ChezDaJez
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Joined: 11/12/2004 From: Chehalis, WA Status: offline
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During the deployment we made a mini-det to Suda Bay Crete. A fellow Jax VPer! Remind me to tell you a story some day about Souda Bay, the Scorpio bar in Xania and a certain international incident... Chez Okay, tell me about about Souda Bay, the Scorpio bar in Xania and a certain international incident... This is a "no sh!t" tale, not to be confused with sea stories. I was stationed in Rota and every few months we would send out a detachment to man up the Souda Bay "Ops Center" (if you could call a semi-trailer an ops center). We had been there about 2 weeks and were flying pretty heavily keeping track of the Kiev and her consorts. We finally got a break when she anchored in Kithra. Anyways, we decided to go out into town for a few beers. We had been briefed previously that anti-American sentiment was a little bit higher because of our presence and to be extra careful when out in town. We had an AWC from the squadron by the name of Leo Davis who was a pretty good guy to party with. He, I and two others went into Xania and did a little bar-hopping, ending up in this place called the Scorpio bar. It was a pretty nice hole-in-the-wall bar and there were some nice looking ladies so we just had to check it out. We ended up having several beers and Leo had been eyeing this girl sitting at the bar. She didn't seem to be with anyone though there was a guy sitting next to her. Leo decided to go up and talk to her. He sat down next to her and tried talking with her. She spoke only a few words of English so he wasn't making much head way when the guy next to her got up and cold-cocked Leo over the head with a bottle... (turns out the guy was her husband). Anyways, we hopped up to come to his rescue but we got grabbed by several Greek guys who pinned us against the wall so that we couldn't help. By this time Leo had gotten up off the floor and was trying his best to defend himself while this guy just beat the ever-loving crap out of him. His wife is jumping up and down screaming something in Greek. Don't know if she was yelling "stop it" or "hit him again." The husband finally yelled something and several Greeks came over and grabbed Leo and began dragging him out the door. Once they got Leo out the door, the other Greeks let us go and were yelling at us to get out. We got outside just in time to see the others throw Leo over the seawall into the bay. We climbed down and got Leo out of the water but he was in bad shape. He had a broken jaw, a pretty good cut on the top of his head and several cracked ribs. We tried getting a taxi back to the base but none would take us so we ended up calling the duty driver to come get us. Our corpsman took a look at Leo and said he needed a hospital so arrangements were made to fly him to Naples the next day. About noon the next day, the OinC called everyone together, told us to close down shop and pack our bags... we were leaving immediately. Turns out the husband had filed assault charges against Leo and the local police wanted to arrest him! Needless to say we were gone by 1600. After we left, the Greek government demanded his extradition and filed an international incident when we refused. The Greeks wouldn't let us go back there for nearly a year after that, not that I minded one little bit... Chez
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Ret Navy AWCS (1972-1998) VP-5, Jacksonville, Fl 1973-78 ASW Ops Center, Rota, Spain 1978-81 VP-40, Mt View, Ca 1981-87 Patrol Wing 10, Mt View, CA 1987-90 ASW Ops Center, Adak, Ak 1990-92 NRD Seattle 1992-96 VP-46, Whidbey Isl, Wa 1996-98
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