"When you have a can of Spam or a can Vienna sausage it real hard to get creative"... that's great! The Chief is one funny guy - I could listen to his stories all day. I'll make it a point to visit the USS Razorback when I'm down in Arkansas.
I love hearing old Navy stories. My grandfather from Poland served 6 years on the battleship North Carolina during the second war. His stories were completely amazing I remember him telling me about when the ship got hit by a torpedo and they dry docked to make repairs they relieve the captain because he went crazy.
In the 1980's I worked at Subase Pearl Harbor, The only Diesel Boat in the harbor was the USS Barbell, everytime we worked on that boat we would take a break in the galley and get a glass of bug juice, well like clockwork we have a bout of diarrhea about an hour later, then we learned that there fresh water tanks were always slightly contaminated with diesel fuel, the crews system was used to it but us repair facility guys weren't! Didn't matter because they had the best food of all the submarines stationed in Pearl Harbor and we never missed a chance to eat lunch or dinner on the USS Barbell.
You guys on diesel boats are a special kind of TOUGH. Thank you for what you did. I too served on the USS JK Polk, SSBN645. Kinda wished i could have served on diesel. They were all gone before i got there. Thanks again
God Bless you Navy Guys !!! Every time I hear the stories y’all tell about being out at sea and all that stuff - I THANK GOD I JOINED THE ARMY !!! But I do mean it sincerely when I say - God Bless you Navy Guys! THAT life is NOT for me !!!
I almost joined the Navy. The line for the AF was shorter. As you can tell I LOT of thought went into my decision. :-) AIR FORCE! We're the smart ones. Sent the officers out to fight.
Tried to join the army with a buddy. He failed the eyesight exam so we went into the Navy instead. When the whole war on terror started I was happy that I wasn’t walking around the streets of Baghdad. God bless your mud dwelling lead dodging army guys!
@@drewhartwell2559 I might have joined the Army or Marines in 67, BUT I was 6' 135LBS, so even being as dumb as I was I Knew being a Grunt was not a wise move for me. :-) AIR FORCE! We're the smart ones. Send the officers out to fight. :-)
@@drewhartwell2559 Why guys do it (volunteer for combat)? I saw an interview with a guy who volunteer to be a Ball Turret gunner in WWII. Asked why he did it. "To See If I Had What It Takes."
@@stevenwiederholt7000 Don’t know. I didn’t volunteer for combat. To be perfectly honest the idea of combat didn’t occur to me as I was going thru the recruitment process. Things an 18 year old mind overlooks I guess. I enlisted because I had way too much fun in high school (aka grades sucked), didn’t want to go to college, and wanted to get as far away from the town I was in as possible. Navy met those requirements. Army was going to pay a better SRB that’s why they were the first choice. Marines / Air Force wouldn’t take me nor my buddy because we had minor in procession of alcohol/tobacco, curfew, and speeding tickets. No felonies or probation just normal bored kids in a small town (2500 people) stuff.
On halfway night on the boomer I was on, we ate like kings- lobster and steak. Every once in a while we'd have beef wellington...never had it before or since...so good. I'm not one of those that pines for my youth, but it was good times.
I volunteered to mess cook on the Piper 409 in 66 so I didn’t have to work the deck gang in the winter. Ended up in the engine rooms after that and served on the Corporal 346 till I got out. Great people and good memories.
Ah, the pig boats. I remember when I was in the Navy in 1970-72. I was an Airdale. The Navy wanted me to be one of their sonar girls as I had at the time high-frequency hearing. Nope! Not for me. I did it on a P3. I am not a bobblehead. I have mad respect for those who did on the old diesel boats. I remember them when I lived in Key West as a child in 1963-66 at Truman Annex.
Hope he’s still w/us. Those stories need to be put on paper before it’s too late. My late Father (WW2 Navy behind Japanese lines in China) was all set to put his stories on paper when he suffered a stroke that night & passed away the next day.
I visited the USS Drum in Mobile, Alabama. You have to have nerves of steel to serve in an old diesel boat, it's nothing but a steel pipe that sinks below the surface.
My father, Joseph F. Clever, served on the Razorback. I have his tour book and a couple other relics of his time. I toured the Razorback at the Inland Maritime Museum.
"You just get together with the same guys every year, tell the same stories every year and laugh on the same jokes every year; it's just what we're supposed to be doing." Wow, you indeed have to be lucky enough to be born and lived the way you did, to do something like this, in today's world. Now that's my dream life👍🏽👍🏽
My Uncle George Dement was the USS Razorback first cook. He the one that left oil in the burner during Combat, which smoke up the boat and cause her to surface in broad daylight in the middle of the enemy fleet.
