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Personal Experiences USS Coral Sea.

From: Brian Abbott <banjo@iscweb.com>.

Date: Thursday, January 13, 2000 12:23 AM.

USS Coral Sea Brian Abbott.

banjo@iscweb.com.

What a stinkin' bucket of crap. Wax poetic all you want guys, the coral maru, was in her declining years. Asbestos, crappy chow, ignorant petty officers, water hours, the iranian helecopter rescue episode.

If you were a swingin dick aboard this rust bucket I pity us.

All good things must come to an end.... but service aboard the dear old cv-43 lives vividly in my memory. anyone want to go to chow down at the Doggie Diner? The smells, the service, the taste mmm mmm good!

bobby r. griffith airwing 15 Service Dates=08/60-11/65.

i was a 2nd class po flihhgt trlouble shooter or green shirt. in 1962 in siuth china sea, i was just coming out of the island and had taken about two steps when an a4d landed and a sparrow missle came off and was skidding down the flight deck at the foul line. i was frozed watching the thing go by me 3 feet away ssmoking and sparks flying from the fins scraping the dect. the missle proceedoff the flt deck and exploded upon contct with the water. i then dove back int othe islad where there were several other men it took a while for me to calm down and return tothe deck.

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