by Troy Riggs | Sep 19, 2019 | Sea Stories
Sometimes when you play a slot machine you can actually win! Most times, they just slowly take your money not unlike the process of boiling a frog. Very slowly over time the water , or in this case the slot machine, slowly warms (takes your money) up until the frog is...
by Troy Riggs | Jul 18, 2019 | Sea Stories
Life as a US Navy Fleet Sailor seemed to be an amazing adventure. If any of you were sailors and served aboard a ship, you KNOW what I am about to tell you is true! And I would bet that you vividly remember the horror stories you were told about what happened...
by Troy Riggs | Jul 18, 2019 | Sea Stories
One of the rights of passage in any military organization is to mess with the new people and send them on a fools errand. People can be very creative when they send the “unknowing” new guy on expeditions to find phantom items. I’m sure the other branches...
by Troy Riggs | May 10, 2019 | Sea Stories
GENERAL QUARTERS, GENERAL QUARTERS!! All hands man your battle stations! This is NOT a drill!!! I have only heard that phrase one time in my Navy career. Every other time, the announcement went, “This is a drill, this is a drill. General Quarters, General...
by Troy Riggs | May 4, 2019 | Sea Stories
In 1984, I made a deployment on the USS Saratoga (CV-60) to the Mediterranean Sea. Two events stand out about this deployment. The first is that I was chosen as one of two enlisted sailors who got to fly the “TRANSLANT”, which means Transit the Atlantic...
by Troy Riggs | Apr 25, 2019 | Sea Stories
FollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollowFollow I was an Avionics Technician and Maintenance Officer in the Navy with most of my time in Aviation Squadrons. Each day “Ops” came out with the daily Flight Schedule. We always joked that the flight schedule was only a...