Friday, September 14, 2007
Welcome Aboard!
Welcome to Big John's Oil Lab. It is my hope to find as many folks as possible that worked in the Oil Lab on board the USS John F. Kennedy. CV-67. I hope we can exchange funny stories and moments that touched all of our lives over the years. For all of you who remember the Purple JP5 Line coming up through the desk and going through the middle of the room...blog on!
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I remember a cruel Joke played on a shipmate. BT3 Hannah had been waiting on a care package from home. We were deployed in the Red Sea. Being a jokester, I decided to give Hannah what he was wanting. I made up a false package, with his mothers return address, and postage.....it looked pretty real. I stuffed rags inside it, with a sounding tape for wieght, and left it on the counter. When he came on watch, he saw the package and grabbed it. I left the bottom of the box open, so when he grabbed it, all the contents fell out on the floor. Turned out, he didn't think it was to funny. Sorry Hannah!
Bob
That prank will go down in history! Just three weeks ago I was in West Virginia and told my in-laws about that joke. It was a classic. Dooley, I hope you're still not mad. (of course, you would have every right to be!_
You know, I'd forgotten all about that prank. Now that you've reminded me of it, I'm pissed off all over again. hahaha. I remember finally getting the REAL package on X-mas eve about 2 months later.
I believe I could write for days about all the crap that went on in the Oil Lab; like the songs written about BT3 Bodie, Griff stringing out a 'salt and pepper' reel like a spider web to piss Frank off. I can tell stories about just about everyone in the shop!
Did anyone else have to 'go fishing' for plumb-bobs or was it just me? Pete had this specially-rigged plumb-bob with a treble hook brazed onto the end of it and whenever we werent too busy he'd hand that and a sounding tape to me and tell me to 'go fishing'.
Does anyone remember the JFK calender that was hung in the lab during the gulf war cruise? There was so much dirt written on that calender it was pathetic. I dont think a day went by without someone writing about someone else dodging fuel soundings, kissing butt, skating off somewhere, avoiding boiler samples...etc...etc. It was bad enough that EVERYONE in the lab was ripped on continuously...you REALLY didnt want your name to be on that calender! I wish I had that calender today...I'd pay you all back for that "Care Package". hahaha
Big John now sits at Pier 6 (what used to be pier 2) at Norfolk NOB. I hear that she sits there with only one person patroling her P-ways at any given time. Can you imagine being the only person on that big ol' girl? That would have to be an eerie feeling, especially knowing about the ghost in #2 Pump Room...right Griff?
I'm gonna throw a few incidents out there and see how good the collective memory is. See if you can match to Oil Lab 'shipmate' with the incident in question...(no need to name them on the site...loose lips sink ships...or so they say)
1. Who was it that was arrested in Oceanview for shooting bottle-rockets at "He-shes" from a moving vechicle?
2. Who opened the wrong valve during a pump-up and put about 2 inches of fuel in a berthing?
3. Who used to have Domino's pizza delivered to 17FOX by way of a salt$pepper reel?
4. Who "appropriated" a fully cooked (and quite tasty) Thanksgiving turkey from the officer's ward room.
5. Who stopped up the toilet in the restroom at the resturant in Izmir Turkey.
Thats enough for now. See if you can name the culprits. :)
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