B-chan
Former MM3
USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65)
Posted on 08/26/2007 1:44:09 PM PDT by Coleus
Yeah, I saw it in bootcamp in ‘88. Scary footage and injuries.
B-chan
Former MM3
USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65)
Were you in during the late 80s, early 90s? I also remember a big JP-5 fire on one of the San Diego carriers (maybe Connie?). One of my SWOS instructors was telling us about it, but it never really made big news.
Hey, they were cooled off, wet and rested after a brief swim and a helo ride, why not?
Every see the "The man from LOX"? Mandatory viewing for those of us that worked around liquid oxygen.
I saw it once and I'll never forget it. Especially the Safety Officer. I doubt if it is still shown. Too Un-PC.
The US Navy Firefughting Schools have been using film of the Forrestal fire for decades, to show how not to fight a major conflagration like that.
I had the misfortune of serving under the RIO that launched the missile. Why the Navy kept that loser until he had his 20 years and given the rank of CDR, I’ll never know.
Thanks for the re-memories.
ping to an interesting read.
Believe it or not, my older sister thought, until it came up in a conversation a few years back, the the expression was “keyhole” rather than “keel-haul”. I guess she did not pay as much attention as I did at the movies when we were kids. I love giving her a hard time about this, but I have to admit that being key-holed sounds rather painful as well.
Wow! God bless our brave fighting men — past and present.
Yet another reason I’m glad I went Army and not Navy. My Dad is a Navy Man and an avid sailor (still into his 70’s) but I’m terrified of being stuck in the middle of an ocean with my “home” sinking beneath me.
I’m a ‘Land Lubber.’ I must get that from Dear Old Mom. ;)
The Saftey Officers going to have your ass.
Could it have been the Ranger around ‘83/’84 when she had a major engine room fire killing five guys?
After I came back from boot camp, I gave a presentation on boot camp to the recruits who hadn’t gone yet. I told them about all the rules. I told them there were rules about how the boots had to be laced and how you hung your towel and how you had to put the pillowcase on the pillow and a hundred other things.
“Why so many rules?” asked one angry young recruit. “None of them make any sense!”
I then said “it all seemed silly to me too, until about the fourth day when they showed us the film on the Forrestal. It was the most depressing film I had ever seen. Those weren’t actors getting killed. The sailors on the Forrestal were brave and honorable, but a few sailors made some key errors that got people killed. At that moment, I suddenly realized why they were spending so much time teaching us to pay attention to detail.”
The recruit had no more questions.
Yeah. I saw “The Man From LOX”...great training video...did you ever hear the story of how it happened? (this is the story I heard)
It was hot, and the guy wanted to cool off by putting the vent fumes from the LOX into his coveralls...so he unbuttoned it, stuck the end of the hose in and let it vent. Then he went off to have a cigarette...when he lit the match...boom.
That is what I heard, don’t know if it is true or not, but sounds plausible.
LOL...my ex-skipper in my training squadron was McCain...and guess what squadron I went to...yep...VA-46 Clansmen, the same squadron McCain was in when that happened.
Funny Coincidence...
Thank you. I have been looking for this for years...I have explained to people that it was the weirdest yet most entertaining safety film I had ever seen.
Brings back memories...
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