[ConorMacNessa]

I lucked out - my "sea duty" was with the Marines.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[BIGLOOK]

Submit your R&R request to the Flight Chief.Leave to the sound of laughter.

Submit a request for a new flight suit. Leave with copy of the request to be forwarded to supply via the mail.

Return from mission at 2200, read the flight bill for your next....0500 launch. Midrats at 0000.

My time with the fleet was rather nice, except that as TDY there weren't any racks available so we slept on a blanket on the deck, strapped to a stanchion, polishing the deck all night long in high seas.

The movies on the mess deck were great. I'd seen them before with my father, who was career MMC and took me to visit his ship in port on Fridays 10 years earlier.