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Paving the way

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Topic: Paving the way

Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Subject: Paving the way
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 9:06am

Serving on a deployed FBM I learned early on the art of making friends on the Tender. Eight Taco Bell Beef Burritos for Shop 56 leading first. A large can of a certain brand of Chilis for the Chief's mess. 12 Big Mac's for the ships Sup and friends. A six pack of Coors for the repair Officer. The Coors was split up among the crew so it could ride in the passenger compartment on the plane. The Engineering Officers and the CO knew about it, and paid the tab. The Coors came from a Trucker I hunted with out of Walterboro. Back then it wasn't sold East of the Rockies. Funny when the Tenders shifted in Holy Loch the presents were still well received. Ah, the art of Comshaw.

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Walt,
Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed.

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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 3:53pm

Those Mixed Nuts, Charles Chips, and Pretzels worked well with the Holy Loch Tenders.

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SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G
USNR Beaumont, TX,
USSVI Life Member
Mid Atlantic Base
Holland Club

Posted By: gerry
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 4:24pm

Mixed nuts and pistachios could get work done at PNSY, particularly from the sheet metal shop.

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MT2/SS
SSBN 641 (B)
SSBN 730 (B)
USSVI - Wyoming Base
USSVI National Webmaster

Posted By: Dave595
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 5:12pm

PSNSY - Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee could accomplish just about anything especially chrome plating. Mixed nuts and potato chips were good in Sub Base - Pearl.

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EM1(SS)
USS PLUNGER (SSN-595)
HOLLAND Club
USSVI LIFE Member
Blueback Base, Rogue-Umpqua Base, Olympic Peninsula Base

Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 5:27pm

I could have had an Extra Submarine delivered by EB in the 1960s for three Foul Weather Jackets and a 20 LB Tin of Coffee...

Posted By: gcconnor1
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 7:16pm

Coffee at Newport News got you engraved belt buckles and ash trays!!!

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GC Connor EMC(SS)/LT USN Ret
USS Ethan Allen(7)
Holland Club WA2STJ

Posted By: JrKrup, Skimmer
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 7:43pm

Summer 1966 we were in a private yacht yard (wooden hulled Minesweep) and I requested messcooking - anything to get out of chipping paint. I never went anywhere without an apron full of apples, oranges, bananas, an occasional canned ham and plenty of coffee. A case of frozen steaks on a Friday lunch did wonders for the yacht yard personnel morale. (I tipped off the welding shop foreman to make up a barbecue and lay in a supply of charcoal.) That's where I learned how to stick, MIG and TIG weld.

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Jon Krup, Skimmer - Minesweeps

Posted By: Doc Gardner
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2020 at 8:52pm

Some off the books sick call worked some magic

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Doc Gardner

We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to stand on the curb and clap as they march by.

Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2020 at 11:14am

I don't know how it was done, and my hat is dipped to the King of Comshaw whoever he was. Our Departing Captain was gifted a Naval Aviators jacket with a Wolverine Collar in Holy Loch on the completion of his last run with us. Now that was a major accomplishment.

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Walt,
Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed.

Posted By: 610ET
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2020 at 11:52pm

I was supply PO for two patrols early on.

I submitted multiple creative supply chits for an aviator leather jacket without success.

So much for Polaris getting whatever they requested although for all I know they were intercepted on the tender.

I was able to get an OD Green USN blanket that I used as a beach blanket for many years after I got out.

Sailors are definitely devious and not to be trusted.