Real WestPac Sailors- question

[swdw]

Originally Posted by Snowman999

We crossed paths. I was in the Gold crew late 1981-summer 1984.

Think you're misremembering. The Bluies fired the bird (Capt. Tuma.) I have a framed photo. We did everything but.

Oops you're right, got my DASO's mixed up, we launched the Poseiden after the overhaul and I think we were still the combined crew at that point. I was on her through the entire Poseiden DASO ops cuz I was also on her for the last 4 months of the overhaul at Portsmouth before she left for Charleston. The LPO of RC division at that time was Jerry Shadley who was a 6'2" heavy guy who was a Firtst Class ET, not a chief. I remember trying to ge t his 230+ pound frame down the hatch without him falling down the ladder after a night in Cocao Beach.

The guy you remember that was tall and skinny came on later as a ET1 and then made chief. That was on my 2nd or 3rd patrol if I remember correctly.

Believe it or not, there was a Congressional investigation over those contacts, as it was the last straw in a string of bad problems on different boats caused by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and it caused the PNS to lose their contract. I submitted the report to the eng about what was wrong and how the shipyard had screwed up figuring that was it. He forwarded the report to the powers that be which started the whole fracas. I had to prove every word from the manuals or face a court martial. Thank God I'd done my research and dotted all my i's and crossed all my t's before submitting the report.

Trying to remember time wise, were you on her when Ensign Funderberg (sp?) almost sank us?

And were you on her when all the muppet "mascots" were kidnapped during a patrol? That was funny! :rotfl:

Too bad you missed the fun in Ft Lauderdale when the protestors tried to cross the gangplank

Guess any more reminiscing should be dome via PM so we don't bore people to death.