Boiler techs lighting off additional boiler underway.
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@baynson31892 жыл бұрын
BT on FFG-6, CV-67 and LSD-38. Was my life for 20 years. I still make a living with boilers. Would do it all again. Steam still rules! Fair winds and following seas guys....
@cassiesavage8783 ай бұрын
Served on the Kittyhawk as a BT. Really proud I made topwatch. Lead to a solid career after I got out. US Navy used to be the only and greatest place to learn boilers and steam. Didn’t realize how much I actually knew, til I hit out and started studying fir my license. Never went to A school. If I could do it all over again, YOU BET! I’d have my shell back ass right down in 2main machinery room onboard the Hawk!!!! Torch is on the box……..torch is still lit! 😎
@tomrice27316 ай бұрын
I was on the Cook from 76-79. I was BT 2 . lit plenty of fires in 1A boiler.
@truthsayers87254 күн бұрын
my dad (1930-2023) was a BT3 "boilerman" from jan 51 to jan 55 on USS Raby (DE-698), USS Walter B. Cobb (APD-106) and for about 6 weeks when getting ready to muster out, USS Mt Olympus (AGC-8). he loved his time in the Navy but had a good civilian job waiting for him to return to.
@firejump33Ай бұрын
brings back so many memories was a BT 2 on the USS Fanning FF1076 from 78 to 81
@albertmcmichael91102 жыл бұрын
Bringing back memories. That was my favorite part lighting fires in the boiler.
@keithgutshall95597 ай бұрын
I was a boiler technician on the 1072 same class of ship,lite off many a morning.fire in the hole!😊
@JCT4422 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the memories MMC; I was A/E Divo & CHENG on 1095 '87-'90... I can still smell the steam and feel the heat of the upper level.
@jamesstark83162 жыл бұрын
Observed many a light off as EOOW on USS CONNOLE (FF 1056), TALBOT (FFG 4 "P-fired"), and AMERICA (CV 66). Good times. Snipes rule!
@masterskrain26302 жыл бұрын
B.T. on U.S.S. Meredith, DD-890, the last of the Gearing Class WW2 Destroyers. I can still remember how much I hated doing Firesides on those Babcock and Wilcox M-type boilers...
@johnwalsh42712 жыл бұрын
SM on DD 945. Never got to see fires lit but we'd help the engineers get ready for inspections. Gotta love them snipes!
@bustergutz2313 жыл бұрын
Oh the good old days
@MrKim-kv2vv2 жыл бұрын
FF-1067 Francis Hammond 78-80 Aux-1 Engineers; first on, last off.
@ts512 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories!
@kd7alt6 ай бұрын
In 1986 I got to be part of a group of civilians who rode on the uss cook from the rose festival in Portland oregon to Astoria. It was fun.
@cv19125 күн бұрын
BT on Francis Hammond DE 1067 1971-1973. Went on to complete 24 years active duty and 20 more as DOD Tech riding Aircraft Carriers.
@paulschaller36442 жыл бұрын
Yup. Remember that well. USS RATHBURNER DE 1057 BT3 SCHALLER ‘72/‘73 WEST PAC! No1 gunfire support platform in the 7th Fleet for ships in our class!
@stevepovkov92592 жыл бұрын
Did this many times on USS KIRK FF 1087, 1978-1979
@GeoffKimber Жыл бұрын
Lot of drama there. I don't recall it being that difficult. JFDI.
@frankraffaelo6 ай бұрын
I agree was a lot of drama. Don’t remember that being that difficult on board the USS Wasp CVS-18
@user-ll9zd2dh6h11 күн бұрын
We never put on all that safety gear when I was in the Navy (75-79) and later the merchant marine just to light the boilers.
@charlesrack80443 жыл бұрын
I served on FF1081 as a MM know this procedure well light em up boys
@johncox22842 жыл бұрын
Back when they still had BTs
@garyg76472 жыл бұрын
I was not aware that BTs were eliminated
@johncox22842 жыл бұрын
@@garyg7647 the rate was merged with MM back about 1995 or so.
@garyg76472 жыл бұрын
@@johncox2284 thank you for the info. I was on submarines (and sub-related jobs)in the engineering department until 1983.
@teewoods98462 жыл бұрын
the life of us HOLE SNIPES.
@Peted518Ай бұрын
I was BT2 USS Ashtabula (AO-51) 77-80 lit plenty of boilers but we didn't have any PPE just in a T shirt.
@kennhi2008Ай бұрын
USS Blakely FF-1972 BT2 from 1982 to 1983 before she was transferred to the reserves
@ryder60702 жыл бұрын
this is super cool, thanks
@mikemissel77852 ай бұрын
I was a MM aboard the Battleship New Jersey at this time .
@killmimes3 жыл бұрын
Damn. BT...fire it up!
@frankaxiak19592 жыл бұрын
A lot more complicated that starting an LM 2500 GTM on a DDG.
@davidfarrar36664 ай бұрын
22 years a hole snipe...went on gas turbine...they set sea and anchor...AND THEN, flipped a switch and started the engine...whisky, tango, foxtrot
@roberthill87966 ай бұрын
BT on DD948,DDG14,FF1080
@rocko-socko40022 жыл бұрын
Snipes Rule Hole Snipes run the ship BT's no more now MM's
@tmcdowell59863 ай бұрын
Mmmmmm, the smell and the noise.
@5881582 жыл бұрын
you can hear forced draft blowers screaming in the background
@spastastic272 жыл бұрын
Nice
@BALOYBEACHBUM10 ай бұрын
BTC (SW) I think that water level was a little high for light off as well as lighting the tourch for so long, I, maybe the camera man was the Saftey observer who was not in the viedo. FTG instructor as well!
@davidsowder319 Жыл бұрын
Damn I love lite off
@johnlamon3132 Жыл бұрын
Uss Whipple FF-1062 Pearl Harbor 1989-1992!
@adamrickard26238 ай бұрын
BTOW USS RANGER CV-61 '81 to '86. You can almost smell the DFM
@charlesrack80443 жыл бұрын
1200 pounds of steam pressure and 1000+degrees farenheight