#usn sailors

[carbone14]

Deux marins de l’US Navy après une nuit à célébrer la fin de la guerre contre le Japon - San Francisco - Californie - Etats-Unis - 15 août 1945

©SJSU University Archives Photographic Collection

Colorisation par JM

[todaysdocument]

“Preparing Tin Fish,” by U.S. Naval Reserve combat artist William Franklin Draper, September 12, 1943. 

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Image description: Painting of sailors in a small room, working on torpedoes. Some reach inside torpedoes via a side panel, some work on the head of the torpedoes, and some hold the torpedoes steady. 

[revoltedstates]

A pause in a boxing match aboard the USS Brooklyn, ca 1898. Library of Congress.

[lonestarbattleship]

"Quartermaster SEAMAN (QMSN) Scott Kauranen gives a young tourist a lift so he can operate a navigational periscope in the citadel on the bridge of USS New Jersey (BB-62). The tourists are taking part in a naval review during the Australian bicentennial celebration"

Photographed in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia by PH2 Barry Orell, USN, on October 1, 1988.

NARA: 6443378

[nocternalrandomness]

US Navy Pin-Up

[misty1111]

Walking away, when one can, is POWERFUL.

I left my naval career as an Arabic linguist and Petty Officer third class CTI in the US Navy and it saved my life. Zero exaggeration. I was contracted to stay. I had two years left on my US Navy contract as a CTI. I was living in the barracks on base. I was existing within an invisible gilded cage and was STUCK with PREDATORS (multiple) and it genuinely felt like the only escape possible was death.

I almost killed myself so many times I literally couldn’t count them if I tried to give a concise number. I remember how I would write poetry to myself on my notes app on my phone (my only escape beside my car) to keep from exploding and imploding simultaneously.

But I’m a fucking survivor and a warrior dammit and I was not dying like that. I refused to let me be the end of me. My predators and abusers expected me to literally lie down and die. Quietly. They didn’t account for my audacity.

I was loud about how I was barely hanging on. I told doctors and leadership, basically everyone who might have a reason to know it. I advocated for myself so loudly and feircely that I was dying and could not “handle it” for a year (A FUCKING YEAR) before I was cut loose in April of 2019. At the time I was 80% service connected disabled from the VA. Now, I’m 100% service connected disabled from the VA.

I’m too disabled to work any of the intel jobs that I would need a security clearance to possibly do. So I left my life as a US sailor/ CTI/ Arabic Linguist and NSA intel employee behind.

Now a days, I’m an independent artist. I’m a home owner. I’m working on many projects that will open up streams of income once their posted or open to the public. I do still struggle to make ends meet but I finally remembered and now know that I am wealthy and rich and am very deserving of luxury and comfort and that I will manifest myself into being a multimillionaire. But my most precious belonging is that I’m alive. I fucking survived. And every one of my abusers who tried to destroy me failed. I fucking won the war and secured myself inner and outer peace.

I felt like sharing.

Thanks for caring enough to read it if you did.

When we’re new to adulthood, it doesn’t immediately occur to all of us that you’re almost always allowed to leave a situation, because growing up we’re forced to stay in situations until someone dismisses us and/or takes us home, or if we do leave on our own accord there’s someone waiting at home to say “we don’t quit in this family!” Boring party? You can leave. You don’t like the lecture? You can walk out. New doctor not working out? You can end the appointment, you don’t need to wait for them to dismiss you. Bad date? You can just go home. Leaving a situation prematurely might have consequences, but unless you’re under arrest or serving prison time, it’s pretty much always allowed.

–commenter Allison @ askamanager

[dutchmn007]

Stealing a Heavyweight Champions Girlfriend & a Party with "Ol' Blue Eyes!"

[nancy-funko-collection]

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[judgemark45]

Sailors man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier USS RANGER (CV-61) as the large harbor tug WAXAHATCHIE (YTB-814) escorts the vessel in preparation for assisting it in docking. The RANGER is stopping off at Pearl Harbor while en route to its home port after returning from deployment in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm

June 1, 1991 USN Image/PH3 Bos

[captain-price-unofficially]

Body of a USN sailor killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, washed ashore at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. 7 Dec 1941

[rockyp77mk3]

USN Sailor with a bow & flaming arrow on a PBR Mk I in the Vietnam Delta - 1967

[revoltedstates]

Unidentified sailors. Library of Congress.

[lonestarbattleship]

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue"-

Admiral Nimitz USN

6,140 Marines and Sailors

Without psycho killers the dirtbag Nazis might have won.

Even without the combined swinging dick energy of all the allied Marine Corps including the Philippines, Brittan, Canada, and the USMC they still would have had to get away from the Airforce and the Navy Ooh Rah?

6,140 Volunteers of "uncommon valor"

I say those 6,140 Volunteers are Heroes especially if they were psycho killers

[usafphantom2]

photo taken in December 1983 on the USS Independence off the coast Lebanon. CVW-6 aircraft. if you remember, on Oct. 23, 1983, 220 Marines, 18 U.S. Navy sailors, and 3 U.S. Army soldiers lost their lives in the Marine Barracks at the Beirut Airport. USN

@kadonkey via X

[littleharpethcrossfit]

Thursday, 19 September, 2024.

The weather was expected to be Sunny and Dry, with the temperature in the mid 80's. It was perfect.

Warmup

3 Rounds With Light Bands

10 Shoulder Dislocates

10 Thrusters

Strength

Power Cleans..........3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3 / 3

Touch And Go

Chase=245.....Shane=235.....Bernie=225.....Ed/Tim=165.....Tom=115 Shannon=75.....Miss Linda=did it.....Elisa=Late.....Coach=excused

WOD

12 Minute AMRAP PLUS

3 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 / 18 / 21 / 24...

Shoulder To Overheads.....( 115 / 95 / 65 )

Ab-Mat Sit-Ups.....(E=GHDs)

THEN ON A RUNNING CLOCK

Run 800 / Row-Ski=1000 (ELITE) / Bike 2000m

SCORE:

Rounds And Fractions PLUS Total Time.

Score:

The Completed Round & Fractions + Final Time

Ed=24 +11 / 16 : 33 RX.....Bernie=24 / 16:21 RX.....Tim=21 + 18 / 16 :45 RX.....Shane=21 + 10 / 16:23 E.....Tom=21 / 18:36.....Chase=18 + 15 /16:26 E.....Elisa=15:13 .....Linda=18:18.....Shannon=18:30.....Coach=PJ

Notes:

Thursday Traditional wine and snacks followed.

Several bottles of good wines were on the picnic table, and many warm (mostly meaty) snacks. Shannon brought dessert. Delicious.

No visitors. No one required introduction. Only the most convivial and cordial friends were present.

Today was the day AFTER Tim's birthday. If Tim was a girl he would have enjoyed at least an entire birthday month. But no presents, no cakes, no singing. Who are the privileged ones ?

If Chase had a real Olympic Weightlifting Coach he would be Power Cleaning over 300 lbs safer and with less effort.

The USN now has a nuclear submarine that is outfitted for both male and female sailors. We had many questions about this, but our resident expert (Shane) had very few answers. They are termed "Gender Neutral" submarines. We gender integrated when i was in the US Air Force, but we kept the name "Cock-Pit".

Saturday at 0930. The weather should be lovely.