Re: PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme..News & Views
Great questions..
Oh every ship I served aboard someone fell overboard. Numerous shipmates. Perhaps a total of twenty in seven deployments. All in all only two were lost. One shipmate that jumped off during an unrep aboard Hancock in '75 and an oiler. He was sucked under Hancock and chewed up like mince meat.
In '73 a shipmate fell over board while transiting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean aboard JFK in the dead of night. That shipmate was never found.
I never went to any non-judicial punishment..never.. In fact I received five good conduct medals in my 20 year career. At the time I served the Good Conduct medals were awarded every four years. You can't have any non-Judaical punishment on your record to receive a good conduct medal.
When you get out of USN boot camp the PT punishment ends. Instead there is EMI..Extra Military Instruction.
Once I did get written up for being in a catwalk on the Hancock trying to get a photo of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor with my dungarees ,ie working uniform, on. that was a no-no. You had to be in Tropical Whites. I was given 3 hours extra duty..thats all..nothing on my record..
And that's the only time in my career I ever got into any trouble.
Popeye was raised in a very strict environment. You just did not challenge my dad's Authority. Having lived under my dad made the navy very easy for me discipline wise.
very kool Popeye,,,, I remember one morning on the farm, I was going to college, and Pappy starts giving me orders, I told him in NO UNCERTAIN TERMs, NYET!,,,,,, he was coming across the breakfast table with both fists "clenched", not even touching the ground, he was flyin dudes,,,,,, he was gonna beat me to a bloody pulp!!!! Well, I made Henry Kissenger look like a trouble maker,,,,, I barely got him on the ground before all kinds of bloody warfare ensued, my blood..... I remember my little brother, yes he's still a jerk, flipping the old man off, as he rolled down the driveway, locking the doors of his black with white stripes 71 "Heavy Chevy" Chevelle, the old man landed in the middle of his hood scope, but was travelling at such a high rate of speed that he rolled off the port side front fender, lucky for my "stoopid little brother", he went to live with my aunt and uncle,,,,,, yeah, and I had two bedrooms upstairs for the brat to lounge in,,,,,,,gee, I miss my old man.
