Other Memories Med cruise, WestPac. Mess cooking/dry break out for 3 mos, then 2nd Div, chipping paint, refueling, rearming, replenishing, collisions at sea, bridge watches, qualifying as a helmsman, crane operator, off loading a A4 Skyhawk with the cranes cargo whip & not the boat hook (as required) and watching officers assemble on the elevator and pier so they could testify at my court marshal and hang me from the yard arm, never happened but there where large bites missing from a part of my body, being the pointer in gun mount 3, pointer gets to pull the trigger (too much fun) getting 6 hits, 3 near misses, 1 miss, without fire control radar and out doing the Marines using fire control, refueling from the USS USS Mississinewa AO-59 when she lost her steering, breaking away, men in the water, throwing life rings and my life jacket in after them, the fire in the paint locker after replenishing, being listed as missing/dead because I hit my rack after almost 48 hrs without sleep and didn't hear anything including the repeated 1MC calls for me to muster( my rack was 4 racks up and not ck'd very well) France, Italy, Spain, Rio, becoming a Shellback on the way there being a Shellback on the way back (much better),Japan, Hong Kong, the PI, Cape Town SA painting the side of the ship in our dress whites?, But all in all my time on the FDR was the best time of my life.