European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cruising aboard the Petty officer 2.c. Richard Bennett pumps Iron to Flay tit while on Board the seller. Continued from Page 13 still work in 100-degree heat and Cooks still Rise before the Sun. Shipboard work is As endless As the Ocean is wide. At sea Day or night someone is always on watch in engine rooms on the Bridge at Lookout posts. In port enough of the Crew must be on the ship at All times to allow the ship to leave in an emergency. On the Sellers that Means one third of Tho Crew is always aboard. It s 6 . On a typical Day at sea. A boatsman s mate standing watch on the Bridge picks up a microphone and says in a tired voice Over the ship s address system reveille reveille. All hands heave  his Call does t provoke much movement below decks. Some of the Crew got off watch two hours earlier. Others stood watch from 8 . To Midnight. But breakfast begins at 6 30 the Crew has to Muster at 7 45. Sleepy sailors begin rolling out of their Racks bumping into one another in the crowded berthing spaces. They Clang around in lockers wide enough to hang perhaps two uniforms and one set of civilian clothes without smashing them. That s the Only storage space Many sailors have. Staggering up Steep noisy aluminium ladders the sailors make their Way to Tho ship s bathrooms called Heads. The men Are naked or wrapped in towels. No need for modesty on an All male ship. The ship s steady Roll combined with sea legs that Aren t quite awake give some of the sailors a Drunken appearance. But sailors at sea Don t suffer from hangovers. The . Navy does t permit drinking on ships. The head Lor the 150 or so Crew members berthed in the aft part of the Sellers has 11 sinks seven showers eight toilets and four urinals. Today the Crew can use those facilities to Morow could be a different Story. Ships need distilled water to run and the evaporators can produce Only so much of it if the ship runs Low on water the Crew goes without. Sellers sailors say they have gone As Many As seven Days without showers. Even when water is plentiful Navy showers Are the order of the Day wet Down water off soap up rinse off and out. Coffee and the beloved Bug juice powdered fruit drink can become scarce when water runs Low. Colas become a leading commodity. The 350-Man Crew drinks an average of 600 cans of it a Day at sea. Today the Sellers might shoot guns or fire missiles. Perhaps the ship will take on supplies helicopters will lower tons of food to the ship a working party of All available hands will carry the supplies to holds deep within the ship Down narrow passageways and Steep newbie finds it All kind of neat Seaman Tim Vogt is getting a crash course in  is a newbie a Boot on a 350-manguided missile destroyer about half Way through a cruise from Charleston s.c., to the Mediterranean. He met the ship in Naples three Days before it suddenly and unexpectedly got under Way after the hijacking of a pan american Jet in Pakistan. The new Guy aboard does t know what to think about being Slung into the midst of shipboard life and world events. He borrowed his opinions about the emergency underway from his shipmates. I talked to people about it and they were kind of excited he said. If everybody else had been scared i would have been too. They weren to so neither was  the Sellers is the 19-year-old disbursing clerk s first ship. It s pretty old he said of the 25-year-old ship. I expected better living  new people on ships Are traditionally subject to a certain amount of naval foolery. They Are sent to find batteries for sound powered phones phones which Don t take batteries because they re powered by the speaker s voice. New sailors get mail buoy watches no one would stick the ship s mail on a buoy and whale watches. Some Wise acre is always asking the Boot to go below and find the relative bearing grease. Vogt has t been aboard Long enough to receive Large doses of that stuff yet. So far sea life agrees with him. I think it s kind of  said the soft spoken red head. It s a Good place to just think. It s  Vogt is sure about one thing he misses Home his family and friends. Yea when i first got on the ship missed them a lot. You know i think about what everybody s doing Back  but he thinks that will fade As he spends More time on the ship. I m not going to Ever regret joining the Navy he said. T a Good place Toutt  quiet raid Seaman Tim Vogt a newbie on Board. Page 14 the stars and stripes he s catching on to shipboard life. When i first got on Board i did t really know what sailors did he said. One of his first lessons was an All hands working party at sea. The ship received 37 loads of supplies from another ship via helicopter. Vogt and every other available Crew member hauled the boxes of food and shipboard Jai Sailor talk can be pretty colourful  of the most colourful in t printable Buta lot of the everyday talk aboard ship can be downright charming if you can figure out what the sailors Are talking about. Sailors Don t gain experience when they go to sea. They get Salty. Sailors walk on decks not floors. They Bounce off bulkheads not Walls. They climb ladders they sleep in Racks and they take showers in the head. Aboard a ship the Captain is always the Captain whether he s a Captain or a commander or a lieutenant. The executive officer who could be a Captain is never the Captain. He s the to. Sailors say port and starboard when everyone else says left and right. Someone decided that Larboard another word for left was archaic so sailors Don t use it these Days. Sailors Wear boo dockers on their feet and skivvies smacking Golf people do strange things while they re floating around in the Middle of the  t mind me came a voice from the dark. I m just playing  the Sailor plunked a chunk of an old curtain on the steel deck set a Golf Ball on it and began taking practice swings with a 7-Iron. It was 8 15 . A few stars Back lit the golfer. Petty officer 2.c. Dwayne Pease an operations specialist aboard the guided missile destroyer Sellers could t sleep despite his Early morning watch and his Long Day in the ship s combat information Center. Smacking beat up Golf balls off the the Back end of the ship the Fantail is his form of relaxation. I usually try to bring about 100 shag balls with me he said still warming up. Loiter ers on the Fantail were taking notice