Hi From Abe

[Mac Linehan]

T !!!

A Joke!

I, Sir, am very honored...

Mac

[whippleofd]

Be safe shipmate.

Whipple

[ilovestrategy]

Being in the Marines I was on the Tarawa and some troop transports but that was about it.

Did plenty of bar crawling all over Asia though!

[oldman45]

ORIGINAL: Knavey

Clarification for those that don't know...decks on an aircraft carrier are numbered as such. 3 was the deck number, 255 was the number of frames from bow to stern so 255 was near the back of the ship. 0 was how far from midships and L was for left or R for right side of the ship...why not port and starboard...not sure.

O-8 (Maybe a few higher...nosebled sections of the tower area and vultures row and bridge etc up in this area)
O-7
O-6
O-5
Flight deck (think this was O-4 but I rarely came up this far)
O-3
O-2
O-1
1
2
3
4 (Engine rooms, reactors and such below this level which is where I spent my time)
5
6
7

You got that pretty close from memory except for the letter at the end. That told you what the compartment was used for, L meaning living space.

- Resident Hull Technician 1976 - 1994.