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Don't say a word when you catch Hornet staring into space, pencil tracing the shape of an arrow into the notepad so hard for so long it shines glossy with graphite. Pretend you don't notice Arizona glancing upward every time she hears a buzz overhead, or that subtle pat every five minutes, like a man checking for his wallet – except she's checking for her weapon.

Your dry lips stick together as you reply. “Why do they make them humanoid?”

She nods ever so slightly as you squirm in her amber gaze.

“That's pretty common in the genre,” you continue. “Anthropomorphizing a combat vehicle, I mean. Oftentimes they're not mass-production units, like just another tank. They're... special.”

Shoukaku's brow crinkles, her shoulders still tense. “More... powerful? Or sophisticated?”

“Have you heard of a show called Space Battleship Yamato?”

The cool, sinking chill of mortification spreads through your chest the instant the words leave your mouth, mirrored by the widening of Shoukaku's eyes.

“Y-Yamato?”

“The plot,” you hear yourself say, merciless matter-of-fact reporting; “is that the Yamato's wreck is recovered from the dried-up seabed of the Pacific and used as the hull of a spaceship built to take the fight to attacking aliens.”

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Shoukaku's expression is blank. “... when?”

“The eighties.”

Her voice is low and uncertain now, falling to her tightly clasped hands. “I thought... they said the war was forgotten. Nobody wanted to – to remember all that.”

Leaning on your folded arms, you fix your eyes on the salt shaker lest the slight tremor in your bones reach your voice. “Yamato was a symbol, Shoukaku. Industrial might, engineering genius...” you rally and press on - “a creation so massive and complex it can't help but embody every principle and ideal of its builders in its frame. Losing something like that -” for a moment the Higgins flashes through your mind - “it's a wound. When we lost Arizona, her name became a rallying cry for recruiters, a national monument. We still fly a flag from her mast.”

That's about when Shoukaku begins to cry.

>Remain silent.
>Apologize.
>Lighten the mood.
>Other?

>>40136851
>Apologize.
Then
>Lighten the mood.

>>40136851
>>Other?

Go over and sit next to her and comfort her. She needs it.

They have have the hardware and soul of a 1930's and 40's ship, but they are girls in the end who are confused.

>>40136851
>Lighten the mood.

>>40136851
"Humans have a lot wrong with them, but... we try not to forget the fallen."

Or maybe mention the Tomb of the Forgotten Soldier.

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>>40136851
>>Apologize.
>>Lighten the mood.

>>40136816
[x] Torpedo Shoukaku's stern

>>40136851
>Other?
>Comfort the Shoukaku, hand on top of hers.

>>40136932
>>40136816
This works

>>40136851
>Apologize.
>Lighten the mood.

>>40136851
>>Apologize.
>>Other?

"No one ever really forgets. We might try to forget the bad, but we cling to the good."

>>40136932
voting for this.

>>40136928
Seconded.

>>40136851
>>>Apologize.
>>>Lighten the mood.
Plus:
>>40136900

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>>40136851
>don't rock the boat
Yeah, we follow orders to the letter. Don't we.

Oh dear.

>Apologize.
When in doubt... It's a girl after all.
Ship.
Ship-girl.

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>>40136851
>Engage damage control!

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>>40136932
this

pls work

Damnit, that vote fucking won.

>>40136851
>Other?
>Comfort the Shoukaku, hand on top of hers.

And I liked >>40136900 for dialog:
"Humans have a lot wrong with them, but... we try not to forget the fallen."

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>>40136994
Are you implying to tell the DC team to stop the leaks?

>>40136851
>Other?
Silently put our hands on top of hers.

>>40136932

fourthed, fifthed, wahtever,

damage control pls

>>40136851
>Apologize.
>Lighten the mood.

I must be the biggest autist because for the life of me I can't tell why she's crying.

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Remember guys: Tatsuta's a hardcore yandere who will totally gut us if we look at her funny. Watch your step!

>>40136851
>>Apologize.
>>Lighten the mood.

also
>>40136932

>>40136851
>Apologize.

>>40136932
Sure, this.

>>40137088
Trauma from the war from what I can tell.

>>40137088
Welcome to the club. Planefag knows that au/tg/ists can't get out of this to save their life and uses it to drink our tears.

Crying shipsluts are my fetish.

>>40136851
>>Other?
Humanity invests itself in that what it creates, and on some level never forgets.

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>>40137088
>I must be the biggest autist because for the life of me I can't tell why she's crying.
This too.

>>40137088
Probably a bit sad that Yamato is remembered so much more fondly than she is, on top of the pure war memory sadness

>>40137088

She was told that for a long time they were forgotten, no one wanted to remember the war, and them by connection.

