Nads is a combat vet who disobeyed orders.....

[formerlurker]

She's already forgotten the retired sub captain who shared canned milk with her when the TEPCO radiation showered down on San Diego.


And now, the addled Mr. nadin, a non-commissioned officer, ordered an American nuclear submarine to travel across the Pacific on the surface, so he could plot a course with a sextant. Maybe that's why they got shot at. (On a nuclear sub, even when surfaced, would an addled non-comm like Mr. nadin have access to the conning tower? Or maybe his station on the boat had a window.)

 

[98ZJUSMC]

Response to JoeyT (Reply #22)

Sun Dec 30, 2012, 10:14 PM

nadinbrzezinski (114,342 posts)
25. Funny, the vets I know

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All they want is their va to be left alone, and Tricare.

They are also among the most jaded people you'll ever not meet, and quite anti war.

But hey, I guess it/ time to not fulfill that and wait for another march on DC.

Yes, we have an empire problem...take it with the political class that right now wants to take these services away.
 

Real convenient, jackwagon.  Everyone's anti-War.  Those with functioning synapses realize that there are times that war must be fought.

Empire problem?!?!?..........o'kay now, I am getting that headache again.

[Tucker]

She knows TiT?

TiT was a Green Beret in the USMC.

[FlippyDoo]

A couple of days ago I started a thread to help a fictional spirit-guide friend who is looking for a being that disappeared from a dimension that he oversees. His description of this being was: she's short, egg-shaped, condescending, thinks she knows everything, and is so unlucky that she probably couldn't win a contest between dumbasses.

Now look at the nadinbrzzzzz's post:

nadinbrzezinski (114,342 posts)
My luck is that I am married to a combat vet, my BIL is a combat vet, I am, from somewhere else, and the ones at Veterans for Peace I know are combat vets. I also know a SEAL from Nam, that makes the rest look like cheery people really.

It s a matter of luck, I admit.

She seems to constantly have problems with grammar, spelling and punctuation. If you take that into account and remove the comma from the portion in red it reads: I am from somewhere else. That somewhere else could be the dimension that's missing a know-it-all. More and more I'm coming to believe she is the one mentioned by my friend.

[NHSparky]

Do tell what combat her husband saw?   Anyone know?

Now while I will grant you that being on an SSN (as was her husband, but not the same one, thank God) has its moments where the "pucker factor" is and can be quite high for a variety of reasons, I've never referred to myself as a "combat vet" per se, although I am a Life Member of the VFW and a current member of the American Legion.

Been close to the bad guys?  Yup.  Been shot at?  Nope.  Would we have been had the bad guys knew we were there?  Probably, but that's the whole ****ing point.

So no, I as a submariner would not call myself a combat vet per se.

[NHSparky]

does that mean his sub cruised through a hostile fire pay zone once?

Actually, since Gulf War I, a lot of boats have made ops in the Gulf.  Mostly 688-I class or VA-class boats (non-VLS boats need not apply, apparently) but they do go there.  Not someplace I'd like to be, frankly--water in the Gulf is WAY shallow (average depth less than 200 feet) and one of the JO's on my first boat was CO of the Newport News about 5-6 years ago when he got "zoofed" by a Japanese tanker and got sucked up into them.  Not his fault, but still lost his command.

Nads:

the ones at Veterans for Peace I know are combat vets

Uh, yeah--no.  Most of the VFP geezers I've met are either pogues or poseurs.

[Charles Henrickson]

I am from somewhere else. That somewhere else could be the dimension that's missing a know-it-all. More and more I'm coming to believe she is the one mentioned by my friend.

[NHSparky]

Hand to hand combat on the mess decks when they ran out of ice cream.   

Ice cream?  Someone got ice cream?  Well **** me with a rusty chainsaw!  Hell, we were lucky to have our ice machine running more than once a year.  We never had a Coke machine on either of our boats, and considering both the reefer and freezer became freezers for long ops, we went immediately to the canned veggies and death milk.  Eggs went into the Valve Station (that's the in the bilges of the Torpedo Room, for you folks at home keeping score.)

[NHSparky]

http://election.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=233x9000

Uh.....  

I just can't.........    


Don't you need to actually see the stars when using a sextant?    

AHAHAHAHAHA.    


Stop.  Please. Make. It. Stop.

Uh, yes, yes, you would.  Most QM's know how to take a sun/star reading, but underway, the QM's work with the foward ET's (back in my day, only the Nav ET's were called ET's....now it seems that EVERYONE up forward is an ET...)

****, I'm a NUKE and even I know how to shoot a sextant reading, thanks to the idiocy that was the CPO exam back in the mid-90's.

[formerlurker]

Uh, yes, yes, you would.  Most QM's know how to take a sun/star reading, but underway, the QM's work with the foward ET's (back in my day, only the Nav ET's were called ET's....now it seems that EVERYONE up forward is an ET...)

****, I'm a NUKE and even I know how to shoot a sextant reading, thanks to the idiocy that was the CPO exam back in the mid-90's.

While I completely understand why whatever the equivalent of a navigator is on the sub needs to know how to navigate if the systems fail, the chances of taking a sub completely across the Pacific without using their nav system is slim to absolutely none (I would imagine the Commander of the vessel would have something to say about that).

