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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OKNewshawk" data-source="post: 1997488" data-attributes="member: 6592"><p>The day before Thanksgiving, 1975, my squadron flew into Gitmo to meet up with the USS America.  The next morning, they started ferrying us to the ship in LCMPs.  Of course, many of us had gone out to the E-club the night before, so I was already feeling a bit queasy (read "hungover".)  The LCMP I rode in  was blowing diesel exhaust everywhere, so I got sicker than what I was when I woke up.  Needless to say, I did not eat a big turkey dinner that Thanksgiving.  It was, however, the start of a long, miserable time with the America-the worst of the four carriers I served on (the others being the Enterprise [1974-75], Kitty Hawk [1981] and the Nimitz [1982-83].)</p></blockquote><p></p>