[kbennkc]

USS Tarawa (LHA 1)
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[kbennkc]

nuts

[Mariner]

Had a couple of Westpacs on that flat-bottomed, first in it's class POS:)

In very heavy seas, when the 2200 Marines would get to pukin' all over everthing, the sewage system would back up something fierce.

Puke and sh!t sloshing about the main deck ankle deep...had to close the mess decks.

Now, in deference to the poor kids of BLT 1/3 they had never seen a ship bigger than a row boat before...and the seas were 45ft 12hrs outside of Pearl Harbor. We had to medi-vac over 50 of 'em due to chronic sea sickness.

It was windy too:)