The Everything Drawer - Everyone has one, right? (post anything - within the rules)

Swim call in the middle of nowhere! A treat for the crew on a long deployment. “The boundless deep” takes on new meaning.

It’s sticky hot and muggy here in Annapolis. I would cheerfully leap off that deck right now and submerge in the cool blue.

I assume the corpsmen are right there to check for any open wounds (no sense in advertising a buffet to sharks), deal with any injuries, lookouts are posted, etc.

I’m surprised someone doesn’t have a big inflatable pool toy. It’s always amazing what appears out of nowhere at Steel Beach Picnics and other festive events.

 
Night flight ops and recovery aboard. You do not want to be low on fuel and in the middle of the ocean. This clip is from a couple of years ago, but shows various teams behind the scenes and just how dark it is out there, and how small that pitching deck looks from above.
DH’s old squadron!

 
Capt MJ said:
Night flight ops and recovery aboard. You do not want to be low on fuel and in the middle of the ocean. This clip is from a couple of years ago, but shows various teams behind the scenes and just how dark it is out there, and how small that pitching deck looks from above.
DH’s old squadron!

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This gives me so much anxiety. And I shouldn't watch the swimming party considering I've been engrossed in Shark Week.

I cannot imagine being involved in those night landings, in any capacity. Crazy. I mean, "find somewhere to go and have an aneurism".:eek:
 
Just a Rant: I have been hearing a lot of radio and TV adds locally targeted at anyone stationed or working as a contractor during a certain period at Camp Lejundra in NC (not a typo, that's how they pronounce it in the add) and to call an 800 number so their expert attorneys can fight for you. Their "Expert Attorneys" can't even get the name of the Base correct, but they can see the pot at the end of the rainbow. Shysters will Shyst.
 
I find myself thinking somewhat nostalgically about those in my past who have influenced me, whose impact still resonates with me today.

I had written a letter to a favorite professor emeritus on the occasion of his 100th birthday last month, when former students were encouraged to share memories and appreciation with him. He is still of vigorous mind. He was the prof, an Army veteran who used his GI Bill to go into academia, whom I respected and enjoyed, and with whom I traveled in a group to Europe for an eye-opening junior year trip. He was the one, who, when I told him I was kicking over the traces of prospective graduate school fellowships and going to Navy OCS, encouraged me to go, that “The Navy will be the making of you.” I caught him up on my Navy career, thanked him for that pivotal piece of advice, and he wrote me the nicest letter back, remembering a discussion we had had in Vienna and then later back on campus, about plans after graduation and the itch I was getting to try something that challenged me in a different way.

For some reason, my thoughts also went back to Dr. Maya Angelou, a resident prof at Wake Forest University, with whom I had a Creative Writing Seminar as an elective I squeezed in. Only 10 in the class. Life lessons, wide-ranging discussions, thought-provoking questions. I went hunting on YouTube for something I heard her talk about often during my student days (I attended every lecture, speech, panel, event, whatever, she gave.) That voice, that diction, that mind that made me think.

I found it. Still one of her themes years later.

Just Do Right.

 
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