Major Steam Leak Department: Engr Author: MM2 Dupler Era: 1996 Date: 11/21/05 We had to replace the gaskets on the hotel steam crossconnects by the ships store one night while out to sea. When we were finished I went down to central to tell the EOOW that RX could realign hotel steam, but tell them not to be a "truck driver"to the valve. He looked at me and asked what truck driver meant. It means spinning it like a steering wheel on a truck, sir, please have them open it slowly. Next thing you know, bang, bang, bang, all over the ship. The waterhammer was so bad I know it woke most people up. I go to central to be a prick. The phone rings when I get down there and some screaming guy is on the phone yelling about a steam pipe that has blown apart. I go running out of central to the forward AIMD berthing. First I see a bunch of half naked Guys, then I see steam rolling out of their berthing. When we got into the space the port side wall almost looked like a bomb went off. The guy who slept in the rack next to the pipe had been woke up by the waterhammer cont..

Major Steam Leak cont Department: Engr Author: MM2 Dupler Era: 1996 Date: 11/21/05 The guy that had been sleeping in the rack next to the steam pipe had told me that he was woke up by the banging and went to use the head. Then the 90 degree elbow blew out and destroyed everything nearby. He was lucky. Everything down there was soaked and the HT's had to come and cut his rack out from the floor(he was the only one that slept in that corner of the berthing) and replace that and most of the pipes on that wall. We later found out that the 10 inch risers going to 3 and 4 catapults were below minimum thickness and needed to be replaced. Airlant just told us not to worry about it until the next RCOH. I was always concerned that those would blow someday and take out a few sailors with it.

This place is ridiculous!! Department: Rx Author: Frank Cundiff Era: 2005 Date: 11/21/05 I don't know how the ike was when most of y'all were on it, but it is getting pretty stupid around here. The "I like Ike" buttons were pretty gay, but even more retarded is the new rules they come up with. One such rule is the new XO's little memorandum. All personnel onboard this piece will have a complete sea-bag onboard at all times. Basically they made everyone E-5 and below get their seabag and have an inspection. If you failed the seabg inspection you have three days to fix it. If you fail that one you get all leave/liberty secured until its fixed, and your civilian clothing privileges are secured for sixty days. I don't know about most people, but I've been in for a little over four years and I don't have my leather gloves and watch cap. So I no that a lot of senior guys don't. Oh well, just a gripe. Laters.

Sea bag inspection Department: Rx Author: Mike Era: 1989 Date: 11/21/05 They pulled the sea bag inspection shit with us while I was on Ike in 1989. I don't remember why they did it -- some khaki bastard got a bug up his ass. The thing was, they told us when the inspections were going to be. Guys that didn't have a full sea bag would borrow stuff from the other guys. There were a lot of short timers who absolutely refused to buy one more piece of Navy clothing.

XO's on the IKE Department: Engr Author: MM2 Dupler Era: 1996 Date: 11/22/05 The Ike seems to get the XO's with the bugs up their asses. When I was on the Ike the XO said that everone who got a traffic ticket out in town will go to mast. I mean come on, so you would get a $75 dollar fine from the city for speeding and then have the possiblity of NJP, come on. The wonder why people will not reenlist. They pulled the seabag thing on us once. We had a really cool Division officer at that time and he just called every down to the office one by one and asked if we had everything. Sure I do sir.....ok petty officer Dupler. He was great he did the same thing with the PRT. He would point at each of us and say, you ran it in 10 minutes 36 seconds. Then move to the next guy, you ran it is 9 mins, 45 secs. Why couldn't all Kahki be like that?

While we're on an XO theme... Department: Rx Author: Peter Era: 1981 Date: 11/22/05 Our XO took a set of dumbells from the weightroom to keep in his cabin. There was some sort of weekly meeting, chaired by the XO where advocates could air the grievances of the crew. Someone brought up that the crew was pissed that he had stolen the dumbells. His reply was pretty much, "tough, I'm the XO." The minutes to this meeting were posted in that little weekly newsletter IKE had.

Seedy side of Naples Department: AIMD Author: JAKE Era: 1981 Date: 11/23/05 I'll never forget The first time I was in Naples. It was during the 82 Med Cruise, we were assigned to AIMD and we usually hung out together when we had liberty, it didn't matter if we were ships company or from the airwing. Anyway on our first night in Naples a few guys in our group were looking for a little companionship from the many women who frequent the fleet landing area. It didn't take long to find one and off we went. We ended up going into this alley and up a fire escape into this apt, There was 8 of us alltogther,after a few guys did their thing I happened to hear something in a rear room of this place and went to check it out, In the back room of this Apt was a midget and he was washing out condoms I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The next thing I remember was this hooker asking me if I wanted to "give it a go" the only thing I wanted to do was get the hell out of that place!It was something out of the Twilight Zone and I'll never forget it . I cant help but wonder if anyone else had been in this place before

Official IKE website Department: Rx Author: Peter Era: 2005 Date: 11/23/05 Has anyone been to the official IKE website, http://www02.clf.navy.mil/eisenhower/ ? Try clicking on any of the links on that page... They all return a 404 "Page not Found" IkeBites.com may be a wee bit negative - but at least all of our links work.

MED "Cruise" Department: AIMD Author: Jake Era: 1983 Date: 11/24/05 I was wondering how many guys remember the 83 Med cruise when we were on staion off Beirut for over 100 days and we all thought we were going to be issued a couple cans of beer after the 100th day. Low and behold we were told to standby for a message from the Admiral and I couldn't help but think "this is it".Then Rear Adm Jerry O'Tuttle gets on the 1mc and starts to give us shit because he heard us calling it a Med CRUISE, A cruise men is something you take on the love boat, this is a deployment.What an asshole, Iwas wondering if anyone else out there in that time frame remembers that.

Holidays on IKE Department: Engr Author: MM2 Dupler Era: 1999 Date: 11/25/05 I always enjoyed eating thanksgiving dinner on the IKE, however it was the christmas I was stuck onboard that was the worst. One year there were about 4 of us that were living on the ship and did not take the Christmas leave. We were back in berthing watching tv or playing playstation or something until 4, that is when the galley opened. At 4 we got up and headed toward the galley. We got there just in time to see the steel curtain shut. We were told that since it was a holiday they were serving during special "holiday" hours (3-4). We went back to berthing and decided to change into civilian clothes and try our luck out in town. We piled into my car and drove all over Norfolk, VA beach, and some of Chesapeake. Nothing was open, nothing. We finally found a gas station that was open and had fried chicken and potato wedges. So we bought a bunch of chicken and potato wedges and sat in the car next to the gas pumps and ate our christmas dinner.