I was just reading about the approaching end of the USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy (both sold for a penny to a Texas ship breaking firm) when the article conveyed the story of the crew of one aircraft carrier (USS America) releasing greased pigs on the flight deck of the relieving carrier (USS John F. Kennedy). More
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My Dad, Annapolis class of 1960, Naval Aviator, Ret. Capt. loves his Navy and is heartbroken by the state of things in 2021. Can’t take away his fond memories and pride of service however.
Hahaha. I remember both of those carrier groups coming into Naples italy. It was always complete madness.
Many times I had to drive sailors back to their ships after they found themselves drunk in the Castle Bar north of Naples.
I also managed the music section on the navy base and it
as total chaos stocking the prerecorded cassettes when it was 4 people deep from stem to stern.
Crazy days
@erb.
God bless your dad. I probably encountered him.
I designed those carriers.
Remember that time I killed a bunch of shipmates on the Foresstal by being an asshole on the flight deck?
And I took an entire carrier group out of the war?
And my daddy, the Admiral, had them cover it up to try to make it look like it wasn’t me?
And then I got shot dowm ’cause I was a terrible pilot, and gave information that got a LOT more of my brothers-in-arms killed so I could have better food?
…good times, goood times…
Lighten up Francis.
Sometimes I wonder about this crowd.
To be sure, sometimes it is important to be serious. But other times it’s OK to relax and have some fun.
This is a funny story. Try to enjoy it for what it is.
Whatever happened to the pigs? Did the USS JFK have Luau that night?
stirrin the FJB Pot
OCTOBER 10, 2021 AT 4:01 PM
“Whatever happened to the pigs? Did the USS JFK have Luau that night?”
They’re Senators now.
Other interesting things: aboard the Uss Canisteo (AO-99) affectionately known as Jumbo (fleet oiler) we would raise A pink flag with a pink pig on it after a replenishment at sea that read “you have just been had by the Jumbo”
Phenry my favorite place to hang out in Naples was the Seamans Club up from Fleet Landing.
Naples was the place I got stabbed in the butter on a hooker in a restaurant for not sampling her wares. She got mad at me because I told her “Lady you weren’t young when my father was here in ’44.”
O to be young again.
The Obsolete Man
OCTOBER 10, 2021 AT 4:12 PM
“Naples was the place I got stabbed in the butter…”
Should read “butt by a hooker” Btw it was 1974.
Obsolete Man
It wasn’t Humpty Dumpty by any chance?
She’s been sitting on the wall between the Nato base and the navy base for decades, servicing the fleet.
DAMN, it sucks that the they’re going to scrap the Kitty Hawk. I was hoping that they would’ve turned it into a floating museum. All good things must come to an end but this is ridiculous and makes me mad as a Navy Veteran who proudly served on the Kitty Hawk from 1973-75 and made two cruises to SE Asia on the Hawk and beyond at the end of the Vietnam War.
I was on the USS Henry Clay (SSBN 625) back in the mid 80’s. We were homeported in Charleston, but did refit out of Holy Loch, Scotland. We did a Med patrol once. Going to periscope depth was a lot of work for me as ESM operator, as there are LOTS of active radar in the med, including Soviet. We did a port call in Naples, tying up alongside a pier built by the Romans. It is a narrow pier and the duty van were were issued lost a mirror first trip. I had a great time walking all around the city and drinking real espresso for the first time. We would have stayed longer but got word of two Soviet SSN’s coming through the Straights. So we left so they couldn’t trail us. Good times!
I love the navy stories.
Keep them coming. Thank you for your service!
The Navy – hated it after Carter was elected and fuel oil became scarce. Served on four ships, an oiler, two tin cans, and a gator freighter (the Guam). Went to med 4 times, middle east twice, North Atlantic, the Caribbean too many times (Reftra rah!) but started out on the firing line in a little SE aisan county (still have my Gulf of Tonkin t-shit). Loved the tin cans and hated the amphibious navy the most. Was a frocked QM1 when I refused to reenlist in ’78.
Got out and went to college as a 24 year old freshman in classes with goo goo eyed 18-19 year old girls with drinking problems. First semester 3 B’s and 2 C’s. 2nd was 3 C’s and 2 B’s. Really disappointed most of the WWII vets who were general subject professors.
Next 2 years were straights As as I finally understood and stopped partying and left the girls alone.
@Where RINOs And Rinds Intersect – “…They’re Senators now…”
Good One!
Reminds me of Bluto Blutarski. In the closing scene it was noted that Bluto went on to become a US Senator. Same qualifications as the three Porkys.
In 1974 when streaking buck naked was at its peak a couple of Officers from my squadron the VF 114 Aardvarks ran across the flight deck totally naked except for wearing their boots (the non skid flight deck surface would’ve been brutal on bare feet) and their helmets with their visors down so no one supposedly could tell who they were. It was great and provided a moment of well needed relief from flying non stop on a continual basis day in and day out while out in the S. China Sea. One of the Officers was my Division Officer so I and everyone else knew who he was and they didn’t get into any trouble just a lot of cheers from everyone who saw it. One of my idiot friends also streaked naked through one of the South Hill neighborhoods in Spokane in a commercial area but his streaking was because everyone else was doing it so he had to do it as well.
When the Kitty Hawk was inside the Persian Gulf in the Spring of 1974 near Bandar Abbas, one afternoon we were visited off the starboard (right side) of the ship by the strangest looking Russian helicopter that I’ve ever seen, it had two counter rotating props and had a great big Red Star on its side. it hovered there for a few minutes and we waved at the Russians and they waved at us and some of us took pictures of it. It was all a big game back then in the Cold War with incidents like that happening on occasion, they were checking us out and we were doing the same to them.