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HUMOR BREAK: How to Simulate shipboard life at Home- Must Read
VA-145 web site ^ | 11/02/2001 | unknown

Posted on 11/02/2001 12:21:37 AM PST by connectthedots

For the U.S. Navy veterans and those who want to know what life aboard a Navy ship would be like, Push this puppy


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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
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.

61 posted on 11/02/2001 5:56:26 AM PST by aomagrat
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
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...
62 posted on 11/02/2001 6:10:22 AM PST by dandelion
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To: aomagrat
...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.

63 posted on 11/02/2001 6:20:25 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Nitro
Add two stars to mine
64 posted on 11/02/2001 6:23:24 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: SERE_DOC
Amen to that.....where do you think I got MY handle from?
65 posted on 11/02/2001 6:26:16 AM PST by tarawa
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To: Non-Sequitur
Does your Tin Can roll as much as an LST?
66 posted on 11/02/2001 6:26:56 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: RaceBannon
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.
67 posted on 11/02/2001 6:39:36 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: connectthedots
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.

68 posted on 11/02/2001 6:59:10 AM PST by oldsalt
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To: connectthedots

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)

69 posted on 11/02/2001 7:05:58 AM PST by Colt .45
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
LOL! Thanks for the heads up!
70 posted on 11/02/2001 7:06:00 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: connectthedots
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!

71 posted on 11/02/2001 7:34:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: Grampa Dave
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!
72 posted on 11/02/2001 8:21:23 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: OkieGrit2
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!

73 posted on 11/02/2001 8:31:57 AM PST by Colt .45
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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!
74 posted on 11/02/2001 8:33:44 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: LoanPalm
Ignore the PCOD, and you'll get a "Permanent Change of Duty", alright! Here's one for you's guys: DILLIGAFF? FIIGMO.
75 posted on 11/02/2001 8:40:57 AM PST by soxfan
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To: Scuttlebutt
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.
76 posted on 11/02/2001 9:26:25 AM PST by ofMagog
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; FrogMom; FrogDad; EuroFrog
Tonk: ROFL thanks I NEEDED that!

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

77 posted on 11/02/2001 9:35:12 AM PST by amom
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To: Colt .45
That Phantom phrase was invented on the Okinawa in 1980!! I had to clean it up!!
78 posted on 11/02/2001 9:44:06 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: sugar_puddin
Check this out.
79 posted on 11/02/2001 9:47:00 AM PST by connectthedots
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks for the ping. I sent it to my ex-sailorboy son (formerly on the USS Nimitz).


80 posted on 11/02/2001 12:12:33 PM PST by JudyB1938
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