[rlmorel]

No kidding-that has to be a crazy environment with multiple ships participating!

That is awesome that you have the Super 8 footage-I hope you got it digitized! That would bring back memories...no doubt!

[cva66snipe]

I do need to have it digitized just didn't ever have the money LOL. I have maybe an hour or so. Ironically after I got out of mess cranking and I was a FA. So CHENG sent me to IBT school and I started out in Fuel Oil Test Lab as an IBT that very day. Not to be confused with the Seaman IBM school. Navy Vets know IBT is Instant Boiler Tech and IBM is Instant Boatswains Mate LOL.

While talking on fuel several guys in Test Lab would be sounding tanks, swapping Tanks, and getting fuel samples during the refueling. I lasted a month and the Medical Officer waivered me out and I went to IMM School and worked on the ships Air Conditioning and Refrigeration which was where I wanted to go to start with LOL.