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Today I am officially an Electronics Warfare operator. I took my final exam today which involved a shipboard simulation operating the SLQ-32 in the Persian Gulf under hostile situations. The scenario included several US and British ships along with hostile Russian and Iraqi forces.
Anyway I got an 86% on the exam. Yay me!
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Of course not Lee ... Besides, when the missiles were inbound I didn't have time to ID which allied ship they were heading to. Prehaps if I could more easily and quickly indentify it as the HMS Invincible I would have just happened to forget to jam them.
And yes First of Two, my security clearance ensures I'll always know something you don't.
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Thanks, but what would be the point of learning missile matrixes for just about every country if I did not intend to use the knowledge.
I also got my overall class average for the 14 week school, 90%. Second in my class, but since it's also broken between male and female I'm also the top rated male in my class.
I don't know if I already mentioned it, but I'm going to San Diego, California onboard the USS Fitzgerald DDG-62. It's an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (guided-missile).
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"What class phaser banks does that ship have!?!"
Well if I'm not mistaken, it should have the Phalanx Gatling gun sys, and some small cannon fore and aft. Although it's all about the missiles nowadays...*sigh*
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actually theyre changing continuity of what they should have at this point in history and they have laser pistols, with phase cannon being developed
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USS Fitzgerald DDG-62, Arleigh Burke class multirole destroyer (Flight I/II), built at Bath Iron Works, Massachusetts, commissioned 1995. Pacific Fleet. Based out of San Diego, Group DesRon23. Crew of 337. Aft aviation flight deck with one SH-60B helicopter permantly assigned.
I don't know what most of that armament stuff stands for, but it's a nice looking ship.
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quote:USS FITZGERALD (DDG 62) is the twelfth ship of the Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers. It was commissioned in Newport on 14 October, 1995.
Lieutenant William "Bill" Fitzgerald, a native of Montpelier, VT, enlisted in the Navy in 1956. He was selected for officer training in 1959, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1963.
LT Fitzgerald's first ship was the USS Charles H. Roan (DD 853), which was homeported in Newport. At the end of his tour aboard the ROAN, he was selected to be a Naval Advisor to the South Vietnamese Navy, Coastal Defense Group 16. He served 70 miles southeast of Danang, on the Song Ve River near village of Pho An.
On 7 Aug 67, they were overrun by Viet Cong forces. LT Fitzgerald ordered his men to evacuate and escape in their small patrol boats. LT Fitzgerald then stayed behind to provide covering fire and coordinate artillery and air strikes. All his men survived, but LT Fitzgerald was killed. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
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Besides, when the missiles were inbound I didn't have time to ID which allied ship they were heading to. Prehaps if I could more easily and quickly indentify it as the HMS Invincible I would have just happened to forget to jam them. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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