tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post4406471254522102504..comments2023-06-17T06:59:05.555-05:00Comments on Target: Babies in Open.<br> Fire For Effect.: Ship's BoatsComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-59456471087535834772010-07-09T20:55:23.164-05:002010-07-09T20:55:23.164-05:00Imagine being all loaded aboard your CG flagship, ...Imagine being all loaded aboard your CG flagship, as a TACDESRON on the morning of deployment, only to find out the evening before, when ship's company hoisted th4 40 footer, the limit switch on the davit didn't limit and the Davit arm looked sorta like the one in your pic, then TYCOM decides the CG has to stay for repairs.....<br /><br />The Commodore, seeing the CV pulling away and turning north into the channel up at eh carrier piers bellows something like "FIND US ANOTHER SHIP!"<br /><br />Thus began the weird deployment to the IO, after shifting the flag to the AO. That turned out to be very good, because we were always in the center of the main body, and never put in EMCON A when the the CG got sent out to be "Silent Sam" on the imagined or real threat vector.<br /><br />Oh, the CG caught up a few days later, but then someone had allowed the oil for the shaft bearing in the shaft alley drain completely...and I learned the term was not "sabotage," but "Willful destruction" (that's when your own do it to you).<br /><br />Bonus: We got to bomb Libya in 86!<br /><br />Chronicled from my life between the catapults in <a href="http://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.com/2006/01/12/a-journey-into-history-part-i/" rel="nofollow">"A Journey into History" series</a>. We got "impressed to serve aboard the CV by CINCPACFLT, hence the tongue in cheek reference.chaoticsynapticactivityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030483517020312776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-66008842109397909482010-06-25T01:50:46.074-05:002010-06-25T01:50:46.074-05:00As a QM, for me boats always meant Navy No. 5 boat...As a QM, for me boats always meant Navy No. 5 boat compasses that had to be swung at once a year. On an FFG, one MWB-not too bad. On an LST, 3 LCVP, one LCPL- a little bigger pain. On an LKA though, four LCM-8, six LCM-6, two LCPL and one MWB. That was headache.kaigunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08237555298114011167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-28375260700870819032010-05-02T16:18:54.593-05:002010-05-02T16:18:54.593-05:00Getting that fucking v-drive out and replaced was ...Getting that fucking v-drive out and replaced was a real pain in the ass, because if it wasn't aligned properly, all sorts of bad things would soon happen. And of course, the A-Gangers had to do the work in the boat when it was on the davit's cradle, which was not fun on a hot or cold day.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-40805811069147967202010-05-02T15:58:31.049-05:002010-05-02T15:58:31.049-05:00Never know the gigs were such maintenance hogs.Never know the gigs were such maintenance hogs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com