Things S**t-Canned Over the Side <Was Of government supply depots, or...>
Brad Meyer
In message <6gm7sd$co...@theusc.csd.sc.edu> - gru...@engr.sc.edu (Jonney T. Gru
nnet) writes:
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>In article <6gjn8r$fe5$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dhuf...@awod.com says...
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>>The boat ordered half-a-dozen twelve inch chain wrenches expecting things
>>with 12 inch handles. Got wrenches for turning 12 inch fittings with 6 foot
>>long handles. They're probably still under Pier November in Charleston.
>>'Course the dredge tool looks pretty funny with three or four shipyard
>>bicycles wound up in it, who'd notice a little six foot long wrench.
>>
>
>This post in response to the thread about supply mix-ups got me to thinking
>about material ending up over the side . . .
I recall a westpac in '72-'73 on the Longbeach wherein several crew members
who were tired of the "Chili powder seasoned with beans and ground beef"
meals broke into stores one night at sea a ditched forty two pounds (!) of
chili powder over the side. Unfortunately, the cooks never lost a beat.
Brad Meyer
"It is history that teaches us to hope."
-- R E Lee
Greg Surratt
On 16 Apr 98 01:55:23 GMT, br...@ibm.net (Brad Meyer) wrote:
>I recall a westpac in '72-'73 on the Longbeach wherein several crew members
>who were tired of the "Chili powder seasoned with beans and ground beef"
>meals broke into stores one night at sea a ditched forty two pounds (!) of
>chili powder over the side. Unfortunately, the cooks never lost a beat.
>
Two days after an all day working party to load sodas in PI, somebody
found a slug in one of the cans. Doc convinced the CO to call an all
hands working party to "off-load" the entire soda inventory - over the
side.
Bug juice got real old real fast that cruise.
Greg
Brad Meyer
In message <#2sxkNOa9GA.234@uppubnews03> - "Dave Powell" <david_powell3006@msn.
com> writes:
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>Brad Meyer wrote in message <35356...@news1.ibm.net>...
>>In message <6gm7sd$co...@theusc.csd.sc.edu> - gru...@engr.sc.edu (Jonney T.
>Gru
>>nnet) writes:
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>>>In article <6gjn8r$fe5$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dhuf...@awod.com says...
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>>I recall a westpac in '72-'73 on the Longbeach wherein several crew members
>>who were tired of the "Chili powder seasoned with beans and ground beef"
>>meals broke into stores one night at sea a ditched forty two pounds (!) of
>>chili powder over the side. Unfortunately, the cooks never lost a beat.
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The worst meal I ever had in the boats was a feast compared to the best meal
I ever had on the Longbeach, although it took a trip on the Torsk to get me
to realize the virtues of deisel fuel as a seasoning. ;)
ZeeIsMe
Brad Meyer wrote in message <35367...@news1.ibm.net>...
Oh yeah, like the onion soup we used to set on fire when the BT's would
strip tanks when we were distilling forward. Yummy!
Dave Powell
Brad Meyer wrote in message <35367...@news1.ibm.net>...
>In message <#2sxkNOa9GA.234@uppubnews03> - "Dave Powell"
<david_powell3006@msn.
>com> writes:
>>Brad Meyer wrote in message <35356...@news1.ibm.net>...
>>>In message <6gm7sd$co...@theusc.csd.sc.edu> - gru...@engr.sc.edu (Jonney
T.
>>>>In article <6gjn8r$fe5$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dhuf...@awod.com says...
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>>Snip
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>>>
>>>I recall a westpac in '72-'73 on the Longbeach wherein several crew
members
>>>who were tired of the "Chili powder seasoned with beans and ground beef"
>>>meals broke into stores one night at sea a ditched forty two pounds (!)
of
>>>chili powder over the side. Unfortunately, the cooks never lost a beat.
>>
>>
>>You're lucky you weren't on a submarine.
>>
>The worst meal I ever had in the boats was a feast compared to the best
meal
I meant, like, stuck in a sub, eatin' all that chili... with everyone else
who was eating it....
