Well. it has the flavor of Fire Base Khe Sahn, USMC, 1968. How close am I?
Steve
Your in the right country, not USMC. Time frame is close tho…
6/14th is in the picture but we had the same set up where I was located 7/15th in 1971 which was there a wee bit before I arrived. I saw this all dismantaled and then was shanghaied into another job for my duration in Nam. Boy is that an ever interesting story in 1972.
Still, what is this and where ? What did we do there ?
Cheers,
John Bouck said:Hmmmm.
When I was in Uncle's Navy, I think we called submariner's "Squids". I was a "Snipe". I needed a fresh air pass to go up on deck. No I wasn't a boilerman, but close. I was a machinist mate, driving one of the four main engines. Airedales were still called that, but I forget what we called Yeomen, deck hands, gunners, etc. Hell, it's been forty years ago! :) :) jb
I thought a “Squid” was what a “Jarhead” (US MARINE) called a sailor. Different times, I guess.
JB, can you still talke Snipe? Snipe is a language used in the steam machinery rooms because it is just too D*mn loud in the hole (not “hold,” that is for the Pork Chops) to use normal language. It is made up of grunts, postures and motions to communicate what the CHENG wants done. CHENG = CHief ENGineering officer, the Engineering Department Head.
Yoeman, Deck Apes, Gunners, Skivie Wavers and so on are called “Topsiders” by the “Snipes.” “If you ain’t in Engineering, you are just along for the ride.”
In all this no one has mentioned…FNG…wonder why??..
<I thought a “Squid” was what a “Jarhead” (US MARINE) called a sailor. Different times, I guess. >
Steve,
It could be. We’ll have to ask TOC! 
Can’t remember much of the Snipe language. Just the usual middle finger sign.
And yes it was noisy! After a cruise, when we went “cold iron”, we weren’t used to the quiet in the hole. We’d still shout for a day or two, like we were all deaf.
jb
Oh, Lord, if I post what we called Yeomen, Bob would have his second deleted posting ever…
Worthless skimmers, the lot.
Ken Brunt said:
Anybody still have their P38 layin around? Mine still works…does a better job than the electric one…
Ken, Ive got a few here and there.
Steve Featherkile said:
Well. it has the flavor of Fire Base Khe Sahn, USMC, 1968. How close am I?
Steve If you were there in '68 you might have had one of these…
Darryl Noble said:
Steve Featherkile said:
Well. it has the flavor of Fire Base Khe Sahn, USMC, 1968. How close am I?Steve If you were there in '68 you might have had one of these…
Had quite a few of those…didn’t keep any for souveniers though…
Those bills are a lot fancier than ours were. We had “Monopoly Money” script. Looked just like the board game bills.
jb
Darryl Noble said:
Well if you like trivia ? Guess this… Absolutely nothing to do with trains… This is military tho… Now who, what, when and where ??
Well, no one seems to have the answer, so Darryl, who, what, when and where ?? Or, as we say in the Nav, Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Over. 
Steve
Steve
Oh yeah !!
Well this of course was in Nam 1971 when I was in charge of a Meteorological team with 12 grunts attached the the 7/15th Artillery in Pleiku on Artillery Hill.
The picture is of an inflation tent and that was where the boys inflated weather balloons. The balloons carried electronic gear and transmitted data back down to the office where we analyzed the information about winds, temperatures and pressure.
Slightly dangerous as all we had were cans of hydrogen for the lift of the balloons and we had one mishap while I was there. Static set of a fireball with one of the balloons. No one hurt luckily…
And now you know the rest of the story. How amusing eh ?
Cheers,
Darryl,
I was over on TROPO Hill and the II Corps Advisory Team compound from Oct 65, until Nov 65. I was there before it was artillery hill. I rember the night when a crew went past the tube life on a 175 and paid the ultimate price for doing so. If I remember correctly there were four killed that night when the tube expolded. I think they were supporting a fire mission for the 1st Cav. I remember laying in my bunk at night and hearing those 175 rounds going over, and sounding like a freight train and thinking dear god dont let that be a short round.
Been a long time ago.
Welcome Home!
Ron