tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post3683082886039409484..comments2024-03-29T05:35:38.965-04:00Comments on HMS Defiant: QUALIFIEDHMS Defianthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post-72505660588738408092016-09-20T23:02:30.232-04:002016-09-20T23:02:30.232-04:00I came from AGF3 which was a 600 pound steam ship ...I came from AGF3 which was a 600 pound steam ship where I served for a year as Aux. We started to light off 12 hours prior to getting under way. Always. I was blown away again when I went down to Main Control on the Hill and found that even as we set Sea and Anchor Detail, they hadn't lit off the Main Engines. It was all very odd.<br />When I went to Department Head school we Diesel Engineers were made to ride an LST out of Floyd Bennet Field to Little Creek and the senior man in engineering was a second class EN and we lost control air before making it passed the first bridge. Literally, no engines because they all drop to idle without control air. The tug was gone and the captain was trying to keep us off the beech using the bow thruster.<br /><br />I never saw myself as dogmatic. Not even a little bit but I had professionalism tattooed on my butt. I wouldn't ever let anything like that happen where I was in charge. I think most of my peers were the same and so were the Petty Officers I knew but it takes just one to ruin a glorious day. Yeah, Petty Officer Cole, I'm talking about you and you too Nuscis.<br /><br />I was, for six months head of Repair Locker 3 and I had the OI assigned to me. I made them my investigators which meant they were kitted up with an OBA and sent off to crawl through x-ray fittings and zulu hatches. When I was then sent to Repair 5A I had pure snipes who one and all agreed there was no way in hell that they would go back into an engine room experiencing a bravo fire. We still had steam smothering as an option. One could lift a valve on the boiler from the damage control deck and put out a fire. There weren't going to be any survivors at that point in the engine room. <br />These and hit alfa were always a wonderment. A whole Backfire Regiment launched 36 nukes at you, only one detonated and it was far enough away that you 'survived.' AS4 and AS6 were pure hell.<br /><br />3 times COMSEC custodian 2 ship and 1 mobile unit. I can write cryptic if I want to. I can change combinations on safes.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6198442674791729773.post-59684035351260025212016-09-20T12:56:37.117-04:002016-09-20T12:56:37.117-04:00The first CO I served under was Engineering.
His b...The first CO I served under was Engineering.<br />His bugbear was Ops, particularly OI Div.<br />We retaliated by winning the green "E"(not necessarily your) Uncle Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02705753220273516841noreply@blogger.com