[GATOR NAVY]

I take it you ran into a few jarheads in the gator navy...

Ha! Just a few.

Perhaps we were on the same ship.

LST-1198, LKA-116, LST-1189, LPD-8, LPD-10, LSD-50.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"LST-1198, LKA-116, LST-1189, LPD-8, LPD-10, LSD-50."

Yeah, U.S.S. Debuque (or Depuke) LPD 8. Good ship. Had a lot of great steel beach parties on that one.

[CTOCS]

Looks like you’ve seen most of them. I was on the Shreveport (LPD-12) with CTF61/62 onboard during the 70’s out of Rota, Spain. Short deployment, less than 90 days. I wasn’t a Gator, I was a Spook.

This turd demeans us all. I’ve never had a prouder moment in my adult life than the day I made Chief. One of the best clubs in the world to belong to. This numbnuts should be prosecuted. Plus, you don’t wear medals on civilian attire.

[BlueLancer]

I did my Youngster Cruise from the Naval Academy aboard the LPD-11, Coronado. Worked the whole cruise in the engine room, scraping boilers and fixing pumps. On the last night of the cruise, returning to Norfolk, one of the crew brought out his stereo and played Moody Blues albums on the helo deck under a perfectly black sky full of stars ...

Probably the best night of my life ...