BONUS EPISODE: The Close Quarters Combat of the USS Buckley

"mouse savior?" How did they miss Moussiah?

LOL @Joe 😂 fair enough about the pronunciation stuff

Ok but like. How is this not a movie?

What if we throw paper coffee cups?

My cousin smokes spam and it's delicious. Tastes just like hammy burnt ends

Listening to this banger of an episode and then watching Hitchcock’s “Lifeboat” was a good pairing. In the film the survivors of a sunken freighter are stranded in a lifeboat with a survivor of the U-boat that also sank. It’s wartime propaganda that’s also correct in that you can’t give Nazis quarter.

I see your “Thoroughbreads” and raise you one “Pegasus” outside the gates of Fort Polk.

My Great Grandpa served on a DE during WW2. He got a really good deal and spent much of his enlistment going between schools and getting assigned to new DEs because the one he was assigned to got fully crewed and deployed before he got there.

Merch Idea: USS Buckley coffee cups.

alright this is the episode that got me to join the patreon

What a fucking funny episode. Glad to occasionally have one like this!

The mouse-ssiah. Missed opportunity lol

You used to be able to sink submarines with helicopter door gunners in C:MANO.

Has Joe ever covered Operation Anaconda on the show? Feel like it's a perfect candidate - you have all of the fuck ups that went on with the Afghan column that was meant to make up the main force but fled following bad bombing runs, you have the rakkasans in "hells half-pipe", and then the snafu on Takhur Gar with a bad mission getting pushed ahead and the SEALS landing on the X due to time constrai ts, the consequences of that with Roberts, Chapman, the Ranger QRF getting lit up, and then the recent events with the Pred drone footage getting released and the ridiculousness of the Medal of Honor museum. I know Joe and Co have like a years long backlog at this point but it would be a perfect GWOT one-off.

This is one of the best episodes to date by jove old boy

too drunk to say shomting...but hy

Hey grandpa, why is there a dent in this coffee pot? Well, it got that dent cause I whacked a nazi submariner’s skull after we rammed his sub and they boarded us like they were pirates. Yeah, the war in the Atlantic got weird, grandchild

Tushonka is the Slavic version of spam. there's a Ukrainian youtuber called the Kitchen Cosmonaut that does a taste test of modern Tushonka in English if anyone is curious.

This sailor thanks you for supporting ship workers 🫡

Can you imagine the amount of special edition Soviet Spam that's sitting untouched at the bottom of the Atlantic bc the fish would rather starve.

German sailors weren't expecting some good ole fashioned gangster shakedowns.

This might be my favorite LLBD episode ever. The chaos of the Nazi boarding party is crazy, but the imagery of the Nazis getting their brains smashed out by a coffee pot wielding Petty Officer and the Nazi getting Superman punched off the deck is outstanding!

Greetings from Louisville. The strip clubs remain on 31, names and owners change. Hard to change the floor plan of a place with no windows.

Seven minutes in and already a banger episode.

So basically the no man’s land melee from the “The King’s Man” movie, but on a boat.

Oh gods, the Spam!! My dad got hooked on it during his time in the Marines at the end of WWII. He was banned from eating it after his double bypass. After he passed, my mom and I found cans of Spam stashed throughout the house. He just would not give that stuff up.

Don’t worry, the jokes always land.

U-boat x Destroyer Escort Forbidden Yuri (they r both ships and therefore both women)

My brain has been derailed by Destroyer (Escort / Sex Worker). But then that makes me think of how the Cock Destroyers would fit into this nautical framework. Destroyer (Cock) I suppose. At any rate a mess of seamen by the end of it.

Hilarious. It could be a zany screwball comedy. I’d love to see it on the big screen

One of the difficulties with identifying who qualifies as a Nazi is that the Nazis repeatedly lowered their conscription age until, after nearly 6 years of war, by the end of the European theater, they were using literal child soldiers in active combat. A 22-year-old submariner in 1939, who was 17 in 1934, could reasonably be considered a Nazi. A 12-year-old tank crew member in 1945, who was 1 in 1934, probably could not reasonably be considered a Nazi. Where do you draw the line between these two extremes? The problem is you kind of can’t. (This is to say nothing of people from the Baltic states who resisted the Soviet invasion in 1939 only to be just as surprised as the Soviets by Operation Barbarossa in 1941. And Nazi conscription in occupied territories only muddies things further.)

Coffee for the win!

When it got to the coffee cup I just pictured Toni Storm telling Renee "chin up, tits out and watch for the cuuup"

Those WW 2 Navy coffee cups are leathal projectiles. They are made out of heavy ceramic to keep the coffee hot and don't have handles, you can use to keep your hands warm if you are on watch. No handle makes for better areodynamics.

Metal Gear Rising was NOT written by Kojima. It was written by Etsu Tamari, and he wrote a political satire that Kojima WISHES he wrote. Put respect on that man's name for giving Metal Gear the best writing it ever had.

By the Archer metric, its a sex worker while afloat & a hooker when sunk

Ain't no way you guys think spam tastes better than tushonka

" these ships weren't meant to slug it out with japanese battleships ". ( looks at the battle off samar and looks away )

Ah hell yeah, we Navy-Pilled we’re Boatmaxxing in 2025 baby!!!! DONT CHA KNOW THE USS CREAM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP! Admiral Macho Man.

Rumor says the USS O’Bannon (yes, named after the hero of Derna) fought a Japanese submarine with potatoes.

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I work in dispatch for our local transit system and we have a guy named crash dangerzone

Hell yeah, boats - boats - boats - boats. Aka exotic ships

For what it's worth, despite having a much better training program and arguably better conditions, the US sub fleet also had an incredibly high casualty rate. This is for somewhat different reasons than the German losses. It also accounted for a staggering amount of tonnage sunk even compared to us surface ships and planes, of both commercial and military ships.

At one point before WW2, someone in the navy theorized that the US Navy should aim to build 140 aircraft carriers. By 1945, they had over 120. If the war continued to 1946, they would have been projected to have around 152.

Stuart Little’s biological father was also a human

All this scurvy discourse makes me ask again for a series based on the first season of The Terror.

Collins Class submarines that the (RAN) Royal Australian Navy use, are diesel-electric. Diesel isn't all that bad lol. The HMAS Rankin (Collins Class) managed to beat the US Navy at RIMPAC 2004 during exercise Silent Fury. The USN had 2 destroyers, a guided missile frigate, a nuclear submarine, Destroyer Squadron 31, 6 Patrol Squadron anti-submarine P-3C Orion combat crews and a chopper. Rankin still got close enough to snap pics of a US destroyer within range of engagement even when the USN cheated and used active sonar.

Thank God this came out during a overnight inventory shift. Thank you for keeping me up.