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by VMadison
Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:53 pm
Forum: Sea Stories
Topic: Training Flare**
Replies: 28
Views: 110941

Unforgetable patrols for sure!!! I was in the ELT shack for the Machenry Upper Level Dangling incident. "Coreman lay aft!!!" What a mess he made of his wrist with a "bic" razor before dangling. :cry: I was the off-going EWS for the fan room incident. I carried the submersible pum...
by VMadison
Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:36 pm
Forum: The "Other" Crew
Topic: Okay Goldies, Fess up
Replies: 5
Views: 33141

Green

I have also been told that one of the storage locations during the intial brewing period was outboard of the starboard MG set in machinery 2 lower level. I remember seeing a piece of tygon tubing that extended over behind the MG set. I wonder if that was a vent tube off the fermenting tank? Bobby, t...
by VMadison
Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:21 pm
Forum: The "Other" Crew
Topic: Okay Goldies, Fess up
Replies: 5
Views: 33141

14 Day Wonder

Chip, that happended to be some of the "14 Day Wonder" brew that was an un-told tradition of the ELT gang :twisted: . Not saying I had anything to do with it, but somehow, a lot of apple juice and raisins got passed aft during ships loading of stores just prior to patrol. The large waste s...
by VMadison
Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:22 pm
Forum: Sea Stories
Topic: Time on the Pond on MADISON
Replies: 23
Views: 160488

Keith Holman wrote:Vic, please upload that photo to the Pictures albums as well. It would make a good "then" picture for an avatar as well (if you shrink it down). (see this)
OK, I changed my avatar to the "then" photo.
by VMadison
Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:58 pm
Forum: Sea Stories
Topic: "Victor" Bashing at sea
Replies: 3
Views: 23953

Victor Bashing

Hey Bobby, I must have had the same dream but I my dream put me on watch. In my dream I heard some screeching of metal !!!
by VMadison
Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:44 am
Forum: Sea Stories
Topic: Time on the Pond on MADISON
Replies: 23
Views: 160488

6 patrols was not an uncommonly high number. I also did 6 but I remember quite a few that were aboard before me and still there after I left. Some of those include: Kelly Ray, Victor Madison, Bob Clements, Charlie Plotz, Mr. Fisk, Jim Whitmire, and Gary Rhoades. Most of the ones that their first pa...
by VMadison
Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:41 pm
Forum: Sea Stories
Topic: NEAR_DISASTER UNDER SEA**
Replies: 8
Views: 37894

Collision

This incident has been documented in Clancy's Blind Man's Bluff. A little birdie told me :roll: that it was quite an awful sound as the two ships exchanged paint. I don't have anymore details :-D but this supposedly happened to the Blue crew. Check out the report in Clancy's book.