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Smidge34

Smidge34

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
The last time I saw the USS Saipan she was going through Special Sea and Anchor detail as I was flying back to Hampton Roads from Gitmo. That was 33 years ago, before Gitmo got to meaning what it does today.
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Haha, last time I saw the Saipan she was in dry dock at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1988.

I went through a couple mean ass Ref-Tra's before deploying to Med out of Gitmo in the late 80s. Did a lot of late Reagan era drug ops cruises in the Carribean too. Ever get drunk at Rosie Roads PR or take leave at St. John's or St. Thomas VI? I preferred those stops to Italy, Spain and rest of Med. Shit man we hit Nairobi, Kenya lol. I bought a sack of shit for $2 lol. Thank God cause they hit us with a piss test as soon as we pulled anchor.
 
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Smidge34 said:
Haha, last time I saw the Saipan she was in dry dock at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1988.

I went through a couple mean ass Ref-Tra's before deploying to Med out of Gitmo in the late 80s. Did a lot of late Reagan era drug ops cruises in the Carribean too. Ever get drunk at Rosie Roads PR or take leave at St. John's or St. Thomas VI? I preferred those stops to Italy, Spain and rest of Med. Shit man we hit Nairobi, Kenya lol. I bought a sack of shit for $2 lol. Thank God cause they hit us with a piss test as soon as we pulled anchor.
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Yea, we were in drydock in Portsmouth, that is why we had to go through all the drills and tests down at GitMo, to get re-certified. A drug test was what sent me home from Cuba. I did a little over 3 years of a 4 year hitch. I was scheduled to be push-button with it's 6 year obligation, but got in a little {smoke} trouble before I got to Nuclear Propulsion School.

We did a lot of short cruises down in the Caribbean too. I did one Med and IO tour. As a matter of fact, I spent a week in Nice France, the place where those guys got killed a couple days ago. A real nice tourist town, as they go. We all had the hash cough after the Med tour. Did not see but one sack of flowers the whole time. That was some seedy African weed. We always went to the African bar in town to buy hash.
 
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I was a f'n nuke, but washed out halfway through Power School in Orlando. Never made it to Prototype. I did get my Nuke MM rating but it didn't do me much good operating an old p-fired boiler built in 1959 in Portsmouth lol. Going to the fleet as a "boot camp" but still wearing a "crow" didn't go over well at first to the conventional sailors as you know, but I sorted it out.

Btw, I spent 108 consecutive days underway in the IO in 1989 I believe as part of a NATO exercise while on the Forest Fire. Sucked balls.
 
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Smidge34 said:
I was a f'n nuke, but washed out halfway through Power School in Orlando. Never made it to Prototype. I did get my Nuke MM rating but it didn't do me much good operating an old p-fired boiler built in 1959 in Portsmouth lol. Going to the fleet as a "boot camp" but still wearing a "crow" didn't go over well at first to the conventional sailors as you know, but I sorted it out.

Btw, I spent 108 consecutive days underway in the IO in 1989 I believe as part of a NATO exercise while on the Forest Fire. Sucked balls.
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Push Buttons did get a lot of crap from the guys who had came up from E1 the hard way. I never made it to PS. My Navy rank went like this. E3 when I joined. E2 after getting caught smoking a joint in the woods beside the bowling alley at Great Lakes. Somehow that bust slipped through the cracks and I did get to my A School. I was an Electrician's Mate when I went to the fleet. Back up to E3 after I was aboard the Saipan. Back down to E2 for UA {the wake-up call didn't work for me in a hotel in Nice France, and I was like 15 minutes late} Back up to E3. Back down to E2 when I was kicked out. There is another up and down in there, but I'm not sure when it happened. But I got busted for a haircut when going to the peer for Geedunk. That lost me my civilian cloths for a while. Then down in Porto Rico I got too drunk to remember to change back into uniform before coming back aboard, and that got me busted down {I think. Long time and many bowls ago}

My IO cruise was cut short when Anwar Sadat was killed 10-6-81. We were steaming south, getting all the garbage and what not saved up for the Shellback ceremony. But we turned back before crossing the line, so I'm still a Pollywog>:(
 
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Larry {the} Gardener said:
Yea, we were in drydock in Portsmouth, that is why we had to go through all the drills and tests down at GitMo, to get re-certified. A drug test was what sent me home from Cuba. I did a little over 3 years of a 4 year hitch. I was scheduled to be push-button with it's 6 year obligation, but got in a little {smoke} trouble before I got to Nuclear Propulsion School.

We did a lot of short cruises down in the Caribbean too. I did one Med and IO tour. As a matter of fact, I spent a week in Nice France, the place where those guys got killed a couple days ago. A real nice tourist town, as they go. We all had the hash cough after the Med tour. Did not see but one sack of flowers the whole time. That was some seedy African weed. We always went to the African bar in town to buy hash.
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that just sucks larry bout piss test,i bet half the people around u were on legal meds, benzos, mind altering shit,man u coulda been someone :pjust pulling ya chain from reading u post u no dummie,fuck that kind of work no matter what it pays war an death just don't have room in my life
 
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Nothing terribly impressive. Started in march, everything in buckets and outside by early April. Had to take them in most nights, was still cold here in southern NE. Hoping to finish out in the buckets without major issues. Pinewarp from bc bud depot. Out of 12, 1 male, 10 fem, 1 still unknown.0714160619b.jpg 0714161822f.jpg 0714161825.jpg 0714160619.jpg 0711162007.jpg
 
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eddy600 said:
I'M getting over crowded like you,the net seems to be helping i have to go out and find some.
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I line the inside of hoophouse, then jus before stretch i snip zip ties an let it rest on top, over next few days I trim an bend, the net gets tied down an anchored to the cages as needed. The exhaust kicks on at 85F, two 6500cfu fans push plenty of air. When it comes to canopy like at top. Easist an best way for all the bending an triming to me is jus looking up from the ground, you can really see where an what needs pruning. humidity, during afternoon are biggest red flags. Lots an lots of bending!!!! Ha ha good luck with your hoop grow
 

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thumper60 said:
that just sucks larry bout piss test,i bet half the people around u were on legal meds, benzos, mind altering shit,man u coulda been someone :pjust pulling ya chain from reading u post u no dummie,fuck that kind of work no matter what it pays war an death just don't have room in my life
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I will check on getting my OTH discharge upgraded one of these days. It has never been a problem to me so far. But then I never had the urge to work for the government again either.

Also never regretted not going through with the glow in the dark shit. Working in nuclear power would have meant moving. My roots are too deep in these Florida sands for that.
 
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