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U. S. Navy Sea Stories
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| USS McKee AS-41 | Neal Combs | 07 Oct 2003 |
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I remember: long walks with acytelyne torches to work on subs when some asshole drove our golf cart into the water. I rememeber arriving to work and noticing that something was missing but not recognizing that the stationary crain had fallen into the water, The anticipation of heading to the Gulf when the departure date kept creeping forward as things heated up, arriving to find hundreds of pallets of food on the pier and knowing I was going to be picked for working party to load it onto the conveyor belt, I remember stopping work to load 3 individual million dollar bundals onto the conveyor belt which would constitute our pay, sneaking steaks and ice cream into the dive locker during working parties hoping to curry favor. Watches and drills with Chief Warrant Dayton, The chant of DCA during our shellback ceremony when the shellbacks got rough with Dayton and he laughed at them, Eating the cherry, sucking hot sauce from a syringe from PO1 Brown, Steel Beach picnic talent show when the group threw condoms to the crowd, Drills, drills, Drills, Hating the XO more than anyone else and feeling the satisfaction that the CO hated him too. Hearing the DCA telling that red headed step child to "GET THE F*** OUT OF HIS SPACE DURING A DRILL" (CLASSIC), Lt. Sharp of R-1 div, Craig Lissman, Lori Piper, Peterson, Brown #1 and #2, Liquor Turtle-Lissman, Raymond Smarr, Ordering anything I could think of as supply guy, Being told to stand behind an old guy during radioactive emergencies,heading through the straits while at General Quarters, 33 women pregnant on the Acadia and only 27 on the McKee, camel rides, working 72 hours straight to help get a tin can up and running during D.S. I, The Tripoli and Princeton running into mines, The fight at the club involving three ships in Jebal Ali, Stealing a life ring to mount at the bar for a free beer..then being caught, "Sorry Steve" Steve long Breaking an arm during wogday and losing his shellback, Steve Long attempting to fight locals in Thialand using Mai Tai fighting style after locals beat up a shipmate and never being thanked, That shipmates girlfriend winning a Mustang on the "price is right", freezing my ass off on starboard lookout watch heading back from Japan, Monteray California, endless doughnuts in the ocean, weps shooting at orange painted oil drums for practice, The serinity of the fantail at night with the hum of the turbines, Diving off the bow at anchor then sneaking back onboard without being caught, personel fire hose training with a female in the canvass shop, Working in the riggers loft with PO Miller and the gang (all great Guys) Michael Sformo, Bonfires at Torrey Pines, The shipwide searches for contraband after leaving ports, arriving back in San Diego from DS I, |
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