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. ..... .. .. Don't worry Sir. The JP-5 is on top, ND on the bottom, with an option on the NSFO! |
Cruise Photos of UNREP "Underway Replenishment" USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 |
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. ..... .. .. Don't worry Sir. The JP-5 is on top, ND on the bottom, with an option on the NSFO! |
Cruise Photos of UNREP "Underway Replenishment" USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 |
| Let's look at an
ordinary
day, while the KAWISHIWI is steaming between commitments. During one 24
hour period at sea in WEST PAC, a sailor has more to do than you could
imagine: up at six in the morning, breakfast, quarters, start to work
at
0800 sharp (sometimes); a noon meal, a half hour break before 1300, and
plenty to keep him busy until "knock off ship's work" is passed at
1600.
In addition toa full work day, add 8 hours of watch to be stood on the
bridge - always ready for the surprise UNREP - and you get an idea of
life
at sea.
But it isn't just that, during those few hours a day that a man has to himself, he can choose from a hundred and one activities, innumerable past times and hobbies such as reading, writing home, leather craft, building models, games, listing to any one of a dozen phonographs (take your pick of any type of music, they're all playing at once), and of course "flick" shown at 2000 on the mess decks or, in good weather, the 02 level aft. Making preparations for that next unrep, sprucing up bright work, chipping , painting, and just keeping the ship's appearance up to par are enough to keep all hands busy. But life quickly falls into a routine at sea. In time there seems to develop between each man and his ship a kind of rapport, a feeling in each man's heart that his ship is a good ship, that she can do her job. And through all the rough times and hard work she is HIS ship - a ship he can be proud of . . . |
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