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Posted on 08/01/2005 7:33:49 PM PDT by SandRat
ABOARD USS BOXER, Aug. 1, 2005 —Two USS Boxer firemen earned medals for their actions to stop a potentially dangerous steam leak July 12 aboard the San Diego-based amphibious assault ship.
With 900-degree steam running through the heart of Boxer at 720 pounds per square inch, Machinist’s Mate Fireman Patrick Clark, from Raleigh, N.C., and Machinist’s Mate Fireman Nicholas Shaw, from Coshocton, Ohio, prevented a major accident when they stopped the leak in Boxer’s aft main machinery room.
“I wasn’t expecting something like this just for doing my job. I was only looking out for my safety and the safety of my fellow shipmates,” Machinist’s Mate Fireman Patrick Clark.
Clark and Shaw’s quick response and actions earned them each a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.
“I was shocked when the commanding officer came down to aft MMR and gave us NAMs,” said Clark. “I wasn’t expecting something like this just for doing my job. I was only looking out for my safety and the safety of my fellow shipmates.”
The quick response of the two Boxer engineers guaranteed the safety of their watch team and critical power systems, according to the officer responsible for engineering spaces.
“Working down in the engineering plant on any ship is just as dangerous as working on the flight deck,” said Cmdr. Janet Mahn, Boxer’s chief engineer. “This is why we practice our casualty control procedures regularly. This day the training paid off because we get to go home with everyone who was on watch alive and well.”
To help Boxer’s engineering department get the ship back to 100 percent operational capability, a seven-man repair team from USS Frank Cable, stationed out of Guam, embarked Boxer in Kemaman, Malaysia.
Frank Cable’s repair team arrived early July 17 and quickly went to work fixing the main steam piping. After more than 17 hours of hard work, the repair team had it fixed and completed a satisfactory operational test.
“The Frank Cable’s repair team was very professional, and their workmanship was the best that I have seen from an Intermediate Maintenance Activity since I have been here,” said Mahn. “It is all about taking care of your shipmates, and this shows (that) no matter where you are in the world, the Navy will do anything in its power to lend a helping hand and get you repaired.”
Just doing their job.
Bravo Zulu to them.
Main Steam leaks are nasty to deal with. You can't see superheated steam and a jet of it can cut thru you in a heartbeat.
Training and discipline needs to take over.
BZ to these brave sailors!!
I miss my Navy Seal some days. Usually not, since I divorced his cheating @ss, but then I read something like this that reminds me that he wasn't ALL bad, LOL! Thanks.
A gang rules!
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| Boxer (LHD-4) underway off at Pearl Harbor, HI., 2 August 1998 US Navy photo # 980802-N-3612M-003 by PH1 James G. McCarter. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/0804.htm |
Many thanks for the link..that is a great website..I'd seen it a whileback..then somehow lost it..
Happy to learn you can take a joke... I believe what is said in the maxim about a woman scorned.
Good website for military paraphenalia...
http://www.usmedals.com
With 900-degree steam running through the heart of Boxer at 720 pounds per square inch, Machinist’s Mate Fireman Patrick Clark, from Raleigh, N.C., and Machinist’s Mate Fireman Nicholas Shaw, from Coshocton, Ohio, prevented a major accident when they stopped the leak in Boxer’s aft main machinery room.
That's why we always used a broom handle to look for the leak. When you see the handle snap off and go flying through the air, you've found your leak....
Thanks for the ping!
BTTT!!!!!!
Ping...
Just one more demonstration of excellence from the finest military on the planet.
Why ruin a perfectly good broom handle when there are ensigns? :-)
I wondered that briefly in disgust. I am content now with the thought that perhaps Hanes named a mens undergarment after the Senator.
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