tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post2669573664216009323..comments2024-03-25T10:30:24.579-07:00Comments on Dan The Navy Man: 'The Fanroom Express'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-35338151586379015742021-03-16T23:43:32.635-07:002021-03-16T23:43:32.635-07:00In 88-89 we had a OSCS that was a really good guy ...In 88-89 we had a OSCS that was a really good guy and knew his rate. Two years from retirement he got popped for coke. What a waste.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688581632813677890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-5071574124879600372021-03-16T17:29:33.779-07:002021-03-16T17:29:33.779-07:00This was on the USS Tripoli This was on the USS Tripoli Gregghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08361985226019592768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-25924387696039658442021-03-16T17:29:06.841-07:002021-03-16T17:29:06.841-07:00Back in 1981 while working in the skullery on mess...Back in 1981 while working in the skullery on mess cooking duty while in Deck we used to blow the smoke up the steam vent above the dish washer. Didn’t last long cause I got reassigned to the CPO Mess the last month. Gregghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08361985226019592768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-59924634985867450912020-12-01T22:51:56.447-08:002020-12-01T22:51:56.447-08:00Everything that guy just said is bullshit. Everything that guy just said is bullshit. Frank Nolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03578262573423918693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-41963948668007109532020-12-01T12:44:15.062-08:002020-12-01T12:44:15.062-08:00I remember, during UNITAS cruise, some young blue ...I remember, during UNITAS cruise, some young blue shirt was showing a buddy his box of cigs with a joint in it. Unfortunately for him, the XO was standing right behind him! No situational awareness. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270408570784341679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-71871943586743347472020-12-01T00:36:29.754-08:002020-12-01T00:36:29.754-08:0035 IVDS hoist room with the top door open.:)35 IVDS hoist room with the top door open.:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-17504508143376320242020-11-30T20:30:51.320-08:002020-11-30T20:30:51.320-08:00In addition to my duties as Gunnery Officer, I had...In addition to my duties as Gunnery Officer, I had the collateral duty of legal officer on an Adams-class DDG in the late 70s. One evening as we were underway in the Philippines OPAREA, I got a call from our Captain. He reported a "funny smell" in his cabin. I had our Chief Master-at-Arms meet me in the passageway outside of the Captain's cabin, where the fanroom that fed the CO's suite was located. We quickly undogged the hatch and opened it, to find billows of ganja smoke and a bleary-eyed sailor asking "Wow, man, how'd you know I was in here?" The Captain was not very kind to this lost little dumbass at Mast-- I think more for being STOOPID than for smoking the wacky weed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-16314265402525880862015-06-08T10:28:59.683-07:002015-06-08T10:28:59.683-07:00Remember back in '74 on the Silly Willy (USS W...Remember back in '74 on the Silly Willy (USS W.S.Sims DE-1059) a first day ICFN partook in 'smoke' break next to the Goat locker fan intake. The redneck EMC came storming out screaming, "I'm gonna catch me a Gawd damn pot smoker!!!" as he flew up the ladder ... only to find out that it was one of his own in Repair Division (and the soon after discharged EM2 that was giving the tour). No Mast, but the ICFN retired the same rank after four and the door because of it. Poor old Guppy (the ICFN's nickname) remembers to this day that whole episode ... that we ask him about that sea story at every ship reunion. LMFAOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-79744401160061612312015-06-05T20:44:17.964-07:002015-06-05T20:44:17.964-07:00After a gun shoot a few would run down to the main...After a gun shoot a few would run down to the main deck and go through the fan rooms. From what I hears the gun shoot would knock all the stashed weed out of hiding and it was finders keepers. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-38860270194146812712015-06-03T06:36:12.406-07:002015-06-03T06:36:12.406-07:00I worked in deck with a guy who would sit on the f...I worked in deck with a guy who would sit on the foc'sle with an empty coke can and do the stuff right there in the open.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-49353758141922016502015-06-02T19:24:41.338-07:002015-06-02T19:24:41.338-07:00Back in the day a buddy and I used to smoke some s...Back in the day a buddy and I used to smoke some stuff down in the deep magazine fwd. Only one way in and out, so we couldn't be surprised. And we could hear anyone coming from 3 levels up. Of course there was the little problem of all that ammo around us. But it all seemed a little hazy at the time. And we ended up in one piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-72528897909146285442015-06-02T18:56:42.893-07:002015-06-02T18:56:42.893-07:00On the "Less Than Fun" in the mid '7...On the "Less Than Fun" in the mid '70s, the dopers were pretty darn common. For the snipes, After Auxillary space seemed to be the favorite hangout to roll one and burn it. Airdales seemed to like the catwalks along the flight deck at night. I spent many a ready boat crew watch next to the motor whaleboat smelling the stuff...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-63316715214802727742015-06-02T11:31:43.031-07:002015-06-02T11:31:43.031-07:00As a OSSN, I once caught a OS3 tootin on a piece o...As a OSSN, I once caught a OS3 tootin on a piece of Hashish in the back of CIC. I went off on him. No way in hell I wanted a doped up fool on surface radar watch. Caught another OS3 rolling his doobies on my rack since it was a secluded spot.. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-66658416757082214132015-06-02T11:24:24.990-07:002015-06-02T11:24:24.990-07:00Just when you think you've heard 'em all!
