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| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms Jeff Zahratka, 2008-07 The humor and innocence of the United States Navy Sailor is captured in the unique and sportive tales of a salty master chief set in the final quarter of the twentieth century. Sweepers sweepers man your brooms is a phrase readily recognized by any Sailor who ever woke up on a United States Navy ship. In his Navy memoirs Retired Navy Master Chief Jeff Zahratka, a twenty six year veteran chronicles rich adventures that carry the reader to exotic settings from Karachi Pakistan to Severmorsk Russia. Sweepers Sweepers is a colorful story with uncanny notice of the odd occurrences that take place between the life lines of Navy ships and isolated shore establishmentsnot a story about bombs, battles, or spectacular explosions, Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms is his story about how people of great diversity coexist in eighty-man bedrooms while living out of devices known as coffin lockers. Consistently found in the effectuation of extraordinary events, the ubiquitous American Sailor may be found crawling through garbage in an equatorial Shellback initiation or baring their derrieres at a Soviet aircraft carrier while traversing the Cape of Good Hope. He may be discovered in hand to hand combat, not with a human enemy manned up at a fire control console on an Aegis cruiser, but with a toilet brush in a Greek hotel room, fighting to the death with a mutated species of an ancient Hellenic centipede. The author fails miserably at camouflaging his affection for the city of Pittsburgh and his long time devotion to their high powered sports teams. He provides many insightful moments relating to being a fan from afar through some of the greatest years in Steeler and Pirate sports history. The story is a rich and historically accurate account of a caste of characters from seaman recruits with attitudes honed on tough urban streets, to brown juice spitting good ole boys that learned to love the sea. There are associations and first hand opinions on the actions of young naval officers who today are among the top ranking leaders of the force. Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms is a tapestry of the social morays, historical events, and military technologies that define the character of the Navy for the last thirty years. The reader will experience sufficient history to educate, and an infusion of personal opinion which will serve as a catalyst for debate. Above all; however, the story will remind Americans why they love Sailors, and remind old Sailors of why they love the Navy. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Why the Wilderness: a Forty Day Devotional Guide Dr. Walter M. Brown Jr, 2007-11-29 Jesus' wilderness experience in the fourth chapter of Matthew formed the basis for his inspired relationship with God. His devotional life was key to navigating difficult times. Jesus knew how to systematically get into the presence the Father. Dr. Brown has compiled a forty-day devotional guide to assist believers in their personal devotional studies. This 40-Day devotional guide presents a systematic approach used by the author as he negotiated the wilderness of a wartime deployment and his failure to select for promotion. He learned to journal his journeys through the wilderness. This book contains space for the reader to do the same. Lessons learned can advance our present spiritual development. These valuable lessons can be presented to others. The final added feature is that these devotional stories actually take you onboard a USS Aircraft Carrier. Everyday at sea is unique and challenging. These presented situations take you where Sailors live, work, and eat ? a unique perspective of life underway. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for the unrivaled competence of our sea service personnel and the power of God's Word. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Why the Wilderness? , 2005-12 The author, Walter M. Brown, Jr., describes the wilderness as an inner feeling of barrenness. Through the spiritual direction in Why the Wilderness, he hopes to help you better understand your own desolate times by seeing how God assisted him through his own. God allows-and sometimes even plans-your personal wildernesses to mature you for life and ministry. Once understood, this process can help immunize you against these experiences. Brown provides advice on how to overcome 'wildernesses of rejection, silence, and continually changing circumstances. He guides you in the quest to rise to what God intends for you, to better understand the connection between hope and faith, to address and overcome your secret fears, and to bring to light your areas of personal darkness. Also included is a forty-day devotional guide, complete with poems, questions, and reflections. Negotiated wildernesses are important to your spiritual growth and your fulfillment as children of God. One thing is for certain-until we address and venture through the wildernesses in our lives, the angels cannot come! |
