Posted on 10/25/2022 8:14:02 AM PDT by rod5591
I was on the Kennedy too...
LOL...
That ship was run by Captain Jerry O Tuttle...
He came over the M1C when we departed Norfolk and said:
They call me SLUF....
I have a brig, and I keep it full...
I personally saw him get in line on the mess deck, ate what we ate, and promptly threw the entire kitchen staff in the brig...
That ship was clean, and we ate very well...
Launched 13 February 1988.
Hey! I was on the Kennedy at that time too! We had to be shipmates!
I must say-I was alarmed and a little frightened by a display Captain Tuttle put on one time.
Before I continue, I will say-he had plenty of good reason to be as angry as he was, but IMO, it was not the place for his performance. It was extremely poor leadership. Even if he was justified, he should never have done what he did.
I was in a squadron, and some guys were discovered smoking pot on the ship. I even heard a rumor that a couple of them went on the flight deck while high. (If I had known that, I would have ratted them out, no questions asked. But people thought I was a narc anyway, I was so straight-laced with respect to drugs in those days) I still cannot believe they did that, but now, who knows.
Anyway, he got our squadron lined up in the hangar bay, and absolutely went insane. His eyes were bulging, and he had spittle coming out of his mouth as he screamed.
I remember feeling real fear.
I thought “Mother of God. This is the Captain of one of the most powerful ships in the world, with nuclear weapons aboard, and he is completely become unhinged! WTF!”
He had lost control of himself, IMO.
I could absolutely see him doing this behind closed doors, and he had damn good reason to. But doing it in front of everyone, the world...well, that isn’t what a Captain does.
That’s poor leadership, and not what you want from the Captain of a ship.
With the passing years, my conviction has only grown deeper.
If the water on a ship suddenly looks and smells funny wouldn’t the immediate suspicion be that it’s been contaminated with bilge water?
Old Cheech and Chong skit?
Memory getting bad but sounds familiar...
Will they hire the Village People to sing in their commercials...sarc
I was an Airedale too...
The same day I was in line behind him at chow, a snipe hole opened up, and out popped the pastiest white dude, with hair about down to his shoulders... He closed and sealed the snipe hole, turned around and was face to face with the captain.
Jerry just looked at him and said, Get your ass to the barber shop.
I used to love reading the Marmaduke Surfaceblow stories in Power magazine, usually when I was supposed to be studying something else.
Building their immune systems. Navy Strong!
It’s a really old joke. I remember hearing a version of it nearly 60 years ago, well before Cheech and Chong.
But they probably DID use the right pronouns, so they do have their priorities right. < / sarcasm >
Responsible recycling technology.
Bilge water is famously vile. I saw it and smelled it. We had a bilge pump on my father’s 1948 Chis Craft. Powered by an inboard Chrysler slant Six. Wooden hull.
I see things going to hell right in front of my eyes in a variety of things...health care, construction, industry, you name it.
I was having this very conversation with my two young sons last week. Lamenting that everything is falling apart into chaos, disorder, and dysfunction. Nothing works right anymore.
Yeah, this sounds intentional.
At the same time, it's damming that bio-environmental team didn't detect it sooner.
It sounds like some were left untainted, seemingly because the person doing this wanted fresh water he knew he could get.
Agreed
Hahahaha...I burst out laughing when I saw “snipe hole”!
Remember he called himself “Sluf”? Okay, totally odd. When he would say that over the 1MC, I remember people looking at each other (I was in an A-7 squadron whose planes were referred to disparagingly as “Slufs”...:) and registering a subtle eye roll.
I thought that was weird. I didn’t want a “Sluf” leading me. I wanted a Captain. A real one. That was just odd.
That fills me with foreboding, that things are just...slipping and failing.
I feel in my heart it is going to get worse-a lot worse.
I hope I am wrong on this.
“Attention...Ensign Putz report to the bridge...”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.