You must have gone to Dubrovnik after we did back then aboard the Kennedy! We were the first big carrier there in 1977...fascinating place, beautiful women. Clean.
We had to go ashore in uniform (that ugly ass salt and pepper) and I scratched up my brand new corframs playing basketball with a bunch of Yugoslavian guys...
Found a teeny French restaurant with six tables and letcherous European postcards on the walls...:)
We had to go ashore in uniform (that ugly ass salt and pepper) and I scratched up my brand new corframs playing basketball with a bunch of Yugoslavian guys...
Found a teeny French restaurant with six tables and letcherous European postcards on the walls...:)
November 22-26 1977 according to my cruise book was our time there. Nice place to visit at that time but it was under Tito's fist and I sure wouldn't have wanted to had to live there under his terms.
Yeah we had to wear our dress blues on liberty also. Next cruise in 78 we pulled into Split. I was lucky I was off duty when the storm hit is. In port in the MED I was T.A.D. as a boat crew snipe. The boats at the ship had to untie and head for the beach. Guys later said it was a ride they'll never forget to get make it there when we picked them up next day. We were dragging anchor. Our Captain was old school Navy an Hanoi Hilton survivor with Stockdale. He came over the 1MC and in no uncertain terms yelled "Get this ship underway and get it underway now". Some words left out LOL. We were pulling up anchor and deckhouse while the screws began turning and that mountain was getting closer and closer. She finally began backing out and away.
BTW I also remember you guys drew short straw when the Iranian Hostage Crisis happened. I won't forget that day day. We went to close ship and nobody was talking as to why. We were due to go in to drydock and I had less than a year left to go.