Now she knows that is not the case.

>>40137088
Best I can tell, she doesn't want to remind people of the things Imperial Japan did.
Or she's crying because someone lied to her.

>>40136851
>[x] Apologize.
>[x] Lighten the mood.
>[ ] NOT this >>40136932

>>40137193
Aaaand missed it by a mile. Try >>40137197 instead, and the first thing from >>40137225.

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>>40136851
>Lighten the mood.
HAHA TIME TO ORDER ACGUY CAKES
ALSO HOLY SHIT I'M LATE

>>40136932
thiiiissssss

>When we lost Arizona, her name became a rallying cry for recruiters, a national monument. We still fly a flag from her mast.
>That's about when Shoukaku begins to cry.
Wait, Shoukaku participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Is she feeling guilty?

Goddamit planefag, you started before I could get home. I'm enroute back home with an updated map of CFAY and tales from 7th Fleet.

>>40137088
She had thought that humanity had forgotten all about the sunken ships and, on a larger level, that they viewed them only as weapons, both back then and in their current form. This was the direction of her questioning us regarding the Gundam; whether the mobile suits, being humaniform weapons, meant there was no particular meaning for the ship girls to have come back as human as well.

In short, her question was " What do you think of us?" With 'us' meaning both humanity in general and, perhaps, Settle in particular.

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>>40137359
>Tales of the 7th Fleet
Does this include another set of drunken benders chief? Because if it does, hell yeah.

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>>40137359
>I'm enroute back home with an updated map of CFAY and tales from 7th Fleet.

fuck yes I love you

Good fuckin work, skip. you made the girl cry.

>>40137383
'You', sorry.

>>40137476
Its what squids do best.

Sup! Aoba here for the latest scoop in--

Oh. Oh, this is bad for business. Hope Settle can smooth his way through this one!

also VOTES CALLED

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>>40137359
Based navyfag is based.

>>40136851

>ORDER ACGUY CAKES

>>40136851

Hopefully Zuikaku never finds out that we made Shoukaku cry.

Otherwise I doubt even the corgis will save us from her having our balls on a spit.

>>40137383

This also plays into how Naka feels. She wants to feel useful, not sure how people actually look at the ship girls, especially being told that Japan does it's best that the war did not exist, it is forgotten.

Girls get emotional - sometimes letting the emotions out is cathartic. We haven't necessariy fucked up yet, although we're playing a dangerous game.

>>40137532
>Hopefully Zuikaku never finds out that we made Shoukaku cry.

In bed.

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>>40137093
I'm something of an expert on a cultivated public image, and I'm not about to stick my foot into how someone else carries theirs.

Good evening, everyone! I hope you enjoy the show!

>>40137605
Naka confirmed for anti-harem
Who wants a shipgirl harem anyway

>>40137605
Have you seen how crazy these "smart phones" are, Naka-chan!? I can just stream the video of their date, all thanks to my re- whoops! Trade secret.

>>40137631
Shipgirls are designed for harems. Why have one ship when you can have a fleet?

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>>40136932
>Comfort the Shoukaku, hand on top of hers.

>>40137088
FFS /tg/
>Shipgirls themselves don't know what the hell they are or how they came to be
>crystal-fucking-clear dichomomy of machine vs. person, about as subtle as a half-brick
>Shoukaku just learnt that long before the arrival of shipgirls, humanity had been treating their machines of war as people, pervasivley across time and cultures
She literally just learnt that humanity collectively thinks of her as a person, not purely a warship. If you can't emphasise with that, you're well past autism and into psychopathy.

Well, once the mood lightens, remember that we have questions that need answers!

>How do shipgirls resupply while sortied, or has there not been a need for that yet?
>What happens to the fae aircraft pilots when they're shot down?
>How do injured/killed/lost fae get replenished?

Probably some more, but I can't remember them at the moment.

>>40137532
Zuikaku doesn't have that kind of personality. At all.

>>40137754
I don't think we're gonna ask aaany of those questions aaany time soon

>>40137743

And then she discovers people fucking ships.

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>>40137754
>How do shipgirls resupply while sortied, or has there not been a need for that yet?

>>40137754

1. UP THE ASS.
2. GO ASK THEM YOURSELF.
3. SEE 2.

>>40137754

I reeeaaally doubt this date is going to be the time to ask them.

>>40137754
How about something easy and businesslike like "SECRETARY SHIPS WHAT DO?"

Hey Aoba, Naka - any input regarding these? >>40137743

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>>40137754
We should ask them why they're instantly repaired by buckets of Mountain Dew.

So Shoukaku is the new mina?

