A friend of mine used to sit on his little chair in front of the washing machine and pretend he was watching Victory at Sea.
We put my buddy Dave in the Maytag to prepare him for frogman school, but he washed out.
Victory at Sea is probably what pushed me over the edge in deciding to enlist in a Navy officer program. This was during Vietnam and before the lottery, so as I finished college I could wait for the draft or listen to the music in my head and remember what I had seen. I was homeported out of Yokosuka and probably spent the better part of a year in Vietnam and over a year at sea.
We fought the Vietnam war with a lot of WW II ship, so I saw and operated with CA’s, DD’s, LFR’s, LST’s, and so many other acronyms.
Nearly every time I took over the bridge watch I would hear Richard Roger’s theme.