For the Navy peeps.....

[Deletenow]

And I never thought a carrier would take one over the bow....wow!

[Bass Commander]

I took several waves over the bow of CVN-69 while I was the Officer of the Deck (OOD). It happens...

And I cant believe there is a helo and an F-18 on deck...

The pole on the starboard side is nicnamed the "Belknap Pole" long story behind that one!!!

[SpinnerB8T]

I served on Belknap from 88-90. As part of indoc they showed the collison tape.

[Just_Ken_In_Va]

Rob, Same boat here (no pun intended - OOD on 69) LOL.

Its even cooler on an FFG though.

- Ken

[Bass Commander]

You must be a Mustang...when I was there, there were only 3 qualified OOD's and we we were all Mustangs...everyone else seemed to be scared...

A carrier was the easiest of my 4 OOD letters!!

Never served on an FFG.

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[Hardhead1]

You should be out there on a Destroyer Escort in that mess. 1970 - 1974 USS Garcia DE-1040 stationed out of New Port, Rhode Island.

[BassRat]

try crossing the pond, in a storm like that on a Coastal patrol boat (PC-6 Scirocco)98-01 they had to installed seat belts in our bunks.

[billybass]

400' below the surface of the water, all we can do is laugh thinking about those Surface guys up there losing thier lunches in that weather.

[sheeterhdip225]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by billybass &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">400' below the surface of the water, all we can do is laugh thinking about those Surface guys up there losing thier lunches in that weather. </TD></TR></TABLE>
I Second that

[VirginiaRiverRat]

Wimps!! You need to try that in a flat bottom... LST's.... We run aground on purpose . We used to laugh at the inspection teams that crossed decked to us from the carriers talking about how rough it was. An LST (Large Slow Target) is like being in the sound in a jon boat .

[Froggtog]

You need to be on Onterio in a TR20X when it gets rough. That will get you to thinking.

[Hardhead1]

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Froggtog &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You need to be on Onterio in a TR20X when it gets rough. That will get you to thinking. </TD></TR></TABLE>

That's something you wanted to do, Those of us who volunteered had no choice.

[bassnva123]

I showed my dad that video...he said try crossing the pacific and atlantic on the USS Crockett(PG-88)
He said the inclinomter reached 66 degrees a few times on some 80+ waves.
He said they were only 164.5 feet long.

Gotta hand it to the navy guys....my a$$ would hate being in those big waves..