Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

"To date, the Battle of Savo Island is deemed the worst defeat in a single fleet action suffered by the U.S. Navy, save Pearl Harbor. The battle, according to Nautilus, “prompted the U.S. Navy to re-evaluate its tactics, leading to improvements in radar use, training, and night combat readiness.” The loss was so staggering that the watery gates to Guadalcanal gained its infamous nickname of “Ironbottom Sound” for the ships left to rust on the seafloor for all of time."



Earlier post on: "Battle of Guadalcanal and Ironbottom Sound" here:
https://rollitup.org/t/veterans-get-the-hell-in-here-now.868187/page-140#post-16466557
 
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Dave Davenport base photographer and unofficial C-130 and Pope historian from the 70's -2000's published over 500 C-130 cartoons. Couldn't find a book or hardly any of the cartoons online.

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I hitched a ride to Dutch Harbor to meet my ship in a herc, we slammed down so hard (due to vicious winds) that the antenna's to the tail were snapped off.

That hurt!
When we went on a KC-135 to Hickam the pilot bounced that thing about 15 feet in the air when landing and I'm surprised nothing broke. All the "passengers" let the pilot know what we thought about his skills, automatic reaction I guess. WTF was a common phrase combined with other expletives.
 
When we went on a KC-135 to Hickam the pilot bounced that thing about 15 feet in the air when landing and I'm surprised nothing broke. All the "passengers" let the pilot know what we thought about his skills, automatic reaction I guess. WTF was a common phrase combined with other expletives.
If you can walk away from it, it's not a crash - it's a "landing".
 
We were in drydock in Pearl Harbor for a major refit (the most expensive ever for an Adams-class destroyer) for a full year and lived in barracks on the Marine base, right next to the Marines' EM club- every Saturday night when the club closed there'd be a bunch of them out in the yard spoiling for a fight. I was never personally involved in any of the altercations as on the weekends I would typically fly to Maui (for $18 unless I had duty. My duty days in "A gang" I performed sounding and security watches and took A/C readings. The soundings were to check the level of the water in the bilges to ensure that the ship wasn't leaking and possibly sinking

in drydock
 
We were in drydock in Pearl Harbor for a major refit (the most expensive ever for an Adams-class destroyer) for a full year and lived in barracks on the Marine base, right next to the Marines' EM club- every Saturday night when the club closed there'd be a bunch of them out in the yard spoiling for a fight. I was never personally involved in any of the altercations as on the weekends I would typically fly to Maui (for $18 unless I had duty. My duty days in "A gang" I performed sounding and security watches and took A/C readings. The soundings were to check the level of the water in the bilges to ensure that the ship wasn't leaking and possibly sinking

in drydock
i did 4 years on the shitty kitty before i went into the army, dry dock set the pace for the rest of the military fuckery i would witness before i retired
 
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