BT2 William Kirchmayer

I remember how salty some of the old chiefs were back on the Joey boat. The best memory I have of BTCM Webber was of how he would cross the mess decks during a meal and every so often he would stop at someone’s table (usually some boot-camp pit snipe) and stand and stare at whoever was eating with a big old shit-eating grin. Eventually the confused diner would look up at Master Chief Webber and say “what? What it is Master Chief?”, and The BTCM would then shout “its good, ain’t it?” , to which the normal answer may have been something on the order of ” hell no, its crap/shit..etc…” (you can imagine more I’m sure). Well, upon hearing the boot campers low opinion of good Navy chow, the Master Chief would stand tall and declare for all to hear ” It makes a turd don’t it?”

Does any of the snipes from 78 to 81 remember MM1 Meyerholtz? I still laugh like hell when I think of the time Meyerholtz was on watch and he emerged from the forward shaft alley dripping wet from head to toe and as pissed off as a scalded cat. It seems that while he was sounding the feed bottoms, someone on watch in Main Control aligned the manifold to “blow water” while our favorite old MM1 still had the sounding tape in the tube and he got pretty well sprayed before he got on the 2JV and got the manifold secured. The wettest and most pissed MM1 I ever seen before or since.