Navy and Marine enlisted go to Portsmouth, NH, officers to Kansas.
Thanks.
Not anymore. I think they all go to Kansas, now.
They closed up Portsmouth, NH some years back, IIRC
We simply referred to a sentence at Portsmouth Naval Prison as “A trip to see the men in the shiny shoes”!
The first time I went aboard a carrier as a young sailor, I was walking around, just checking everything out.
I walked down a ladder, and I saw a sailor sitting on the floor not moving or talking, facing a bulkhead. It was odd, and I looked further, there was another sailor standing with his nose against the wall.
This was really odd.
As I was processing this, I looked up to see a Marine standing there watching me. When I noticed him, he didn’t say a word, but just pointed back up the ladder.
Light dawns on Marblehead, as we say up here. It was the Brig.
I resolved to make sure I never ended up down there with my nose against a wall.