No uncontrolled dive stories. I did how ever wake up to “30 minutes of battery life remaining” once. This convinced me that engineering department was in fact more likely to kill me than anything else on the boat.
My mother’s cousin, Rear Admiral Herbert L. Jukes, three war patrols, sank 57K tons. His last command, USS Cutlass. Its first commander in 1944. The USS Cutlass is still battle ready as the Sea Lion , Republic of China, 2019, $19M refit job. The oldest battle ready boat.
Thank you, sir, for your service. And, thank God for sea stories. I was in the Navy, and speaking from experience, I can say that most sea stories began with " this is no sh*t!!" Thank you for the memories. 😊
I’ve got to ask, I made this video years ago and never actually finished the series. Where did you guys find this?? And would you like a few more from the Razorback?
I’m glad! My grandpas served on the Razorback so my wife and I went on a work week with him and I made these videos. About a week ago the views just went insane on this video and I cant figure out why
@@NeilABullock I was binging videos about how food is and was on Navy vessels. I am a sailor myself and it was something I wanted to figure out. This was one of the videos I found the most interesting.
Great stories, and a "typical" service man, got a job I like, or one I don't like, and it sucks, well I'll that the "easy" job - not that a Ships cook, or any cooks job is easy. Some of the best food I ever had was in the Chow Hall.
My brother in law worked in New Port Beach as a civilian engineer. He did classified work on new submarines. He still can't talk about most of his work. In the 70s they took a new hull out for a test dive. He said that it would not/could not surface. They finally did a work around to get it up but it gave him nightmares.
No galley fires that I know of, but they did have a bad fire in the after-engine room. Fuel from a high pressure line began spraying on the exhaust manifold and whoosh! They have a melted mechanical pencil that was in the pocket of crewman Ron Sageart’s shirt pocket. He dove into the maneuvering room while the other crewman dove into the forward engine room and shut and dogged the hatches. Fire put itself out. I curated this museum for several years. All these guys are treasures.
Wow. A real Cold War warrior. Just think... he spent a good deal of 22 years in a steel tube under the surface of the sea. At least being a cook he was well fed!
Thank you for your service!! GREAT MUSTACHE!!!!
Thanks for your service 👋
My father in law served on the USS Razorback in WWII when it was a fleet boat, before it was streamlined. He is still alive and kicking at 96
Thats awesome! Tell him thank you for his service! Has he got to see it since it came back?
I went on a tour in that boat in 2019 in Little Rock Arkansas. Its wild how far we've come.
"It's what we're supposed to be doing."
Best quote I've heard in a long time.
The moustache is legendary
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! NOT A EASY THING, THAT'S FOR SURE.
Proud to be Arkansan!!
I could have to listened to him for an hour.
"When you have a can of Spam or a can Vienna sausage it real hard to get creative"... that's great! The Chief is one funny guy - I could listen to his stories all day. I'll make it a point to visit the USS Razorback when I'm down in Arkansas.
Badass cook. Thank you for your service!
His get it done spirit is sorely lacking in the civilian world complaining about stupid sh**t. I thank God for this man's attitude 🙏.
Thank you for your dedication and service 🇺🇸✌️
I love hearing old Navy stories. My grandfather from Poland served 6 years on the battleship North Carolina during the second war. His stories were completely amazing I remember him telling me about when the ship got hit by a torpedo and they dry docked to make repairs they relieve the captain because he went crazy.
I had an old Lifer (he must have been all of 32) tell me.....All War Stories are True. Even the ones that Aren't. :-)
Hahahahaha
In the 1980's I worked at Subase Pearl Harbor, The only Diesel Boat in the harbor was the USS Barbell, everytime we worked on that boat we would take a break in the galley and get a glass of bug juice, well like clockwork we have a bout of diarrhea about an hour later, then we learned that there fresh water tanks were always slightly contaminated with diesel fuel, the crews system was used to it but us repair facility guys weren't! Didn't matter because they had the best food of all the submarines stationed in Pearl Harbor and we never missed a chance to eat lunch or dinner on the USS Barbell.
You guys on diesel boats are a special kind of TOUGH. Thank you for what you did. I too served on the USS JK Polk, SSBN645. Kinda wished i could have served on diesel. They were all gone before i got there. Thanks again
God Bless you Navy Guys !!! Every time I hear the stories y’all tell about being out at sea and all that stuff - I THANK GOD I JOINED THE ARMY !!! But I do mean it sincerely when I say - God Bless you Navy Guys! THAT life is NOT for me !!!
