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I was on a USCG 378' ship about 120 miles WSW of San Diego. I watched distinct sets of waves on the radar at a range of 20 miles. At that range they must have been 50' high. I checked the chart and it was over Cortes Bank. When I got back to SD I told some surfers about it and pointed it out on a chart. I may have been the person that discovered the big break. 20 years later I heard a story about a small aircraft spotting it.

I was on a USCG 378' ship about 120 miles WSW of San Diego. I watched distinct sets of waves on the radar at a range of 20 miles. At that range they must have been 50' high. I checked the chart and it was over Cortes Bank. When I got back to SD I told some surfers about it and pointed it out on a chart. I may have been the person that discovered the big break. 20 years later I heard a story about a small aircraft spotting it.

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I was a QM. after the Morg I was an OOD on an 82' PB in SoCal. my last 2 years was at VTSNY on GI. a bigger bunch of kiss up kick down homesteaders you'll never see.

I show up wearing 12 ribbons and a Cuttermans Insignia. all these assholes that had never left GI had the 2 they got in bootcamp! they actually said 'are you supposed to be wearing all that?'. fukn guys had never been west of the Hudson river and thought the US ended there.

I told them 'I didnt spend the last 5 years shining officers shoes'. they hated me after that. GI sucked and NYC was a crack ridden shithole in the '80s.