Calling out all Navy vets

[Neil]

Only a brown-shoe would claim that guns and boats do not mix!

 

[OKNewshawk]

Only a brown-shoe would claim that guns and boats do not mix!

Every time I read about guns and boats in this forum it's a tragic story of how a large gun collection was lost overboard due to a boating accident (usually in a deep section of one of the state's many lakes.)

 

[HMFIC]

On the Briscoe Wednesday was slider day. I miss slider day. On the Thomas S. Gates the mess specialist sucked, couldn't even make bread. I'm not kidding, you could dip it in soup and it wouldn't soak it up!

STEEL BEACH Baby!!! Who threw the football overboard?

 

[AirMech74]

Come on, nobody remembers sending billy booter to fetch the mast crank when pulling out of San Dog???

Lurker66, that is a new one on me- I never knew the zeroes to insert themselves into the affairs of we Enlisted Men. That would have definitely jacked me up as well!

Never went to San Diego, but we did have our share of messin with the boots when on cruise. When I was in the Line Shack, we would always send one of our trainees on hunt for Prop Wash, Flight Line....ID10T forms....it was fun.

When on the beach, we would send guys to the AIMD shop on the base to check out a Hydraulic Pad Eye remover. Thats the one that a PO2 tried to pull on me while I was on a CAG5 Det....I was a fire watch and he was the OOD at the CAG5 office.....he tried to send me there to check that out....I was boggled, I had no clue what it was....so I called over to the AIMD office and asked about it....a female 3rd class laughed and told me that they were f'n with me...so she called over to the office and told the PO2 that he had to come and check it out because I didn't have the clearance....lol He was pissed that it backfired on him.

 

[pocketcarry]

1960 Boot San Diego (HEARD ITS GONE NOW JUST GREAT LAKES)

1960 - Early 1963 Sangley Point Phillapines

1963 - 1964 USS Lenawee AP195 - trans porting marines to Vietnam

We would send newbys for colored lube oil running lites. 2am to stand watch in the bow for the mail buoys. there was and now some dumb ones.

Lots of memories and would do it again. RM2

 

[mmcmsw]

Well, since this thread is still hanging in there, might as well.
1971-1975 USAF Lackland, LRAFB, and Cannon AFB
1975 Great Lakes OSVET and MMA school, then on to NPS Orlando
1976 NPTU Idaho Falls then off to USS Enterprise
1979 NPTU Ballston Spa as an Instructor
1984 USS California
1987 COMNAVSURFPAC Nuclear Propulsion Mobile Training Team
1990-1993 Back to Nuclear Power School Orlando for a twilight tour as Class Director
Retired in 93, MMCM(SW), got out and started driving a truck, been driving most of the time since.

 

[Navy_chief]

Keeping it fresh back up

 

[USN-SCW-Ret]

CM1 (SCW) Ret DAV

NMCB-4 78'-81',
CBMU-302 81'-83',
CBU-401 84'-85',
Public Works Okinawa 86'-89',
CHB-7 90'-93',
NMCB-40 93'-95',
CAT team 4018 95',
31st NCR 96'-98'
(also married a retired Alpha Co Seabee)

 

[Navy_chief]

Time to bump this up keep them coming

 

[Mike_in_Ok]

Went to bootcamp in Great Lakes in 91, MM "A" school across the tracks at NTC.
Sub school in Groton then PCU at Electric Boat shipyard.
Plankowner on USS Rhode Island SSBN 740. 93-95.
Did one patrol on USS Pennsylvania SSBN 735(B) in 93.
Got out in 96 after pushing a desk in Kings Bay, GA.