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| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Nothing To Write Home About Pete Byrne, 2014-09-14 Nothing to Write Home About is a lightly fictionalized memoir of a now distant period of recent American History, The Cold War. In mid-1950s America, a rite of male passage was a couple of years of non-threatening, peacetime military service. By 1955, the war in Korea was two years past and Vietnam was still just a name. For the author, then aged eighteen, the Army offered an escape from the confines of a blue-collar neighborhood, a first opening on and into a larger world, a semi-grownup world filled with characters from all over the country, some good, some not so good and some just outlandish. Two years in the Army, with duty in South Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado and finally Germany became, unknowingly at the time, one of the genuinely educational and more memorable experiences of a lifetime. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: There I Wuz James A. White III M.D., 2021-09-30 “There I Wuz” refers to being in flight somewhere in the sky or perhaps in an otherwise routine situation when something unforeseen happened. It was the way aviators started their most gripping stories. Flight surgeons are privy to many such stories and “Doc” White relates the scary situations and tales of funny, tragic and intriguing events from inside naval aviation. He highlights what it was like to live and work on an aircraft carrier during the Viet Nam conflict and the cold war. He writes from the perspective of a Navy Flight Surgeon, a physician and a medical officer. The narrative describes all the complexities of flight operations, how everything functions and coordinates ...... and the psychology of those who make it happen. Join the author as he looks back at an incredible life in the Navy filled with medical tales, aviation adventures, and highs and lows. The narrative is personal, entertaining and interesting on many levels. “Great read, unusual in that Navy Flight Surgeons seldom comment on life on the carriers. Superbly written ... another perspective of Navy Life at sea and a doctor’s wonderful memoirs.” – Warm Regards, Captain Dan A. Pedersen (USN, Retired), Founder of the “TOPGUN” Navy Fighter Weapons School in 1969 and Skipper of USS Ranger (CV-61) in 1982. “These recollections are familiar to me at different times and places...and are a treasured memory. Readers will find this book most interesting while greatly admiring the dedication, expertise and service of a Flight Surgeon.” – Mike Bristow, Naval Aviator, Experienced A-7 Pilot with over 200 Carrier Landings. “.... thoroughly enjoyed reading...I could relate to a number of the stories... other aviators will be struck with memories.” – Tom Petillo, U.S. Naval Academy ’66, Naval Aviator, Fellow Mediterranean Sailor. “There I Wuz” paints a candid picture of a flight surgeon’s naval career and experiences on an aircraft carrier. This insider provides fascinating stories of life in a carrier “city” and insights as to what makes Top Gun pilots tick. Throughout, the author’s humor is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.” – David R. Sobel, Medical Defense Attorney and Award-Winning Playwright. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: The Cow Spoke French William True, Deryck Tufts True, 2002 |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Market Time Conspiracy James Duermeyer , 2020-08-10 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FLINT BLUFF He came from a humble background, a farm kid with the ethics and core values that are so prevalent in the Midwest. Following high school, Buddy Miller joined the Navy during the Vietnam War, and while serving on a ship in Southeast Asia, an incident occurs that will affect him for the next decade. With courage, he faces and manages the disability of PTSD and confronts the ghosts of his past. Returning to civilian life, Buddy becomes hugely successful, but continues to deal with the symptoms of his disability. With the loyalty of good friends and the help of a beautiful woman, he faces his life's most difficult challenge. In Market Time Conspiracy, James Duermeyer tells a rare story—a glimpse into the life of a man facing his worst nightmare. It is a wonderful, heart-felt story that gives the reader a look into the disability of PTSD. But the story is much more than that. It is a story woven from a young boy's growth into manhood, war, friendship, humor, perseverance, entrepreneurship, genius, and most importantly, love. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: A Journey With America's Queen: A Tour Aboard USCGC STORIS (WMEC-38) The "Queen" of the Fleet , |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Wiring Your Digital Home For Dummies Dennis C. Brewer, Paul A. Brewer, 2006-12-06 Beef up your home's wiring infrastructure and control systems to accommodate the latest digital home products. Upgrade wiring in your existing home room-by-room, system-by-system or wire the home you're building. Learn wiring for the latest digital home technologies -- whole home audio, outdoor audio, VoIP, PA systems, security systems with Web cams, home theater, home networking, alarms, back-up systems, and more. Perfect whether you do your own electrical work or want to talk intelligently to an electrical contractor. