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Serve yourself, Bob. Freshly from the local butchery.
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Serve yourself, Bob. Freshly from the local butchery.
commando1
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Ugh. Looks like a cut off....
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But it tastes better ..... I guess
Klaus can get the whole thing in his mouth. ;)
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Done, now give me something hard.
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We use to stop at the German Canteen and get schnitzel on brochen for the road march to the field in Grafenwohr.
:laughing4:Done, now give me something hard.
70bigblockdodge
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All this talk and pictures of navy ships I googled the name and that came up I have never seen it before. Search engines must be getting better. Its laying at the bottom of the ocean used as target practice, better than being made into 10,000 toyotas I guess.
For the Marines:
The Navy has the best chow hands down. Followed closely by the Air force.
Army and Marines are tied for sh*ttiest chow in the Armed Forces.
70bigblockdodge
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I would say that depends on cooks, had a guy that was from Louisiana wow he could cook, the guy that put coffee grounds in coffee cake not so much. That and fresh veggies were not just down the street at the market.
Brings back a few memories ... thanks TBM
tbm3fan
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Hey TBM my brother was on the USS Seattle back in the very early 90's. Do you have any pics of that one?
tbm3fan
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Better yet for those who don't know of this site. I used this site for years when there were 115 ships stored up in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet starting in 1998. Now it is down to just 15 newer ships. We have been going up to those ships since 1998 to strip parts with the permission of MARAD. From a carrier to AO's, AOE's, sub tenders, Victory and so forth.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/59/5903.htm
Thanks for the photo brother
tbm3fan
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I met Floyd back in 1998 when he would come aboard to tell of his time as a helmsman during the war. During his lunch break he would be down in what we call the Crow's Nest, an aircraft shop at the stern, eating his lunch. Floyd liked to come prepared with a 6 pack of beer in a small cooler. Had a few beers with him when I happened to be down there at the same time as I was restoring the bridge. Eventually, the Chief Engineer took a dim view of the beer and asked him to cool it which he did by not showing up much more. However, he could never stay completely away and here he is talking about his experience on the Hornet and how close some kamikaze's did get to the ship.
While the HORNET was never hit by a kamikaze or a bomb from what I understand she was hit by a dud torpedo. Outside of that she had one close call off Japan with a deck load of gassed and armed planes. If you know of the USS FRANKLIN and how her deck was hit with two 500lb. bombs out of nowhere then this is the same thing. However this time the bomb did not release as the Japanese plane roared over the deck, but released into the water on the port side as the plane passed. This related by Dick Best, noted dive bombing expert, sitting in his plane watching this. The most we have is some bullet holes that are patched up on the starboard side of the Island at the O5-O6 Level.
[video=youtube_share;Qx1fuE-LHZg]http://youtu.be/Qx1fuE-LHZg[/video]
While the HORNET was never hit by a kamikaze or a bomb from what I understand she was hit by a dud torpedo. Outside of that she had one close call off Japan with a deck load of gassed and armed planes. If you know of the USS FRANKLIN and how her deck was hit with two 500lb. bombs out of nowhere then this is the same thing. However this time the bomb did not release as the Japanese plane roared over the deck, but released into the water on the port side as the plane passed. This related by Dick Best, noted dive bombing expert, sitting in his plane watching this. The most we have is some bullet holes that are patched up on the starboard side of the Island at the O5-O6 Level.
[video=youtube_share;Qx1fuE-LHZg]http://youtu.be/Qx1fuE-LHZg[/video]
70bigblockdodge
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That was taken from the USS Willamett AO 180. I have a few pictures of her including that one, they were in a packet of an aerial fly around after drydock, BTW same yard that built the Exxon Valdez, plus 2 cruise books, a couple of ship zippo lighters and probably a couple of hats. A lot of good memories of my time on that tin can didn't know it then. Bought both my cars in San Diego, one from a guy on the ship the other right out of the local classified paper the day we pulled in from 1st west pac.
So cool! The Greatest Generation Veterans are my heroes!
I served with some old hats in my early days in the Army.
I served with some old hats in my early days in the Army.
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