As a commercial merchant mariner it's rare that you get the chance to do unrep.. I only did it once in my career. I was on a military chartered Keystone tanker and we needed to pump off cargo to clean up quickly for a emergency yard call. Shore facilities were unable to accommodate us, so MSC arranged for us to pump off to an oiler. We rendezvoused with the USNS PAWCATUCK along the south coast of Turkey and at sunrise began what turned out to be an all day operation.. Including dodging some Soviet Navy ships that tried to get in the way.. Here's a photo of the PAWCATUCK on our port quarter, steady on course and speed.. We're the 'control ship' and we've got 'Romeo at the dip'..
@WT Door, care to tell us the 'memory aid' the navy uses to remember the colors on the distance line? GRYBWG..
It's been awhile, but I do remember
that when I went through STREAM school as a reservist.
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