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Oculus Spirit [90717]
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Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 6:40 PM
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I am a Navy Vet and have thought about it (being in a cremated vase-box ceremony off the deck of a destroyer or flattop rather than a one involving a casket).
On the other hand, it would be easier & more economical for my family to sprinkle me on the back-bay waters of Hilton Head Island SC where my 14' Boston-Whaler JET Boat "Lindy 2" loved to zoom but did need towing 2-3 times (bad gas 2 times)..
or where I ran my 32' Bristol Full-Keel Sailboat "Beauty" aground at Bald Head-Oak Island NC at midnight motor-sailing single handily and didn't notice sand bar in time due to no lights nor moonlight and each time I needed a Sea Tow Boat Captain to tow me in.
So, Sprinkling a little of me at those enjoyed water areas regardless of towing problems I caused seems so much easier and the way to go.
Ahoy & Go TiGERS!
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I think you should add a pole
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May 20, 2023, 6:42 PM
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Oculus Spirit [90717]
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Fishing Pole?
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May 20, 2023, 6:50 PM
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I don't fish..like SPuD!
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Oculus Spirit [90717]
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Oh..a poll for TNetters advice!
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May 20, 2023, 6:52 PM
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Good suggestion, but NO!!
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Oculus Spirit [76721]
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So you're saying Spud knows his way around a pole?***
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May 20, 2023, 6:56 PM
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Re: So you're saying Spud knows his way around a pole?***
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May 20, 2023, 7:10 PM
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😅😅🤣🤣
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Re: Fishing Pole?
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May 20, 2023, 7:59 PM
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So you mean you actually catch some fish? Just kidding, Spud!
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 6:54 PM
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Can't speak about being dropped from a Navy ship but just have someone tour the Yorktown in CHS and drop you overboard, let the currents take you away.
I can't stand the thought of being put in a box in a hole in the ground, cremate me and set me free on the water.
Funny story- group of us guys do an Alaska rustic cabin fishing trip almost every year in Wrangell mtns in a private cabin. Only way in is either ATVs in summer or snowmobile in winter. One of our guys passed from prostate cancer but dying wish was to be spread out there at the cabin which we obliged. But the funny part is we have what we call the "Pee-Tree" and Ole Larry said please spread some on the "Pee-Tree" so I can see you "A-Holz" every time you use the tree and hopefully you guys will get a smile knowing you finally get to #### on me. He had a great sense of humor.
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 21, 2023, 11:11 AM
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The Laffey destroyer is down in Charleston at Patriots Point too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-AvuSg9Fc
Ship that would not sink. Skipper ran full throttle back to port to keep the water from coming in. Kinda like when you forget the plug and realize 20mins in that there’s about 30 gallons of water in your boat.
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Viking funeral! Best of both worlds
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May 20, 2023, 7:00 PM
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Geez, a George Foreman grille would put off less pollution!
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May 20, 2023, 7:05 PM
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LOL,
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Re: Geez, a George Foreman grille would put off less pollution!
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May 20, 2023, 9:02 PM
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If you can pay someone enough to allow it, have your ashes shot out of the Cannon after a TD.
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Funny story
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May 20, 2023, 7:53 PM
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A friend works for a funeral home, got a call from a detective down in Florida. Seems a family tried to bury a relative at sea, but did not empty the cremains into the ocean, but rather just threw the whole cardboard box and plastic bagged remains into the shoreline. He got the call because it still had the funeral home label on the box.
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 7:58 PM
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I hope that’s a long time off, but I’m sure there are many Tiger fans with boats that would gladly oblige you. You are quite the living legend!
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 8:57 PM
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Hey Bill,
My Uncle was buried at sea back in the mid 80’s. From what I can remember he was in a casket for the viewing for the friends and family at the mortuary. He was then transported to Norfolk Va.( not exactly sure about that, but I believe that was where he went) He went out and they had a ceremony on the ship and was buried at sea. My Aunt and my two cousins received a map with the coordinates of where the burial took place and the flag that was on the coffin was returned to them.
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
May 22, 2023, 2:13 AM
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Thank you for currently serving your country 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 9:46 PM
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 10:22 PM
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When I was stationed on Submarines from 1985-2008 we did plenty of burials at sea. Just get ahold of a pao (public affairs officer) at a command near you. They can get you in contact with the right person. I’m pretty sure if you’re being cremated it won’t cost you anything. They’ll even record it for your family.
