Posted on 03/10/2021 9:53:43 AM PST by Incorrigible
...nothing beats a destroyer.
It's where the real deep sea squids serve.
Yep, loved the Ault...she was always spotless clean and when I served on her, had a really great captain and XO. The captain tried several times to get me to re-up...even for 6-months for a Med cruise.
I have always maintained that Sea-Going Greyhounds are the real NAVY!!
I came to her from Swift Boats in Viet Nam and probably would have shipped over if I hadn’t already determined to go back to college.
...nothing beats a destroyer.
It’s where the real deep sea squids serve.
Awesome. My grandfather served on a Fletcher during WW2 in the Pacific. 43-45. He took great pride in being a “Tin Can Sailor.”
Nasty sea duty! Nineteen Fletchers went down in World War II. Almost all Fletchers served in the Pacific. With five 5" cannon and ten torpedo tubes, they gave a good fight I'm sure. Your grandfather was lucky to survive that hell.
Nasty sea duty! Nineteen Fletchers went down in World War II. Almost all Fletchers served in the Pacific. With five 5” cannon and ten torpedo tubes, they gave a good fight I’m sure. Your grandfather was lucky to survive that hell.
One of those five inchers misfired into the ship stack on maneuvers and killed a bunch of his buddies. He was a plank owner who spent two solid years in the Pacific (Alaska to Australia and points in between) until they got hit by a Kamikaze boat at Okinawa and had to lay up in Bremerton. That’s where he met grandma who was on a church assignment. But that’s another story I guess.
BTW, he never told his kids or grandkids this. As a teen I read up on his ship myself and then asked him a few questions. Then a few stories came out. He was most interested in talking about light hearted topics. Like lighting farts on fire aboard ship and doing SP in the red light district of Honolulu. Combat was mostly off limits.
bttt
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