>>40137817
>>40137822
>suppositorymind

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>>40137754
This would be good pillow talk.

Also, I bet they don't know shit about fae. Didn't some slut already say so?

>>40137898

Of course not.

Shoukaku is actually nice to us.

>>40137898
ALL shipsloots are Minna. Haven't you read anything?

The good side is now we can choose between different flavors of PTSD.

tg takes a girl on a date and it doesn't even *end* with her in tears, it starts with it.

>>40137972
We play it rough, baby.

>What the fuck am I casting.png

>>40137913
>Also, I bet they don't know shit about fae. Didn't some slut already say so?
For the most part, yes. Though their weird internal 'organs' are more confusing than the fae

>>40137972
Nowhere to go but up!

R-right?

>>40137857
Ahahah! If I *did* know anything, I'm already bound by law to not say a peep!

As for my personal suspicions, I really don't put much thought into just what I am! I get some weird, cold feeling in my chest that gives me the willies. I can't say the same for the others, of course!

>>40137972
We go in deep, and we go in hard.

What do you mean it doesn't work like that?

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>>40137972
A new record! Congratulations!

>>40137743
I've seen /tg/ do worse.

Why did our betrayal make her mad at us? She must just be tsun.

>>40137859
If she is gate of Babyloning shouldn't she have her finger on the trigger?

>>40137088
YOU IDIOT. THOSE ARE TEARS OF JOY. SHE'S CRYING OUT OF HAPPINESS, BECAUSE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, EVEN THOUGH THEIR SIDE LOST, THEIR HOMELAND AND PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER AND LOVE THEM.

HOW MUCH OF A SELF ABSORBED ARSE MUST YOU BE TO BE TOTALLY UNABLE TO EMPTHASIZE OR UNDERSTAND HER FEELINGS?

ITS LIKE YOU'RE A PROTAGONIST FROM MY SOL HAREM CHINESE CARTOONS.

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>>40138043
Sasuga, /tg/

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>>40138043
>Cookie Clicker grandma
OH PLS NO

>>40138043
Can someone explain this to me?

>>40138117
Fucking women- ships- whatever, man. They don't pay Settle enough for this ship. We need to bring a CT next time.

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>>40137857
...

We all feel a little lost sometimes. What we do and how we react is different.

All that really matters is we're here, and that we do our best.

>>40138117
>ITS LIKE YOU'RE A PROTAGONIST FROM MY SOL HAREM CHINESE CARTOONS
I can't really argue with that.

>>40138123
This post gave me diabetes.

>>40138167
It thought it could get rid of us, the naughty thing.

>>40138117
What I think is that all us fuckers are on way too much of a hair trigger for our "sky is falling" instincts

>>40138123
I thought you were in the mountains shooting fireworks and artillery shells in the sky while roasting BBQ ribs on a metal sheet from a destroyer this Weekend?

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>>40138188
>Engaging abyssals with a mic
Silly Naka, you're not a Macross singer!

>>40138230
he has a phone, duh

>>40138209
Oh hey, so I heard Harder Cock Blocked you to the max due to binge drinking.

What prompted his drinking? Did he realise he really did want to dump a load of his torps down Naka's throat and turn to drinking to cope?

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>>40137972

>>40138251
Oh right, fuck I didn't even make the connection between that and the fact that we last saw hi in an existential funk.
Eh, Hate can handle it.

>>40138288
DOLAN PLS

>>40138230
>1990+25
>not having constant access to the collective total of human knowledge
laughingTimBernersLee.bmp

>>40138299
it's either that or he's drinking away the fact he wrecked McDonalds.

>>40138251
He decided he was, quote, 'a real thug nigga' and 'needed to pour one out for his homies' endquote

You can figure it the fuck out from there.

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>>40138209
Hey, Cpl. Hate, Aoba took this pic of your girl the other day. It seems like she likes that thing.

>>40138325
>>40138299
Existential crysis and wrecked McDonalds are about the same for a healthy young man.

It could be worse, we could be dealing with the Bismarck, much, much, more dangerous...

well there's still the curry place

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>>40138247
>combating abyssals with music

Okay. Okay. Guys.
This is what we do.
We want to help Willie D build up her confidence, right?
Well what we do is... Turn her into an idol.
It's perfect. Naka can help train Willie D, Hate can be her Producer, and there's no way the brass will stop us, because it's the ultimate PR move.
What better way to unite the Japanese and American populace behind the idea of ship girls than an American and Japanese idol duo?!

It's the ULTIMATE PR move!

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

>>40138421

>Hate
>Producer

FOUND THE FUCKING FLAW IN YOUR FUCKING PLAN, THERE, CHIEF.

