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General Boards => Museum Submarine Discussion => Topic started by: Paul Farace on September 22, 2010, 01:56:13 PM
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Over the Labor Day weekend we hosted a group of reenactors as part of our annual Military History Bivouac (coincides with the big Air Show!). This year we had a very impressive group of young men who really wanted to "do it right" and they did. After dinner (hell after midnight by the time we were underway) we set up some situations and I shot several hundred photos of them in various situations aboard COD. I plan on using the pictures in both our sub interpretation and website. Here is small selection of the images.
Tell me what you think!
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Nice shots. In the first picture the cook wouldn't have served the crew. He would have passed the food through the serving window and the crew would pass it around family style.
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Mark:
yes the cook wouldn't have served, but as COD is an EB boat without the pass-thru window, we had the newbies serve the chow... but I haven't a clue as to how the NUBs would have dressed for mess duty.
That pass through window seems like a good idea, but not so to the designers at EBCO! Wonder why? Maybe the idea of passing food over the grills was dangerous!
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I can only speak about 688's, we wore dungaree's with a tee shirt when I mess cooked, no white hat.. Somewhere I think I may have a pic when I mess cooked, a boat's ball cap yes in port and at sea I don't remember anymore
Darrin
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I can only speak about 688's, we wore dungaree's with a tee shirt when I mess cooked, no white hat.. Somewhere I think I may have a pic when I mess cooked, a boat's ball cap yes in port and at sea I don't remember anymore
Darrin
Whoa, Darrin, you cooked for a while?
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6 wonderful months of mess cookin, normal time for non quals is 90 days... Pissed the COB off while I was in Deck Div during West Pac '91 and did a second stint as a mess cook. granted the name has changed since my time on the boats, we had a not so nice name for them back then :2funny:
Besides the MS's tried to steal all of the non rated submariners (as did the A Gang and Quartermansters) after the first 90 day stretch I realized I didn't want to cook full time onboard and the second 90 solidified that, I still love to cook to this day but I don't cook for big crowds anymore.
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yes the cook wouldn't have served, but as COD is an EB boat without the pass-thru window, we had the newbies serve the chow... but I haven't a clue as to how the NUBs would have dressed for mess duty.
That pass through window seems like a good idea, but not so to the designers at EBCO! Wonder why? Maybe the idea of passing food over the grills was dangerous!
Our grills are on the forward water tight bulk head. Where our pass-through window is we have counter top. Even without a window, the cook on your boat would have still handed whatever was ready to the nearest swabby.
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Mark:
yes, George Sacco would have passed the platters to a swabbie... we need to fabricate the stainless steel fold down countertop that blocked the doorway into the galley where the platters were set for the servers... always something to do!
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We don't have that fold down counter on the passage way side of the galley. Not sure if our Portsmouth boat ever had it.
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I really like these events. The boat just seams to come alive again when we have the crew on board....
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YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!! :smitten:
But that takes a lot of dedicated folks and cooperation and coordination. When our visitors encounter
these guys aboard the boat they really seem to engage with them and ask more questions. What makes me laugh is that
we have some guys "sleeping" and our visitors whisper!!!
On a related point -- I have been pouring over COD's patrol films and can't find a single dixie cup being worn on deck!!! WHen they get
back to port and have to assemble, then they appear! Go figure... :-\
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Here's a shot of a packed crews mess onboard USS Tambor when my papaw was on patrol:
(http://blalock.lancedean.com/pics/thumbs/tambormesshall.jpg)
I can't imagine...
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Paul
Hats went worn on the boats at sea except maybe a lookout to keep his head warm and hair in place. That was another good thing about the boats, relaxed regulations. The regular navy hated us for what we got away with. Once I got on the boats I wore welligton boots, had a devil of a time with the tender quaterdeck watch.
Tom
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Nice photo, Lance. It definitely tells a story. Every museum should have a picture like that posted in the mess.
@Paul: We had a few guys that slept on and off during visiting hours at our VJ event. They could probably sleep through anything with the crowds that we had. I don't think any of our visitors bothered to whisper, either.
We get to do it all over again in a few weeks, minus the crew cooking and sleeping aboard.
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I was one of those guys who took a quick nap and it was funny to hear folks as they passed by - "wow" they even have guys who fake sleeping!", or "papa, there's a dead guy up there" - good fun and great interaction with the visitors...
charlie-W5HOY
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I Can just imagine *dad why is that dude taking a nap on the job* Dad: *Shrug* idk.....anyway good photo lance from the tambor hey quick question where is ur papa in that pic
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anyway good photo lance from the tambor hey quick question where is ur papa in that pic
He's not in that photo. I don't know if he took the photo or if he was just not in the room. I think he spent a lot of time on night watch or in the electrician's cubicle. :)
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Sweet sir! well you got a photo of who he served with thats really neat:)