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: The Twilight Tour Tim Siggia, 2019-03-15 Marion Charles Pop Riley is a Navy man at the top of his game. As a Master Chief Radioman, he has reached the top of the enlisted ladder and has served during three wars: World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. In addition, he is also an amateur radio operator with an Extra-Class license and has become something of a legend among his Navy peers. Arriving at the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine, he is now on an official Twilight Tour, which will mark the end of a Navy career of more than thirty years. All, however, is not sweetness and light with Pop Riley. Divorced from his wife and estranged from his only son, he sees his upcoming retirement not as a reward for his many years of service but rather as a threat to his well-being and a sort of banishment from the only meaningful life he has ever known. In addition, it becomes increasingly obvious that his drinking has reached a level above and beyond what is generally considered normal, even for a sailor, and that his presence at NAS Brunswick is no asset but rather a liability. He yet manages to touch the lives of a number of friends even in ways of which he is himself unaware. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Memories of My Three Years Aboard Destroyer Escorts John J. Sheehan, 2014-02-18 John J. Sheehan, LTJG USN (ret.) John Joseph Sheehan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 27. 1935 to Margaret and Joseph Sheehan, Sr. He attended St. Timothy Parochial School in the Mayfair section of the city. He is a 1952 graduate of St. Josephs Preparatory School, (The Prep) and St. Josephs College (now University) in 1956. John enlisted in the United States Navy and graduated from the Naval Officers Candidate School in 1956. John served as Communications Officer on the USS Cross and the USS Chamber until his honorable discharge as a Lieutenant JG in 1959. Upon his retirement from the City of Philadelphia Comptrollers Office, John use the logs from the Library of Congress to research material from his real life experiences aboard ship. John lives in Philadelphia with his wife of fifty years, Ellen. He is the father of Ann Marie Matekovic, John Sheehan, Jr. and Ellyn Taylor and the grandfather of Katelyn and Laura Matekovic, Casey and Megan Sheehan and Charles, Kelley and Joseph Taylor. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: West Pac George Yenney, 2014-09-09 This cruise didnt begin well and it will not end well, he told Keoke, Heavy and me. His distant mystical look sent shivers up our spines. In the belly of a ship decades old, in the heat and the humidity and the rank stench of filthy men days unwashed, the crew of the ancient USS Topa rot. They do their duty as slaves to the U.S. Navy, the supply lifeline of the fleet that hovers off of the coast of Vietnam in 1969, engaged in a never ending war. But to their commanders, as sailors, they are nothing. And as enlisted men, they are even less. Strangers at first, the men of the USS Topa, a ragtag group from all walks of life, find themselves an ocean away from home, struggling together not against the communists their country is fighting, but against their own officers. Slowly but surely, under the iron fist of the Navy, prejudice, hatred and fear run rampant among the crew. And amidst the long voyage, they are left to wonder if any of them will make it back to the states at all |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: I remember ... (pb) rich browne, 2012-07-21 Currently living in Ohio, Rich Browne has been something of a gypsy. He has lived in 12 states, visited 49 of the 50, two U.S. territories and 18 foreign countries. He was a journalist. He worked for nearly 30-some odd years for a variety of daily and non-daily newspapers in a wide range of positions, He also has been a war correspondent during Operation Just Cause in 1989 and a teacher and instructor. In addition he also won many journalistic awards. Rich served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Reserve in the Vietnam Era (but not in Vietnam); and was in the Army National Guard when he was called up for service in the Persian Gulf War, during both Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm where he served as an Army public affairs specialist in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Rich now is medically retired from the U.S. Army where he was a civilian public affairs officer. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Sharecropper's Son to Navy Commander Billy F. Odle CDR USN RET, 2024-05-18 I grew up on a farm during the Great Depression and WWII. When I was sixteen, I decided that a sharecropper's life would not be my future. I quit school and joined my siblings in California. On my eighteenth birthday, I joined the Navy and served thirty years. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Bipolar Boy From Bothell Gene Ellis Olson, 2023-05-26 Gene Olson was born in a small town in Pacific Northwest. He was raised in a large family with two brothers and two sisters plus many stepsiblings as his parents ran a home for boys. They were quiet and happy years. He dropped out of college to allow his two sisters to complete education and was drafted into military service in the middle of the Vietnam war. The unforgettable and horrifying experience of war, and many of his friends dying, left a huge impression on him. After returning home he was unsettled and restless having difficulties sticking to a daily routine. Diagnosed as bipolar and trying different medication to heal his tormented brain, he suddenly he met his angel and his life made sense to him again. It’s a story of torment and survival, a struggle to find sense in his illness and obtain happiness. