Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. If there is an unopened bottle of rum, it clearly wasn't found by this crowd. ;^) Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
Posted on 11/15/2022 12:03:37 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
One early harbinger of things to come was in 1978 (or somewhere around there) was the only time I walked out of a movie, and it was at the base theater. The movie was "Pink Flamingoes." I couldn't believe that the United States Air Force would allow such garbage in their base theater.
Now I suppose they'd play that movie during the monthly Commander's Call which was also held at the base theater.
I think it’s very sweet. I like it :)
Good for you, Thanks for your service. My stepson is now a PO3 Nuclear Machinists Mate. One of my oldest friends father served on the original Lexington, then the original Yorktown.
He was a radio operator, had had enough of carriers so ended up as a radio operator in a Beachmasters party at Tarawa. Decided he’d rather be back on a ship. Assigned to the Kalinin Bay, was taking a message from the radio room to the bridge when the radio room was hit by Japanese cruise fire. His service record reads like a movie.He was as lucky or unlucky as hell with 2 carriers sunk underneath him and one seriously damaged. He spent 30 years in the navy I’m sure he would have been standing next to you as would my friend, stepson and I.
Wow! That is some history there! Good gosh, both Lexington and Yorktown! I can’t imagine it.
I recall reading a passage in an excellent book a while back called either “Halsey’s Typhoon” or “In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors” and in it they talked about a guy who had been on a ship that sank, and he survived when so many others didn’t.
I recall, that when they sent him back to the states, he said he would never get on a ship again on the ocean, but they convinced him nothing would happen, and...he reluctantly agreed to get on the vessel. On the way back, halfway across the Pacific to Hawaii, the ship had some kind of engineering causualty which caused it to flood and sink!
I can see how your friend’s father would have got through one sinking, but...two would be too much for me (as it was for him, apparently!)
It does make the point-sometimes, when your number is up...it is up, and when it isn’t...it isn’t.
I was talking to a combat vet one time on this forum about how being shelled by artillery must make you crazy and panicked enough to simply jump up and run like hell to escape, and he said that wasn’t the most mind-bending part-he said that one also knew that if you got up and ran, you might simply run right into a shell that would have otherwise missed you!
I am with you, FRiend.
I am with you.
Heh, it sure did tickle me to remember that!
Ah, those were the days-where people went to movie theaters!
Hahaha...now I sound like an old fart!
Egad. I know. I had Netflix for many years, but in the last ten years, it seemed to go overboard with filth to the point I simply couldn’t stomach giving them money.
I think what did it for me was realizing they had a whole section devoted to LGBTQXYZ crap.
I can’t stand it. My wife got a movie from the Library and wanted me to watch it with her, and I almost always agree to that request because I am always looking for something in common we can relax and do together, so I did, but with trepidation. I heard bad things about it. But I watched.
Boy, I wasn’t far off the mark. It was completely and totally woke, with multiple references to lesbian mothers, strong women who can do anything, and men who are stupid and bound up in their toxic masculinity.
I pulled out my laptop less that a quarter of the way in and kept my mouth shut to keep the peace.
I can’t imagine what they would show on bases these days.
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. If there is an unopened bottle of rum, it clearly wasn't found by this crowd. ;^) Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks.
Dexter’s body dump uncovered…
“One of the best-made horror story movies EVER!!!!”
what’s the name of the movie you are talking about?
Poltergeist
Poltergeist
Thank you.
Go back far enough and every sq inch of North America is an Indian burial ground.
Working on his Dolphins now. And only 12 more hrs to get a degree in Nuclear Chemistry. ( they now earn a lot of college credits for the nuke courses, He had most of his associates completed before he enlisted). I will pass on your good words to him. The day he was most excited about nuke school was the test day where he had to start the reactor from cold, bring the turbines/ generators online, and then get the shaft turning, all by himself, so the kid who I wouldn’t let drive my Durango now can fire up a nuke sub. Amazing world. He had several jobs while going to school, then walked in one day and asked his mom to guess what he did. She said just tell me. He responded “ I enlisted in the NAVY”. I immediately said congratulations and shook his hand. Mom sat down and didn’t say anything for 15 minutes. Then she got up smiled and said congratulations. She realized that her baby boy had become a man. As always she remains his biggest fan, even if she is still learning the new language he speaks. ( navalese dialect nuclear)
The kicker was that Kalinin Bay was part of Taffy 3 at the battle of Samar, where The Japanese Center Force which now consisted of the battleships Yamato, Nagato, Kongō, and Haruna; heavy cruisers Chōkai, Haguro, Kumano, Suzuya, Chikuma, Tone; light cruisers Yahagi, and Noshiro; and 11 Kagerō-, Yūgumo- and Shimakaze-class destroyers engaged the escort carriers and the destroyer escorts guarding them. They became the trailing carrier when Taffy 3 turned away. They were hit by at least one battleship shell, and several heavy cruiser (8 inch) shells.
Good Lord!
Sailors used to be quite superstitious-I can see your friend’s father walking up the gangway and some other sailor seeing him and saying “GOOD GOD! IT’S THAT GUY WHO WAS ON THE LEXINGTON AND THE YORKTOWN WHEN THEY WERE SUNK! I AM GOING AWOL TONIGHT!”
On a different note, I have always been fascinated by The Battle of Leyte Gulf. And it seems so unknown by many Americans today.
The scale of the battle was huge. The stakes were high. The sub-plots were astounding.
Halsey, itching for a fight, taking the bait, and through a common clerical error which threw gasoline on the fire, ends up to his dying days fighting what he viewed as slander by people who questioned his actions, all under the shadow of the words “The world wonders”.
On the other side, almost simultaneously, the Biblical Davids of the US Navy in Taffy3 against the Goliaths of the Imperial Japanese Navy and their battleships, darting in, really, the unbelievable parallel to “The Charge of the Light Brigade”.
The destroyers of Taffy 3 with bones in their teeth sailed directly at the Japanese battlewagons, their five inch guns like the sabres of the Light Brigade being flashed in the air, they “Volley’d and thunder’d” like hooves, as the superstructures of the battleships flashed with impacts. They sailed under full steam to what many of them, like the calvary in Tennyson’s poem, assumed was going to be their certain death...”Someone had blunder’d”.
Halsey, in full pursuit to the north, gets the communication from his boss who is trying to discreetly ask what Halsey was up to without ruffling his feathers, ending with Halsey losing it on the bridge of the New Jersey and throwing his hat to the floor in white hot anger and shame as “All the world wonder’d” in Hawaii what was going on.
You could not make this up.
And then, Typhoon Cobra just a month or two later.
With the way they could use computer graphics to recreate that, with the real, unadulterated story line from history, that would be quite the production.
“The Battle of Leyte Gulf”.
“Poltergeist” (The original/first one)
Also a good and well made one is “Thirteen Ghosts” (Poltergeist-level quality, IMHO)
“Also a good and well made one is “Thirteen Ghosts” (Poltergeist-level quality, IMHO)”
Thanks for the tip.
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