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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/21/2012 7:14:32 PM

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Per Bullwinkle's post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13JK5kChbRw

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/21/2012 7:21:12 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Mac Linehan

ny59giants -

You gotta be kidding. Two members of this forum who were shipmates - I served on USS Bowen 1980 - 1981 as a GMG2, serving the 5/54 cal Mk 42 Mod 9 mount forward (ok - it's the only mount and kind of big... <grin>). Eddy (SuluSea) served on the USS Capadano FF-1093 the 1980's; I served on Capandano in 1977 - 1978, right out of gunnery school in Great Lakes. I am going to have to check my notes and make sure I have the dates right.

I loved gunnery exercises, and loved being insided the mount - watching the two ammunition cradles cycle the semi fixed ammunition (on an alternating basis) to the transfer trays, which in turn rotated and opened to allow ramming powder and projectile into the breach. Massive pieces of machinery, working in awesome harmony until "cease fire" Then it was "bore clear, no casualties, five rounds expended".

My first ship was the USS Midway, CVA 41, Dec 1971. Midway was armed with the 5/54 MK 39, the manually loaded big brother to the 5/38. As a newb Seaman Apprentice, I was "hot caseman" - supposedly there to catch the ejected powder cartridge and drop it thru the bottom eject doors (or so I was told by my jokester shipmates). I was totally unprepared for the sheer force and violence with which the powder cartridge hit the rear of the armored splinter shield, leaving a dent in the very hard rubber backing. Mom did not raise a fool, after that my main purpose in life was to dance around to avoid having my 120 pound body smeared accross the back of the mount by the demonized powder can, while the mount was erratically following the amplidyne signal.

Ok - I digress and am (of course) carried away.

Take care, Shipmates. Till Later...

Mac

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P.S. - no spell check on my wife's computer, or at least where I can see it, so please forgive any and all mistakes...

I'm thinking you'd really have been carried away if you'd been hit by one of those cartridges.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 8:29:33 AM

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Lived right under the cats for five years aboard USS Ranger CV 61. My wife is amazed I can sleep through anything now :P

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 3:30:48 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

...

Blackbeard: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a
cup o' coffee.

Random: A cup o' COLD coffee.

Blackbeard: Without milk or sugar.

Random: OR coffee!

Blackbeard: In a filthy, cracked mug.

Random: We never used to have a mug. We used to have to drink out of a
rolled up newspaper.

Blackbeard: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp
cloth.

...

When I was a company commander, my mess sergeant made the worst coffee known to man. Two sips and I either had the runs, or the dry heaves. One day, though, after we had been on a field excecise for three or four weeks, he came up and proudly handed me a canteen cup of the best coffee I had ever had. My first sergeant even liked it (and he was a REAL critic of coffee). We asked him how he made it and he said he used different filters. We walked back over to the mess truck and pulled the top of the coffee urn off. To our my astonisment and Top's disgust, we saw that he had used old army boot socks for filters.

I shrugged and drank the coffee.

Top took the next fifteeen minutes to look for toenails at the bottom of his cup. I don't remember if he found any.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 7:29:37 PM

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Spent a lot of time tied up to the pier across from the Abe when she was in Norfolk many years ago. She was on Pier 12S and we were on 12N.

When you walked between the two during the winter months it was like walking into a hurricane due to the wind tunnel effect.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 7:38:23 PM

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Oh,

Lets see if I remember the berthing number...3-225-0-L I think it was. You guys are posting about being on the O-3 level so I was 50 feet under you and I could hear the arresting gear when they were doing flight ops so I imagine it was quite noisy up there.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 7:43:59 PM

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Clarification for those that don't know...decks on an aircraft carrier are numbered as such. 3 was the deck number, 255 was the number of frames from bow to stern so 255 was near the back of the ship. 0 was how far from midships and L was for left or R for right side of the ship...why not port and starboard...not sure.

O-8 (Maybe a few higher...nosebled sections of the tower area and vultures row and bridge etc up in this area)
O-7
O-6
O-5
Flight deck (think this was O-4 but I rarely came up this far)
O-3
O-2
O-1
1
2
3
4 (Engine rooms, reactors and such below this level which is where I spent my time)
5
6
7

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 8:57:17 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Oh,

Lets see if I remember the berthing number...3-225-0-L I think it was. You guys are posting about being on the O-3 level so I was 50 feet under you and I could hear the arresting gear when they were doing flight ops so I imagine it was quite noisy up there.

LOL...my berthing was on the O-2 level at frame 29. About 18 feet below Cat 1.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/22/2012 9:03:01 PM

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Don't you mean "NO

"

We had a space up near starboard bow cat room. You had to go through it to get to that space. Why...not sure. But that was one LOUD room when those cats were in use.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/23/2012 4:24:33 AM

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So many of you have actual military experience or are in the military now. The extent of my experience was growing up in Rantoul, IL home of Chanute AFB. I went to school with all the AF brats (I'm talking '65 forward) and they were quite a diverse bunch, we had everything, Amerindians, Orientals etc. etc.. It took me a long time to learn what racism was, there was none of it among them (though I did run into it with some of the aborigines there

see farmers). I should mention that I had a black uncle living in NYC who married my aunt when that was illegal in many states. Their daughter was almost exactly my age and I remember I thought she was quite a beauty (she is). My den mother's husband was like a Chief Master Sergeant, and he was black and quite jovial (at least when I saw him). The first time I met him I remember him coming home when we were having a meeting there and it kinda felt like Santa Claus coming in the door, I just stared at all those stripes (I think my mouth was agape). I didn't know exactly what they all meant but I knew they were a big deal. Sonic booms, contrails in abundance etc. were de rigueur there. I think I saw some rather strange aircraft above me at times. I'd like to say my uncle was also a friend of Lena Horne. He was a banker (he's retired) but he was also a deep baritone and was trained in Classical works and gave concerts frequently. I'll stop now, blah blah blah.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/23/2012 9:18:16 PM

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T !!!

A Joke!

I, Sir, am very honored...

Mac

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/26/2012 2:33:32 AM

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Be safe shipmate.

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/26/2012 10:29:47 AM

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Being in the Marines I was on the Tarawa and some troop transports but that was about it.

Did plenty of bar crawling all over Asia though!

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RE: Hi From Abe - 3/26/2012 12:31:49 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Clarification for those that don't know...decks on an aircraft carrier are numbered as such. 3 was the deck number, 255 was the number of frames from bow to stern so 255 was near the back of the ship. 0 was how far from midships and L was for left or R for right side of the ship...why not port and starboard...not sure.

O-8 (Maybe a few higher...nosebled sections of the tower area and vultures row and bridge etc up in this area)
O-7
O-6
O-5
Flight deck (think this was O-4 but I rarely came up this far)
O-3
O-2
O-1
1
2
3
4 (Engine rooms, reactors and such below this level which is where I spent my time)
5
6
7

You got that pretty close from memory except for the letter at the end. That told you what the compartment was used for, L meaning living space.

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