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Perigee Patrick Chiles, 2011-12-24 Stranded in orbit, with no way home before the air runs out… A veteran pilot flying a revolutionary spaceplane, A media mogul on an urgent mission halfway around the world, And an aerospace legend fighting to save his legacy, in the face of a government that would stand aside to let it be destroyed. At hypersonic speed, Arthur Hammond’s fleet of Clipper spaceplanes has become the premium choice for high-flying travel, placing every corner of the globe within a few hours’ reach. But when the line’s flagship is marooned in space with a load of VIP clients, its crew must fight to stay alive knowing that help may never arrive. As they struggle with failing life support and increasingly desperate passengers, their colleagues back on Earth scramble to mount an audacious rescue. A contentious mix of old airline hands and NASA veterans, they will face shocking betrayals in a battle to save their friends. In this race against time, Hammond must confront an onslaught of horrendous press, nitpicking bureaucrats, and dubious financiers – all of them pawns in a larger game, with his business empire as the prize. Amid a spreading web of industrial espionage, he may find the truth to be worse than imagined. And in space, one man will discover that escape may demand a terrible sacrifice. Reviewers have called it a real barn-burner and the best darned 'sci-fi' novel I've read in years. PERIGEE opens the next chapter in air and space travel, where ordinary people will accomplish extraordinary things. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: The Passage David Poyer, 1997-02-15 The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval history. But when the system develops a sinister virus and a sailor takes his own life amid ugly allegations, Lenson finds himself caught in a web of betrayal. Now, on the treacherous Windward Passage between the U.S. and Cuba, he'll undergo the ultimate test of honor and faith-- one that could cost him his career, his ship, and even his life. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: All Hands , 1998 |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Turning the Corner on Life Arnold Silveri, 2012-04-09 Turning the Corner on Life is a book covering more than seventy years of my life. Like any other autobiography, its about family, friends, and the personal experiences we shared. It does not include every single thing that ever happened to me in my life. There are, however, numerous nostalgic references to music, movies, radio, television, sports, social /cultural political names, places, and events intermingled within the chronology of my life. Beginning with the happy carefree days I spent playing ball in the street and going to the movies. The times we went to Coney Island and Ebbets Field. The happy and not-so-happy days I spent as a teenager in junior high and hanging out on the corner. The love, loyalty, and compassion my wife, Connie, always displayedfrom our first meeting and throughout our marriageduring some tough, depressing times. And last but not least, the happiness we shared in the birth of our children and grandchildren. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Mordray's Whale R. Grubb, 2005-07 Set in a well-known tourist island, Charles Mordray, a respected marine biologist and curator of an aquarium and zoo, and Geoffrey Cooper, scion of a powerful family are on converging paths. Mordray is desperate to clear his family name. Just prior to World War II, his father ignored a British government directive by attending a marine biology conference sponsored by the Nazi government. Geoffrey Cooper, to the chagrin of his father, has become one of the island's chief bon vivants. It is the pursuit of women who occupy most of young Cooper's waking moments. Both men will be affected by a startling event in 1968 that will imbue their fates along with a number of other islanders, shaking them to their very cores. Finely crafted ... a page turn -- K. Satter. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Apollo Rises Michael Ellis, 2005-10-01 For ten years, a U.S. Navy sailor, code-name PYTHON, spies for the Soviets. All U.S. intelligence agencies continually fail at their attempts to discover the identities of PYTHON and his Soviet Controller. Then, a dead body and U.S. classified messages are found in a wrecked car at the bottom of a ravine near Madrid. The messages are traced to a U.S. Navy warship. The Defense Intelligence Agency and The Office of Naval Intelligence fail to uncover PYTHON's identity and activities aboard the warship. Dissatisfied and frustrated over the string of failures to find PYTHON, The Chief of Naval Operations permits ONI to implement a bold and unconventional program for recruiting ONI counterintelligence agents. ONI's Lieutenant Commander Brad Watson recruits a young sailor named Rigney Page to find PYTHON. At first, Rigney Page sees his mission as just one of life's adventures to satisfy self-serving needs. Then, he discovers another side of himself. During his search for PYTHON, he meets several women who teach him about commitment and tolerance and who elevate his sexual senses to new heights. Rigney's adventure takes him to a Navy Guided Missile Cruiser that is on patrol in the Mediterranean. He renews an old friendship, and he makes some sinister enemies. His search for PYTHON comes to a brutal confrontation in a quiet beach town in southern Italy. