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The Hater's Guide to the Coast Guard
This is the last in a series about how branches of the military hate on each other. We featured all branches of the U.S. military, written by veterans of that branch being brutally honest with themselves and their services.
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articl...-s-coast-guard
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We are NOT ridiculously mean to each other. Y'all deserve all the beatin's y'all get.Originally Posted by Bilgerat
Take us out on some tin can in the middle the ocean trying to see who you can get sick. Might as well send us to San Quentin for all the freedom we have.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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We are NOT ridiculously mean to each other. Y'all deserve all the beatin's y'all get.
Take us out on some tin can in the middle the ocean trying to see who you can get sick. Might as well send us to San Quentin for all the freedom we have.
What, a little rolling isn't bad
Like these on the Cutter Sherman
Unabashed Boatswain's Mate
I had a few days like that on the much smaller 210, USCGC Venturous.
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I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!
Just Me
I actually got my best bench press ever on board the USS Boxer. And no, it was NOT rolling in my favor.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
Educate man, Liberate man
As a 30 year Navy man. I never had any hatred, or anger for the Coast Guard. As for those photos of Listing ships. My first ship in 1965 was the LASALLE LPD-3, a flat bottom gator. And I remember the competitions we had on the main deck passageways in Heavy Seas, where many of us tried to get as many FOOTPRINTS on the passageway bulkheads before the ship leveled out for a few seconds.
Then, later on. I served aboard the USS DAHLGREN DDG-43 (actually a longer TIN CAN to sailors). And it wasn't unusual to be in heavy seas that threatened to capsize the ship many times.
That was where the new guys either learned to survive, or they spent days GREEN, and NOT HUNGRY.
I love to make Liberals Cry, and Whine.
So, this is for them.
GOD BLESS AMERICA - IN GOD WE TRUST !
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USS Cleveland (LPD). I HATED that damned boat. I wanted to kill everyone on it before we were 30 days out. Nothing worse than getting stuck with a bunch of whiny, immature brats complaining about everything in a 10x10 "cell". You'd have thought the world had ended for them.
My biggest wish was that someone would bring back that old flat-bottom USS Juneau and put their asses on it so they could see what REAL ride was like. Those things don't cut water, they bounce on it.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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Hey, big deal. I survived THIS ship last May! In the rough waters of the Mediterranean, no less.
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
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You couldn't get ME on THAT thing. That's capsizing waiting to happen it's so top heavy.Hey, big deal. I survived THIS ship last May! In the rough waters of the Mediterranean, no less.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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The 210 class. Let's take a 378 and cut a "chunk" out of it.
And the bastardization didn't stop there. Designed to use helo's to extend it's "reach", the ships had no stacks. Exhaust was piped through the hull and out the stern, making life miserable for the DC's (who's shop was in the path of said exhaust) and the Bosn's who had to scrub the stern from said exhaust
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See? I am so brave!
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
Just Me
Uh huh. Brave isn't exactly the word I had in mind.See? I am so brave!
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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Uh huh. Brave isn't exactly the word I had in mind.
Not one of my top qualities, I have to admit. Not when I run in panic from a wasp!
Although childbirth without pain meds requires a certain amount of bravery.
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box - Author unknown
“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
-Abbey
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That ship's got to be taller than it drafts. That's just asking for it, IMO. I know people say it's okay because they stay in the "calm" waters of the Caribbean, but guess where all the hurricanes go?
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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