[rlmorel]

Hahaha...when I was in the USN, there were always running men when they were getting ready to pull away the gangway...

I thought it was hilarious to see, but I will tell you, I made sure to never, EVER put myself in that position.

Missing movement?

[twister881]

Yep. Always slept aboard the night before ship’s movement, at home port or deployed. Never stayed on the beach.

[T-Bone Texan]

My dad served on the USS John McCain as a radarman.

He missed his ship somewhere in the middle east. It just up and left without him.

He would have been in big trouble but his excuse was he was getting his burst appendix removed in an emergency operation in a crummy, dirty, muslim hospital.

He caught his ship a few days later. He STILL got in trouble.

[Kenton]

Hahaha...when I was in the USN, there were always running men when they were getting ready to pull away the gangway... I thought it was hilarious to see, but I will tell you, I made sure to never, EVER put myself in that position.

Ditto here. Shortly after I got out of the Navy, I got married and we went on a Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon. My new wife couldn't understand why I was always in such a damn hurry to get back to the ship promptly. She thought for sure, the ship would wait for everybody to get back on board.

Sure enough, a couple of passengers missed ship's movement and got stranded in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. They had to buy plane tickets to the next scheduled stop where they rejoined the ship.

[submarinerswife]

Miss movement? Never, never. My Husband always made it in hours before the regular crew. He hammered a young sailor with an excuse that his wife didn’t make it home the night before to give him a ride to the boat in the morning.