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I just thought there should be a place anyone who served at any time at any command could go and throw out a thought, ask a question or gripe!
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I saw an old post about age requirements to advance.I don't think there was an age requirement.I was a kiddie cruiser.Joined 2 weeks before my 18th birthday.I hit the testing schedule just right.I was a Radioman when they were rating at 100% during the Cuban missle crisis.I made RM2/E5 in less than 3 years.
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I don't remember any hot gedunk, it was all soda, chips and candy. Maybe some popcorn.....
Those providers of heat do not care what they are heating - but we humans do - especially when it is going inside of us :)
That is one advantage to being on a Tender/Repair ship. We had a big ships store and access to good geedunks. Other ships that came along made good use of that feature as well. I saw guys carrying soda cases back to their ships by the arm load, along with boxes full of candy and cigarettes. We all could get that stuff by the case if we wanted it. After a while, we just got a little bit as we wanted due to locker space and such being what it was.
Being that the upper foundry was our core and bearing shop, we had an oven that we baked cores in. Of course, the oven didn't know the difference between cores or cookies. SO, we had cookies, frozen pizzas, cakes...the whole bit. When we all chipped in for a small refridgerator that held a case of cokes, that was all she wrote for us needing to worry about running down to the ships store for a midnite snack.
Our shows were never that classy. I was bring your own soda and candy bars or chips, we had no pop corn maker. My time there were soda machines, ship's store did not sell soda aka pop, depending on where you were from. We only did the alternative movies that one time. The nice thing about being in sickbay, we had a steralizer, we had connects with some MS's, they would provide the dogs, holders and mustard, and we would kick back and watch that 19 or 21 inch tv. The next day the Chief would come in and we were doing PMS on the sterilizer and he knew exactly what we did last night - :)
We had a chalk board in the upper foundry and just put a sheet over it. We had chairs, someone made a geedunk run to the ship's store and got a mess of sodas, and we had a popcorn maker and would cook up a batch or two of popcorn.
Word was passed over the "local media" and soon guys from all over the ship would trickle down to the shop. Sometimes we would get twenty guys down there! Got real crowded then,.
We sometimes had a varied selection of movies, usually three or four at a time. Should have charged admission and made a few bucks!
I remember the alternative library and the alternative movie theatre. Sick Bay had a "smut" collection second to none. The 79-80 cruise two corpsmen had a mail order busisness going selling belt buckles. I came on board at the end of that cruise in Hawaii on their way home. During local opps in 80 or 81 I borrowed a projector from a former shipmate along with a couple of movies and we had the "OR" movies, as I recall we had a couple of officers and chiefs stop by. We just strung a sheet and let the movie begin.
During Apollo 11 recovery, we had ABC on board and they brought all kinds of Bloopers. Man it was some funny off color stuff. but the Chaplin was offended and we had to meet up with ABC in the hanger deck and watch these "bloopers" Where girls lost clothes etc.. Some very funny things..Off color language, with the F bomb and more. On Apollo 12 we could not get any of that..
LOL!....Yeah BUT...
The upper foundry on Hector had another function. It was kind of...OFF the Beaten path, if you will. We also had "movies' of the variety that weren't shown up on top of the MIRCS lab, or in the regular mess decks in stormy weather, and I don't think they were shown in the Chief's or Officers mess either...
We had popcorn too.
Hey Dave I think every ship had both those type of libraries. I worked for an SK1 that had his whole uuper locker under his mattress full of those books. He even keep a green log to check them out with.
Hector had a library, and it was operated by the ship's Chaplain. It had a good selection of books and I went there often.
Then there was the upper drawer of the filing cabinet in the upper foundry. It was a "library" as well, and one the Chaplain had nothing to do with. I went there a few times, too.
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