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05-23-2009, 12:03 PM
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No problem with responding in boxers but I think if I were there I might choose some other color but pink to wear to bed ...just in case .  Good Job joining the firing line though. |
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05-23-2009, 12:14 PM
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thats Army strong -lol
he is famous now ...
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05-26-2009, 01:08 PM
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Yes, his job is safe, but I wonder what nickname his rifle toting bubbas have given him.
Either way Stand up job!
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Originally Posted by Cool Beans
I remember right after Iraq took Kuwait, I was over there on a FFG and, as I was in the shower, we get a F-4 going "feet wet" and inbound. The ships calls General Quarters, and in 45 seconds, I am. soaking wet, in my coveralls and flip flops sitting on the weapons control officers console, tracking with a "bird on the rail" waiting for the CO to give the order. Been many a time, that we go into harms way wearing a towel and flip flops...
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You know that is old because "FFG" and "Bird on the Rail" are no longer found in same sentence.  |
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05-26-2009, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnR
You know that is old because "FFG" and "Bird on the Rail" are no longer found in same sentence. |
Yep, that was back in '90 or '91 on the USS Thach.
Stationed on 3 FFGs during my 20 yrs in.
I was onboard the USS Crommelin FFG37 around 5 or 6 years ago, when the FFG divestment team came around and removed the ol' one arm MK13 missile launcher we had.
After the FFGs got neutered, FC's were pretty bored, only the CAS radar, that lil 76mm gun and CIWS. |
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05-26-2009, 03:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Beans
Yep, that was back in '90 or '91 on the USS Thach.
Stationed on 3 FFGs during my 20 yrs in.
I was onboard the USS Crommelin FFG37 around 5 or 6 years ago, when the FFG divestment team came around and removed the ol' one arm MK13 missile launcher we had.
After the FFGs got neutered, FC's were pretty bored, only the CAS radar, that lil 76mm gun and CIWS. |
Too many acronyms. |
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05-26-2009, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Too many acronyms.
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Well, obviously if he knows the birds are gone from the FFG he knows most of the acronyms I used. Acronyms make the navy go round, I think we actually have guys assigned to do nothing but make new ones  |
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