Todd Dodds
Super Member
See, that's what I was afraid of...
...and then there's "hot-racking". It's sanctioned
See, that's what I was afraid of...
I thought so, too but it worked fine in manual mode. The original turntable was a REK-O-CUT but it was not working and we were not allowed to repair it.Curious that an auto table was chosen for the DJ's use!
It was piped via intercom to the crew berthing compartments and the mess deck. It operated from about 1600 (4PM) until lights out at 2200 (10PM) 7 days a week. My show was a Friday night rock show and on Saturday I did AMERICA'S TOP 40 with Kasey Kasem.I'm curious why there was a DJ on a Navy ship...
I thought so, too but it worked fine in manual mode. The original turntable was a REK-O-CUT but it was not working and we were not allowed to repair it.
It was piped via intercom to the crew berthing compartments and the mess deck. It operated from about 1600 (4PM) until lights out at 2200 (10PM) 7 days a week. My show was a Friday night rock show and on Saturday I did AMERICA'S TOP 40 with Kasey Kasem.
...and then there's "hot-racking". It's sanctioned
I thought that was only on subs..
I had to do it for about 10 days on the Kitty Hawk (Carrier). You're usually so tired it doesn't bother you.
Marine?
Hot racking is done on submarines and almost never on surface ships.....and then there's "hot-racking". It's sanctioned
...and then there's "hot-racking". It's sanctioned
Hot racking is done on submarines and almost never on surface ships..
Well, not to argue with you, but as I posted above, I had to hot rack for a week or 10 days on the Kitty Hawk, which is for sure a surface ship.
There's always a lot of hands coming and leaving the ship, and I was in a group of 20 or so that joined the ship at sea. Being mostly new recruits with no particular training, we were checked into our various squadrons, and immediatly assigned to berths reserved for whatever temp duty we got stuck with. We hot racked until more personnel were moved around, and we got our own rack.
The first or second night I had my own luxurious rack, I was awakened from a sound slumber by an officer and his marine sidekick sticking his .45 in my face and ordering me out of the rack. WTF? Turns out that they were looking for the previous tenant of the rack for pot charges. Scared the hell out of me.
Not to hijack the thread, but isn't this supposed to be about the M3D?
And I'm one who likes this sort of digression in discussion threads, and I get peevish about people who try to stop them -- this sort of thing humanizes the thread participants more. But it sounds like this is a great topic for a new thread in a more general discussion area of the forum. Invite input from other branches of the service and from different eras of serving. We could do that here, but would people who came here to post about a phono cartridge still want to hang around. What if they don't know hot-racking from component racking?