#navy stuff

So I’m assuming you mean this video:

There is....a lot wrong with this, but probably the funniest error is not that one dude has a callsign as blatantly childish and stupid as “Clown Penis” but that all the other dudes have cool callsigns like “Viper” and “Sidewinder.”

Actual callsigns of people I have flown with (including one that was temporarily my callsign before I earned ‘Pedals,’ but I’m not going to tell you which):

Maggot, Goo, FUNGUS (Fuck U New Guy Shut Up - and yes, I know the last two letters are swapped), Kweef, Skeetles (look it up on urban dictionary, I’m not explaining), Master (last name Bates - remember, all these names are written in their entirety on the side of the jet, so one jet in this squadron literally had “LT Tobias Master Bates” painted in big block letters under the cockpit), Raw Dog, Swamp Donkey, Noodles (it’s funnier/dumber in context)

Callsigns I have never heard on fighter pilots outside of movies:

Viper, Sidewinder, Maverick, Ace, Ice Man

Anyway, none of these callsigns, cool or stupid, would be said over the radio in normal comms. You would use whatever your mission-specific callsign was (for example: for a defensive mission, perhaps we would all be Shield, and all we would say to identify ourselves would be “Shield 1,” Shield 2,” Shield 3″ etc. Also, and I bring this up only because it is a thing in like, every movie ever and it drives me nuts: NO ONE SAYS “OVER” OR “OUT” Technically, IF you were to use it, you would only ever end your final transmission with “out,” because it means “Hey, I’m done with you now and I am turning off this frequency, this conversation is finished.” “Over” is a weird army thing, I think. No one says ‘Over’ in the air force or navy aviation.

But although this sketch gets the comms, the names, the implication that he named himself (a huge No in the fighter community), the fact that 50,000 feet is insanely high and not a normal operating area, afterburner is not a thing we go into for prolonged periods of time, and just generally everything else, there is one thing this gets painfully correct:

I pretty much have had no access to a kitchen since last PFA, except for 13 days in Feb when I still had all my kitchen stuff in my apartment. I had to deal with the stress of moving across the world with no decent kitchen but I made it work. Culture of fitness and all that. I wish my weight weren't such an issue. But it takes time to fix. The way I see it, I was 225 at my highest back in August 2015 and I have come a long way from there. Still have about 30 pounds to go but I can do it. It just needs to be slow and steady and not a crash. Something I can sustain for a loooong time. And allow me to try all this delicious Japanese food!

I have been waking up pretty much every morning to go on about a 3 mile run and that has really helped, I think. I logged 16 miles last week. Trying to start another half marathon training regimen.

OK gotta go to bed. I know all of my friends are starting their days but mine has already ended.

The acting secretary of the Navy announced Thursday that Captain Brett Crozier was being relieved of command due to showing “extremely poor judgement” in the form of a memo alerting Navy higher-ups to the dire COVID-19 infection rate on his ship...

Crozier’s memo ... asked permission to isolate much of his 5,000-member crew on shore in Guam to stem the spread of the virus aboard the Theodore Roosevelt. “Sailors do not need to die,” he wrote...

Fuck Modly, and his selfish, bootlicking, cowardly, treasonous weasel face.

I wish people who are not in the military would stop telling me that the military loves Trump.

I'm waiting to find out if a couple of guys I went thru deployments with are alive right now. If their kids are alive. I'm waiting to find out if one of them was the fucking shooter. Don't claim to support the troops while failing to protect them. Don't claim to care about children while refusing to protect them.

He WHAT?

Dude, I don’t even know if I want to laugh or cry at this point, so I will probably just shout across the house to my equally pissed off spouse, and field calls from every sea-buddy I’ve ever made because we are all pretty fired up about this.

He wasn’t even the actual SecNav, Modly was a place holder that 45 stuck in that slot after he fired the real SecNav for...not sucking up enough. And here’s Modly, trying so hard to suck up enough that he pulled down his trousers and publicly shat directly on thousands of sick American service members. He damn well better have resigned. I’m almost certain he had to be escorted by MPs off that ship after his idiocy, for his own stupid safety.

It’s not the worst thing any of our so called leadership has done since this pandemic thing kicked off (or before), but it’s particularly striking in it’s tone-deafness and blatant incompetence.

Hell, what I wouldn’t give for someone who actually knows what they are doing being in charge right now.

Anyway, whew, okay, not the time or place, but hey, thank you for the update. I need to go look into that. And also, thanks for the compliment - I’m blushing, I swear, you just can’t tell under the rage-flush.