A story about a slow night at an Air Force base
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I only discovered the USN's "still on patrol" tradition quite recently, and have to admit it hit me like a brick, right in the feels.
In keeping with this tradition the mission clocks at NASA for the two shuttles that were lost are still running.
That’s because most NASA personnel were Navy in the early days. Army pilots and crews went to the Air Force.
Darn it dockmaster, I thought we got rid of that group of onion cutting ninjas in the shipyard.
Well, that unexpectedly hit hard.
Courage, and godspeed to those who are still On Patrol.
Look for the shadow in the water when you see a pod of dolphins. Now that I’ve told you about it, you’ll see it.
I saw it during an ASW exercise. It was clear as day. It looked like the shadow of an old diesel sub in a pod of about 40 dolphins from my lookout in the back of an SH-60. It didn’t ping on the sonar, but you could see her clearly.
Fair winds and following seas, mates! We'll keep the beer cold and the "companionship" warm for ya when you return, lads.
This brought a tear to my eye. My great uncle was a USN corpsman stationed in Braaten in in 1942. He was truly one of the survivors of the "Death March" he weighed like 90 some odd pounds when his camp was liberated. He passed quite a few years ago now, but traditions like this and The Watch Ceremony have so much meaning to them. I do not care who you are if you are not moved by them then you truly dop not understand what every US citizen owes past and present service men and women that gave everything for you.
Your great uncle volunteered to be a corpsman. That’s a bona fide hero, without the death march. Most of the Navy’s Medal of Honor recipients are corpsmen.
The country thinks SEALs are heroes. SEALs thinks corpsmen are heroes. And there isn’t a Marine alive who won’t kill or die to protect a corpsman.
I look forward to meeting your great uncle when I regroup in the afterlife.
As a USN vet this hit home. I was not in the sub fleet, but had I chosen the job path they initially offered me I very likely might have been as the number of vessels that are not subs in that career path is quite small.
This has given me shivers and I thank you for sharing this. I feel that we owe all to our service men and women.
You're only allowed to skip temporal mechanics lessons if you arrive in a time machine you built yourself not less than 10 years from now....
Fair winds and clear skies. Absent Friends.
As always, thanks for sharing. Never really seens like enough considering the subject matter.
thank you, we needed that
WHO THE FUCK IS CUTTING ONIONS!!!! 😡😤😤
Ngl, that one got to me a bit.
Thank you, Dockmaster.
Happy New Year
I think this is like the third time I listened to this story like three time, it always makes me cry...
It is quite the story.
Thank you... USS Grunion 00126...
Even when you know what’s coming, it still hits you in the feels.
Never forget!
I believe a 1942 vessel would be thinking in terms of the army air corps. The USAF didn’t exist until 1947.
They've been getting annual updates for over eighty years. Long enough to get used to the change.
True, but the transmission description was 2023
In March of 1942, the US Army, Department of War, was reorganized into Army Ground Forces, Army Air Forces, and Army United Services of Supply, later to become Army Service Forces. Each of these had a commanding general reporting directly to the US Army Chief of Staff. The term Air Corps would have been obsolete after that time. Secondly, one component of the message sent to the boats on eternal patrol is a capsule summary of the year's news. The fact that the US military was reorganized into the Department of Defense and the Air Force given independent and equal status to the Army and Navy would likely be known to the men who had been receiving these messages annually.
Fair winds and following seas.
Whose cutting onions?
The story of how Jews, Lombards, Italians, Germans, French Huguenots, etc., came to England and laid the foundation for subsequent English practice, and later domination in several industries shows how vital trade and contact with the wider world is. When the movie "Black Panther" came out, I enjoyed it well enough, but I could never entirely suspend disbelief, because I know just how impossible it would be for a totally isolated society to grown into a technological wonder. The opposite would happen: they'd regress and become more primitive, not more advanced. There is historical precedent for this. The earliest human settlers of the island of Tahiti, enterprising mariners who made astounding voyages across the world's largest ocean, found for themselves almost a paradise. With almost a complete absence of hostile forces, abundant food, gentle climate, and a direct line of descent from those enterprising voyagers, and freed from much in the way of material need, one might expect their descendants to have created a great society distinguished by its art, its crafts, its music, or something.
