Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "Naval Logistics - Keeping your fleet in fuel, food and guns" video.

  1. Well ... actually ... 24 Hour Clocks are the exception - depending on where you are - most of the clocks are standard civilian office clocks - because they are cheaper. .
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  2.  @whyjnot420  Unlike this one - my comment, though it followed right after yours - was more a comment on clocks in general than a reply to you. As to "24 hour" clocks - most of the ones I saw - were really just 12 hour clocks that had two sets of numbers on them. So for 2 p.m. they would have a "2" and then below it a "1400". So for these clocks the only difference between them and a standard clock was the printing of the hours on the clock face. Internally - they were identical. The ones that were real 24 hour clocks were extremely rare. I've seen them - but they were very few in number and mostly located on a ship or something. As to them being cheaper - the standard office clocks were cheaper because they were mass produced in vast numbers, whereas the pseudo "24 hour" clocks I saw - which merely had two sets of numbers printed on them but were mechanically the same - were made in smaller numbers. Civilian and military office buildings all over the world used those standard "12" hour clocks whereas, I would imagine, it was mostly military functions or maybe some other organization that used "24 hour" times, that would be a market for the "24 hour" version. As to those centrally controlled clocks - yes - I remember that from when I was in grade school! Twice a year when they changed over from Day Light Savings Time to Standard Time - or if there had been a power outage - you could see the clock hands moving on their own. That Grade School - which was on a military base - was the only time I saw that though - the rest were just standard office clocks that had to be adjusted manually. One of the things about those office clocks - was that when they designed the office - they had a little power plug right there on the wall where the clock went that you could plug it into. I have grown to really hate battery powered clocks ... We had one of these Bird Clocks where a different bird would "chime" the hours for each of the 12 hours (and it was photo sensitive so it couldn't "chime" after dark). The trouble was - as the batteries wore down - it ran slower - and you had to replace them - and the batteries for that clock ran down every few months. I finally just got tired of changing the damned batteries and it's just been sitting there unmoving for ... over a decade ... as something decorative rather than a clock. This is one of TWO battery powered clocks that are now wall ornaments, though the other never kept accurate time. It had a function for adjusting the rate it ran at - but that did not work. Of course - this is something that is different now. I bought this cheap, throw away little digital clock with a liquid crystal display for which you could not change the battery - but - it's been running for years now ... so ... it would depend on the technology as to how big a pain in the ass the batteries are. Ha! Ha! You can tell what type of people are fans of videos about Naval Logistics by their ability to delve deep into the minutiae of different types of clocks! Ha! Ha! .
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  3.  @whyjnot420  Yeah. Things change and some of it is amazing. I prefer to use military time with people who know what it is - but - most of the people I deal with don't. There was a ... time ... when we would set our clocks by the phone company. Something like 853-1212 ... something like that. This was the source of the Joke "For a Good Time call ... " Phone company stopped doing that but I'm sure the joke wasn't the reason. Now I get my time from my computer. I can remember back when I had a program that would access an Atomic Clock somewhere and set my computers clock from that - but now - it seems to set itself automatically once I get it set as to what time zone it's in. Automatically resets for Day Light Savings. The other thing is - in Windows - you an set several different times that it will display in addition to the primary time. I've played a lot of computer games that use UTC and so I have one of them set to that and the other to Japan where my brother lives. We live in such a new world now. I can remember watching the very first Network broadcast of a Satellite transmitted program and now we think nothing of it. And yet - I cannot call my Brother in Japan any more on my land line - because all the circuits are always busy and I'm told by the robot voice lady to try again later - at which time they will also always be busy. If I want to talk to him - I have to use my mobile phone. That works. Things change but not always for the best. .
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  4.  @whyjnot420  Yes. Yes indeed. .
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  5. Yep. As I understand it, one of the things the US Carriers would do - is provide oil for their escorts, so that the Carrier itself became a supply ship. I don't know how exceptional this was or if it was a matter of routine. I also don't know if they supplied things other than oil. I also am unaware whether the nuclear Carriers still do that or not since they would have no other reason to carry all that fuel oil. One thing you failed to mention was toilet paper. I've seen massive pallets of toilet paper being loaded aboard a ship ... Oh ... and I'd mention that the men crewing the ships of this supply chain have not been completely ignored. The film Mister Roberts details the comings and goings of the USS Reluctant as it sails "from tedium to apathy and back again". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Roberts_(1955_film) .
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  6.  @williamgoin139  But - do they still do that? It was one thing for a conventional carrier to share it's fuel oil with it's escorts - but - it is another for a nuclear carrier to be carrying all that fuel oil solely for their escorts. I suppose they could - I just don't know if they do. .
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