Ghost drivers

The Ranger, never on station on time! The Bonnie Dick was a CVS when I saw her. It's funny that you mentioned that because we had an F4 NFO who was stationed at the sub base and we sat him down and asked him how fast he could fly when they would drop a B43. Then we showed him it just wasn't fast enough to get off target. Besides that where's he coming home to?

But you guys had a job to do and most who I knew did it well. There was one thou that just treat his plane crew badly and someone wrote in the head, Twist and turn crash and burn f*** with us and you will learn.

I was the supervisor that set the bomb to the correct settings and then my crew would turn the weapon over to the AO's. We would be loading safety supervisors for our weapons and nobody ever looked at the settings. We had plenty of Marines to make sure of that. We also had other jobs but all dealt with the weapons. We could do depot level maintenance on board ship. I was on the Constipation CV-64 from 80 to 83. I guess we should have taking this info to the military social group.

 

No during shipment they have different requirements than a weapon that is ready to launch. Are you sure you didn't have that shipment to Keyport? Besides the condition these weapons are in are the best the ship has. All of our spaces were A/C and even at shore sites where we had missiles the mags were heated in the winter and cooled in the summer.

 

I recall the pick-up was Bangor....
The reason they gave me was that the aluminum on the deck would conduct static.....I even offered to purchase 5/8" plywood but they gave the load to another O/O who had an all wood deck.....too bad, that load paid quite well...

 

This stuff makes the Uranium and cyanide I hauled sound like a truckload of lollypops.

 

It's a different world when the weapon system is not on board the ship. We used paint our torps perfect and then the sub would get their hands on it and they would come back with scrape marks down the side.

I've hauled alot of nukes on base and you can't have any nails or any metal on the flatbed when transporting explosives. So I can see why they wouldn't let you go with plywood.

 

Not really. Your load is much more dangerous. We had explosives there but it took a good jolt to even worry about it.

 

Why do you think we called the F-4 a double ugly? It wasn't just because there were 2 dumb & ugly people in there. They were just dumb a@@ed fighter jocks. And the aircraft they flew could be seen coming from about 30-miles away if they weren't in blower. Those GE motors left a big ugly trail of black smoke you could see forever unless they were in blower. Then they could do about 1.4 mach & a little more depending on how they were loaded. Now on the other hand we had a nice little tits machine in the tinkertoy. But they were slower than a double ugly because we had no blower. Donald Douglas claimed they could do 701....maybe on a good day in a steep dive & no hard points, usually around 670 all day long, but the beauty of the aircraft left no doubt which one looked better and it didn't have the word ugly in it's nickname!!!!!!

 

We called them smokers and the little one I assume is the A4 which will even be closer to the fireball. There wasn't too many aircraft that we didn't have the capability for. Even the helo's played a part if they had to.

 

Live ordnance is really not a problem until they put the fuse it it and that's not not done until the very last minute. Now if you have a huge fire you should get as far away as you can but the hazard is not as bad as you think. There's been tons of regulations written about handling bombs anmd such and sorry to see most have been done from accidents. Just been safe and you'll be fine.