GMGSA Robert J. Summerhill

Here’s another Andy Sea Story…….
Andy had hundreds of thousands of sea miles under his belt, and seen it all. One thing though, he could get sea sick if the need arouse. His weakest link was us in 2nd, F , and G division! Doug Goeters, Bob Miller, Allen W. Otto, George Benesch, Kailer, Rod ” The Man ” Knuth, Kastner, Robinson, Sobotka, Studdard, Winkie, Alm, Baum, Bivins, Chechak, Huber, Meehan, Joe Pound,” Crash Kent ” Hilderbrand , me and others I just can’t remember anymore had a plan. We would fake a rough sea! No kidding, we were going to give it a try. We were at that time
standing Quarters on the flight deck, port side. As soon as we could see Chief Andy coming from the O-2 level officers quarters formation, we sprung the trap. As Andy walked up to our formation we all started to sway back and forth on mass. Very slowly at first and building to a sea state of 3 after a few minutes. Fact is the sea was dead calm! Andy’s eyes came up from the Plan Of The Day to find us ” Hanging on for dear life ” as if we were in a ‘ Nor Easter !….” STOP IT!!!! STOP IT!!!! ” he bellowed! ” I don’t think that is funny at all! ” He turned to Doug Gutters GMG1 and and asked if he was behind this farce? Doug just answered ” Who?…. Me?….”, we all fell out laughing which just made Andy madder, and us laugh louder. Andy realy did have a good heart down deep. He knew it was just our way of passing the war with a little humor. It soon became a daily duty of ours to poke fun at all hands on board, including the Cap’tn. Our crew was that tight…..more to come.

Rob Summerhill