Old Gold and New Silver

[wilkere]

Hit the beach after work on Camp Lejuene, it was a nice afternoon with about 1+30 left before the sun went down. Off shore there was some MEU work-ups going on with a LHA out a few miles and a bunch of LCAC's heading from shore to sea to redeveous with the ships offshore. I was happy with the fact that my cammies are hung up for good and I'm not on the flight deck of that LHA and that I'm here just to swing the Minelab.

The winter is the best time to detect here as the sand moves offshore leaving some nice hard gravel near the top. My first hit in about 30 seconds of swinging brought up a gold ring. The ocean was not too kind to it as it was pretty beat, may have been there since the 30's as the area was a tourist place then. A little while later I snagged a braclet, I'm not sure if it's silver or not, maybe one of those titanium power deals? Lots of bullets and coins too! It was fun as hell, and I'm heading back soon as possible!
Semper Fi,
Bob
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[Wildcat1750]

Congrats on the gold ring. Looks like a nice spot to hunt!
Nick

 

[BosnMate]

Hour and a half of fun pays off with a gold ring. Can't beat that, unless it was two gold rings. Congratulations.

 

[testing123]

I have no idea what the first paragraph means with all of the ABCs and ZYXs. But looks like you found gold. Big congrats!

 

[kam50]

Those are the Marine Corps acronym for their boats when they want to play "SAILOR" JK Bob. Semper FI . From your brother in arms. Seabee "Can Do" HH

 

[BosnMate]

I think the speck out on the horizon is a ship known as an LHA. This would be a ship in the Navy's amphibious forces, designed to take Marines to the beach using helicopters. Those types of ships didn't exist when I was in the Navy, so if I'm wrong with my guess, someone will correct me. LCAC's didn't exist when I was in either, but I know they are "hover craft," and ride a cushion of air, able to go through the surf, then run way up on the beach, putting the Marines on shore with dry feet. The boat I drove took the marines through the surf to the beach, but they usually got their feet wet getting from the boat to the beach. I suppose because they ride on air, if the beach is mined, the LCAC can carry the troops over the mine field, perhaps someone knowledgeable on the subject can fill us in. LHA, Landingship helecoptor assult?

 

[wilkere]

Hit the beach again today, pulled a 43 silver half and a 39 merc plus 4 wheats. these all came from way back of the beach near the big dunes. What has happened is that due to ocean level rising and maybe a little of Sandy's work much of these dunes have been carved up. What I'm pretty sure happened was that back in the 60's the Corps bulldozed the beach to make this huge berm/dune that has been untouched till today since the water line was low. In the 60's they moved all the coins and trash that were on the beach from all the training days back in WW2 were amphibious assaults happened regularly.

They still had the MEU workups going on and a armed sentry out there on a high berm area, I'll check tomorrow to see if he's gone and the training is complete. Time to mine some silver!

Semper Fi,
Bob
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