Why Is An Order In A Submarine/ship Repeated?
StormLiong
Join Date: 2002-12-27 Member: 11569Members
Join Date: 2002-12-27 Member: 11569Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">just curious</div> Just saw Red October again on TV out of boredome and it brought up this question I had always wondered.
Why is it liek for example when a captain orders to go starboard for example, he relays it to the 2nd in command, then tht gets relayed to the navigator when they are all in the same room.
Is it like because just to be doubly sure or is it like because there is just so much noise around it needs to be passed along like that?
Why is it liek for example when a captain orders to go starboard for example, he relays it to the 2nd in command, then tht gets relayed to the navigator when they are all in the same room.
Is it like because just to be doubly sure or is it like because there is just so much noise around it needs to be passed along like that?
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GG ex Business students.
If anyone knows the real answer to this please enlighten me so I feel less nerdish.
Hmm, then in some movies like Red October its overexagerated (spellin?) cos I like see the captain give one order to the 2nd in command, tht gets relayed to another officer and then that officer relays it to the officer in charge of that control.
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LOL...if the military took a business outlook and flattened their heirarchy and outsource it wont be military no more...be more like a huge security firm <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Can't wait till everything on a sub is automated such that you can control it all by one person. Direct order can happen then <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Why cast Sean Connery as a russian, did he sound at all russian to anyone else?
<span style='color:green'>Edit:</span> Also why did he put someone on the helm that had no idea what he was doing
Why cast Sean Connery as a russian, did he sound at all russian to anyone else?
<span style='color:green'>Edit:</span> Also why did he put someone on the helm that had no idea what he was doing <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
hehe indeed
And i think the fact he put someone on the helm just shows how sophisticated some subs are then that it was that simple <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Scenario two: Commander goes to driver. Driver mishears him and they hit a whale.
I think that's just called hiring mercenaries. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Bahahaha. that mental image made me laugh.
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scruffy can't hear so good anymore.
I think that's just called hiring mercenaries. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
*Gasp "Defense contractors" *cough
currently the US has about 25,000 in Iraq, from every thing from cooks to special "security specialists".
They have even asked people I know in corrections and law enforcement who are ex military to go on over.
The US governemnt offered my one friend $150,000 for working in Iraq for 6 months extendable to 1 year for an additional $150,000.
Apparently its actually cheaper to pay someone a flat fee and no health benefits or insurance payments if a defense contracter is killed or wounded, unlike an enlisted soldier.
No benefits for being a Merc? Screw that!
Can you imagine:
Insurance guy: So What is your job and other known health risks?
Merc: Well I get hired for stupid amounts of $$ to go places and get shot at. Oh and I smoke.
I.G: Riiiight, thats just gona add a few thouseand to your basic bills.
Oh, and as for the relaying. Probably had to do with back when they couldn't just radio it all and had to shout it from one end of a ship to the other.
It's to make sure you don't bork it up. It's an oral confirmation that he understood your order and didn't misinterprit the numbers.
Why cast Sean Connery as a russian, did he sound at all russian to anyone else?
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obviously because he used to be james bond, duh... ;p
Stop laughing and google for CACI International. Absolutely not funny.