Base In The Philippines

[Jake]

 

Hey, while your avatar is too small to see much it looks like you are wearing a Mess Stewards uniform? You should get along well with Jake. When he is drinking too much he tries on his old Cracker Jack uniform and is soo proud when he can get the buttons to match up. Just don't tell him that his wife has let the uniform out... a few times! :hystery:

 

Oh yeah..... I have a marine friend who told me to tell you 'Thanks for the ride'.... whatever that means...... :tiphat:

 

As we RNs say in OB/GYN......

 

At your Cervix.......

 

Not a mess steward's uniform... Dress Whites or "Chokers".  Tell your Marine Buddy that I was a Corpsman for 21 years serving with Division before I got commissioned and see what he says to that.

 

WARNING -- RANT ALERT

 

Hey guys,

 

I believe what Bruce's friend meant was transporting and inserting a battalion of hardcore Marines on the beach.  

Combat corpsmen like NavyRN did not have the luxury of staying on board after the chit hits the fan.  He's out

there with the grunts dodging the bullets too.  

 

Regarding the possibility of US military using PI as a strategic staging and resupply zone, I don't think it will happen.  

As Bruce said, many politicians are very nationalistic and will only change their mind if they could directly benefit

their interest (deep pockets) with $$.  When the chit hits the fan in South China Sea, the smoking gun (adversary)

will have time to reload again.  Unfortunately at thousands of miles, the nearest asset is a carrier battle group along

with an amphibious battle group full of Marines with a hard on.  Perhaps the US Marines down in Darwin, Australia  

along with our fellow Aussie diggers will take care of business.

 

In the end, I'm sure those same politicians will be lining the streets of Manila, bending over to welcome their foreign

saviors.  But in order to save face, they will still probably say Yankees go Home.......but please take me with you!

 

OK, back to the normal scheduled programming......

[Bruce]

I believe what Bruce's friend meant was transporting and inserting a battalion of hardcore Marines on the beach.

 

Since I owned a gun and pawn shop for 11 years, I have met mostly returned marines and some navy. As I was in the army and that was back in 1973 when Viet Nam was winding down (I have no war stories, sorry), I understand... but not that much of the rivalry between the marines and the navy. While it is all in good nature, the marines take the position that 'they' fight wars (modern) while the navy is a mode of transportation (only). So the marines would say to the navy guys... Thanks for the ride!

 

I recently had a friend have to drop out of seal training after a severe concussion developed after another guy in the line of guys carrying a log over their heads tripped the down cam the log, on my friends head. Which was very interesting in that his older brother who, last year, was in marine OCS and caught a nasty brain parasite and was medically discharged. Bother said they were fine... I will be OK... but the upper management said nope, gotta go!  

[robert k]

 

I believe what Bruce's friend meant was transporting and inserting a battalion of hardcore Marines on the beach.

 

Since I owned a gun and pawn shop for 11 years, I have met mostly returned marines and some navy. As I was in the army and that was back in 1973 when Viet Nam was winding down (I have no war stories, sorry), I understand... but not that much of the rivalry between the marines and the navy. While it is all in good nature, the marines take the position that 'they' fight wars (modern) while the navy is a mode of transportation (only). So the marines would say to the navy guys... Thanks for the ride!

 

I recently had a friend have to drop out of seal training after a severe concussion developed after another guy in the line of guys carrying a log over their heads tripped the down cam the log, on my friends head. Which was very interesting in that his older brother who, last year, was in marine OCS and caught a nasty brain parasite and was medically discharged. Bother said they were fine... I will be OK... but the upper management said nope, gotta go!  

 

I'd have told them not to worry, they could always go civilian contractor. Blackwater is hiring. :)

[Jake]

I don't know what to compare the current activity to, but it seems that we have quite a few Navy ships stopping into Subic.  Nothing too big though.  Most looked liked support ships and only 1 or 2 at a time.  The sailors seem to have fairly liberal shore leave and are able walk around a lot.  One thing that is different from the 90's when the base closed is that now there are a lot of female sailors.

Hey guys,

 

There have been several warship visiting Manila and Subic over the years, Including Los Angeles class

nuke submarines.  I was mostly on the smaller escort ships -- frigates, destroyers and missile cruisers.  

Although I retired prior to our latest tin cans (Arleigh Burke class), I would love to drive her at flank speed

and then do a crash back (all back full) and see how many dishes I could destroy.....he, he.  

