{"id":10468,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10468-navy-days","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10468","headline":"Navy days","content":"Navy life was a time for me,\r\nTo learn about life and our Country.\r\nOn board our ship DE699,\r\nLife was good and it was fine.\r\nA Destroyer Escort, the USS Marsh.\r\nBuilt in Michigan, 1n 1941, I recall,\r\nFloated down the Mississippi, for launch and all.\r\nThe Navy routine, at Sea or in Port,\r\nWas a constant chore to maintain\r\nThe appearance of this Ship of ours\r\nAnd we chipped and painted for hours.\r\nChip off the paint with a hammer,\r\nThen use a steel brush,\r\nApply Red Lead, as a primer,\r\nThen cover it all with Battleship Grey,\r\nPut on in a slather.\r\nThis was an ongoing task for our Ship\r\nAs the pride for our Ship was Hip.\r\nThere were other tasks that we did too,\r\nDepending upon specialty rate and you.\r\nI was a Radarman Petty Officer 3\r\nAnd the resident Postal Clerk for our DE.\r\nPick up the mail when we weren't at sea;\r\nSelling stamps and money orders on pay day.\r\nMy Post Office was a nice little room\r\nAnd gave me some space, the size of a tomb.\r\nThose days, long gone, sometimes come to me\r\nAnd I hear the \"Sirens Call, Return to the Sea.\"","content_plain":"Navy life was a time for me,\r\nTo learn about life and our Country.\r\nOn board our ship DE699,\r\nLife was good and it was fine.\r\nA Destroyer Escort, the USS Marsh.\r\nBuilt in Michigan, 1n 1941, I recall,\r\nFloated down the Mississippi, for launch and all.\r\nThe Navy routine, at Sea or in Port,\r\nWas a constant chore to maintain\r\nThe appearance of this Ship of ours\r\nAnd we chipped and painted for hours.\r\nChip off the paint with a hammer,\r\nThen use a steel brush,\r\nApply Red Lead, as a primer,\r\nThen cover it all with Battleship Grey,\r\nPut on in a slather.\r\nThis was an ongoing task for our Ship\r\nAs the pride for our Ship was Hip.\r\nThere were other tasks that we did too,\r\nDepending upon specialty rate and you.\r\nI was a Radarman Petty Officer 3\r\nAnd the resident Postal Clerk for our DE.\r\nPick up the mail when we weren't at sea;\r\nSelling stamps and money orders on pay day.\r\nMy Post Office was a nice little room\r\nAnd gave me some space, the size of a tomb.\r\nThose days, long gone, sometimes come to me\r\nAnd I hear the \"Sirens Call, Return to the Sea.\"","published_at":"2019-06-13T22:30:25-07:00","updated_at":"2022-06-02T15:12:21-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with MFish on Kudos365. View their photo published Jun/13/2019 on Other. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/a2f022bc-c052-423d-894d-fa8aac59aba0-scan0003.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":10,"categories":[{"name":"Other","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/793-other"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/10468-navy-days","headline":"Navy days","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/a2f022bc-c052-423d-894d-fa8aac59aba0-scan0003.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MFish","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297670-mfish"},"datePublished":"2019-06-13T22:30:25-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":10}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Other","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/793-other"}]}}