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Why would anyone care if you told us how to make a nuclear reactor. I'm sure we could already find that on the Internet, anyway.
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quote:Originally posted by Matrix: Where are you stationed right now?
USS Fitzgerald DDG-62. Right now we're inport at 32nd St. Naval Station awaiting West Pac. When we're deployed only officers get internet, the most enlisted crew get is MS Outlook mail.
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I don't think the page transition is so funny. Looks like the ship is targeted through the periscope of a submarine...
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I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
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hmm. that site is soooo 1998. ani gifs and scrolling text in the status bar.
actually i would be worried if the military was good at web design. i'd prefer they be good at, i don't know, sailing and defending, and stuff like that, instead.
BTW, the bios of the CO and staff.. is that kosher? my U.S.S. Enterprise article in National Geographic says that because of the 'conflicts' they aren't photographing or naming crewmembers on active vessels.. edit: the NG article is from November 2001, when the E was involved in Afghanistan so that explains that
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As it turns out, my so called welcome aboard package is old (way old). My squadron is not longer on the USS Stennis but the USS George Washington. My LPO, AME2 Bannard, who is left yesterday will be push for me, and two other shipmates who are shipping out with me on the same date to go on night shifts and directly to the shop.
Very good news for me at least.
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quote:Originally posted by Nim: [You meant to say...that modern US warships potentially can travel faster than...*GASP*...32 knots?? Which is the same damn speed ships could do in 1942 already????
It's those damn Vulcans, they're holding us back!
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quote:Originally posted by Matrix: Where are you stationed right now?
USS Fitzgerald DDG-62. Right now we're inport at 32nd St. Naval Station awaiting West Pac. When we're deployed only officers get internet, the most enlisted crew get is MS Outlook mail.
Well, if you only get outlook mail - you still have access to newsgroups.
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Well my friends, the orders are in. This nice little break inport San Diego was great but I'm leaving for the Persian Gulf March 1st.
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Well, all the best then! Hope you return safe and sound when it's all over down there!!
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You know, I'd love to... but that aint gonna happen. The website was created by the ADP guys, they're the Information Systems Technologist (IT) networking people on our ship. They of course give themselves internet access underway while restricting it for everyone else.
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Sounds like you picked the wrong line of work in the Navy, Hobbes!
Good luck, and watch out for those cloaked missiles! The UN inspectors haven't found those Iraqi cloaking devices yet, but they probably will soon enough...
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Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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While you're in port in Barhrain, remember the REAL reason why Islamic law makes their women wear veils & burqas--becasue they're hot as fuck & they don't want us stealing who good elements of their gene pool they have.
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Nah... I'd rather not be an IT. For starters, their rating badge sucks I much prefer the EW rating badge.
Well I'm still posting which means I'm still in San Diego. Yeah, Pacific Fleet decided to order us out on the 1st without the approval of the Secretary of Defense. So instead I'm leaving March 3rd. First stop, Hawaii. Once we pull in we should have internet again, so I'll post there. I plan to buy a digital camera. I still get email ( [email protected] - please email, it's my only connection to the outside world ) so I'll send those pics to see the exploits of a young American sailor getting drunk in foreign ports.
The fact that they're sending my battle group out to the Gulf should be a big enough clue that Bush is on the verge of going to war.
Anyway, until next time...
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) so I'll send those pics to see the exploits of a young American sailor getting drunk in foreign ports.
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