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Schlenkerla said:
Me too, because the Navy was driving and we could polish our boom sticks.
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Yeah, on Sunday mornings, we would have target practice off the fantail with M14's and milk cartons. It's fun to watch someone trying to aim with the ship going up and down, with a milk carton doing the same, but not at the same time!
Me? Put her on full rip and aim low!
 
Dave Sarber said:
Another old navvy, eh? I loved Med cruises!
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my first was Desert Storm, so no stopping in the Med, it was straight to the Gulf. though we did have to give Vreeland a tow to Sardinia, when she broke her turbine

on the way back, WE broke a turbine and pulled into Catania, Sicily

the next one, we didn't transit the Suez, but hit all kinds of ports in the Adriatic, Sicily again, Malaga and Rota on the way out
 
‘99 31st MEU on the Brokenwood we lost an engine on the way to East Timor for operation Stabilize. Took an extra day to get there, which was good for me. 34 hours straight, hopped up on ephedrine, still legal at the time, and massive amounts of coffee, bore sighting 4 cobras and having to redo one because Avi decided the TSU was bad.

Try making fine adjustments to the ordnance systems with a jewelers screwdriver when you’re hand is shaking like a junky with the DT shakes.
 
We didn't have problems overseas, but when we got to drydock in Bremerton, Wa. we had several incidents. The worst one was firing up after complete overhaul. One of the yard workers installed a fuel nozzle in one of the boilers WITH NO SPRAYER PLATE on the nozzle.
With boiler fired up, switched to that nozzle, shooting a straight stream of fuel into the boiler. The fuel mix was so rich, it went about halfway up the stack before it blew the aft stack all to hell.
 
Dave Sarber said:
Yeah, on Sunday mornings, we would have target practice off the fantail with M14's and milk cartons. It's fun to watch someone trying to aim with the ship going up and down, with a milk carton doing the same, but not at the same time!
Me? Put her on full rip and aim low!
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I'm a MA-Duece guy myself. I also had the M249.

Anything big is good. We also shot 105mm and 155mm. I was a cannon cocker.
 
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Just found this bad boy hiding in my shower.
Not a tarantula, but about the same size.
 
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GrogNerd said:
my first was Desert Storm, so no stopping in the Med, it was straight to the Gulf. though we did have to give Vreeland a tow to Sardinia, when she broke her turbine

on the way back, WE broke a turbine and pulled into Catania, Sicily

the next one, we didn't transit the Suez, but hit all kinds of ports in the Adriatic, Sicily again, Malaga and Rota on the way out
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We did NATO Med.

Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, England, Spain, France, Italy, Sardina and Morocco.

This in order. We had several Marines die in 1986 when a CH-46 Sea Knight crashed into our ship. LHA-2 USS Siapan. It was going to the USS Sumpter. The rear tail rotor malfunctioned. If the Marines didn't drown, they frozen to death. We were 75 miles above the Arctic Circle.

.... We also had the USS Raleigh with us.
 
RPh_Guy said:
What did you name it?
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Harry?

S-Met said:
What a cutie! But wtf is it if it isn't a tarantula? I'm not well known versed on arachnids, just know the ones near me. I get some big-assed wolf's and the occasional giant black widder.
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I think it's called a crab spider. Scary looking, but relatively harmless. Don't want to get bit to find out different, though.
 
When we moved into our new house we had an orb weaver take up residence in our garage. I brought my 4 year old son at the time out to look at it. He was absolutely terrified! Then I introduced her as Charlotte from Charlotte’s web. From that point on every day when we got home he always said hi to Charlotte, and was sad when winter came.

We saw thousands of babies, but apparently they didn’t like our garage as much as their mom did. That was 7 years ago.
 
Ok, more randomness. If you blow up my profile pic, that is a very tiny toad I found while working on a crashed plane in Guyana last year. It was on white sand, and I thought it was a bug, until it hopped! Only about 1/4" long.

Hors d'oeuvre for the spider above!
 
Schlenkerla said:
We did NATO Med.

Norway, Denmark, Germany, Holland, England, Spain, France, Italy, Sardina and Morocco.

This in order. We had several Marines die in 1986 when a CH-46 Sea Knight crashed into our ship. LHA-2 USS Siapan. It was going to the USS Sumpter. The rear tail rotor malfunctioned. If the Marines didn't drown, they frozen to death. We were 75 miles above the Arctic Circle.

.... We also had the USS Raleigh with us.
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we did a Baltic cruise in '92, stopped in nearly every country. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia.

those last 5 had just liberated themselves from communism & we were the first US warship there since WWII. I would have re-enlisted to do that again.
 
and to tie it back On-Topic...

I changed $20 into rubles, bought one of those rabbit fur hats for my niece. had a couple beers, met some Lithuanian couples who took us out on the town. my 2 buddies & I paid for dinner, then we had many more beers, a lot of vodka

and I came back to the ship with $12 left in rubles

then there was Oslo. another 2 buddies and I ate at a pizza place. we had a plate of nachos, a medium pizza and each had a beer. 450 krone. at the time, 5 krone to the dollar = $90

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Dave Sarber said:
We didn't have problems overseas, but when we got to drydock in Bremerton, Wa. we had several incidents. The worst one was firing up after complete overhaul. One of the yard workers installed a fuel nozzle in one of the boilers WITH NO SPRAYER PLATE on the nozzle.
With boiler fired up, switched to that nozzle, shooting a straight stream of fuel into the boiler. The fuel mix was so rich, it went about halfway up the stack before it blew the aft stack all to hell.
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you were on the Standley?
 
then there was Oslo. another 2 buddies and I ate at a pizza place. we had a plate of nachos, a medium pizza and each had a beer. 450 krone. at the time, 5 krone to the dollar = $90

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I spent a few days in Palma, Mallorca, where I met a pair of Swedish twins, and spent my entire liberty with them. Every time we ran out of money, they would find their father, who was usually holed up in the casino, and he would give them another stack of pretty blue krone.
At the time, I had no idea what krone were worth. But I had a great 3 days, and never spent a dime!
 
Dave Sarber said:
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Just found this bad boy hiding in my shower.
Not a tarantula, but about the same size.
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Always look up when you get in the shower, never know what's there.

Back in college, some of us student leaders had rooms at the top of a Gothic tower in the student union where offices were. One girl was halfway through her shower in the one shared bathroom when she looked up and saw a bat. The scream was epic. Her streaking down the hallway pretty memorable too.
 

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