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Navy Deletes Photo of Ship Captain Shooting Rifle with Scope on Backwards - “We’re Going To Lose A Major War”
Legal Insurrection ^ | 12 Apr, 2024 | James Nault

Posted on 04/12/2024 4:21:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: GOPJ
DO YOU WANT YOUR YOUNG SONS TO SERVE AS BOY TOYS FOR PERVERTS? KEEP THEM OUT OF THE US NAVY

When I enlisted in 1961, we had to fill out a medical form which listed what seemed to be every disease known to mankind and check off if we'd had it or been exposed. One of the items was "HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES". I guess that today that might be an enhancement rather than a DQ.

A couple of years into my hitch one of our shipmates was escorted back from liberty by two Shore Patrol Petty Officers, made to pack his seabag, and was removed from the ship under arrest. We later learned that he had tried to initiate sexual contact with a teenage boy ashore. We never knew he was queer.

81 posted on 04/12/2024 10:11:03 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: lodi90

Black Sea Fleet is the joke fleet. Russia really doesn’t care for it, and knows it’s trapped if anything happens. The Northern and Pacific fleets are the ones to worry about.


82 posted on 04/12/2024 10:12:43 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Or, that when commanded to fire on American Citizens they will only make the pretense of obeying any illegal commands along this line.

Their duty would be to turn their weapons upon THOSE WHO GAVE THE ORDERS.

83 posted on 04/12/2024 10:16:47 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Night Hides Not
"I did 8, because I wanted to command a battery, nothing more. It was worth the wait."

an Iowa Class Battleship fires its 16 inch guns.

How to get the most "BANG" for your buck.

84 posted on 04/12/2024 10:21:44 AM PDT by guest7
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how pathetic.....

give me a farm boy who knows how to work things and fix things over any of these perfumed princes in our military.....bunch of stupid wimps....

85 posted on 04/12/2024 10:23:38 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Chainmail
I was called to investigate an incident that occurred on a minesweeper in the mid-Atlantic where a sailor was seriously wounded by brass fragments in his upper thighs and groin by an exploding .50 caliber cartridge. That sailor's life was saved by surgeons aboard a Soviet spy ship in the neighborhood. It turned out that the Gunner's Mate had screwed the barrel into the .50 most of the way into the receiver and mounted it on the pedestal and loaded it - but told a sailor to fire it. It was between 3/4 of an inch out of battery, and when the trigger was pushed, all that unsupported brass sprayed back and downward into the hapless sailor.

How about some more details on this? I presume a minesweeper isn't something that normally carries a doctor. And I presume that the minesweeper was watching the Soviet ship, and I presume the Soviets knew they were being watched, so is that somewhat standard to call over and ask if they have a doc on board? Professional courtesy so to speak?

86 posted on 04/12/2024 10:31:30 AM PDT by Pappy Smear
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To: MtnClimber

Cmdr the USS John S. McCain

Makes sense

5.56mm


87 posted on 04/12/2024 10:36:46 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: Pappy Smear
"How about some more details on this?

Sure: I was a staff officer in COMNAVSURFLANT, Norfolk - 1979-81 and I was their go-to Marine captain for all things small arms, Naval Gunfire, investigations, and I was their only newly-minted Russian speaker.

The minesweeper was Translanting from the Med to Norfolk and they were about halfway across when they decided to train with the .50 - and they blew it up.

The Spy ship - an IGY - was also Translanting the other way and heard their call for help and closed with them and launched their helicopter. The lowered a casualty basket and then carried our casualty to their ship and operated on him - then brought our sailor back to offshore of Norfolk where he was flown to a US Navy ship to get him more treatment at home.

I was appointed the Investigating Officer and I translated the Russian report on their actions and observations. I don't know whether we appropriately thanked that crew but our guy would have been dead without their over the top rescue effort.

As I mentioned earlier, it was absolutely the fault of the Gunner's Mate - and his Captain - for scheduling a firing exercise so far from any American assistance and for totally unsat knowledge of the weapons in his care.

88 posted on 04/12/2024 11:14:32 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Which Battery did you command? Didn’t the “kiss of death” Fitrep ruin your chances?


89 posted on 04/12/2024 11:17:05 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: guest7

Yes it was.


90 posted on 04/12/2024 11:34:52 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Chainmail
It was a HQ Battery at Fort Bliss, cooks & clerks. They were mine for an hour a day. We used that for PT: 20 minutes of calisthenics, and a 2 mile run in formation. I led that every day. Our pass rate was nearly 99%. The 5 that failed passed it the second time around.

That old OER kept me from getting a Hawk or Patriot battery. I tried to snare a Chaparral/Vulcan battery, but the Old Man said I was too valuable to him as his S-4, and he was right. Higher HQ never messed with us in logistical matters. I used my accounting degree (lol, that got around fast!) and my experience as the Property Book Officer.

The only inspection I had as PBO included a 2 minute outbriefing: “Colonel, your Property Book is in better shape than when LT NHN was assigned to it.”

So many stories, interesting only to me…lol.

91 posted on 04/12/2024 11:58:44 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not
Oh, yes - so many stories.. Military service always has loads of stories because we are made up people, lots of people and with luck, travel all over.

I commanded a HQ Battery for while in Hawaii, when the captain battery commander was stricken with a very aggressive cancer and died, My first night in command, we had a mini-mutiny with our communicators and I had to go settle their issues and get them to get some sleep for the evening.

Fun stuff!

92 posted on 04/12/2024 12:20:44 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Chainmail

How long did you serve?


93 posted on 04/12/2024 12:35:24 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Night Hides Not

27 years: 4 years enlisted and 23 commissioned. Eventually commanded an M198 battalion.


94 posted on 04/12/2024 12:56:32 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Chainmail

Interesting. Thanks for the story. Even tho the US and USSR were staring each other down, nice to see some humanity.


95 posted on 04/12/2024 7:17:13 PM PDT by Pappy Smear
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