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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/17/2020 at 20:38 • Filed to: None

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Notchback88 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/17/2020 at 20:41

Lotta older Army latrines look like that head too.

Also something something slur against the Navy “it’s not gay if it’s underway”. Confucius.

I’ve done the tour on the USS The Sullivans in Buffalo, NY - also a Fletcher Class DD. Small. Fucking. Ship. My grandpa, a Vietnam Navy vet, served on another Fletcher. He hated it, even though he had made Sr Chief by that point.

I’ll take being Army Aviation any day, thank you.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/17/2020 at 20:50

A bit of trivia from the U.S.S. Kidd :

“The decks in the aft enlisted head—as in the Galley—are painted red. Both of these spaces were used as an emergency first aid station in the event of casualties during battle. The red paint served as a primitive camouflage to hide the sight of blood from the wounded and to help keep them from going into shock.”

We learned this when we took our Cub Scouts for a tour and to spend the night on the Kidd.

Kinja'd!!!

Fortunately, they have converted a couple of the heads for a bit more privacy, so no guests were forced to use the more, shall we say “open” heads.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Notchback88
03/17/2020 at 20:52

I served for 6-1/2 years in the Army , ‘84-90 and after that, five years in the AFRES. I missed all of the real unpleasantries, not that my pals and I wouldn’t have been eager to go somewhere if stuff started up. I missed Gulf I, spent the time in Germany as a dependent spouse and had a brown ID card. Done with all of that now, thank you. Today, they have it very difficult.

RacinBob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/17/2020 at 20:54

I toured the Blueback in Portland Or which was the last US Die sel Sub. One of the tour guides served on it and he said everybody smoked. The air was just blue with smoke. Cancer anyone?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/17/2020 at 20:54

When I was in Army basic training, we’d be out as a company and they’d march us up to the porta-potties and give us like 3 minutes to pee and it would be like three dudes at a time in there and I’ll tell you, you get over your stage fright real quick, though I never had to wipe my arse in front of anyone.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RacinBob
03/17/2020 at 20:55

Yeah. In the training video, you see a bloke smoking at one point, an older guy. They did away with smoking in Army buildings and conveyances when I was in, around 1988 or ‘89. I welcomed it. Others, not so much.

lone_liberal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/17/2020 at 20:59

When I was in Navy boot camp the stalls in the barracks heads didn’t have doors and some buildings still had open shitters like that. It just goes to show that when you have to go other considerations fall to the way side.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > lone_liberal
03/17/2020 at 21:02

Somebody told me that folks lined up with their backs turned. I’ve never had to do the paperwork in front of anyone else, and that’s fine.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Notchback88
03/17/2020 at 21:17

Small? If you’re ever in Galveston, take a tour of the USS Cavalla, a WWII submarine and the USS Stewart, a destroyer escort. Both are landlocked at Seawolf Park. That submarine is cramped.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck
03/17/2020 at 21:21

I have a perhaps irrational fear of drowning, and I can’t possibly imagine being in a submarine underwater. I’d lose my mind. My wife grew up next door to a guy who enlisted as a nuclear submarine guy at age 18, served his 25 years, and retired at 43 with a full pension. Now he’s a security consultant in nasty dangerous places.

ttyymmnn > lone_liberal
03/17/2020 at 21:22

When you gotta go, you gotta go. As weird as it seems to us landlubbers, I imagine you got used to it pretty quickly. Not like there were any other options.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn
03/17/2020 at 21:37

One of my reasons for learning to SCUBA dive was to be able to see what was under me when I was swimming in the wild (pond, lake, ocean). But m y real fear would be fire. A fire on a submarine would do us both in.

The foulest person I ever met was a former submariner. He did the minimum time , got the GI Bill and went to college. Everything was a sexual innuendo and he gave truth to the saying, “curse like a sailor.” If he hasn’t straightened up, he’s a walking sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > lone_liberal
03/17/2020 at 22:13

USMC basic training is like that to this day. That’s also where 100% of mail was read and written.

Svend > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/17/2020 at 22:41

I remember when I was on a midnight exercise. I was dying for a pee but as I was laying down in a field, I couldn’t exactly get up and go find somewhere to p ee up against.

So I punched a hole in the ground. Slid my pants from my groin to midthigh, positioned myself over the hole and let flow.

After that, I appreciated any porta-loo.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Svend
03/17/2020 at 22:44

Military delights.

Svend > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/17/2020 at 22:50

Some happy, some sad and some downright bloody odd memories.