Merchant Mariners
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hpshooter
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Hats off to you fellows past and present. Taxing, hard, potentially dangerous but essential work to keep world commerce flowing.
After graduating from high school, my father went on to work
the Lake freighters on the Great Lakes up until WW2 where he
joined the 190th field artillery battalion, assigned V-Corp artillery.
I have most of his papers and log book of "Continues Discharge"
with boats listed passage of work. Listed, ordinary seaman, coal
passer, oiler, and firemen. Papers are stamped "US dept of Commerce",
Bureau of inspection and Navigation.....After the war, he re-entered
Great Lakes Marine service, And issued seaman papers from the U.S.
Coast Guard.
the Lake freighters on the Great Lakes up until WW2 where he
joined the 190th field artillery battalion, assigned V-Corp artillery.
I have most of his papers and log book of "Continues Discharge"
with boats listed passage of work. Listed, ordinary seaman, coal
passer, oiler, and firemen. Papers are stamped "US dept of Commerce",
Bureau of inspection and Navigation.....After the war, he re-entered
Great Lakes Marine service, And issued seaman papers from the U.S.
Coast Guard.
KMart
Gold $$ Contributor
Congratulations
Where did they hold the firefighting class?
Retired here, too, but that's still me. Got to participate in the Vietnam sea lift and visit many interesting places in much of the world.
Good question, KMart. I did mine, decades ago, at the US Navy Firefighting School in Bayonne, NJ, which also trained cadets from the maritime academies. That school got shut down by the sate of NJ, because they thought doing away with a little bit of smoke was more important than saving lives through fire fighting training. And, thanks to that training, I was able to nip an engine room fire in the bud one night out at sea, saving us a potentially major problem.
Wolfdog91
Silver $$ Contributor
Everything is in house training here at my company,
Will say though one of the guys in my class is another vet from the Coast Gaurd and he gives me hell about going from the army to being a boat guy now
KMart
Gold $$ Contributor
That is only 5-6 miles down river from me.
I thought they may have sent you to Texas A&M Industrial Fire Fighting School in College Station. I went through that school about 10 times (slow learner). They had a ships deck up there at one time and got to see trainees put out a fire there. It looked like the whole front end of a ship. About 20 ft up to the deck.
Where is the bunker gear, flames and smoke?
Cecil S.
Gold $$ Contributor
OH MY.......Dont get him started.......Hahahahaha.
pirate ammo
Guaranteed to take the wind out of their sails
Got divorced, spent over a month in the Philippines, still catching my breath after that, no further details on that.
Darn right don't get me going. I'm getting rid of most of my stuff might have something you can use. I'm just south of Marianna now. Yo ho ho and a bottle of beer I'll spit in your eye and bite off your ear.
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