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To: COBOL2Java
"Ay yi yi... "

I've rode a DDG through a Typhoon in the Pacific.

I can relate. I was sure she would come apart.

29 posted on 09/06/2015 12:28:41 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Mariner
I've rode a DDG through a Typhoon in the Pacific.

The part during the storm where the bow of my brother's destroyer went underwater was pretty disturbing! :-)

33 posted on 09/06/2015 12:40:04 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Mariner

Way back around 1967 I was on an Army 1466 class LCU off the coast of Viet Nam in a typhoon. Green water over the conn. I watched a navy tin can off to our starboard, it was pitching wildly, taking green water over the bridge. Just as we used our light and asked if they needed assistance their light was asking us the same thing.


46 posted on 09/06/2015 1:40:16 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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