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03-09-2010, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Orygun
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"it was after a night of frolicking in Subic!"
Don, "Frolicking"? I spent many wonderful evenings "Frolicking" in Subic. Served my last couple of years on the U.S.S. Dixie AD-14. We were on 6 month rotation to Riviera Pier at Subic, as the station repair ship. When I die, I want to go to Olongapo...  What year did you go through the Typhoon? We got into a bad one in late '69. We were walking on the bulkheads more than the deck. A wave smashed the front of mount 52, buckling the 5/8" armor plate and shorted out the brake. The dual 5" mount was swinging back and forth like a Rain Bird sprinkler. We skirted a Typhoon on the Dixie in '71. It's pretty humbling to be on the top deck of a 600 ft. ship and looking up at the swells on all sides of you. Ron
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I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said... Last edited by Ron Smith; 03-09-2010 at 01:21 PM. |
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