 

The lines on the DDG-51 class destroyers is designed for speed and stability, which enables launching

of all weapon systems at high sea state.  If you happen to see an Arleigh Burke destroyer berthed at

Subic or Puerto Princessa, Palawan, please check her out.  One of the most sexist warships ever built! 

 

 

Respectfully -- Jake (retarded Masterchief, Combat System Tech)

[Bruce]

Jake,

 

This is a new class? Looks like a simple old design twin screw (now don't get excited) ship to me. No electric motors, no bow thrusters, no climbing rock, no tiki bar, no pool, no lido deck..... Hell swabby! I do not even see the poop deck! :hystery:

[Mike S]

As far as I know the Marines never had a medic corps but we had the Navy corpsmen and believe you me we were damn glad to have those guys .... although they took an awful lot of ripping from us .... kinda like the Marines serving about ship .... called ocean going bell-hops ..... mainly to guard the commanding officer ..... they took a lot of ribbing from the sailors .... as I said before I was on the USS Guadalcanal for a while and have lots of good ol' sea stories to tell ..... :dance:  :hystery:  :hystery: 

:cheersty:  

[earthdome]

There have been several warship visiting Manila and Subic over the years, Including Los Angeles class nuke submarines.  I was mostly on the smaller escort ships -- frigates, destroyers and missile cruisers.   Although I retired prior to our latest tin cans (Arleigh Burke class), I would love to drive her at flank speed and then do a crash back (all back full) and see how many dishes I could destroy.....he, he.  

 

I got to do a number of back emergency from ahead full on the nuclear submarine, one after another while they were trying to shake off a fishing net that got caught on the sail. Tricky on a nuclear sub, you have to watch reactor power so you don't trip the reactor offline. I was a trainee at the time. After a few times the qualified watch stander pushed me aside so he could do a few! He had never done this before.

 

Man does that submarine shake when you go from ahead full to emergency back!!!

 

Oh, we had to surface so that the heavy steel cables from the fishing net of an ocean going trawler could be cut off. USN had to pay $250K in damages to the fishing trawler.

[robert k]

 

There have been several warship visiting Manila and Subic over the years, Including Los Angeles class nuke submarines.  I was mostly on the smaller escort ships -- frigates, destroyers and missile cruisers.   Although I retired prior to our latest tin cans (Arleigh Burke class), I would love to drive her at flank speed and then do a crash back (all back full) and see how many dishes I could destroy.....he, he.  

 

I got to do a number of back emergency from ahead full on the nuclear submarine, one after another while they were trying to shake off a fishing net that got caught on the sail. Tricky on a nuclear sub, you have to watch reactor power so you don't trip the reactor offline. I was a trainee at the time. After a few times the qualified watch stander pushed me aside so he could do a few! He had never done this before.

 

Man does that submarine shake when you go from ahead full to emergency back!!!

 

Oh, we had to surface so that the heavy steel cables from the fishing net of an ocean going trawler could be cut off. USN had to pay $250K in damages to the fishing trawler.

 

Just imagine the stories the trawler crew has to tell of the one that got away. :hystery:  :hystery:

[earthdome]

 

 

There have been several warship visiting Manila and Subic over the years, Including Los Angeles class nuke submarines.  I was mostly on the smaller escort ships -- frigates, destroyers and missile cruisers.   Although I retired prior to our latest tin cans (Arleigh Burke class), I would love to drive her at flank speed and then do a crash back (all back full) and see how many dishes I could destroy.....he, he.  

 

I got to do a number of back emergency from ahead full on the nuclear submarine, one after another while they were trying to shake off a fishing net that got caught on the sail. Tricky on a nuclear sub, you have to watch reactor power so you don't trip the reactor offline. I was a trainee at the time. After a few times the qualified watch stander pushed me aside so he could do a few! He had never done this before.

 

Man does that submarine shake when you go from ahead full to emergency back!!!

 

Oh, we had to surface so that the heavy steel cables from the fishing net of an ocean going trawler could be cut off. USN had to pay $250K in damages to the fishing trawler.

 

Just imagine the stories the trawler crew has to tell of the one that got away. :hystery:  :hystery:

 

 

Yeah, we didn't even notice we had caught the net. Sonar just reported abnormal hull noises from the steel cables bouncing agains't the side of the hull.

 

The fishing boat got jerked around and almost sunk before the let the fishing nets go.

[i am bob]

Ok, guys and gals, let's get this one back on track!

 

Since I was Air Force...   

 

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