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: No Salvation Jeffery Hess, 2019-05-27 Inspired by actual events, No Salvation features the USS Salvation as it sails for months on end in the South China Sea in the violent closing days of the Vietnam War. Exhaustion, drugs and discontent run rampant aboard ship and crew morale is at an all-time low. These conditions affect four thousand men being sequestered for months on end without port visits has everyone on edge. This is 1972, a time when inequality and racial tension permeated ships fleet-wide. As a way to mitigate racial unrest, the ship’s captain brings in Commander Robert Porter as his Executive Officer. Commander Porter isn’t sure if he’s been selected for the job because of his skills or for the color of his skin, but the black crew doesn’t accept him. Amid rampant drug use and various forms of sabotage, the biggest challenge to the ship’s performance and the crew’s safety is a series of violent attacks made by planes launching from the flight deck, but more perilous are the racial tensions boiling below. Porter is uniquely positioned to save them all, but can he? If so, at what cost? Praise for NO SALVATION: “Truth, as they say, may be stranger than fiction, but novelist and award-winning editor, Jeffery Hess, manages to masterfully blend both in No Salvation. Based on actual events from another era, Hess’s novel with page-turning cinematic appeal sizzles with gritty realism and uncomfortable truths regarding racial tensions aboard a U.S. Navy carrier. I dare readers to walk away unchanged—in how they see others, and how they see themselves in the world.” —Tracy Crow, author of Eyes Right: Confessions of a Woman Marine “In a skillful fictionalization of the racial discord aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in 1972, Mr. Hess has created an unflinching picture of life aboard a Navy carrier forty-seven years ago, in a work that builds in tension with each chapter to a decisive climax, bloody, but prescient with hope.” —Raymond Hutson, author of Finding Sgt. Kent “From the opening chapter Hess plunges you deep within a Navy aircraft carrier where a brutal black vs. white event has occurred, with characters rich enough to have stand-alone stories of their own. Powerful is not only the first word that comes to mind when describing No Salvation, it’s the best word.” —Jonathan Brown, author of the Lou Crasher series “Hess, himself a Navy veteran, knows exactly what he's doing, and has given us a riveting and compelling story firmly based on real events from the closing days of the Vietnam war.” — Tim Bazzett, author of the Cold War memoir Soldier Boy: At Play in the ASA |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Snapshot: Ship's Dentists William M. Trently, 2011-07-27 It's not just a job. It's an adventure. This book is a snapshot of an adventure from 1987 to 1990 in the United States Navy Dental Corps. Through the author’s unadorned, straightforward narrative, you will be introduced to a nautical and military culture that has its own language and rich traditions. You will treat patients at the world's largest naval base. You will go to sea aboard an aircraft carrier, travel to exotic foreign shores, spend time in a shipyard, and board a Soviet warship during the Cold War. You will find camaraderie and patriotism, and a love of and fascination with the sea. |
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| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: An Honorable War Robert N. Macomber, 2017-02-15 Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February 1898. Working with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt in the tense prewar days, carrying out a perilous espionage mission inside Cuba, and leading a disastrous raid on the Cuban coast, Wake is in the middle of it all. The Popular Fiction silver medalist in the 2017 Florida Book Awards, this is the first of three dynamic books set during the Spanish-American War in the Caribbean, when America changes forever into a global power. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Wildcat Dillinger Steel, 2015-09-17 After his first ship burns at sea under mysterious circumstances, a tough young sailor, Billy Cain (prodigal son of Pony Springs Montana) is treated for his wounds and then reassigned to a big supply ship- The USS Newark AOE-2; here he finds himself in the unlikely situation of serving again with a loyal, but disturbed former shipmate and friend, Wade Jordan. Intense complexities of personality and situation between them, fueled by one sailor's criminal greed and desire to dominate in the drug world, and another's, whose attempt to right a situation that's gotten clean out of hand will probably cost him dearly. Yet he fights back against his enemy for no more reason than an amazing woman's love and his family's American pride. A cast of Asian soldiers and crooked drug agents, nightmarish scenes of Bangkok and hard-core violence upon a discontented ship where a rough bunch of American sailors are just about one bust away from raising the jolly roger; these characters, even the small ones in scope are nailed and salted with just the right amount of local color and physical detail as to be pleasing (or not) and memorable (for sure). The novel is comprised