"Jerry Foster" wrote in message
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|
| I was on board the USS ENTERPRISE during the Viet-Nam war. One miserably
| hot night in the Tonkin Gulf, a sailor found a "cool" place to sleep.
Most
| of the flight deck is surrounded by catwalks. But the areas where there
are
| no catwalks are protected by safety nets to catch people who fall off the
| edge of the flight deck and save them from a rather unpleasant swim. One
| such area is the forward edge of the deck. Our hero slipped down over
the
| deck edge and sacked out in the net. He was sleeping real good when,
about
| 2 AM, the ship started to launch F-4's. Other than the afterburners
giving
| him a haircut that exceeded Marine Corps specs, he didn't end up toooo
much
| the worse for wear....
|
| Jerry

Oh, dat's funny rot there fer sure! Thanks for the laugh. I wonder if
they could smell the burning hair over the rest of the flight deck since the
ship was turned into the wind? Just thinking about _that_ makes me laugh
again!