My friend Kim Nasfell told me about this ship the U.S.S.
Germantown being docked and open to the public this last weekend. She said t
hat it was free and so of course free is good and we made a point to go. It just happens to be the ship that her husband serves on. It recently returned from 8 months out to sea. We were thrilled to take a tour. The man that was giving us the tour was a medic and promptly told us that he would not be able to tell us anything about the weapons aboard this ship. He said the other guy that stood behind us was a cook and also didn't know anything about the weapons on the ship. In other words, don't ask! I thought that was pretty funny but you know
no big deal. We were kinda laughing through the whole thing because he kept referring to different movies to make his point. Some of the movies he refered to were Saving Private Ryan, Austin Powers, and Hunt for Red October. I love the movie Hunt for Red October. I'm kinda a sucker for submarine movies. Since I was a moron and didn't notice Emma's footwear we kinda fell behind but it was ok because the "Cook" was telling us all sorts of different things about the ship. Nothing of course was real important but little things like the floor being painted green for the green deck and the same for the blue. We learned that it is a transportation ship and that the men and women that work on the ship stay on the blue deck (Navy) and the people they are transporting stay on green deck. Anyway there were a few other things I fo
und kinda funny like this sign about the missile launchers. Can we say, "DUH!" The other one that I thought was kinda funny were these seven mops. It reminded me of a pirate ship captain screaming out, "Scrub
that deck you scurvy dogs!" One more thing t
hat was really cool about being up on that tall ship was that down the lane a bit there was something going on with the big flag ships. (that's what they called them on the news) The Star of India was out and they kept shooting off their cannons. At one
point this ship sailed by the ship that we were on and all you could see was the sails. It was cool to think that we were that high up. Lastly the impression that I was left with was that this is serious business. Yes it was cool to go and be near and on this huge ship but all in all it is somebody's job. The whole time we were aboard there was a guard posted at the back of the flight deck with a very large weapon. I was quickly reminded that although it was open to the public, this was not a museum!
Germantown being docked and open to the public this last weekend. She said t
hat it was free and so of course free is good and we made a point to go. It just happens to be the ship that her husband serves on. It recently returned from 8 months out to sea. We were thrilled to take a tour. The man that was giving us the tour was a medic and promptly told us that he would not be able to tell us anything about the weapons aboard this ship. He said the other guy that stood behind us was a cook and also didn't know anything about the weapons on the ship. In other words, don't ask! I thought that was pretty funny but you know 
no big deal. We were kinda laughing through the whole thing because he kept referring to different movies to make his point. Some of the movies he refered to were Saving Private Ryan, Austin Powers, and Hunt for Red October. I love the movie Hunt for Red October. I'm kinda a sucker for submarine movies. Since I was a moron and didn't notice Emma's footwear we kinda fell behind but it was ok because the "Cook" was telling us all sorts of different things about the ship. Nothing of course was real important but little things like the floor being painted green for the green deck and the same for the blue. We learned that it is a transportation ship and that the men and women that work on the ship stay on the blue deck (Navy) and the people they are transporting stay on green deck. Anyway there were a few other things I fo
und kinda funny like this sign about the missile launchers. Can we say, "DUH!" The other one that I thought was kinda funny were these seven mops. It reminded me of a pirate ship captain screaming out, "Scrub
that deck you scurvy dogs!" One more thing t
hat was really cool about being up on that tall ship was that down the lane a bit there was something going on with the big flag ships. (that's what they called them on the news) The Star of India was out and they kept shooting off their cannons. At one 
point this ship sailed by the ship that we were on and all you could see was the sails. It was cool to think that we were that high up. Lastly the impression that I was left with was that this is serious business. Yes it was cool to go and be near and on this huge ship but all in all it is somebody's job. The whole time we were aboard there was a guard posted at the back of the flight deck with a very large weapon. I was quickly reminded that although it was open to the public, this was not a museum!
2 comments:
Oh WOW!!! I'm so glad that you were able to go visit Corey's ship!! That's awesome! Oh, and by the way, Corey sleeps on the BOTTOM rack out of the three...gives you new appreciation to what it must feel like to sleep in a coffin huh?? :) That is so funny that your tour guides were a medic and a cook! Haha, yeah, they wouldn't have really known anything about the ship! Whoo-hoo! Glad you got to experience that...and glad that it WAS really free (I was sweatin' it at the last minute afraid that they might actually charge after all)!! ;)
What a neat opportunity!
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