----- Original Message -----
From: "DSK"
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:38 PM
Subject: One last time ...


wrote:
"Bennies" were the transvestite hookers that would prey on the newbie
sailors as a cheap "date". And, no, I didn't participate. They looked
good from a distance though. They must have come (pun intended) later
than your tour.

They were there in early and mid 1980s. I had a few run-ins with them
while trying to deal with Naples traffic and once on Shore Patrol duty.



There were a lot of the campfire girls across the road from the Humpty
wall.

Ah, the campfire girls. What memories!


BTW, Humpty was a dumpy old woman when I saw her. I never saw her
talking with a "customer".

Don't know that one.


Naples was a good port for a frigate. We tied up to the outer seawall,
had a "hamburger" from a hot dog style cart and cheap cabs were waiting
for the long trek around the seawall to the port center.

What ship were you on? I visited Naples in a frigate and a DDG, and was
assigned there TDY briefly waiting on a court-martial case; they
assigned me as a driver (boy that really made clear what a different
world it is).

Remember the phrase "Me Johnny Questo, Riccione?"
Buy anything off the hey-joes?

Regards
Doug King (ex-BT1(SW))
USS MacDonough DDG-39
USS Paul FF-1080


You were on one of the "new" DE's (before they were renamed "FF")
I was on a couple of the older versions - USS Van Voorhis DE-1028 and USS
Lester DE-1022.
For those of you that really want to know - I posted a pic of the famous
Humpty Dumpty at work on my photo album page. If you look, take a deep
breath before clicking to enlarge .....

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/erikssonrichard/my_photos

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
You were on one of the "new" DE's (before they were renamed "FF")

They were 90-day wonders, designed quick, built cheap, and intended (in
the early 1960s) to replace the WW2 leftovers the Navy was working with
at the time. I think by now most of the Knox class FFs have been melted
down for razor blades.

I was on a couple of the older versions - USS Van Voorhis DE-1028 and USS
Lester DE-1022.

Cool! Didn't know you ever rode around on tin cans! Same class? Looks
like the old twin 4" up front? I think this class was all gone by the
time I signed up. I bet these ships were not designed for comfort!

The whole DE / FF concept is basically to be a torpedo stopper for the
carriers. But at the time I was in (1979-1988), the Navy had enough of
them that we went steaming around on our own a surprising amount of time.


For those of you that really want to know - I posted a pic of the famous
Humpty Dumpty at work on my photo album page. If you look, take a deep
breath before clicking to enlarge .....

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/erikssonrichard/my_photos


Ugh! Glad i never met that one. Let's hope that history has not repeated
itself!

regards
Doug King