Yea, it became a regular thing after a while...We were mostly ‘running from’ them but the prevailing seas were there.
Remember many a time pulling out of Olangapo after a night of hoisting ‘green’ San Miguels...
I was on an APA (Henrico #45) 57-60 and had gotten orders to the Terrell County (LST-1157) ( a ‘newer’ larger one) in 1960.
We were leaving San Diego and out on the crypto ‘weather deck’ and spotted the LSTs leaving, we were lumbering along and when the LSTs hit the breakwater and started tossing and turning, I began to wonder if I had made the right choice.
Two plus years of ‘floating’ around Westpac, HP’ed in Yoko, made up for all the foibles involved....
Before I was transferred to Subic, I lived in Manila....... San Miguel Village. All my neighbors were managers at the San Miguel brewery.