[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:)

[kbennkc]

I hope my Navy and Marine brothers got to experience some of that. They have never mentioned it so I will have to bring it up next time they start the “You weren't tough enough for the Corps or smart enough for the Navy so the Army made you an officer” fightin words.