30 military cadets hurt in West Point pillow fight

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[fortheDeclaration]

Pillow fights?

[BerryDingle]

Go Navy :-)

[major_gaff]

yeah...we used to tri-clor guys too...good time, good times.

[major_gaff]

Love the Gunny...’what is your major malfunction numb nuts!’ He reminded me of one of my Junior DI’s at 1st battalion in
Full Metal Jacket.

[dfwgator]

Now we know why Army has lost 13 in a row to Navy.

[cva66snipe]

yeah...we used to tri-clor guys too...good time, good times.

12 was the favorite. 11 didn't flash off quick enough. 22 was too dangerous. The look on the persons face was funny though. Considering Engineering Dept had it's share of impulsive roughnecks blowing off steam things were usually kept in check. Chief never could locate the shaft alley camera mooners though. That was an in port prank when officers weren't in Central.

[major_gaff]

your handle just rang a bell with me...did you serve on the America (CV-66)? I did a med cruise on her...well not much of one...we sat off the coast of Libya in ‘86 for most of it and then bombed Bengahzi.

[cva66snipe]

America was the first carrier to transit the Suez after the Six Day War and did so in 1981. I was onboard from early 1977 - Oct 80 and got out at the end of the 1980 overhaul. I was in AC&R shop at that time right below the forward mess decks at 2 A/C. That’s how I got the R-12 LOL. Were you in a squadron or ships company?

[cva66snipe]

Let me rephrase that. Were you in MARDET or squadron?

[major_gaff]

Yes...VMAQ2 Det Y (?)...EA-6B Prowler...Electronic Warfare Avionics Tech...we used to use the tri-clor to clean the jammer pod modules cuz they were encased in hydraulic oil to keep them cool

[major_gaff]

let me re-phase that...lol...I was in a squadron...MARDET hated us long hair air wingers worse than you squids. ;~)

[cva66snipe]

Yeah there was a kinda pecking order LOL. The MARDET {simply doing their job} would interrupt the meals such as they were by a Security Alert Drill. Up against the bulkhead till it was over. We had our own game called bowling. When the Fire Bell was sounded we'd gear up and run to the compartment number. Once the bell was sounded we would run low, fast, and loaded for bear LOL. If someone was in the way they were in the way. I used to get trouble calls to the Brig. It was under the aft Mess. We'd be out in the summer time and they'd turn the heat on down there. Marines had the Brigs on carriers back then. In 1980 the MAA's took it over as MAA was made an rating for E-4 and above I think. MARDET may have taken it back. A lot of screwy changes happened in 1979-80 that I doubt lasted long under the new bosses.

We didn't have a Marine squadron onboard the whole time I was in best I remember.

One E-5 in my division was a Marine who at the end of his enlistment joined the Navy. He knew the commands that we could not understand. MARDET would be drilling on the Hanger Deck and we'd sneak up and hide out of sight but in hearing range for some command performance entertainment.

[BigCinBigD]

They were closer than the history books let on...
;)

[BerryDingle]

Don't get me started on that, at one time I had that whole film memorized up to the Vietnam transition.

You are pukes! You are the lowest forms of life on earth. You're not even human f--king pigs. You're nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibious sh_t.

[BerryDingle]

Sorry, who could ever forget the “Surfin bird” by the Trashmen in Vietnam?

[major_gaff]

me too...the funny thing to me was that when I saw the movie the first time, I knew most of the lines already from boot camp...lol

[major_gaff]

we spent most of our time in the electronics vans that hung above the hanger deck aft...we even slept up there in the storage vans sometimes. up there no one could really mess with us. We also stayed away from MARDET as much as possible...they had a collective hard-on for airwingers

[cva66snipe]

we spent most of our time in the electronics vans that hung above the hanger deck aft...

That's a new one on me. But in 1980 they started adding newer electronic toys. I saw the phalanx guns they installed in 1980 working before I left. Very, very, wicked weapon to see operating. Now it makes sense to me why they installed the larger than normal extra Chiller in overhaul 1980. More electronics were on the way later. Ships Air Conditioning System wasn't for crew comfort so much as it was for cooling the electronics rooms. Up till 1980 we were holding our own A/C wise but the system couldn't take a much higher heat load.

[major_gaff]

We actually had our own AC van that kept everything cool when on land...don't remember if we had that out on the America. So the vans were not hanging from the underside of the flight deck above the hanger deck back when you were aboard?...where the heck did they put them?...or they didn't have them at all? We would not have been able to do our jobs with out the test benches that the vans housed.

The coolest guns I saw were the phalanx too...except we called them C-WIZ's

[cva66snipe]

I don't remember them being there. Back aft of the hanger bay was the Jet Shop. Near the aft just like near the forward section the 01 deck was there. Just like up at the G&E?? tractor shop ran by AIMD at the boat shop forward. IIRC VAST was above that. That was the area near the Forecastle.

Let me ask a question that might clear it up what planes did you have? We had F-14, A-6, A-7, S3 Viking, E2C the saucer??, Miss America and helos. Most shops with electronics were OE or operations Dept. There was also Main Comm and CAL Lab. Photo Lab was second deck. Cal Lab and Photo shop as well as VAST had an extra additional A/C unit just for their spaces.

I don't remember anything back aft that looked like it could be easily removed lets put it that way. Things were changing fast back then and I'd say the 80 overhaul was a preliminary for a lot of it. There wasn't a flight deck bubble either. I saw a picture of it and said what the heck is that sticking up in the flight deck? LOL. I'm gonna do some looking in my cruse book for pictures.