Video: When nerdy worlds collide
posted at 9:53 pm on December 2, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Thats old school. I can tell you, alot of the FNG’s will never use a SP Phone in their entire career. IVCS has replaced it and it sux because when the power goes out *suprise* you have no phone…
Oy.
Squid Shark on December 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Do all you military types realize that most of us have no idea what you are talking about most of the time with the terminology you use?
Can you dumb it down for us sometimes? Thanks!
redshirt on December 3, 2008 at 10:32 AM
No sound powered phones? What’s the logic behind that? Loss of power was the reason for using sound powered phone systems.
Oldnuke on December 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Oh, it’s like sending the new guy out for 100 feet of flight line or a gallon of prop wash. Checkered paint is a classic, but doesn’t beat collecting an exhaust sample for believability. A particular favorite is changing the summer air in tires for winter air. I even saw a FNG at a restaurant get sent to a neighboring restaurant for steam because they were out of it…the funniest part was that she actually brought some back!
James on December 3, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Bingo,
Now you know why it is so silly.
They are still there but only the old timers really know how to operate them. They are also not very well maintained.
Squid Shark on December 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM
LOL…. sound powered phones were a head set that transmited voice over the ships, you had various “cirtiuts” going all over the ship… it was used for damage control.
Cool thing was that it was powered off the sound of the voice speaking into it… so no outside power source was needed at all… ie… ships power is lost, then no problem, you can still communitcate…
Now… as one of the FIRST things you do in a FIRE is cut power to those compartments (because you put out fires with salt water… and salt water and electricty does not mix)… it becomes critical in a damage control situation so you can communicate… its the fallback for the fallback for communications…
Wow, can’t believe the Navy’s not using them much anymore… it shows a really bad mindset IMO… one BIG reason we won the Naval war in the Pacific was we had vastly superior Damage Control…
Romeo13 on December 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Oldnuke on December 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM
You seem pretty familiar with ships and shipboard tech. I thought you were a ground pounder. A marine?
Oldnuke on December 3, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Thanks for posting this. I didn’t want to be the geek who had to post it. All that info is found in the Han Solo Trilogy. Good books, but then you are punished with knowing such geeky tibits of knowledge.
For the record though, I am much more of a Trek-geek. I actually own all 7 seasons of TNG, VOY, and DS9 as well as all 10 movies on DVD (2-disc sets). That’s something like 170 discs or so. Don’t tell my wife.
thomashton on December 3, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Yep, the Navy is to concerned with helping the Army fight the war on terror that we are not focusing on, you know, our effing ships.
We should have a full battle group off of Somalia running around at 30 knots blowing pirates out of the damn water.
Squid Shark on December 3, 2008 at 10:52 AM
I favor bringing back the brown water navy. Swifts and PBR’s updated with today’s toys of course.
Oldnuke on December 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Hilarious! OK, when I was a firefighter we used to send the new recruits to the engines to get the henway.
Not as funny maybe, but we still got a few laughs.
redshirt on December 3, 2008 at 10:57 AM
Oh, it’s like sending the new guy out for 100 feet of flight line or a gallon of prop wash. Checkered paint is a classic, but doesn’t beat collecting an exhaust sample for believability. A particular favorite is changing the summer air in tires for winter air.
Heh. I was told a story about a nerdy college kid who was bothering meteorology techs working on a radar. They asked him to go fetch a radar beam.
And for reference, FNG=Fine New Guy (or Gal)
I R A Darth Aggie on December 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM
LOL… Nope… Retired Navy Senior Enlisted…
Went to Nuke School class 8006… but scram’d when I figured out what I would really be doing as an RO.
Then was first stationed on a Gator Freighter, and started playing with the Marines doing support (I was the guy they called when they couldn’t fix their own equipment, or the embassies in Lebanon)… which got me into intel work… I was one of the Geeks with Guns…
Then did some things I can’t talk about… but think High Level Electronics and Guns…
Was on a Destroyer during Desert Storm… doing Borading Ops in the Gulf…
Then back to stuff I can’t talk about… LOL…
5 Sea Service Ribbons… ESWS….
Romeo13 on December 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Naw, but when we were in El Salvador the locals who were daytime beaners and night time FMLN, asked us why we kept shuttling back and forth to the big scary LSD off shore, we told them we had to make sure the laser canons were calibrated. They didn’t even blink an eye.
Alden Pyle on December 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Shellback?
Alden Pyle on December 3, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I actualy had verbals to the Pegasus… then they decided to decom the whole class… dang it…
Litorals look interesting… but they are still a big budget solution, typical Blue Water Admiral thinking…
Romeo13 on December 3, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Shellback, Bluenose (both Circles), Order of the Golden Dragon (both datelines)…
Romeo13 on December 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM
These are not the FNGs I knew.
Alden Pyle on December 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Big props, bro.
I ate the the cherry from the lard assed belly button too, also rounded Cape Horn in a gale and shot the Panama Canal…as a grunt.
Alden Pyle on December 3, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Yeah, they’ve killed sooooo many traditions due to PC’ness… crap… can’t even Tack on Crows anymore…
The “Shellbacks” today have NO idea…. LOL…
Romeo13 on December 3, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Really? I had no idea, we got pulled out of our racks and took a pretty good beating with the fire hoses, crawled through 2 weeks of garbage stuffed in fart sacks, got dipped in oil and feathered before we had the priv of sucking the crisco cherry. It was a half day Ob-course, unpleasant at the time but brings a smile today.
How is that not PC?
Alden Pyle on December 3, 2008 at 11:29 AM
ahhh… the good old days… Shilleleghs…. Wog Dogs… measuring the length of the ship, with a hotdog… and the “Beauty” contest…
Romeo13 on December 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM
That was classic! But Picard would roast Captain Needa.
Black Adam on December 3, 2008 at 12:06 PM
I can’t believe no one has mentioned radar and/or sonar contact cleaner, a spool of order wire, or keys to the (fill in the blank) door.
Wino on December 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I almost forgot: “I need you to find me a BT punch. Go ask the guys in Stores for it.”
Wino on December 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Classics from my days were being sent to get a BT punch, 50 feet of gig line, a bucket of steam to prime the pumps, and a tube of military bearing grease.
I spent an entire day on acquiring the last one… and actually came back with it! =P
VekTor on December 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM
The droid the Jawas stole…Tom Servo.
NCJeff on December 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Terminator (Arnuld) and Agent Smith are sitting in a bar when Terminator Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) walks in…
Now there’s some fanfic I would read!
Doug on December 3, 2008 at 1:58 PM
I got to lick a sardine from the middle of foxtail hidden under a ton of mayo with my hands tied behind my back. Beatings before and after with fire hoses, of course.
Oldnuke on December 3, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Builds character! A privilege to be onboard this thread with men that would make Davy Jones’ knees knock!
Alden Pyle on December 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Emerald Shellback. Blue and Rednose. Order of the Rock, Order of the Ditch.
Squid Shark on December 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM
And this is why I love AP. Thou art the awesome nerdiness.
One Angry Christian on December 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM
I am reliving a lot of good memories that were poor at the time.
Shellback, Bluenose
PJ, DV, SW, ESWS, Sharpshooter (pistol and rifle)
E-1 thru O-2
son of Chief Petty Officer(and don’t you Godd**n well forget it!)
Bigurn on December 3, 2008 at 5:06 PM
I was on orders when an active duty friend of mine got EM2, and we all took turns “attaching” his crow to his sleeve. This was in 2002…
Mooseman on December 3, 2008 at 7:35 PM
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