mnm Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Perhaps those 10% also cater for the maintenance of those three excelsior Traditions of the Royal Navy and I'm not alluding to Faith, Hope and Charity. The detached service men and women of the USMC will live through interesting times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Estes Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 (edited) Duty messmen , not cooks. To explain further: There remains a typical set of misconceptions that can cloud the experience of embarkation for all. This is the notion of some uninitiated Marines that the U.S. Navy exists primarily as a taxi service for Marines and should conduct itself in an appropriately service-oriented manner. Then, on the other extreme, are the occasional Navy personnel who think that Marines exist solely to interrupt a ship’s routine, clutter spaces, and make a mess of the paintwork on vehicle and cargo areas. Neither concept could fall farther from the truth. The amphibious force and naval aviation doctrines of the Navy and Marine Corps team provide one of the most striking military capabilities of the history of warfare, primarily through the unique concepts of teamwork, cooperation, and integration that have evolved over decades of training and operations. Your first charge as an officer embarking with your troops must be to create an atmosphere of teamwork, demonstrate the desired symbiotic relationship with navy counterparts. Accordingly, be prepared to readdress ruthlessly all instances of real and pretended friction that can rise from untrained and inexperienced personnel reacting to the obvious conditions of shipboard life. The CO of troops therefore functions with respect to the ship’s organization as another department head, reporting for the embarked detachments to the commanding officer and executive officer of the ship. Musters, duty assignments, working parties, and the all-important needs of the troops for training and maintenance support on board ship require much attention from the CO of troops. Many of the duties of the CO of troops also approximate those of the commander of the Marine Detachments of yesteryear, so your conduct places you equally at the forefront of tradition and an exemplar of Marine Corps virtues to our sister service.Shipboard duties for Marine officers embarked with their units may include the following: team embarkation officer, ship’s platoon commander, troop officer of the day/guard officer, billeting officer, troop mess officer, officer’s mess treasurer, and troop communications officer. These and other requirements are made clear by the ship CO before embarkation occurs, mainly through liaison with the advance party that your unit will send to the ship. Your unit will provide a standing working party (ship’s platoon), cooks, and messmen on a fair-share basis to assist in the functioning of the ship, which will be your collective home for the period of embarkation. Edited December 3, 2014 by Ken Estes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 HMS Unexistent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Perhaps those 10% also cater for the maintenance of those three excelsior Traditions of the Royal Navy and I'm not alluding to Faith, Hope and Charity. The detached service men and women of the USMC will live through interesting times. Rum and the lash have been outlawed while the last has gained legal protection........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lieste Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 HMS Planned But Not Built.HMS Fitted For Not With.HMS Budget Cut.HMS Bankers Tax Cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 HMS Rubber Ducky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 HMS Plannedbutnotbuiltable.HMS Fittedfornotwithable.HMS Budgetcutable.HMS Bankerstaxcutable. Fixed it just a little to make it more RN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnm Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 HMS UnfundableHMS ExorbitantHMS TaxcutHMS Chancellor We wont see a HMS Plenty again anytime soon. HMS Indegalbraithable does have a nice ring to it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sardaukar Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 God help us. That one would be sure to go under with the first shot. Then it should be HMS Ungalbraithable ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 God help us. That one would be sure to go under with the first shot. More like a "HMS Vasa 2" no shooting needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnm Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Now that you mention her, now that the Argentine economy is up shit creek and there is no possibility to invade anything at this point for the usual unifying cause, I'd have a suggestion. How about offering assistance to raise the Belgrano? I know it must be at some impossible depth, but the harder the cause the more pig headed they'll go at it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Respect for a war grave. There is a museum in Stanley, covering the history of the Islands themselves, not just the war. I imagine that there may be some points of dispute about the history portrayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnm Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Is your tongue-cheek proximity sensor out of service? The Belgrano lies at 4200m under. My previous post stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swerve Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 The Falklands sit on a relatively shallow shelf, but there's a sudden drop-off into a deep trench a few hundred km to the south - & that's where Belgrano went down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougRichards Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Perhaps those 10% also cater for the maintenance of those three excelsior Traditions of the Royal Navy and I'm not alluding to Faith, Hope and Charity. The detached service men and women of the USMC will live through interesting times. Rum and the lash have been outlawed while the last has gained legal protection........ The lash may be on its way to having legal protection, so long as it is consensual..... at least as a result of Operation Spanner 'the Spanner Case', which probably should have been called 'the Hammer case' as it involved the consensual nailing of penises to tables.... (no, I am not kidding, the English are a strange people...). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 ... The lash may be on its way to having legal protection, so long as it is consensual..... at least as a result of Operation Spanner 'the Spanner Case', which probably should have been called 'the Hammer case' as it involved the consensual nailing of penises to tables.... (no, I am not kidding, the English are a strange people...). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_BrownI See your nailing & hammering and raise you severing & frying & consuming allegedly consensual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swerve Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I see we're now into a "we're weirder than you competition". Any advance on consensual homosexual cannibalism (cut off, cooked, & jointly eaten)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beitou Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Didn't Maggie agree to the sinking of the Belgrano to stop it going into shallow waters were the Conqueror could easily lose touch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Or where Conqueror could be more easily detected and attacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Or because it was potentially a threat to the task force and being dead made it not so? Just sayin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnm Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 ... The lash may be on its way to having legal protection, so long as it is consensual..... at least as a result of Operation Spanner 'the Spanner Case', which probably should have been called 'the Hammer case' as it involved the consensual nailing of penises to tables.... (no, I am not kidding, the English are a strange people...). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_BrownI See your nailing & hammering and raise you severing & frying & consuming allegedly consensual. I looked upon the title of this thread, and behold! it was named HMS Queen Elizabeth! I wonder what the good lady might think of how this thread has turned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T19 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 She'd smile and say those chaps on tanknet have thread jacked another one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Or because it was potentially a threat to the task force and being dead made it not so? Just sayin'.Yes, that thought might have just crossed someone's mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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