And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I was on a a Coast Guard 378' cutter in the Caribbean (deployed with an HH-52A). My rack was in a large berthing area, when I slept my feet faced forward. Middle of one night I wake up and I'm tilting backwards, my feet are higher than my head, I can feel I'm going over backwards... Then I'm falling the other way, my feet are going down fast.... Boom! I can feel the hull hit the water... and everything is normal again. No alarms? Must be normal, I went back to sleep. A different way to live.
It's called rolling, unless you're a landlubber.
ReplyDeleteRoll, Pitch & Yaw (rotational), Heave, Surge & Sway (translational).
ReplyDeletePut'em all together and you're likely to be calling Ralph on the big white telephone.
HMAS Brisbane leading Hobart.
ReplyDeletePerpetual aches,pains and bruises.
ReplyDeleteI was on a a Coast Guard 378' cutter in the Caribbean (deployed with an HH-52A). My rack was in a large berthing area, when I slept my feet faced forward. Middle of one night I wake up and I'm tilting backwards, my feet are higher than my head, I can feel I'm going over backwards... Then I'm falling the other way, my feet are going down fast.... Boom! I can feel the hull hit the water... and everything is normal again.
ReplyDeleteNo alarms? Must be normal, I went back to sleep. A different way to live.
Nice pair of targets!
ReplyDeleteLife at sea on a destroyer ( or small combatant )
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