How To Lose Your Command

[swerdna]

Not sure if this was posted on AW before or not, I haven't seen it.

This kind of stuff gives me nightmares...

BTW, the translation is German Navy Crash/Accident.

 

[jdflyer09]

Seen it on youtube.
Note: They are blasting the Austin Powers theme song at the end of the video...
Hilarious

 

[Lawman]

Type 143A Gepard class Fast attack Craft

391 Ton displacement


I wonder whose brilliant idea this was.

 

[skidkid]

I guess when you are unwilling to do any real fighting in Afghanistan your military has to get it's adrenaline fix somehow.

 

[usmcecho4]

This is how to really lose your command
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/16/british.french.submarine.incident/index.html

Yikes!

Semper Fi,
usmcecho4

 

[HeyJoe]

This kind of stuff gives me nightmares...

Of going SWO? Or working with Germans?

 

[Jim123]

Type 143A Gepard class Fast attack Craft

391 Ton displacement


I wonder whose brilliant idea this was.

Using the old grading system, +1 for comms (the theme music), UNSAT for shiphandling, and UNSAT for SA = net -3 below overall


I remember similar shiphandling (minus the paint exchange) by some German corvettes playing OPFOR during a NATO short cruise a few years ago. They seemed to be driving them like motorboats. It was fun for us to watch from the flight deck but it made our SWOs, ah, a little nervous (something about another vessel disappearing from view of the bridge under your own bow). It seemed to get the NATO Admiral's attention enough to send a special "non-exercise" safety message too...

 

[Ace_Austin]

I see somebodys moboard-fu was weak that day.

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Any ship that plays the Austin Powers theme song in the background has my approval for being a badass ship.

 

[armada1651]

I see somebodys moboard-fu was weak that day.

And that's why you always pay attention in NROTC Nav class.

 

[Huggy Bear]

I understand how we aviators occasionally trade paint, but how the hell do SWOs do it? "Oh my god! Impact is imminent, we only have 20 seconds!"

 

[Pags]

I understand how we aviators occasionally trade paint, but how the hell do SWOs do it? "Oh my god! Impact is imminent, we only have 20 seconds!"

It's like trying to stop a train, except, you know, it's a boat.