I was one of the first to go there, served 1955 - 1956

Amazing, to watch some of the earliest and most literal bulldozing of our destroyed ice caps. Good work, boys. Good work.

@DannyTruthMagnified

3 ай бұрын

😂

my grandpa served their in anartica im extremely proud of him.

My uncle, Patrick "Red Iron" McCormick, was in the Seabees and one of the 24 volunteers to go to the geographic South Pole during Operation Deep Freeze. He helped the captain survey the marker for the South Pole during this operation because the navigator got sick and had to leave and my uncle had prior surveying experience. He and his cohorts built the facilities for the scientists at the South Pole. Uncle Pat later had a career as a surveyor. 15 years ago he showed me the notebook of sketches and calculations he generated to locate the South Pole. Having surveying experience, it certainly was an impressive piece of work to me.

@losttribe1993

2 жыл бұрын

Any wierd stories

@coloradostrong

2 жыл бұрын

@@losttribe1993 Yes, the one you just read.

My father was there as a sea bee durring this time. How we miss him

Thank you for this !!

Excellent photography of this great 📽️ film

i was there 66,67 what a time,

I have always wanted to see Antarctica. Thanks for posting these very interesting films.

You folks, provide a super, database, mahalo...

That entire base floated off on Iceberg B-9 which calved in 1987.

My dad went in the the Navy in 1955. Him and his brother and several of their friends. Their older brother joined in 1943 (at age 16...) and all 3 happened to meet up in Italy one time. I'm sure many, many, MANY beers were drank that night! :-p Dad was a radioman, stationed in Panama (sweet duty!) and I don't know where all else.

@MrCgford1

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@skeggjoldgunnr3167

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they musta been awfully *thirsty*, I can imagine! And to think of the cottage industry in all the US Navy seaport towns our sailors made of their local young ladies...ahem. The smart family men could be seen with an older woman, old enough to be his mother: he hands her ALL of his money, She puts him up in a fine home...she shops for him and gets the best prices , she dry cleans and irons his fatigues / uniforms and feeds him home cooked meals and sees to it that NO trouble comes his way. Her family and yours may become multi-generation family friends. Naples, I hear is the septic tank of the planet. I've heard the saddest and wildest stories from navy guys about that town.

Spent a couple of years of my life going in there on the Arneb.

@zanelile8192

4 жыл бұрын

I went in Wyandot in 58/59 and in Glacier in 59/60. Enjoyed both trips. Npt much there in fall of 58.

I loaded there in 58/59 & 59.60.

RIP RMCM Bill Austin USN.

wow! This looks like fun, and they get paid to do it.

@skeggjoldgunnr3167

Жыл бұрын

It's a special kind of cold. And the cold has it's buddy, the wind come and join in. Full force. Most days...if you try REAL hard and combine everyone's efforts: surviving is ALL you'll be doing. All nations should agree to build a big international resort hotel there. There are many strange people that think it would be neat to visit that place and would PAY to do so. I say there's only DEATH to be found.

Now it’s 8 ft thick

Hey guys - you know why they had to use the SeaBees to do this job? Because they wanted to get the job done. Who ELSE do you call when you need a soldier and an engineer...brains AND grit AND skill? Land, sea, snow and air - can-do spirit and know-how, a fighting man AND a builder. Only the Army Corps of Engineers do bigger harder things.

The doors of perception are opened to L America... for true Sailing is..........?

@paulross9287

9 ай бұрын

Jim Morrison

@danielcruz8347

9 ай бұрын

@@paulross9287 🍾

"Progrum"

Always good to know how much crap the Americans dragged down there , most of it is still there

There. At the bottom of the comments. There is _always_ one. This time it is WAYNE HARRISON. Different names, but the same whine about "the numbers in the way on the screen". 🙄

@danielcruz8347

Жыл бұрын

LOL. Tunnel vision whine....

@paulross9287

9 ай бұрын

Haha 😂, so true! I actually like the numbers for some reason.

Teraz by ich pozabijali za te pingwiny 🐧

Your Ruining the film with your numbers

@coloradostrong

2 жыл бұрын

_You're_ as in "you are", not "your" as in "on your right". 🙄 Типичный американец, который не говорит на своем родном языке.

@skeggjoldgunnr3167

Жыл бұрын

@@coloradostrong HA! Это точно. Мы страдаем от культуры, которая оправдывает провал нашей образовательной системы. Учителей защищает от меритократии их Союз Советской рабочей партии. Это политика. Мое отношение как соотечественника-американца состоит в том, чтобы позволить неудачникам потерпеть неудачу.

@coloradostrong

Жыл бұрын

@@skeggjoldgunnr3167 Правда. "Союз учителей" - это не более чем замаскированный комитет политических действий.

@skeggjoldgunnr3167

Жыл бұрын

The film is owned by Periscope film. I'm sure you could pay them for a copy that hasn't been ruined with their numerology. They're in the business of refurbishing and archiving and digitizing stuff like this before it's lost. I'd bet that somebody spent some money to do all that. Plenty of effort, too! I am appreciative of their service to our shared education and preservation of our shared history. But I aint about to go buying copies of any of their films, so I might just button my beak and not curse them for them numbers too much.