Hmmm a BD5J with zero hours FS

Scott wrote:




The story is this: At 9pm I was working night duty in the avionics
shop. We were scheduled to go home on standby at about that time and
were about to cleanup and turn in our tools when the hanglar claxon
went off



Not sure about the MC, but in the Air Force, going on standby meant
things were slow and you didn't pull your entire shift sitting in the
shop...you went back to the dorms or the bowling alley with a pager so
they could get a hold of you if needed.


Then again in the Air Force we had "hangars" instead of "hanglars"
and we'd get called over a radio or land line. We didn't need a klaxon
of that's what yawn meant when he said "claxon."

Pity he never served on Navy boats, he would have been heaved over
the side.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Pity he never served on Navy boats, he would have been heaved over the
side.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

IIRC he has told a story in the past, either on this NG or one of the
others, of being throw over board. He claims that's how men like him were
taught how to swim.

Problem is he wasn't smart enough to realize, they weren't trying to teach
him how to swim.

Maxwell wrote:
Pity he never served on Navy boats, he would have been heaved over the
side.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

IIRC he has told a story in the past, either on this NG or one of the
others, of being throw over board. He claims that's how men like him were
taught how to swim.

Problem is he wasn't smart enough to realize, they weren't trying to teach
him how to swim.


I don't know about other Navy boats but I have some time at sea on
helicopter assault boats like the Okinawa when I was in AF special ops.
I saw lots of places where someone like him could fall overboard.
Perhaps that's why he never went to sea.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired