A Little Sex a Lot of Dope and an Aircraft Carrier eBook Cap'n Drift
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In 1976, a boy with history walked up the gangplank of the USS America as an ordinary airman. Three years later, he was cat-shot off the boat for the last time as “Cap’n Drift.” Rebel, MIL-SPEC toker and airplane catcher extraordinaire, Cap’n Drift departed with a new chapter written into his history, but he left more than he took.
A Little Sex, A Lot of Dope and an Aircraft Carrier is the first deck-edge perspective of a Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier in the navy that was grease-stained, rolled in Turkish papers and screaming on afterburner. This is not an authorized history. Fact-checkers have been silenced by any means necessary. Cap’n Drift is not a real officer.
But this story is as real as it gets.
A Little Sex a Lot of Dope and an Aircraft Carrier eBook Cap'n Drift
Thanks Drift, I was attached to squadron, sailed on several boats durring the second half of the 70's and this guy tells it the way it was for the guys who did their 4 for god and country and moved on.The negative reviews here are funny too. Either written by bitter lifers who couldn't make it out in the world or lame non flight Officiers who had a chip on their sholders. Tripping on the flight deck was a true gasser for anyone who did it, and the one thing I did learn was how to make a hash pipe out of a U.S. Government ball point pen. We went both East and West and if the public knew what a West Pacific was like for a 18 year old Airman and what the old homo-erotic pirate crossing the equator events were like before political correctness they would poop their britches. The fact that the majority of those 5,000 plus people that make these boats run were between 17 and 22 appears to lost. They were young men who came from America with limited options and the vast majority were better in my mind than those who never joined.
That all aside I worked with some great young men who put it all on the line everytime they went to the roof. I worked with some outstanding fellows who drove planes and nobody has a right to take that away. Like Drift I did my time and got out as a E5 after 4. The negative reviews are most likly from either guys who never served or guys that didn't fit into the team and hated the guys who did. They still like to blame others for their own shortcomings.
Most people forget the incident that proceeded the zero tolerance policy and drug testing. A USMC VMAQ Squadron's plane crossed the line and into the corral killing several enlisted guys and lighting off multiple missles. Wanting to deflect from the fact that the VMAQ's CO let a pilot drive a plane while taking cold pills they figured a way to blame it on enlisted guys. They blood tested the dead Airmen who got caught in the wreck and over 50% tested positive for THC. That does not mean they were stoned and back then the test had many false positives. It was like blaming a guy who gets ran over in a sidewalk by a drunk driver. It worked though. I knew a lot of good people who got caught up in the aftermath and really had their life's screwed with. This was also at a time there was a large recession, no jobs on the outside, and Ronald Reagan made significant cuts to veterans progrhams like stopping guys with a Good Conduct Discharge who did their time and didn't want to re-enlist from getting unemployment bennifits. I knew several guys who re-enlisted or who got out and came back before 90 days simply because of these types of cuts. Many of these guys weren't lifers and in their second tour their luck ran out. The Navy was the Navy and for a 21 year old who had been signing off $27b aircraft safe for flight being flat broke and no job was too much so they signed the paper. There is a lot to be said for 3 or 4 meals a day and a place to sleep. The food was great too.
Any how good book, quick read. Kept me amused.
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A Little Sex a Lot of Dope and an Aircraft Carrier eBook Cap'n Drift Reviews
My 1968 WESPAC cruise was nothing like this...and thank God! There may have been drug use on my cruise, but I didn't know anyone who used them or was any way involved in drugs. I guess, like me, no one wanted to go to the brig on an aircraft carrier; so we took no chances with drugs. I made my cruise on the USS AMERICA CVA 66. The vietnam war was very active while we were operating. America had more than 16,000 men KIA in 1968. Our focus was more on provideing support for the troups on the ground.
Liberty ports were great, and we usually pulled into somewhere about once a month. We went to PI every time before we went to any other port. I have good memories from my cruise that will last a lifetime.