>>40138421
SHELLS FALL EVERYONE DIES

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>>40138421
Can't wait to see the scenario fall in pieces in her first concert.

She'll also misfire a shell into the press booth.

>>40138421
>Hate can be her Producer
He can be an ass, but what has Hate done to deserve this?

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>>40138460
>Wanting to lewd the fluff
Down boy, down!

>>40138421
>Not putting her in a rock band with other ship girls
Come on man.

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>>40138421
I'd rather record a disk of christmas songs by DesDiv6.

>>40138421
An ingenious plan!
Better than pairing her with Sammy!
But what if we make Sammy an idol too?!

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>>40138421
...

...It'd be awfully hard to share the stage, you know!

>>40138421
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6288970/4minute-concert-tragedy-fans-death-south-korea

>>40138547

Considering it's fucking Willie and there's every fucking chance she'd blow up, set fire to, or otherwise render three fucking quarters of the fucking stage unusable, yeah, you're pretty fucking on point there.

>>40138547
yeah, what with it burning down and all!

>>40138524
>Sammy
>idol
Marine idol, maybe.

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>>40138421

>>40138339
mfw Harder accidentally summoned his old ship buddies back by pouring one out for them

>>40138576
Whine...(hides under table when everyone talks of making Willie an Idol. )

>>40138583
Back her armament with Bear Mace.

There is not difference between marines and those hairy beasts.

>>40137743
>crystal-fucking-clear dichomomy of machine vs. person,
I wonder how they will feel when they run into how we treat transhumanism in almost every sci-fi ever. What I am half immune to bullets, can regenerate even if I somehow get hurt, can see and punch through walls, jump high as fuck, fall off a building and be fine, borderline mind read, but woe is me I am not even a real person, just becoming a mindless cyber zombie because writers know people are afraid of progress.

So if Hate and Settle are off the base currently...

Who is minding Sammy?

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Is /tg/ worse with girlfriends than jerid?

>>40138632
Libations now summon ships?

...hey, why not. Though I suppose it'd be more likely to summon trirremes than subs.

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>>40138667
Equal, if you ask me.

>>40138667
>Is /tg/ worse with girlfriends than [fill the blank]?

Yes. Because PILO- TEITOKU

>>40138664
Well fuck. She can't do that much harm in a single evening, right?

>>40138731
Kongou dess

>>40138731
What would be worse? Sammy unsupervised for a night, or Willie D on stage?

>>40138731
>Well fuck. She can't do that much harm in a single evening, right?
The MPs dealt with her once. Surely they can deal with her again, right?

>>40138731
> She can't do that much harm

HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!

>>40138758
Willie D on stage, but not by much.

>>40138759
That was pure chance though. Remember that the desk MP was so scared of facing Sammy again, even while she's restrained.

>>40138731
Oh, fuck.

>>40138752
OH. FUCK.

>>40138731
>Well fuck. She can't do that much harm in a single evening, right?

She's a ship girl with the soul of the US Marine Corps.

She can't do much when bored, right?

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>>40138731
>Well fuck. She can't do that much harm in a single evening, right?

Anon, you just doomed the base.

>>40138758
Sammy unsupervised at a Willie concert.

>>40138644
At least that only applies to shitty Hollywood sci-fi (and even worse TV shows). Dead-tree media does better.

http://www.navytimes.com/longform/military/2015/05/22/samuel-b-roberts-frigate-legacy-1988-mine-report/27593135/

sammy spirit lives on

>>40138804

You better get running.

>>40138804
You had one fucking job, Hate.

>OH. FUCK.
I did not like that second one.

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Your stomach drops into the bilges the instant you hear her first sniffle. “I- I'm sorry, Shoukaku,” you choke out, your voice almost breaking. “I don't like g-giving people the runaround-”

“No,” she says through her sniffles. “T-thank you.”

You look up at her with surprise. She's smiling at you, making no effort to staunch the tears flowing freely down her pale cheeks. “Thank you for telling me.”

An involuntary shiver goes down your spine, paralyzing your mind for a moment. “Uh?”

She finally wipes away her tears with her cheap paper napkin, looking a bit bashful. “I thought w-we'd been f-forgotten. The war was so p-painful, and, we... we didn't do very well.” She takes a deep breath, visibly composing herself before meeting your gaze again. You can see the tears still brimming behind her eyes, but she dams them behind another bright smile. “I-I'm sorry, Admiral Settle, I shouldn't have put you on the spot like that.”

You fold your arms on the table and lean on them, studying the placemats again. “You wanted to know. Hell, you deserve to know.”

“That's not what everyone else seems to think.”

You bite your lip and remain silent.

She rests one cheek in her hand, studying you leisurely. “Admiral... have you told Arizona what you just told me?”

