USS LEXINGTON Former Crew Member

Name: Pie-sick, Vince (Vinnie)

Service Dates: 1977-1980

Rank/Duty Assigned: ABH-3 in the V-1 division working on the flight deck out to sea.

Looking for some ole friends from back in the day. Had a blast with everyone in the V-1 Division. I remember when we had to go out to see when hurricane Frederick was coming to Pensacola and we had to follow the hurricane back in the eye of the storm. We all had 4 hours to get some things off base and return to the ship. So we had a hurricane party for a few hours… that was back in 1978 I think, the Tilly was rocking on the flight deck and a bunch of us had to go onto the flight deck while it was rocking really bad and tie down the tilly, the chains we tied down to the pad eyes broke and the tilly went into the gun tub… no one got hurt, but it was a crazy ride, and then we all had to go through the Bermuda Triangle, wow was that crazy, in Pri Fly the compass was going crazy… a lot of memories back in the day!