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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: DiabloTX on July 30, 2003, 05:42:06 AM
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I was active from 1986 - 1990. From May 5, 1987 to July 25, 1990 I was a crew member of USS Concord AFS-5 as a then third class petty officer (SK). What were your ships?
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USS America CV-66 (North Atlantic / Med)
USS Roosevelt CVN-71 (Shakedown)
Both while assigned to Fighting 33 ("Starfighters") 1985-88. VF-33 flew the F-14A while I was there.
Got to VF-33 as an ATAN, left as an AT2.
Did a three year shore tour at SATD (now VX-23), F-14A/B/D, F/A-18A/B/C/D, A-6E, & EA-6B...our avionics shop maintained 'em all and I turned a wrench on every one of them at one point or another. For the most part, I was a Tomcat guy.
Until I got out.
-Smut
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I was a grunt in the 60's but during the Valdez Spill I spent weeks on both the Juneau (LPD-10) and the Ft. McHenry (LSD-43)
Made 33 helo landings on the Juneau and 22 on the McHenry. My pilot had, at the time, the most civi landings on a Navy ship with something like 215 of them.
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USS Virginia CGN 38
gulf war nuke cruiser scrap now.
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
USS Virginia CGN 38
gulf war nuke cruiser scrap now.
I probably shaved with part of her this morning!
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Heh, you guys actually got to go places? On ships??? I had exactly 30 days of sea duty in 5.5 years of service from 94-99. That was 30 days aboard USS Belleau Wood LHA-3 in fall of 96. I was a grunt corpsman assigned to 3rd Marines at the time.
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being a nuke we almost never saw port.
63 days is my personal record continuously at sea.
one record you can count on never falling.
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
being a nuke we almost never saw port.
63 days is my personal record continuously at sea.
one record you can count on never falling.
As I am still in the Navy as a reservist I expect to get some sea time some day but 63 days???? I hope I never even get the chance to get that close. My ship was in port 2-3 days, underway for 7 to 14 constantly while we were in the Med. In Norfolk we were tied to the pier almost 24/7.
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that was about typical for oil driven vessels when i was in.
we could do 90 days without a provisioning.
thats 7 days of food 83 days of chicken pattys.
was a interesting ship. hell on marrages and bouys.
( we had a navy record for takin out expensive bouys and well, small fishing boats but that is another story)
what is your rate again?
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SK-Storekeeper
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Two cruises on the USS Leahy (CG-16) - 1984-1987
One cruise with the Screaming Eagles (VF-51) onboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) 1989
Rate/rank... Operations Specialist First... particular specialty was air intercept control.
(http://members.cox.net/gprimmer2/images/cg16.jpg)
(http://www.topedge.com/alley/images/f14a/f14a51q.jpg)
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Well well Sandman, nice to know you were haze grey also at one time!
shipmate!
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it is my belief that 1/2 of all navy vets are os's
met at least one os for ever other rate i have seen.
store keeper great work if you can get it.
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
store keeper great work if you can get it.
Not on my ship it wasn't. On a cargo ship SK's work more than deck or engineering. I remember 6th Fleet turnover in the Fall of '87 in Augusta Bay, Sicily. Was up for 3 days straight doing nothing but pulling cargo, staging pallets, and netting pallets for VertRep. We never got a break and liberty on a cruise was iffy at best.
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Never in the Navy, but my Uncle was. I remember getting a tour of his ships during open house when he was in San Diego.
One was the Canberra (a Cruiser I think) the other was the Peidmont, which IIRC was a Sub tender.
(This was in the 60's so i don't know if these ships exist anymore or not)
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
USS Virginia CGN 38
gulf war nuke cruiser scrap now.
The Virginia is the one on the top... as of 1997.
(http://ng.netgate.net/~huston/cgn38/today/3-surf.jpg)
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
it is my belief that 1/2 of all navy vets are os's
met at least one os for ever other rate i have seen.
store keeper great work if you can get it.
Well... at that rate... You or Diablo should be OS's. :D
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I remember seeing that photo a few years ago. Thats the USS Texas and the USS Long Beach (the longer hull at the bottom) as well correct? The superstructures were removed as the were constructed mostly, if not all, of aluminum. Maybe part of that is in my soda (Fanta Orange) sitting next to me right now!
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Well the Canberra is scrapped, but I didn't realize it was a WWII vet.
http://www.usscanberra.com/page1.html
Wow the Piedmont was also from WWII.
http://users.vnet.net/kmbrown/uss_piedmont.htm
Decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 September 1982, former PIEDMONT was leased to Turkey 18 October the same year and commissioned into the Turkish Navy 29 March 1983 as tender DERYA (A 576). Purchased outright on 6 August 1987, she was deleted from the Turkish Navy in 1994.]
