Post by gobbit on Mar 9, 2007 9:12:52 GMT -5
Egads, I can't believe I almost forgot this one.
One nice cloudy day our CGN9, cruiser guided missle nuclear vessel was pulling in to Canada, Vancouver for a couple days visit. Nothing exotic like Japan, orThailand, but still a forgein country. They do have Canadians up there, eh?
Soooo, when this occurs, the cap't and all put on pretty uniforms, have the sailors topside in ranks so it looks all fancy and all uber. All at attention, no one moving at all.
Well, now, I can neither confirm nor deny that we carried nuclear weapons onboard our ship. However I can say we had a detachment of marines. Now for those not in the navy. Sailors basically are the 'I don't give a damn" type, while marines are brain damaged. When we have a marine drill, and the alarm goes off, they have so many seconds to get to their station or get docked their pay. So they grab loaded shot guns and run down the passageways as fast as they can. Everyone freezes or ends up in a very bad way. One marine even hit the hatchway head piece so hard he knocked himself out.
Anyway, we were pulling into this port when down in the bowels of the ship an electrician stood watch. Well, actually he was sitting in his chair with his control panel in front of him. Well, seems there is this one generator which has specific things that it feeds and if it ever loses power so do these other things. Well, now, this operator in amongst his other duties is to swtich things around so we can tie up to power on land and can turn off our generators so we can all enjoy shore leave.
So here we are, pulled into Vancouver the local officials are onboard greeting our captain, when low and behold, our operator flips the 'wrong' swtich and the electrical panel which feeds the marine alarm with life giving electricity goes dead, and the little back up system sounds the alarm.
Well, the alarm sounds, the marine start their loaded shotgun rampage down the passageways, and everyone freezes, including the capt. and guests.
We all thought it was funnier than hell, but the cap't was not amused to have his guest looking down the barrel of a loaded shotgun, so our dear friend got a few hours of retraining, hahahaha.
One nice cloudy day our CGN9, cruiser guided missle nuclear vessel was pulling in to Canada, Vancouver for a couple days visit. Nothing exotic like Japan, orThailand, but still a forgein country. They do have Canadians up there, eh?
Soooo, when this occurs, the cap't and all put on pretty uniforms, have the sailors topside in ranks so it looks all fancy and all uber. All at attention, no one moving at all.
Well, now, I can neither confirm nor deny that we carried nuclear weapons onboard our ship. However I can say we had a detachment of marines. Now for those not in the navy. Sailors basically are the 'I don't give a damn" type, while marines are brain damaged. When we have a marine drill, and the alarm goes off, they have so many seconds to get to their station or get docked their pay. So they grab loaded shot guns and run down the passageways as fast as they can. Everyone freezes or ends up in a very bad way. One marine even hit the hatchway head piece so hard he knocked himself out.
Anyway, we were pulling into this port when down in the bowels of the ship an electrician stood watch. Well, actually he was sitting in his chair with his control panel in front of him. Well, seems there is this one generator which has specific things that it feeds and if it ever loses power so do these other things. Well, now, this operator in amongst his other duties is to swtich things around so we can tie up to power on land and can turn off our generators so we can all enjoy shore leave.
So here we are, pulled into Vancouver the local officials are onboard greeting our captain, when low and behold, our operator flips the 'wrong' swtich and the electrical panel which feeds the marine alarm with life giving electricity goes dead, and the little back up system sounds the alarm.
Well, the alarm sounds, the marine start their loaded shotgun rampage down the passageways, and everyone freezes, including the capt. and guests.
We all thought it was funnier than hell, but the cap't was not amused to have his guest looking down the barrel of a loaded shotgun, so our dear friend got a few hours of retraining, hahahaha.