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Poll: Which Ship?
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 10:34 pm
by SoulBlazer
I'm trying to help a cousin with a question for a school paper. Thanks to all in advance.
(Feel free to post a reason for the ship choice if you like.)
Underway--shift colors!
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 11:04 pm
by m0ngoose
I served on the USS New Jersey (BB-62) from 89-90. THAT was a great command. And a very smooth ride too...storms would just rock you to sleep
Beats the hell out of those little tin cans. Although for my next ship, a Perry class frigate, getting tossed around like a cork was fun too! A lot of the guys were jeleous because I didn't get seasick. I just laughed at them as they barfed again and again...:p
FFG's
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 12:04 am
by mogami
Hi, After the New Jersey you must have really loved the FFG.
I spent 7 years on those little beasts (FFG-22, and FFG-40)
I never actually got sick but there were times I was not proud of the way I felt. We rode out Hugo.
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:39 am
by Toro
Cruiser sailor, myself. And yes, I did get sick -- twice. First time out, having never been on the ocean before, we set sail for Gitmo (REFTRA) in sea state 6-7. I wasn't alone in my illness...
I picked PT boats, as it would be a good way to get my own command early!
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2002 7:29 pm
by Ironpaw
Attack Sub - as in real life.
Probably suggest not using our Deck gun so much to the Old Man though - ha ha ha.
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 6:52 am
by Knavey
CVN-71 here...one of the biggest things afloat, even if it is a target. 89-93 was a pretty long tour on her, but I am out now and can look back at it from a bit fonder perspective.
I would definately NOT want to be on anything less than say...1092 feet long. Seasickness...not on that thing, although I did know a guy who was discharged because he stayed constantly seasick on the TR.
Another sick story...Remember Dependents day cruises? Buddys wife comes aboard, and about 4 hours later asks when we are going to leave for the cruise. He points out that we left about 3 hours ago and points to the open elevator doors and the sea on the horizon. His wife turned 5 shades of green and that was it, she spent the next few hours in the head. It was amazing to see how it can all be in the mind.
were the garbage scow...
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 7:07 am
by tanjman
... that I hopped a ride on early one morning in Cartagena Colombia to get back to my ship in time
cost me two cartons of tax free Pall Malls too!
Besides the Spruance class DD I'm a plankowner of I'm also the plankowner of an Ticonderoga call CG. But I voted for the PTs because I kept trying to get in with the SBUs and serve on a PBR.