VEGEMITE is yeast extract, for any not aware. Looks like chocolate frosting, has about the same consistency, smells and (urk!) tastes NOTHING like it.
Posted on 01/27/2006 12:23:44 AM PST by naturalman1975
That's the way I remember it also. A 6 month cruise likely meant at least 6 didn't come back. A side note on this one we ran the Morgue also. No joke after the Medical Officer got done the body was taken to the aft walk in cooler until it could be flown off. We had to put a manned 24 hour a day watch on the outside of that cooler till the guy was flown off. We had a couple of natural causes and one ABH {???} Wheel Chalker who got ran over by an F-14 during a respot.
Oh and this one was a real gem. We did a St Thomas Cruise and had a faked man overboard. We pulled out and that night they called man overboard. The whale boat crew found a guys FD gear floating in the water. We stayed on station all night and part of the next day searching. We got back to Norfolk and the Captain had an announcement. It seems the jerk had a buddy toss his gear over that night. He on the other hand caught a flight back to the states and was at home when they showed up to notify his family.
How in the well, how do you get run over in a respot? We lost a plane captain during a respot, the ring on the towbar snapped and the brakes hadn't been pumped up. He was climbing out of the cockpit when the plane hit the water and the canopy closed.
Most of the time when we had casualties we didn't need it, but the reefer served as a morgue.
We did have one man overboard I recall fondly. I was near the forward elevator when I saw a flash of green and white go over the side. I ran about 50 feet to the nearest guy with a radio. He told me it had already been called. It wasn't until later that we found out the guy who went over had a radio, and called in his own man overboard.
He either didn't see the plane moving and was in the way of the rear wheels or if he tripped. I think it was in the hanger bay when it happened. I do know it happened though and was during respot and not from landing.
We had another man overboard upon arrival from our 77-78 Med. We were in the channel about an hour out and a guy dove off the ship. Nobody knows why but he washed up a few days later near Va Beach. One doof drove a fork lift off the flight deck jumping off just before it went over.
Heck I about got killed on boat crew at the quarterdeck one morning. I was leaning up against the windshield taking a break and a swell caught the boat and it went up against the ladder. This was on the officers boat or a PB. I heard somebody yell my first name to jump and I went dove down into the deck at the coxun just in time to see the windshield bust out.
I didn't think anymore about it till I came off the cruise and was on leave. My dad picked me up at the airport and we were talking about the cruise. He asked if I was in trouble one night and I said no I don't reckon. He said my mom sat up in bed late one night and yell for me to jump. Night time here was day time in the MED mid morning when the swell hit. What clinched it was the Bosuns didn't know me by my first name. I had a nick name they called me as did the other snipes.
Another night I think in Brindisi I was on boat crew and we were getting fogged in just inside the sea wall still in the channel. We couldn't see much of nothing then we saw lights a bunch of lights. A cruise ship passed about 50-100 feet off our port side. Too close! We had to find the ship by radar.
At first they tried putting a guy up on the starboard catwalk at the bow ringing the foul weather bell as if we could ever hear that over the engine. I was on a 50 foot Utility Boat that night. Then they finally had us do a few turns and got a ping on us. That was one bad night.
Yes, that's why the spineless libs tried to destroy the USS Reagan subversively.
Pretty much illustrative of the gipper's political career.
VEGEMITE is yeast extract, for any not aware. Looks like chocolate frosting, has about the same consistency, smells and (urk!) tastes NOTHING like it.
Not as dangerous as some pubs I've been in late at night!
Sounds like a major environmental or nuclear disaster was averted. Must have been a slow news day down under.
What?
Jellyfish = Libs = Spineless
The crew was probably saddened that they didn't get the opportunity to shower those knuckleheads with the firehoses as we did to Greenpeace activists when I was on the Ike.
Sorry, I thought about it afterwards and I should have said, "The dangers of Australia" ping. :)
There you go talking about the pubs again...:)
Checked on the planes we lost with a guy I know who was on board then. He remembers same thing I did. A-6's and they had CEF within 5 miles after launch. So sudden we lost a few pilots from it. Navy stood down at least our planes because of it.
Yeah, it's amazing isn't it?
And the Aussies are totally nonchalant about it, too. Doesn't stop them swimming or surfing or doing whatever else they want to do.
-ccm
The sea water leak was in the main condensers, the ones that turned the left over propulsion steam back into freshwater to be fed back into the heat exchangers. The main condensers reside under the main engine steam turbines and a leak allows sea water to get mixed with the fresh water and pumped back into the steam cycle. Bad Ju-Ju!
Good point. Wingers are pretty lax, by USMC standards whereas MARDETS were pretty hard core. My understanding is that the selection and screening process for MARDETS was pretty tough and slackers didn't make the cut.
I've seen a couple of nasty crashes. In '98, on Enterprise, we had an EA-6B land onto/into an S-3 that had landed ahead of it and hadn't cleared the landing area. All 4 in the Prowler died but the two guys in the S-3 (it was configured as a tanker) punched out and were eventually ok. Pretty messy though. Destroyed the EA-6, the S-3 and a couple of F/-18s.
Great stories!
Zebra = bathroom?
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