I almost joined the Navy. The line for the AF was shorter. As you can tell I LOT of thought went into my decision. :-)
AIR FORCE! We're the smart ones. Sent the officers out to fight.
Tried to join the army with a buddy. He failed the eyesight exam so we went into the Navy instead. When the whole war on terror started I was happy that I wasn’t walking around the streets of Baghdad. God bless your mud dwelling lead dodging army guys!
@@drewhartwell2559
I might have joined the Army or Marines in 67, BUT I was 6' 135LBS, so even being as dumb as I was I Knew being a Grunt was not a wise move for me. :-)
AIR FORCE! We're the smart ones. Send the officers out to fight. :-)
@@drewhartwell2559
Why guys do it (volunteer for combat)? I saw an interview with a guy who volunteer to be a Ball Turret gunner in WWII. Asked why he did it. "To See If I Had What It Takes."
@@stevenwiederholt7000 Don’t know. I didn’t volunteer for combat. To be perfectly honest the idea of combat didn’t occur to me as I was going thru the recruitment process. Things an 18 year old mind overlooks I guess. I enlisted because I had way too much fun in high school (aka grades sucked), didn’t want to go to college, and wanted to get as far away from the town I was in as possible. Navy met those requirements. Army was going to pay a better SRB that’s why they were the first choice. Marines / Air Force wouldn’t take me nor my buddy because we had minor in procession of alcohol/tobacco, curfew, and speeding tickets. No felonies or probation just normal bored kids in a small town (2500 people) stuff.
What a great character to him and others like him we owe our freedom , thank you .
On halfway night on the boomer I was on, we ate like kings- lobster and steak. Every once in a while we'd have beef wellington...never had it before or since...so good. I'm not one of those that pines for my youth, but it was good times.
Thanks shipmate, for the great stories. Brings back memories when I was a cook on the uss lockwood.
I volunteered to mess cook on the Piper 409 in 66 so I didn’t have to work the deck gang in the winter. Ended up in the engine rooms after that and served on the Corporal 346 till I got out. Great people and good memories.
Love your story.. I was on the Razorback from Aug. of '68 till early Sept. of '69 when I got out to go to college. Ended up as a TM-3 (SS) .
ONE PIECE
Lee, that qualifies you to join the most badass group of ex crewmembers around - the USS Razorback Assn. Come to one of our get togethers and join in!
First, yes on the moustache! Second, a ship's cook can run rings around that screaming cook on tv! Third, don't ever put stank on Spam in the can.
Ah, the pig boats. I remember when I was in the Navy in 1970-72. I was an Airdale. The Navy wanted me to be one of their sonar girls as I had at the time high-frequency hearing. Nope! Not for me. I did it on a P3. I am not a bobblehead. I have mad respect for those who did on the old diesel boats. I remember them when I lived in Key West as a child in 1963-66 at Truman Annex.
Hope he’s still w/us. Those stories need to be put on paper before it’s too late. My late Father (WW2 Navy behind Japanese lines in China) was all set to put his stories on paper when he suffered a stroke that night & passed away the next day.
my uncle served on this ship and told us these same storys, sounds like you were shipmates you may know him as Chief Parker
I visited the USS Drum in Mobile, Alabama. You have to have nerves of steel to serve in an old diesel boat, it's nothing but a steel pipe that sinks below the surface.
“Some boats are designed to submerge the rest require our assistance” that quote was painted on the wall in the TM (torpedoman) school house.
They helped (by exercising their 2nd Amendment rights) assist Japanese Navy ships start new careers as artificial reefs......
My father, Joseph F. Clever, served on the Razorback. I have his tour book and a couple other relics of his time. I toured the Razorback at the Inland Maritime Museum.
She's sitting just a couple of miles from me, how neat!
"You just get together with the same guys every year, tell the same stories every year and laugh on the same jokes every year; it's just what we're supposed to be doing." Wow, you indeed have to be lucky enough to be born and lived the way you did, to do something like this, in today's world. Now that's my dream life👍🏽👍🏽
My Uncle George Dement was the USS Razorback first cook. He the one that left oil in the burner during Combat, which smoke up the boat and cause her to surface in broad daylight in the middle of the enemy fleet.
❤Thank you sir for your service!!
This bubblehead really enjoyed the video!
God Bless All You Men! I've always said I was born 40 years too late...
luv! luv! luv it! thank you so much guys
Thank You Sir 🇺🇸
My scary moment was the same as his. I think every submariner has an uncontrolled dive story. MM3 (SS), 90’ to 96’.
No uncontrolled dive stories. I did how ever wake up to “30 minutes of battery life remaining” once. This convinced me that engineering department was in fact more likely to kill me than anything else on the boat.
