Thanks, Bill! Nice to meet another AD sailor. If you're ever in
Charleston, go aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) at Patriots Point Naval
Museum and post yourself on the shipmates board and look through the
log books. I've reunited with many of the guys I sailed with back in
the 60's that way. Living in Charleston, many have called me from the
post over there and we have a great old time reliving our tours on
"Big Mama"......(c;

I was an ET-1598 cal tech and keeper of the keys to the TBKs, TBMs,
TCSs and TBLs in Radio II under the after king post, an experience I
wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

I was also the duty thief, and have stolen and misappropriated many
items or traded shipyard service for tons of coffee with the sandcrabs
before I became one. My repair officer would be careful about what he
wished for...(c; "We sure could use a new pickup truck.", he said one
day. Took me 3 days to find him a new Dodge 3/4 ton truck....and
another week to get the white sidewall tires for it...(c; Ship had a
troublesome URC-32 the RMs had destroyed. Cost me 75 pounds of prime
coffee for that one. I showed up in the new truck with it all crated
up in the back, saying to my suspicious EMO, "Mr Seegar, we'd better
get that new transmitter aboard real soon. It looks like it's gonna
rain!" "Where'd you get that?", he enquired within earshot of LCDR
Hayder. "Stop asking embarrassing questions, Myron.", the LCDR
replied.....as I made my hasty retreat. Geez....Do they have to know
EVERYTHING?

Larry ET1

"No, Sir, that's not a GM 6-53 diesel engine. That's a GM 6-71 diesel
engine, Sir."..........."Thank you, Sir."......



On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:10:33 -0800, Cardinal Bill
wrote:

Larry W4CSC wrote:

On my ship, USS Everglades (AD-24), midrats opened up at 11PM......

No sh...errrr....kidding! My first ship was the USS Arcadia (AD-23) out
of Newport RI. From there I went to the USS Talbot (DEG-4) again at
Newport after we got it commissioned in Boston.

I was a ETN2 at my discharge, 4 years (1965-1969).

--
"I hate the itching. But I don't mind the swelling."
-- new buzz phrase, like "Where's the Beef?" that David Letterman's trying
to get everyone to start saying


Larry

Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.