Not crazy, but wife has me clearing out bookcases and "STUFF" this
last month, and came across a picture of SFC ESSON (had to be 1968)
in Subic along side the Tender while the GMG's regunned. We drew a
4 to 8 Quarterdeck watch and the tide was low. I must have gotten
my camera as got pictures of RATS under piers at low tide. Good Lord,
they are as big as our LAB dog. Remember sometime one of the Seamen telling me the reason the Deck Force put two Rat Guards on a line was the rats could jump the Guards???? Is this true???? Sounds like to me it falls into the same files as sending a Reserve to the LOCKER to get a can of realllllative Bearing grease! (p.s. Do remember the
Ole First Class RD1 hitting the Peacoat locker at the bottom of the
OPS ladder.....he had as many dents in his forehead as the locker
door had in it. Think it was the same night, and he had been across
the bridge)
tom/QM2 66>>>>69
