CONDOMS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE QUARTERDECK

Announced on the IMC to everyone on board.

The officer of the deck would add this little caveat when ever we would pull into a foreign port, like Hong Kong, Subic, Japan, etc...But he once raised a lot of eyebrows and caused a lot of questions to be asked, when he announced CONDOMS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE QUARTERDECK! Sexual disease tests will be available upon return to the ship in the Pharmacists mates cabin.

There was only one problem...We were in Concord (San Francisco) Our home base and we had several hundred wives and family members and guests aboard.

Oh the looks and questions...Oh boy...