HUMOR BREAK: How to Simulate shipboard life at Home- Must Read

VA-145 web site ^ | 11/02/2001 | unknown

[aomagrat]

Thanks for the ping.

There is nothing like getting up at 0300 to assume to morning watch and stopping by the mess decks for a cup of coffee that has been brewing since breakfast the day before. Now that's a real eye opener.

[dandelion]

Heehee, I wondered when you'd see it! Man, this makes me feel for my poor Daddy (Blue Ridge, 1943); no wonder he loved storms at sea so much - it gave him something to do...

[Non-Sequitur]

...coffee that has been brewing since breakfast the day before. Now that's a real eye opener...

Ah yes. The kind where you pour two packets of creamer into it and it doesn't change the color.

[RaceBannon]

Add two stars to mine

[tarawa]

Amen to that.....where do you think I got MY handle from?

[RaceBannon]

Does your Tin Can roll as much as an LST?

[Non-Sequitur]

Never having been on an LST I couldn't say. I served on destroyers and frigates and they all rolled to one extent or another but I understand that the flat bottoms of the gator navy were in a class by themselves when it came to discomfort.

[oldsalt]

Don't forget the oddities of the "bird farms". Make sure the night check maintenance people get to sleep on th 03 level under #3 wire so they can participate in the daytime flight ops.

CLAAAAANG!!.....SCREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!....and so on until its' time to keep the day guys awake by slinging chocks and dragging tie down chains around.

[Colt .45]

And here are my four homes in 10 years of Sea Duty!

USS INDEPENDENCE (CV-62), USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63), USS NITIMTZ (CVN-68), USS BOXER (LHD-4)

[Alamo-Girl]

LOL! Thanks for the heads up!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks it brings back warm memories like trying for your 3.5 hours of sleep each 24 hour cycle, during daylight and the temp is 100 and the humidity is 100%. The ship is moving and crashing through waves, and there are 100 Hells Angels banging on the pipes, the equipment and the side of the ship~!

The thing that is missing in the article or I missed it, is: While at sea, you realize that your ship is really a sea going prison that is harder to escape than Alcatraz!

In the old Navy, the only part of the ship that had air conditioning were areas with electronic gear. Then take the ship and operate in out of Gitmo with high humidity naturally and high temps naturally!

Having said the above! Go Navy! The history channel had a great two part series on the history and tradition of our Navy since 1776! Our Navy has protected and served this country for 225 years. This current war again shows the ability and capability of our Navy, and the great sailors who live the life highlighted in this article!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Never been in the service, and I know this thread is mostly for fun, but on a more serious note, I would just like to say a big THANK YOU for all you guys have done, putting up with flying deck chairs, and such, protecting all of our freedom. Thanks guys!

[Colt .45]

I served on the USS BOXER (LHD-4) for about 5 of my 10 years of sea duty. The GATORS are a flat bottomed lot no doubt. If we hit 3-6 foot swells it was "heavy weather" tiedowns and stand by for heavy rolls.

One thing this guy that wrote the Simulation forgot was ... you must have steamed rice or a variant thereof for every meal except breakfast. Breakfast will consist of either powdered eggs or eggs cooked to the texture of vulcanized rubber. Bacon cooked in 90wt oil, sausages cooked until there is no form or semblance of anything edible.

Showers that spray Ice cold water only. That was the way they were when we first moved aboard her, I was on the pre-com crew. Even then they still were cold from time to time after she was commissioned. Or like when I was on the INDEPENDENCE, everytime we re-fueled we had JP-5 in the fresh water system. Take a shower and you were all nice and shiny, but you smelled like jet fuel. Or you drank jet fuel through the "scuttlebutts" because of it. For real fun, every once in a while the hot water wouldn't come out of the shower heads ... just straight live steam.

Or go stumbling into the "head" first thing in the morning to take a shower, and find that the Phantom Sh*tter has struck the stall.

Stand in formation everyday at 0730 to hear some pinhead Officer tell you how "f**ked up you are", but then in the next breath tell you "but you're doing great!"

And then place you standing in a chow line, that goes clear from midships to the bow, with only 10 minutes til the galley closes.

Yeah ... the good old days!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks! I never saw a deck chair until I went on a real cruise with my family! Fortunately the cruise ship stopped every 24 hours so we could go ashore! I have promised my wife to do an Alaska Cruise next year. She will take injectable Valium to calm me down. Actually we plan to take one that stops several times so I can get off the ship!

[soxfan]

Ignore the PCOD, and you'll get a "Permanent Change of Duty", alright! Here's one for you's guys: DILLIGAFF? FIIGMO.

[ofMagog]

See my reply #40 above. The army in my day used "PCS," which meant permanent change of station. My retirement orders were signed by Matthew B. Ridgeway, a looooong time ago.

[amom]

Tonk: ROFL thanks I NEEDED that!

Frog: Heads up for a good laugh or twenty. ;-)

[RaceBannon]

That Phantom phrase was invented on the Okinawa in 1980!! I had to clean it up!!

[connectthedots]

Check this out.

[JudyB1938]

Thanks for the ping. I sent it to my ex-sailorboy son (formerly on the USS Nimitz).