I would guess a lot of us on FR have fought shipboard fires. I have - fun in training, indescribably miserable in real life. Once a fire has been burning for a full day, I cannot imagine getting it under control and repairing the ship. We need this ship, but I’m not sure that need matters at this point.
I was a Damage Control PO2 on a Tender back in the late ‘60’s...We had a small fire in the Bake Shop...I came in with a CO2 extinguisher and started to heu the flames in the oven when a LTJG got in front of me to look at the fire...I asked, “Sir!!! Please move!!!!”
He turned and looked at me, then turned back to the fire...
I asked him once again and he just ignored me....So I cut loose with the CO2....He screamed and jumped almost hit his head on the overhead...
Everyone just outside the Bake Shop was laughing their asses off!!!!
He screamed he was gonna write me up....That’s when a couple of CPO’s calmed him down and said he’d better leave well enough alone...
I never heard any more about it...