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If he would have drowned, I would bet that worse would have happened. From my perspective, the men who rescued him did the right thing.
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Why do mermaids wear seashells?


Because B’s are too small.
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I assume they had a Captain Mast. Should have requested a Courts Martial. I wonder if the officer was penalized. Most likely his service record notes his devotion to duty resulted in injury. Which of course looks good to promotion boards.
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piller wrote: Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:14 amFrom my perspective, the men who rescued him did the right thing.
There are generally 3 ways of completing a task in the Navy. 1 - the wrong way, 2 - the right way &, 3 - the Navy Way. Sometimes the 3 bear little to no resemblance to each other.

The way I see it, the 2 helo types forgot to ASK Permission to leave the MWB!
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Ray wrote: Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:17 am "When I empty garbage in alley I carry cleaver. When labbit go 'meow' I go chop-chop!"
Hah! I may have eaten some of that labbit. Did he have a branch restaurant in Olongapo?

Anyway, back in my nearly forgotten days of yore I was stationed at a repair facility in Danang '68-'69. Navy boys were running supplies up and down the coast using repurposed landing craft onto which had been grafted a little civilian radar unit made cheaply by either Raytheon (cheapest and poorest) or Bendix (more expensive but still not anywhere waterproof against SE Asian monsoons). I was tasked with keeping the radars running on this flat-bottom fleet: not too difficult in dry weather but impossible in monsoon season.

"Captains" for these craft were generally First Class Bosun's Mates (think crusty old pharts in their mid- to late thirties). One of them passed on this story to me because it came about after one of my repair jobs allowed the LCU to get out of Danang harbor and start on course north up the coast before night descended and rain drowned out the radar leaving the boys feeling their way along with a compass and with visibility measured in inches. Some sort of noise out to starboard grabbed their attention and called for manning their single 30-cal machine gun. Signal flashed out from them toward the mystery noise: "Identify or die".

Reply flashed back almost immediately "This is the USS New Jersey. Fire at will"

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Fire at will. :lol: :lol: :lol: The Officer on watch had a sense of humor. Knowing that there was nothing in the area which could hurt his ship probably helped him be a smart alec.

I have only seen photos of those 16 inch guns going off. To create that much flame and recoil took a tremendous load of projectile and propellant.
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In downtown Seoul the street vendors sold a meat on a stick that they cooked right there. We joked that it was Ke Gogi. Ke is their word for dog. Gogi means meat.
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