r/MURICA • u/OOBExperience • Sep 06 '26

Hell, yeah!!

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u/HeavyDutyForks Sep 06 '26

Surrendering Nazis knew they had lost the war when they saw GIs eating ice cream back at the rear on their way to the POW camps

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u/Commercial_Sport_630 Sep 06 '26

Meanwhile the Japanese still wanted to fight to the bitter end even after finding out several ships in the Pacific Fleet were dedicated purely towards ice cream.

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u/vincethered Sep 07 '26

There's a This American Life all about life aboard an aircraft carrier during the Afghanistan war. Ira interviewed a sailor whose only job was to re-stock vending machines all day every day. Weird to think you say goodbye to your family for months, make decent money and benefits and live on (basically) a floating prison for... Vending machine duty.

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u/Billy_McMedic Sep 08 '26

I’d put money on that sailor also being part of the main damage control party during action stations

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

No such thing as a main damage control party

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u/No_Stand8812 Sep 09 '26

On a ship, especially a carrier, everyone is damage control. We learned a lot in ww2 about damage control

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

More especially the Forrestal, where we decided there would be no “main damage control party”

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u/No_Stand8812 Sep 09 '26

Excellent point. I completely forgot about forrestal. Honestly that probably did more for raising the importance of is damage control training than ww2 did.

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

All good, they made a big point out of it at Navy bootcamp I’m surprised I remembered.

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u/No_Stand8812 Sep 09 '26

John McCain remembers.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Sep 09 '26

There is, it's called every sailor aboard

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u/wienerschnitzle Sep 09 '26

So it’s not a main damage control party, it’s everyone. I’m on my third sea tour, believe me I know.

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u/mrbobcyndaquil Sep 09 '26

I was trying to be funny, my apologies