From: pball@csionline.net
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 08:30:23 PST
Hey Fred,
What are you saying - you should have used the water
chocks! :-)
Bruce
Quoting Fred Martin <mung@in-touch.net>:
> On the subject of letting one get away from you...
(naval) was coming
> into Pearl Harbor pier K-26...I was standing next to
the throttle watch
> in the after engine room, (Larry Bain from
Springfield, Mo.) and he told
> me that last year when we came in here...we hit the
pier. The engine
> order telegraph called all stop...he answered
it...again...back down one
> third...he answered it...then...emergency
backdown...stand by for
> collision. We hit it again! Figured that the old man
let the same junior
> officer take her in that did it last year. This
happened aboard the USS
> Alamo LSD-33 in 1960 coming back from a WesPac tour.
Fred Martin
>
> Paul A. Thomas wrote:
> > > PUT THE CHOCKS ON THE DOWNHILL SIDE OF THE
WHEELS
> >
> > > Sorry I had yet to see someone say
this............watched many a
> > Marines NOT do this and chased trucks DOWN
hill........chocks still
> > > beind them on the ground.
> >
> >
> > Gee: never saw that happen to Army guys...
> >
> > <G,D,R>
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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