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To: GreyHoundSailor
"Every three days we’d take on 2.5 to 3 million gallons of JP-5."

Was that during "normal" operations?
I can't imagine what she'd suck down during combat ops!

48 posted on 02/12/2020 1:57:39 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again".)
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To: Psalm 73

We were always in Condition III - wartime cruising, and flight ops were intense for at least 12 hours/day, with Helos, Hoovers and Hummers going around the clock. Our refueling stations were double probe and two stations at max psi could transfer 200 gal/sec. Often we’d be launching/recovering while refueling steaming 12 kts and 180 feet from the delivery ship.


66 posted on 02/12/2020 2:30:29 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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