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Exactly so. When the ship went out to sea, fresh produce for salads only lasted a day or so. Fresh milk disappeared after a week. The frozen veggies ran out a week or so later. After that everything was canned or dry, when we got an unrep, the fresh foods were only enough for a day or so.
Long distance logistics for feeding ship crews was pretty much figured out on the fly during ww2 by the usn. The germans and Japanese were doing underway refueling in ww2, but never really got it workable on any sort of large scale. This tied the Japanese navy to their ports, sorties of a few weeks at a time. While the American fleets were able to stay at sea more or less indefinitely. Only returning to port for major repairs.
Which made the crews pretty unhappy, with port visits and liberty being few and far between. But by the end of ww2, the usn had two seagoing supply barges that did nothing but make ice cream for the pacific fleet. Read up on Unit hi Lagoon during ww2.
Long distance logistics for feeding ship crews was pretty much figured out on the fly during ww2 by the usn. The germans and Japanese were doing underway refueling in ww2, but never really got it workable on any sort of large scale. This tied the Japanese navy to their ports, sorties of a few weeks at a time. While the American fleets were able to stay at sea more or less indefinitely. Only returning to port for major repairs.
Which made the crews pretty unhappy, with port visits and liberty being few and far between. But by the end of ww2, the usn had two seagoing supply barges that did nothing but make ice cream for the pacific fleet. Read up on Unit hi Lagoon during ww2.
FSCKING autocorrect. *grumble bitch moan... *
Ulithi Lagoon.
A huge sheltered anchorage with a thin ring of coral atolls around it. There wasn't enough land to build a base, so everything needed for a major fleet base supporting the Okinawa invasion, and subsequent planned invasions of Formosa and the other japanese islands
FOr an excellent history of USN logistics in the western pacific during WW2, there is an obscure history book called Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil that chronicles it from it's faltering start in the late thirties, when the navy realized that it would need lots of at sea logistics if it were to effectively battle japan, all the way to the end of the war.
and at the begining it should have said "When I was in the navy in the 1980s."
Ulithi Lagoon.
A huge sheltered anchorage with a thin ring of coral atolls around it. There wasn't enough land to build a base, so everything needed for a major fleet base supporting the Okinawa invasion, and subsequent planned invasions of Formosa and the other japanese islands
FOr an excellent history of USN logistics in the western pacific during WW2, there is an obscure history book called Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil that chronicles it from it's faltering start in the late thirties, when the navy realized that it would need lots of at sea logistics if it were to effectively battle japan, all the way to the end of the war.
and at the begining it should have said "When I was in the navy in the 1980s."
Oftentimes when a sub or destroyer returned a rescued pilot to their carrier, there was an unofficial 'reward' of several gallons of ice cream for the ship's crew. Needless to say, 'plane guard' was a popular duty for the small ship crews. Certainly much more popular than radar picket...
Yes, the concept is simple enough, once you realize that even 'dry' soil contains moisture that can be captured, and have access to a clear material that will let the sun's heat in, but keep the released moisture from escaping.
The clear material is the tricky part in the areas where they are most needed, clear plastic tarps are in short supply in the more desolate parts of the world.
The clear material is the tricky part in the areas where they are most needed, clear plastic tarps are in short supply in the more desolate parts of the world.
The solar stills here are reflector/boiler/condenser types which would be even more resource intensive in poor areas, but dirt simple for anyone with material access (and can be pretty efficent when scaled up on sea coasts). The setting doesn't have clear plastic sheet yet. But even when either version could be usefully applied, the notion simply doesn't come up as often as not.
Heh.. forgotten about his garden did he? Though, I guess I couldn't blame him after all he's gone through. Kind of curious to his reaction about hearing how they kept things running after he left. Also wondering if having him around, might change the rabbit's impression of his kind... if a only a little.
That graduated ruler they're using for photos? I had to make one of those, once.
Our helo crashed on the flight deck, and I was the ship's photographer. Consequently, I had to document all the damage, which was pretty exciting.
I took a 12" ruler and marked it with white correction tape, then colored it red every other three inches for contrast. I then taped it to the tip of a squeegee pole and used that to hold it up next to the damage on the bulkheads, deck and hangar doors.
I later found out that my photos went all the way up to admiralty, and many of them are hanging in the squadron room of HSL LANT in Norfolk to this day.
Our helo crashed on the flight deck, and I was the ship's photographer. Consequently, I had to document all the damage, which was pretty exciting.
I took a 12" ruler and marked it with white correction tape, then colored it red every other three inches for contrast. I then taped it to the tip of a squeegee pole and used that to hold it up next to the damage on the bulkheads, deck and hangar doors.
I later found out that my photos went all the way up to admiralty, and many of them are hanging in the squadron room of HSL LANT in Norfolk to this day.
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