Odd-Ball Picture of the Day

You and I were on the same page. If you hadn't posted it, I was going to. Goldie's just pissed he didn't post it first.

 

Sheesh, I thought USAF bases only had golf courses. At least the Army guys have a Ferris wheel.

 

From a friend in the car sales business.



And yes, he was approved.

 

I didn't like Top Gun, sorry.

I was a pit snipe, and nobody knows what that is because all the aircraft carrier movies & documentaries ever want to show is the jets taking off. But, you see the steam that billows out when the catapults shoot a flyboy off the deck? We made that.

The carrier doesn't go anywhere, have any electricity, water, steam, heating, cooling.... without us, all you have is an 88000 ton chunk of cold iron.

Which I can move with one finger on the throttle valve down in 4MMR.


So, EFF Top Gun.

 

Effin Steampunks.

 

Oh yeah? Well, I was the latrine officer. No one could make a move without me.

 

I made things go roundy round and sparkity spark. Also a snipe. On a fast moving target.

 

Well, Ok....I literally get that.

HT2, USS Coral Sea, CV43 here......and numerous years in the shipyard after that.....I've spent alot of time in MMR's and Aux's.

CV43 had (12) 600# boilers, unlike the later ones I worked on in the yard that had the #1200 systems (Saratoga and Forrestal).....12 boilers is alot of work!

I've been shot off the deck a couple times. My cruise on CV43 was TAD from a tender (AD18) and I needed new orders, and then to go back for discharge.

I will say, as an HT at least I got to move around the ship some.....you boys down there livin' in the hole, that looked rough....unless you didn't want to get a haircut or do laundry!....you boys were pretty rough sometimes!

You MM's and the BT's always pokin at each other was funny sometimes.

Which Carrier were you on?....Somehow I had you pegged as Bubblehead, sorry man

 

Those wasps really know how to pick a location for their nest...

 

Lever drafting trucks.

 

Damn, dude. Words hurt...

I fixed them for a couple of years, but no way would I be able to contemplate 600+ feet of water over my head.

I was on the Kitty Hawk. We had 8 1200 pounders.

And yes, we stank. The air they piped down to cool us off, as long as you could reach a spot way up in the vent pipe and get a reading of 100 or less, then we didn't have to run reduced time shifts due to PHEL charts. That sucked.

 

@Gorilla George is going to be pissed those aren't all 7s

 

Street Legal

 

.......(kinda) Sorry, I was seeing if you were awake. I got that impression during posts here, sorry for the mis-read MM.

The machinery spaces were rough, but you guys control rooms were the coldest rooms on the ship! like a frikkin icebox! I know part of it is the temp change.

Thanks for your service, Thats all you guys here CBRRR, Plarp, Past G, and anyone else. I'm honored to be a member here.

Kitty Hawk was a great ship.

Sorry all for the threadjack....back to oddball behavior.

 

Yep!