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A Look At Officer Training In The US Navy and Merchant Marine
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:50:50 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 8/25/2017 12:01 PM, wrote: On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 07:25:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 8/24/2017 11:12 PM, wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:07:07 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:50:57 -0500, Boating All Out wrote: What do they use to make bug juice? === Bug Juice is any powdered drink like Kool-Aid. The CG fed us better ;-) Navy shore commands and the larger ships usually had good food. The smaller ships like the destroyer escorts I was on didn't have the storage capacity for a lot of fresh food for longer cruises. We ate well for the first few days but then it got pretty bad. Most of us stocked up our lockers with canned food and other treats that didn't need refrigeration. The evaporators could never keep up with the demand for fresh water so we were always on water hour rationing while underway. Taking a real shower became a once in a great while deal. We were on a smaller ship than you and we were at sea for 5 weeks at a time. I am not sure why they couldn't keep you in food. They had huge "reefers" and lots of dry stores. They generally had fresh eggs for the whole cruise but they mixed in some powder I am sure. We also seemed to have enough fresh water. Maybe you just had more guys on board. We had around 75 on a 311' ship. These things were originally sea plane tenders so they were all "tank". We carried enough fuel to sail around the world a couple times and I assume they had big fresh water tanks. We did have a strict "sea shower" rule but you could take a salt water shower as long as you wanted. The trick was you took a long "Hollywood" shower in sea water then did a quick rinse in fresh. Different ships for different purposes. Based on your description and vintage it sounds like you were on a Barnegat class cutter. Only 4 feet shorter than the DE's I was on but, according to Wiki, your cutter had a crew compliment of 215. What was the name or hull number? When I was there the enlisted crew was around 75 (that may not have included the SONAR guys since they were on another planet). I am not sure where they would put 215. Maybe that was the navy crew when they were tending seaplanes or something. I am sure they also had more ordinance people on board since the CG removed quite a bit of the firepower. We just had a 5", a rack of hedge hogs and 6 torpedo tubes along with a half dozen M2s and other small arms. We had the tubs on the 03 deck where 40mm guns used to be and there was a mount on the fantail where the weather shack ended up being. We only had a GM chief, a GM3 or 2 and a couple FTs. We were all gunners mates. ;-) I was on the Absecon W374 and Chincoteague W375 (Berkeley Base in Chesapeake near Norfolk). I was also on the Mendota W68 a 255' out of Wilmington NC. I did a reserve cruise to Nassau on the Tananger the last 2 weeks I was in, actually extending about a week but I don't remember much about it. My give a **** button was broken by then. |
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