They didn't. And in fact we know from archaeology that the Tahitians lost skills that had been known to their ancestors, including writing and pottery.
Isolated societies stagnate and then eventually regress, because they lack outside influences to stimulate growth and change, and they lack any way for outsiders to bring in new ideas and new skills -- which then inspire natives of that society to come up with their own new ideas and skills in response. The availability of some magical wonder resource like Marvel's fictional super-metal adamantium would not change this.
Adamantium was the super durable metal that Wolverine was infused with. Wakanda was rich in vibranium, which absorbs kinetic energy.
@@MichaelRainey thanks
@@AncientRylanor69 any time
Oh jeez wow. Quite the story told there, and one that I really needed to hear. Rest in peace to the submariners of the world.
This reminds me of the song Dawson's Christian
Have not heard that one in many years. Have to go find it now.
@@Fred_Lougee I highly recommend a remix version by artists Vixy & Tony, should be easy to find on youtube if you're interested.
@@G-Forces I actually checked that out last night. There were several versions on offer. I found that I still prefer the version on the Carmen Miranda's Ghost comp. A friend back in the day had that in his "Filk" folder, I sort of poached from it, became a fan of Longcor, Leslie Fish, Tom Smith, etc. in the days before good search engines. Unfortunately, all those songs were on a hard drive I never backed up, lost them when it got corrupted.
I can't help but be reminded of a particular line of dialogue in a particular Creed for a particular branch that I may or may not have been part of that specifically states in no uncertain terms that some people even after being lost in service will still eternally have firewatch. How reassuring. If you know, you know. Happy New Year's gents.
Semper Vigilans 🫡
On Shipyard we recognize Two-Oh-Two-Four.
The Midwatch in space is never a bore.
I am just a minion,
a minor Hyperion.
Dockmaster runs the Yard.
He is a major Bard.
The old man is sleeping.
My timers are beeping.
Twenty-four hours have come and passed.
Most of the ships have left en masse.
But there remain seven.
To go to cube heaven.
As I smile with glee.
My hand on the key.
My actions, have no fear
Will not taint the New Year
What was a ship is now a cube.
Fine print is important, you boob.
Kindly pay your bill now.
Remit to Sacred Cow.
For all still On Patrol: Thank you, and Merry Christmas. Over, and out.
Good one. I've got the Mid tonight. Leave the key to the cuber out.
Who let the Onion Ninjas in?
Despite my pilots concerns and complaints, I have always found a way to dock ships at this shipyard. I have some stories myself, running into a pig with lazers, a few Imperial troops (the uniforms were quite good but I couldn't tell you what or who they were representing) and even a handful of humans from earth...and those have been my best stories at your shipyard.
Cheers!
Rest easy brothers, we have the watch.
You just can’t do a normal Christmas/holiday episode, can you?
Damned onion ninjas anyway.
It wouldn't be SCS if we did.
R.E.D. Remember Everyone Deployed
And we will remember each and every last one of you
Fair sailing, men
I thought I knew what this one was going to be about so I saved it for my first video of the new year. I was correct.
Congratulations, Dockmaster, you've made an old, hardened sailor cry. As I type this, tears are streaming down my cheeks and into a beard as white as salt. Those who understand, understand; and for those who don't, I simultaneously envy and pity you.
Happy New Year!
A heartwarming tale both ways. The perspective of those still on patrol watching ever vigilant combined with the knowledge that they will not be forgotten.
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So if someone leaves a borg ship at the SCS, will it be compressed or not since its already a cube
There's a lot of empty space in those.
Never forget.
Armis have bases the Air force is a corporation. They have...atea 53
Bravo Zulu
yes a god one whas wording why the sub need to do that stuff its not a nukler one a old WW2 one desal elchic yes not looking it up the spelling drive me nuts yes a neat story but a good one see what have new in MMXXIV you have a HNY dock mater