Why do pilots sleep in their planes?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Knavey

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58




Hummph. REAL sailors only get steak and lobster, then back on watch![:)]

I had PLENTY of surf and turf days in the Navy.

For those of you who wonder why they serve such good stuff, it normally proceeds the BOHICA announcement that your not pulling into port the next day, that liberty has been cancelled, and so forth.

Port?! Liberty?! What the hell . . .

I saw the lights of Bridgetown, Barbados once. At 0300, through a periscope. We were going in the next day for a 2-day port call. We'd been under, on alert or mod-alert, for 58 days. We had never had a port call before. We had baked a cake. For the mayor.

At 0315 we were at a flank bell, running north, avoiding Grenada. At 0330 we (I was OOD) were prosecuted by a P-3 who thought we were a Victor sniffing around places the rest of the USN, who didn't know we were there, thought we shouldn't be. (Different command siilo I guess.) At 0335 I was at 350 feet, hiding under a convenient container ship with the Old Man by the conn watching the sonar repeater by my side.

At 0630 I reported to him that I had been properly relieved. He said, "Did you learn anything?" My response is classified.

And that day I didn't even get any steak. Or any lobster.

And that's no s**t.

Steve, any possibility that *YOU* were directly responsible for Bullwinkle missing port call? [;)]

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy


Steve, any possibility that *YOU* were directly responsible for Bullwinkle missing port call? [;)]

It was Cubans, I swear. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

The Mighty Moose, an excellent swimmer, could have employed the forward escape trunk and basked on the beach with the lovelies. He instead chose to remain with his crew, an heroic act if ever there was . . .