Dave
>I ever had on the Longbeach, although it took a trip on the Torsk to get me
>to realize the virtues of deisel fuel as a seasoning. ;)
Cool :+)
Dave Powell
Steve Atkatz wrote in message <3536a67f...@news.farm.idt.net>...
>On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:03:18 -0400, "Dave Powell"
><david_po...@msn.com> fumbled with the keyboard & wrote:
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>>I meant, like, stuck in a sub, eatin' all that chili... with everyone else
>>who was eating it....
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Just don't give away position....
>
>A to Z
>***************************************
>Age and Treachery will always prevail
>Over Youth and Vigor. DBF!!!
Steve Atkatz
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:03:18 -0400, "Dave Powell"
<david_po...@msn.com> fumbled with the keyboard & wrote:
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>I meant, like, stuck in a sub, eatin' all that chili... with everyone else
>who was eating it....
>
That's why Methane Detectors are installed in every compartment :>))
A to Z
JerryLee
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:55:41 GMT, g.l.s...@iname.com (Greg Surratt)
wrote:
:On 16 Apr 98 01:55:23 GMT, br...@ibm.net (Brad Meyer) wrote:
:
:>I recall a westpac in '72-'73 on the Longbeach wherein several crew members
:>who were tired of the "Chili powder seasoned with beans and ground beef"
:>meals broke into stores one night at sea a ditched forty two pounds (!) of
:>chili powder over the side. Unfortunately, the cooks never lost a beat.
:>
:Two days after an all day working party to load sodas in PI, somebody
:found a slug in one of the cans. Doc convinced the CO to call an all
:hands working party to "off-load" the entire soda inventory - over the
:side.
My God, what a business opportunity. We had a coke mess started back
in the land of the big gedunk with about three hundred bucks. This was
NOT within the purview of the ship's supply and other official Navy
channels.. By the time we'd reached mid cruise, we were calling out
the division (everybody had a share) to unload semi trailers of sodas
in the PI. Skipper got on our case when we hit a buck a can, made us
forego 'usurious profit's' I think he called them..and donate so much
to the chaplain's fund..Still made a nice piece of change.
On a ship with NO alternative but bug juice!!!
rgds j.
AGCS Ret
The Ice,-NHK,NUQ,BIKF,PMDY,-"O"boat,-Big"E"
JerryLee
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:48:55 GMT, ato...@idt.net (Steve Atkatz)
wrote:
:On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:03:18 -0400, "Dave Powell"
:<david_po...@msn.com> fumbled with the keyboard & wrote:
:
:>
:>I meant, like, stuck in a sub, eatin' all that chili... with everyone else
:>who was eating it....
:>
:
:That's why Methane Detectors are installed in every compartment :>))
Gives 'to snorkle' new meaning (g)
Jim Kelly
Greg Surratt wrote:
> On 16 Apr 98 01:55:23 GMT, br...@ibm.net (Brad Meyer) wrote:
>
> >I recall a westpac in '72-'73 on the Longbeach wherein several crew members
> >who were tired of the "Chili powder seasoned with beans and ground beef"
> >meals broke into stores one night at sea a ditched forty two pounds (!) of
> >chili powder over the side. Unfortunately, the cooks never lost a beat.
> >
> Two days after an all day working party to load sodas in PI, somebody
> found a slug in one of the cans. Doc convinced the CO to call an all
> hands working party to "off-load" the entire soda inventory - over the
> side.
>
> Bug juice got real old real fast that cruise.
>
> Greg
---------------------------------- * * And we all know why it is called BUG
JUICE ! <G>
dhuf...@awod.com
Surely you don't think that chili effluvium can compare, let alone compete,
with venting sanitary tanks inboard??!
For the curise ship sailors among us; on a sub the sanitary tanks are
disposed of overboard. This is done by pressurizing the tank to slightly
above sea pressure and opening bottom valves to sea. Because air is a
valuable commodity, effort is made to not lose any as bubbles as the tank
empties and the pressure is vented inboard. The air is scrubbed by the
various components of the ventilation system and reused and reused and...
