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Permanut

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1. Takes me back..

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:51 PM

Aug 21

First time out of Norfolk, Virginia as a new sailor on the USS Sampson, DDG-10, February 1966. Had weather like this.

I was seasick for two days, then never again in 6 years in the Navy.

Hatteras can be nasty.

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