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To: BenLurkin

When I was station onboard the U.S.S. Independence-62 while forward deployed to Japan I rode thru 3 Typhoons and they are no joke as we took Green(Sea Water)over the Flight Deck several times. Super Typhoon and Cyclones make Hurricanes look like the JV Team.


7 posted on 09/04/2020 10:30:57 AM PDT by Trueblackman (Impeachment? Game on B*tches time add my engine to the Trump Train.)
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To: Trueblackman

As a tin can sailor that’s rode out typhoons off of Japan back in the 60’s, I can tell you it was one more ride. And like your carrier, the carrier we were escorting, I think it was the Kittyhawk, took green water over the flight deck.

As to us on tin cans, you can only imagine what it was like. Green water you say? To someone on the carrier, we must have looked more like a submarine than a destroyer.


16 posted on 09/04/2020 1:36:12 PM PDT by sasportas
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