To All Our Vets...

[rhino 2]

Hey' i even had to pay for my own life insurance... So in case some Gook took me out' My Parents would collect 10 grand....

 

[Fredward]

I have a problem

I don't have a problem with burger flippers making 15 bucks an hr. Hell, that's still poverty wages. The real problem is our governments paying peanut wages to our military personnel. They deserve a hell of a lot more.

With the government setting minimums. 15 bucks an hour is about 3 bucks an hour less than a plumber in this state. My highest paid security officers make that. A person ought to get paid what they are worth, not some government mandated minimum. The minimum guarantees slackers and seniority will be the only standard. BTW, automated burger machines already exist, they just don't sell well due to their cost. Guess what? At 15 bucks an hour, the machine just became a bargain. Starter jobs will become a dead issue. Drones will replace delivery people. Yeah, it's gonna be great. The 3 people left working will bring in big bucks.

 

[Retired Army]

No body factored in food, housing, clothing, medical care and one operating M16 to include fire arms training plus ammo with 30 days paid vacation with full retirement after 20 years all included in military pay. In my case the military is making the payment on my trike.

 

[hogcowboy]

I'd much rather give that $15/hr to our active military than to give it to people that see flipping burgers as a challenging career. They are only going to cause automation to take their challenging job so they have nothing. Real smart move you intelligent idiots!!! But then you could join the military and see what being shot at daily if not hourly is like. But no, they'll just get on welfare.

 

[1dn5up]

Scott, Fuzzy, your not off base , I worked every week for some 40 yrs. Never filed for unemployment . At 60 it was either get out or go postal! Asked my boss if he could lay me off. What a look I got- so he did - so after one realizes how much they contribute into the unemployment system, I did not feel guilty filing for it. Recieved it for 1.5 yrs thru extentions ect. Then filed for SS at 62. 2 pensions plus my Ira at 65. Don't feel guilty about unemployment $ , drag it out as long as you can. The government is slick. They know that nobody will be able to max out on either.

*i

 

[Sully]

 

[Thor]

I don't have a problem with burger flippers making 15 bucks an hr. Hell, that's still poverty wages. The real problem is our governments paying peanut wages to our military personnel. They deserve a hell of a lot more.

THAT is it summed up nicely in a nutshell...

 

[rhino 2]

It's not that their not worth 15 an hour....Some might be.. But its wrong for for a whole generation to limit their careers to being hamburger flippers.... .....

 

[2Paps]

Now you've got me curious, it shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 Submariners to surround this whole group. How many of us are aboard the forum?

USS Triton
USS Sunfish
USS Spadefish
USS Thomas A. Edison
USS Stonewall Jackson

All those boats were decommissioned and cut up for scrap metal years before I retired in '93! Yeah, I served in all of them too.

 

[Bubba49]

Not a Submariner, but I tracked a bunch of em as a Sonar Tech and Ocean Systems Tech. Retired in 09 after completing 30 years and 24 days.

Bubba

 

[2Paps]

Not a Submariner, but I tracked a bunch of em as a Sonar Tech and Ocean Systems Tech. Retired in 09 after completing 30 years and 24 days.

Bubba

I'll bet most of them were not ours.

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Thank you! If it wasn't for the shipyards and repair facilities we wouldn't be able to do the things we do.

 

[wehrme]

In my younger years, my girlfriend and I used to go down to the lake at night, and watch the submarine races.

 

[Catfish]

In my younger years, my girlfriend and I used to go down to the lake at night, and watch the submarine races.

Yeah, I remember quite a few of those myself. :clapping:

 

[2Paps]

In my younger years, my girlfriend and I used to go down to the lake at night, and watch the submarine races.

Yup, me too! Had to start my career somewhere.

 

[rhino 2]

The phase Submarine Racing was the brainchild of Murray the ''K''... Somewhere around 1958/59.... I remember watching the races and listing to him from the back seat of a 59 Mercury with a hot rod Lincoln engine..ThumbUp..,.... Those were the days , I guess you can look back , But you can't go back...

 

[dbruce56]

My son was Navy. Tho not a Submariner, he was aboard a Sub Tender out of Guam when he was in.

 

[Bubba49]

Dad's really not in the Air Force.....Lol

 

[Retired Army]

Now for the burning question. What time is zero dark thirty?

 

[Bubba49]

USN retired, 1979-2009


Bubba

 

[Catfish]

Now for the burning question. What time is zero dark thirty?

30 minutes past midnight


India foxtrot. Yankee oscar uniform. Charlie alpha november. Uniform november delta echo romeo sierra tango alpha november delta. Tango hotel india sierra. Charlie oscar papa yankee. Alpha november delta. Papa alpha sierra tango echo. Tango oscar. Yankee oscar uniform romeo. Sierra tango alpha tango uniform sierra.

US Army 68/69

 

[rhino 2]

Now for the burning question. What time is zero dark thirty?

Its an unspecified time between midnight and dawn... I think it is a relatively new term.
When i was an RTO [1966] We/I never used that term...And also the term thats used a lot in the moves ''Over and Out'' is wrong... And nonsensical....
My ending call sign was 6-2- Charlie-Out.......

 

[dougv]

​India foxtrot. Yankee oscar uniform. Charlie alpha november. Uniform november delta echo romeo sierra tango alpha november delta. Tango hotel india sierra. Charlie oscar papa yankee. Alpha november delta. Papa alpha sierra tango echo. Tango oscar. Yankee oscar uniform romeo. Sierra tango alpha tango uniform sierra. (In honour of all armed forces wherever they may be) - Lets see who gets it and follows the instructions.

No official military training but licensed ham since 1968 to present and served with the ARMY MARS program for several years.

Thanks for all your service to this country to the many service men and women

 

[Catfish]

It is a synonym of 'oh dark 30' which is an unaccountable early hour. It became popular from the controversial 2012 action thriller movie depicting the Osama bin Laden raid, which was supposedly initiated at 1230 hours.

 

[Texan]

Wish my Dad was alive to see this....he would get a kick out of it. He was a bombardier on the B-29's out of Saipan and Tinain in the Army Air Force. Was on Tinain when they dug the hole..

8~\o

 

[Retired Army]

I received additional training in the phonetic alphabet. The drill sergeant said it's zero not oh for 0.

 

[Catfish]

Oh Dark Thirty for me as a grunt was more like Oh shit it is early.

The only time I ever applied it was in basic when the DI's would abruptly roust us out of bed at two or three in the morning to go outside and run us through 6 paralleled low crawl pits that were filled with water, mud, and dry sand on Logan Heights in Fort Bliss. But you are right, 0 is zero.

 

[Retired Army]

Now for another burning question. Which has more value, a +0 or a -0?

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Oh Dark Thirty for me as a grunt was more like Oh shit it is early.

The only time I ever applied it was in basic when the DI's would abruptly roust us out of bed at two or three in the morning to go outside and run us through 6 paralleled low crawl pits that were filled with water, mud, and dry sand on Logan Heights in Fort Bliss. But you are right, 0 is zero.

If I am not mistaken one of the reasons for pronouncing it zero is to avoid confusion when transmitting grid cordinance.