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From Forty-six Months with the Fourth RI Volunteers
on a ship somewhere off the coast in the Atlantic
The above reminds me of a tale when I was with the old Army Security Agency as a Morse Intercept Operator, or 05 'Hog.'
Unionblue
Hey Unionblue - I was Naval Security Group. Learned to copy code at Pensacola Fl and spent 2 1/2 years working
in a tunnel in Japan. 66-68 Loved every bit of it. Wasn't a ditty bopper though.
Larry
There's a lot of history in that tunnel also. Did you get involved in classic Bullseye in your travels. The one that used
the elephant cages?
Gotta love you ground pounders, those are some good stories.
A family friend who served in the 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'said one of the best meals on their menu was made with 1944 canned hamburger....I served on a WWII DD during the 1970's and remember the cooks opening cans of bacon canned prior to WWII. That stuff stunk up the ship for days, the jungles of Nam smelt better than that stuff. Needless to say with out fanfare the rest of the case of bacon was opened and dump into the sea...
And yeah we used Morse Code and read raw IFF data...
Walker's Greyhounds did the same thing in Louisiana....but with beef, and with no ship or water With fife, drum and torches, they marched the carcass (in a makeshift coffin) outside of camp and buried it with full military honors, a headboard and footboard.
That's a funny story. You know that pork musta really been bad. Like everyone else,I've read accounts of how imaginative soldiers made all kinds of slop edible.View attachment 174901
From Forty-six Months with the Fourth RI Volunteers
on a ship somewhere off the coast in the Atlantic
I am a member of the Yacht Club and my TinCan was of 1944 vintage. We found some rations in a life raft on board that were dated 1943 so we threw em overboard.A family friend who served in the 'Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'said one of the best meals on their menu was made with 1944 canned hamburger....
I am a member of the Yacht Club and my TinCan was of 1944 vintage. We found some rations in a life raft on board that were dated 1943 so we threw em overboard.
Times certainly have changed as to how the troops are being fed now. This is the Christmas menu from
my base way back in 1966. Our chow hall was voted best in the Pacific for a number of years while
I was there: View attachment 175181
Thanks for your response.I am a member of the Yacht Club and my TinCan was of 1944 vintage. We found some rations in a life raft on board that were dated 1943 so we threw em overboard.
There's other neat stuff in there too.
http://files.cwrtdc.org/Archived-CWRTDC-Newsletters-1959-Volume9.pdf