Over the weekend about half of our Scouts took the USCGA Boating Safety and Red Cross First Aid courses. The instructor was the C.O. of the local U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps unit. We got to spend the night along with the Sea Cadets aboard the
USS Barry, a Vietnam-era destroyer museum ship docked at the
Washington Navy Yard.
We had class all day Saturday, taking time off for lunch and dinner at the military mess hall at Andrew's AFB. We boarded the
Barry around 2230, had a fire drill at 2345, lights out at 2400, reveille at 0500.
We slept overnight aboard the destroyer, in "racks" 18"x18"x72". I noticed that some sailor had kept count of his nights with hash marks on the bottom of the rack above mine, which was probably his entire tour.
Over the weekend about half of our Scouts took the USCGA Boating Safety and Red Cross First Aid courses. The instructor was the C.O. of the local U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps unit. We got to spend the night along with the Sea Cadets aboard the USS Barry, a Vietnam-era destroyer museum ship docked at the Washington Navy Yard.
We had class all day Saturday, taking time off for lunch and dinner at the military mess hall at Andrew's AFB. We boarded the Barry around 2230, had a fire drill at 2345, lights out at 2400, reveille at 0500.
We slept overnight aboard the destroyer, in "racks" 18"x18"x72". I noticed that some sailor had kept count of his nights with hash marks on the bottom of the rack above mine, which was probably his entire tour.
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