Re: New portable DVD player....

Good stuff Larry, thanks.
"Larry" <noone@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "MMC" <mmc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> > While on a four man EOD Team at Refit Site One (USS Hunley), Holy Loch
> > Scotland, I learned the actual value of $3.98 "K-BAR" fighting knives.
> > One of my secondary duties was supply and my OIC couldn't figure out
> > why we always order knives by the box, but was very pleased that all
> > maintainence, calibration, and team gear were in order whenever a
> > mission or inspection popped up!
> >
> >
>
> Electronic calibration in the panic before an inspection is gonna cost
> you big favors and markers well into the future from our shop....(c;
>
> I remember one time the Canopus (AS) cal lab got overloaded and there was
> some crazy inspection or other happening tomorrow. Strings were pulled
> and my shop filled up with some sub's equipment within an hour!
>
> I had stumbled onto a supply of votive candles (thousands) over in the
> salvage yard some chaplain tossed out. So, as the astonished bubbleheads
> looked on, one of the technicians wrapped a fart sack around his head to
> make his turban. We stuck a white cal lab sticker on the turban where
> the jewel should have gone. Someone else put a votive candle on each
> piece of equipment they'd brought and lit it, putting a nice warm glow in
> the lab. The guy with the fart sack turban took a brass spitoon filled
> with our ship's evaporator "holy water" and sprinkled the sacred
> calibration blessing, while chanting some foreign tongue he'd heard from
> a Naples cabbie whos fare had split, over the equipments, instantly
> putting all of them in perfect alignment...without even opening the
> cases! Another cal lab concubine blew out the candles behind him and put
> them back in the sacred box quite reverently. The last guy affixed the
> coveted 'CALIBRATED' stickers, stamping and dating them as appropriate.
>
> After the added "Blessing of the Bubbleheads" was performed on the
> equipment carriers, guaranteeing safe passage back to the sub, a final
> blessing of the local cal lab technicians was performed and we all helped
> them load their gear back into their truck.
>
> Passing their inspection with flying colors with all this calibrated
> equipment, they brought the gear back for "regulation" calibration a few
> days later with, of course, a deluxe ship's plaque for our bulkhead
> collection and their captain's letter of commendation for our personnel
> jackets, the original of which was framed and hung under the sub's nice
> plaque.
>
> The formalities of receiving over, we set out on our task to insure
> accuracy of submarine equipment. We surface sailors were well aware of
> how our safety was challenged should submarines' calibrations be "off a
> tad", as we say in the calibration biz.
>
> Another happy customer with fond memories of USS Everglades (AD-24).
>
> "We Fix Subito!"
>


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