History, Politics And Current Affairs

One thought: did the Soviet Military Power publications stop, did they continue in a wartime mode, or were they replaced by a wartime-only publication series dedicated to telling America's story of the war?

And if I'm on a boat with wonky steering, I put an engineer's mate in the steering compartment 24/7 to see what's actually happening. During critical stuff like docking and unrep, there's at least two of them with a procedure to quicky cut out malfunctioning machinery. If I have to sail. But it sou...

Not my navy, but I am headdesking and nuclear faceplaming here. If my tin can has a steering problem that not even specialists flown in to get a grip on it can identify, let alone isolate and rectify, I send a message to my superior command authority that for reasons a, b, c, d etc. my ship is unab...

Well, they managed to land Starliner without killing the crew.

I had her peg as a VW Bettle person. The Soviets will need to rework 20K plus nukes. Could be a material and financial problem for them, especially at that point in time. But damn, this must be addressed. How well guarded are the ones from Lubbock? I just felt some walking on my grave. They were be...

I had her peg as a VW Bettle person. Beetle was a little before her time, she graduated high school in 1983. By then almost all of the Beetles in the typical Southern California student lot were Baja Bugs and were usually driven by male students with a C- or lower GPA. The typical domestic shitbox ...

I had her peg as a VW Bettle person. Beetle was a little before her time, she graduated high school in 1983. By then almost all of the Beetles in the typical Southern California student lot were Baja Bugs and were usually driven by male students with a C- or lower GPA. The typical domestic shitbox ...

It's interesting that all of the junior enlisted knew the score long before the wardroom did. If I'd been one of the junior guys, I would have started hunting for the antenna and taken it down to the Skipper's cabin... Given that there were several attempts to pass notes to the CO/XO to inform them...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 4:02 am RN-40 shot?

Yes.

"I wouldn't use this widget to keep my old Chevette from getting stolen."

Part of how Sophie became a semi-competent electrician was trying to keep a five-year-old Chevette operational in Massachusetts.

9 May 1988 ARIES Big Pine, CA The voice on the speaker phone said, "Warrant Officer Henrix, please explain to me how much nuclear weapons design work you've done." "None, Doctor Appleton." "And how much nuclear testing have you done?" "None, sir." "So wh...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2024 2:43 pm

Poohbah wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2024 1:05 pm "Archangel" by Two Steps From Hell is how I visualize Sophie Lodge in full battle mode.

I listen to it on YouTube, I swear I heard it before.

Two Steps From Hell specializes in music for movie and tv show trailers, so their stuff gets licensed a lot.

Prayers up for your whole family.

Ok.... I've never served in the military. My understanding of security and so forth comes from both reading I've done and from the people I've met on this board. Even I'm saying "WHAT THE EVERLOVING JESUS TITTYF%$#INGCHRIST is going on here?" None of the people involved were thinking abou...

DDG CO fired for the viral photo of him shooting a rifle with the scope mounted backwards. He was on an at sea visit to the amphibious ship and handed the rifle for a “firepower demo”. Not his skill set. Certainly a bit of an “oops”, but to be relieved of command six months later while deployed in ...

Is this for real? I had COMSEC and EMCON drilled into me from basic training onwards as a very junior enlisted radio operator. What's particularly interesting about this case is the criminal energy the chiefs displayed, and the absolute ineptitude of the CO and XO(s) in unovering the illicit WiFi. ...

"Archangel" by Two Steps From Hell is how I visualize Sophie Lodge in full battle mode.

How the hell did this happen? Do the ships not take a pause after major port visits, turn off almost everything that should be radiating, and run a sweep to see if there's anything unexpected? Isn't there a log of everything that should be radiating? Up-traffic on the Starlink should be detectable,...

The level of stupid on display is off of the damn charts!

How in the HELL did the entire goat locker get that fucking stupid?

Wolfman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 8:25 pm Why do I hear Samuel Lodge laughing his ass off in the afterlife?

Probably because Sophie and Kathy B are, in their own way, Sam Lodge's daughters.

The Venezuelan version of Air Force One is one thing, tankers that are probably flagged somewhere other than those nations are something else entirely. If we were to try, it could be called state-sponsored piracy… Boss-Ma'am would probably don an eye patch, have a parrot on her shoulder, and cheerf...