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RAT GUARDS 22 years 8 months ago #15509

  • thomas mills
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Not crazy, but wife has me clearing out bookcases and "STUFF" this
last month, and came across a picture of SFC ESSON (had to be 1968)
in Subic along side the Tender while the GMG's regunned. We drew a
4 to 8 Quarterdeck watch and the tide was low. I must have gotten
my camera as got pictures of RATS under piers at low tide. Good Lord,
they are as big as our LAB dog. Remember sometime one of the Seamen telling me the reason the Deck Force put two Rat Guards on a line was the rats could jump the Guards???? Is this true???? Sounds like to me it falls into the same files as sending a Reserve to the LOCKER to get a can of realllllative Bearing grease! (p.s. Do remember the
Ole First Class RD1 hitting the Peacoat locker at the bottom of the
OPS ladder.....he had as many dents in his forehead as the locker
door had in it. Think it was the same night, and he had been across
the bridge)
tom/QM2 66>>>>69

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RAT GUARDS 22 years 8 months ago #15510

  • wes carroll
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It's easier to stay balanced if you carry a can of relative bearing grease in one hand and a bucket of vacuum in the other.

Wes

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RAT GUARDS 22 years 8 months ago #15551

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It's easier to stay balanced if you carry a can of relative bearing grease in one hand and a bucket of vacuum in the other.

Wes
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I always liked sending guys down for fallopian or eustachian tubing or batteries for the sound powered phones.

Steve

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RAT GUARDS 22 years 8 months ago #15556

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Being a former member of 1st Div. and having put on a many a rat guard
i never new of a rat jumping them. Besides why did they need to do that when all they had to do was cross over on the gang plank.

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RAT GUARDS 22 years 4 months ago #15699

  • Randy Stark
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I do remember the rat guards. They were cone shaped devices that were put on the mooring lines so that rats would'nt climb up the lines and get on the ship. I think I even remember hearing the story about needing two of them.
Randy OS2 1981-1986

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RAT GUARDS 22 years 2 months ago #15708

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All right you guys, just who does have the keys to the exhaust trunk and i could of swore I had a can of that relative bearing grease out in my shed but I seem to have misplaced it!!!

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