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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ASTAC on July 09, 2006, 05:03:52 PM
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This coming Friday, I will be free of Virginia Beach.
After being stuck here for 8 years, I'm finally getting the F--- outta here!
Not to mention I'll be lucky enough to be stationed in my hometown.
Can anyone guess the city?
(http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/wgimages/BN2624_44.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c224/daveman123/D1.jpg)
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Jacksonville.
Saw the Modis building with my own eyes last week :)
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Would it have thrown you off with a much older picture with the original name of the building on it?
(http://www.cheuvront.com/ind_life.JPG)
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wouldn't have had a clue.
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Congrats!
I was stuck in Norfolk for 3 years 3 months and 18 days.
I feel your pain.
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And just what is so wrong about the tidewater area?
ASTAC I bet you'll wish you were still here after a cat 4 rolls across Florida this fall.
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Originally posted by dmf
And just what is so wrong about the tidewater area?
ASTAC I bet you'll wish you were still here after a cat 4 rolls across Florida this fall.
Lived in Jax area all my life..never once got a direct hit from any hurricane..hell not even really a glancing blow.
Sorry..no offense to native Virginians..I don't like the people here, really don't like the local government or law enforcement (especially the law enforcement), or the weather (it's dreary alot of the time). The roads suck..no one knows how to drive which makes bad roads even worse.
BTW..Va Bch DESERVES to lose NAS Oceana..and I think it's screwed up how they fell far short of fulfilling the demands of the BRAC commission..instead thumbing their noses at BRAC and saying "This is all we are willing to do..what other alternative do you have?"...Maybe Jax will come to it's senses and let them re-open Cecil..it was always a much nicer base anyway.
May a Cat 5 somehow make it's way this far north and scrub the earth clean of this stinky ****-hole.
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The further west you go in the state the better it gets. :D
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All I remember about Jax is they had some top notch ta-ta bars.:)
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Florida? *shivers*
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Originally posted by United
The further west you go the better it gets. :D
There... fixed...
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I tend to disagree...seems to me if you go too far west it would be:
"The futher west you go, the more LEFT it gets"
Since my only options out of the east coast area would be the west coast..I say..NO THANK YOU..waaayy to expensive..and way too liberal a place for me.
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See you should have joined the ARMY lol J/K have fun dont ever get out stay in as long as you can trust me. It will suck at first but after the first year its all good.
RED 25 1/33rd FA 2yrs Bamberg Germany, 1yr Iraq Opperation Task Force Danger.:aok :aok :aok
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Originally posted by red26
See you should have joined the ARMY lol J/K have fun dont ever get out stay in as long as you can trust me. It will suck at first but after the first year its all good.
RED 25 1/33rd FA 2yrs Bamberg Germany, 1yr Iraq Opperation Task Force Danger.:aok :aok :aok
Thanks..but d00d..I've been in like 13 years so far :D
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Ah well my bad um thought you were going to boot in 5 days? I guess your going home in 5 days right. Well sorry for the confution there. Well if your comming home Welcome back
:aok :aok
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Just happen to be getting stationed in my hometown is all LOL
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Um.....well...oh
In that case congrats!! I wish wile I was in the Army I could have at least got stationed in Texas. Um what is your job or as we call is MOS??
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I am an Operations Specialist 1st Class (E-6) a.k.a. OS1 (radar, radio, navigation, tactics, targeting)
Soon after we merge with the quartermasters we will expand to celestrial and visual navigation, shiphandling, and flag and light signals (they merged with the Signalman last year)
I have a specialty in Anti submarine/Surface Tactical Air Control (ASTAC) where I control P-3C Orion patrol aircraft in surveillence and targeting and ASW, and primarily control shipboard SH-60B Seahawks in ASW and Anti-surface Serveillance and Targeting operations.
I have been an Air Control instructor for the past 3 years, and will transfer to a Frigate USS MCINERNEY (carries 2 Seahawks) as one of 2 ASTAC's
I'm really looking forward to this assignment since my last ship was a DDG-51 Flight 1 class ship and carried no Helo's so my actual control time is a moderate 400 hours spread over 4 years. On a FFG in the same amount of time I could do over 1000 hours.
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Originally posted by United
The further west you go in the state the better it gets. :D
I'll add, the further North and West you get, the better it gets. :) Traveled to 42 states, lived in 5 of them. I ain't moving! ;)
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:huh And I thought I was cool because I shot rockets from the MLRS:huh
Thanks for busting that hanger open for me LOL :rofl J/K
I hope you have many more miles to go in the NAVY
And I hope you enjoy you next duty station sir
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Originally posted by ASTAC
Lived in Jax area all my life..never once got a direct hit from any hurricane..hell not even really a glancing blow.
