How’s your damage control training program? Is it ready to face the likes of what caused this damage? Ready for something that lasts longer than a standard GQ battle problem – measured in days not hours or minutes? Oh and about the PRT program too…
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Some number of years ago I had the honor of making the acquaintance of a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor. A young seaman then stationed on the battleship Nevada, he related his story, his memories. And as he talked about the aching beauty of that peaceful Sunday morning – of standing at quarters…
…and now for something a little different…
…at least Blue Ridge’s take on it: Now – about those sonar exercises…
USS Russell (DDG 59) underway for deployment. So what’s different about it? XO’s blogging ’bout it – you can follow via "The Destroyermen" link in the column to the right under "Navy Blogsphere" You also know him as the Yankee Sailor… bon chance y’all – it looks like it will be a most interesting deployment…
The 2015 application process opened in February 2015. Deadline for entry will be April 30, 2015. There will be one Captain Ed Caffrey Memorial Merit Scholarship and several Merit Scholarships awarded for 2015. Captain Ed Caffrey Memorial Merit Scholarship Captain Ed Caffrey was an outstanding Commodore of the E2/C2 community from 1992-1994. His vision and dedication…
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On a prosaic note:
Having been in a couple of fire damaged edifices, I hope the photographer was wearing some sort of respirator, the residual stench must have been something else.
I (when I was a CE) took a tool box into a fire damaged computer room once for a brief inspection, then left. I placed that toolbox in the back of my station wagon. For the next 10 years (I had that car 12), on humid days, I could still catch a whiff of smoke.
That poor photographer probably had to burn those clothes and replace his shoes. Just hazards of the trade I suppose……
Joe:
Concur. When we went back into the Pentagon after the fires were out we had to wear a mask and protective clothing because of the toxins released by the fire and by the mold (which was quite varied, ranging from the spotted black variety that had climbed halfway up the walls to the roped variety hanging from the overhead). For a long time afterwards you still smelled the smoke and to this day the whiff of smoke one gets from a doused campfire, BBQ grill, etc. brings memories of that awful time crashing back on the present. Ditto the air “freshener” that was deployed in coffee-can size canisters around the building…
– SJS