>>40138807
Maybe she'll cure cancer.

By which I mean the whole IJN.

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>>40138840

“Uh.” You shake your head. “It's different.”

“How?”

“She hasn't asked.”

“I didn't ask my Admiral, either,” Shoukaku points out. “When someone is counting on you, you want them to think you're rock-solid dependable.”

You swallow past a dry tongue. “Yeah, I can understand that.”

“So she doesn't know she's...” her eyes cut to the side shyly at this, “you know... loved? By everyone?”

“It's not easy to talk about,” you say quietly. “She hasn't said a single word since she came back. I don't... I figure it's her right to bring it up, if she wants.”

“Well, how do you feel about her?”

You blink. “What.”

“How do you feel about her?”

“Uh.”

“I hear she trounced Kongou pretty handily this morning because she thought they were trying to kidnap you, or something.”

“That was just a mis-”

“And ran halfway across base carrying you like a casualty.”

You flush at that. “A misunderstanding!”

She grins at you. “She seems to think the world of you – but I suppose I would to, if you pulled a live shell out of me.”

You feel that flush deepening as you grope for a good reply and come up empty. “Uh, I guess?”

“So, how do you feel about her?” Her eyes seem almost liquid – or maybe it's those tears again, so close to the surface now. “Why did you pull a live shell out of her with your own hands?”

>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>One admiral already gave his life for Arizona's sake. We've got her back, now – by some miracle of a gracious God, we have Arizona back, right when we need her most. We'll pay the price again, if we must, to keep her.

>>40138856
>2018
>IJN
Uhhhhh

>>40138872
>One admiral already gave his life for Arizona's sake. We've got her back, now – by some miracle of a gracious God, we have Arizona back, right when we need her most. We'll pay the price again, if we must, to keep her.

>>40138872
>>One admiral already gave his life for Arizona's sake. We've got her back, now – by some miracle of a gracious God, we have Arizona back, right when we need her most. We'll pay the price again, if we must, to keep her.

I'm not very good at playing these quests. I'm jsut trying to vote so I can be safe and not break anything.

Anons pls, how do I get good at playing?

>>40138872
>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.
Also that flag was one of the first things she saw when she came back sooooo

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>>40138872
>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.
Professional as hell.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

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>>40138804

Don't worry, Goto will look after her. We'd do it, but we're not on base because ~someone~ set me up on a date and wouldn't let me wiggle out of it!

AIN'T THAT A SHAME HUH

>>40138877
You're right.

I obviously meant the IJN AND the JMSDF.

>>40138872
>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>>40138872
>>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

Although adding
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

Would also clairify things.

>>40138924
You git gud at life and at reading the style of the QM

>>40138872

>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again

>>40138872
>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>>40138872
>[x] I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.
>[x] She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

Just these two.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

We pull out one measly shell and everyone thinks we're married.

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>>40138938

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138872
>>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

Since we're going full feelings, why not.

Share our waifu to our new waifu.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138872
Lean in and whisper "Faeries"

>>40138872
>>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

We're her goddamn admiral dammit.

>>40138872
>"I was just a glorified crane and only did what I could do for my ship. Arizona's crew did most of the work. "

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>>40138924

First: never trust the QM.

Incidentally, TRUST IN PLANEFAG is a mantra around here. This should tell you everything you need to know.

>>40138872
>>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>>40138872
> She needed help, and I was the only one who could help her. it was the right thing to do.

You know, the bomb disposal crew WAS there, so the first option isn't that accurate in the first place.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138872
>>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>>40138938

Whine about it more, why the fuck don't you? You needed some fresh fucking air anyway. Besides, she's cute. You could fucking do worse. You probably have done fucking worse.

>>40138872
>>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

She's like a little sister, you have to protect your little sister, it's just something you do.

Theyre also jerks who drain your wallet for ice cream money

>>40138997
That's be hilarious. But better be used at a more effective time.

>>40138872
>>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.
Inb4 every ship we meet attempts to play matchmaker for us with another.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

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>>40139030
>You probably have done fucking worse.

that's no way to talk about your mother young man

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>>40139006
Eat shit.

>>40139030
Considering how much fucking with him you do he is presently still doing worse.

>>40138872
>>One admiral already gave his life for Arizona's sake. We've got her back, now – by some miracle of a gracious God, we have Arizona back, right when we need her most. We'll pay the price again, if we must, to keep her.

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>>40139076

>>40139076
Shots fired.jpg

>>40139012
They ran and left Settle behind. Fuck them.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

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>>40139076

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

Didn't Arizona "return" in the middle of her memorial? She must have some idea that she's still remembered fondly.