of three interconnected elemental disciplines; historical/international noir (Le Carre or Ludlum) The Military realism such as (Wouk/McKenna); and finally the last third which resonates with description and narrative of rural Northwest America and the prose of personal love, honor and retaliation. The women of this novel are multi-faceted and have been granted true perspective without pretense. There are as well various patriots, criminals, cowboys and innocents, barflies and ladies of the West and East- all at their best and worst behaviors- that populate this blend of historical fiction told in sharp noir prose which the writer explores inside this world of yet another failed American War. The Military section is rife with shipboard action and humor that smacks of an authenticity of Naval Fiction rarely seen since The Sand Pebbles. The resolution of this book is told in the self-restrained, yet vibrant, voice of a writer who understands that poetry is love. The characters in this story are young, Billy and his girlfriend Laura, yet between them is the love and courage to act on the truth... without mitigation or denial...especially in the face of Billy's unusual hardship during his young life. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Quicksilver C. D. R. Jack L. Wells, 2007-12 Men at sea in a difficult and unpopular war: this was the fall of 1967 and Vietnam was on the way to becoming an American nightmare. Yet each man had to find his own way to cope with the exhaustion, boredom and ultimately combat with a resourceful and persistent enemy. ENS Patrick Dillan, USN was assigned to USS LARTER (DD 766). Only 26 he was a bit of a rebel on what was supposed to be a 6 month Westpac deployment: dealing with normal evolutions, port calls and combat while he wrestled with his own and his ship mate's emotions. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Vampire Liberty Howard Schwach, 2025-04-05 Yeoman Second Class Ben Yanek loves his job as a court reporter on the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. It’s an easy billet and he’s contemplating shipping over for six more years, until an assignment to the shore patrol in Palermo, Sicily, puts him on the trail of shipmates who would steal and kill to achieve their aims. What he finds puts his life and the lives of others on the massive ship, in danger from forces he still does not understand. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Men of Forrestal E.S. Tasker, 2025-05-05 In the early morning hours of July 29, 1967, crew members aboard the USS Forrestal had no clue that their being awakened by a Man overboard alarm could have served as a possible omen of events to come only a few hours later. Events that would alter the course of each life aboard. While operating in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the shores of North Vietnam, the USS Forrestal and her crew would soon be witness to the worst naval disaster to occur since World War II. The calamity that resulted forced the ship's crew to literally fight for their lives and the existence of their ship against an enemy of raging fires and multiple high-end explosions. The cost to the ship and her crew, the lives of 134 souls, and multiple injuries to others. The story begins at Arlington National Cemetery, and the moment one particular sailor reflects back to what brought him to that hallowed place. It continues with his travels to the other side of the globe and his long wait for the ship's arrival in Subic Bay, Philippines. Written as accurately as possible after so many years, it's the telling of one sailor's experiences while working the flight deck aboard the mighty carrier. A story detailing the hard work of those aboard, the love for their captain, and the sacrifices made by so many on a morning of pain, intense fear, and gut-wrenching heartache. A morning whose date has been seared into the minds of those aboard: July 29, 1967. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: From the Farm to the High Seas Del Strode, 2014-06-18 Del Strode knows the value of hard work. At twelve, he took a part-time job on a farm. By fifteen, he decided to drop out of school to work full time. When winter hit, he moved into town and got a job working in a bowling alley. There, a chance meeting with two navy veterans changed his life. They encouraged him to apply for a job on their government survey team, and he worked with them for a full year. Although he was encouraged to continue with the surveyors, he wasnt sure that was what he wanted for his life. One week after he turned seventeen, Del walked into a navy recruitment center. One month later, he and his best friend reported for boot camp. Del knew quickly that this was the life he wanted, and he launched himself into the life of a career sailor. Fifteen years later, he had advanced to master chief. He served on ships ranging from fleet tugs to the worlds largest aircraft carrierin the Atlantic and Pacific oceansworking as a steamfitter, HP welder, radiographer, deep-sea diver, pipe-shop supervisor, and division officer. Dels story is proof that the only things a person needs to succeed are ambition and hard work. From the Farm to the High Seas is a blueprint for how to achieve success in any field or position, even when starting at an early age, with little education, and no financial support. