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This week’s story is brought to us by reader Douglas Lupo.
The year is 1970. I’m standing in the long chow line on the USS Constellation, CVA64—hot, greasey, dirty, and hungry. I look to see how many are a head of me, and I see three guys with jackets on.
So, I had to ask them,”Why are you wearing jackets when it is 100 degrees out?”
“Oh, we’re tweets, and our shop is kept at 65 degrees to keep the electronics from overheating while we repair and test them.”
I vowed I would get a job in AC and stay clean when I got out of the Navy.
And that is the short and sweet of how I became an engineer.
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