On 26 Feb 2005, we finally pulled into Yoko, a day that Romy and I had been counting down to since the first Guam stop. We were here finally! It was cold and snowy. I had duty the first night in, but I found a way off the boat. They were looking for volunteers to …
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We pulled back into Chinhae on 19 Feb. This was an uneventful stop. I hung out at the base club, saw a quartet of hot Korean babes do their thing on stage, played some slots and shot some pool. Drank some beer, smoked some cigarettes… We finally left SK for the final time February 23rd. …
The first thing I’ll mention was that South Korea was frigid. I mean, yeah. It’s winter-time, but thus far we had spent all our time in tropical places. This sucked. It was the first time I had experienced less than 70 degrees since the Victoria, Canada trip. We pulled in for just a few days. …
Some more dumb shit that we do out of sheer boredom underway: Romy snorts a concoction of garlic powder and crushed red peppers…it doesn’t bode well for him; Darko tried to hang by his feet from the Aft Escape Trunk handle, his foot slips off and he lands violently on his shoulder, he complains about …
On December 28th we took off from Singapore after a relaxing stand-down to head back to Guam to get ready for our second mission. In transit, we cleaned and ran drills, same old shit. On New Years Eve, we held our crossing the line ceremony. I just wasn’t all that into it. It was a …
The first story that comes to mind from mission was the time the LAN chief kicked me off the LAN for having pictures of naked chicks on my personal account. I don’t know where they came from, but they were there. I think I found them somewhere and saved them to my drive so I …
Later that night, or I should say early the next morning 21 Nov, the strip clubs were closing. They’re typically open until about 3 or 4 am, but then there’s this place that opens at like 4 am. I can’t remember the name of the place, but they serve drinks and pupu’s, bacon-wrapped shrimp and …
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LOADOUT PERIOD The day after we pulled back in off of POM cert, we started to get ready for deployment, called Loadout. October 22 was the first day of Loadout and we welcomed some very special guests. Some San Francisco 49er cheerleaders and the rock band Journey came down to take a tour of the …