>>40139076
That's your comeback? A your mom joke? That's it?

Fucks sake. Where's Harder, at least he's more creative.

>>40138872
You know, telling a girl that you give her attention because "it's your responsibility" it's a sure way to make her angry.

But since we're talking about another (not present) shipslut, it may work.

Haven't I stepped on that mine so many times.

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>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40138924
planefag quests aren't winnable, all options lead to chaos and devastation. think of it as skydiving without a parachute - but you get to steer for a bit before you splat

>>40139153
Yep, she popped up staring at her own wreck. One of her crew called her over to report to duty

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>>40139154

You really want me to bring up the Thai Hooker Incident? Is that where you want to take this?

... of course it is. You're proud of it, and you want to brag. Go ahead, please, share with the class.

>>40139183
...But it's true?

She is our subordinate after all.

>>40139183
Our other choices aren't much better.

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>>40139183
Am I going to have to give a United States Admiral a lesson on understanding a maiden's heart?

I sure hope not, because I haven't figured that one out yet either.

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40139205
Wait, which incident? the time I had the briefcase full of contracts? Or the basket trick?

>>40138872
>>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.
>>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

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>>40139076

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>I was there, and nobody else. That's how war is. You don't get to choose who lives and dies, who gets lucky and who catches it. You just play the hand you're dealt, and do your job.

>>40138872
>>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40139232
An idol's heart is a sacred and mysterious thing.

>>40139192
AND THEN IT TURNS OUT THE GROUND WAS A THIN VENEER AND OH LOOK THERE'S STILL SO MUCH SKY LEFT ISNT THIS FUN

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So while we're waiting, who wants to see a couple pictures of the USS Iowa? A /k/ommando was sharing a couple on /k/ last night.

>>40138872
>why did you pull a live shell out of her

"The faeries did the work. I was just a glorified dockcrane."

>>40138872
>She's my responsibility, and nobody else's. I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I won't let it happen again.

>>40139232
You might as well.
Anon is hopeless when it comes to the fairer sex.

>>40139239

Oh, the basket trick. Share with them the fucking basket trick, please. I don't want to remember paperwork that spawned more paperwork when it was left in a dark corner for too long, like some kind of disgusting new genus of animal life.

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Now that I have finished the entire current american fleet, it was only fair to draw them all together!

>>40139311
Stern shots pls

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... Now with a new and improved map of CFAY! There's some minor spelling and graphical errors, but I was half-asleep when I made it.

Do people want me to lead off with Navyfag's personal alcohol-related stories (may include sushi), or spoopy-related stories?

>DRUNK TIMES WITH NAVYFAG
>"Fuck off, ghosts. I've got work to do."

Captcha: Select all the food
But captcha, beer IS food to me.

>>40139322

The look on Sammy's face will haunt me forever in my dreams.

>>40139329
>>DRUNK TIMES WITH NAVYFAG

gimme jarhead stories

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>>40139311

>>40139322
>dat Willie

Truly the cherry on top of this pic.

>>40139322
Doesn't Hornet use a crossbow?

>>40139329
spoopy ghoast

>>40139322
Not too shabby, anon. Great work.

>>40139322
pixel you absolute legend!

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>>40139322
>mfw

>>40139329
>DRUNK TIMES WITH NAVYFAG
Always drunk times nigga.

>>40139322
BASED PIXELFAG

>>40139311
I can probably dig up a bunch of the Iowa (BB-61), especially the interiors. I used visit that ship a lot when I was young.

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>>40139353

>>40139329
>DRUNK TIMES WITH NAVYFAG

Drunk stories best stories

>>40139322
POSE AS A TEAM, COZ SHIT JUST GOT REAL!!!


>>40139329
>11. NEX Gas station
IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ISLAND?!

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>>40139387

Behold! The inner workings of the 16-inch guns!

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>>40139422

>captcha wants me to select all images of hamburgers

But captcha an Arby's Roast Beef sandwich is not a hamburger.

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>>40139471

>>40139329
>Monkey Island
Admiral Threepwood when?

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>>40139493

The 5-inch guns

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>>40139527

I was one of the folks who helped turn the USS Hornet (CV-12) into a museum ship. We had some strange encounters on that ship, but they were pretty much all benevolent. She seemed to like helping people out when they were aboard. On one occasion we were sweeping the ship's spaces before shutting her down for the night, and needed some chain to help secure a security gate on the brow, which lead from the ship to the pier. One of the guys on the sweep jokingly said "Hornet, give us chain!" as we started to head back up from the lower decks. On our way out, we entered a space that we had just been in earlier and had found empty. Neatly coiled on the deck was a gleaming length of chain.