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yea thats her the old squeak brought one more tear.
thanks for the photo :)
the texas was a sister ship i believe virginia was a texas class im suprised to see her so much shorter in length.
if memeory serves during the gulf war the texas could not start her reactors from shutdown. nessesitating a loooooonnng embarasing tow home and the end of the reactor (the replacement of the reactor was basicly a total rebuild of the ship as the whole super structure had to be removed ( no **** ). the virginian was two years newer with more miles on the reactor and basicly the exact same set up. i.e. they scraped her right after the war.
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The Canberra was also a WW2 Australian Heavy Cruiser, sunk in Guadacanal. I had an Uncle serve on that ship during the war.
...-Gixer
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I thought we did this once before.
...anyway.
USS Chandler DDG-996
(http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0599604.jpg)
1984-86
USS Elliot DD 967
(http://www.elliot.navy.mil/967-04.jpg)
1987-89
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Originally posted by Gixer
The Canberra was also a WW2 Australian Heavy Cruiser, sunk in Guadacanal. I had an Uncle serve on that ship during the war.
...-Gixer
This is mentioned in the history of the USS Canberra. In fact
"it was to be named the USS Pittsburgh was renamed USS CANBERRA in honor of the Australian Ship HMAS CANBERRA. The HMAS CANBERRA was lost in the battle of the Savo Islands on August 9, 1942 as were three United States Cruisers, the USS Quincy, The USS Vincennes and the USS Astoria.
The USS CANBERRA was commissioned on October 14, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts by Lady Alice C. Dixon, wife of the Australian Minister to the United States. "
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Originally posted by Furious
I thought we did this once before.
We did... :)
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Originally posted by Smut
USS America CV-66 (North Atlantic / Med)
USS Roosevelt CVN-71 (Shakedown)
Both while assigned to Fighting 33 ("Starfighters") 1985-88. VF-33 flew the F-14A while I was there.
Got to VF-33 as an ATAN, left as an AT2.
Did a three year shore tour at SATD (now VX-23), F-14A/B/D, F/A-18A/B/C/D, A-6E, & EA-6B...our avionics shop maintained 'em all and I turned a wrench on every one of them at one point or another. For the most part, I was a Tomcat guy.
Until I got out.
-Smut
Et Tu Brutus?
I was in VS-32 aboard CV-66 from 1982 to 1985, did two Med/IO cruises, plus all workups.
(did two North Atlantic trips, one into the Norwegian Fjords)
Started as an ADAA ended up a AD2.
Reupped as an AD2 for Brig Duty in 1985 for a reenlistment bonus, stationed at NS Sandpoint in Seattle, got out in 1989 as an AD2 :(
Rate became seriously overmanned due to that reenlistment bonus.
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Originally posted by Furious
I thought we did this once before.
Sorry, guess we're doing it again! :D
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Do Shallow Water Sailors get a say? I was a BM3 on the USCGC Boutwell (WHEC-719) 79-81. We regularly stayed out over 60 days on patrol including a 63 day stretch above the Arctic Circle. She was with Task Group Tarawa in Iraqi waters last I heard. Who says Coasties stay at home?
(http://www.vaxxine.com/jcameron/shiparc/uscg/boutwell/boutwell.jpg)
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Originally posted by rpm371
Do Shallow Water Sailors get a say? I was a BM3 on the USCGC Boutwell (WHEC-719) 79-81. We regularly stayed out over 60 days on patrol including a 63 day stretch above the Arctic Circle. She was with Task Group Tarawa in Iraqi waters last I heard. Who says Coasties stay at home?
(http://www.vaxxine.com/jcameron/shiparc/uscg/boutwell/boutwell.jpg)
Sixty whole days on patrol? My gawd! How did you cope?
:D
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
being a nuke we almost never saw port.
63 days is my personal record continuously at sea.
one record you can count on never falling.
I was referring to this.
BTW try 60 days in the Bering during winter....It'll make a man out of ya.
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
being a nuke we almost never saw port.
63 days is my personal record continuously at sea.
one record you can count on never falling.
Hah! We did 124 days... in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf... without a port... On a boiler boat with water hours... we all smelled like men... evaps work like **** in the warm water... LOL
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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.
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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. ;)
(http://www.riversideapostolic.com/images/veterans/emblem_coastguard.gif)
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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
(http://www.26mtb.com/bilder%202002-2003/21-35/images/Teist-i-30.jpg)
(http://www.26mtb.com/bilder%202002-2003/1-20/images/teist-i-tromsfd.jpg)
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milnko.....
what fjord in norway did you go to with that big ship?? :eek: :eek:
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Originally posted by Nilsen10
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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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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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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Originally posted by fd ski
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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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.
