Posted on 09/18/2017 9:31:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase
I have not seen it, but are you saying they had the same thing in the movie?
Modern day “Blind Man’s Bluff”.
I noticed that too. I wonder who gets their West Marine points?
It is, they are required to have the commercially approved gear when navigating ports and major shipping channels.
It has been this way since at least 1990.
That’s why the ship collusions don’t make sense, not only did they have their separate military systems they had separate commercially available systems that were operating at the same time.
Funny scene, think it was after winning their first engagement in Bruce Dern’s heavily biased exercises. The XO (Rob Schneider?) was blindfolded and walked off a plank....into a fisherman’s net and thus off the boat. Crew decked out in pirate gear, flying a jolly roger. Could have been a nod to the JR practice, or just a funny sequence.
KYPD
That doesn’t look like a Jolly Roger. Why didn’t they get a pic with a full flag?
My research into pirates as a teenager lead me to discover the term “slick legging” never had any facination with pirates after that.
Great book.
Is Captain Tom Dodge, Buckman, Radar, Nitro and Stepanak aboard??????????? LOL
Good God, why did I just Google that? You should have given me a head’s up there!
Ships/Sailors do funny things in the spirit of morale and camaraderie.
Probably a lot to do with the stealing of the Army Mule or Navy Goat during Army/Navy week.
SEA STORY??
Used to be a ship ‘back in the day’ that pranksters would paint over the B’s of the ships names.
(Supposedly) got so bad that Special Fan Tail Watches were set up to guard against the ‘painters’.
I would imagine that the Deck Div would have had their own ‘watch’ set up and any aspiring VanGogh may have lost an ear or two.
Ships name?
Brinkley Bass (DD-887)
Like I said ‘Sea Story’(?) but like all ‘legends of the sea’ possibly NO ONE ever witnessed such an event but the relater knows several people who knew people who knew people that think they saw it first hand...
ALL Navy ships have a ‘nickname’ My two The Henrico (APA-45) was the ‘Happy Hank’ and the Terrell County (LST-1157) was the Terrible T.
Of course ANY ship that visited certain Far East Ports automatically picked up the name ‘MARU’.
I’m with you. Whatever the reason is for the flag, I’ll bet it’s on the bottom of the ocean, never to be heard of.
Same one that decided to name a ship after a homosexual child rapist?
Did they go out and “Tag” all of little kimmy’s subs for easy reference?
I have a feeling that if you make a phone call from a missile base in North Korea to a tracking station on the south end of Sakhalin Island that is observing the sky over Hokkaido Japan, it might travel over one of these cables. Of course, not sure how could they ever tap one of those cables.
He also has the distinction of being the father of stealth. It was started during his administration and was so secret that he could not talk about it of take credit for it. Not that he would want the credit.
Operation Ivy Bells. US Tapped a cable in the Sea of Okhotsk in the 70’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
Maybe it returned early to get away from the female crew members having their monthlies?
Yes! That's September 19th. That has to be it.
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