2nd tour madness

Like i said before this is a narrative as I remember things as they happened, but not in any order...

Our second tour found us in Subic for some emergency repairs to one of the boilers.

One night we were alerted that they had a tropical storm coming in...but we could not leave, so we had to make the ship ready for the storm which meant putting camels inboard of the ship between the Pier to protect the side of the ship.

But we had no power so that meant that the crew would have to move the ship by mussel power, plus there would be no tugs, they were all busy helping the fleet leave so that they could ride out the storm at sea.

This meant a all hands affair, and working thru the next 6 hours 120 men managed to move a 600 foot ship 100 feet down the Pier, and successfully place the camels inboard..

Our reward, 3 days off in Olangapole, in the middle of a Tyhpoon.

This is the time when i and my girl friend were in bed together and lightning hit the building...she hopped out of bed, naked, knelt over to cross her self, said a quick prayer and hopped back into bed with me...Thats one way to remember being hit by lightning...