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Sailing around the Cape Horn in a 4 masted Bark. This movie reminds me of how hard life was. Clearly OSHA didn’t exist. What a great movie. It really was wooden ships and iron men.
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Geez... I guess so (Iron Men)! Closest I've gotten is a 2 masted racing schooner, Malabar VII - named "True Love" sailing out of Watkins Glen on Lake Seneca in western New York. When I did the North Sea is was in the comfort of a troop Transport (USS Darby) in February 1964 on my way to Bremerhaven, Germany.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
We who gather for Friday afternoon dart drop just happen to be experts in everything. We have concluded that bringing back the troop transports would go a long way to alleviating PTSD issues. Likely suicide rates, too.
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SPC Terry Page
CWO4 Terrence Clark Please explain more... (bringing back the troop transports). Thanks!
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
SPC Terry Page So most of us are 'Nam Vets with similar experiences (fortified by Guinness). Our theory has to do with kids spending much time in a high pucker factor situation, being loaded on an airplane, dropped at the Honolulu Airport 11 hours later, surrounded by grasping Hari Khrisnas, sneering college twirps, signs outside the Royal Hawaiian informing no sailors in uniform and all the rest. Alternatively, a ride home on one of the old APAs would have involved three weeks of abject boredom relieved by sea sickness (vomiting is cathartic) crap games in the shaft alley, cards and acey-ducy on every flat surface, bragging, lying, anticipation of that little sweet-thing down the street, time for decompression and that pucker factor to relax. We experts (and Guinness) know we're right, because no one is following our advice and the situation is not improving. :-))
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