[SmithL]

"Lots of good info on here once I dug thru the uninformed civlant conjecture."

But in all fairness, they have read Clancy.

heh heh heh

[SS Guy]

...they have read Clancy.

Clancy looses it in the details. I can't read him.Little stuff that the public doesn't catch since he nor they have really ever been there and lived it. Yeah he rode a boat or two for a few days, so what.

Probably the best book for the true feel, (you can taste and smell the diesel and lube oil), is Stephen Douglas's "Blow Negative". (out of print and getting up to $35.00 for a paper back now days) That is the way it was on a smoke boat. You want more read Dex Armstrong's stuff in the "After Battery" http://www.olgoat.com/ (click on after battery)

Mercurio (sp) is suppose to be good but I haven't read any of his stuff.

SS Guy