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To: xrmusn

Sounds like you have ridden out a typhoon in in WESTPAC.


39 posted on 05/17/2020 6:12:18 AM PDT by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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To: RedEyeJack

I have ridden out a typhoon in the Westpac on board a flat bottomed LPD.
Got a broken leg during that ride.


43 posted on 05/17/2020 6:42:58 AM PDT by ExSafecracker (Hey media. . . thats President Trump to you.)
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To: RedEyeJack

Yea, it became a regular thing after a while...We were mostly ‘running from’ them but the prevailing seas were there.

Remember many a time pulling out of Olangapo after a night of hoisting ‘green’ San Miguels...

I was on an APA (Henrico #45) 57-60 and had gotten orders to the Terrell County (LST-1157) ( a ‘newer’ larger one) in 1960.

We were leaving San Diego and out on the crypto ‘weather deck’ and spotted the LSTs leaving, we were lumbering along and when the LSTs hit the breakwater and started tossing and turning, I began to wonder if I had made the right choice.

Two plus years of ‘floating’ around Westpac, HP’ed in Yoko, made up for all the foibles involved....


45 posted on 05/17/2020 6:57:53 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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