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OK this question is for the sailors of RP. I believe the Old Salts will best remember what life aboard ship was like. Do you all remember the feeling of returning to the ship after liberty? The sounds of the ship, the feel. The REAL Ship Bell on the half hours. The real bowsens pipe. C Note and the feeling of the ship moving. Do you all miss that?
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Being OOD underway at night was indescribable, when the sky was clear, you could see zillions of stars, and the bio luminescence of the waves... The excitement of new liberty ports, only exceeded by the excitement of homecoming...
PO2 Mark Saffell
People that have never been at sea like that have no idea what they missed. Sitting on the flight deck late in the evening. The sunsets and sun rises at sea can't be described well enough. And who can forget channel fever and the ice cream that night???
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PO2 Mark Saffell
I was an ET on the Enterprise. This meant I spent most of my days and nights on The Flag Bridge, Navigation Bridge or Radar 3 which was the highest manned space on the ship. 2 Decks above the Navigation Bridge, So I spent many nights sitting on the Flag Bridge (because it was quite and empty most times) watching the ship plow thru the waves or watching the radar. At the radar you could see everything going on around us for several hundred miles, depending which Radar I was using. My Sea and Anchor Detail was in Nav Plot right next to the CO. To say I have seen a few crazy things up there is putting it mildly. Like the time the OOD Ordered 20 right rudder as we finished an UNREP before the CO caught the mistake and OMG That OOD got his career ended that day.
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20 right - was the AO on your starboard side?
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CDR Michael Goldschmidt
I've never seen a brass Navy anchor. Ours were always iron or, maybe, mild steel. I spent a little time about America (CV-66), in quarters under #2 Cat. I admit I never got used to that.
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PO2 Mark Saffell
The Enterprise had two 35 ton brass anchors and 4 32 ton brass screws. How would you like to have what those are worth. Im not sure where the Anchors are going, But I hope its someplace special. She was a Very Special Ship
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PO2 Mark Saffell
The Enterprise is a very special ship...or was before Obama retired her 3 years early
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Don't forget the smells. Nothing like everyone wearing the recycled laundry water uniforms that no amount of Old Spice could improve. Other unique smells include the salt water scuppers, electrical everything, blowers where all the weed smokers hung out, old deck mats, mimeographs, powdered egg afterburner gas in a small compartment.... and the list goes on.
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CDR William Kempner
"Sliders", JP-5, stack gas, as well as all the things you mentioned--my wife would hold her nose and point to the rain locker when I walked through the door!! :-))
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