Comments on: Veterans Day Story

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:41:38 +0000

Fortuately we did not have to use the candles too often

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:36:28 +0000

got love the 02 gen when it goes down and you are stuck dropping candles forward and aft.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:13:25 +0000

Sorry Im Late got lost for a day
Very Justifiable story
SKs were very cool kept good parts around for us A gangers to fix things like the bomb so we all could breath good O2

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:11:02 +0000

Non Quals are Oxygen Breathing Shit Producing Organisms

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:11:54 +0000

whose kavips?

By: Joanne Christian

Joanne Christian — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:09:27 +0000

Make that memorialized!

By: Joanne Christian

Joanne Christian — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:08:39 +0000

DV-You gotta get over to Kavips..you are like immortalized or something!

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:26:24 +0000

yes I got the dolphins. Yes the entire crew gets them. If you are a crew member you have to get them actually or you get tossed off the ship and sent to be a “surface” puke.

By: Joanne Christian

Joanne Christian — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:52:44 +0000

See that Hef–the story is there–keep sharing it. And Jason I could just pinch your cheeks right now! I love when your conscience kicks in! But your first comment really was funny–and I do think it kept him going. You know what, I really did think he worked in the galley until this entry. I didn’t know he did parts “stuff” and watches, etc. But did you ever get those “dolphins” you and “people” talk about? Are they available to all crew?

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:41:28 +0000

no worries my man, I know you are a jack ass that means well

By: jason330

jason330 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:31:04 +0000

DV,

This is a great tribute. I deleted my asinine first comment.

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:04:13 +0000

I’m hoping I don’t have any nightmares tonight to be honest with you.

I can’t imagine what that must have been like my man. Hope it wasn’t too hard for you to share that.

By: shiftcolor

shiftcolor — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:59:37 +0000

A last note. We lost several men every deployment, accidents, planes exploding in the air. Suicides took some, and I once watched a truly despondent man shove away a harness dropped to him in heavy seas after he’d jumped. His body was found, washed up, about a week later. A fire kept my first cruise from becoming a part of the Christmas bombing in ‘72, from what I can figure — we went to the Med instead afterward. But we kept losing men anyway, here and there. It was all hard, it’s all bad now. Just nobody noticed us, back then.

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:36:11 +0000

anon,

no offense, but I think my story is way better.

Maybe next year I will tell the story of the guy that attempted suicide in boot camp…

By: Donhusseinsquishviti

Donhusseinsquishviti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:35:12 +0000

I was lucky enough to not be a part of a battle group. Yes, you guys would have been toast and to be totally honest. Without the submarine fleet, the rest of the Navy is pointless.

Let’s be honest You guys are nothing but targets