day after PEB (passing of course) and then having to get u/w to salvage some merchant who thought he had asthma. I particularly recall getting someone away from his girlfriend and back on board so I did not have to stand watch forever. This would have been 1985? and alll the girls on the honch knew us as the 'cockroach'

Yeah, I remember. We got underway because the Oldendorf was broke. her fast starting gas turbines weren't as reliable as 1200 lbs of steam. We hauled all the way out there and when we got there the guy walked on to the DDG-21 under his own power.