What are you watching/listening to?

Its a critical component of the boat workshop. Some tunes, maybe a TV show or a war movie on in the background.

What are you listening to/watching while you work?

For me, it was Netflix's WW2 in Colour now it's Star Trek Voyager from the beginning. It's pretty nice to have a small TV and a chromecast in the workshop.

 

"Sink the Bismarck "
"Yamato" (best ending ever)
"Enemy below " (way too clean Uboat)
"Dirty dozen "
"Run silent run deep"
"Letters from Iwo Jima"
Victory at Sea , any episode

 

"Band of Brothers"
"Saving Private Ryan"
"Battle for the River Plate" (on VHS that still works)

 

Everybody should go see "They shall not grow old"
Be sure to stick around for the Jackson comments after the credits. I almost missed fr

Also "Das Kanal" about the Warsaw uprising .
The ending is very haunting.

 

And i would not follow Tom Hanks into battle
Maybe Telly Savalas and Clint Eastwood

 

Meh, I had guys like Tom Hanks in my unit. they were pretty damn good leaders. Watched one of them dismount in the middle of a close-in fight and start directing truck movements while his gunner duked it out with a Taliban PKM team. the glitzy ones and the hardcore ones like eastwood or wayne fill flag-draped body bags and blame it on their subordinates when the going gets tough.
My Brigade Commander got nine of our guys killed in 2008. then when he got ripped up in the national media by the Pentagon report showing his glaring incompetence, he had some friends rewrite it to place all of the blame on one of the dead soldiers, had that guy's posthumous Silver Star revoked, and publicly shamed the dead guy's family.

I'm listening to a band called "Alien Weaponry". Maori thrash metal. it's rad.

 

Thanks Carl. Nothing like having a good cry in the middle of a work day.

 

Music, no time for distractions

 

Battle scenes are way too graphic, but good.. I sat through it with my daughter and she translated the Japanese, different than the English dubbed.

 

They rock!

 

Oddly since working on the Rodney I have been watching Benny Hill and Mr. Bean. Someone help me! Please!

 

The trick, when determining how your deployment will go, is how cool the person is (not popular cool, but with regard to temperament). look for quiet confidence, the ability to talk strategy and readily implement it, the ability to adapt to a given situation, pragmatism, a humble nature, and above all, a man who is calm and rational while everything's going to hell around him, who runs through MG fire while alternating between laughing and yelling "Oh S----!! Oh S----!!".

These are the trademarks of the Heraclitan Warrior--the one who will bring everyone home, even at great personal cost.
A guy like that saved my life and the lives of my fire team at the cost of his own. I spent a day pinned down, shooting at the carrion birds to protect his body before the extraction crews flew in to get us out. He was a great commander.

I've met eight Heraclitan Warriors in my life. If you ever meet somebody like that, cherish every minute you get with them.

 

Bluetooth speaker or headphones playing 40s-60s on Spotify.

 

Typically listen to some sort of podcast, sometimes tunes.

 

CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

 

Depends on what I'm in the mood for. I have a big collection of sea shanties if I want to sing along. I have a CD of Lord of the Rings in heavy metal, if I want to rock out. I also have collections by John Williams, Joe Hisaishi, Hans Zimmer, Jeremy Soule, and Koji Kondo.

 

Howard Stern, Dustbin Beeper