MEMORIES AND TALES

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“Just a  point of interest for anyone that might be curious. The picture shows  something hanging from the starboard anchor. This occurred in 1964/65, but we were anchored off of Little Creek at the time  doing some amphib operations, and the State was in the process of  building the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. We weighed anchor and this  thing was attached to the starboard anchor. We think it was one of the  tanks that were used at the time to float portions of the bridge tunnel  out to the construction site. We couldn’t free it as it was hung on one  of the flukes of the anchor. We ended up steaming back into the  anchorage off of the Naval Station at the time and got a barge to  extract the tank from the anchor.” Click here for an additional picture.
Story by John Kolenda.

Courtesy of Larry G. Fields...

"It was the 1967 Med cruise. I was a L/CPL, 2nd MarDiv Truck Company. We had just put out to sea. Some of us were on the fantail cleaning our rifles. This "sailor" wearing an international orange jump suit, brown dress shoes, and Marine Corp utility cover came on the  fantail. One of our new NCOs yelled at him, "Hey sailor, is that how you dress in the Navy?"  Said "sailor" turned to face our NCO -- there was this little bird pinned on his cover! He pointed out, "I am the Captain and will dress any way I please!" It was all any of us could do to keep  from busting out laughing!"