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One more year of agony.
One more year of agony.
As the year progressed I continued to be in agony. It was difficult to walk let alone breathe without pain. I lost my appetite and couldn’t move without shuffling. Remember Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett show? Yes, that was me shuffling along going on the second year. Many x-rays were taken and I saw a few doctors but no one could see what was wrong with me. Until one glorious morning a corpsman…
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Earliest memories
As a child I was in awe of my father. He was always working. If the sun was up he was working. My earliest memories were when he was awake very early in the morning before he was going to work he would eat toast every morning. I remember smelling the toast in the toaster. It would always wake me up. My father would work Monday through Friday, typically an eight hour a day. On the weekends he’d…
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Physical Requirements for the Military
Physical Requirements for the Military
Physical requirements for the Navy are set in stone. Every six months I had to perform a physical requirements test. This test consisted of a sit reach, sit-ups, push-ups and a 1 1/2 mile run. If we were deployed and out to sea the test was waved. If we were in port, we’d do the test. Doing the test took quite awhile to complete. The entire division would go out and complete this test. It wasn’t…
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A look back, to the future.
A look back, to the future.
As I look back through my story of health It has to start when I joined the Navy in May of 1987. I was 22 years old and in no shape at all. I couldn’t even run a mile! I remember that it was April and I was going into the Navy that next month, so I went outside and started running. I ran for a block and quit in exhaustion. I was scared and thought I’d be out of the Navy that first month. Little…
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Where has Steve been, and what's his current story?
Where has Steve been, and what’s his current story?
Well, for those that missed me I’m back! I took an extended break and now I’m returning to continue my current story.
I’m sure you’re asking, “What is Steve’s story now?”
“Where” I’ve been? If you didn’t know I work for the USPS. I’ve worked there since I retired from the US Navy.
“What” have I been doing? I’ve been working there for eight plus years now. I work seven days a week for 28-29 days…
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Liberty Call!!
One of my deepest regrets during my 20 years in the Navy was spending entirely to much time on the ship and not participating in one of the many tours that were offered when we would hit a liberty port. When stationed on one of my four ships we went to Bali. I saw that a mountain bike trip was being offered and I’d heard that Bali was a beautiful place. So I signed up to take a bicycle tour.
Most…
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Sleep, a wonderful thing.
Sleep, a wonderful thing.
My story starts up again after we just finished combatting a huge fire on the ship underway during a workup. The fire lasted over 15 hours.
Read that post here: http://www.stevetessler.net/smoke-smoke-smoke/
Sleep never felt better after that. We’d accomplished so much as a ship it was an amazing feeling. The ship was a huge mess everywhere and the task for the next week was getting it back…
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Where has Steve been?
Where has Steve been?
I’m the king of excuses. I can lie like the best of them. I’m a professional at procrastinating. Where have I been? Well, I stopped writing. Why you’re asking?
I just did. I quit. I felt sorry for myself. I lost touch with everything. I was on a great streak and just quit. It’s so easy to just quit. Quit a job, quit, life, quit anything if thats’ what you’re wanting to do.
I’m back now and I’ve…
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Class Alpha Fire is Out
Class Alpha Fire is Out
Every single casualty is recorded. Not with video and not with an iPad. All casualties are recorded with pen and paper. They are transcribed on a blank message form. From start to finish a casualty is recorded step by step. These are used in larger casualties as an official record and they are even used in an official investigation. Every message blank that was written out would be collected and…
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Multiple fire parties.
After the berthing fire was extinguished a command decision was made to stop flooding out the space and attack the fire directly. Remember the fire triangle? A fire needs three components to actually have a fire, heat, fuel, and oxygen. Since the bales of rags were being taken out more oxygen was entering the space causing several different fires in the same space. This increased the heat of the…
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General Quarters! General Quarters!
General Quarters! General Quarters!
Watching the bales of rags burst into flames was a sight to see. To have an actual fire you need three things, heat, fuel, and oxygen. To remember this we explained it as the fire triangle. Since the bales were so tightly packed into that space the two components of heat and fuel only made the rags smolder and create smoke. Once the bales were taken out of the space and exposed to the oxygen it…
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Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!
Before any underway period the ship must replenish many items. Everything from food to fuel. The ship at any given underway time could be called to do anything from rescuing another vessel to going to any situation overseas. The ship must always be prepared. On this particular in port period I was trying to get familiar with the ship. I knew some of the spaces but didn’t know all of them. When I…
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Underway, shift colors.
I’d been on the USS Coral Sea for less than one year, however getting underway was a major evolution. In port, the ship was eerily quiet. To the point, that going from hearing everything to nothing was maddening. I never realized how loud the ship was when we were underway. It was only when we returned to port, could you tell the difference. When getting underway we had to shift our thinking to a…
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I found a roommate.
I found a roommate.
This godsend could not have come at a better time. We needed to have a roommate and after talking to one of my friends from the ship, he said he was looking for a place to just chill out and be free from the ship. He said he wouldn’t be a bother and would split everything with us when it came to the bills. He’d met my family and loved Veronica! They hit it off right away and were as thick as…
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Back to the grind.
Back to the grind.
Returning back to the ship after a few weeks off was something I had to get used to. So many questions about where I was living and how my family was adjusting. The shipboard life was a grind. Maintenance and responding to casualties was always on the agenda. My qualifications were coming along but I was still adjusting to the ship and I was learning something new everyday. I was getting out on…
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A new place.
After arriving at the hotel, my wife’s stress level had improved. She wasn’t as upset and was starting to apologize for being so mad. I tried to understand, she was tired from the long flight, numerous delays and traveling with a small child all contributed to the outburst. Being new to the area would take some time. It was always about time. It was time to look to the future, my family was with…
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You thought I’d like this?
You thought I’d like this?
In today’s world you can be separated from someone and still be with them over the internet, face time, periscope, Skype or Zoom. Looking for a car, just head to a dealer and look at any car together. You’ve found that home or apartment, show your significant other everything for their approval. What I would have given to have had a cell phone so I could take and send pictures, of what I thought…
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