Trudat....LHA-3 USS BELLEAU WOOD 1981...we were in a bad one off the west coast of Australia, the Marines were laying on the main deck, rolling in their puke, no chow was served for 2 days, PB&J for all....what a nightmare.
I had not taken sea sickness medicine for the first 3 days of the typhoon and finally went to the battalion aid station for some. They asked me if I had run out early, they were shocked when I told them I had not gotten any yet. Then they told me they had run out already. That is why I was on the deck looking at the LST. Supposedly it helps with sea sickness. All it did for me was make me glad I was on a LKA.
It was the USS Durham.