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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:25:52 PM EDT
Somewhere south of Singapore, April 11 '87. That's me in the middle with Crisco and food coloring all over my face, immediately after eating a maricino cherry from that fat guy's belly.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:32:18 PM EDT
[#1]
Here.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:33:31 PM EDT
[#2]
1989, USS Proteus
tried & trusted, salt encrusted |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:33:35 PM EDT
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I see your Shellback and raise you a Golden Shellback.
Chumps 
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:34:55 PM EDT
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<––––––––––––––––––––––––––Wog.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:35:42 PM EDT
[#5]
Does Golden Shellback count?
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:35:50 PM EDT
[#6]
1980 USS L.Y. SPEAR (AS-36)
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:39:07 PM EDT
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Jarhead here, but I'm tagging this for laughs. Somebody who has no clue will come in here soon and step on his dick with the shellbacks.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:39:39 PM EDT
[#8]
wog here.
Assigned to 3 carriers in 5 years, and somehow never got there. bad luck. spent LOTS of time in the N. Atlantic, seeing exotic ports like Portsmouth, England repeatedly. My recruiter lied!  
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:39:45 PM EDT
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1993 USS Abraham Lincoln WestPac Cruise
Trusty Shellback |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:40:11 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:42:37 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
I was expecting the I like turtles kid too. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:44:14 PM EDT
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Quoted: WTF is that in your avatar? Chincilla? |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:45:04 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: WTF is that in your avatar? Chincilla? Looks like a guinea-saurus rex. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:46:19 PM EDT
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USS Nimitz, 1985, MedCruise. That year we sat on station for 73 days after the TWA hijacking. There was a spy on our boat who was arrested when we pulled into port in Haifa. This was just prior to the TWA incident. Later, we crossed over and I became a shellback.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:46:29 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I was expecting the I like turtles kid too. I was referring to this: immediately after eating a maricino cherry from that fat guy's belly |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:46:43 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: WTF is that in your avatar? Chincilla? Looks like a guinea-saurus rex. Thank you. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:47:47 PM EDT
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Dry land sailor here, never been to sea and probably never will. Does flying over count?
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:52:01 PM EDT
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My Son was on the Vinson for the World Cruise just before it went in to be refitted and he had E-mailed his Mom. So I told her to ask him if he was a Shellback yet and Mom writes to him and asked if he was a Sea Turtle yet.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:53:07 PM EDT
[#19]
Quoted:
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I was expecting the I like turtles kid too. I was referring to this: immediately after eating a maricino cherry from that fat guy's belly
I'll admit, The Navy has some odd traditions. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:57:41 PM EDT
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Teenage mutant ninja turtles????
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:57:51 PM EDT
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2005, USS Cowpens between Japan and Australia |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 7:59:16 PM EDT
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Aww, the head shaving and water coffin, what fun, fun, fun times.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:01:33 PM EDT
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The vomit-filled garbage chute was pretty sweet.
We went over the line later on the Cape Cod, and it was so toned down that it there was no point. I think they only allowed people to throw water on the wogs. I said fuck it and sat it out. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:03:08 PM EDT
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RV Thomas Washington in '91.
Probably had more fun than some of you. Two of the research team were girls, one a cute Russian, the other Scottish. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:06:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:12:46 PM EDT
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Unfortunately never had the chance...
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:13:30 PM EDT
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 Hanging in my office. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:20:27 PM EDT
[#28]
On the USS DePuke (LPD 08) somewhere between Singapore and Indonesia back in 1998 or 1999 back as part of the 31st MEU.
Interesting time that was.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:20:49 PM EDT
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The recent ones are PC....... The mermaids aren't showing anything... 
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:34:22 PM EDT
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1981 USS Marvin Shields, FF1066. Then half a dozen or more times on a 47 ft trimaran sailing the South Pacific 1994-1996. Argh.. a pirate I be and a charter member of the Rastafarian Navy Yacht Club.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:36:49 PM EDT
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USMC 1979-1983..........ain't no way I was going to get covered in that crap!! I took pictures instead..........
Crossed twice............once on the USS Nashville...........and the second on the USS Guadalcanal. 
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:38:15 PM EDT
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USNS Flint (T-AE 32) enroute to Darwin in 2001
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:39:01 PM EDT
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USS SAN JOSE AFS 7 1971
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:45:59 PM EDT
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uss tarawa lha-1
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:47:48 PM EDT
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USS Hector Westpac 1981-82
ETA: Crossed inroute to Melbourne. Beautiful city. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:48:09 PM EDT
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Quoted: 1981 USS Marvin Shields, FF1066. Is that ship still commissioned? I'd like to see it sometime. Marvin Shields was a badass. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 8:57:31 PM EDT
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"99" USS Pearl Harbor LSD 52. First Green Side Corpsman to get my ESWS on her.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:00:50 PM EDT
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Didn't get to. Almost, USS Enterprise, Planned for 9/13/01. 9/11 happened and we spun around and headed to Astan at top speed. We were going to hit up Cape Town, South Africa and some place in Brazil. Fucking Terrorists.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:03:04 PM EDT
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I'm an OAE
Old Antarctic Explorer http://www.oaea.net/ US Navy VXE-6 88-92 AT |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:08:59 PM EDT
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USS Tortuga
Indian Ocean June 94 |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:09:34 PM EDT
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All sailors shall bow in my presence and dare not look into my eye. Order of Magellan, Shellback, and Golden Dragon. Was never in the Navy. So ith said thy lord and Chesty Puller.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:09:57 PM EDT
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Quoted: USS SAN JOSE AFS 7 1971 Wow, she must have been almost new. Are you a plank owner? She's the last AFS left. Concord got decommed on the 19th. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:17:13 PM EDT
[#43]
USS Cochrane DDG-21 SouthPac '79
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:19:01 PM EDT
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Eating a cherry from a mans belly?
seems a little  |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:19:52 PM EDT
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Quoted: USS Cochrane DDG-21 SouthPac '79 Hey, another DDG dude!... I was on DDG-22. Ironically, both ships were being towed together from PH to Brownsville for scrapping. ex-Stoddert DDG-22 sunk enroute (scuttled by tug crew) and now rests in Davy Jones locker. Apparently Cochrane made it all the way to TX and was chopped up.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:20:46 PM EDT
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I almost got away with just knocking the cherry out with my nose.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 9:24:46 PM EDT
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here, USCGC Morgenthau Feb. '06
many FFG's since then |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 10:05:22 PM EDT
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Quoted:
here, USCGC Morgenthau Feb. '06 Earned my Shellback, Golden Shellback, Golden Dragon, and Polar Bear on the Morg back in '95 - '96. Lotta history on that old cutter. |
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Posted: 8/21/2009 10:08:51 PM EDT
[#49]
USS Guam (LPH 9) back in 1991 after Eastern Exit.
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Posted: 8/21/2009 10:10:03 PM EDT
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Here...........on the way to New Castle, Australia.
5sub |
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