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>>40139322
>Pose as a team
>Iowa pics
>Drunk navy stories
This thread escalated quickly

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>>40139561

>>40139329
>Womble Gate
Don't suppose there are (or were) any Brits on base?

>>40139565
D'awww. Them's some nice faeries.

>>40139580
Just an average planefag thread you should know.

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>>40139592

And I think that does it for Iowa. Next up are a few pics of USS Missouri the same /k/ommando took.

>>40139329
Man, this map makes me wish I could visit. #1 issue with JP is their poor english but I imagine that's not a huge problem here.

Are locals cool with the military there?

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>>40139565
Hornet is a good girl
(Yes, I know this is CV8.)
Also related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eJhMEErnAM

>>40139322
Arizonia and Hornet look sexy...

Not I'm imagining her height now trying to stab Kongo with a pencil

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>>40139620

Missouri keeping guard over the Arizona

>>40139592
Is that a Phalanx?

>>40139640
I heard that 'dess dess dess dess dess dess' from across the yard and I could not stop laughing.

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DRUNK TIME WITH NAVYFAG WINS. Please stand by while I prep a story or two.

Also, pic related is a (very) young me (aka Navyfag) circa 2005. The context is a security alert drill with one-too-few fake rifles.

>>40139493

[screams internally] Well, this brings back some memories.

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>>40139651

Eeyup. From Iowa's 80's modernization.

>>40139650

>>40139666
>not using a Very pistol as an anti-boarding weapon

It's like hitting someone with a fastball that's on fire.

>>40139659
How can you tell? She says it all the time.

>>40139682
>>40139650
THOSE 16 INCHERS THO

>>40139666
Speaking of drills, what's the longest drill period you had aboard?

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>>40139666

>"M14" written on a paper tube inserted over a dummy gun

This shouldn't be as hilarious as it is.

>>40139682

>>40139666
Goddamn. At least we got actual rubner rifles

>>40139666
> that squiggled 'm-14' on the side

Speaking of Missouri...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0bKMj9Kgo

>>40139724
Oh shit nice, that's the conning tower! That's a lot more cramped than I was expecting.

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>>40139724

And I think that's the end of Missouri. Just found a couple more pics from Iowa's interior, so I'll be posting those next.

>>40139637

Yeah, CV-8 was an amazing ship. At one point she held the approaches to Guadalcanal alone when the two other carriers with her had to head back due to battle damage.

CV-12 was hardcore as fuck though. In 16 months of heavy combat her air groups shot down or destroyed 1400 aircraft and sank or heavily damaged 1.2 million tons of enemy shipping. The only damage she ever took was from a typhoon on the way to Okinawa. She's the carrier that picked up Apollo's 11 and 12 when they got back from the Moon, too.

>>40139744
If any shipslut should watch that movie, it's Higgins. Goddamn Arleigh Burke has more screentime and kills than anything else

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>>40139769

>>40139769
And that's why the Missouri absolutely must appear in this quest.
That kind of jap butthurt is simply too immense to not take advantage of.
Not to mention she already watched Arizona up and take off.

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>>40139791

>>40139724
shit, seeing this has dredged up some memories, I just remembered that I visited the Maritime Museum in Adelaide once and I hardly remember anything and I have no pictures

well that's some uselss information, brain

>>40138872
>"She's one of ours."
>"And the shell needed to come out."

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>>40139814

The different types of shells that could be used by Iowa's 16-inch guns.

>>40139802
The Mighty Mo is biding her time, she'll come when she's most desperately needed, and not a moment before.
I hope she'll bring her sisters.

>>40139708
It's like bird calls. You get a sense of them.

For the record, this is the third time I've heard the 'I'm being poked in the ribs with a pencil' dess from the Anglo-Japanese Tea-spackled Warbler.

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>>40139849

>>40139814
So what rank gets that kind of room? One bunk, looks somewhat spacious (for living on a ship).

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>>40139856
I pity the abyssal flotilla that faces Mo and her sisters in open battle.

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>>40139881

A gunpowder canister hatch, I think.

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>>40139849
>Scatters 499 anti-personnel grenades over 9 acres
>>40139788
>>40139744
>Shipsluts giving Settle a Look during the ridiculous "carry a 16 inch shell across the ship" scene

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>>40139849
>they developed a nuclear shell for the Iowa
>they would have carried multiple ones
>yfw the possibility of a magazine cooking off

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>>40139916

Oh yeah, here's the pic that explains what it is.

