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08-14-22, 10:32 PM
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Sonar Guy
 Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: No Longer On A Big Grey Floaty Thing
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Back Online
Hello again folks; been quite a while.
I've been away due to starting my career in the Navy, and a quite hectic first sea duty (two deployments in as many years). I'm glad to be back here, and I started picking up SH3 again while underway, which inevitably led me back here. Hoping I've not missed any of this fine boat's crew, and figured I'd submit my name to the old man for roll call and see how both Subsim and her crew are doing. I look forward to hearing good news from you all, and wish you happy hunting! 
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08-14-22, 11:03 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
 Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy
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Welcome back!
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08-14-22, 11:11 PM
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Born to Run Silent
Join Date: Jan 1997
Location: Cougar Trap, Texas
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It's about time you showed your face again! Can we have a summary of your deployments?
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08-15-22, 12:03 AM
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Sonar Guy
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: No Longer On A Big Grey Floaty Thing
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Aye, I could do that. 2020 was a very interesting one...we left prior to COVID being a thing, and at some point were detached from our strike group to follow an adversary task force that was going way further than that nation's navy had ever done so before. So we went one way. Then back the other. And back the other. And back the other way. Stopped in Guam for 3 days liberty, which ended up being one and a half, since our target decided to turn back again and we had to be underway first thing to meet them. Followed them to a turnover point at the IDL, where we swapped off with a DDG out of Pearl Harbor, to which we then pulled into for a week. Around that time, COVID was started to get noticed, but still not big yet. We left Hawaii with big plans; we were being sent to do counter-narcotics in the South Pacific, and we had been told that ports such as Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Chile, and more were on the plate, with the possibility of going around to Brazil and even a chance to swing around Cape Horn. Right around then, the world went into lockdown though, and all of those visits were cancelled, with only one-day fuel stops here and there when the tanker had to return to the US. Weren't allowed off the ship in most ports. Most of that 9-month deployment was spent literally sitting and spinning, waiting for drug boats that never came. We were the flank guard for USS Pinckney, who really did most of the work (29 busts compared to our 3). That was also the deployment where the ship caught COVID, and we had to race back to a US port to quarantine and clean the ship. A lot of that deployment became a political statement to the world, sort of 'Hey look, this ship got crippled by COVID but they're already back out there!' sort of thing. Our 2021 deployment, though, was much more fun, if much shorter. We did single ship ops in-around Southeast Asian hotspots, got very close to China and their newest (at the time) carrier, things like that. I actually got to do my job, which was amazing, and even got to go to Japan for a week, which is an experience I won't forget! Went all around where I could, toured battleship Mikasa, and almost got to climb Mt. Fuji, though a typhoon canceled the trip the day prior. All in all, I absolutely loved the second deployment. Just recently came out of the yards and we're getting the ship spun up and the new crew trained. I'll be going to shore here soon, so I've been busy getting the new folk ready to replace me.
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"That flag and I are twins, born in the same hour from the same womb of destiny. We cannot be parted in life or in death; so long as we float, we shall float together." As much as I dislike it sometimes, I'm a tin can sailor, through and through. |
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08-15-22, 01:44 AM
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Dipped Squirrel Operative
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky
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^ Thanks for the heads up, and welcome back
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08-15-22, 02:34 AM
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Chief of the Boat
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: 250 metres below the surface
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Welcome back matey
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08-15-22, 07:31 AM
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Starte das Auto
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: The Fens
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A warm welcome back from us in The Bilge - and fair winds to you in your great career, buddy
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08-15-22, 08:26 AM
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CINC Pacific Fleet
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Down Under
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Welcome back!
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08-15-22, 08:54 AM
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Navy Seal
 Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gresham Oregon
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Welcome back!!!
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08-15-22, 08:56 AM
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CINC Pacific Fleet
 Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Denmark
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Welcome Back
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08-15-22, 01:54 PM
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Sonar Guy
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: No Longer On A Big Grey Floaty Thing
Posts: 395
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I did want to ask, do we still have any flotillas in service? I was thinking about getting back into that sort of thing, do a little bit of RP.
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"That flag and I are twins, born in the same hour from the same womb of destiny. We cannot be parted in life or in death; so long as we float, we shall float together." As much as I dislike it sometimes, I'm a tin can sailor, through and through. |
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08-16-22, 07:01 AM
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Navy Seal
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade
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Welcome back and happy to see you here.
I'm glad to hear your service and deployments are everything you had hoped them to be.
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08-17-22, 07:17 AM
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Born to Run Silent
Join Date: Jan 1997
Location: Cougar Trap, Texas
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Your first deployment sounds like a service experience that was really unusual, with Covid screwing up any shore leave. Glad things were better for your second one. Thanks for the summary.
 I'm not sure about any SH flotillas, most of my attention has been with Wolfpack. We have regular matches on Weds and Thursday, with a campaign being planned for Sept.
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