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[skipper72]

USS Newport News (CA-148) XO MARDET, USS Roosevelt (CVA-42), FLIGHT OPS, USS York County (LST-1175) AMPHIB OPS, USS Observation Island (EAG-158) LEGAL SERVICES. Sea duty was the best experience I ever had in my 20s with my clothes on!

[TJR1070]

I don't know about you sir, but time on ship only meant to me I was going to have fun in a foriegn country without my clothes on!!

[skipper72]

I don't know about you sir, but time on ship only meant to me I was going to have fun in a foriegn country without my clothes on!!

Two of the "obstacles" to foreign fun (with no clothes on) at that time were:

1. I was married with a family.

2. My white cover and barracks ones had a quatrefoil on them.

[TJR1070]

I wouldn't be able to partake anymore either but it was good to be young, a Marine and in another country!! I guess now I would have to do the tourist/culture thing.

[colt59]

USS Ponce, LPD-15, 1980 for Anorak Express to Norway. We took almost 2 weeks crossing the Atlantic in winter..oh what fun. We loaded stores/ammo at Norfolk expecting we were going to Iran, rather than war games. Of course, Jimmy Carter would never allow it.

When I stood well-deck watch, you could look out the upper half of the rear opening of the ship. One moment was stars, next black ocean. As bad as it was, I felt sorry for the poor guys on the LST!

Other than cramped quarters, it was a good time mostly. Did not like being locked in quarters during drills.

I was on the USS Newport fot this operation, You're right, Cold, rough seas, but I had a blast. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I've attached a couple picture. One is the USS Ponce from the stern. I was on the landing craft as we were entering through her stern gate. The others were taken about a second apart. Notice the roll of the ship. Sea and Sky. This was taken on the way to Plymouth England on the way back from Norway.

[colt59]

Here's a few pics from the Newport and of Norway. Loading Trucks on, a view out the open stern ramp from the tank deck (the ramp got bent and we had to secure it to a bulldozer on the way to Portsmouth Eng. for repairs), loading fuel pods in Norway, me and my M-54 5ton (I had 2 500 gal pods of JP5 and one of AVgas, I slept one night in the cab and had a parachute flare come down in the back and didn't know it, I **** myself in the morning when I found it laying between two of the pods), Never give Engineers white camo.

[Drafter]

Here a few pics of the Tarawa I scanned outa my cruise book from 1/7's deployment to Okinawa in 1983.

[Drafter]

Here a few pics of the Tarawa I scanned outa my cruise book from 1/7's deployment to Okinawa in 1983
oops, Moved the pics and broke the link.

[TJR1070]

Nice pics of the "Eagle of the Sea". I was on the Tarawa for the return trip from the Gulf War and had a stop over at Bangladesh for relief efforts. Of course we had a different name for the ship at that time.

[Drafter]

Nice pics of the "Eagle of the Sea". I was on the Tarawa for the return trip from the Gulf War and had a stop over at Bangladesh for relief efforts. Of course we had a different name for the ship at that time.

LMAO, I know the answer to this! I always wondered which one was Captain Steubing.

[lstampa]

I was on the USS Whidbey Island LSD-41 back in 2006.

Within the 1st week, 2 urinals wouldn't stop leaking and they couldn't fix them, so a Navy guy put trash bags over them and put a sign up that said "DO NOT F*KING **** HERE".

If I get my old lap top up and running, i'll be sure to post some pics of that crappy ship.

[Rocky C]

USS Coronado, joint Nato Op 1978.

[Danny C Smith]

I was aboard the Frederick. Which I believe has been decomissioned.
That was in 88 or 89.
We floated around for a couple of weeks and I stayed sick
as hell the whole time. Crackers and water.
A-hole to bellybutton racks and that tub wallowed like
a fat sow in a mud hole the whole time.
Never been so glad to get the hell off a rust bucket in my life!
Back to something I understood.


Smitty.

[kenrobg30]

Hey Edd, remember how that bucket quivered, when her screws came out of the water ?That sucker 'd roll in a bathtub. She split her seams between Korea and Japan, in a storm. Had to lay over in Japan to get welded, so she could take us home.Fun' wasn't it ?

[kenrobg30]

Amen to that dave.