...Just when you think you've heard 'em all!<br /><br />At least they got caught before the shit REALLY hit the fan! <br /><br />I can tell you a story about that. <br /><br />My first ship, we'll call her the "Callie." <br />I was a non-rated deck ape (struck Supply after our Earnest Will deployment). There were three other non-rates junior to me in deck division, and one was a stoner. No big secret, though these were the days when "Zero Tolerance" were new. Kid was high WHILE on weekend duty more than once in the weeks before we deployed. <br />Now, the stoner's assigned GQ station was Repair 5. <br />This weighs heavily on the story, b/c these were also the days when Halon was new in the fleet. The Callie had some problems with the initial Halon installation during a yard availability in early '88 (outlets installed in CCS that weren't supposed to be, confusion as to said outlets being wired up, etc. You get the idea....) <br />So....<br />Callie is out on deployment. We're JUST inside the P.G., just north of the Straits of Hormuz, playing wargames with the Saudi Air Force. (Hide and Seek, and we're IT. EMCON and the whole nine yards, yada yada yada...) <br />One of the stoner's assigned GQ duties is to "man the halon button." <br />So, we're conducting GQ drills while playing hide-and seek with friendly F-15s. I'm assigned to the starboard 25mm during the deployment. One minute, everything's jake. The next, Callie is DEAD in the water. The NEXT, there's the roar of jet engines, and we're overflown by one of said friendly 15s. WTF, over?<br />Dafuq is.... down in repair five, they're running fire drills. <br />"SIMULATE ACTIVATING HALON!" <br />Guess what the stoner did (and what state he was in at the time)? <br />Yep, high as a kite, he didn't hear "SIMULATE!" <br />FOOOOOSH!!! <br />Halon's flooding main engineering, AND CCS! Guys pouring up from below like the devil's on their asses! Engineering Mainframe is FRIED. (CCS outlets were right by the systems.) <br />BIG trouble. MAJOR embarrassment for the captain. Had to be towed out through the Straits to the Gulf of Oman for repair availability with the USS Prairie. Stoner was made to take a piss test. BOOM. Positive for grass. Drumhead captain's mast, and shipped home to await an OTH/Admin discharge. He went home on the same helo as the CHENG, who was relieved for negligence (due to the halon fuck-up that wouldn't have happened <br />if CHENG hadn't let the yardbirds fuck up the installation in the first place.) <br />Never shoulda happened. (O'course, he shoulda been popped before we left San Dog, so....) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-5695865762351844422015-06-02T11:21:59.917-07:002015-06-02T11:21:59.917-07:00The armory was the place to be barring the door fr...The armory was the place to be barring the door from the inside and taping up the window to keep the roving patrol grin getting to nosy. Angle irons and lockers plenty of places to hide that contrabandAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16468281943136736848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5657347751045557115.post-47947536991804412332015-06-02T11:11:34.789-07:002015-06-02T11:11:34.789-07:00On the KNOX (DE-1052), we had a young RM3 do that ...On the KNOX (DE-1052), we had a young RM3 do that but the fan room he was in went to the Wardroom. Needless to say, he wasn't an RM3 anymore and had no security clearance.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com