ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
Was the recent ballistic missile scare over Hawaii really false flag operation? Somebody pressed the wrong button? Really? Think about it......Decades after the cold war nothing similar has happened. Only now when Rocket Man' may have the capability to deliver a Nuke to our shores. Suddenly we have a ballistic missile alert that turns out to be false.
It was a state exercise and some nimrod pushed the wrong button. That is all.
Relax and have a nice day!
Ya....I hear ya. Just seems strange that it would happen now.
Idiots happen all the time!
We had a saying in the Navy. "There is no such thing as anything that is sailor-proof." There is always a bigger idiot sailor waiting to prove you wrong.
ABikerSailor can back me up on this!
Yep. Admiral is right on this one. But, in some cases, the idiocy can be so legendary, that it takes a while for a bigger idiot to come along.
I've been witness to several of those. The most notable one I can think of we nicknamed "Chowline", because he fell for damn near every prank in the book. He actually went looking for 50 ft. of chowline.
The best one was when we sent him after batteries for the sound powered phones. He went to every deck of every hold looking for them, and finally an SK2 gave him a 50 lb box of small weights that he carried from the bottom of Hold 2 all the way up to the bridgewing. When he got there, he gave the box to a YN2 who was teaching him how to stand watch, and when Joe opened them up, he said "you idiot, these are the wrong size!". Dude damn near started crying because he'd been running around the ship for around 45 min.
The rest of us were rolling on the floor laughing at him.
By the way, sound powered phones are just that, they are powered by sound. No batteries required.
Yeah, relative bearing grease, flight line, mail buoy watch, sea bats, BT punch, etc!
Although, to be fair, there are also people who are legendary for their ability to get the job done, even when it sounds impossible.
Had a BT on my first ship that was told by the Chief to fetch a bucket of steam. Now, normally, that is something that is damn near impossible to do, but this guy went down to the HT shop, grabbed some metal, and made a bucket with a top on it with a heating element in the bottom. He filled it with a bit of water, lit off the heating element and took the bucket to the Chief, where he let off a pressure release valve and steam came out.
The whole shop was impressed.