While I am sure you have all figured out I am more of a Farside kinda guy I hope the Great Pumpkin smiles on you this fine Halloween. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh yea here is a good scare:

We are all being recalled for active duty. EEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

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We are all being recalled for active duty. EEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Well, speak for yourself... they CAN'T call me back. Not unlessn they start lettin crippels back in.

I'm ready and the suit still fits! Ivan is cranking up and I've got a lot of experience with those bastards. Let's go kick some aZZ! No NUBS, just qualified, nasty, hell-raisin' submarine sailors. I've got the deck and the conn! Take in all lines!!!

"Mack the Knife"
CDR USN (Ret)

Let me have line one going out, and give me underway watch section two, in sonar. Heck, if it's Mack that's the Skipper, I'll even requalify Sonar Supe.

Just go easy on me when it comes to stores load. Those TDU weights are heavy!

I thought Mac was already the CO of the sub? And we were discussing getting funding and what our mission was??

Well it has been a few years but I did cross qualify Sonar and Fire Control. But I would be happy running the ESM/Radar again.

I am sure they have a few extra hulls we could fix up in Bremerton.

AAAAARRRRRROOOOOOOGGGGGGGGAAAAAHHHHH

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Originally posted by Navywifeinparadise:
I thought Mac was already the CO of the sub? And we were discussing getting funding and what our mission was??

Yeah, well, we missed the last funding cycle - so we had to start over with a new justification and such. Besides, some of us are old - and we had a 'senior moment'!

BTW, NWIP - how's your new duty station?

"Mack the Knife"
CDR USN (Ret)

I volunteer as a NUB FSA (crank) with goal of qualifying as culinary specialist without having to qualify for any other duty. LOL.

I guess, after twenty years as a nuke, I am qualified to push..

If you're talking boomer I'll wave from the pier but if it's Long Black Fast Attack I'll do bomb watch and various other A-Gang stuff . Long as I don't have to climb thru hatches too often I'm good .

Assuming we get a 688....no stairs for you to climb unless you want to eat....(g)

How goods the cook , stairs no prob . Ducking the head and getting hips and knees to bend accordingly to get thru hatchs gets a lil ruf . Some joints complain about prior treatment/abuse .

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Originally posted by nhegge:
How goods the cook , stairs no prob . Ducking the head and getting hips and knees to bend accordingly to get thru hatchs gets a lil ruf . Some joints complain about prior treatment/abuse .

If they'll let me on with a cane... you can come with your little aches and pains.

Hey, Mack....are we going British navy (wet) or US Navy (dry)? Seems like an important decision....

Brit works for me - look at the HMS Astute - they run nukes real well...

"Mack the Knife"
CDR USN (Ret)

Splicing the mainbrace sounds good to me.

Yum Beer and Rum on a Boat. I had the unusual pleasure of loading beer on a submarine. An Aussie Boat that was on our pier in Pearl Harbor. Victoria Bitters MMMMMMMMMMMM. An excellent beer that sadly cannot be had here in the states.

Just needed to make sure. Seemed awfully important at the time.


I'll push. And I'll do DC. And I can even help with the diesel.

Qualified Lookout,topside and belowdecks watch.
Helmsmen/Planesmen. Sonar Operator and Supervisor. I have also loaded a few torpedoes in my time too.
Mack let me know when its time to "station the manuvering watch and make all prepreations for getting underway". Lets go with a smokeboat because being a non-nuc I would like a crack and running a Rockcrusher...Operate 2 big CATS a Waukesha and 3 Superiors now. Along with all sorts of pumps and motors to push thru 60MGD worth of wastewater in a days work. I will even try to get an old shipmates formula for holiday rasin hooch to boot!!!

Sludge

You're hired, Sludge! Gotta be a smokeboat. Works great in the littorals. Little holiday raisin hooch wouldn't hurt, either. We used to splice the mainbrace all the time when on patrol in a smokeboat...with USN-issued hooch, too. But that's another story.

"Mack the Knife"
CDR USN (Ret)