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[Bilgerat]

The U.S.S. Carl Vinson pulled into Long Beach Naval station during a fleet week. She passed right off our fantail.

Our 210 ft cutter looked like a Captain's gig next to that monster!

Somewhere there's a picture of an Aircraft Carrier, a Destroyer and a 378 Cutter underway alongside each other. But I'll be damned if I can find it.

The long and the short of it (pun intended), next to those behemoths "we be small & snit"

[aboutime]

I thought you were on the big decks. Those are gator freithers

Gunny "THE BIG E" Enterprise WAS a big deck. My most enjoyable tour at sea was on the Dahlgren. DDG....Guided Missile Destroyer. WE KNEW when we went to sea....even at the pier.

[Gunny]

Gunny "THE BIG E" Enterprise WAS a big deck. My most enjoyable tour at sea was on the Dahlgren. DDG....Guided Missile Destroyer. WE KNEW when we went to sea....even at the pier.

The Boxer. I was a Gunny. LHD-4. The Col was an ass and we were lifting buddies. We called him "the Duke". He was WAY bigger than me.

Even the XO left me alone. Bet your ass I played it, Looking at retirement and having a broke give=a=shitter? The Chiefs treated Sailors like shit. ANd y'all had this E-7 rule. It's E-6 in the Corps. The MMs I hung out with were 6s so they got treated like shit.

Unless they were with me. How does Tommy Lee Jones say it? I can't abide bad manners in a man. I won't tolerate it. And I didn't.