Happy Birthday Navy!

[namvet]

USS Reasoner (FF-1063) a Knox class frigate laid down in 1969, Decommissioned in 1993 and sold to Turkey. Sunk in a Live Fire exercise by Turkey sometime after 2005 in the Med.

and the village people went down with it. I hope

[Gunny]

Allowing for Magnetic Deviation and Variation I could reliably navigate you almost anywhere on the ocean with a chart, a stop watch and basic Navigation equipment...

Like I said, that's why I don't drive the damned boat.

I honestly do know how to navigate. Just trying to inject some Marine humor.

If you were REAL good, you could outrun a typhoon and keep the ship going with the water so ain't rocking and rolling the whole trip AND get where you're going. And what the crap is the stop watch for?

[Voted4Reagan]

Seeing Stars again; Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/n...009-story.html

A compass, an accurate Chronometer, a Chart and a Sextant....

Worked well before the days of electronic Navigation...

[Voted4Reagan]

And what the crap is the stop watch for?

Elapsed time over a course between 2 sightings gives you your speed...

[Gunny]

Elapsed time over a course between 2 sightings gives you your speed...

Again, now you know why I don't drive the boat.

There's a joke about the rope on the anchor in the Marine Corps Eagle, Globe and Anchor ... it's called a "fouled anchor" because we're not allowed to drive the boat. The squids actually prefer we not even touch anything on their boats. Was up to them, they'd haul us behind with a tow rope in a damned flatbottom trailer.

[Bilgerat]

Like I said, that's why I don't drive the damned boat.

[Voted4Reagan]

Yup... Coasties drove the Landing Craft in WWII

[Gunny]

Yup... Coasties drove the Landing Craft in WWII

Did a lot of the river ops in Nam too. Here's the weird part .... the Coast Guard was part of the Department of Transportation until some time in the early 90s. Some things just can't be explained.

[Bilgerat]

Did a lot of the river ops in Nam too. Here's the weird part .... the Coast Guard was part of the Department of Transportation until some time in the early 90s. Some things just can't be explained.

Uncle Sam's Confused Group has been "bounced" around for a LOT of years.

7 August 1789: The service, eventually to be known as the U.S. Lighthouse Service, was established under the control of the Treasury Department. This, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service would be merged into the US Coast Guard later.

6 April 1917: With the declaration of war against Germany, the USCG was transferred (by executive order) to the Naval Dept.

28 August: Back to the Treasury Dept.

1 November 1941: Back to the Navy

1 January 1946: Back to Treasury

1 April 1967: Executive Order 167-81 transferred the Coast Guard to the newly formed Dept. of Transportation.

1 March 2003: The Coast Guard was formally transferred to the newly formed Dept. of Homeland Security.

[Gunny]

Uncle Sam's Confused Group has been "bounced" around for a LOT of years.

7 August 1789: The service, eventually to be known as the U.S. Lighthouse Service, was established under the control of the Treasury Department. This, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service would be merged into the US Coast Guard later.

6 April 1917: With the declaration of war against Germany, the USCG was transferred (by executive order) to the Naval Dept.

28 August: Back to the Treasury Dept.

1 November 1941: Back to the Navy

1 January 1946: Back to Treasury

1 April 1967: Executive Order 167-81 transferred the Coast Guard to the newly formed Dept. of Transportation.

1 March 2003: The Coast Guard was formally transferred to the newly formed Dept. of Homeland Security.

Damn. And I thought "we" were Uncle Sam's Misguided Children.