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For today, wearing my railroad grade 23j Waltham Vanguard 1908 with winding indicator...while I'm doing some recommended nomenclature studying for the upcoming introduction to watchmaking class at the AWCI headquarters in Cincinnati (Harrison), Ohio...
Next time spring for a lounge pass If you’ve got a long delay... you can usually find deals online making them cheap. If they come with an associated time limit the trick is moving positions around the lounge to extend your stay (staff won’t usually notice).
I never used to be a lounge goer until I was traveling with one of my buddies at my last job. Such a world of difference in comfort sitting waiting for a flight and I’ve yet to encounter a lounge fee that I couldn’t break even on by consuming complimentary food and booze.
Phuket: A full duty section, ship’s company and air wing both, gets stuck on board with no liberty boats for the entire freaking port call, after NCIS allegedly discovers a plot amongst the cab drivers to take Sailors places they didn’t ask to go and rob them. Oh, yeah, that’s also the first time I saw “Glenn Defense Marine” on the side of a liberty boat.
Naples: Liberty boat full of at-least-half-drunk Sailors, including your humble correspondent and associated liberty buddies, takes a massive-ass roll that I swear was close to whatever would make said boat capsize. Really wasn’t interested in taking “see Rome and die” literally, mille grazie . . .
Phuket: A full duty section, ship’s company and air wing both, gets stuck on board with no liberty boats for the entire freaking port call, after NCIS allegedly discovers a plot amongst the cab drivers to take Sailors places they didn’t ask to go and rob them. Oh, yeah, that’s also the first time I saw “Glenn Defense Marine” on the side of a liberty boat.
Naples: Liberty boat full of at-least-half-drunk Sailors, including your humble correspondent and associated liberty buddies, takes a massive-ass roll that I swear was close to whatever would make said boat capsize. Really wasn’t interested in taking “see Rome and die” literally, mille grazie . . .
Cartagena, Spain. Get back from the admin early to sleep it off before duty the next day and find 4,000 people stuck on the pier due to high seas that broke the stern dock on the Boat. Get immediately drafted for shore patrol by the sister squadron's XO. Proceed to stand 18 hours of shore patrol in what resembles a refugee camp, whilst hungover, with sailors drunk, puking, and/or attempting to shtoop behind the shipping containers on the pier. Get back to the ship an hour after the originally scheduled duty starts, only to have your name called out on the 1MC to report for duty the second after you hit the rack after approximately 36 hours without sleep.
Yeah, Cartagena was fun. Until it wasn't.
Never. Anchor. Out.
Back to watches!
Boom.
