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Yes, but not in a combat situation. I was on a non-combatant ship in the Navy for about 14 months, working as an ET(R) - Electronics Technician, Radar. We had 20 ETs aboard and had a nice workroom. We got a new division officer, a LT (jg) who wanders into our shop one day and starts nosing around. On a ship, we can't just pull in and swap out black boxes like some other services can when something breaks; we have to fix it. We had a cabinet that went from deck to overhead and had about 150 drawers, all steel. We used it to store components, like resistors, transistors, diodes, coils and so on. Resistors are made with a certain amount of electrical resistance, measured in ohms, like 10 kilo ohms or 20 mega ohms. The values are indicated by colored bands painted on the outside of the resistor body. This code is one of the first things we learned in school. Lt (jg) decides he wants to impress the CO, so he tells the Chief he wants us to measure every resistor with an ohm meter to verify that the markings are correct. The Chief can't say no (it is the Navy), so he says, Yessir, right away sir. So we all stopped working on everything else on the ship and sat around for two days measuring reistor values on the Simpson 260 VOM. The evening of the second day, the skipper walks in and asks why none of the Marines radios have been fixed and why the ship's navigation radar is down. The Chief tells him what we are doing and he hits the overhead. He tells us to get back to work and forget about the resistors. Two days later we pulled into Rota and the j.g. was gone. We got a new division officer, an ensign, who came by once, introduced himself, asked if we needed anything and told us to come find him if we did. We never saw him again.
 
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Dr. Internet said:
Yes, but not in a combat situation. I was on a non-combatant ship in the Navy for about 14 months, working as an ET(R) - Electronics Technician, Radar. We had 20 ETs aboard and had a nice workroom. We got a new division officer, a LT (jg) who wanders into our shop one day and starts nosing around. On a ship, we can't just pull in and swap out black boxes like some other services can when something breaks; we have to fix it. We had a cabinet that went from deck to overhead and had about 150 drawers, all steel. We used it to store components, like resistors, transistors, diodes, coils and so on. Resistors are made with a certain amount of electrical resistance, measured in ohms, like 10 kilo ohms or 20 mega ohms. The values are indicated by colored bands painted on the outside of the resistor body. This code is one of the first things we learned in school. Lt (jg) decides he wants to impress the CO, so he tells the Chief he wants us to measure every resistor with an ohm meter to verify that the markings are correct. The Chief can't say no (it is the Navy), so he says, Yessir, right away sir. So we all stopped working on everything else on the ship and sat around for two days measuring reistor values on the Simpson 260 VOM. The evening of the second day, the skipper walks in and asks why none of the Marines radios have been fixed and why the ship's navigation radar is down. The Chief tells him what we are doing and he hits the overhead. He tells us to get back to work and forget about the resistors. Two days later we pulled into Rota and the j.g. was gone. We got a new division officer, an ensign, who came by once, introduced himself, asked if we needed anything and told us to come find him if we did. We never saw him again.
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Lmao!
Surprised the Chief didn't tell him to eat a dick...maybe a little more politely. He definitely should have.

I know just from the fact that you had drawers of component level shit that you're way past due for a prostate exam and colonoscopy.😅🤣😂

Here's a "No shitter" for you-
When I worked on the Terrier system, we fried a resistor network of 150 high power resistors on a huge card in the power cabinet for the amplidyne motors on the director.
We didn't have a replacement onboard, but the EMs had a roll of toaster wire. We measured out the appropriate amount, wrapped a piece of pipe with asbestos lagging and installed it.
The skipper came up to look at the pipe just hanging in the cabinet and said, "This shit better work.".
We brought the system up and ran the bias and gain maintenance on the servo loop.
Worked like a champ till we got our casrep part in.
I still work in the Fleet Support industry. If you suggested something like that today, you'd be shot. Actually, you'd probably be force converted to a tranny and be forced to attend daily DEI training till you learned to like suckin a dick.
 
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Mhass said:
Lmao!
Surprised the Chief didn't tell him to eat a dick...maybe a little more politely. He definitely should have.

I know just from the fact that you had drawers of component level shit that you're way past due for a prostate exam and colonoscopy.😅🤣😂

Here's a "No shitter" for you-
When I worked on the Terrier system, we fried a resistor network of 150 high power resistors on a huge card in the power cabinet for the amplidyne motors on the director.
We didn't have a replacement onboard, but the EMs had a roll of toaster wire. We measured out the appropriate amount, wrapped a piece of pipe with asbestos lagging and installed it.
The skipper came up to look at the pipe just hanging in the cabinet and said, "This shit better work.".
We brought the system up and ran the bias and gain maintenance on the servo loop.
Worked like a champ till we got our casrep part in.
I still work in the Fleet Support industry. If you suggested something like that today, you'd be shot. Actually, you'd probably be force converted to a tranny and be forced to attend daily DEI training till you learned to like suckin a dick.
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You're correct, sir! I was '69 - '75. Swabbies can make almost anything work out of almost nothing!!
 
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C.J. Roberts said:
Marines have doing with less and less for so long we can make anything out of nothing. Adapt, Improvive, and Overcome.
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Probably because as soon as we (Navy) drop you off on the beach, so you can make war safe for the Army, we raid all your shit, so we can trade with the Air Force for good food.
 
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Dr. Internet said:
Yes, but not in a combat situation. I was on a non-combatant ship in the Navy for about 14 months, working as an ET(R) - Electronics Technician, Radar. We had 20 ETs aboard and had a nice workroom. We got a new division officer, a LT (jg) who wanders into our shop one day and starts nosing around. On a ship, we can't just pull in and swap out black boxes like some other services can when something breaks; we have to fix it. We had a cabinet that went from deck to overhead and had about 150 drawers, all steel. We used it to store components, like resistors, transistors, diodes, coils and so on. Resistors are made with a certain amount of electrical resistance, measured in ohms, like 10 kilo ohms or 20 mega ohms. The values are indicated by colored bands painted on the outside of the resistor body. This code is one of the first things we learned in school. Lt (jg) decides he wants to impress the CO, so he tells the Chief he wants us to measure every resistor with an ohm meter to verify that the markings are correct. The Chief can't say no (it is the Navy), so he says, Yessir, right away sir. So we all stopped working on everything else on the ship and sat around for two days measuring reistor values on the Simpson 260 VOM. The evening of the second day, the skipper walks in and asks why none of the Marines radios have been fixed and why the ship's navigation radar is down. The Chief tells him what we are doing and he hits the overhead. He tells us to get back to work and forget about the resistors. Two days later we pulled into Rota and the j.g. was gone. We got a new division officer, an ensign, who came by once, introduced himself, asked if we needed anything and told us to come find him if we did. We never saw him again.
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I try NOT to remember some of the FUCK UP's that my chain of command committed in Iraq. The unit we were replacing had some comments to me about it though. And the 1SG I was replacing wished me the best of luck...

I had some of those 1st & 2nd LT's that tried to push their weight around...
 
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