I’m going to take you on a trip to the past and yes this will relate to the Philippines (Later). I was assigned to the USNS Mars (TAFS-1) (Formerly the USS Mars (AFS-1) it was my second time onboard and I was upset as it wasn’t fully converted to accommodate a civilian (CivMar) crew so they paid us extra to ride the old Navy beast.

We were in the Gulf tied to the quay at Jebel Ali in the
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