Ropeyarn Sunday “Sea Stories” and Open Trackbacks
May 7th, 2008 by xformed
And he said, when the lines were singled: “You did everything I’d do, but 30 seconds later.”
It is a real statement made to me, after morring at Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, VA for an offload of ordnance.
about 45 minutes earlier, Captain Maixner asked “Have you ever taken one (SPRUANCE Class DD) to the pier without tugs?”
What brought this stroy back from the memory banks is the current events…of how one can sit and listen to someone for 20+ years, then decide what is being said is depicable…
More later…work calls…but…it is a good story about life aboard a Navy vessel…
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