Career start crew - them scurvy dogs (TEC) - Page 2

Sniper297 · 03-05-14, 06:35 PM

Back on topic, forgot to mention - after torpedo room. If you're an S boat driver no gots one, Porpoise has two after tubes with two reloads, all others have four after tubes with four reloads. I know real life torpedomen have a lot to do (cleaning heads, swabbing decks, chipping and painting

) but ingame they have only one job, reloading tubes. Mechanical and Guns skills control how fast they reload tubes, but in the after torpedo room they only have to reload once after you fire all the tubes, once that's completed they might as well be passengers. The forward torpedo room in Porpoise has 8 reloads, Salmon/Sargo on up 10. Tambor on up has six forward tubes with 10 reloads so six tubes reloaded once, with four left over for a partial reload. Salmon/Sargo have four forward tubes so two full reloads and a partial. Porpoise has two reloads.

However you add it up the guys in the forward torpedo room have more work to do, so when starting a career I put the best rated torpedo POs in the forward torpedo room, after torpedo room gets whatever is left over, since reload speed isn't as important with only one reload per tube. Very rare to fire more than one shot per stern tube in a single battle unless it's a long one.

ETR3(SS) · 03-06-14, 10:36 AM

What's there to be jealous of? Climate controlled, stable platform, good food, some of the finest people you will ever have the pleasure of working with. Oh and we can destroy a continent in 30 mins or less!

And to match your 5MC, our 1MC for Battle Stations Missile:

"Man Battle Stations Missile for Strategic Launch, spin up all missiles!"

Snarf · 03-06-14, 10:56 AM

I remember hearing on the 1MC, GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS, PIRATE VESSEL APPROACHING FROM STERN MILE AND A HALF. Unfortunaltely we outran them. I would have loved to see the little skiff get lit up by the light fifties. Stupid ROE

Sniper297 · 03-06-14, 01:35 PM

I was on a boomer once.

fireftr18 · 03-06-14, 08:40 PM

Sniper, I'm glad to see someone is actually doing one of the stupid jobs I assigned. You're doing a good job, keep it up.

Berserker · 03-06-14, 09:03 PM

A thing I like about the Navy,when the Captain screws up and loses his boat not only do the Enlisted men die...Many times the bozo who zigged when he should have zagged is feeding the fish...Just like you..

SilentPrey · 03-07-14, 12:26 AM

That's the great part of attack aviation. We just throw officers at the enemy. Their screw-ups have to be particularly spectacular to kill anyone other than them.

Sniper297 · 03-07-14, 01:07 PM

Or happen on the flight deck, all too often a ramp strike, inflight engagement, or crash on deck leaves the idiot with the stick in his hand unscathed while the poor swabs running chocks and chains get the fallout. One incident that sticks out, we got a fire warning light so rather than going back to Independence (50 miles over the horizon) the pilots shut down that engine and landed on Nimitz, which was in sight when the lights and bells started. Parked on elevator 3 and were checking it out when an E-2 Hawkeye trapped- he had some kind of antenna wire with a 8 pound weight on the end he forgot to check retracted. Missed all of us, but bounced off an AB's helmet and knocked him over the side (fished him out, patched him up, he was hurt but no broken bones) then the weight went right through our tailboom at 100 knots, wiping out the tail rotor driveshaft. Ended up having to spend 2 weeks on Nimitz in our flight suits with no change of skivvies or socks before we got a new driveshaft.

03-06-14, 10:36 AM	#17
ETR3(SS) Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between test depth and periscope depth Posts: 3,021 Downloads: 175 Uploads: 16	What's there to be jealous of? Climate controlled, stable platform, good food, some of the finest people you will ever have the pleasure of working with. Oh and we can destroy a continent in 30 mins or less! And to match your 5MC, our 1MC for Battle Stations Missile: "Man Battle Stations Missile for Strategic Launch, spin up all missiles!" __________________ USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G) Comms Div 2003-2006 Qualified 19 November 03 Yes I was really on a submarine.

03-06-14, 10:56 AM	#18
Snarf Officer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: USS Tuna out of Pearl Harbor Posts: 243 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 10	I remember hearing on the 1MC, GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS, PIRATE VESSEL APPROACHING FROM STERN MILE AND A HALF. Unfortunaltely we outran them. I would have loved to see the little skiff get lit up by the light fifties. Stupid ROE __________________ "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" -David Farragut (probably repeated by many WWII sub skippers)

03-06-14, 08:40 PM	#20
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Sniper, I'm glad to see someone is actually doing one of the stupid jobs I assigned. You're doing a good job, keep it up. __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

03-06-14, 09:03 PM	#21
Berserker Aggressive skipper Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 328 Downloads: 2166 Uploads: 0	A thing I like about the Navy,when the Captain screws up and loses his boat not only do the Enlisted men die...Many times the bozo who zigged when he should have zagged is feeding the fish...Just like you.. __________________ Shoot,Move,Communicate..Kill,Destroy,Eradicate...

03-05-14, 06:35 PM	#16
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Back on topic, forgot to mention - after torpedo room. If you're an S boat driver no gots one, Porpoise has two after tubes with two reloads, all others have four after tubes with four reloads. I know real life torpedomen have a lot to do (cleaning heads, swabbing decks, chipping and painting ) but ingame they have only one job, reloading tubes. Mechanical and Guns skills control how fast they reload tubes, but in the after torpedo room they only have to reload once after you fire all the tubes, once that's completed they might as well be passengers. The forward torpedo room in Porpoise has 8 reloads, Salmon/Sargo on up 10. Tambor on up has six forward tubes with 10 reloads so six tubes reloaded once, with four left over for a partial reload. Salmon/Sargo have four forward tubes so two full reloads and a partial. Porpoise has two reloads. However you add it up the guys in the forward torpedo room have more work to do, so when starting a career I put the best rated torpedo POs in the forward torpedo room, after torpedo room gets whatever is left over, since reload speed isn't as important with only one reload per tube. Very rare to fire more than one shot per stern tube in a single battle unless it's a long one.

03-06-14, 01:35 PM	#19
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I was on a boomer once.

03-07-14, 12:26 AM	#22
SilentPrey Navy Dude Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 171 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 2	That's the great part of attack aviation. We just throw officers at the enemy. Their screw-ups have to be particularly spectacular to kill anyone other than them.

03-07-14, 01:07 PM	#23
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Or happen on the flight deck, all too often a ramp strike, inflight engagement, or crash on deck leaves the idiot with the stick in his hand unscathed while the poor swabs running chocks and chains get the fallout. One incident that sticks out, we got a fire warning light so rather than going back to Independence (50 miles over the horizon) the pilots shut down that engine and landed on Nimitz, which was in sight when the lights and bells started. Parked on elevator 3 and were checking it out when an E-2 Hawkeye trapped- he had some kind of antenna wire with a 8 pound weight on the end he forgot to check retracted. Missed all of us, but bounced off an AB's helmet and knocked him over the side (fished him out, patched him up, he was hurt but no broken bones) then the weight went right through our tailboom at 100 knots, wiping out the tail rotor driveshaft. Ended up having to spend 2 weeks on Nimitz in our flight suits with no change of skivvies or socks before we got a new driveshaft.