Dex Armstong
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Topic: Dex Armstong
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Subject: Dex Armstong
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2017 at 4:45pm
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I recently discovered the Postings of Dex. Been reading for days. (He enlisted a few months before I did.) I have figured out what most of his posts meant when my experience did not give me first hand knowledge. Two questions: 1) What is the difference between "One Way" and "Two Way" trash/garbage? (Guess: "Two Way" suggests the can was coming back to the boat after being dumped???) 2) What is a "Sharpshooter Bucket?" Again in the context of trash? (Guess: Was it the Garbage Cans with holes in them?) Pardon my ignorance. Jerry |
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Posted By: Boy Throttleman
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2017 at 9:56pm
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Correct in #1 the can came back down. #2 the garbage cans in the mess hall were tall and narrow sized to take a GDU bag. I never heard them called that but I assume you had to be a "sharpshooter" to hit one from any real distance. PS I came on board the USS Requin not long after Dex left, but never heard them called that. |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2017 at 1:36pm
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Thanks for the reply. Not having got an answer I also asked Ray and he answered. I'm in the process of reading your posts on his site! They also are great! One point, I think you listed Capt Cromwell as being lost on Growler, not with Sculpin. (Of course, Capt Gilmore on Growler.) Maybe it was a Dex Post??? I am so glad you memorialized your remembrances from the early 1960's. They were also a memorable time for me. |
Posted By: Boy Throttleman
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2017 at 8:42pm
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I dont remember doing that, but if I did I screwed up Sorry. |
Posted By: Flapper
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2017 at 2:30pm
 Off-frame at lower left, tucked in the corner below the throttle wheels, was our sh*tcan (never heard 'sharpshooter' used for it). Panels left to right are SPCP steam plant controls, RPCP reactor plant controls, and EPCP electrical plant. Back turned to us is the EOW engineering officer of the watch at his little elevated corner stool. On the Dan'l Boone I had a watch officer that spent the tedium of boring low turn anonymous holes in the ocean by diligent practice shooting wadded paper balls from his 'highchair' in various directions to, eventually, ricochet into that sh*tcan. He'd make bets with visitors on, say, making the shot 'Off the RO's coffee cup, behind the throttles and into the can.' And then he'd make the shot he called. Now HE was a sharpshooter!
------------- ET1ss Nuke; 1962 - 1973. SSN-588, CVA-63, SSBN-629 BLUE, SSN-669 PLANKOWNER, FICPAC |
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