What's the single most expensive item you've ever been trusted with?

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i drove a billion dollar submarine
monitored a shutdown nuclear reactor in the navy

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US Military FTMFW!

How is it that an engineer got to be helmsman or planesman?

Actually, I may have just showed my ignorance there.
When I failed out of Nuke school I went to deck.
Ticonderoga Cruisers cost a billion dollars.
I was just wondering what sub you were on that cost a mere billion.

i was looking it up, i think trident subs cost $1.7 billion initially, not sure though, still searching

i drove the propeller as throttleman as my normal duty station. to qualify on submarines and earn your dolphins, you have to stand watch as both helmsman and planesman once. and technically, nukes could qualify almost any forward watchstation if they felt like it/were bored.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: Tick
Have you ever thougth about the fact that the president is trusted with the entire planet, in that he could destroy it if he wanted to?

no he can't.


oh wait... he walked out of kyoto..... :laugh:

He's got 90 days to do as he pleases.

 

[shortylickens]

Throttleman?
Is that like Lee Helm?

EDIT: Thats a dumb question. Its probably more like a CCS/MER watch isnt it?

 

[judasmachine]

In the vet clinic I was in charge of some show dog worth around 60 or 70 Grand. The Dr. was out of town that week and I had to vaccinate it, and keep it over night for boarding. It was some kind of Schnauzer, and completely freaking annoying, it would yelp at lest 30 times a minute.

 

[MazerRackham]

$45,000 Ng:YAG laser gain module. About the dimensions of a Butterfinger candy bar...

 

[imported_Tick]

I got to try a $600,000 HUD for helicopter pilots.

 

[Zolty]

3 x $500,000 Novel server

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Throttleman?
Is that like Lee Helm?

EDIT: Thats a dumb question. Its probably more like a CCS/MER watch isnt it?

the throttleman controls the main engines, the propeller, thus the speed of the ship


the officer of the deck is in the control room with the helmsman and planesman and chief of the watch and diving officer. the diving officer sits between the helmsman and planesman and supervises them to ensure they maintain depth and course as ordered by the OOD. the chief of the watch moves water between ballast tanks to maintain trim of the boat

the OOD gives engine orders to the helmsman for speed. the engine order is telegraphed (engine order telegraph is a electro-mechanical device) to the manuevering room where the throttleman answer the engine orders and then adjusts the main propulsion turbine throttles to control shaft speed and hence ship speed.

i don't know how surface ships do it. subs are pretty old school on all manually controlled hydraulic controls

 

[SeaSerpent]

A 100 million dollar state of the art sawmill.

 

[Asthmaboy]

Just my car.
Or an iPod, if it has to be handheld.

 

[EGGO]

Who in the world can carry a submarine in their pockets?

 

[imported_Snagle]

4500 in cash

 

[MetalMat]

Over 1 million dollars of wireline logging equipment (truck, system, tools)

 

[Captante]

$50k in cash that was uninsured ... Large case of Rolex & Breitling watchs that was worth about $750k, but was fully insured.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: EGGO
Who in the world can carry a submarine in their pockets?

:laugh: Stop and think about what you just said.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: EGGO
Who in the world can carry a submarine in their pockets?

Wooooooooooooooooosh!

Did you guys see/hear that go right over his head?

 

[Horus]

A MLVW Medium Truck...towing a C3 Howitzer...and in the truck is 30 rounds of High-Explosive 105MM ammo, and a gun-crew of 7 people.

Other than that, probably a Command Post...complete with antennas, SatCom gear, field radios and ranging computers. About 2 mil each.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: EGGO
Who in the world can carry a submarine in their pockets?

:laugh: Stop and think about what you just said.

I don't get it...

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Xyclone

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: EGGO
Who in the world can carry a submarine in their pockets?

:laugh: Stop and think about what you just said.

I don't get it...

Is that a submarine in your pocket, or do I just look like JL Gatsby?

 

[FallenHero]

80k in cash.

 

[crab]

Piper Seneca

 

[sobriquet]

A few ~$30k tubas.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: EGGO
Who in the world can carry a submarine in their pockets?

:laugh: Stop and think about what you just said.

Hahaha!

I love this forum sometimes.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: crab
Piper Seneca

the original, the II, the III or the IV?

 

[BigToque]

A $1,000,000 cheque for the company my dad was the CFO for.