Uniforms Department: Rx Author: Mike Era: 1990 Date: 09/01/05 I never thought of it that way, but we were doing the jobs usually assigned to E-3s. That makes sense regarding military bearing. Our Rx officer CDR. Ferguson thought it would be a good idea if all of the mechanics had coveralls that we could wear on watch, for maintenence, etc. The big day arrives, we all get our coveralls, and what is the first thing any nuc would do? We all cut the sleeves off. About a week later the RO is walking through our plant and he sees us all in our coveralls and then notices that we have cut the sleeves off. Holy shit, he went ballistic! "I don't want to see anymore cutoff sleeves! You guys aren't in Vietnam!" I believe was his exact quote. That was the end of the great coverall experiment.

Question for nuc electricians Department: Engr Author: BT2 Dupler Era: 2000 Date: 09/01/05 Sorry, this is not a memory, but I know of no other place to ask this question? Could an Aircraft carrier supply electricity to land? There was a rumor back when California was had rolling blackouts that the Nimitz would be put in dry dock and the reactor would be used to supply power to the San Diego area. Now I think this was a really stupid rumor because if it was in drydock how would you cool the main condenser? Anyway, With all the ships headed toward New Orleans, could the Truman, who is leaving port as I type, supply electricity to land if it was peirside? Anyone know if it has been done before? Also my hats off to the Truman, imagine the working parties, and other hardships they will endure to do what they are doing.

DICKWA Department: Air Author: Bitchwa Era: 1998 Date: 09/01/05 There were three of us who loved playing jokes on each other and others. Dickwa as I called him when he pissed me off hense I became Bitchwa. Any how he and I could not work together at all. One day he really pissed me off and he called me bitchwa but he didn't mean it nice and in a funny way. Well, we're in the Persian Gulf and I waited till he got up he worked night check. The guys let me in to make his rack in beautiful pink sheets. These weren't cheap sheets either. I printed out a computer note reading "Whose the BITCH NOW" God the guys gave him a hard time for those sheets! They were so nice(about 300 thread count) dickwa kept them! Then I got him better. This joke is still playing out to this day I mail him a picture of this girl who gave him the creeps. Her pic was up on the wall and I snuck it down and made a copy of it,then I cut out a pic of him he hade taped to seniors coffee cup of him smiling. I put the two pix together. the single pixs were placed in duty..to be cont.

DRIVING HIM NUTS CONT. Department: Air Author: Bitchwa Era: 1998 Date: 09/01/05 A pix in duty section book, on the back of his coofee cup. In his desk. I had written I want to have your baby. I can't wait till you see me naked. oh please make me write bad checks. I waited till he fell asleep and had timmy tape it to the top of his rack so when he woke up the first thing he saw was her face and sayin ohhh I love you. I taped the picture to the back of his jappenno pepper jar. I drove him nuts! And to this day I will mail him one of those pixs(yes I saved them)no return address. He knows its me. When ever this girl came around it made the hair on his neck stand up and just made him sick to look at her. She wasn't ugly she just creeped him out! SO I ASK YOU WHOSE THE BITCH NOW!

For Bull - Nuc Elec ? Department: Rx Author: Marky Mark Era: 1984 Date: 09/02/05 Bull: Theoretically - yes, any ship could feedback power to the commercial power grid. In the case of the Nimitz-class power distribution system, its primary voltage is 4160 volts. Onboard it is transformed down to 450 volts for use by standard Navy equipment. The issue would be at the interfacing between the ship's high-voltage shore power connection and the commercial grid. Since commercial mains operate at 13.8kV and greater you would need, at the very least, a step-up transformer to increase the voltage to meet the commercial mains' value. I think there is also a "reverse-power" relay associated with the on-board shore-power breaker that would have to be disabled for this to work... Also, not many communities would warm up to the thought of having a operational nuclear reactor so close to them, even if it meant having the conveniences of light and A/C at home.

Wheel of Fortune Department: Engr Author: BT2 Dupler Era: 2005 Date: 09/11/05 I happened to see an episode of the Wheel of Fortune the other day and one of the players was in the Navy. He said that he had just got back from a cruise, but I did not pay attention to what ship he was on. This poor bastard won a vacation prize....guess what it was..... A cruise around the med....I almost died laughing. Everyone was cheering but he looked like he was going to cry.

Hot Apple Pie Department: Air Author: ABH1 Era: 1998 Date: 09/12/05 One of the good merories if the IKE, in berthing about 1 am we had just finished up night ops. We were headed for the Persian Gulf and there were a few of us just dragging in, sitting at the little table bolted to the floor, when this girl came in from getting off work in the Chiefs Mess. She had a hot apple pie fresh from the oven! We had no forks, no spoons, I got paper towels and I swear I don't think I've ever tasted a better pie in my life. I told these young female recruits we might not remember much but we will always remember sitting here eating this pie! We hadn't had hot food little lone good food in awhile! The Chief's Mess heard about a cook I had worked with at NAVCHAPGRU and snagged him up. He could make the worst food taste wonderful! I remember standing in line for two hours just to get his dressig at Thanksgiving! It was worth it! Then they came up with the IKE Room where you could get spaggetti or a salad or make your own sandwich. The IKE Room saved me!

NEW STORIES Department: Air Author: ABH1 Era: 2005 Date: 09/12/05 We need to get the word out about this site! My sister just told me they sent the IKE to help with the tsunami last year. Why does that ship never get any credit? I would love to know how it's doing after coming out of the yard? They were going to make alot of "supposed changes!" I sumbmitted alot of them. Did fly one blue shirt locker get ac? And did they figure out you can't put Air women with Engineering women. The Engineering women would go why is everyone up on the Air side..da..we're still flying ! Can't we email the the First Class Association and let them know about this site?

First Class Assoc? Department: AIMD Author: peter Era: 1984 Date: 09/12/05 When I first started IKBites.com, I sent a couple of letters to Work Center Supervisors in Rx Dept. I got a couple of replies back... They were nervous at how I had addressed my letters to them(anthrax etc.) so they made non-qual nubs open up the letters. I don't know the heirarchy of other depts on IKE so I didn't send out letters to any other dept. First Class Association? - when did that start? and what's it's purpose??? - sort of like a chief's mess?

The Ike Room Department: Rx Author: Mike Era: 1991 Date: 09/12/05 Right before I left Ike, they had opened that room on the mess deck by the salad bar and had chili, sandwiches, and a salad bar in there almost 24 hours a day. I think the nucs ate most of their meals in there as our watches didn't really coincide with meal hours. As I recall, the chili was usually pretty damn good and the sandwich stuff was pretty decent. Did they do away with that for awhile? Does anyone know? One night we were all sitting in Rx berthing and the 2 plant RM supply slacker came in with a whole ham that he had swiped from somewhere. Someone ran up to the messdecks and got a whole bunch of bread and we sat in Rx berthing and had the best ham sandwiches I think I have ever eaten.