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NOPE! Never touched the stuff! My sense of humor is bad enough all ready. Twenty-three years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club Will do that to ya. And now kiddies , Chapter three of What the Hell Am I Doing Here!! Let me tell you another true but little known item. If any of you recall after that Iranian minelayer was siezed CNN had to get its two cents in and showed a scene of the captured vessel. In the scene you saw a Zodiac type boat come along side the minelayer and one guy climbed half way up a ladder on the side of the boat, he talked to an armed gent on the deck of the vessel and climbs back down to the Zodiac and it pulls away. this was all filmed from a CNN helo that was hovering nearby and the CNN Talking Head explains how they just captured the vessel. TRUTH: The armed dude at the top of the ladder on the minelayer was the Guads Seal team leader ( a chief named Doug-No not me! ) What happened was that Chief Doug and his team did capture the minelayer after the Army KIller Bees raked the deck and the eleven Rag Heads jumped in a raft to make a getaway. (Raft-getaway???) So anyhow the morning after Doug captured the boat the Seal team from the Command Ship LeSalle jump in their war canoe and come over to the minelayer. As their chief is climbing up the ladder Doug leans over the side and asks him what he wants. The LeSalle chief says he's coming aboard to take command of the boat. (READ: Commander U.S. forces Middle East wants his ship to claim all the glory) Doug would have none of it and tells the LeSalle chief to get the hell off his boat! Now Maritime Law states that the senior member aboard a captured vessel is the Captain and a Captains word is law! So what you really saw was Doug chasing the other guys off but CNN said they were capturing the minelayer. Ha-Ha. Moral to the story? Don't believe any first reports especially from a news source.doug..
your thought process is unique. are u on acid?
Hey Shipmate Nice photo!! By the way, that piece of junk in the foreground is an H-53. Do you remember what squadron it belonged to?Ive been on the Guad before Doug, and we blew more than a couple of mines in my time...
Heres a shot of one we blew in the North Atlantic....
The toughest bastards of the military world pukin like children full of ipecac...
No Tim just what I saw on the Sky news channel last week. they had some industrial problems with film crews here in Aussie but it seems all good to go. Makes sense to make a film about Pacific war here Tim. Location for one and thousands of US Troops were stationed here during War. Would you believe Tim about a mile from my home is still 2 Nissan Huts from the War . The area I live in Tim during the War were bases for US and Australian Military. I sometimes think it would be great to talk to say some one who was stationed around here and exchange photos with him or information about the changes taken place around Redbank since the War
OK! OK! I'll finish the story! And now Kiddies for chapter Four, the final chapter of "What The Hell Am I Doing Here!" A few days after the capture of the Iranian minelayer we transferred the prisoners to Kuwait for return to Iran. The Iranians then demanded that we return their property,ie the minelayer. That night I decided to go up on deck to check on my night shift crew and a friend, Chief Steve, calls me over to the port side of the ship and tells me to watch the horizon in this one particular spot. I asked what was going on and he replied "Just watch the horizon for another thirty seconds" So I watched and sure enough KABOOM!!!! I saw a bright flash and several seconds later I heard the explosion. I casually turned to Steve and inquired WHAT THE FU-K WAS THAT!! He laughed and said we just gave the Iranians boat back. HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!!! (We had towed it just inside their territorial waters and set off a charge that blew the bottom out of it!) I wish I knew who had done the "tow and blow" job, I would've bought them all a beer at our next liberty port. And you never heard another word about the minelayer from the Iranians or CNN! THE END
Hey Shipmate! What's the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story? A Fairy tale starts out wuth "Once upon a time..." and a Sea story starts out with "Now this ain't no ****..."Hehe, typical salt-story.... I know a few of em as well... Good one Senior..
And in the Army its "No **** there I was..."