Humor for my Navy and Marine friends

My frigate pulled into Newport a couple times. The first was to have an experimental towed array sonar welded to the fantail. We were tasked with operating it at sea while tracking one of our submarines. We ended up chasing Ivan a long way across the Atlantic before being told to turn back. Meanwhile I had an older BT1 who had chest pain, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis. A classic heart attack but I was alone and two days from port. We were pulling in to Boston before going back to Newport so I got on the red phone to Coast Guard Base Boston medical and coordinated transport to St. Elizabeth's Hospital. BT1 indeed had a heart attack and we left him there at the end of the port visit.

Submarine IDCs brag they don't always have a carrier to medevac a patient to like surface ships do. Really Doc? Neither do we.

I agree. Newport is cold.

Here's the Connole and the Miller of the same class as mine. The open "back door" is where the ship's towed array sonar is fed from. The one we picked up from Newport was welded to the starboard side fantail.
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I was XO of the Reserve crew of one of their sisters, probably across the pier when this was taken. I also served aboard Miller for a week of real world (Russian) sub tracking when they needed a watchstander STAT and I was available.
 
Fortunately your medical officer had an IDC to cover medical while he was on the bridge.
Actually several as LPDs were pretty well manned medical-wise.
Also, according to the Doctor, the HMs ran sick call and he had maybe an hour or two of actual work in an average day. This doc was a USNA grad and wanted the professional challenge of doing the full SWO qual for himself. He stood quite a few JOOD watches under me when I was OOD and then did his Celestial Nav work with me. He was one of the better shiphandlers among our trainees and clearly "got" relative motion pretty well.
 
I was XO of the Reserve crew of one of their sisters, probably across the pier when this was taken. I also served aboard Miller for a week of real world (Russian) sub tracking when they needed a watchstander STAT and I was available.
I probably have mentioned on here before but my FF was the Bowen.
 
yes, the Mighty Battle Frigate Bowen. On Wednesday's we had Bowen Battle Burgers. Hand pressed and very greasy and bloody. Hitting the rack for an hour nooner after those was pure pleasure.
 
yes, the Mighty Battle Frigate Bowen. On Wednesday's we had Bowen Battle Burgers. Hand pressed and very greasy and bloody. Hitting the rack for an hour nooner after those was pure pleasure.
I have had one of those! When BOWEN called at NAVSTA Rota inbound to the Med, I was her boarding officer from Port Ops. I briefed the SuppO and XO in the LOGREQ, got invited to lunch.
 
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I have had one of those! When BOWEN called at NAVSTA Rota inbound to the Med, I was her boarding officer from Port Ops. I briefed the SuppO and XO in the LOGQREQ, got invited to lunch.
She was a great ship. Sold to the Turks after decomm.
 
Interesting. I was a Reservist and did very little active duty. Special Duty 1625 Designator. Basically a US Merchant Marine Officer program. Back then USN had "Reserve Ships" ... my program had me do active duty for training on active combat ready ships. These officers almost never saw reservists...this made things interesting...
 
OldRetSWO, was there a Reserve CO, who was a SEAL as well? if so, I knew him well.
 
OldRetSWO, was there a Reserve CO, who was a SEAL as well? if so, I knew him well.
Not while I was there. By the way, that was my only "Reserve Ship" as the rest of my reserve units were fully active commands - a couple of destroyers, A Fleet Staff and a Carrier Battle Group.
 
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