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THE ENGINEER ' S LAMENT Now each of us from time to time, has gazed upon the sea And watched the warships pulling out, to keep this country free. And most of us have read the book, or heard the lusty tale About the men who sail these ships, through lightening, wind and hail. But there ' s a place within each ship, that stories never reach And there ' s a special breed of men, that legends rarely teach. It ' s down below the waterline, it takes a living toll A hot metallic hell, that sailors call the Hole. It houses engines run by steam, that makes the shafts go round, A place of fire and noise and heat, that beats your spirits down. Where boilers like a hellish heart, with blood of angry steam Are armored gods without remorse, are nightmares in a dream. Whose threat that from the fires roar, is like a living doubt That any minute would scorn, escape and crush you out. Where turbines scream like tortured souls, alone and lost in hell as ordered above somewhere, they answer every bell. The men who keep the fires lit, and make the engines run Are strangers to the world of night, rarely see the sun. They have no time for man or God, no tolerance of fear Their aspect pays no living thing, the tribute of a tear. For there ' s not much men can do, that these men haven ' t done Beneath the decks, deep in the hole, to make the engines run. And every hour of every day they keep the watch in hell For if the fires ever fail, their ship ' s a useless shell. When ships converge to have a war, upon an angry sea The men just grimly smile at what their fate might be. They ' re locked below like men foredoomed, who hear no battle cry It ' s well assumed that if they ' re hit, the men below will die. There ' s not much difference (Jown below, that every war may bring For threat of ugly violent death, down there ' s a common thing. For every day ' s a war down therf, when the gauges all read red Six hundred pounds of heated steam, (an knock you mighty dea(J, So every man dow n in the hole, has learned to hate so well That when you speak to them of fear, their laughter ' s heard in hell. The men below are fools who watch, their spirits slowly die Who often can ' t remember how, a cloud looks in the sky. So if you ever wrote their song, or tried to tell their tale The very words would make you hear, a desperate spirit ' s wail. And people, as a general rule don ' t hear a dying soul So little is heard about the place, that sailors call the FHole But 1 can sing about the place, and try to make you see The hopeless life of men down there, ' cause one of them is me And I ' ve been down there for so long, a part of me has died. The part that lives on without light, to be a lost hope ' s guide. I ' ve seen these sweat-soaked hero ' s fight, in superheated air To keep their ship alive and right, though no one knows they ' re there. Amid the boiler ' s mighty heat, and the turbines hellish roar. So when you see a ship pull out, to meet a warlike foe, Remember faintly, if you can, THE MEN WHO SAIL BELOW Author Unknown 97 M DIV
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M DIVISION MM1 Nestor A. Abiva MM3 Matt A. Hixon MM3 Alvin W. Capps MM3 Oliver J. Cinco MM3 Chris R. Falls YN3 Kevin P. Battle MM3 Drinkard Timms MM3 Vincent J. Gangi MM3 Franklin C. Holcomb MM3 Jesse Pittman MM3 Robin L. Naillon MMFN Michael Copeland MMFN Donald C. Fish MMFN Gerald Adams MMCS John Robinson MMC John O. Bantz ii ft V k -x if MMFN Joseph M. Gehring MMFN Kelly R. Walker NOT PICTURED: MM2 Brown MM2 Raspa MM3 Ware MM3 Holbien MMFA Ahrens MMFN Arnold MM3 Campbell MM3 Burstine MMFA Gallagher MM3 Williams MMFN Marck MMFN Martin MMFN Green MMFA Tarasuk MMFA Roberts MODERN TECHNOLOGY!? % .
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R DIVISION HT2 Pasauell Brooks HT3 Brute W. Burkhart HT2 )oe Dcldgarza HT3 Gary E. Gllrcalh HTFN Larry D. Hollan(l HTFN )ohn A. MtNlchols HTFN Michael D. Need HT3 Clarence E. Pinter FN Robert R. Rugseri HTFN Gregory P. Thorpe HT2 leffrey E Topper HT1 Robert A. Vallcnca FN Fabian M. Williams HTC Robert W. Cole r lVb $ h . I i 98
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