Seaplane tender? That’s very cool!
I wasn’t born yet when you were on WestPac cruises, by my ship was… I did my sea time on the USS Independence, which was at that point the oldest ship in the navy, including supply ships. Little stuff started breaking on the ship and they didn’t bother to fix it because it was already scheduled for decommissioning. Little stuff like air conditioning.
I was an EA-6B NFO (navigator), and we called our jet the double-ugly. We were based out of Atsugi Japan and were at sea quite a bit, with a couple of cruises in the Persian Gulf enforcing the no-fly zone over Iraq (quite uneventful and even boring back in those days, the mid-90s).
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