The Official Status Update Thread: Part 116 - Internet. Friend or Foe?

[mbills2223]

Might as well just get a hotel with an indoor pool in Indy. Why waste the $$$???

For that matter, I've got a bathtub here at the house...

 

[nakinate]

Nah...I should just go to Florida if I'm not gonna live in a box in the slums for a week

You can stay with my parents. Save some $

 

[actaeon277]

It sounds like a lot to worry about.

Not really.
Too busy keeping the old girl working.
And we did "stuff" that had other Navies interested in finding or stopping us.
Which usually involved long boring hours punctuated by brief moments of shear terror.

So collision with a sub was low on the list.

 

[jagee]

For that matter, I've got a bathtub here at the house...

Now you're talkin

 

[nakinate]

Might as well just get a hotel with an indoor pool in Indy. Why waste the $$$???

Sybaris!

 

[mbills2223]

"stuff"

 

[Sylvain]

Just stick with 'Merican women!

I learned my lesson.

 

[jagee]

Sybaris!

Take your own sheets!

 

[Trigger Time]

Anyone that has been to Jamaica has to be aware that you can get skinned there.

Then they take your skin and make a dress for some little ***** to wear and then sell her.

 

[nakinate]

Take your own sheets!

QFT!

 

[mbills2223]

They have a good bobsled team

 

[mbills2223]

Any of you guys use mechanix gloves for shooting?

 

[Trigger Time]

Oh I so want to share her but just better not.

I can't wait to hear. I'm sure your stories make mine seem like a choir boy.

 

[jagee]

They have a good bobsled team

Hey Sanka, ya dead yet?

 

[jagee]

Any of you guys use mechanix gloves for shooting?

I used Mechanix winter gear gloves last week at FNS...but I wear them all the time in the winter.

 

[nakinate]

They have a good bobsled team

If you're not careful they'll kill you and use your body as a bobsled.

 

[actaeon277]

Could that even happen between two subs from the same nation?
I get that one nation wont tell the other where their subs are so accident can happen, but do they also keep their location secret from friendly subs?

Nations with subs usually do announce depths they'll operate at.
The won't tell how deep they go, so down in the deep it's iffy.
If they don't announce it, you'll figure it out. We'll log every contact, and some bean counter will read the log and say, "Nation Orange tends to operate at 200 feet, 350 feet, and 500 feet."
And then we avoid those depths.

Between our own nation, well, subs are the navy's sniper/scouts. We operate alone, away from other platforms.
The navy gives us a mission, and a track. We follow the track, which is a big imaginary square in the ocean. It moves over time.
If there's another sub in the track, is not US.
The navy doesn't really even know exactly where we are. They give us a track (box) to operate in, so they can tell friendlies to not sink a submerged contact right off, but to check it out. They don't want an exact location, because like a sniper, location and hiding are your only defense against incoming. If a spy were to steal our location from a desk somewhere, all he'd get is a huge chunk of real estate. And we'd have him in the crosshairs.

If for some reason 2 US subs are in the same space (we did that) then you coordinate a system on the depths.


Of course, changing depths means the whole depth thing is moot.

 

[Trigger Time]

More wood in the box.

That's what she said

 

[Trigger Time]

Any of you guys use mechanix gloves for shooting?

Used to a lot. Haven't used any gloves in a while though. I like them. I like nomex flight gloves the best

 

[jagee]

I wanna go shooting.