Boxer Engineers Save the Day, Earn Medals

Defend America ^ | Aug 1, 2005 | Navy Airman Paul Polach

[SandRat]

Just doing their job.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

That is the kind of post that I like to see. It is nice to know that good men are still going to sea.

Bravo Zulu to them.

[Oldexpat]

Main Steam leaks are nasty to deal with. You can't see superheated steam and a jet of it can cut thru you in a heartbeat.
Training and discipline needs to take over.
BZ to these brave sailors!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I miss my Navy Seal some days. Usually not, since I divorced his cheating @ss, but then I read something like this that reminds me that he wasn't ALL bad, LOL! Thanks.

[ken5050]

Go to USS Boxer home page: History to see the History of this honored name of our fighting ships, lest anyone somehow think that a certain US senator managed to get the Navy to name a ship after her..

[359Henrie]

A gang rules!

[ThePythonicCow]

Boxer (LHD-4) underway off at Pearl Harbor, HI., 2 August 1998
US Navy photo # 980802-N-3612M-003 by PH1 James G. McCarter.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/0804.htm

[ken5050]

Many thanks for the link..that is a great website..I'd seen it a whileback..then somehow lost it..

[middie]

Happy to learn you can take a joke... I believe what is said in the maxim about a woman scorned.

[Calpernia]

Good website for military paraphenalia...

http://www.usmedals.com

[Calpernia]

Two USS Boxer firemen earned medals for their actions to stop a potentially dangerous steam leak July 12 aboard the San Diego-based amphibious assault ship.

With 900-degree steam running through the heart of Boxer at 720 pounds per square inch, Machinist’s Mate Fireman Patrick Clark, from Raleigh, N.C., and Machinist’s Mate Fireman Nicholas Shaw, from Coshocton, Ohio, prevented a major accident when they stopped the leak in Boxer’s aft main machinery room.

[tarawa]

That's why we always used a broom handle to look for the leak. When you see the handle snap off and go flying through the air, you've found your leak....

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Alia]

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[OXENinFLA]

Ping...

[prairiebreeze]

Just one more demonstration of excellence from the finest military on the planet.

[Valin]

Why ruin a perfectly good broom handle when there are ensigns? :-)

[IamConservative]

lest anyone somehow think that a certain US senator managed to get the Navy to name a ship after her..

I wondered that briefly in disgust. I am content now with the thought that perhaps Hanes named a mens undergarment after the Senator.