Sorry..no offense to native Virginians..I don't like the people here, really don't like the local government or law enforcement (especially the law enforcement), or the weather (it's dreary alot of the time). The roads suck..no one knows how to drive which makes bad roads even worse.
BTW..Va Bch DESERVES to lose NAS Oceana..and I think it's screwed up how they fell far short of fulfilling the demands of the BRAC commission..instead thumbing their noses at BRAC and saying "This is all we are willing to do..what other alternative do you have?"...Maybe Jax will come to it's senses and let them re-open Cecil..it was always a much nicer base anyway.
May a Cat 5 somehow make it's way this far north and scrub the earth clean of this stinky ****-hole.
I have to agree about the govt, Myra is the wicked witch of the East/ Female Boss Hogg.
As for the people you hung in the wrong places.
The roads are as good as they can be considering the City of VB used the cheapest paveing company( Asphalt Roads---2 thumbs down)
As for a cat 5 coming here. have you ever noticed how fast the building go up here? I think a strong cat 3 would do the trick.
As for Oceana, VB did fall short of teh BRAC requirements, but for once I have to thank the city govt for not immediately condeming all the homes. Of course teh people here cant drive, they come from everywhere else :)
Now why do I stay here? Cause I was born here lived here all my life, and I like it here. Believe it or not theres more to this place than roads and that air base. People really need to do something besides go to bars here to actually "get to know " this area.
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Never was one much for the bar scene here..I've litterally been all over..my first few years here I lived on the ship..Every day I'd gas up the car and go driving to find something new and interesting. Learned the area pretty well
I've never really felt safe here. They build real nice neihborhoods..right across the street or over the fence from the ghetto..you can't escape the slums because they seem to be everywhere..Thats how we ended up out here in "Pungo". The only area where right next door there wasn't a low-income housing apartment complex (even as a sailor I make too much to live in most places in VB).
As far as the people go..It has more to do with their attitude towards sailors..Never really felt welcome..as soon as people realize you are in the Navy, they seem to look down on you (or try to swindle you). I got a big kick out of the change in attitude when BRAC told VB they were gonna take 1 Billion dollars out of the local economy when the airmen's paychecks aren't here to steal from them anymore.
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Originally posted by ASTAC
As far as the people go..It has more to do with their attitude towards sailors..Never really felt welcome..as soon as people realize you are in the Navy, they seem to look down on you (or try to swindle you).
Exactly. I experienced, for the most part, the same thing. Now I know some sailors (& jarheads) have made it hard for other service personel starioned there with their actions but it seems if you wear the uniform you're already marked as one of "them". I couldn't wait to get the "F" out of the tide water area. And who's ever heard of topless bars where the dancers can't go topless?????? :D
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The Check-out sheet is more than halfway done.
The Navy-hired movers are coming wednesday to pack us up...and thursday to pick up our stuff.
Skating-off for the rest of this week...pick up my service record Friday morning...On the highway by 9-10AM..In Florida by early evening unless we decide to stop..I towing a boat on a trailer I have trust issues wuth..so I'll be stopping alot to check it out..may stay overnight somewhere. Almost seems stupid since my fastest time between Norfolk-Jax is 8 hours..the average is about 10 though(650 miles)
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Originally posted by ASTAC
Never was one much for the bar scene here..I've litterally been all over..my first few years here I lived on the ship..Every day I'd gas up the car and go driving to find something new and interesting. Learned the area pretty well
I've never really felt safe here. They build real nice neihborhoods..right across the street or over the fence from the ghetto..you can't escape the slums because they seem to be everywhere..Thats how we ended up out here in "Pungo". The only area where right next door there wasn't a low-income housing apartment complex (even as a sailor I make too much to live in most places in VB).
As far as the people go..It has more to do with their attitude towards sailors..Never really felt welcome..as soon as people realize you are in the Navy, they seem to look down on you (or try to swindle you). I got a big kick out of the change in attitude when BRAC told VB they were gonna take 1 Billion dollars out of the local economy when the airmen's paychecks aren't here to steal from them anymore.
I agree that subdivisions are built in the wrong places, but the secret to that is to not see whats going on in the "hood" But the reason they do that is eventually all the people that live in the "getto" are going to be forced out of Va Beach ( eventually)
I feel pretty safe here, but then I don't hang out in the Getto LOL, I'm either at Peabody's, the Edge, the Beach, the mall, or Mt Trashmore feeding the geese when they're there, movies dinner stuff like that.
