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Oh, I really miss the sound of the needle gun at work on the deck directly above your rack!!! Great times!!

Yep..good times! That, with flight ops..if you had a late watch..good luck getting any rack time!

 

. Oh yeah!! Red Lead Primer. Out lawned by the Navy in the late 1980s, still chipping it up in the Mid 1990s. I actually enjoyed Needle Gunning. You could just find a spot, and shut everything else out. I was still doing it as a Senior Chief. I'd dump the paper work on my SM1 and go "Bust Rust"

 

 

Writing obscenities in a big square of non skid with the needle gun was always a hoot too! Then bust A$$ trying to needle it up SNICKERING AND LAUGHING like little kids before someone got mad LOL. Also, seemed like there was never enough hose!

 

But yes..there was a certain ZEN of getting in the zone with the needle gun and was oddly satisfying when you were done with a spot..then primer and paint with pride, and it would look like a million bucks if you did it right! (or re-lay non skid..have done a few acres worth of that too! Kind of like a stucco, really..)

 

Don't forget to Nevr-dull any surrounding brightwork! ;)

 

Topic related..trying to rack my brains about the helmets we had on CVN-73..there were bulkhead mounted racks near the Damage Control lockers.. I want to say they were either OD green, and some were gray..(MAYBE?? :huh: )..for the fire party, we had actual red fireman's helmets..when I was on the .50 as an Airman in Weps, it was a red flight deck cranial (built in eyes and ears were nice with that..) the phone talkers were gray..and always got a Spaceballs joke or two! (phone talker was always the butt of a few Darth Helmet jokes.. :P )

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A Schlueter USN shell,MT 24,2ND LOADER any help?.Thanks in advance1daca4700bd009e6fa1410e66b739ba3.jpg

 

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if anyone can tell me what MT 24 means I would appreciate it......

 

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if anyone can tell me what MT 24 means I would appreciate it......

 

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(gun) Mount 24.

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if anyone can tell me what MT 24 means I would appreciate it......

 

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MT 24 means Gun Mount, (20mm), #4, (Starboard Side). Second Liader passes magazine to first Loader, who mounts it in the gun.
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MT 24 means Gun Mount, (20mm), #4, (Starboard Side). Second Liader passes magazine to first Loader, who mounts it in the gun.

Useful information. Thanks

 

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MT 24 means Gun Mount, (20mm), #4, (Starboard Side). Second Liader passes magazine to first Loader, who mounts it in the gun.

 

Ahh, yes..thanks Sigs!

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This is a picture of a damage control locker aboard a Navy ship. I have had a helmet that matches the red with white striped helmets in the picture below. I had always wondered what my helmet was used for. I also found a reference that has ID'd this helmet as a USN damage control On Scene Leader.

 

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Here is my helmet with the white stripes indicating an On Scene Leader. This helmet is from repair locker #3 and is responsible for the aft portion of the ship.

 

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Here is a portion of the Navy BMR (Basic Military Requirements for advancement) manual addressing Damage Control on Navy Ships. It addresses the On Scene Leader (OSL) white stripe helmets.

 

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Just another collector

Here is what I believe to be a navy lid. Unsure. It is painted marine green. Unsure why it would be painted this way(if anyone knows why it would be painted green, please let me know.)

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Here is what I believe to be a navy lid. Unsure. It is painted marine green. Unsure why it would be painted this way(if anyone knows why it would be painted green, please let me know.)

. Yes, it is Navy. That color of green was used both on underway replenishment stations, on all ships, or on the Green Debarkation Station on Amphibious ships by cargo handelers.
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Is it safe to say this here is a navy used steel pot ?

Its a front seam swivel bail. The Pot and the liner were olive drab at one point.

The liner has a shield on one side and a circular decal on the other.. All of it over painted in Blue.

You can see the outlines through the blue paint.

Navy ?

 

Thank you.

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Salvage Sailor

Very nice USN Unrep (Underway Replenishment) helmet, just the right dark green color as shown in your previously posted photo here

 

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Hink, There's alot going on in that photo which pertains to other USN questions on the forum boards

 

First off, this is a Destroyer type conducting a High Line transfer with a Bo'sun's Chair. Above decks, off camera, would be a sailor with signal Paddles controlling the movement of the high line.

 

There is a 'Brown Shoe' officer in Khakis on the right, probably the First LT (Deck Division) Officer. The sailor standing by in the Yellow hardhat is probably the ships serviceman (Supply puke, too clean to be a deck ape) waiting for the mail and movies

 

We've got a Blue Work jacket, OD Green Deck jackets and three extreme cold weather jackets (the green nylon jackets) all are wearing Kapok life jackets

 

The First Division sailors are in the Blue helmets, the sailor without a helmet is on the Sound Powered Telephone connected to the ships circuits and the Paddle man. He should be wearing a Mk2 Talker helmet

 

The Sailor in the Green Helmet could be the Fuel King (POL) as they may also be conducting an unrep (underway replenishment) which would be the next evolution.

 

The Sailor standing by in the White Helmet is most likely the Corpsman (HM) and if you look over the Whaleboat davit you can see another Destroyer on station next in line for unrep

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On 11/8/2015 at 1:08 PM, sigsaye said:

. Oh yeah!! Red Lead Primer. Out lawed by the Navy in the late 1980s, still chipping it up in the Mid 1990s?. I actually enjoyed Needle Gunning. You could just find a spot, and shut everything else out. I was still doing it as a Senior Chief. I'd dump the paper work on my SM1 and go "Bust Rust" ??

 

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Period Reference - Red Painted Helmets for G (Gunnery) Division Line Gun Crew, USS HORNET WESTPAC 1963

 

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On 8/24/2010 at 11:01 PM, jpstout said:

I could not resist! As previously mentioned, the lack of any standards as to paint and abbreviations, and the decades of service a M1 might serve in the USN, make determination of the period difficult. So, what the heck! I threw a bunch in together! :blink: Most are WWII and some are identified, some PTO and some ETO. The "CAPT." is my latest recruit, rather dull compared to some, belonging to Lt Humsjo who skippered the LCI 502 and dropped British Infantry off on Gold Beach on D-Day. He latered skippered the LSM 524 in preparation for the Japanese Invasion. He passed on in 2008. A few others I have put in separate posts.........jpstout

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