New Photos on Images Page Department: Rx Author: peter Era: 1975 Date: 06/17/05 New photos in the images section of present day IKE. Thanks to Henry Sherril I now return you to your regularly scheduled "shoot the shit"

Those new pictures Department: Rx Author: Flounder Era: 2005 Date: 06/19/05 I just can't get over how good those new pictures of the ship look, when compared to my faded old ones. Ain't technology wonderful? The crew...well, a certain portion of it anyway...is looking MUCH better than they did in my days aboard Ikeatraz. Especially that girl with the purple sombrero and big hoop earrings...mmmmm, boo-tay-licious, I'm sure... :)

Pete Ryan Update Department: Rx Author: Charlie Era: 2005 Date: 06/21/05 Hey Flounder, your old mentor/tormenter is alive and well in Oswego, NY. He is a Shift Supervisor at the Fitzpatrick Nuclear Plant and is still crazy after all these years. I'll try to get him on this site.

Swimming Pools Department: Rx Author: Charlie Era: 1983 Date: 06/21/05 Looking at those new Ike Pictures made me think it would have been nice to have had some of those kiddie pools for our steel beach. That nonskid got pretty hot. We did have that one shark-interrupted swim call in the Med, but I, along with a couple hundred others, had a serious case of food poisoning that day and didn't get to swim with the sharks. Medical diagnosed us all with a virus. Of course, there was also a field day that next day, and I kept tracking over some poor bastard's freshly mopped floor (swabbed deck to those of you still in) some 18 times to get to the head.

!980 Boiler explosion Department: Rx Author: Charlie Era: 1980 Date: 06/21/05 There was a casualty in the 1980 Aux Boiler explosion. While I was in RT, there was a salty old (probably 30 at the time) EM/ELT named Rod Lee there who was so bored he made a huge pyramid of Coke cans during his stay in RT. When the boiler blew up, the pyramid came crashing down on him! He wasn't hurt, but I wish someone could have gotten a picture of him when that happened.

Pete was... Department: Rx Author: Flounder Era: 1981 Date: 06/22/05 Hi Charlie - Hey, I think Pete R. is a great guy! Smart, hard-working, funny, a Noodle in every way... Just can't forgive him for dirty-dicking my cup one day in the lounge...Then I had to throw it in the trash :)

Proper use of a gov. phone Department: Engr Author: BT2 Sol The Bull Dupler Era: 1996 Date: 06/27/05 We had this filopeno (spell?) guy that would freak out if anything went wrong. One of my prank favorite calls was one I made to him when he was standing watch as cheif aux operator. We had a lp air line in our shop and if you throttled it just right you could stick you finger in it let the pressure build then pop your finger out and make this giant pop followed by the noise of the air gushing. I called him and stated that I was seamen Slagle from ops, I was cleaning a store room on the 3rd deck and found a steam line leaking. I told him the pipe was really rusty and water was dripping from it. He asked what kind of pipe it was. I told him it said reactor steam exhaust. Wait I said I just picked some steam off and now the drip is gone, it is steam comming out now. He yelled DO NOT PICK THE RUST! I told him there is a big peice of rust I have to pick off. At that moment I popped my finger out of the airline and started to scream oh it burns make it stop. I ran to central control cont..

Improper use of a Gov. Phone Continued Department: Engr Author: BT2 Sol The Bull Era: 1996 Date: 06/27/05 By the time I got to Central Control he was in a panic, we were inport so he was the only one in there. I calmed him down but did not tell him I did it. It was a good thing he did not call medical or anyone else, but I knew he would not. He would always panic too much to think. After they combined all the Eng. import watches in central control to one watch I would wait until someone I did not like was on watch. I would then call one of the 9 phones down there let it ring until he picked up the hang it up. Then do the same to the next phone. Working from the CAO's phone to the Load toad's to the w.c. watch to the EOOW to the DCA's to the phone in secondary con, to the CEW and on and on. I also called one of the weightlifter guys on the ship and told him I was from medical and that we had been reviewing his record and found that his dick was too small for Naval Standards and we would have to add on to it. 2 minutes later he was yelling at some corpsman about looking at his dick.

Sugar Mountain Shower Department: AIMD Author: Jim Era: 1981 Date: 07/10/05 Remember the shower? Walk down the public highway, down the hill on the far side of the road, through the culvert under the road, into the downcomer that drained the pond. I just can't remember who had their clothes pilfered and had to walk back down the highway sporting only their shoes. Charlie and Cal? Oh,and when Cal tumbled down the steps coming out of the general store (because he had just made eye contact with a pretty young lass entering the store) -- priceless.

Been gone too long Department: Rx Author: Kevin Newman Era: 1985 Date: 07/12/05 I've been away from the board for too long. No excuses, just comin back. Glad to see Richie Ralston is here. I remember when you got out Richie. I know you went UA for a while, but I also heard that you blew a joint on the quarterdeck when you came back on board. Is that on the level? I do remember sitting out in the parking lot at the head of the pier blowing a couple joints in that POS Camaro you had. I think it was duty day or something. Years later I was in Ft. Lauderdale (on TR) with Ralph Causey (M-Div on Ike and TR)during of all times, Spring Break. He and I both worked for Skip Meyers (he was an MMC on the Ike, but a CWO4 and later a LtJG on the TR). Ralph was convinced that you were living somewhere nearby. Heir to a dogfood fortune or something. Elmo, That restaurant behind the Brewmaster pub in Sorrento, wasn't it Parucciano's or something like that? That place had some of the best grub. Mama Lina's in Naples did in a pinch too.