A Blast from the Past
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Air-Force pussies! Only state-room I had was on an ammo ship while briefly aboard as a TAD Diver doing a survey job. What a life: you had your own room, and the Steward would bring in a menu every morning -- it was a MSLC type ship. Those guys had it made!
OBSERVATION ISLAND. I understand that when it was not working for NASA it had Spook's aboard gathering electronic intell. You a Spook, Sublime? We used to host that type whenever we took the TRUTTA to Cuba -- three CT's and an over-see'er. We would go down, the ECM mast would go up, and they would stay in the pump-room with the receivers and tape-recorders till we pulled into Guantanamo.
No time to work models on the diesel boat (too busy drinking in the off-hours), and any off-gassing paints or other solvent bearing consumables were a no-no on the Boomer (not that that stopped the XO -- he was a model building machine). So, no modeling aboard the boats for me. However, while I did my nine-patrols on the DANIEL WEBSTER, I did a lot of model building off-crew, while doing R&R and team-training at Hawaii. Did a lot of model building on the YOSEMITE, VULCAN, and RECOVERY while filling a Diver's billet though. I actually took 30-days leave toward the end of my career so Ellie and I could rig the miniatures for a film we worked on in Kansas.
MLast edited by Sublime; 04-01-2014, 02:26 PM.Comment
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That is so NEAT! You guys were working out if those things were ballistic or steered? You were covering home-plate without any protective gear on.
Rod's from the God's, indeed!
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