A Floating City
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Are you getting hungry? Let’s go down eight decks. Watch yourself as we go down these ladders so you don’t fall. You remember that the flight deck is 0 level. Above the flight deck, the decks are numbered 01, 02, 03, 04, etc., up to 09. Below the flight deck, the decks are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., without the 0. After we get down eight levels, we will be on the mess deck. Maybe we can get a sandwich to eat.
Chow line is one line everybody enjoys standing in, as opposed to the shot line to get annual inoculations. I guess there is a line more appealing than the chow line -- the pay line. Now this is a happy line of people. We get our pay aboard ships in cash, in two dollar bills. We get paid by check if we are on a duty station in the States. The chow line, just like all the other lines, starts on the hangar deck and winds down and around until it reaches the mess deck on the third or fourth deck.
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About the Book
A Floating City is about life aboard a U.S. Naval aircraft carrier, now decommissioned and scrapped, from the eyes of an enlisted man. I served aboard this ship for ten and one-half months on a Mediterranean cruise in 1960.
I have written the book as if you were there and I was giving you a guided tour of the ship. The book is about life aboard an aircraft carrier, the happenings, the hazards, the good times, the dangerous times, the way it operates and why, the way we worked, the way we played, to give an understanding to folks who have never been aboard an aircraft carrier.
About the Author
My first attempt at writing anything longer than a letter to my wife while I was overseas in the military was a book I wrote titled Firehouse Antics. I wrote about incidents that happened to me while I was a firefighter. I am now retired and using my writing skills to relate true happenings of my life. I never thought that this would be a possibility for me. I envied other writers and after I retired I decided to give it a try. I wanted to preserve my 25 years in the fire service and my experiences in the U. S. Navy so that my grandchildren could have a better understanding of me and my life. Now that I’ve started, I have a few more books up my sleeve so be careful.