Perilous times (Page 4): Are there any other anchor clankers here or am I the lone Coastie ???🐠🐟🐬🐳🐋🦈 ?

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Spiritof27 wrote:

Marines and Army too busy polishin their shoes and adjustin their gig lines to go fishin, Air Force all playin golf. Yeah, there's a lot of old sailors who love to fish and love to gab about it. Who would you rather hang out with? Finest people on the face of the earth. We lucky few.

Are there any other anchor clankers here or am I the lone Coastie ???🐠🐟🐬🐳🐋🦈 ?

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Here ya go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwNP6KzxXRg

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Lewis Black is hard for me to watch - I hurt myself laughing so hard.

kvothe Loc: West Deptford new jersey, but the salt calls

Ha yes lookin back.....

Random Loc: Sandy Utah

Big dog wrote:

Are there any other anchor clankers here or am I the lone Coastie ???🐠🐟🐬🐳🐋🦈 ?

Spent seven years,nine months, and thirteen days in uncle SAMs canue club. Ad14 and three years on der331 as an rm2 , on the DEW line. Most folks if any won't know what that is. Went through a boat load of pacific storms. I guess that is what makes me love fishing and boats. 73.
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Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

Random wrote:

Spent seven years,nine months, and thirteen days in uncle SAMs canue club. Ad14 and three years on der331 as an rm2 , on the DEW line. Most folks if any won't know what that is. Went through a boat load of pacific storms. I guess that is what makes me love fishing and boats. 73.
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NICE. I got my start fishing sometime in April-early May 1957. A few months before I actually set forth on this journey through this world.
Yeah, my mother told me about the fish she was catching off the dock the summer before I was born.
Glad to know I’m not the only shallow water guy here, even though I’ve seen PLENTY of that blue soup known as the Gulf Stream.

bottomcoon Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma

We had those drill in school when I was a pup. This virus scare has hit home for me & my family. My father was not responding & couldn't stand up. My brother took him to the hospital emergency room this past tuesday. An aid helped load my father into a wheel chair & told my brother to wait outside & someone would get all the information. That was the last contact we've had with my father. No one is allowed in the hospital. We can call his room & speak to him. He's 94. He doesn't know anyone that calls him. His confusion is a new symptom. Test show he has advanced prostate cancer that has spread throughout his body & could be affecting his brain. He is terminal & doesn't have long to live. My mother, his wife of 71 years, can't stand the thought of him dying alone. We can only sit at home & wait for a call from a staff member to give us a report on his condition, usually every other day. I hope this doesn't happen to any other member but as the virus spreads this isolation is becoming commonplace. The government says it's for our own good.

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

Random wrote:

Spent seven years,nine months, and thirteen days in uncle SAMs canue club. Ad14 and three years on der331 as an rm2 , on the DEW line. Most folks if any won't know what that is. Went through a boat load of pacific storms. I guess that is what makes me love fishing and boats. 73.
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Hello fellow radioman, did you have to learn Morse code?

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

bottomcoon wrote:

We had those drill in school when I was a pup. Thi... (show quote)

Sorry to hear that about your dad.
Be strong for your mom.
My older brother doesn't know who I am when I call. It's hard.

Big dog Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York

bottomcoon wrote:

We had those drill in school when I was a pup. Thi... (show quote)

May God be with you and give you a break.🙏

JimRed Loc: Coastal New Jersey, Belmar area

Prayers up for your dad’s care and recovery, God willing. And may He comfort you and your family.

Random Loc: Sandy Utah

Larry M wrote:

Hello fellow radioman, did you have to learn Morse code?

Yes and still listen, but can no longer send cause of my hands shaking. I can send using the computer but it's not the same. I'm still an armature radio operator KI7BNL. Something to do when not fishing or hiding from my other half. 73

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Reel Livin Loc: US Army (everywhere)

Seems like a couple weeks ago! We were the ones riding in cars with steel dashboards, no seatbelts, played out side all day with no helmets for riding our bikes!

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

Random wrote:

Yes and still listen, but can no longer send cause of my hands shaking. I can send using the computer but it's not the same. I'm still an armature radio operator KI7BNL. Something to do when not fishing or hiding from my other half. 73

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We had to receive 18 words per minute to pass from school, I did 22.
Funny after school I never used it again.
Failed the test for E-5, the code part.
Didn't matter because I wasn't planning to make the Navy a career.
On the ship I volunteer to be in the teletype room, I liked working alone and the tty room it was perfect for me, nobody else wanted it. Five machines going 100 words per minute kept me busy, they never stopped. I would set up a receiver to get a rock and roll station and pipe it into the tty room. I was in my own little world. LOL.

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

Reel Livin wrote:

Seems like a couple weeks ago! We were the ones riding in cars with steel dashboards, no seatbelts, played out side all day with no helmets for riding our bikes!

Yup, this was us back then.