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  Adrian Hernandez November 18, 2012 at 5:32pm

  
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  Looks like the Big E is at the end of her sailing days . She's headed for the scrap yard.  I feel a little heartsick about it, but I know all things come to an end in the course of time.  I will always remember her, for as long as I can.

   I'm proud to have served on-board, and been a small part of her history.

  http://http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/01/us/enterprise-scrap/index.html...
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  Darrell Legg October 1, 2012 at 8:46pm

  I was in OI Div from 76 to 79. My first GQ station was port bow lookout. Later it was changed to Bridge Status Board Keeper... O2 level to 015 was quite a jaunt. Don't think I could do it today
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  brian forrester October 1, 2012 at 8:16pm

  its been 30 years since I walked her decks, God bless her and all my shipmates
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  william donald waddell September 22, 2012 at 2:43pm

  I usually got stuck in Con Flag #2 If I was in the Air Dept. office it was 2 knee nockers down and aft from the 03 level on the Port side, if i was quick I didn't have to go to the starboard side and down to and across the Hanger bay
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  Adrian Hernandez September 22, 2012 at 5:27am

  When we were in, or near, the Gulf Of Tonkin, we would have GQ drills.  And also GQs, that were not a drill.  But in both cases there was a lot of people, all of a sudden, running throughout the ship.  If you can imagine 5000 pairs of feet pounding the decks of the Big E.  And if you can also imagine what any nearby subs would pick up on their sonars- well, I'd hate to be wearing sonar headphones at that time.  My GQ station was Sick Bay of course.  And all I had to do was get there from where ever I was.  One time I opened a hallway door and saw a steady stream of people running by.  Hmm-  lets see, simply insert myself into the direction of traffic.  

  We always had injuries brought into Sick Bay just from GQ.  Even more, when we were launching and landing aircraft non-stop. 

   I know all who ever served on the Big E experienced this.   What was your most remembered GQ incident. 
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  Sky Stone November 2, 2011 at 8:12pm

  Howdy Shipmates!!! I joined the Big-E in Alameda CA in 1989 (assigned to the AIMD Calibration LAB).We sailed around the world to her new home port in Norfolk Va just as Desert Storm was getting started. We sure worked hard but had a great time in port. I still think about those cinnamon rolls they served every morning while we were out at sea. That always gave me something to look forward to.
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  fred houseman October 14, 2011 at 4:34pm

  I served on the Big E 1969-1973 Had a Great time
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  James Joseph Davila October 13, 2011 at 10:55am

  Hi everyone

  I served on the Big E from 1980 to 1982...have a great day.
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  Todd Daniel August 31, 2011 at 11:59am

  Greetings fellow Big E sailors......I served aboard the E from 79 to 82....I was the Captains Gig Coxswain for Captain Robert Kelly......great memories....Signed BM2 Daniel
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  francis mickey doyle July 25, 2011 at 8:59am

  i think my ship the great sitkin was the first ammo ship that re-armed the enterprise.while re-arming we had a fire in one of the resistor houses.i could not believe how fast that carrier was going thru the water after they broke all the re-arming cables.this happened in the late 1965 or early 1966.mickey doyle em2