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I am back!!!!!!!!!!!

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i am back from sailing the Baltic Sea. I had a good time in Kiel, Germany and St.Petersburg, Russia. i have missed having internet access. i have missed mac-forums. unfortunately, i am stuck on my ship in homeport until tomorrow when i get off of duty. i have some wonderful pictures that i will get on the internet as soon as i can. It is great to be back in the states.


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awesome! Pictures would be great :)
 
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Welcome Back!
 
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you left?

jp, welcome back man.
 
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welcome back man!
 
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welcome back, welcome back, welcome back (sung to the tune of welcome back)
 
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what port did you leave from?
 
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welcome back! can't wait to see the pictures:)
 
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macAttack said:
what port did you leave from?

the one in which i live.

thanks all for the warm reception back to Mac-Forums.
 

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Welcome back FF! How is your finger doing?
 
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dtravis7 said:
Welcome back FF! How is your finger doing?

it is good. the Corpsman said it would take 6mos to a year to grow back. it looks nasty though.
 
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fearlessfreap24 said:
it is good. the Corpsman said it would take 6mos to a year to grow back. it looks nasty though.
post a close up. that would be cool. and welcome back. i nominated you for MotM last month. you lost.
 
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Fallooza said:
post a close up. that would be cool. and welcome back. i nominated you for MotM last month. you lost.

thanks for the nomination. i will post one tomorrow after i get home. my batteries in my camera are dead.
 
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fearlessfreap24 said:
i i have missed having internet access. i have missed mac-forums. unfortunately, i am stuck on my ship in homeport until tomorrow when i get off of duty. Dylan

I would have figured you guys would have had Internet access, but maybe the upgrades (IT-21 and/or GENSER/NMCI) didn't reach down to the small boys, or is just a command policy/limitation based on rank etc? I know some units limit it to Officers and CPOs, some don't. INMARSAT B is WAY expensive per min and no one wants to use it unless they have to anymore.

Anyways, Welcome back!
 
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baggss said:
I would have figured you guys would have had Internet access, but maybe the upgrades (IT-21 and/or GENSER/NMCI) didn't reach down to the small boys, or is just a command policy/limitation based on rank etc? I know some units limit it to Officers and CPOs, some don't. INMARSAT B is WAY expensive per min and no one wants to use it unless they have to anymore.

Anyways, Welcome back!

we have compose. it is alot better than IT-21. we normally have 128k, but for some reason we had to share our bandwidth with the cruiser we were attached to. the 128k is still a slow painful way to use internet underway. command policy usually lets only CPO and important PO1's (not me) and abovce have access.
 
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Ya sharing bandwidth on a slow connection can suck. I run into that a lot, sometimes even when you are the only one on the line you get limited. Odd that you had to share with the CG as they normally have other means too access the web for both the high and low side, then again you may to, it's been a while since I've been on a ship like yours. Then again, never having been to the Baltic, the access may have been limited by the footprint. The last few times I have been underway the access for the crew has been restricted as you mentioned, but it didn't apply to us "Civies".
 
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finally!!! here is the picture of my finger.

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fearlessfreap24 said:
finally!!! here is the picture of my finger.

I did that to my left thumb when I was 15 - took 9 months for the nail to fully grow back!
 

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