Life aboard a carrier is about as good as it gets in the Navy IF you can put up with the noise and the long lines during Chow. I used to bring books with me to read while I waited to eat. Going on Liberty was also drag. Too many damn sailors. At 20 I learned to start taking trips two towns over to get away from them.
I can’t speak for the Teddy, but the crew man getting sucked into the intake happens on almost every carrier. It happened on the Kitty Hawk ( CV-63) when I was stationed on it in 1987 during a world cruise ( The guy didn’t make it) and I have a video of it happening on the Ranger during Desert Storm in 1991 where the airman crawled out of the A6 engine then collapsed. The tape came to me in the summer of 91 from Phillip Brozak who was stationed on the Ranger at the time. His brother served with me on the guided missle cruiser Virginia ( CGN-38)
The funniest thing ( only because no one was hurt) was I saw when stationed on the Kitty Hawk happened outside of Pearl Harbor. A helicopter was trying to land on the flight deck and cut its engines in high winds, immediately plunging into the Pacific.
We used to play the tape on CC TV whenever we did the ships news.
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Date: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:29 (UTC)I can’t speak for the Teddy, but the crew man getting sucked into the intake happens on almost every carrier. It happened on the Kitty Hawk ( CV-63) when I was stationed on it in 1987 during a world cruise ( The guy didn’t make it) and I have a video of it happening on the Ranger during Desert Storm in 1991 where the airman crawled out of the A6 engine then collapsed. The tape came to me in the summer of 91 from Phillip Brozak who was stationed on the Ranger at the time. His brother served with me on the guided missle cruiser Virginia ( CGN-38)
The funniest thing ( only because no one was hurt) was I saw when stationed on the Kitty Hawk happened outside of Pearl Harbor. A helicopter was trying to land on the flight deck and cut its engines in high winds, immediately plunging into the Pacific.
We used to play the tape on CC TV whenever we did the ships news.