I've never had an attitude towards anybody in the military except my ex, and he's an idiot. I'm one of the ones that love the military here, not just teh money either I have the ultimate respect for peple that fight to keep me free.
If Va beach had been smart they could have said good bye to Oceana a long time ago, remember the sportsplex? When the were first talking about building that the WEashington Redskins said they built a 80,000 seat football staduim they'd move here, I don't like football, but the Redskins could have been Va Beach's way out of the Brac battles once and for all.
If Oceana and the Ford plant both go, this place will go so far down hill that I'll be able to afford to buy a house :) Kinda looking forward to that part . I want a house so bad I'd consider moving away from here.
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Welcome Home!!!
When my PPSH-41 comes in i'll take ya to the range :-)..
It's semi-auto but should be fun to plink with.
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Originally posted by dmf
I'm either at Peabody's, the Edge...
Wow... there's a couple of names out of the past. If I remember correctly, I went to both of those bars a few times in 1982. I did "A" school at Dam Neck.
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Originally posted by Sandman
Wow... there's a couple of names out of the past. If I remember correctly, I went to both of those bars a few times in 1982. I did "A" school at Dam Neck.
Sadly because of the QM/OS rating merger, the "A" School is moving to Great Lakes.
We now have to learn the QM and SM rates (QM/SM merger 2 years ago)..but at least we will still be called OS.
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Well... I didn't really see the point of having the QM and OS rates separate anyway.
How do they handle the SM stuff? Is there a separate NEC for semafore?
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They combined AK/SK a couple of years ago too.
Oh the horror...
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
They combined AK/SK a couple of years ago too.
Oh the horror...
I always wondered why they were separate in the first place.
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Originally posted by Sandman
Wow... there's a couple of names out of the past. If I remember correctly, I went to both of those bars a few times in 1982. I did "A" school at Dam Neck.
1982? wow your really old :) I was born in 1982.
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Originally posted by dmf
wow your really old
Happens to the best of us...
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Not me, I'll be young and prety till I die Or hit 40 whichever comes first.:D
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Trust me... 40 comes up a lot faster than you think.
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Not me, I'll be young and prety till I die Or hit 40 whichever comes first.
Trust me... 40 comes up a lot faster than you think.
At your age DMF, you have about 4 more years or so until it really starts to fly. Years pass in months. Summers seem like a handful of weeks. I went through my 30s in what seemed like three or four "age 24" years. So enjoy :)
Charon
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Originally posted by Sandman
Wow... there's a couple of names out of the past. If I remember correctly, I went to both of those bars a few times in 1982. I did "A" school at Dam Neck.
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1982? wow your really old I was born in 1982.
Oh geez...I went to A school in 1982 :(
That means I am really old too?:eek:
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Heh I remember the good 'ol days in Norfolk. Good 'Ol NOB '72-74. See I lived in Ben Morrell Navy housing. Yep Navy brat 14 to 16 years old.
It was fun to go to Rays Sub Shop on Hampton Blvd and hang out. Used to take the salt shakers and loosen up the tops and when Squids came in and biyotched about us long haired kids in the shop and chased us out like tuff guys we'd stand outside looking in as Squids would get their subs, sit down... look at us thru the window and flip us off... and grab the salt shaker.
Needless to say revenge is best served cold, salty, running and laffin our asssses off!
Was fun messin with Jarheads at CINCLANT... they were smarter and faster than Squids.
The good 'ol days.....
Lived in JAX also... but was older and in the Army at the time... just only home on Leave.
Go Army! Beat Navy!!!!
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Mac
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Originally posted by ASTAC
Would it have thrown you off with a much older picture with the original name of the building on it?
(http://www.cheuvront.com/ind_life.JPG)
grad from Parker in '77
Teleprompter Showtime had it's MDS transmitter on the roof of that 36 story building back in the late 70's early 80's. I was up there servicing it many a time. Used to be the tallest building back then.. the Gator Bowl was called the Gator Bowl back then too. :)
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I'm HERE!!!!!
Dang it's hot!
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Originally posted by BlkKnit
Oh geez...I went to A school in 1982 :(
That means I am really old too?:eek:
Yep :)
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Originally posted by Sandman
Trust me... 40 comes up a lot faster than you think.
At 40 I hope I look as good as thegirl on tv in the crest whitening commerical LOL
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Originally posted by ASTAC
I'm HERE!!!!!
Dang it's hot!
Its hot here too, only 94 yesterday but the humidity made it seem like 102
My mechanic says my little pickup needs a A/C recharge. So gess why I'm up so early this morning.