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  Jim Decota March 2, 2011 at 2:52pm

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  Every Monday while working on the USS Slater, we have lunch in the enlisted mess. I didn't realize we would be eating (at times) a meal that would have been provided during the 40's! :-) OK, so mac & cheese maybe a staple even today! It does have an ambiance that only a" tin can" can provide!

  
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  Jim Decota February 3, 2011 at 11:26pm

  It's good to see the numbers on this site jumping up! I don't understand how all those sites that want money to join have such high numbers.
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  David W Morris January 30, 2011 at 8:05am

  The new Navy is going the way of training operators and not technicians. If something breaks they are trained to start other equipment and shut the broken equipment down, tag it out and wait till they get in port to have a contractor fix it. The store rooms have been emptied and the supply lines are limited. Some bean counter decided that it would save millions of dollars. To add to this, when I was stationed on the New Orleans LPH-11 I had a quarterly budget of $250,000 and when I retired off the Tarawa LHA-1 I had $16,000.
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  Jim Decota January 29, 2011 at 8:03pm

  Jim, great pics of the Olympia! Now I know what the hull problems are they have the bow on upside down!
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  Jim Decota January 29, 2011 at 8:01pm

  I guess you aviation guys have a bit of an identity crisis at times!!!! With a 9.8% unemployment rate, are you trying to eliminate jobs? What would those poor slobs at the Navy Dept do if they didn't have the chance to make things as confusing and idiotic as they could?

  I'm not so sure about the newer recruits! I think they not only would not know how to change a "fuse", they probably don't know what a fuse is!
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  David W Morris January 19, 2011 at 8:15pm

  BTW they reported the sailor was a female. I still don't think blue camo's at sea is a good idea. Cause of death "Drowning by failed leadership".
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  Jim Decota January 19, 2011 at 7:32pm

  (Body of Missing Navy Sailor Recovered)

  It will be interesting to see if they release the cause of death!

  He had to be on the surface for them to find him, so we know he didn't drown,  I don't believe the water temp in the area is a threat of hypothermia and if sharks got him there wouldn't be anything left to find. I wonder if one of his own ships ran over him!
  
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  David W Morris January 18, 2011 at 10:24pm

  Yeah I was stationed on the Anchatraz or that would be Anchorage LSD-36
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  Jim Decota January 18, 2011 at 9:51pm

  We were convicts! Sentenced to 4 years to life! Extended for good behavior!
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  Rich Klemm January 18, 2011 at 9:43pm

  I agree with you, David.  The old dungarees were working just fine for me.  They were easy to maintain and/or replace.  In fact back a couple decades ago you could walk into the uniform shop, buy a shirt & trousers with a $20 bill and leave with change for McD's (or beer).  Nowadays you have to mortagage your house or take out another kind of load just to buy the badges to go on uniforms.  The only drawback was that we looked like convicts.