I remember the FID, I remember the snot hanging from ceiling as you left the mess hall via the escalators. But then, that seemed to be a tradition in the Navy.
Yeah..
they had cockroaches so big they would roll you right out of your rack...
one of our compartments had a hatch right in the middle of the space..
one day someone from ships company came along, undogged the hatch and opened it..
It was filled from top to bottom with old cans of coke that had exploded, the space stunk and was filled with cock a roaches...
I was eating chow, a bowl of chili, and one of the beans got up and walked up my spoon (cock a roach)...
that was one dirty unsanitary ship...