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re: Eternal Patrol - USS Scorpion lost May 22, 1968
Posted on 5/22/15 at 9:10 am to terd ferguson
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
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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.
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