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King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k

Phanatic posted:

Not as a combat vessel, it was a logistics ship with no weapons or anti-missile capability or even watertight compartmentalization.

HSV-2? Did the US Navy really name a ship after genital herpes?

Yes, of course they did. That's hilarious. "Set sail on the USS Gonorrhea!"

Hahahaha. I deployed on that sucker and the damage control brief was: if there's a fire we can't put out with a fire extinguisher, we abandon ship.

We lost all power and coms the minute we got out to sea and because we had been going fairly fast, silently cruised within yards of an oiler coming to port, literally trying to wave them off. My ball cap is collectable now I guess since its just a floating husk.

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