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Skriven 2004-12-19 10:17:22 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 6394 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
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19 Dec 04 08:59, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to DONALD ROOP:

 FS> -=> Quoting Donald Roop to John Hull <=-

 JH>>You couldn't bend over in those tiny shower stalls anyway.  It 
 JH>>would be like trying to bend over in a phone booth.

 FS> Wow!  Shower *stall* in the Navy?  Our showers were *rooms*, 
 FS> maybe ten ft. by ten ft. (ignoring the "feet" of those showering 
 FS> ... heh heh heh ...)

Never been on a destroyer, have you, Frank?  We don't have the luxury of
"rooms" on destroyers.  We have compartments.  

 DR>> We used soap flakes.  It took longer to pick them up.:)

 JH>>Most of our showers were with salt water anyway, which required 
 JH>>special soap and it didn't come in flake form.

 DR>> Yes, we, too, showered with salt water and used salt water soap. 
 DR>> Didn't you see the smiley after that soap flake comment?

We only used salt water when one of the evaporators was on the fritz. 
Typically two or three days every couple of weeks.  The #2 Evap had a chronic
problem that the BTs could never quite get a handle on.

 DR>> I suppose you will tell me that no one in WWII slept in a hammock, 
 DR>> but I slept in one for 7 weeks while in school up in Rhode Island.  
 DR>> We didn't get bunks until we moved the whole school down to 
 DR>> Gulfport, Miss. until we graduated in June.  Ever been in Gulfport 
 DR>> in June?  How about July and August in Little Creek,Va?

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that no Navy ships built during or after
WWII had hammock bunking.  

 FS> You were in Gulfport, Miss?  I went to the Army's Airplane 
 FS> Mechanics' school there from February, 1943 to about June of 
 FS> that year.

Nasty weather during summer, but cool and breazy compared to Subic Bay, PI, in
the summer.  It was so hot and humid that if you were out early in the morning
or shortly after dark when the dew point hit, you would get literally soaked to
the skin as the dew settled.  During the day, it rained for half an hour every
afternoon so hard that if you got caught out in it, you felt like you'd gone a
couple rounds with George Foreman.  Ten minutes after the rain stopped, you
were bone dry.  It was comical as hell watching guys walking around with clouds
of steam literally boiling off of them as their drenched clothes dried out
under the PI sun.  And bugs?...  You don't even want to go there.

John 

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