(http://mysite.verizon.net/alexander.cesarz/CG-52-~1.jpg)
-Sik
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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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Sik!,
How you feeling bud?
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Originally posted by Furious
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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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
USS Virginia CGN 38
gulf war nuke cruiser scrap now.
When were you on it?
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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
;)
BLACK-SHOES RULE!!!!
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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
(http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2003/narvik.jpg)
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LOL... Adams Class is the Shiznit!
32+ knots on a 1950s hull... 4x1200 steam plants!
That girl could run!
GREAT CREW TOO! We could do anything. In the middle of OPPE, we wiped a line-shaft bearing. OPPE said can'x the whole thing, they'd come back after we fixed it. Our guys (All of Engineering) worked ALL night, ready to train by 0700 as scheduled... Blew the inspectors away. We were in the middle of the North Atlantic too, on our way home from the MED...
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We had a break away rag....
It had the lil ole lady from playboy, the one with droopy tits that is always chasing guys...
It said "She may be old, but she still puts out!"...
Great ship, better crew! I miss them both.
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Originally posted by Sancho
Heh, you guys actually got to go places? On ships??? I had exactly 30 days of sea duty in 5.5 years of service from 94-99. That was 30 days aboard USS Belleau Wood LHA-3 in fall of 96. I was a grunt corpsman assigned to 3rd Marines at the time.
I had the same miserable 30 days in the fall of 94 on that tub. Was with the 7th Marines 93-97. Did ya'll do your pump on Oki?
Seem to remember the 3rd Marines were in the rotation...
Semper Fi, Swabbies :)
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Ship? WTF is dat?
(AT with VF-17: NAS Memphis 1981-1985. Deployed to the P.I. and Misawa, Japan; Blackshoe Reserve fleet 1986-1987 ... mos switch to OS[/i] {sound powered phones, grease pencils ... antiquated radar sim .. "contact bearing ... ": U.S.S. Barbey {FF1088 Knox class} - never set foot on her - got to go to the shipsim in El Paso instead .... ain't life grand?)
Navy landlubber/Pollywog Club :D
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Hah! We did 124 days... in the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf... without a port... On a boiler boat with water hours... we all smelled like men... evaps work like **** in the warm water... LOL
Did a 4 beer cruise in the Gulf of Oman (2 beers each for 60 continuous days at sea) on the Indy (CV-62) in '81 with Carrier Group 8, Carrier Air Wing 6, Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 131 (VAQ-131). Turnover with the Eisenhower was on 8 Dec '80, we were relieved by the America on 9 May '81.
Does the term Gonzo Station mean anything to you?
<- Kitty Hawk
<- America
<- Independence
No greater thrill than to work on the flight deck.
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Originally posted by VAQ
Does the term Gonzo Station mean anything to you?
I'm familiar with gonzo... :D
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Originally posted by -Concho-
I had the same miserable 30 days in the fall of 94 on that tub. Was with the 7th Marines 93-97. Did ya'll do your pump on Oki?
Seem to remember the 3rd Marines were in the rotation...
Semper Fi, Swabbies :)
Yeah, 2/3 was deployed in the latter half of 96 out at Camp Hansen. I just dug up an old snapshot of the Belleau wood. Remember this, devildog?
(http://www.jump.net/~cs3/dog_on_lha-3.jpg)
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all to well...
I have pictures somewhere of them test firing that phalanx above it there.
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Originally posted by milnko
Et Tu Brutus?
I was in VS-32 aboard CV-66 from 1982 to 1985, did two Med/IO cruises, plus all workups.
I mess cranked with a couple of guys from -32, plus your QA was right under (more or less) our IWT shop. We were port side, O-3 out on the angle. Can't remember the frame anymore.
-Smut
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Originally posted by Nilsen10
milnko.....
what fjord in norway did you go to with that big ship?? :eek: :eek:
Vestfjord? Something like that.
Best part was we were conducting normal flight ops less than a mile offshore. Not sure what the locals thought of that...it had to be LOUD for them.
-Smut
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Originally posted by VAQ
Did a 4 beer cruise in the Gulf of Oman (2 beers each for 60 continuous days at sea) on the Indy
Our Captain was an Tea sipping prettythanghole. We got to load beer, lock the Beer Locker, then unload every single bottle when we returned to Seattle. But did you know you can fit 22 bottles of Jack Daniels in the barrel of a 5 inch gun? GM's were great to party with underway! :D