Navy Vets, did you "Cross the Line"?

[Riley]

Here's an unusual one, "Order of the Bears Lair", for transiting the Sea of Okhotsk, N of Japan boarded by the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka peninsula. Grabbed that one in '86 with the cold war running hot, on New Jersey with Long Beach and Vincennes (Her first deployment).

 

[RETOKSQUID]

93 USS AMERICA

 

[Gus Petch]

Did it once.

 

[2busy]

Nope, I flew across it 4 times while stationed in the Indian ocean.

 

[EKing]

Nope, I flew across it 4 times while stationed in the Indian ocean.

Was that BIOT with the protected crabs?

 

[EKing]

Did it once.
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Nice!
The wallet size card I received was the old style like this one. You know, the mermaids.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

If he landed at Subic Bay he probably got the crabs.

 

[2busy]

Was that BIOT with the protected crabs?

The one and only. Plus no harassing the chickens or cats. 84-85.

 

[easy]

1983, USS Acadia AD-42 and again in 1991

 

[KurtM]

Here ya go, my grandfather on the U.S.S DELAWARE in 1921.