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To: Wombat101
OK, you are smarter than me on this, I give. I wasn't in operations.

It's oiriginally Russian, which means it's probably overengineered to the nth degree.

Chernoble (spelling?) was engineered by russians.

160 posted on 06/29/2005 8:32:57 PM PDT by kerryusama04 (How do you make a Republican a conservative? Put him in the minority...)
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To: kerryusama04

Again, I was ordinance and it's only because of an IG with a bug up his brass that I know anything about damage control.

See, the 6th fleet IG came to visit us on Ike one day and wanted to know why 300 aircrewmen were sitting around with nothing to do except wait for their planes to come back. So, a directive was handed down: all aircrew would be trained in damage control techniques, if they hadn't been already. So, when we hit Norfolk after deployment, we were shipped off to Basic Damage Control school at Willow Grove, Pa. where we spent several weeks learning how to put out shipboard fires. usually in the dark.

I picked up a ton of manuals to read (you can only read the same books so many times during a cruise) and learned a sh*tload about damage control. I had never previously realized just what a science it really is.


163 posted on 06/29/2005 8:42:47 PM PDT by Wombat101 (Sanitized for YOUR protection...)
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