US Navy Sea Stories...

[CaptGodzillaPig]

Ok fellas,  let's hear em.  Hoist a beer to our fellow shipmates and tell us about your "last ship". 

 

[Zim_Xero]

Not a story... but i  LOVE  my Marblehead more than all of my other ships including Khabarovsk and Belfast.

[TheGreatBlasto]

My Murmansk would make mincemeat out of your Marblehead.  

 

[CaptGodzillaPig]

MM2(SW) aboard the USS FOX CG-33 finishing a long tour in the gulf and on our way back to San Diego.   We stopped in Hawaii, so everyone but engineering could have liberty, and picked up 2 of the first female officers to serve on a US combat ship (can provide video if you want) and some other butter bar ensign butt hats that their admiral daddy's thought should get some "salt" before the went to their DC desk job.    I got the Top Watch in the engine room and it is about 0200 and all my boys are well,  they were comfortable.   Some ensign rolls down my ladder, in my face, and demands to see the logs.  Fine.  There they are "SIR":.   Well we had a bearing that was a little out of spec since, oh.. The straight of hormuz.   It was known, it wasn't bad, and we were going to decom anyway so unless crapreally melted down there was no worry.   Now back to this butthat.  He demanded the logs,  saw the red entry for out of spec (for like months) and demanded we take action for a hot bearing , which is slow to 5knts and increase cooling water until it is corrected.   Well I know the CO (who used to be the chief engineer) and the Mustang CHENG (Chief engineer who used to be enlisted) and I know for a fact neither of them want to hear from this dude at 2am.  He orders me to slow the engines.  I said nope..  You can't give me that order.  My engine room and you aren't in my chain of command.  He stomped and screamed that I was out of line and demanded I slow the engines.  Nope.  Sorry "SIR".  you can't change my orders for shaft revolutions.  Then he ordered me to get the CHENG (Chief Engineer) on the phone.   Well,  that is a lawful order from an officer.....  I told him that wasn't really a good idea, but he ordered me to do it anyway.  I made the call and this is the exact quote..  never forget it.  "JOHNSTON..WHAT THE FARCK ARE YOU DOING?  IS THE SHIP SINKING?  WHAT??  DID YOU TELL THAT SHARTFARK THAT WAS YOUR ROOM?   GARDDARRMIT!!  I'LL BE RIGHT THERE.".   CHENG shoed up, instantly, in his underwear and his boots.  He walked straight up to me, looked me in the eye,.  said..  Johnston.  You mother eff thing.  You can't handle this piece of shart?   Then he turned to the ensign, who was not looking so positive about his position at that point, and told him.  "See these guys down here.  They are mine.  What they say is what I say and you just pissed a bunch of them off because I am going to make them scub Pways on their off time/  So my advice to you is to not walk out on deck until we hit san dog"  Never did see that butter bar again.  CHENG did make us scrub Pways.  But he did buy us a lot of beer at the decom party at hotel del to make it up.  :