For all who have never been to sea on a man of war................................this is for you and for those of us who were touched by Carroll Lefon and his most eloquent way with the written word.
Gotta do it.
The try, again. This time all chapters at one per day.
When the book comes out, I will buy it.
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| Our Good Captain, Carroll "Lex" Lefon on the right with Bill "Pinch" Paisley. Fighter Guys. These two along with Buck Pennington are the best blogging friends a man could ever have. |
You humble me, Glenn. To place my name in the same company as Lex and Pinch is a bit over the top, but pleasing. Thank you, Sir.
ReplyDeleteWell sir... you have dredged up some memories with that repost.
ReplyDeleteThere are some differences though.
Back in the early sixties we were Radarmen, but still understaffed by about 50%.
We had storekeepers, disbursing clerks, corpsmen and postal clerks standing CIC watches.
They lucked out with three section instead of port and starboard.
The RD watches were from chow to chow, except for the midwatch.
It started at 0000 and there was no meal.
There may have been a bowl of chili and crackers if some snipe or deckape hadn't already scarfed it down.
The midwatch ended when the relief finished breakfast (sometime between 0730 and 0745).
We would relieve them sometime between 1200 and 1215.
Their only complaint was they missed the ships movie.
Invartiably GQ would be called sometime in the morning so the only real sleep we got was after evening chow.
I was on a Gearing class Fram I tincan so we didn't have any bunk lights and showers were something we got in port because the ships evaporators could keep up with water usage most of the time.
He mentioned bathrobes.
About the only place we may have seen a bathrobe would have been Officers Country.
I'm not complaining. I could been a grunt trying to sleep in the mud.