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 11:38 PM
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I spent 20 years in the canoe club myself with my last ship being the guided missile frigate USS Elrod FFG-55. I have participated in several burials at sea. Every occasion involved cremains. I can tell you much about this.
I know the eligibility requirements have already been posted and no doubt you meet them so I will keep my comments to the actual ceremonial procedure and well…… one sort of humorous story. You guys love a good sea story, don’t you ?
On a tin can we seemed to get tasked with burials at sea on a relatively regular basis. Perhaps it was just my ship and the Destroyer Squadron Commander volunteered us for this duty all the time because we were practiced at it and he felt confident we would always do it right, I don’t know.
Here’s what I do know. It would ALWAYS happen on a Sunday morning at sunrise. We would get up extra early and get in our service dress whites ( the polyester crackerjacks ) complete with white duty belts, white canvas leggings, white gloves, blue ascots, all the extra ceremonial uniform items.
We’d assemble on the stern which for us was a helicopter pad and we’d walk through the whole thing several times in the dark until the XO was satisfied we had this down and nobody was going to screw it up. After all, we only get one box of cremains and one sunrise.
At the stern we have a table with a white table cloth over it and the box of cremains. Just a few feet forward of the table is a podium the XO will use to read the eulogy and also make a short speech before we commit our brother’s ashes to the deep. The rest of the ship’s company is standing in formation behind the XO.
I was a fire control radar guy so I’m in the same division with the gunners mates. We get to form the honor guard. I’m in charge of this detail of 7 guys with rifles and three rounds each. My job is simple, all I have to do is bark, “Ready, Aim, Fire !” three times.
If that table with the cremains is centered on the stern, I’m at the far deck edge to the port side with those 7 guys lined up off my left shoulder. There’s somebody with a video camera to the starboard side getting all of this for the family. BTW, the shell casings are going back to the family along with the American flag draped over the urn or box of cremains.
The timing of it all is scripted out perfectly. When the XO is done with his words we will remove the flag and fold it properly. Then we will play Eternal Father over the topside speakers. It’s a standard navy hymn.
We will also bring the ship to a prescribed heading that puts this beautiful orange sun breaking the horizon just off my right shoulder. Everyone is at attention, two of the chiefs will approach the table and together they will pour the cremains off the stern, into our wake.
Simultaneously at this point the guy with the camera has me in the background of his shot giving the commands to “Ready, aim, fire”. It looks unbelievably beautiful.
Now………. Twice I have had this happen.
When they made that course change for aesthetics, to suddenly bring about the rising sun off my shoulder it also brought about a change in wind direction. ….. It gave us good tail wind. I don’t know if it was visible on the video but those cremains are NOT going in the drink. Oh hell no ! ….. And I’m the only one with my mouth open. I’ve got cremains going in my mouth, my eyes, my ears, my nose….
And I can’t give any sort of visible reaction. I have to remain stoic through it. I used to quip that dead people don’t taste that bad if they’re done right. 😉
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 20, 2023, 11:57 PM
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BTW, you need not even be a navy veteran to be buried at sea. One guy we buried was a three year army veteran. He may have only done three years as a soldier but he was at Normandy on D-Day. Yeah, we were more than glad to honor his wish to be burial sea.
My wife used to joke that she is going to have me buried at sea. I told her, “Like hell you will ! I spent enough years out there, I’ll be ###### if I’m spending eternity on the waves.”
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 22, 2023, 11:20 PM
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Tater, on a Submarine you get a few opportunities to do burials at sea. It will always be cremated remains. But we had a similar incident with a sudden wind shift. It was totally visible on cameras. So the COB (chief of the boat), command master chief on the surface fleet, had us go down to the smoking pit and collect all the cigarette Ashe’s so we could do it again for the family on video.
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
May 23, 2023, 2:06 AM
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Tater, on a Submarine you get a few opportunities to do burials at sea. It will always be cremated remains. But we had a similar incident with a sudden wind shift. It was totally visible on cameras. So the COB (chief of the boat), command master chief on the surface fleet, had us go down to the smoking pit and collect all the cigarette Ashe’s so we could do it again for the family on video.
Here’s a Clemson tie-in to submarines…..
I wasn’t always a tin can sailor. I started out as an aircraft electrician in an F-14 Tomcat squadron out of Miramar, CA. Anytime we were back at Miramar my regular hang out was a honky tonk nearby called The Pomerado Club. There was a bubblehead stationed aboard a sub down there at Naval Station San Diego named Dave who also hung out regularly at the Pomerado.
