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Offline Furious

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« Reply #30 on: August 01, 2003, 02:23:56 AM »
Sandman,

You shoulda been on one of them Iranian Andushirvan class DDG's, like the Chandler.  We had extra evaps, A/C and a room to keep the goats.  Never had water hours, even in the gulf.
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« Reply #31 on: August 01, 2003, 03:02:05 AM »
We would usually run about 60 out and in for 3 to resup in Kodiak or Adak. It was almost as bad as not hitting port at all. I'm not bragging, I know Squids stayed out much longer, we just had sense enough not to. ;)

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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #32 on: August 01, 2003, 04:32:12 AM »
95 --> 98ish Ensign i think i was in US order of things (Between Petty officer 2nd class and Sub-lieutenant)

Boat is kinda small compared to the rest here :D



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« Reply #33 on: August 01, 2003, 04:46:17 AM »
milnko.....

what fjord in norway did you go to with that big ship?? :eek: :eek:
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« Reply #34 on: August 01, 2003, 08:38:27 AM »
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milnko.....

what fjord in norway did you go to with that big ship?? :eek: :eek:
Be damned if I know the name of it, but we was suppossly the first carrier ever to do so.

As I recall we entered the fjord under total EMCON (as part of a war game) we started launching our planes, still under EMCON, we then had one of our escorts in a couple fjords over turn on her radar and every transmitter she had, we hoped that the Norwegian F-16s would think that was the CV and go after it.

Well it didn't work out quite that way, the Norwegians planes zoomed in right on top of our ship while our F-14s were laying in ambush in the wrong spot.

Needless to say had it been a shooting war they woulda scratched one flattop. :eek:

I also recall that the Soviets weren't real thrilled to have us that close either. Had several overflights of BEARs and one of Blackjacks.
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« Reply #35 on: August 01, 2003, 09:13:41 AM »
I remember something similar from an excersise we had. They sent in a Tarawa class ship with escorts into a fjord and used a perry class frigate as a picket... We didnt fall for it either and we "launched" 18 penguin missiles from behind an island, and 2 shore based hellfire batteries got off a few shots to. After the attack we where harrased for a while by a couple of PINGUIN armed seahawks...the irony :D

Your navy would of course not bring majour ships so close to land in a real conflict, but you did it to help test our defenses using russian invasion tactics.

...small world :)
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« Reply #36 on: August 01, 2003, 09:32:58 AM »
AK 3 ( that's like aviation SK ) in VS 31 from Oct 93 to 97.
Deployed to Persian Gulf twice, in 94 and 96. Cruises and work ups and all.
CVN 73 - George Washington
and CVN 74 Stennis.
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« Reply #37 on: August 01, 2003, 09:41:23 AM »
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AK 3 ( that's like aviation SK ) in VS 31 from Oct 93 to 97.
Deployed to Persian Gulf twice, in 94 and 96. Cruises and work ups and all.
CVN 73 - George Washington
and CVN 74 Stennis.


Dont know if you know this or not but AK is being phased out.  Its being merged with SK.
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« Reply #38 on: August 01, 2003, 09:54:23 AM »
Only a whopping 45 days or so of sea time in my 5.5 years active duty (with 3 ports mixed in there lol). More of a holiday cruise than a military exercize :eek:

here, I have recreated in painful detail, a situatioin where I thought my ears were going to explode when they fired the 5 incher while I was on deck lol.
This was in the Spring of 95, around the time of the OK City bombing. We thought for sure we were going end up in the Gulf during that ****storm.



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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #39 on: August 01, 2003, 09:58:24 AM »
ROFL sikboy, excellent story and illustration :D

This little bugger is also noisy (turn volume up) :D

http://www.26mtb.com/Video/mk2.mpg

"tomcat getting nailed" This is a fun gun to fire

http://www.26mtb.com/Video/gunex.mpg

Fish away !!

http://www.26mtb.com/Video/tp613.mpg
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« Reply #40 on: August 01, 2003, 10:32:05 AM »
Sik!,

How you feeling bud?
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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #41 on: August 01, 2003, 12:25:16 PM »
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Sandman,

You shoulda been on one of them Iranian Andushirvan class DDG's, like the Chandler.  We had extra evaps, A/C and a room to keep the goats.  Never had water hours, even in the gulf.


LOL... like we had that many choices for ships... :)
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« Reply #42 on: August 01, 2003, 01:50:59 PM »
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USS Virginia CGN 38

gulf war nuke cruiser scrap now.


When were you on it?
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« Reply #43 on: August 02, 2003, 03:13:08 PM »
18 year vet... two to go....

EMC(SW)

Served aboard:

USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) 85-89 [MED & Around the horn]
USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG-2) 89-90 [MED & many Drug Ops]
USS YOSEMITE (AD-19) 90-91
USS STEPHEN W. GROVES (FFG-29) 93-98 [Med, Red, & Gulf]
USS UNDERWOOD (FFG-36) 98-00 [Gulf]

In all 5 Major deployments; been everywhere, done everything
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BLACK-SHOES RULE!!!!
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« Reply #44 on: August 02, 2003, 03:23:52 PM »
How was life onboard that old dawg DDG2?....almost last of the good old ships..

Although our frigates are OLD (dealy design i belive made in the 60's but very modernized), about to be replaced though with aegis frigates

http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2003/narvik.jpg



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