Welcome back Master Chief! Glad to see you posting again! This old ET1(SW) Tin Can sailor really enjoys them.

Welcome back Master Chief! We have missed you and your informative videos.

I'm so pleased to see you producing a new video.

Welcome back!!! I looked for you a few months ago since you hadn't posted in a LONG time.

“YAY!!!!” I loved this channel. Was bummed to see it go dormant

Good to hear from you, Thank you👍

OMG I have missed your video's! I think I tried to email you some time ago. Thanks for coming back!

Very enjoyable. Thanks

Wow! That was great! Thanks! I served from 1981 to 85. VF-32 aboard the Indy CV-62. I was raised sailing Cat Boats. My Ditty Bag holds my sowing gear.

Very nice to have you back.

Welcome back Master Chief. Its been a while. I hope all is well and Happy New Year.

So glad to see you're back.

Chief I am in possession of my wife’s uncle’s Navy corpsman’s chest (James Smith) it was a returned to the family with his uniforms after he was killed in action in the Korean war he was one of first three Navy corpsmen kill in the first action of that war. Supporting USMC troop’s conducting the first landing of the war. It is a stoutly built light Gray box. With his nam stenciled on it. With a varnished interior it had two thin ply wood shelves the slide in to tracks. I know the it was made under Navy contract during WW2 1943-44. The family kept it in a bed room closet that I had to clean out after a pipe broke in the bath room. Knowing the James Smith was one of the first three killed while aiding Marines makes this important family artifact. After seeing a couple of your videos I though you may have some interest currently it’s stored at my California home but I can get someone there to photo this artifact. By marriage James Smith is the only relative to fall in service of the United States that I know of. My Great great… grand father was General Neville, his daughter married Capt. William O Bannion, and one of there Sons was Lt. Presley Neville O Bannion USMC. On last bit of family history may be BS this one is very hard to trace, Presley married a woman that was the daughter of Jean Lafitte, or maybe just cohabited in the early 1800 scandalous. If your interested in photos of that Navy corpsman’s chest. I’ll have my son take some photos I live in Tennessee full time and I’ll send them to you. GWS

Glad to see you back, MC. Well done!

Nice to see you posting content again Master Chief!

Glad to have ye back, O Wise One! This was a good way to return -- now I'm off to view Part 2.

WOW. What a surprise. Glad to see you ashore again.

We had ditty bags in early 60s..never heard of a ditty box

Fascinating photos and a most interesting project!

Proud to be the first view and first comment! Can't wait to see future videos Master Chief!

Glad you're back posting

We use the term “ditty bag” to refer to the duck canvas clutches that we carry our tools to stage in. Over the past 15 years those clutches have been replaced by the more utilitarian rolling tool boxes. A tremendous amount of technical terms and techniques in TV and film production derive from the Navy or Merchant Marine. From the hootie tractors to the camera dollies that started off as WW2 era ordinance loading cradles aboard the early flattops

Just last week I was wondering if he would post again

Glad to see a new video brother. Keep them coming.

were have you gone too for so long chief welcome back

I saw one of these at a local antique shop a few weeks back and didn't know what it was. I wish I would have grabbed it. Looked like a drawer less machinist chest.

Great presentation Chief! Keep that history coming. I might still have my ditty bag from the 1960's around here somewhere. I'm thinking you just might have been involved in the qualification and/or presentation ceremony of my ship's wall plaque at the United States Navy Memorial in DC back in 2009? I remember we had to go through a lot of trouble to prove her 17 battle stars during the Vietnam War! The ship is USS Washtenaw County, LST-1166, but KZread won't let me post a link other than to YT channels.

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i remember the USS Washtenaw LST-1166/MSS-2. from operation endsweep Wooden Ships And Rusty Crusty Iron Men USS Enhance MSO 437.

Fantastic early 20th century ditty box. I'm looking for a civil war period ditty box. Extremely hard to find.

Using wife's phone today not her opinions I was in the Army but trained and did some deployments with the Navy out of Subic,Coronado, Little Creek (all of us had to complete Navy damage control and firefighting) and the one thing about Chiefs was they kept saying there was just to much coffee on ships what we really need is tea or rust streaks can just wait until we go to a shipyard there is no reason deckhands and strikers should work that hard or hey Army come on in the Goat Locker and sit down relax your working to hard What no one else heard that ? Me either I thought we had some hard A. senior NCOs in the Army (we do)but a Master Chief who felt you needed some special attention was a sight to behold I was impressed how the divisions,sections and specific teams did their parts to keep a ship running safely and ready teamwork and cohesion but as in any branch there is always some who just won't get with the program and from what I saw it was not going to be me getting it from anyone with an anchor on their collar and God forbid with stars over it I had one of my privates address a Chief as yo dude with the anchor on your hat he turned red veins throbbing and then the loudest ass chewing I even heard began words I can't repeat oh yes he got got in a spectacular way I was trying to remember if the Navy still keelhauled the rates and my private now the Chiefs private learned the fine art of a deck crawler that Master Chief became a great mentor to me as a E-5 I really benefited from him taking time to teach me to be a real NCO not just having the rank there is a difference and how to loose at spades and what the hell a gedunk is oh in the Army's Navy you are either a Engineer as I was or Deck Dept. no other rates

My dad Clyde Childers USNR 1944-1946 at the end of his service her served aboard the USS Thomas Jefferson in 1946 as part of the Armed Guard. People that i have talked to who had service members in WW2 never heard of the Armed Guard. I would llike to know anything you have about life in the US Navy in WW2, especially for AG service.

I guess nowadays you have the "ditty" drawer on your coffin bunks though I don't remember it being called that.

I am pooping in Walmart right now. I am actually standing on the rim. Gotta protect them cheeks

Master Chief thank you for your service question what the difference between a ditty box 📦 an a sea 🌊 chest?welcome back

Welcome back Masterchief. Could the word ditty be a variant of the word ditrious?

Ditty box or diddy box? When it it change to, or from a sea chest? I recall my mom & her church or maybe home makers' club made & filled ditty bags to send to men serving in Viet Nam.

Gogdam that bosun's pipe

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Master Chief, Is it possible for you to suggest who I might contact to obtain individual ribbons and unit awards my unit was issued, I discharged shortly after returning from Kuwait. I was in the Navy, but assigned to Marine Corps infantry unit. Thank you sir, .