No boom-boom, just thud-thud?
Imagine being a watchstander, taking logs down, you look up from the numbers, and there's a 21 inch dia torpedo head looking at you saying "Wassup?"... before it works it's way back out and the flood begins.
No boom-boom, just thud-thud?
I was stationed at a University in Seattle waiting to be reassigned so they put me in the office. Typical military thinking, a SGT 0311 (grunt) working with papers at a desk.Imagine being a watchstander, taking logs down, you look up from the numbers, and there's a 21 inch dia torpedo head looking at you saying "Wassup?"... before it works it's way back out and the flood begins.
It said "First time as OOD USS-----, 0800-1200, 7 Decenber 1941, Pearl Harbor ". Can't remember the actual ships name but I think he said a lot in those few words.
The Spruance class destroyers (DD, not DDG or CG) were powered by 4 gas turbine engines that were derived from a common ancestor jet engine that powered some Boeing 747s. Moosbrugger was a ship in the Spruance (DD-963) class. The Spruance class were not hydrofoils. They had a traditional displacement hull form and were primarily an anti submarine warfare ship.I visited the USS Moosebrugger, Spruents class guided missle cruiser, when I was at Guantanimo in '79.
4-747 jet engines power this hydrofoil ship at classified top speed.
Apropos of nothing, but did those casings just get tossed overboard or was there a reloaders somewhere saying "get the press going"?Gulf of Tonkin. Scores of empty 5” 38 caliber powder casings cover the deck around a 5” gun mount on USS New Jersey (BB 62) after the ship fired over 1600 rounds the night before. Photographed by SN Robert G. Smith, February 23, 1969
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Apropos of nothing, but did those casings just get tossed overboard or was there a reloaders somewhere saying "get the press going"?
Well, I'm pretty sure Tom is right.There is a movie "Too young the hero" on Netflix.
In the battle scenes, they show tons of brass ejected from guns that just pours into the sea.
I reconditioned the 5 in 38 ammo cans for them at NWS concord CAThere is a movie "Too young the hero" on Netflix.
In the battle scenes, they show tons of brass ejected from guns that just pours into the sea.
Holy crap, dumping it right on the deck. Not even a chute to the coal bunker? Put your back into it, lads. And sorry about your white clothes.Before warships were fueled by diesel (or nuclear)
Coaling the battleship USS New York (BB-34) at sea, February 1918
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Yeah, no chutes. Based on my reading coaling was an all-hands event and involved shoveling the coal into big sacks which the drew lugged through teh hatches, passageways and own ladders to the bunkers.Holy crap, dumping it right on the deck. Not even a chute to the coal bunker? Put your back into it, lads. And sorry about your white clothes.
Flight Attendant???Having just heard the story on radio of a flight being turned around from Atlanta to Spain for a passenger with diarrhea, it inspired me to share this story. We were heading to Iraq flying from Maine to Germany first. Over the Atlantic one soldier was looking ill. Everyone told him to go to the latrine. He said he was fine. Several seconds later he puked everywhere. Well then he also crapped. Then other soldiers started to puke and crap themselves as well. The latrine was pretty much occupied non stop so alot of guys didn't make it there to puke and what not. The flight attendant came back to see what was going on said "oh my god" and never came back. So no food or drinks lol. Pr medic was giving IVs on the flight lol. We landed in Germany. Got off the plane for refuel. I was hoping we'd get a new plane it smelled so bad. Nope back on the plane but with sawdust lol. We got a half ass quarantine in kuwait. This of us who didn't get sick still had to do the training. Lol. Worst flight ever