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: All My Yesterdays David Guillen, 2012-01-06 In “All My Yesterdays” the author takes his readers from a tiny farm in Texas where he was born in 1930 and his childhood during the Great Depression, to his boyhood in the little agricultural town of Victoria, where he discovered he could sing. He takes you to the port city Galveston during and after World War II, where he went to high school and where he became a popular teenage singer, to his time in the army during the Korean War, from 1951 to 1953, and afterward to Hollywood to pursue a singing career. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: War Sketches from the Mekong and Coming Home George Giacoppe, 2024-12-05 War Sketches from the Mekong: A Soldier's Reflections provides thirty brief and gripping human stories from the 1967-1968 Vietnam brown water operations of the Mobile Riverine Force. This nonfiction describes how America got into the war and provides vignettes of Army and Navy events at a personal level by a West Point graduate with both experience and academic credentials. It reflects the pain, skill, and courage of an American military intent on assisting Vietnam and her people in a mistaken conflict and the personal aftermath of unexpected rejection on returning home. With verse, the author invites the reader to join him in spiritual contemplation, irony, and humor to underscore the emotion of loss and the impact of everyday events in a war halfway around the world. While most wars were recorded and later reported, Vietnam was the first TV war when daily events were seen by families at home as a routine. Vietnam is seared in American memory. Lieutenant Colonel Giacoppe personalizes and focuses Mekong Delta war events with retrospective clarity using events from the first US riverine warfare since the Civil War. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Marine Recruit Herb Brewer, 2014-11-15 Marine Recruit: Tears in the Sand is an epic novel of a Marine Corps boot camp (San Diego); a compelling, unabridged account of recruit training as told by the drill instructor. Author of chronicles of a marine rifleman, retired first sergeant, Herb Brewer, USMC, now brings to life this outstanding, all-encompassing, witty, honest, caringly brutal, human, and timeless narrative. Combining two stories into one, he takes you all the way from the grueling view of the recruit to the panoramic mission and perspective of the Drill Instructor. At MCRD, you can count on two things: the recruit is green, the marine drill instructor is legendary. First Sergeant Brewer captures the essence and awareness of what it means to be both. Marine Recruit is a rare and unparalleled look into MCRD. Enter now the revered birthplace of the Marines where every drill instructor was once a recruit. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: A Pocket of Resistance: Selected Poems Jim Jewell, 2013-10-25 The poems in this book are jim jewell. He selected them from 60 years of writing poetry. They capture the image of where he came from (Lebanon, Tennessee), who he is (many, many things) and how he feels about those many things. He hopes people enjoy this insight into who he is, enjoy what he has written, and think about what is written here from their own perspective. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: The City and the Sea Wes Goff, 2008-02 From Arab drylands to tropical islands; from Somalia to Australia; Tijuana to Okinawa; Chicago to San Diego; and Great Lakes to Kuwait -The City and the Sea is the often humorous memoir of a young sailor who finally sees the things that exist outside of his small hometown in Missouri. He witnesses these new places during a time when it seemed like the world was changing. And at the same time, it occurs at an age when he notices changes in himself. Wes Goff grew up in Fulton, Missouri. He has written humor columns for publications in Wyoming and South Korea. His first book was The Backroad Legends of Callaway County. His novella Me and Billy the Kid '91 is available as an e-book at www.backroadlegends.com. He can be contacted at callawaycryptids2002@ yahoo.com. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Navy Dog Neal J. Kusumoto, 2023-04-25 Winner of the 2023 Gold Medal for the Military Writers Association of America for Memoirs/Biography Navy Dog is a one-of-a-kind love story between a salty, battle-ready U.S. Navy crew and a little orphan dog. Having Seaman Jenna as the mascot on the USS Vandegrift was never meant to be a statement or symbolic act, or to put the crew on the radars of four-star admirals. Jenna came aboard unannounced, a Christmas gift that brought instant joy to the crew and transformed a gray ship into a home for 225 sailors. Her addition was not pre-approved by the chain of command—contrary to military protocol. Before long, Jenna became a phenomenon—the only dog on a Navy ship since World War II—despite the best efforts to keep her from the public eye. This orphaned Shiba Inu and the displaced crew shared countless adventures and trials during her five years on board. Jenna dodged being eaten in Korea (a country that still views dogs as edible fare), sidestepped Hawaii’s strict quarantine law, avoided threats of being shot in Australia, charmed a Chinese admiral, and nearly initiated an international incident in Pakistan. Jenna became a symbol of the ship and of free will, and created a bond amongst the crew that remains strong decades later…long after her death. Neal Kusumoto is proud to say that he was the captain of that fine ship, blessed with a magnificent crew that included one special sea dog. Join Seaman Jenna as a part of the crew on her five-year adventure on the high seas. