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To: Pompah
you don’t get a lot of sleep waiting to get through one of these monsters.

Probably don't keep much food down, either.

7 posted on 05/11/2012 9:55:05 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Probably don't keep much food down, either.

From what I saw it depended on rank. I was deck bo’s’n on an Army 143’ tug working out of Okinawa. One of our jobs was to go to the aid of ships in distress – always during a typhoon. My crewmen had fun. Green water over the bridge, 50° rolls in 40 - 50’ seas. The watch would be relieved and the oncoming watch would come to the bridge eating very greasy pork chops. The officers would immediately run outside and ralph.

35 posted on 05/12/2012 3:59:49 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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