Military Memes

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RetiredUSNChief said:
Yeppers. That's the kind of stupid sh*t I never appreciated in the Navy.

In the early days, when I first got out of boot camp and spent a couple months living in the barracks before moving my wife and newborn up to Great Lakes, I got a taste of some of that stupid sh*t.

Coming across the quarterdeck into the barracks, you had to show your ID. The ID was kept in the left breast pocket (picture out, top of the head positioned towards your breast bone). I pulled my ID out, showed it to the quarterdeck watch...who promptly gigged me for being out of uniform because my pocked was unbuttoned.

The effin' pocket I JUST unbuttoned in order to pull my ID out.

Give people a little bit of power/authority and it rapidly becomes apparent who the d*ckheads are.
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this explains many dd214's i come across...
 
Hammer21b said:
Wasn't that the USS Asheville that sank that Japanese fishing boat about 15-20 years ago?
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That was the USS Greenville in 2001. She sank the Ehime Maru.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision

My opinion is she didn't properly clear the area of all contacts prior to performing their emergency blow. Had they followed procedure properly, this would not have happened.

The Greenville surfaced directly under the Ehime Maru and her rudder sliced right through the ship's keel, from starboard to port. The Ehime Maru sank in 5 minutes, losing 9 personnel in the process.
 
I knew it was one of the Carolina boats!
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
That was the USS Greenville in 2001. She sank the Ehime Maru.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision

My opinion is she didn't properly clear the area of all contacts prior to performing their emergency blow. Had they followed procedure properly, this would not have happened.

The Greenville surfaced directly under the Ehime Maru and her rudder sliced right through the ship's keel, from starboard to port. The Ehime Maru sank in 5 minutes, losing 9 personnel in the process.
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The CO of that boat lives here in the Triangle. He wrote a book about it and lectures about it.
 
WeepingAngel said:
Not a meme, but it directly reminds me of...

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After I got my commission I went back to the Marine unit I had been previously assigned to when I was a corpsman. The first Marine I saw was one of the platoon sergeants, he threw up his hand, pulled it down, put it backup, said, "ah, screw it, I am not gonna salute a doc gone rogue." Me being commissioned messed with their heads. But the Marines, they never, NEVER, knew how to interpret our ranks.
 
Chuckman said:
After I got my commission I went back to the Marine unit I had been previously assigned to when I was a corpsman. The first Marine I saw was one of the platoon sergeants, he threw up his hand, pulled it down, put it backup, said, "ah, screw it, I am not gonna salute a doc gone rogue." Me being commissioned messed with their heads. But the Marines, they never, NEVER, knew how to interpret our ranks.
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For a while in 2010 the Navy was wearing ACUs, the Army digital. Put a Bird in the middle of some kids chest and they had privates saluting their asses all day!!! They couldn't figure out what was going on!
 
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