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Vic Smith

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:46:54 -0400, Jim24242
wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:04:21 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:26:29 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

Yeah, but all I could get was 3.2.

--Vic
That was true in Bainbridge NTC, but not in Norfolk.
We gut the same cans of beer you got in town.

As Eisboch said, you just drank more, so it didn't matter anyway.
I always did my drinking downtown, but in the states I didn't get
hammered too often.
Only EM club I went to was either Little Creek or Oceana.
Can't remember. And only once, since I smashed my car up on the way
back to D&S Piers. Couldn't go any more when I got out of jail.
No car.

When I was at the AOQ in Gitmo 1968 (IBM trip) they had a beer machine
right in the building. (25 cents a can)

Gitmo was a hellhole to me. Barred window busses to get to the club,
and not a broad anywhere. Enough to make you give up drinking right
there.

--Vic
Busses? I guess you never got to ride the cattle cars to the club next
to the air strip??

Yeah, we called the busses cattle cars, but maybe others won't get it.
Never saw the airstrip. Maybe too many bars on the bus windows.
Think I remember seeing the guard towers on the border.
And a lot of trees.
The more I forget about Gitmo, the better.
Only there once for a couple days, a stop on a shakedown cruise.
We were always on port/starboard watches away form Norfolk, so I
only got ashore once.

--Vic

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