Charlie Foltz
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I would probably end up dead in some hotel room somewhere.
And I was thinking- That's exactly what happened to him.
Yes, exactly.
No way.
Down in Tennessee, was it?
Somewhere, I think it was.
Yeah.
Well, it just seemed like science fiction kind of crap.
Yeah, it seemed like science.
Isn't that a bit out there?
Do you remember what he was doing?
Oh, hey, here's Alexander Graham Bell.
Let's go down and listen to what he's saying.
Very, yeah.
Yeah, in May of 1970, we were off the coast of Spain doing what we had gone out there to do.
And it was just after we've knocked off working for the day, waiting for the call to evening meal.
There were about 24 of us that went up on the main deck.
Have cigarettes, kick around, kill some time until it's time to go eat.
We had a commissioned officer who was a lieutenant, a highest ranking enlisted, which was a chief petty officer, and then descending ranks from there.
And one of the guys said, what the F is that?