Random Thoughts

[Fireball]

He was.  Helped build the base at Buxton that's since been decommissioned.  He was a SeaBee.  That's where he met mom and where I was born.  His Naval service helped pay for vet school.

We stand the rail.


( ir' s how the whole ship salutes -  by standing shoulder to shoulder at the gunwale rail....)

Fortunately, I never got caught up in that shit. Maybe not so fortunate, as I worked in the engine room and various other places like a shaft alley during sea and anchor detail, so was never actually a "presentable" example of squid life. In my experience, one could always spot the holes snipes (boiler room and engine room workers, for you non-Navy types out there in WWW-land) as they left the ship, because even the black guys didn't have much of a tan, and we all had wet hair. We were busy making the barge go and stop, not trying to look pretty for the sweet "maidens"  waving their hankies on the beach.