Now Dave was a very proud Nebraska Cornhusker fan and he always wore his red Nebraska Cornhusker jacket. This being the mid 80’s and me being a Clemson fan, it was a given that I would find it appropriate to razz him on occasion.
I met Mrs. Tater in said club and I’m sure I knew early on that she had been somebody’s guest for one of those day long tiger cruises on a sub and she did not want to ever do it again. Apparently she was very claustrophobic and couldn’t wait to be topside.
It was several years later I found out she had been Dave’s guest aboard his boat. I think Dave must have had a keen interest in her at the time. I honestly didn’t know at the time. I’m dancing with his girl and giving him #### about 1981. 😆
Fast forward to 1994. I’m back out there for the summer going to a Fire Control school and I decide to revisit the old Pomerado club. There’s Dave, still hanging around. He didn’t recognize me at first but I showed him pictures of his old girlfriend and our two daughters. 😄
To this day our daughters love to get their mother spun up with some completely contrived story about Dave allegedly proposing to her under the sea. 😆
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You could have your ashes delivered to a crop duster, and
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May 21, 2023, 11:17 AM
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kill two stones with one bird. Not only would your ashes get spread over a wider area for free, but any bug would get a nassty surprise when it tried to munch on an old LBB particle!
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How bout Hartwell or Reflection Pond***
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
May 22, 2023, 12:13 AM
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Not until now, however I do know of an international, top wanted, terrorist mastermind. He was responsible for the worst terrorist attack in history: He was supposedly killed, and them whisked away in the middle of the night, and buried at sea, before anyone saw him. 
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
May 22, 2023, 2:10 AM
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Bill,
First I want to Thank you for serving our country. My Uncle was on a Navy Ship at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was a gunner trying to protect his ship and our carriers from Kamikaze attacks. He never talked about his time in WW II very it much. As I have watched many documentaries about both WW’s, Korean War, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, and the Gulf Wars, and our other military engagements I have learned to really appreciate our Military. Many times I wonder if you, my Uncle or other TNetters are in many of those videos I have watched. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Bill,
you are a very respected member on Tigernet and a great Clemson fan. That being said I would like to see you laid to rest somewhere close to Clemson University. We need Good Men such as yourself and other Great Veterans on Tigernet, former Alumni and Fans nearby to watch over Clemson University and DV. We need those who “ Brought their Own Guts into Life before the BYOG’s game against ND “
Like you Bill I hope that you are with us for many more years. 🇺🇸
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
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May 22, 2023, 6:09 AM
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We buried a retired Navy Captain when I was on the USS Aylwin FF-1081. We picked him up during a port visit in NYC for Armed Forces Day, then spread his ashes the next day.
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Re: Not rushing it but do you know of a NAVY Vet being buried at Sea?
May 22, 2023, 2:30 PM
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We buried a retired Navy Captain when I was on the USS Aylwin FF-1081. We picked him up during a port visit in NYC for Armed Forces Day, then spread his ashes the next day.
Assuming you made the Med cruise prior, how’d you like Piraeus, Greece ? About 35 of us got into a helluva fight there one Saturday night in ‘93. I was stunned we didn’t take in all lines and get underway with the tide Sunday morning.
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Thread of the Week, at least. Love the Clemson Family.***
May 22, 2023, 3:15 PM
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Re: Thread of the Week, at least. Love the Clemson Family.***
May 23, 2023, 12:17 AM
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I think if I ever were to be buried at sea I would want to have pre-written some personal remarks addressing the officers and crew. I would want them to know that I shared their experiences, even this particular one and I appreciate everything they’re doing for me.
I might mention some of the simple things I missed about being underway. Getting gently rocked to sleep in a sea state of about 4. You just can’t beat that. Out on a weather deck on a cloudless, moonless night. It’s unbelievable how packed the night sky is with stars. You see shooting stars every several seconds. The way the interior of the ship looks with the red lights on after we go to darken ship and how quiet the ship gets when the work day is done. The sound of waves washing against the hull or the soft clicking of the fathometer .
I might even include a good sea story. Lord knows we’ve all got good ones. I’m sure I would implore them to drink a beer for me as soon as they hit port and I’d publicly announce that the first round is on the XO. 😄
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