A Memorable Self-Growth Lesson About #Values From Two U.S. Navy SEALs
Way back - yeah, waaaaay back - in March '93, me and 5,000+ other salty, swinging d*ks were experiencing twenty-degree rolls inside one of…
Way back — yeah, waaaaay back — in March ’93, me and 5,000+ other salty, swinging d*ks were experiencing twenty-degree rolls inside one of the biggest, most powerful ships the world has ever seen.
In this case, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) — also known by crew members as “the Big Stick” or within the U.S. Navy simply as TR.
The ‘Storm of the Century’ was rearing its ugly head just as we left Norfolk, Virginia.
Forget that the entire East coast was blacked out or not; monstrous waves or not, we had a mission come hell or high water (literally, in this case)… and on March 11th 1993, nuclear reactors at full throttle, we hit the Atlantic with no fear.
Except for those of us who just…well… sadly… had never been on a ship before.
How bad could it be, right? A Super Carrier can’t take those kinds of side-to-side rolls ! (yeah, ok — see picture above).
As soon as we were in the Strait of Gibraltar, en route to the serene Mediterranean Sea, I meekly went up to the flight deck where I had a chance to catch up with a SEAL detachment I was doing Cryptography fills* for.
(* = electronic intelligence shit that was cross-checked with the ships Signals Exploitation Space; an oddly dark place with green glowing screens where I worked. On the wall was our slogan: In God We Trust. All Other’s We Monitor).
Anyway, I asked these two overly-calm SEALs what they were doing in their own little ‘off limits’ hideaway cave (right below the gallery deck) when the ship was pitching & rolling across the Atlantic.
Here’s what they told me…
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