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All this time I had that wrong. 24 years as black shoe on four ships, made Chief, in the end had responsibilities for 32 ships, feel like an idiot now. LT Brad McInnis CDR Mike Kovack Maj Marty Hogan MCPO Roger Collins LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SCPO Larry Knight Sr. SCPO David Lockwood PO1 John Y. CWO3 Dennis M. Capt Tom Brown CMDCM Gene Treants MCPO Roger Collins CPO (Join to see) CDR Mike Kovack CPT Jack Durish Col Jim Harmon PO2 Robert Aitchison SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas LT Axel Newe
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I remember a ship in SD that had to call the Navy Diving and Salvage crew in to pull their anchor off the bottom. The sailors had done some maintenance on the anchor chain, forgot to follow the PMS check.... You want to laugh when you hear the story, but there is also the pucker factor thinking of what maintenance your people are doing now that could have embarrassing results....
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LTC Stephen C.
LT Brad McInnis, this story is from my father, who served as the engineering officer aboard USS LST-78 during WWII.
The ship was in the process of being beached (there's an entire manual written on how to beach an LST). The CO gave the order to release the stern anchor, but was really still too far offshore. Apparently, this guy was a butthead of sorts, so his command was simply relayed to the crew and the stern anchor was released. As I mentioned, the ship was too far away from shore so the end of the chain simply came off the winch and fell into the water.
The anchor was irretrievable, so the ship and crew waited on shore for two weeks while a new anchor was procured. My father said the CO caught total hell for his mistake. Don't know if it's true or not, but I'm sure that someone did exactly that during WWII!
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The ship was in the process of being beached (there's an entire manual written on how to beach an LST). The CO gave the order to release the stern anchor, but was really still too far offshore. Apparently, this guy was a butthead of sorts, so his command was simply relayed to the crew and the stern anchor was released. As I mentioned, the ship was too far away from shore so the end of the chain simply came off the winch and fell into the water.
The anchor was irretrievable, so the ship and crew waited on shore for two weeks while a new anchor was procured. My father said the CO caught total hell for his mistake. Don't know if it's true or not, but I'm sure that someone did exactly that during WWII!
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I remember when I was a hard charging HT2, and the bureau sent us a HTC since manning levels required one. I and some of my young bluejackets we're performing a 3M maintenance check, on the twin agent /AFFF system . The chief decided to observe our checks in the engineering spaces, and I suppose he felt the need to get involved. The checks had gone on without a hitch, until he decided to check a pin on one of the valves. That's when we got a jolt from the engineering officer and CO, wanting too know why the pier was filling up with foam from one end to the other? Needles to say the new CPO was transferred from the command, the same week he reported onboard . You can observe, but trust that your seasond sailors know what/ how to perform their duties !
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