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Rampant Raider Stephen R Gray, 2013-05-11 A member of Light Attack Squadron 212 s Rampant Raiders, A-4 pilot Stephen R. Gray writes about his experiences flying combat sorties from the deck of an aircraft carrier during one of the most intense periods of aerial combat in U.S. history. From the perspective of a junior naval aviator, Gray reveals the lessons he learned first at the Naval Aviation Training Command and then in actual combat flying the Skyhawk from USS Bon Homme Richard in Vietnam. Training strengthens commitment, Gray points out, allowing ordinary men like him to fly dangerous missions. Readers will discover how circumstances created heroe--heroes who managed to overcome their personal fears for a greater cause--and how, despite the lack of public support for the war, the men remained committed to one another. The book addresses how men react to service during contentious political times to offer lessons relevant today. |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: The Gundeckers Richard Winston, 2000-09-07 In Vietnam, while the air and land war grinds bloodily on, a few miles off shore in the South China Sea the fleet oiler USS Michigamme, AO 108, steams up and down the coast in operation Market Time. From Yankee Station in the north, deep in the Gulf of Tonkin, to Dixie Station in the Gulf of Siam far to the south, the men of Michigamme fight boredom, a corrupt system, and each other as they refuel (or in naval parlance, unrep) what ever ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet they encounter that require it, from tiny wood-hulled MSO minesweepers doing solitary interdiction duty off the Mekong Delta to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, CVA 65, and her taskforce engaged in bombing Haiphong harbor. When her own bunkers run dry, Michigamme returns to the POL pier in Subic Bay, P.I. to put a Tiger in her tank and let the men have a little R & R in the fleshpots of Olongapo. On one such occasion she picks up a new man, a brigrat just out of incarceration on Guam for going AWOL. His name is Gus Rounds. We follow Rounds as he is introduced to his new ship and his new shipmates. He quickly earns the wrath of his future nemesis, Ted Holiday, BM1. But he is be-friended by Tick Peterson, PN2 in the Ships Office and cut some slack by Master Chief Gunnersmate Tom MacBriar. Captain Childress is aboard Michigamme, deep in the belly of ServPac, the wretched Service Fleet Pacific, and the bottom of the barrel as far as command status goes, for one reason only. Her draft. Fully laden she draws 48 feet of water, about the same as an aircraft carrier. Childress is a WWII flyboy hero who knows nothing about ships and is bucking for a carrier command, but to get it he needs some deep draft experience on his resume.Fortunately for Childress, his second in command, Executive Officer Jim Barden, is a competent seaman and navigator and he sees to all the actual details of the ships day to day performance. While Rounds is part of Deck Force we meet his fellow deckapes Red Dog, Tony Land, John Basham, and Denny Van Horn BM2, Holidays right hand man. We also meet Tim Case, ET3, Gary Middleshore, PN striker and many other members of Michigamme 212-man crew.With a little encouragement and Peterson greasing the wheels, Rounds gets out from under Holidays thumb on deck force and is allowed to;strike for gunner. After Tom MacBriars suicide, the Gunnery Department of Michigamme consists of Deke Buckles, GM2, Joe Cruz, GM3, and Rounds, seaman striker. Until BuPers in Washington can send a replacement for Chief MacBriar, Buckles is in charge of the gundecks. He and Holiday are at war. Holiday is also at war with Peterson over money Holiday owes to the illegal slush fund Peterson operates with Corpsman Jerry Steinberg. Then the an unknown officer steals Deke Buckles Filipina girlfriend, Trudy, and Buckles goes berserk, starting a riot in Olongapo and a war between Michigamme and Oklahoma City, flagship of Com7thFleet. Later he finds out that the officer is Captain Childress of the Michigamme, and the seeds to a mutiny are sown. First the Okie City, as she is known, is doused with black oil from stem to stern when Buckles and the rest of the gundeckers conspire with some snipes in Engineering to send the flagship a charged hose thus torpedoing Captain Childress career. But Buckles is killed in a helicopter accident and it falls on Gus Rounds to plot the Michigamme Mutiny. When push finally comes to shove its in a raging typhoon off the coast of Japan. Joe Cruz and Gus Rounds make their move and the gundeckers seize command of the ship by force. But by then the real question is whose ship is it anyway? |
| sweepers sweepers man your brooms: Every Life Is a Story and This Is Mine Dennis E. Ekardt, 2010-12-07 As I grew up Ive said many times that I really wish I had talked to my grandparents and learned about their lives. I dont want my grandchildren to say the same thing. So I dedicate these words to Lindsay, Eddie, Meghann and Nicole. And someday theyll each be able to say, Heck yeah, I knew Ecky. |
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