Have you ever heard of anyone catching a 60,000 pound jet airplane in their hands? That's what Cap'n Drift does as he guesstimates where the plane will stop, or ducks under the wing as it roars by with both jet engines screaming at full power in case the pilot misses the early arresting cables on the moving aircraft carrier "runway". You might think a guy would have to be crazy or stoned out of his mind to do that; either way, you might be right. This isn't the Hollywood Navy you have seen on the big screen; this was the real Navy of the 1970s, with sailors who joined one step ahead of the law, and two months behind on their rent, to get three squares a day, while serving their country doing extremely dangerous jobs you wouldn't want to do, surrounded by bombs, jet fuel, and afterburning jet engines.
But don't expect a bunch of baloney cleaned up by the Navy PR office in this book; this is the real deal written by a real guy, who pulls no punches describing the antics that went on during his sea tours on the USS America, and his whoring, drinking, and other adventures on shore leave. Somehow he survived, to share this collection of rib-tickling and sometimes serious tales of his carrier experiences, interspersed with the details of his own personal tale of survival as a troubled teenager "without proper parental supervision". His writing style and vocabulary includes a lot of words that would have gotten you a bar of Lifebuoy soap in your mouth if YOUR parents heard you say them, but he can spin a tale as well as Mark Twain ever did; I didn't put my down until I had finished the whole story.
Monty Python's Flying Circus used to begin by saying "and now for something totally different"; if you want to read something totally different and fairly priced (for a change) for electronic reading, then hit the "Buy this book" button and hang on, so you don't get blown away, like Cap'n Drift almost was when he walked behind a jet as the afterburners were lit off; I promise you will not find it boring.
Forestall gear rat, May 1976 to September 1979. This is the real deal. The stories are similar to what happened to me and my buddies. Cold ass yard period in November through March and sweltering operations in the Caribbean and Mediterranean in June and July that ended near the Arctic Circle in October. You can't make this up, no body would put up with this way of life but a squid. You can't tell if your a squid until you live this way. The doctors haven't found a cure, it's life a long affliction. I personally put my efforts into rum and bourbon. I think the results were the same. It's all temporary, have fun. Great story dude, you're my hero.
Thanks Drift, I was attached to squadron, sailed on several boats durring the second half of the 70's and this guy tells it the way it was for the guys who did their 4 for god and country and moved on.
The negative reviews here are funny too. Either written by bitter lifers who couldn't make it out in the world or lame non flight Officiers who had a chip on their sholders. Tripping on the flight deck was a true gasser for anyone who did it, and the one thing I did learn was how to make a hash pipe out of a U.S. Government ball point pen. We went both East and West and if the public knew what a West Pacific was like for a 18 year old Airman and what the old homo-erotic pirate crossing the equator events were like before political correctness they would poop their britches. The fact that the majority of those 5,000 plus people that make these boats run were between 17 and 22 appears to lost. They were young men who came from America with limited options and the vast majority were better in my mind than those who never joined.
That all aside I worked with some great young men who put it all on the line everytime they went to the roof. I worked with some outstanding fellows who drove planes and nobody has a right to take that away. Like Drift I did my time and got out as a E5 after 4. The negative reviews are most likly from either guys who never served or guys that didn't fit into the team and hated the guys who did. They still like to blame others for their own shortcomings.
Most people forget the incident that proceeded the zero tolerance policy and drug testing. A USMC VMAQ Squadron's plane crossed the line and into the corral killing several enlisted guys and lighting off multiple missles. Wanting to deflect from the fact that the VMAQ's CO let a pilot drive a plane while taking cold pills they figured a way to blame it on enlisted guys. They blood tested the dead Airmen who got caught in the wreck and over 50% tested positive for THC. That does not mean they were stoned and back then the test had many false positives. It was like blaming a guy who gets ran over in a sidewalk by a drunk driver. It worked though. I knew a lot of good people who got caught up in the aftermath and really had their life's screwed with. This was also at a time there was a large recession, no jobs on the outside, and Ronald Reagan made significant cuts to veterans progrhams like stopping guys with a Good Conduct Discharge who did their time and didn't want to re-enlist from getting unemployment bennifits. I knew several guys who re-enlisted or who got out and came back before 90 days simply because of these types of cuts. Many of these guys weren't lifers and in their second tour their luck ran out. The Navy was the Navy and for a 21 year old who had been signing off $27b aircraft safe for flight being flat broke and no job was too much so they signed the paper. There is a lot to be said for 3 or 4 meals a day and a place to sleep. The food was great too.
Any how good book, quick read. Kept me amused.
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