Military Guys (Navy)

[RyanbabZ71]

Ok today my family and I were at my brothers swim meet.  Something came up and i told my grandpa he should do a canon ball off the diving board.  He looked at me like i was crazy.  He said i cant swim.  I was like HUH?  You were in the NAVY he said yea but he failed swimming and almost drown in HS.   ???  ???  ???  Well then he got to telling me that when he was in training there was a polio scare (dont know the exact yr but i think he said 58) and the pools were closed 2-3wks after training started (great lakes training center and many other places).  They were supposed to get training wherever they were shipped to but he was shipped out to sea so he never learned to swim.  His shipmates threw him overboard somewhere and he almost drown again (my grandma told this story haha).  He was on the USS Irwin during the Korean War.  During xmas he brought out all his photo albums and there were some cool pics.  One that stuck out (wasnt cool) was his commodore was wounded and they had pics of him being transported off the ship and the actual room where he was hit (black and white picture and it looked horrible blood everywhere).

 

I am still in shock that he was in the navy and cant swim.  

[bowtie_pasta]

That is strange, I couldn't imagine not being able to swim.

[General Lee 01]

I can barely swim.

 

I can only swim about one pool lengh and then I tire out and have to stop.

 

I can doggie paddle forever though.

 

My mom scolds me when she hears me tell people "I can do it Doggie Style".

[chevy4x4trucks]

I can barely swim.

Makes quick mental note to self, "When Jeremy comes after me at GMTC 2003 event head for a large body of water."

[General Lee 01]

I can barely swim.

Makes quick mental note to self, "When Jeremy comes after me at GMTC 2003 event head for a large body of water."

Note to self, Items to bring to 2003 GM-TC  event:

 

 

Canoe

Cattle prong

Sticks of TNT (anyone ever see Crocidile Dundee 2?)

Fishing Pole

 

I'm gonna make you sqeal like a pig boy!

[k1500chevy97]

Note to self, Items to bring to 2003 GM-TC  event:

 

 

Canoe

Cattle prong

Sticks of TNT (anyone ever see Crocidile Dundee 2?)

Fishing Pole

 

I'm gonna make you sqeal like a pig boy!

   

[chevy4x4trucks]

I can barely swim.

Makes quick mental note to self, "When Jeremy comes after me at GMTC 2003 event head for a large body of water."

Note to self, Items to bring to 2003 GM-TC  event:

 

 

Canoe

Cattle prong

Sticks of TNT (anyone ever see Crocidile Dundee 2?)

Fishing Pole

 

I'm gonna make you sqeal like a pig boy!

Another note to self:

 

Jeremy is weird, I don't want to know about his sick fantasies involving cattle prongs      

[k1500chevy97]

Jeremy is weird, I don't want to know about his sick fantasies involving cattle prongs      

       

[General Lee 01]

EWW Jon, what are you thinking?!

[Guest Friz]

I've always been a swimmer. I musta learned when I was about 3 or 4.

I have seen people join the Navy that can't, but they learn in Boot Camp.

Boot just teaches the basic. In Aircrew School, we had two guys nearly drown and in CPO Training, one of our guys could just barely make it through the swimming part (kinda like Jeremy).

[timk49]

Went to Navy boot camp in 1968. I passed swimming with no problems. I 've been a swimmer all my life. I did see several guys nearly drown in the navy pool. They had to stay in the water for a specified time treading water. The weak swimmers would try to grab the side of the pool and the instructor would push them back to the middle with a long bamboo pole. The instructers did not wnat to go into the pool and they didnt want to have send anybody back a week in training to take swimming again.

 

4 years, F-4 structure machanic. Two 9 month cruised to Viet Nam on the USS Midway CVA 41.

[Guest Friz]

Went to Navy boot camp in 1968.

 

4 years, F-4 structure machanic. Two 9 month cruised to Viet Nam on the USS Midway CVA 41.

You da man.

Thanks    :thumb:

[Stepside Z]

I have been on the water all my life. My farther was a fishermen off the coast of Maine and had me out on the boats from the time I was 4 years old. I have been in the Navy for almost 20 years now and I don't swim very well. The only water I want to be in is the shower.

[MountaineerTom]

4 years, F-4 structure machanic. Two 9 month cruised to Viet Nam on the USS Midway CVA 41.

:thumb:    

[General Lee 01]

I have been on the water all my life. My farther was a fishermen off the coast of Maine and had me out on the boats from the time I was 4 years old. I have been in the Navy for almost 20 years now and I don't swim very well. The only water I want to be in is the shower.

I'm with you, I enjoy being ON the water more than in it.