fake mad and panicked when he tells you he can't find the crank and watch him freak out.I don't know if they lower them sometimes or not.
I always need a bosun punch, and oddly enough there was always a boot Ensign ready to run off and get one for me
"The DPRK is still in a state of war with the U.S. It's called a black out." - Che explaining why orbital nightime pictures of NK show few lights. Seriously.Comment
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I remember those kind of jokes but the only specific one I remember is telling people that there is a bowling ally on board.Originally posted by Patroklos
Are you sure you were in the Navy? That is an old joke you tell the new guy. Send him running around and then get all fake mad and panicked when he tells you he can't find the crank and watch him freak out.
I always need a bosun punch, and oddly enough there was always a boot Ensign ready to run off and get one for me
I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Originally posted by Patroklos
I'd imagine it is Vodka of the Russians, upon running out there will be a brief moment of competance, then muntiny.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - RahComment
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I remember back in the bleak days of Vietnam.
The Aussies ran out of their own beer and were facing the prospect of having to drink American beer. Their troops mutinied until some Fosters was flown in.Comment
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No offense, but I think that only muslim soldiers would accept an american beer only situation
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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McFaul? More like Mc****up!*Originally posted by Patroklos
The ship I just got off of, USS McFaul, I miss her sometimes
*Or at least my counterparts over there wereToday, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.Comment
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Why? Because they can't drink anything with an alcoholic content higher than water?Originally posted by BlackCat
No offense, but I think that only muslim soldiers would accept an american beer only situation
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Fosters tastes just like Bud. Aussies are silly.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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Originally posted by Patroklos
Are you sure you were in the Navy? That is an old joke you tell the new guy. Send him running around and then get all fake mad and panicked when he tells you he can't find the crank and watch him freak out.
I always need a bosun punch, and oddly enough there was always a boot Ensign ready to run off and get one for me
I was in the Air Force and the favored jokes were to ask the new Airman to go get some flightline or some pneumatic fluid.
One joke I found not so funny
was when someone handed me a message to call the hospital to schedule my annual checkup. The number was to the OB-GYN clinic. 
EViiiiiiL!!! - Mermaid ManComment
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Well, I think that Monty Python described it pretty well - american beer is like having sex in a canoeOriginally posted by Zkribbler
Why? Because they can't drink anything with an alcoholic content higher than water?
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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I remember the "go get some flightline" joke too. I went to 3 places.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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