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re: Eternal Patrol - USS Scorpion lost May 22, 1968
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:04 am to LSUAlum2001
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:04 am to LSUAlum2001
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Terd was a nuke like myself.
GTFO... I was an A-ganger... conventional MM. I wasn't some faggy nuke.
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the galley's served meals 4x per day.
Same w/ subs... breakfast, lunch, dinner, and MIDRATS!!
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Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:06 am to terd ferguson
..and you understand the term cuss like a sailor.
One of our guys was nicknamed "fricking", as in Paul fricking Mayer. Every other word out of his mouth was fricking, I shite you not. It was comical to hear him talk.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:08 am to LSUAlum2001
At one point I was called "Captain Tolerance". I think it had something to do with my views on other cultures.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:08 am to terd ferguson
Oh, you were an idiot, then. A gorilla with a wrench without nuke status. 
You know how much kitchen duty I had after boot camp as a Nuke?
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You know how much kitchen duty I had after boot camp as a Nuke?
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Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:10 am to LSUAlum2001
You know how much respect you had as a nuke?
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I like to think that the 99 guys on the Scorpion were having conversations like this right before they met their fate.
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I like to think that the 99 guys on the Scorpion were having conversations like this right before they met their fate.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:10 am to terd ferguson
True Story:
My first day on the boat. We are in Kings Bay. Getting ready to escort a boomer out to sea. Word is that a Russian sub is off the coast looking to track the boomer. We are there to chase it off.
Well, I get below decks. Report to the radio room. No more than 30 seconds after reporting to chief, ET3 Deserres grabs me and a couple of other radiomen/Nav ETs.
He brings us down to AMR, shuts the door and yells loudly, "Ding Ding" as if ringing a boxing bell. We all commence in a massive wrestling match with the A-gangers.
I swear A-gangers were coming out the bilge, from under the Diesel, all over the damned place. Insanely fun!!!
Day 1 and I knew I would love my job...
My first day on the boat. We are in Kings Bay. Getting ready to escort a boomer out to sea. Word is that a Russian sub is off the coast looking to track the boomer. We are there to chase it off.
Well, I get below decks. Report to the radio room. No more than 30 seconds after reporting to chief, ET3 Deserres grabs me and a couple of other radiomen/Nav ETs.
He brings us down to AMR, shuts the door and yells loudly, "Ding Ding" as if ringing a boxing bell. We all commence in a massive wrestling match with the A-gangers.
I swear A-gangers were coming out the bilge, from under the Diesel, all over the damned place. Insanely fun!!!
Day 1 and I knew I would love my job...
This post was edited on 5/22/15 at 9:11 am
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:12 am to terd ferguson
Do you think I gave a shite about your respect while you were washing dishes?
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:13 am to Tigeralum2008
If there was one thing MMs like doing, Nuke/Non-Nuke alike, was wrestling a bunch of other sweaty dudes.
This post was edited on 5/22/15 at 9:16 am
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:18 am to Tigeralum2008
Must have been the same in every AMR in the fleet. Other rates would send their NUBs to AMR and make them ring the bell. It never ended well for them.
The Philly was a SEAL delivery boat. Every now and then we'd do ops with SEALs and one time someone told them about the bell ringing thing. They were told they had to ring the bell, run to the back of AMR, and make it out before the A-gangers got them.
The first guy comes in, rings the bell, and we all come around the corner not realizing it's one of the SEALs. We tackled him and started beating his arse... he probably could have killed us if he wasn't laughing so hard.
About 5 minutes later the bell rings again. There are about 5 or 6 of us hanging out on the other side of the diesel and you're thinking "great the goddamn SEALs found something to amuse them". We come running around the diesel again and this time it's another SEAL but he's butt naked except for his boots. We gave him a pass.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:19 am to LSUAlum2001
What I see when a nuke tries to act salty
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:19 am to LSUAlum2001
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LSUAlum2001
I was also a nuke and surface guy, USS Abraham Lincoln
nice being a nuke on a carrier, no cranking
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:19 am to LSUAlum2001
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If there was one thing MMs like doing, Nuke/Non-Nuke alike, was wrestling a bunch of other sweaty dudes.
frickin' right.
We also enjoyed hitting each other with crescent wrenches until someone gave up.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:21 am to Tigeralum2008
Terd, that's freaking awesome bro
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:22 am to terd ferguson
On this Memorial Day Weekend, let us all remember our Honored Fallen, like the brave crew of the USS Scorpion.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:29 am to Champagne
I'm remembering my older brother and 7 other Marines who were lost at sea on Oct 8th, 1990 when 2 helos crashed in the North Arabian Sea.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:39 am to Champagne
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On this Memorial Day Weekend, let us all remember our Honored Fallen, like the brave crew of the USS Scorpion.
I guess it's because we're such a small community within the larger picture of the military... but the submarine brotherhood takes a lot of pride in honoring the fallen. Since the first sub back in 1900 there have been over 4,000 submariners lost... around 3,500 in WWII. It seemed like we were always doing some kind of ceremony or event to honor those who came before us.
4,000 might not seem like a huge number in the grand scheme of things... but you have to consider that it wasn't 1 guy here, 1 guy there. When a sub went down it was probably 50+ guys that never came back all at once. Those guys in WWII had a 1 in 5 chance of never coming back... but they did it anyway.
This post was edited on 5/22/15 at 9:40 am
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:42 am to LSUAlum2001
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I'm remembering my older brother and 7 other Marines who were lost at sea on Oct 8th, 1990 when 2 helos crashed in the North Arabian Sea.
Dang, man... I didn't know you lost your brother.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:43 am to LSUAlum2001
Sucks. I think about him often. It was hard being a little kid and having your brother go over there months after this. I still remember that funeral like it was yesterday
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:44 am to terd ferguson
Seems like yesterday when we talked last about 6 months before he was killed.
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:49 am to LSUAlum2001
I found an article about it. They were the first casualties of Desert Shield?
I'm not good at figuring out nice things to say to people in situations like this... but I do appreciate your brother's sacrifice.
I'm not good at figuring out nice things to say to people in situations like this... but I do appreciate your brother's sacrifice.
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