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7 Minutes of Rough Water...
Sep 14, 2017 16:39:45   #
Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
 
IF YOU WERE IN THE NAVY HERE'S 7 MINUTES YOU MIGHT APPRECIATE...

I Spent Nearly 4 Years 'At Sea', It Was The "Nearly" Times I Got In Trouble, Damn Alcohol, grrrrrr... Don D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9r8Bir_cDg

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Sep 15, 2017 11:49:46   #
kmsmncm
 
Oh, yes; reminds me of my years on a minesweeper (5 total). They are small, made of wood, and covered in fiberglass; it did not take much of a sea state to get that effect on the bow or fantail--pretty much anything over a SS 3 would halt our mine countermeasure ops and we would batten down the hatches. A real storm would have us strapping in--in Combat Information Center, all chairs had seatbelt, so that if a mine went off we wouldn't crack our skulls on the overhead. My submarine years were calmer; once we got to the dive point, we would submerge and get to a depth so that surface weather didn't matter.




Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
IF YOU WERE IN THE NAVY HERE'S 7 MINUTES YOU MIGHT APPRECIATE...

I Spent Nearly 4 Years 'At Sea', It Was The "Nearly" Times I Got In Trouble, Damn Alcohol, grrrrrr... Don D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9r8Bir_cDg

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