The Water Came Up Over My Feet!

        I left from San Diego on the USNS Gordon in July of 1966. I think it took us about 28 days to cross. We did have to stop for repairs and once turned around to pick up a sick crewman from another ship.

        I remember the storm, it was pretty bad. I sneaked out and was standing on the fan tail watching the ship rise and fall, so much that I could see the edge of the props when they came out of the water. At one point I had to run because the water came up over my feet. It was more dangerous than I had thought. After that I went back below.

SP/4 Robert C. Parisi, 188th MP Company, 92nd MP Battalion, United States Army Vietnam (USARV) & 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, July 1966 to May 1967.