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RE: Never seen this before - 9/11/2011 11:01:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Vettim89, this is a great document. Much thanks.

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/11/2011 8:02:29 PM   
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In real life it did happen.

probably a rare occurrence aboard a diesel-powered LCI, though!


It was the coffee maker.


The company commanders in my division when I was in USN boot camp had a big, 40 cup coffee maker. It was one of the big tank types, and the Senior Chief always called it the boiler. As in, "Yeoman! The boiler's empty!"

I was a divisional yeoman, so I made a lot of coffee over those 8 weeks.


We were sitting up on the border in the Fulda gap one night in M113s (APCs) when all of a sudden there was a whoomp that sounded like a mortar round going off. Guys were screaming and bailing out of this one track. Being a medic, I grabbed my bag and scrambled over there to find 4 guys covered in beans. One of them had put a can in the personnel heater (a common practice) but didnt open the can first, and it exploded. No one was hurt, but goes to show how something innocent could lead to a major mistake. If that track had been loaded with demolitions for example (our units mission in Germany in the mid-70s was to blow bridges to slow the Russian advance).

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/12/2011 2:54:51 AM   
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I believe the West Lock disaster at Pearl was a bunch of LSTs. I think six were destroyed.

As for mine handling explosions, being sent to a ACM in my game is a death sentence reserved for the most heinous crimes {chasing the admiral's daughter, spilling the "boiler" before the captain has had a cup.


Don't forget the Port Chicago disaster!

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/12/2011 3:12:54 AM   
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I was on USS Canopus AS-34 in Rota, Spain (and Charleston) from 79 through 82 as an Electronics Tech who did the crypto repairs on board all those SSBNs. I know about how spoiled those subs were when it came to just about everything. I had a damn fine electronic type toolbox with just about anything I wanted in it and just before I left, they stopped allowing techs to take them with them when they left the service or transferred to another duty station.




I did crypto repair (off line) on the old Deuce. The off line machine was a real bear to work on.

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/12/2011 5:18:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was on the Holland, and the Simon Lake, I had all I could stand of the fine sailors in the boomer navy. My 5 1/2 years on the Frank Cable was all I could stand of the fast attack crews. Not to mention the two tours to NSSF New London.....

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/13/2011 9:01:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		Don't forget the infamous USS Iowa #2 turret explosion. Granted, it was a few years after WW2, but the ship did participate in our little gaming endeavor.

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/13/2011 7:21:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Also the 'Honda Point disaster'.
From Wiki: On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h), ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the coast in Santa Barbara County, California. Two other ships grounded, but were able to maneuver free of the rocks




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RE: Never seen this before - 9/13/2011 7:42:21 PM   
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Hadn't heard of this till now. What a fiasco! Some major heads must have rolled after that.



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RE: Never seen this before - 9/13/2011 7:45:52 PM   
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Its not clear from the links and stuff.....were the stranded DD's salvaged or were they left in place?


EDIT...ah....yeah those later period pictures show pretty clearly that the SEA did the salvaging. wow.




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RE: Never seen this before - 9/14/2011 6:19:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		The part that gets me is that the lead ship had the new Radio navigation receiver and had ignored the indicators they were getting and steamed at 20 Knts into the rocks. Wiki said the Commodore, Capts and the Navigators were court marshalled, not sure what happened to them.

The Japanese connection it there though, unpredicted currents caused by the Tokyo earthquake!!

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/15/2011 7:30:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think AE would have a hard time re-creating this one - and it would be accompanied by many screams of protest:

"On 1 May 1942 she [KG-V] was operating with USS Washington as an escort to Convoy PQ 15, and collided with the destroyer HMS Punjabi, which had manoeuvred to avoid a mine and crossed her bow in dense fog. Punjabi was cut in two and King George V had 40 feet of her bow badly damaged. King George V entered the Gladstone Dock in Liverpool on 9 May for repairs by Cammell Laird, and returned to Scapa Flow on 1 July 1942 to resume convoy escort duty"

OK, ship collision - possible. DD sunk, BB with 70 days of dry-dock - ouch! But it gets better:

'During those operations, tragedy befell the group. On 1 May 1942, HMS King George V collided with a "Tribal"-class destroyer. HMS Punjabi, cut in two, sank quickly directly in the path of the oncoming Washington. Compelled to pass between the halves of the sinking destroyer, the battleship proceeded ahead, Punjabi's depth charges exploding beneath her hull as she passed. Fortunately for Washington, she suffered no major hull damage nor developed any hull leaks from the concussion of the exploding depth charges. She did, however, sustain damage to some of her delicate fire control systems and radars; and a diesel oil tank suffered a small leak'

Add Sys damage to a second BB - priceless





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RE: Never seen this before - 9/26/2011 10:10:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		See this book for the Point Honda destroyer fiasco:

http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-at-Honda-Bluejacket-Books/dp/1591144671/ref=sr_1_86?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317071352&sr=1-86

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RE: Never seen this before - 9/27/2011 4:21:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I honestly wouldn't mind seeing natural disasters added to the game (whether its a ship breaking into two, or exploding) - however the same should be accounted for bases - aircraft lost, equiptment and men.

Wouldn't be often, but I just had the USS Hornet strike a friendly mine in Brisbane and took 30 sys damage, 17 flood, 9 fires.

Much as it Pains me to see this, I find it funny the Hornet had the longest shake down cruise from San Diego to Brisbane and now heading back for for seen circumstances (I just failed to remember friendly mines DO hit friendly ships)

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