You call your father's wartime service 'adventure'?
Maintenance is all SOPs, and dealing with flooding and rescue also forms part of crew training. No one looks for getting into such an event.
I had an uncle cptn 2nd rank, who was assigned shore battery, where he died commanding. I bet that was no adventure.
Greg
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:Most people in any of the World's navies do their watch and go home/bunk.I call *BS." I would use foul language of the worst kind, if I were not trying to be gentlemanly.Mr Greg Chalik, my father was in the Navy in both World War II and Korea. He knew very, very well that his job was not just to do his watch and then go to his bunk. He performed maintenance on destroyers that had just been shot to all Hell, going up against Japanese night convoys. The bloated, decayed bodies he had to help remove from flooded compartments which had been sealed with those crewmen STILL ALIVE INSIDE to prevent the ship from sinking also did NOT belong to men who were just there putting in shifts of time.I'm going to stop typing now, before I type something I will regret.--Richard Aiken
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