Re: Boatswain->bosun ?

"TOliver" <toliverjrFIX@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:"Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthicum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
:news:1129805530.050839.129740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:>
:> Fred J. McCall wrote:
:>> "Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>>
:>> :and the
:>> :sailors didn't live in the same kind of conditions as we did
:>>
:>> Really? Were you packed as cargo, or what?
:>
:> God, Fred, you are really naive. Photo here (64. Stacked up aboard
:> ship) gives a feeling for the accomodations but lacks the ability to
:> smell all those men who haven't bathed for a week and the regurgitated
:> meals that swash around under the floorboards. Cargo had it easy in
:> comparison. By the way this continued well into the 1970s.
:>
:> http://www.gallagher.com/ww2/chapter11.html

God, Jack, you really are naive. The photo doesn't look all that
different from normal crew accommodations of the same period (racks
stacked 4 high with 3' walkways in between) except for all the poorly
stowed gear. It sounds as if the misery of Marines was
self-inflicted. After all, if they don't wash and vomit on the deck
and let it lie there, whose fault is that?

:....As one who once spent the evening in a loaded LST off the Faralons, let
:me say that the sights and sounds (and smells) of a loaded troop deck awash
:in Marine puke would send you back to the bridge quickly.

Well, the thing about the bridge is that they don't let you live and
sleep up there. Conditions in crew quarters are only better because
sailors generally actually wash and clean up things.

--
"Well, I met a girl in West Hollywood. I ain't naming names.
She really worked me over good. She was just like Jesse James.
She really worked me over good. She was a credit to her gender.
She put me through some changes, Lord.
Sort of like a Waring blender."
-- Warren Zevon, "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me"
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