Veterans Check In!

[playcat]

It was even better down in Main Control twisting the pots and bringing those 36,000 HP to life. Although 30 knots isn't real fast for a pontoon boat, it's hauling a$$ on a 378' ship.

Sorry to hijack my own thread, folks, but there's a certain brotherhood for those who ever sailed on a Great White Needle of Death.

That's why I almost always took pilothouse control...loved moving those levers myself! One time we were close alongside a chinese fishing boat with a couple hundred illegal immigrants aboard when a hose fitting blew in one side of the steering gear. All the hydraulic pressure was on one side of the rams and the rudders went to the stops towards the fishing boat! Without PH control, we would have run them over for sure. I had the deck and conn at the time and I was sure my shorts needed changing after that!!!

[Capt Sully]

USAF 1963 / 1968+extra 6 mos extention
Crew Chief RF-101 I was able to fly in the back set on a test flight, Wow
Vietnam 66 / 67

Proud to have been there and did it all.

[TXfloater]

US Infantry 97-04
3rd Infantry
Kuwait
Bosnia
Iraq

[screwball]

USAF 1966--1970
Cu Lao Re Vietnam Microwave transmission (1st tour)

Couple months of Hell at Shaw AFB South Carolina until I could go back

Hue Vietnam Electronic Warfare (2nd tour) extended 6 months


4 1/2 years, E-5

[omar174]

Army National Guard (Maryland)
1992-1999
11-B Infantry

Got out an E4. Served between wars.