A roll of aluminum foil and a "green" deckhand made for good humor, I would
instruct the deckhand to wrap himself in foil, stand upon the foredeck, as
we would command him to hold himself in rather odd body positions while the
chief and myself up in the wheelhouse "tuned" the radar. If possible we
would do this in port, prefferably so the crews of other vessels could be
witness to the charade. The tinfoil hat was always the crowd pleaser.



"Larry" wrote in message
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"Lynn Coffelt" wrote in news:heWdneG_8-
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That's what you get when you don't use a good brand of relative
bearing grease!
g

Good grief, is that something made from aunts or
cousins?..........
ducking...............

OCL


Our SPS-6 aboard USS Everglades (AD-24 may she rest in peace) ran on a
pair of Fallopian tubes. Every new ET aboard was sent down to After GSK
with a supply chit in his hands for a new pair for the radar as soon as
possible, to welcome him aboard.

The supply guys in After GSK were in on it. They'd act non-interested
and take the paperwork, stamping it properly, then go in the back and cut
off two 6" lengths of rubber surgical hose specially planted for the
newbie ETs. Of course, they'd make him SIGN for the new tubes before
leaving so we could publish proof of his stupidity in the ship's next
newspaper...(c;

There were two fittings on the SPS-6 antenna mount and one on the
Raytheon Pathfinder's mount that required relative bearing grease. It
came in a green government tube marked "Jelly, Petroleum" from Forward
GSK, a different series of ladders into the bilge level storeroom in the
bow.

Between the bogus supply runs and the mail bouy watch on the bullnose,
after a couple of weeks, it was real hard, for some reason, to get young,
green technicians to make any real supply runs....Until that time, it was
great fun!

Larry ET1
Supervisor - Shop 67B - Metrology Laboratory
USS Everglades (AD-24) '66-'69
Cruisin' the Med for Uncle Sam