Posted on Feb 5, 2015
Where was your "fortress of solitude" while deployed?
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Regardless of how OORAH you are, everyone had that "time consuming" maintenance or job or even just an empty space that they'd go to in order to escape for a bit. What was yours?
Personally, as an electrician, I'd occasionally go visit a wardroom galley to "tinker" with stuff just before lunch. The cooks would always serve me up a plate while I was there. It didn't hurt that the CS2 was a cute blonde either.
Personally, as an electrician, I'd occasionally go visit a wardroom galley to "tinker" with stuff just before lunch. The cooks would always serve me up a plate while I was there. It didn't hurt that the CS2 was a cute blonde either.
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Our IDF bunker, it was cool when it was 124 outside, warm when it was 11 outside, and the social life and rumor mill was second to none.
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The joy of being an IT guy, is that there is almost always a room that you have to keep everyone else out of for security's sake. Very easy to get away.
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I'd decompress on the port quarter and watch the wake. At night a lot of times it would glow from the phosphorescent plankton in the water. That is surprisingly relaxing and very hypnotic.
Also I liked to go to the small observation deck on the island and watch flight ops. It was always exciting and dangerous working on the flight deck. Sometimes it was relaxing to step back and watch it from above. It's a ballet really.
Also I liked to go to the small observation deck on the island and watch flight ops. It was always exciting and dangerous working on the flight deck. Sometimes it was relaxing to step back and watch it from above. It's a ballet really.
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PO2 Christopher Morehouse
Vultures Row was a good place to hang out for a bit. I hardly made it up that way though.
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I sat out on the steps from the cat walk to the flight deck when it was pitch black out one night. The stars from the middle of no where on the ocean are amazing and the sound of the waves lapping the ship were very peaceful. My favorite retreat however will always be my rack with my photos of the family, my movies or a good book! Solitude always seemed to set me right. When even those didn't work though, the treadmill it was!!
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PO2 Christopher Morehouse
I never tried the cat walk. I always went to the fantail. The rack was the last place I wanted to be unless I was sleeping during a flanking bell. Our berthing was always loud until lights out.
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My rack was literally directly over (we had a false deck) and under the #3 arresting gear wire. Which is the target wire so...my rack was not very good for relaxation. I was supposed to sleep with double hearing protection LOL. To this day I can sleep through just about anything.
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Watching movies, the gym, people watching, but music was the greatest escape. My laptop was loaded with DJ music software which I could compile and experiment in creating personal music mixes
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