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Posted on 04/22/2008 6:03:19 PM PDT by SandRat
Gee, I was lucky enough to spend hundereds of nights on a Navy ship … ;-)
LOL!
And you got to wake up and feast on that good Navy chow!!
YEA! Forgot about that … ;-)
Me too! USS John F Kennedy, CV-67, recently decommissioned.
My dad went on a Tiger Cruise with my husband back in ‘95. Dad *absolutely* had the greatest time - and he was never in the military. They boarded the ship in Hawaii and cruised on back to San Diego. Six days maybe?
Dad was the first one up every morning; checking out everything he could. He found the anchor room, met and learned the names of everyone in the kitchen. He still talks about what a fabulous time he had!
Then he’d probably enjoy this story.
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i spent 24 years and loved every minute of it,even though my world was seen thru a periscope
Me too! But I didn’t know at the time I was one of our finest. I was on a DD and I had fun. Hated shore duty. The sea can get under your skin.
I spent 10 years, and loved every minute of it, even though “my world” was LOOKING for periscopes (tin can navy). Never found one! LOL!
By the way, I believe the last time a tin can ever found a periscope was back in the big own (WWII). ;-)
sneaky buggers are’nt we?
The sea can get under your skin and so can all those ports of call … yum, yum. ;-)
once in awhile we would release garbage to help them, just before we fired the “GOTCHA” flare
The mind-blower is always the 19-year-old at the helm. How many other 19-year-olds hold thousands of lives in their hands four hours at a time? That changes people - I've seen it happen.
Must be an awesome experience bing part of a Carrier’s crew.
I picked up a used copy of Tom Clancey’s book “Carrier” a couple of years ago. It is worth the read.
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