I recall that real open-the-hatch fresh air's odor is sharp and metallic
compared to all of the big fuzzy "air" molecules that a submariner usually
breathes. Twenty-five years later the boat's odor still overwhelms the
mothballs in my seabag.
Grasping another opportunity to be wrong!
In article <uQfBlRZa9GA.208@uppubnews03>,
"Dave Powell" <david_po...@msn.com> wrote:
> I meant, like, stuck in a sub, eatin' all that chili... with everyone else
> who was eating it....
>
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Matt Clonfero
Steve Atkatz <ato...@idt.net> wrote:
>>I meant, like, stuck in a sub, eatin' all that chili... with everyone else
>>who was eating it....
>>
>
>That's why Methane Detectors are installed in every compartment :>))
But there's going off constantly in the goat locker from all the
bullshit that starts with `now this is no shit, ...'
Aetherem Vincere
Matt.
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Tim McFeely
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:18:19 -0600, dhuf...@awod.com wrote:
>Surely you don't think that chili effluvium can compare, let alone compete,
>with venting sanitary tanks inboard??!
>
>For the curise ship sailors among us; on a sub the sanitary tanks are
>disposed of overboard. This is done by pressurizing the tank to slightly
>above sea pressure and opening bottom valves to sea. Because air is a
>valuable commodity, effort is made to not lose any as bubbles as the tank
>empties and the pressure is vented inboard. The air is scrubbed by the
>various components of the ventilation system and reused and reused and...
An effort is made not to allow air to vent overboard, because it is
LOUD. The first filter in the system is a big assed charcoal filter
that the sanitary blow air is passed through. This filter manages to
make the venting air smell like someone is grilling shit on the
barbie.
On 688s the vent for San 1 is in the torpedo room making TMOW a bear
to stand. It was also was directly under the Goat Locker which
actually refreshed the air there...
The other way to vent the sans quickly was not to hang the signs...
Scope's under...
Tim McFeely
dhuf...@awod.com
No argument about air being loud.
About not hanging the signs - who needs signs when the a**h***s use BonAmi in
the shitter ball valves? Answer; one of my O-gangers that *twice* blew
shitters on (up?) himself!
For the cruise ship sailors among us; the stool flush ball valve has a three
foot long lever positioned at the users elbow. Because of the quantity and
quality of submarine food one gets into the habit of "mercy flushes" that are
periodic quick pops of the flush valve open and shut (kind'a like with a 1.6
gpf commode). When the tank is being blown the pressure escapes around this
valve in a visually, audibly and odorously(?) fashion. If you've TPA (Total
Plant Awareness) you obey the various literal and figurative signs and leave
the valve shut. If you're in the O zone and forget then various fractions of
the tank's contents get injected into the available orifices. This
necessitates, among other things, sterile rinses of the victim's eyeballs.
Grasping another opportunity to be wrong!
In article <3537bd10....@news.dmv.com>,
dhuf...@awod.com
Reminds me of The Great Mid-Atlantic Palmetto Bug Hunt...
We were off on an adventure with a war load of food and GDU cans and weights.
That means that the food was stacked two cases deep on all forward walking
decks, 'cept Control, and every bunk pan had two boxes of trash cans and a
box of weights on or in it. At some time the Chop noticed a crushed Palmetto
Bug (Charleston version of a great grandaddy cockroach) husk on a can of
beans.
Since the weird room didn't think we were getting enough exercise lifting our
bunkpans they decided that *all* of the deck mounted food cans would be
individually cleaned and inspected for Palmetto Bug progeny. What a cluster
that was. Oh, yeah, none were found. It was good exercise and practice for
the subsequent flooding of (the dry) Aux2.
Grasping another opportunity to be wrong!
In article <6h5nnu$m...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>,
g.l.s...@iname.com wrote:
>
<snip>
> Two days after an all day working party to load sodas in PI, somebody
> found a slug in one of the cans. Doc convinced the CO to call an all
> hands working party to "off-load" the entire soda inventory - over the
> side.
>
> Bug juice got real old real fast that cruise.
>
> Greg
>