On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:07:42 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:19:16 GMT, "Calif Bill"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 00:30:21 GMT, "Gordon" wrote:

In my Navy days, we once spent 3 days on the edge of a typhoon. You
basically don't want much food, maybe a piece of fruit once in a
while.
You
couldn't stay in your bunk so you went to your normal duty station,
grabbed
a couple life jackets for pillows and curled up on the deck where you
could
brace yourself. You didn't go for and aft on the main deck. Lines were
rigged on the 2nd deck to hang on to, to go for and aft and you would
judge
the waves and run. This was on a DDE where you couldn't go for and aft
inside.
Destroyers just naturally go under one wave and over the next. Due to
the
lenght I guess.
Gordon
BTW, Used to have a friend who always was seasick for the first 3 or
4
days
at sea. He would stand watch holding a bucket or at least keeping it
very
close. Talk about not eating!

I was on two floats - one to the Med and one in the South Pacific.
Both times, I was never seasick, although a lot of my company was.

Based on my own experience, I'm not sure which is worse - the long
slow swells or the relative violence of short period waves.

That is why I joined the air force. Both no typhoons in big ships or
little
ships and you get to die clean.

I worked with some APES during my tour - I have to admit they were the
cleanest bunch of perimeter patrol types I ever worked with. :)

Later,

Tom

Actually I only flew on AF planes when hopping rides. Set in the nice,
clean airconditioned electronics shop at Travis AFB for 3 years fixing
radars off transport planes. We were an airlift wing. As opposed to my
brother who did 2 tours at China Beach as a SeeBee building facilities.

mmmmmmmmChinaBeachmmmmmmmmmm

Later,

Tom