Comments on: Sometimes it Sucks to be a Swabbie

By: M.G.Halvorsen

M.G.Halvorsen — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:35:29 +0000

I was 3 years aboard USS New Orleans (LPH-11) 1972–75. One of my vivid memories was sitting in Haiphong Harbor as part of TF-78 (Operation End Sweep, the de-mining of Haiphong)
UNREP every 3rd night, preceded by and concluded with leaving/entering the Harbor at General Quarters. 77–79 I was a 19D10 (Cav Scout) with 1/48 Inf. (3AD. Gelnhausen Germany). Believe me, this looks easy, try doing it at night in ROUGH water. Plus, you cannot dig a foxhole in a steel deck. Nuff said.

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By: TJ Tropea

TJ Tropea — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:24:20 +0000

I was on the USNS SIRIUS T-AFS 8 from Jan 1981 — Apr 1985. Believe me, I know what it’s like to do unreps at all hours of the day and night and just about any every kind of sea state. I recall we assigned the USNS RIGEL T-AF 58 to unrep the USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER CVN 69 in the Med during some heavy seas one time. The Rigel’s bow was coming out of the water. Then there was the Unrep the USNS SIRIUS did with the USS SYLVANIA AFS 2, I remember the swells lifting Sylvania up so high we were looking straight up to her from our main deck, then visa versa.

By: DC2 Jennings

DC2 Jennings — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:38:56 +0000

IT2,
Yeah I got the point of your message all wrong, sorry about that.
It’s not that I would have a problem going out in the field for 3 weeks. It is going “outside the wire” that I truly respect. Maneuvers are maneuvers, no matter what branch of service you are in. It is what the grunts are going through today that I truly respect.
DC2

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:56:57 +0000

Shame on Petty Officer Moore for putting such a cutline below a very exciting photo. He could have cropped the bow off a bit so the relative calm sea state did not appear in the background if he wanted us to think it was a ‘heavy’ sea. Any thing could have been done with Photo Shop, even bring one of the waves up to the bow and cover the background. The gray clouds add a sense of ‘drama’ to the photo also.
Good pic ruined with a bad cutline.
Still I have a certain love for the military and their ablities with the “camera obscura.“
They take a lot of damn good (informational and enjoyable) photos.
Joe

By: IT2 Max

IT2 Max — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:11:00 +0000

DC2,
You read my post wrong. I was a swab too (6 years active, 6 reserve) I said that getting a little sea-sickness was preferable to what the Army folks do in their field exercises. At least the swab-jockeys like me can get a shower once every few days at minimum. In fact, on the USS Virginia (CGN-38), we had hot water almost constantly thanks to the nuclear power. I say almost, because sometimes the engineer types would get JP-5 in the water by mistake and we would have to wait a while, but that wasn’t all that often.
Anyway, I’m not sure why you thought I was a ground-pounder (I like ground-pounders, BTW; jar-heads, air-heads, bubble-heads, whatever; we’re all on the same team).
IT2 (now civilian)

By: DC2 Jennings

DC2 Jennings — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:39:20 +0000

Hey Max,
You try working in the engine room of a small boy (frigate/destroyer) in 120 degree tempratures and then taking a salt water shower because you don’t have enough potable water!!!!
I don’t sit here and call what you did a cake walk, so try going down the path in a squid’s shoes before you think you have it that bad.
BTW, Jim S is correct, that is just slop between two very big boats. However, this is a very difficult and dangerous operation that happens every day.