How in the hell did you get a picture of me???????




I gave up contacts When I went back aboard ship full time. Just too many solvents and crap in the air around the machinery where I worked. Especially the last command! My office was in the Ram Room that operated the flight deck elevators. The hydraulics that operated that system was so dangerous ........... Altogether now ........
How dangerous was it?
Basically,
ANY Measurable leak was called for General Quarters!
Well....................... At least that's how it's supposed to happen!

I think every other hydraulic fluid in the Navy does not have those qualities! I have no idea why in the hell they had to make this particular system require such a nasty fluid.
The chief engineer wouldn't/couldn't do a damn thing about it, so I instituted a Wild Bill weekly PM. I had the woodworking shop on the shore save me their sawdust. I made a little aluminum tray for each one of the Rams and put the sawdust in it to absorb any leakage. I wrote up an actual Preventive Maintenance procedure And gave it to the chief engineer. While he couldn't officially
sanctify it, he did approve it.