Just having a hard time believing this latest fabrication.

[Skul]

nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Mon Oct-18-10 03:49 PM
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4. Hubby took a USN sub across the pacific using just   
Charts and a sextant.
These new fangled devices are a nice backup.
Yes he is old school that way. Very much a dying breed in the modern nuclear navy if you ask me.

Let me guess.  It was duct taped to the periscope.

I'm not the sharlest knife in the drawer when it comes to squid stuff, however...
It's kind of my understanding that those boats are escorted out to a secured area, and then they became sinkers for the entire trip.
When they came back, they turned into floaters again.

[vesta111]

Let me guess.  It was duct taped to the periscope.

I'm not the sharlest knife in the drawer when it comes to squid stuff, however...
It's kind of my understanding that those boats are escorted out to a secured area, and then they became sinkers for the entire trip.
When they came back, they turned into floaters again.

From what I have been told is the Boomers are escorted by the Fast Attacks and unless things have changed in 20+ years  they the FA serve as the Rottweilers to protect the FBM's from unfriendly company.

Is there any place on earth that is a Secured Area ????  Last I heard the North and South pole has become a parking lot for all country's that want to keep an eye on things.  With the number of Subs out there from all country's that have them, it is to be expected that a few fender benders will happen from time to time.  Only difference is we usually publicize our [oops ]where the other country's pertend nothing unusual happend.

Best photo I ever saw up to now was a American Sub that came up under the ice and when the crew came topside some one took a pix of all things a Polar Bear trying to eat, fight or mate with a stern fin.

I have been out of the Sub Navy for many years now as a dependent so I have no idea what changes have come about, Lot's I imagine, I speak of the old Navy, no females aboard --- War was a mans game to protect the woman and children left onshore.       

[DumbAss Tanker]

Actually, since Gulf War I, a lot of boats have made ops in the Gulf.  Mostly 688-I class or VA-class boats (non-VLS boats need not apply, apparently) but they do go there.  Not someplace I'd like to be, frankly--water in the Gulf is WAY shallow (average depth less than 200 feet) and one of the JO's on my first boat was CO of the Newport News about 5-6 years ago when he got "zoofed" by a Japanese tanker and got sucked up into them.  Not his fault, but still lost his command.

Oh, for sure; I don't recall any of them actually getting fired at by anyone, though.

[Big Dog]

nadinbrzezinski

They needed to be replenished at sea, (food and other stuff) and everything, from toilet paper to flour was replaced for Lima Beans

My Navy Veteran brothers and sisters, I have a new respect for you.

I had no idea you had to use Lima beans instead of toilet paper.

And I thought John Wayne toilet paper was a big deal!

[GOBUCKS]

Any sub commander who decided to cruise across the Pacific on the surface would enjoy a new assignment in Dutch Harbor until his separation from service.

[NHSparky]

Any sub commander who decided to cruise across the Pacific on the surface would enjoy a new assignment in Dutch Harbor until his separation from service.

Assuming the crew didn't toss him overboard first chance they got.

The only long-term surface transits I'm aware of in the last 25 years would have involved collision or propulsion casualties which would have made remaining submerged impossible, the main one I'm thinking of is the USS Helena when they blew up their reduction gears and had to transit/get towed from the other side of Midway all the way back to Pearl on the surface.

And yeah, SINS going down underway is bad enough.  Leave port without it, and people better get their resumes updated.

[NHSparky]

My Navy Veteran brothers and sisters, I have a new respect for you.

I had no idea you had to use Lima beans instead of toilet paper.

And I thought John Wayne toilet paper was a big deal!

It's not so bad once you soak them overnight, otherwise you get little bean chips caught in the crack of your ass, which make some really monstrously uncomfortable dingleberries.

[zeitgeist]

It's not so bad once you soak them overnight, otherwise you get little bean chips caught in the crack of your ass, which make some really monstrously uncomfortable dingleberries.

Um, um, ummmmmmm.  Talk about 'roid rage' this stuff would sure cure it.



Brings a tear to yer eye just thinkin' 'bout it don't it.

I can't count how many subs we backed down on during Springboard.   Always the same, they would come up on deck winking an blinking like little kittens, hooked up their safety lines, and, then tried to figure out how to undo their deck cleat.  Once they got that figured out we would throw over a heaving line to send out the hawser, then we would begin scrounging for coffee, ice cream, or whatever else we could get.  We were the original Pirates of the Caribbean when working the Vieques Straits. 

[Airwolf]

Um, um, ummmmmmm.  Talk about 'roid rage' this stuff would sure cure it.



Brings a tear to yer eye just thinkin' 'bout it don't it.

I can't count how many subs we backed down on during Springboard.   Always the same, they would come up on deck winking an blinking like little kittens, hooked up their safety lines, and, then tried to figure out how to undo their deck cleat.  Once they got that figured out we would throw over a heaving line to send out the hawser, then we would begin scrounging for coffee, ice cream, or whatever else we could get.  We were the original Pirates of the Caribbean when working the Vieques Straits. 

Oh yes Vieques Island. Good times there. To bad it only lasted for three days.