Thank you for your service! AT3 91-95 here.
My mother’s cousin, Rear Admiral Herbert L. Jukes, three war patrols, sank 57K tons. His last command, USS Cutlass. Its first commander in 1944. The USS Cutlass is still battle ready as the Sea Lion , Republic of China, 2019, $19M refit job. The oldest battle ready boat.
Thank you, sir, for your service. And, thank God for sea stories. I was in the Navy, and speaking from experience, I can say that most sea stories began with " this is no sh*t!!" Thank you for the memories. 😊
Thank you one and all for your duty.
What a wonderful video. I hope that they have many more years meeting together.
My step-father Robert Donlon, served on the Razorback during Vietnam. He passed 5 years ago. RIP
Great stuff! Thanks for your service!
Airdale saying with the most respect God bless the mess crews! Too all of the bubbleheads thank you for your silent service !
This guy has an amazing moustache.
I told my other half I was going to grow one like that. She says no
I’ve got to ask, I made this video years ago and never actually finished the series. Where did you guys find this?? And would you like a few more from the Razorback?
@@NeilABullock it just came up in my feed wasn't really looking for it. But I did enjoy it
I’m glad! My grandpas served on the Razorback so my wife and I went on a work week with him and I made these videos.
About a week ago the views just went insane on this video and I cant figure out why
@@NeilABullock I was binging videos about how food is and was on Navy vessels. I am a sailor myself and it was something I wanted to figure out. This was one of the videos I found the most interesting.
Great stories, and a "typical" service man, got a job I like, or one I don't like, and it sucks, well I'll that the "easy" job - not that a Ships cook, or any cooks job is easy. Some of the best food I ever had was in the Chow Hall.
My brother in law worked in New Port Beach as a civilian engineer. He did classified work on new submarines. He still can't talk about most of his work. In the 70s they took a new hull out for a test dive. He said that it would not/could not surface. They finally did a work around to get it up but it gave him nightmares.
That's some serious moustache.
Thank you for your service
Now i know from where head chef Zeff from Baratie got his moustache..
Thank you sir. 🇺🇸💙
Good stuff. Love the stories.
Salute,Brothers!
Master Roshi 🙏
I did what he did!!! Lol lol. I was in deck div too.
I used to work with a guy that was on the Razorback
Always thank the guys who wield the hull of your sub !
That's at Little Rock Arkansas. There are tours through it.
I served on the USS Ranger on her last ride. I wonder when this guy was there.
Ahoy Shipmate
Hamilton
Franklin
Skipjack
Barb
🙂
Former Bubblehead here. Your MBT vent story scared me. No galley fires while you were aboard?
No galley fires that I know of, but they did have a bad fire in the after-engine room. Fuel from a high pressure line began spraying on the exhaust manifold and whoosh! They have a melted mechanical pencil that was in the pocket of crewman Ron Sageart’s shirt pocket. He dove into the maneuvering room while the other crewman dove into the forward engine room and shut and dogged the hatches. Fire put itself out. I curated this museum for several years. All these guys are treasures.
I watched this while I was eating
Outstanding
that was awesome cook
Got to Love them Sea stores ! got a fair share of sea yarns I tell myself.
The days of Steel Boats and Iron Men... -RM2(SS) SSBN-742(B)
Respect from down under
Thank you
Bless you brave sailor.
Very cool!🙏🇺🇸💪
oh, I thought I was going to see some Chef Ramsey cooking.
Wow. A real Cold War warrior. Just think... he spent a good deal of 22 years in a steel tube under the surface of the sea. At least being a cook he was well fed!
awesome guy
Great Guy.
AC compressor probably went out..... sent metal threw the lines....
and then said metal contaminated the ships AC and caused its pump to crap out
My dad was on the USS RANGER
the sins of old sea cooks!!!!!!
This guy was about the most valuable man on the boat.
Awesome!!!
Brother I love ya, but your pics ain't no submarine!
Nice
That's not a man, but a walking mustache. Lol 😆
Kevin OR we would love to hear more about your father in law !! Please contact me at Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum ! info@aimmuseum.org
Sub Cooks are the best in the US Navy
Lovely guy.
I'M GLAD I WAS IN THE ARMY I HATED KP.
I remember that boat
Music was a tad over the top.
WOW
Its a boat wowwwwwwwww !!!!! Laim!!!!!!!
That’s how ALL SUBMARINES ARE CALLED YOU LAND SEAL
Why does he keep making that weird sound with his mouth? Its like he's swallowing saliva.
---------- kiss ----------
Its now used to smuggle drugs.
Thank you for your service