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Originally Posted by WoodSmith
Thanks for posting, very enjoyable. Interesting to see the use of 'marlin spikes' for making splices and fenders.
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Worked with an ol' country boy BM2 who was totally into marlinspike stuff. Our PB had the most awesome fenders in the squadron!
He taught us how to do it, too. Freaked out a couple ol' bos'ns that a twidget knew how to do an eye splice.
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"Loading and storing projectiles and powder casks were not that much different from my experience."
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When I was on the Peleliu in the '80s humping 5" 54 projectiles was an E6 & below operation. I'm not really fond of heights so I never really got used to the part where we went down a skinny ladder to a skinny catwalk with both arms full of iron.
