DSK wrote:
DSK wrote:

If your ship was at all like the tin cans I rode around on, you were

As I told Larry once upon a time the first ship I was on was a Destroyer
Tender...most of the ships I worked on were WWII DD's, and the DE's were
the same age.

I'm trying to remember who carried 45s for stateside in-port watches...
there was usually a watch at the entry to Fox D,

The second ship I was on was a brand new DEG, I joined the crew at
Newport RI prior to commissioning. I stood quarterdeck watch, a junior
officer, a junior enlisted as the runner/messenger and me the ETN2. We
got to have ammo, and would count the rounds to log that none were
missing. And sometimes about 1 or 2 in the morning...take the pistol
apart and put it back together :-) Sometimes they'd have some sort of
ASROC test and guys would run around with M14's or something. Rumor had
it that we carried nukes on board for them. That was the only place I
never got to see...the ASROC area, well that and large chunks of
officers country. Heck, once while in dry dock I managed to get down to
crawl around on the sonar transducers. One of them crapped out or
something and I went down into the bulb on the bow when the guy swapped
it out. What can I say, I was bored. Did my 4 years and got out,
1965-1969.

The first ship and the bottom half of the second ship are razor blades.
The upper half of the second one's now beer cans.