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>>40139849
>9 20 kiloton nukes hitting one target every 30 seconds

So I've been compiling a list of Settle's nicknames around Yokosuka. So far I have:

"Ords Toucher"
"Flattop Fist Fight"
"The Pimp With a Limp" (I suspect Hate is behind this one, but I can't prove anything)
"Golf Cart Air Raid"

>>40139869

You and I gotta sit down sometime so you can teach me this shit. 90% of the fucking time whatever's coming out of her mouth is just noise, it's not fucking words.

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“I was there,” you reply, “and nobody else was. And that was, uh, kind of my fault. I got a little...” you waggle your hand in air - “by the whole... everything, and I kind of spooked the EOD guys.”
She frowns. “But isn't that *their* job?”

“If you saw an officer laughing like a lunatic next to a few hundred pounds of live munitions with a damaged fuze, would you stick around?”

She blanches. “I suppose not.”

“Yeah. Arizona's...” you take a deep breath - “her...” you tap your abdomen, and hold up your thumb and forefinger to indicate something tiny. “You know, her-”

“... ovaries?”

“FARIES!” you exclaim sharply, making heads turn around the room. “Hergoddamnfaries,” you growl under your breath as you blush. “I just hoisted away when they'd handled everything.”

“Mmmhmm,” Shoukaku hums through her coy smile, looking quite amused. “It seems you already know some of our inner secrets. But that doesn't explain why you were there in the first place.”

>>40139931
>>40139937
> sweatmind

>>40139937
>yfw the possibility of a magazine cooking off
Nuclear weapons don't cook off.
Still terrifying, but not like that

>>40139959
So the golf cart is the new ROLLING COURT MARTIAL?

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>>40139965

“Arizona is my responsibility. Mine, and mine alone.” You sigh, resisting the urge to slump over the table again. “I've already left one ship in a drydock she'll probably never leave. I don't intend to lose another.”

Shoukaku seems to gaze clear through you, a thoughtful, searching look on her face. The waitress returns with your steaks and drinks, serves you and vanishes again. You exchange pleasantries with the waitress, but Shoukaku never blinks till she's gone again.

“You miss your old ship that much?”

You shrug. “She was my first command. Spent all my sea time on her – half of it patching her back together. She was getting old, after all. Hard not to get attached.”

“I had one of the girls who's good with that... web thing look for information on that. Apparently everyone's calling you a hero for the battle in Los Angeles bay.”

You blanch – of all the things you didn't want coming up, this topped the list.

>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.
>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

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>>40139890

Officers, usually. Probably a department head or division officer, judging by the size.

Pic related is my old command leaving homeport.

>>40139974
Gun-type devices do!

And, of course, it was too difficult to cram an implosion-type device into a 16" shell. Hooray!

>>40139974
They don't cook off, no.

But they're there if the REST of the magazine blows up.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

>>40139937
It would be unpleasant for those inside the magazine (LOL uranium oxide particulates) but no nuclear boom. Nuclear weapons are very carefully designed NOT to do that, and are damned hard to get to initiate correctly in the first place. That's simply-but-poor-yeild bun-type Little Boy was used untested, but the implosion-triggered Fat Man got the Trinity test beforehand.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

But sometimes its good to let it out.

>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

>>40139998
>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

>>40139998
>>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

Pretend being humble! Chicks dig that, right?

>Does this apply to shipsluts too?

>>40139998
>>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

>>40139998
>>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139960
You can tell by sound when your PT boat flotilla wants walkies, snacks, or to tear your books apart, right? Same thing.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

We've decided to be upfront with her, and it's not like she's some fragile flower.

>>40139998

>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

Do tell, Admiral.

>>40139998
>>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.

Quick, pick a different thing to talk about. Like her hair.

>which one is Ikazuchi
Kaminari is the one with shorter, curlier hair. Nanodeath is the one whose hair is tied behind her back.

Now you know, Planefag, and knowing is half the battle.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

It's true and deflects any more attention.

Hopefully.

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>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.
We're on the honesty track. Let's continue.

>>40139998
>That was... a messy affair. I wouldn't want to spoil your night by getting into that mess.
Winding in the piss

>>40140005
Hey chief, you ever wanted to change ships in your early days?

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

If you want to know the real hero of LA, look for a cutter pilot.

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>>40139944

And that's it from me, guys. Would have closed this out with a webm from a war movie, but it had sound and /tg/ doesn't yet allow audio webms.

So instead here's a different WW2 webm.

>>40139998
>Every victory needs a hero, Shoukaku, and they didn't know anything about you girls yet. I was runner up. Poster boy. PR bullshit.

>>40140033
Pretty sure that mostly applies to implosion-type devices, which are very difficult to properly initiate.

AFAIK, though, gun-type devices can go off by accident, as they require only one explosive charge to initiate properly, as opposed to a perfectly coordinated spherical shell of explosives.