This picture was taken on our first BEER Day.
The bosun piped "Splice the Main brace" and everyone filed up to the flight deck to get our grog.
I get disgusted at how clueless our government was to send us on that damn IO cruise...
We sere sent as a sabre rattling exercise to intimidate the Iranians who were holding American diplomats hostage in Tehran. As usual, no one in the administration had a clue as to what the mind set is of non-Americans. We could have sent our entire fleet off the shore of Iran - and they wouldn't have given a damn.. - These guys were motivated by nationalism and religion... The 270 days IKE wasted in the Indian Ocean had absolutely ZERO impact! - All it did was deprive IKE's crew of some fun liberty ports.
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This was an awards ceremony conducted down in RX Berthing. The awards were
- "Crying Towel" - PO Jordan (I think)
- "??"Unknown award - Sal the Pal Leonardi
- "Worthless Tit" - "Big Dick" Hern
- "Bent Flex" - PO Parker
The only awards I'm familliar with are the "Crying Towel" - given to a complainer and the "Bent Flex" given to someone who has destroyed something in the course of doing maintenance.
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Not sure if this was shot in Rx. berthing or down in the plant???
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Jimmy Page - during one of our Flight Deck Picnics
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As you can see from the juxtaposition of Jimmy's hands and the frisbee... He isn't that good a frisbee player.
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I have a couple pictures of me leaning up against an aircraft as if it was my frickin plane... - I'm sure the next day the pilot of this particular plane was disgusted to see my sweaty arm print on the nose of his plane.
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More flight deck shots
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Tim Hallman...
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His mouth really wasn't that deformed... I think he just had half a bag of "chew" in his mouth.
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One of the many bansd we were subjected to... God they were awful! - If we really wanted to piss the Iranians off, we should have broadcasted this music at them.
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Football game - Flight deck was long enough to accomodate 3 football games
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Another sweaty arm print on some poor bastard's plane.
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Terry Priestas and BoBo. - Note Bobo is about to present his nipple to me... perhaps Bobo misinterpreted when I said "Cheese" as a request to nurse?
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Tim Hallman
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Will Paul
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Will Paul
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Ed, Pete, and T-Bear in the "Fly Locker" (The first class mess).. First classes were called "Flies" because all they did was eat shit and bother people - hence the first class mess was entitled the "Fly Locker"
It looks like Pete is getting up to kick my ass...
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Charlie - One of IKE's finest either spitting or vomitting into a shit can.
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More pics from beer day
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Beer day again - I think I took about 20 pictures the entire IO cruise and probably 19 of them were taken that day.
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Beer day - One plant Mechanics... Have you ever noticed that there is a pavlovian response in most sailors to "flip the bird" whenever a camera is pointed at them?
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Ahhhh... that's good. All 4 of them flipping me off!
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