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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base?
 
Gliderman8 said:
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base?
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You've got it, ole Gitmo! :encouragement: Wasn't that bad there, except July and August, temps got so hot it would literally cook an egg on the tarmac. :highly_amused: PJ
 
I've been to the base. Long ago...1972 or 1973. Quite the deal...nuke sub pierside and everybody on high alert it seems. At the head of the pier was a taxicab yellow 1950 Ford Tudor...and at Pier November parking lot in Charleston was a taxicab yellow 1950 Ford Tudor.
 
Missed that trip, furthest south for me was Homestead... unceremoniously dumped into the Biscayne Bay for Water Survival Training. PTUI!! And at about the same time (1972) as TOC was at Gitmo.
 
I went there in the Spring of 58 and left there in the Summer of 60. My wife was there with me for 14 months and my two sons, the youngest being born there and carried a US citizen Military Cuban birth certificate, hows that for a mouth full! PJ
 
Funny story, looking back on it. We were on training ops with ASW folks (who couldn't find us until we purposefully did noisy things)....and they did the normal PD sanitary blow....secure heads, open hull valve and backup, apply air pressure, blow unit you hear it blowing air outside the hull...close valves, vent tank pressure inboard (and everybody knew the smell).
Except one of the valves would not close fully.

Break off ops, head to Gitmo, tied up at the pier, open the valves and send the ship's diver over.
He comes up with a mangled fork.
I am in ULOPS (Upper Level Ops) as the CO (short, red haired fellow) comes down the weapons shipping hatch ladder...red hair on head, in ears and sticking out of nose flaming...as are his eyes..holding this mangled fork that caused us to break off ops....heading towards the Crew's Mess looking for the mess cook who dumped the leftover food scraps into the cra......head and missed the fork.

30 minutes later we were back out on our way to the ops area again.
 
"Wasn't that bad there, except July and August, temps got so hot it would literally cook an egg on the tarmac. :highly_amused: PJ"

Paul, don't you live in Oklahoma?
 
Good point Walt. Several years ago on my way home from work, a neighbor in the next block was doing just that. He was sitting on the curb with his daughter who looked about 5 years old, frying an egg on the street. So yes it can be done. Not sure about bacon though.
 
Bayless said:
Good point Walt. Several years ago on my way home from work, a neighbor in the next block was doing just that. He was sitting on the curb with his daughter who looked about 5 years old, frying an egg on the street. So yes it can be done. Not sure about bacon though.
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Wonder if that year was 2003? This is a picture of my Corvette Dash showing outside temp (of course I was on a hot highway - I40) while driving through OK City July 21, 2003.

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Bas, you make it sound like an odd event. hahahaha I remember once when I was younger my dad was in Arizona and called home, he told my mom it was 115 there and my mom just said that was nice it was 118 in Lawton.
 
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