UNREP Breakaway

QUOTE: The Best Marine is a Submarine!!!! And of course... There are only two types of ships........ Submarines and Targets!!!

I just have to...................... The best man is a destroyerman, and there are two types of targets, fast attacks, and boomers!

Desron 32/ Task Group Alpha.......condition 1AS, 24 X 7
Pete
CPO USN RET

Where's the required USN caption and credit?

Jeff

I was a Navy quartermaster and helmsman during UNREPs and other evolutions on a few surface ships. The breakaway music on the Ranger (CVA-61) was the William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger theme). We even had some guy who would dress up like the Lone Ranger and mount a white horse that stood on one of our aircraft tugs. Those guys really had too much spare time...

You ain't lived until you have done a flank bell on a SSN doing High speed " angles & Dangles".. Whoooa what a ride.. Only Music on the 1MC was the sound of the OD yelling "atta boy" and all the Nubs wide eyed with mouths wide open.. Ahh shiver me timbers and DBF..

I'm one of the throttleman on the USS NASSAU LHA-4 and have done several full speed breakaways including one that put 32 degrees of list on the ship (All the while the CO had Highway to Hell playing around the ship on the 1MC). Now keep in mind that the Nassau is a flat bottom ship (27 foot draft ~193 feet from waterline to top of mast).

MM3 (SW/AW) Robert Beard

Now, all hands stand by for high seas and heavy rolls while making high speed turns!


Then Commander, J.M.Boorda III (USS Farragut DDG-37) would make his approach at 27K, and ring up 31K for breakaway, with "Patton's Theme" on the 1mc topside circuit.........but that's another story...

Go MSC.

I hope to be shipping as an engineering cadet on an MSC ship this winter.