Reply #9: Boy was I lucky. I had the senior Skipper in the Air Wing. Our coup was on the 2nd deck, below and

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forward of the hangar deck. Quiet except for the fact that on the other side of the bulkhead next to my rack was an ordinance elevator. When they were using it the clank pop clank whirrrr BANG was enough to wake the dead. Took me about two weeks to get used to it the first time and when we started workups again I picked the same rack LOL.

Man did I have it made when I look back on things. On my first deployment, my two best friends went TAD, one to 1st Lt. and one to ship's laundry. I got clean sheets whenever I wanted them, had four curtains so I could intertwine them, and personalized laundry service. I'd get up in the morning to find my laundry washed, folded, some of it ironed, and placed next to my rack in the middle of the night. Second deployment I had to pay but by then I knew WHO to pay. I was the envy of many. LOL

About sleeping on the 03 level, I once was walking around the flight deck late at night cuz I couldn't sleep. I caught two young pilots painting padeyes black to keep flight deck personnel from dropping chains there because they slept in a stateroom right below that spot. I told Flight Deck Control and they both got REAMED. One wanted to kick my ass in a bar in Palma, Spain. I kept telling him to bring it, but his buddy made a big play of holding him back and telling me I'd spend the rest of my life in the brig if I hit him LOL.

Fun times.