*** Quoting PATRICK LONG from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

> to the poor guy!  (grin, I'd do it too).

PL> I'd agree if it weren't for the fact that he was the one that complain
PL>   after attending the shipboard training that he'd never have to go 
PL> aloft, and know how to wear the safety harness.

Ditz learned a lesson then.  Never ask your guys to do something you
literally ¨wouldnt do.  Bad juju.  I expect my rank to mean I dont have to
clean toilets ¨anymore, but when presented with manually checking all the
Dell's (inventory) ¨on the ship, *I* took the set enclosed in an area being
prepper for PRC.  ¨Remember that grey/green filth all over everything?  I
looked like pig-pen ¨except for little clean spots where the goggles and
mask where.  I sat on a ¨chair and big puffs of green 'ick' floated up all
around me.  My guys were ¨laughing really hard but they knew down to their
toes that I was always there ¨for them.

I bet you've had Chiefs like that too.  Chiefs, not 'E7's.  I'm not
perfect, ¨but I seem to be well liked by my guys and they've always watched
my back for ¨me.


> harness then when we took him out there and showed him where the che
PL> was, he 
> gritted his teeth and made us proud but afterwards, he said he'd bee
PL> terrified
> the whole time and would be happy to change his checks if his 'rando
PL> did that
> again.

PL> Good on him!

Yup.  CMC was on the 1MC during a small spot of it (birthday announcements
and ¨such as CMC's do) and one little comment was 'Oh, and one of those
specs up on ¨the mast is the XO.  Way to go XO!'.  (We couldnt hear it but
we heard later ¨why some folks popped out of their hidy holes to peer at us
working).


> rescheduled within periodicity.  Having been up there alot myself, I
> want to be sure we are not gusting by more than 10MPH above the regu
PL> and the
> regular be 15MPH or lower.  Normally if above 10 total (including gu
> try to reset the more dangerous checks to a calmer time.

PL> I did the same.  Fortunately, we had but one thing up there we had to
PL> check, and that annually.  The following year we went into overhaul, a
PL> the radioment took the antenna along with the rest for overhaul, 

I do the same.  On the ESSEX, Joel and I just said 'screw it' as to who
'owned ¨what' and told our guys if you are near it, fix it.  Overhaul time
and we had ¨the guys who knew what was needed.  Getting ready for INSURV
and such, we such, ¨we did all the INTEL ones too then (chuckle) 'fixed up
the PMS documents' to ¨show our IT's assigned the checks needed. 
Furgoshsakes, it was easier on us ¨all and they took on a few things for us
to 'pay the guys back' (like painting ¨our favorite fanroom out).  Refurbed
their stuff at the local facilty and put ¨it all back up for them.  They
didnt have that much though it was alot more ¨than 1 piece.  Oh, they
covered a tigerteam quota for us too so we could use ¨that guy to do their
antenna stuff.  When we hooked up antenna maintenance ¨school on the ship,
we also got 2 quotas for them.  Hell, we even changed ¨lightbulbs for the
QM/SM's as we were up there already.
BTW, our ship not only passed INSURV, we got major kudos for the best
antenna ¨mast set they had *ever* seen on *any* ship and they were not
kidding.  To see ¨that on a forward deployed ship that was only 3 weeks
back from a 8.5 month ¨deployment from the gulf, shocked'em silly.  All but
3 of our hits were 'design ¨related' or 'standard Japanese shipyard work
not to US usual (were *above ¨it*)'.

PL> eliminating the need for the check.  The divo questioned me about it,
PL> though - because he remembered the previous year's "fun".

> Alot of my gear on the various ships is in 'easy reach pattern' but
PL> not all of 
> it.  Got 'spider antennas' all over the place for example.  Some rea
PL> easy, and
> some quite awkward to get to.  Those darn dough-boys are unfun as we
PL> in some 
> places.

PL> I can imagine.

Yeah.  Had a particilar antenna on a previous ship that was a bear.  You
pretty ¨much ended up with your ass swinging in the CO's little porthole
window with ¨nothing else to grab onto except that with your dangling
little toes to keep ¨you from spinning about.  Fortunately the CO of that
ship at that time was a ¨good soul and just chuckled about it all when our
fellow accidently woke him ¨from a small nap (midnight unreps had him up
all the night before but we hadnt ¨realized that).  His comments were randy
and rude (not repeatable here) but ¨showed a fine sense of timing and humor
about it all as he opened the porthole ¨and helped the fellow stay steady
by holding his foot.

Little viginettes of real life eh?
                                       xxcarol

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