Spoken like a Navy lifer ,I remember lifers being alcoholic scrounges who couldn't hack it in the civilian world
Well, this drunken Chief did some pretty amazing things on his watch.
Made the first 400 of these to be distributed worldwide to the military from a shop in a reserve center in Tucson...
http://www.fbodaily.com/archive/200...ina Lake within 165 days after contract award.
My redesign of several parts saved the DoD millions.
I got drug to Bahrain where I had to show the Marines how you can convert a 440 / 220 VAC 50 Hz portable generators (they covered a baseball field) to 208 / 120 VAC 60 Hz, then had to train the attached sailors in their operation and testing.
Showed up right after 9/11 at a frigate in Continental Marine's shipyard in San Diego to fix their electrical problems in a matter of days to get the ship moved from under the Coronado bridge because the Navy feared a terrorist might drop something on the ship.
Five days after I retired, a Captain called me from Washington DC and wanted me to go to Iraq and supervise installing cell phone jammers in military vehicles because I was "The Guy" everybody said could make that happen smoothly. Seems once you retire you can't get orders like that any more.
Those ADU 801E's got my foot in the door with an Air Force Colonel named Burston who had my crew doing all sorts of building maintenance he couldn't get done in exchange for machining and making parts I needed.
That's old school Navy Chief stuff.
