“My father was career Navy and I have heard about King Neptune.”
My Dad became a Shellback in 1944. My Son has the book and his certificate.
Because they are to busy dressing up in the colors of the Fag Flag??
Anyone just watch the National anthem of the Super Bowl?? The camera switched to a US Naval Carrier. There were a bunch of sailors dressed in the colors or the Fag Flag and standing in alignment to look like the Fag Flag
The thought of a ~60+ foot drop off Forrestal’s flight deck was more than enough deterrent for me!!!
My grand father got his shellback around 1915-6 (I think). He was a cook on submarines.
I never dropped 60 feet, but I dropped from 40 feet into Victory Pond at Benning. Went under a long way before surfacing. Can just imagine an extra 20 feet.
I remember the beer vending machines in the barracks.
Good old days...
We used to have swimcalls on subs when I was in. Two men armed with M-16’s would stand shark watch on the fairwater planes. I was participating when our sub all went swimming in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. I was 19 at the time, so it meant more to me then than it would today, but it is a great memory, as we had been underwater for two and a half months without ever seeing, touching or smelling anything outside the sub. It was a rewarding experience.
I have my Dad’s Neptune Certificate from @1942, I think...he got it crossing the Equator, I believe...he was @18 years old